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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1924
Page
7
New Hartford Co operative Creamery directors vote to replace 20 gallon jacketed containers with individual cream cans to improve quality and price. A sample cooling tank from an Iowa firm is on display. 28 patrons have ordered. A new accurate scale will weigh butter for New York markets.
Readable garden column advises times to sow and transplant tomatoes peppers cucumbers and herbs. Notes start hotbed crops, transplant crowded plants into pots, and set pansies, zinnias, marigolds, petunias. Encourages dividing perennials and firming soil around plants for best growth.
County Agent Hunt Sage reports thousands of dollars lost as a new disease sweeps the county’s poultry farms. Birds die rapidly, with daily fatalities ranging from one to twenty in infected flocks, and early signs include drowsiness, drooping wings, and blackening of the comb and wattles. Some birds die within hours of the first symptoms.
W E Cowin of Gowin and Paulson, Gowin breeder noted for Barred Plymouth Rocks, will judge the Barred Rock division at the Coliseum Poultry Show on December 13. Cowin brings national experience and previous wins to the event, where about 400 birds are expected. Colin and Pattison, longtime Coliseum exhibitors, will not participate this fall.
In West Union the first year of the Cow Test association reports 21 cows tested nine or more months averaging 5665 pounds milk and 226.9 pounds fat. High herd by Charles Rulifsen with 11 cows averaging 259.6 pounds fat. Learn’s Jersey produced 45.2 pounds. Forty seven cows sold for milking, 5 disposed, 5 shipped as tuberculous reactors. Members fed home minerals and balanced rations. March affected Chickasaw and Wapello counties with feed shortages and butterfat prices.
Canadian National railways have begun installing radio receiving equipment on trains from Montreal to Vancouver. A radio operator on a Montreal to Vancouver run reported clear reception from WG Y. CN is said to be first to equip trains with radiotelephone receiving gear for passengers.
Communications should be addressed to Editor Farar at the Waterloo Evening Courier Waterloo Iowa. Include phone contact 5100 for correspondence and responses.
The State Fair Board unveiled total premiums of 137,062 dollars, doubling over ten years. Horse and cattle divisions lead with 23,345 and 24,000 dollars respectively, while the horse races and futurities push the overall horse total to 27,675. The fair also adds a dog show under American Kennel Club rules, open to all Standardbred dogs, with eastern experts presiding.
Chicago reports mixed trading as monthend adjustments push wheat higher on May to July shifts while corn eases on persistent selling. Oats fall amid selling, then rebound with eastern demand. hogs weaken. Provisions stay firm despite hog declines. New York grain and weather notes list prices and basis.
Iowa extension service urges dairymen to plan now for the fifteenth Annual Dairy Cattle Congress to be held in Waterloo with a permanent show home and additions to house 300 cattle. The report stresses the primary purpose of cow test associations is improved herd management and records for members, not publicity.
An Irish engineer and inventor of a new type power plow, Harry Ferguson of Belfast Ireland, visited Ames Iowa last week. His plow, being marketed by an American firm, has halted introductory demonstrations as it undergoes further testing and evaluation.
The Sioux City market shows slow activity with feeder cattle and hog receipts down. Prices listed include steers near 84.254 and 98 feeders, hogs around 8.25 per hundredweight, and cows and heifers at varying quotes amid a softer market.
Chicago market report shows hog receipts at 24 000 with prices mostly 5c lower and heavy weights around 6.60 to 7.15 for select lots. Lambs rise 15 to 25c. fat lambs and sheep mixed with top lambs near 16.00, and cattle prices steady to slightly higher in Kansas City trade.
Stock market opening showed a broad selling tone with declines in industrials and steels amid expectations of United States Steel dividend decisions. In livestock reports, St Paul and East St Louis markets recorded slow or firm cattle and hog sales with varying bids, while sheep and calves showed modest movement and prices.
New York and Chicago markets report butter and egg prices with scattered changes. Creamery butter steady to higher, eggs unsettled with nearby white and brown varieties. potatoes in Chicago trading slowly with mixed shipments and regional russets and whites priced per common quality.
In San Pedro California on April 29 Thomas Mitchell a 7 year old ship's carpenter living in a boathouse along the Wilmington Waterfront testified that bottles of liquor floated to his home from a notably high tide described as the meanest he had seen. Harbor dry squad members suggested leniency if the floating bottles could be explained as a reasonable excess. The case proceeded.
Demonstration plots in Cone township Buchanan county will test potash on soils that have resisted other fertilizers. Will Kress and Earl Zimpfer will apply potash on one acre each to gauge improvements. The effort follows findings that nonacid muck or peat soils respond to potash in other areas. A separate mock trial on soil practices is planned for Fairbank Township Farm Bureau to highlight better soil management.
Iowa Falls hosts the Hardin County Farm Bureau Picnic on July 4 with organizers Emmett Morris John Hunt and E A Weyrauch coordinating with the Iowa Falls Community Club. A county membership drive starts May 19 as Pedersen of Cedar Falls plans two weeks in Hardin county to assist. Last year the Hardin unit surpassed 1200 paid members and launched a county canvass to boost the 1923 drive.
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