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Newspaper

Waterloo Evening Courier

Location

Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Apr 14, 1924

Page

7

Winthrop Fattening Stock Leads Local Livestock Shipments

Winthrop Iowa, population 600, touts nearby farm activity with 1923 shipping records. 48 carloads livestock, 36 grain, 29 hay. 347 cattle and 110 hogs shipped in 1923. December and March peak hog shipments. corn shipments almost nonexistent. local market shaped by competition among farmers’ commission firms and independent dealers.

Winthrop Winthrow Albert Lea Minn Dubuque Tesat Nanny Farmers' Commission Company E. &. Collins P. Hcollins Buffalo Farmers’ Organization Commission

Good Luck Club Plans for County Nutrition Meeting

Cedar Falls April 34 Cedar Falls Good Luck Club will hold the fifth lesson of the county nutrition program on Thursday April 11 at the Lane of Mrs Ora Howard with Mrs Chapman entertaining Fruits and vegetables will be studied The luncheon is planned Women are asked to bring dishes silverware loose paper and pencils Miss Neale Knowles leader of Iowa home demonstration agents will be there Miss Elizabeth Hudson home demonstration agent will attend Also nutrition meetings after this will be held in the afternoons only.

Cedar Falls Cedars Falls Ora Howard Chapman Neale Knowles Iowa Elizabeth Hudson

East Waterloo Bureau Meeting Set For Thursday

The regular monthly meeting of East Waterloo Township Parmou reau will be at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Curran Thursday April 17. The last nutrition lesson is to be taken up in the all day session. Women are asked to bring one of the listed food articles: thickened loaf escalloped potatoes beets milk fruit sherbet dark bread and butter.

East Waterloo Township Parmoureau John Curran

Farmers Questions and Comments Invited at Waterloo Eventing

Communications should be addressed to Falter, Farm Department, Waterloo Eventing Courier, Wa eriga, Towr. Phone 5200. The notice invites questions and comments on farming matters and related programs.

Farm Department Waterloo Eventing Courier Waeriga Towr Thone

First seeds for garden sowing begin with radishes spinach and lettuce

The article notes early planting in the vegetable garden with radishes spinach lettuce and smooth seeded peas as the hardiest varieties. It recommends sowing in rows for even sunlight and easier weed control, while broadcasting in small raised pods remains effective. Spinach can be broadcast for best results.

Thin sowing boosts quick, steady vegetable yields

Advice on thinning seeds to avoid crowding in rows. Radishes and leaf lettuce benefit from space, spinach tolerates crowding, and early onions can be set in with frost protection. Planting windows open in March or early April for best results.

Poultry Record Flocks Grow With New Houses At Farms

Poultry experts Will Lapp and Elizabeth Hudson visited 16 Black Hawk county flock owners to discuss cage and shed developments. Owners plan new poultry houses, semi monitor designs, and enhanced ventilation to boost production. Local records include Dorsey Blough building a new shed type house and J Wilbert Miller purchasing 600 White Rock chicks.

Will Lapp Iowao Extension Service Elizabeth Hudson Black Flank County Dorsey Blough Orange Township B. W. van Arnam Grant Highway C. E Fineh Place F.C. Munsey Poultry Record Rock Munsey

Moldy Corn Disease Hits Fowls This Spring

Birds in some poultry flocks have fallen ill from eating moldy corn. Last season's weather produced much moldy corn and some was fed. The illness is often fatal and causes dizziness, panting, weakness, diarrhoea, and liver congestion in affected birds.

Annual Farmers Banquet in Floyd County April 29

Charles City Iowa April 14 The second annual large Floyd County farm bureau banquet will be held in Guild Hall Tuesday April 23 at 7 pm across from the city park. It was postponed from March 11 due to impassable roads. Attendees should notify the farm bureau office in advance for proper meal and seating arrangements.

Charles City Large Bureau Floyd County Guild Nail Farm Bureau

Anes resigns from Iowa State to join USDA entomology bureau

Anes of Iowa State College’s entomology staff resigns after six years to lead a new field laboratory for the U S Department of Agriculture in South Carolina focusing on cotton boll weevil experiments. J G Jessup, agriculture instructor, leaves for A T Boat Company with Cedar Rapids as his base.

Anes F. A. Fenton Towa State College Bureau of Entomology United States Department of Agriculture Fenton South Carolina J. G. Jessup A. T. Boat Company Medina Cedar Rapids

Kildee Named to Guernsey True Type Committee

Élanes Iowa April 14 H H Kildee head of Iowa State College animal husbandry selected to pick a Guernsey true type. He served on the Holstein true type committee, a factor in his selection to help determine the Guernsey standard.

Éanes H. H. Kildee Iowa State College Guernsey Kildee

Grundy Center Women Plan Thursday Meeting

Grundy Center Iowa April 14 Felix township farm women will meet Thursday April 17 with Mrs Charles R Stubbs as demonstration of choice making. Grant Township Know Your Neighbor club to meet the next day at Mrs Herman Mordherst home assisted by Mrs Walter Kenniston.

Grundy Center Felix Township Charles R. Stubbs Grant Township Herman Mordherst Walter Kenniston

JheSter Breeders Get 500 For Boar

DeWitt, Illinois April 14 T Christian sen & Sons sold Giant Prince a large Chester White boar to Joy NL breeders for 500 dollars. Giant Prince was champion at the 1923 Mississippi Valley fair. The Christiansens also sold a boar to an agricultural school in Italy New York April 14.

Whoppex Big Egg Lays Claim as Largest Ever

An egg found by J. M. W. Greetis in the Courier farm department measures nine inches around the large circumference and seven around the smaller. Weighing 12 ounces, the unusual egg is attributed to a black hen of no special breeding. Greetis suspects the egg halves or three eggs in one.

Courier Farm Department J. M W. Greetis Cutler

Federal court terms postponed to June 17 at Waterloo

Notice from Lee McNeely, clerk of the federal court, states the May term at Waterloo has moved from May 13 to June 17 due to Judge George C. Scott's assignment to the circuit court in St. Paul. The Dubuque April term shifts to April 29, with jurors to report at 10:30 a.m. on that date. Scott and Linville will be in Dubuque April 28 to handle ready criminal writers. A misprint corrected a visiting Dr Gail Wheeler to Mrs J H Dunlap of 910 Fifth Street West visiting Dr Wheeler in Des Moines. Vyda Fuhrman of Fort Dodge visits Minnie Bruner of 702 Fourth Street East.

Lee McNeely Dubuque Waterloo George C. Scott Circuit Court of Appealp St. Paul Scott Guy P. Linville JH. C. Dunlap Courier Gail Wheeler Des Moines If. W. Dunlap Fifth Street Dr. Wheeler Vyda Fuhrman Fort Dodge Yistling Migs Minnie Bruner Fourth Street East

Prices for Butter and Cheese in New York and Chicago

New York and Chicago publish daily price lists for dairy and livestock. Butter and cheese quotes vary, with creamery and state flats noted, while live stock and hog markets show receipts, prices, and ranges across regions including East St. Louis and Chicago. Foreign exchange and loan rates via New York markets also appear in the notices.

New York Burgk Creamery SRA Mats Creamery Wisconsin

Wheat corn quotations recede amid light demand

Chicago Apr 14 wheat prices drifted lower after brief gains as speculative demand waned. May and July futures eased, cash quotes showed mixed No 1 Hard to No 5 yellow ranges, while corn faced a general setback as acreage hopes dampened values. United States visible supply declined but failed to lift markets. Kansas City and Peoria readings also noted softness across grains with mild regional variations.

Associated Press Chicago United States Kent Kansas City Grain Kansas City Agri Teimber Fie Alfelfa

Toledo Seeds Auction Bids Open on Claver Wash Stock

Toledo O 14 UClaver wash stock advertised for sale with old price 13.50 new price 11.20 and bids due in May 35.50.

Toledo Uclaver

Hog and cattle markets show steady to firm tone across regions

Chicago and Kansas City reports show hog receipts around 56 000 with mixed prices from 6 00 to 7 60 per cwt and cattle at uneven demand. Nebraska and Kansas results indicate steady to higher weights for fat steers around 9 00 to 12 25, with calves and feeders steady to weak and lambs down a bit.

Cattle and Hogs Mixed. Livestock Prices Vary Across Markets

Livestock summaries from St Paul and St Joseph show receipts around 5 million? cattle hogs and sheep with prices largely steady to lower. Cattle tops around 11.30 for steers, cows and heifers selling steady to strong, vealers weaker. Hogs mixed with packers paying about 7.15 to 7.20 for light and butcher hogs. Sheep and lamb markets slow but steady with lambs around 16.00 to 16.50 and ewes about 10.00 to 10.50.

Alry Jay Ape Waterloo Waterloo of Waterloo Co-op Totatona Votatooy Omaha Grain Omaha Neb Packing Co Swift & Co St. Is Associated Press Chicago Nebraska Ansas City Anl South St. Paul Aunn Oman ST. Joseph St Joseph Weint Vis Trico

Downward Trend Dominates Across ATOME Exchange

New York April 14 The opening stock market shows narrow declines and a broad downward price tendency. Major declines hit Baldwin Locomotive Studebaker Gulf States Steel and American Express while select gains appear for Woolworth United Drug and American Sugar Refining. Oil shares slide with Tidewater and California Petroleum sinking, but Woolworth rallies sharply.

Ry T Associated Press New York American Agricultural Chemical Preferred Baldwin, Chandler Gulf States Steel Sinclair Studebaker Dow Baldwin Chandler Stewart-Warner Lima Locomotive American Express Cuba Cane General Woolworth United Drug American Sugar Refining Foreign Exchange Tidewater Pacific Casden Houston California Petroleum and Producers & Hefiners American Willys-Overland Baltimore & Ohio Coca Cola Olt Marine Preferred Allied Chemical & Dye American Can American Car & Foundry American International Corp American Smelting & Het American Sugar Bob Bee American T, & TT Americain Tobacco American Woolen Anaconda Copper Aschison Atl, Golf & W Indices Baldwin Locomotive Bethlehem Steel - Cuba Cane General Asphalt General Electric General_ Motors Great Northern Cccc Central Leather Cerro de Pasco Copper Chandler Motors Shesapanke Ohio Chicago & Northwestern Chicago Mil St. Paul Ptd Chile Copper Chino Consolidated Gas Com Products Colden Oil Crucible Steel Winds Central Peeeeeees Inspiration International Harvester Int Mer Marine Pld International Paper Invincible Oi Kelly-Springfield Tire Kennecott Capper Lima Locomotive Louisville Mack Tra Marland -Oil Maxwell Motors Middle States Oil Eeeces Missouri Kan Tex New Missouri Pacific Plu New York Central WN. O N.hl & Buriford Norfolk & Wester Northern Pacific Pacific Oilels Pan American Petroleum Pennsylvania Teaple's Gas Reading Studebaker Corporation Texans Co Texas & Pacific Tobacco Products Ao Iss Transcontinental O Union_Pacific Ind Republic Tron & Sears-Roebuck Sinclair Gen Oil Southern Pac Southern Railway Standard Oil United States Rubber United States Steel Uwiah Copper Westinghouse Electric Willys-Overlana National Lead

Cecile's Master at the seaside escape and rescue

In a New York amusement park scene Cecile Leslie battles nerves and a purse theft during a shooting gallery contest. A quick stranger recovers the bag, defends her, and escorts her to coffee before a playful, fateful bond grows as they plan a ride across the park.

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East Waterloo Um Our Biagranes J. Wilbert Miller White Rock Floyd Kough E. E. White White Mr. Lapp Lloyd Kough Elmer Blough Farm Victor Speer Alice Morgan Rainbow Prof Lapp H. E. Cleveland Place George Sanderling Fred Sanders Sanders Jake Sherman Jesup Sherman E. H. Snavely York OWA Federal Department France Reese Italy Belgium Holland Norway Sweden Denmark Swikzerland Spain Greece Poland Tugo-Slavi Brazil Sroteto Montreal NEW York Loans Prima Commercial Liberty Board of ‘Trade Peoria Milwaukee Northern Ibuc Minneapolis Ilinnestygiis Toonorthern St. 1644 Uaio Sitio Ailie Polit Kansas City Livestock Omaha LI Livestock East St. Louis Lamson Bros Marsh-Place HA. Moe Minnesota North Dakota Red River Ohios Tlaho Rus Nets Cecile’s Master’ By Elliott R. Goldmark Cecile Cecilia Jean Leget Mat Crimsson Bootblack Fate corrTron Colton Fabries Waterloo Co-operative Dairy Company Cuban Cane Molasses Company Waller Street Fifth
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