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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1922
Page
11
The Evening Courier and Reporter of Waterloo Iowa invites questions and comments from farmers to be addressed to the Farm Department. Communications should be sent to the Editor. Phone number 3330.
Aug. 14 marks the start of Bremer county fair in Waverly with livestock and dairy cattle sections strong and new exhibitors. Girls clubs from the county prepare demonstrations on clothing and school attire while Boy Scouts join daily activities. Local bands, acts, and fireworks are scheduled alongside racing at the Waverly track and carnival amusements.
Clarksville Ta Aug 12 Good weather has boosted threshing with oats near average yield. The Lemal Wygle farm in Jackson township reports ten bushels per acre, with fields averaging over 20 acres. Quality is excellent and grain weighs 60 pounds per bushel. Frank Raisty threshes as farmers store grain, selling surplus at about 25 cents per bushel.
A garbled report lists participants Morris Jayne and Lo Sinpeon with scores and prizes. It hints at a first prize tied to property of a contestant and mentions a second prize and third place with scores, mentioning a few unclear details about the event and its timing.
Iowa State College loan bulletin No. 202 summarizes over a decade of poultry research at Ames on keeping Rhode Island Reds in good type and production. It covers selection for breeding stock, broody behavior, and management practices showing high egg records and strong vitality in both hens and roosters.
More than 160 Holstein breeders and families gathered at the Hargrove and Arnold farm southeast of Norwalk for the event. Iowa State professors and state dairy officials spoke on breeding, judging, and herd improvement, highlighting purebred gains and the farm’s record herd
Iowa milk producers dealers and distributors will compete as individuals for prizes for best city milk and as groups for best milk from all milk j ens of one city at the Dairy Cattle Congress Sept 25 to Oct 1. Samples are selected blind and tested for butterfat sediment and bacterial count by Iowa State College lab or Iowa dairy and food commission.
The market shows a drop in September wheat due to liquidation with a late rally in September and December on short covering. Reports cite weak internal rail movement, lack of motive power, and slow grain movement. wheat finishes well below prior levels while corn and oats largely track wheat’s direction.
Cedar Falls Iowa August 12 Our Ideal Pathfinder a 25 pound three year old Duroc Jersey herd boar owned by J W and J P McCaffree died from blood poisoning after a leg abscess. The loss comes on the eve of the summer sale when about 40 gifts and sows were sold. Tostiebe previously held half interest for 6000 dollars a 12000 value, later lost due to hard times. Pathfinder sireed by Pathfinder of Hanks & Bishop New London Ta, McCaffree plans to rely on Leader Sensation and Our High Sensation to maintain stock standards.
A fragment lists produce items with scattered figures for New York and Chicago markets. Entries mention butter, fowls including broilers and fried items, dressed chickens, potatoes, and a clearing house statement noting an excess reserve and weekly bank totals.
Peoria market notes steady tone at open with last week’s averages holding. Cattle receipts and dairy items show mixed action with steady to unchanged prices, while flour futures and dairy goods show stable or slightly firm trends amid regional trading activity.
Livestock market report shows cattle prices down for beef steers and cows, hogs steady, and calves variably priced. Receipts around 1,000 to 6,000 across regions, with top steers near 16.28 and assorted pork and lamb values noted alongside regional comparisons. Local markets include East St. Louis and Chicago area figures for buyers and sellers.
Early trading on the New York Stock Exchange showed quiet but steady activity led by Mexican Petroleum and steel stocks. Widespread gains were modest with Bethlehem Steel and Gulf Steel advancing while volume totaled about 250000 shares and various foreign exchange bids were listed for major currencies.
St Joseph Mo August 12 cattle receipts 289 steady to 60 cents lower best fed steers 8.50 per 100 pounds price ranges for cows bulls calves and feeders listed. Sheep receipts 100 lambs 11.50 to 15.00 western lambs 42.25 cull sheep 7.00 fat ewes 4.50 to 6.50 feeder lambs 1.75 to 11.80.
Receipts: cattle 1,200. hogs 1,660. calves uneven, mostly steady. Better beef steers and stockers mostly lower. heifers steady to 25c lower. bulls 30c lower. Hogs steady to strong. top $9.35, lighter weights up to $14.54. Lambs 50c lower. natives top $12.50. calves and feeders show mixed to steady with some firm spots.
Transcribed market notes show cattle and sheep pricing with varied bids. Feeding cows at 5.20 and 4.60 per hundredweight, steers at 7.25. bulk lambs and ewes listed with limited bids. Prices appear incomplete and partially garbled from the telegraph style report.
The report notes mixed grain markets with lower prices for corn and wheat amid uncertain weather and demand. Provisions show little change as buyers weigh domestic and international factors and crop forecasts influence futures.
The second cooperative oat tests report from Black Hawk County highlights Mad sen brothers of Union township as top producers. Iowa oats weighed 46 bushels and pounds, Howarth 46 bushels and etc. Early Champion and Town 106 show varying weight per bushel with specific pound differences.
The two Variettes stood about 24 inches high with the others four inches taller. All were lodged in the same manner. The Madsena predicts Iowa 105 will yield 105 inches next year. C B Watters of Hudson reports Iowa 102 percent date on this place yielding 55 bushels. The Blair 206 variety produced 50 bushels.
Prices of liberty bands close today with notes on values and figures. Market observers cite small shifts and stable ranges amid trading activity.
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