Show of farm and business interest in Jesup calves and pigs
In Jesup on August 27 business and farm families attended a calf and pig exhibit judged by Floyd Johnston of the Iowa State Dairy Association. Prizes went to Delbert Miller, Billy Thompson, Erwin Fratzke and others. A kittenball game between club members and town businessmen ended 18 to 13 for the business men. Hazleton high school band provided music.
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Jesup
Floyd Johnston
Iowa State Dairy Association
Clarence Parker
Lawrence Parker
Delbert Miller
Everett Sherman
Floyd Pint
Delbert Wage
Billy Thompson
Fred Thompson
Charles Fuller
Robert Thompson
Ayrshire
Erwin Fratzke
Kirk Fratzke
Lloyd Cage
Poland
Martin Fratzke
Walter Fuller
Emmet Dugan
Agricultural Club
Johnston
Main Street
L. L. Falck
Smith- Hughes
Guy Stoddard
H. A. Hallet
Independence
Stoddard
Buchanan County
Louise Kruse
Sara Bunnell
Waterloo
Louis Roberts
Hazleton High School Band
Hazleton
Scholarships for oats counties in Iowa ten lead producers
Quaker Oats offers 100 cash scholarships to one farm boy per each of ten top oats producing Iowa counties for agricultural training at Ames. The ten counties are Benton Boone Calhoun Cherokee Hardin Lyon Kossuth Palo Alto Pocahontas and Wright. Cerro Gordo was in the top ten but a scholarship there had been provided by Mason City firm, so Wright was selected.
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Quaker Oats Company
Iowan
Ames
Benton
Boone
Calhoun
Cherokee
Hardin
Lyon
Kossuth
Palo Alto
Pocahontas
Wright
Cerro Gordo
Jacob E. Decker & Sons
Mason City
Iowa State College
Musings By the Sage of Barclay Township Aug 27
Observers note grasshoppers and crickets absent from grainfields at harvest this year a change from past seasons. F A Lewick and son finished fall plowing ahead of the season. Henry Meier has two shoats left from a herd of 85. Plowing haying and fertilizing fill the work. Frank H Schmitt says he stored 1 700 bushels of corn last winter to feed poultry calves and hogs. Alle has been shelled by hand up to now.
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Barclay Township
F. A. Lewick and Son
First Prize Baby Beef of Cedar Valley Fair Wins Long Feeds
The Cedar Valley fair 4-H junior records show Beulah Wyatt's first prize Shorthorn fed 261 days at 8 cents a pound, starting 165 pounds ending 770, average gain 2.3 pounds daily and total gain 605 pounds. Wilma Wyatt’s calf, 2.0 plus daily gain, cost 58.03 dollars for 261 days, starting 175 ending 730, sold for 15 dollars per hundred to Rath Packing. James Kelsey led gains with a Hereford at 2.8 pounds per day for 236 days, starting 200 pounds ending 875, cost 7.5 cents per pound. Warren Kelsey’s Hereford gained 650 pounds in 236 days at 7.7 cents per pound. The lowest cost of gain was 4.8 cents per pound on a 236 day 1.9 pound daily gain calf. The lowest daily gain reported was 1.4 pounds over 233 days.
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Cedar Valley Fair
Black Hawk County
Beulah Wyatt
Hudson
Wilma Wyatt
Beulah
Wilma
Rath Packing Com
James Kelsey
James
Warren Kelsey
60 Pct Production Gain at Traer Creamery
Traer Iowa August 27. The Traer Co operative Creamery reports a over 60 percent rise in butter production since opening as a cooperative. July output reached 64 074 pounds, up from 39 452 pounds in July of last year. Farm patron butter purchases nearly doubled to 3 202 pounds. Retail sales to Traer and nearby towns rose to 3 740 pounds. Buttermilk revenue more than doubled to 209 07, covering major operating costs including power and water.
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Courier
Traer
Traer Co-operative Creamery
Feeding brood sows shapes Iowa exhibit at state fair
Ames August 27 proper sow feeding before farrowing underpins Iowa State College exhibit at the Des Moines fair. W. E. Hammond heads the display showing feed costs per newborn pig, litter size, and vigor across four gestation trials using different rations from corn and tankage to shelled corn and oats.
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Courier Special Service
Ames
Iowa State College
Des Moines
W. E. Hammond
Hogs and Cattle Prices Move Higher at East St Louis Market
Receipts 2,500 hogs and 400 cattle with uneven demand. Hogs mostly 10 to 15 cents higher. heavy weights up to 40s higher. Prices ranged from 9.50 for large loads to around 11.30 for lighter lots, sows 8.25 to 8.50, pigs 9.50 to 10.25. Cattle steady to firm with yearlings up to 14.24, matured steers 14.15, mixed yearlings 13.00, heifers 12.50.
Question and comments invited to editor
Farmers issue prompts readers to address communications to the editor of the Farm Department in the Waterloo Evening Courier of Waterloo Iowa. The notice provides a contact phone number and invites input on agricultural topics.
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Waterloo Evening ‘Courier
Waterloo
Iowa
Cedar Falls exhibitors send livestock to state fair after Cedar Valley show
At Cedar Valley fair and exposition, hogs dominated the final livestock judging as exhibitors shipped to Des Moines for next week’s state fair. Winners included L. B. Staveley Traer with champion boar in Hampshires and Robert Sharp Indianola with multiple top sow and boar awards across Tamworths, Chester Whites, Poland Chinas, and more.
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Courier
Cedar Falls
Cedar Valley Fair and Exposition
Des Moines
Hampshires
L. B. Staveley
Traer
Robert Sharp
Indianola
Sharp
Tamworths
J. J. Holmes
Hudson
Tams
Chester
Hubert J. Harin
Grundy Center
Clarence Runft
Reinbeck
Harin
R. F. French
Independence
Poland
Chinas
George Madsen
Dike
Duroc Jersey
L. H. Thompson
E. J. Dinsdale
Ayrshire
J. J. Lynes & Sons
Plainfield
F. H. Baskins
L. S. Gillette & Sons
Fostoria
Gillette
Burlin Hamer
Orange Township
Dresser
Record potato crop estimate for 1927 across the United States
The New England Crop Reporting service of the U S Department of Agriculture estimates the 1927 potato harvest at 410 714 000 bushels based on Aug 1 farm conditions. Harvests rose 4 5 percent in July and are 15 3 percent above last year with gains in Maine and across 39 states.
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Boston
Mass
United States
New England
United States Department of Agriculture
Wheat and grain prices drift after early gains
Chicago August 27 early gains in wheat faded in late trading as buyers failed to appear and sellers only realized profits. Closing quotes show wheat down 1 4 cents, corn and oats little changed, and provisions up to 20 cents.
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Chicago
Cotton prices steady in Liverpool and Chicago market update
Spot cotton in Liverpool showed steady prices with 6,000 bales sold and receipts of 5,000. Midlands values ranged from 11.60 to 13.10 pence per pound, with futures steady, October at 11 1/2 pence. In Chicago, October through May futures rose by 12 to 26 points, with spot gains across contracts.
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Liverpool
Midlands
Chicago
Minneapolis Grain Prices and Wheat Receipts Report
Minneapolis grain report shows wheat receipts at 372 cars, up from 342 last year. Prices listed for No 1 northern, dark northern spring, hard spring, dark hard Montana, and on track and future months. oats No 3 white quoted.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Montana
Omaha grain prices show mixed gains in early market
Omaha Neb August 27 wheat and corn prices listed with varied bids. No 1 hard at 1.34 to 1.35 dollars, No 2 hard 1.30 to 1.40, No 4 hard 1.28 to 1.37, No 1 mixed 1.25. Corn ranges include No 3 white 1.02, No 2 yellow 1.04 to 1.05, No 3 yellow 1.03 to 1.032, No 2 mixed 1.02 to 1.042. Oats show No 2 white 46 to 44 cents, No 3 white 44 to 45 cents, No 4 white 44 to 46 cents.
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Omaha
Neb
Potatoes Market Report from Chicago Receipts and Prices
Chicago August 27 potatoes market reports receipts 86 cars on track 203 total U S shipments 722 cars trading slow market weak Kansas Missouri sacks Irish Cobblers 160 Nebraska 175 185 Idaho Colorado 175 190 Wisconsin 175 185 Minnesota sacks Early Ohios 140 150
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Chicago
Kansas
Missouri
Nebraska
Idaho
Colorado
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Board of Trade Cash Quotations Summary
Chicago August 27. Wheat No 2 red 1.40 1.40 No 1 hard 1.41 No 2 hard 1.41 No 3 hard 1.40 No 4 hard 1.98 No 1 northern spring 1.41 No 2 northern spring 1.40 No 3 northern spring 1.39 1.39 No 4 northern spring 1.39 1.3942 No 1 mixed 1.41 No 2 mixed 1.40 No 3 mixed 1.39 1.3942 Corn No 3 mixed 1.0942 No 2 yellow 1.12 1.13 No 3 yellow 1.11 No 4 yellow 1.08 1.081 No 5 yellow 1.06 1.08 No 6 yellow 1.05 1.08 No 4 white 1.09 1.10 No 5 white 1.07 No 6 white 1.06 Sample grade 0.96 0.96 Oats No 1 white 0.50 No 2 white 0.48 0.50 No 3 white 0.46 0.74 0.48 No 4 white 0.42 0.46 Rye No 2 1.01 1.02 Barley 0.74 0.85 Timothy 2.85 3.60 Cloverseed 18.50 26.50
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Kansas City Grain
Kansas City
Hog prices slip as light hogs dominate Chicago market
Chicago on August 27 reports a small hog run with 3 300 receipts and 8 000 holdovers. Light hogs steadier with top hogs at about 10 80 while packing sows rise 10 15 cents. Cattle and sheep receipts small. overall week shows price declines for fat cattle and range lambs amid weak feed costs and heavier weight discounts.
Closing Prices on New York Stocks and Foreign Exchanges
New York foreign exchange rates listed for Great Britain France Italy Belgium Germany Holland Norway Sweden Denmark Switzerland Spain Greece Poland Czecho Slovakia Jugoslavia Austria Roumania Argentina Brazil Tokio Shanghai Montreal with bullet figures and decimals indicating current rates.
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New York
Great Britain
France
Italy
Belgium
Germany
Holland
Norway
Sweden
Denmark
Switzerland
Spain
Greece
Poland
Czecho-Slovakia
Jugo-Slavia
Austria
Roumania
Argentina
Brazil
Tokio
Shanghai
Montreal
Clearing house banks report weekly excess reserves decline
New York Aug 27 The actual condition of clearing house banks and trust companies shows an excess reserve of 20 670 670 for the week. This marks a decrease of 26 879 040 from the prior week when the excess reserve stood at 47 549 710.
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Clearing House
New York
Toledo Seeds Market Report August 27
Toledo Ohio reports cash bids for Grover and Timothy seeds. Imported Grover cash $14.25 bid, October $17.50, December $14.25 bid for imported. Domestic Grover December $17.25 bid. Timothy cash $1.70, December $1.80, March $1.95.
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Toledo Seeds
Toledo
Grover
Timothy
Kansas City Livestock Prices August 27 1920s batch
Receipts hogs 1,000 steady to 10.60 with odd lots to 10.65. cattle 700, calves 1,100 week summary steady to 25c lower with heavy steers 14.30, medium weights 13.65, yearlings 14.00. vealers 13.50. stockers 11.00 to 13.10. Sheep 250 week receipts lambs down about 1, top western lambs 13.75, natives 13.00 to 12.75, ewes 6.75, breeding ewes 8.00 to 11.50, feeding lambs 13.00 to 13.35.
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Kansas City Livestock
Kansas City
Omaha Livestock Hog and Cattle Market Report
Omaha market notes show light hogs steady to higher with top at 10.50 and bulk 210 to 240 pounds around 10.00 to 10.25. Hog receipts about 3500. Cattle receipts 150 with mixed week comparisons. fed steers and yearlings uneven and weak to 25 cents lower, stockers up to 25 cents, bulls and veals steady. Prices cover ranges for fed cattle, heifers, grass cattle, and stockers across weights.
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Omaha
Ned
Sioux City Livestock Market Report Aug 27
Sioux City Iowa receipts show cattle and hog markets with steady to mixed changes. Cattle: steers mostly 11.00 to 13.00 top. cows 5.25 to 9.00. heifers 7.00 to 9.00. calves and yearlings around 6.50 to 14.00. Hogs: receipts 4,000. lights and butchers steady. sows up to 11 cents higher. weights 170 to 225 pounds 10.25 to 10.50. 220 to 240 pounds 9.75 to 10.25. 280 to 300 pounds 9.25 to 10.00. 300 to 400 pounds 8.65 to 9.25. sows 8.14. bulk 8.93 to 9.78. stags 7.00 to 7.50. pigs 7.00 to 9.50.
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Representa
Chicago
Montana
Dakota
Sioux City
RBI
ST. Paul Livestock South
Paul
Minn
Provisions market rounds up New York trading notes
In New York on August 27 butter remains steady across creamery and special markets with varied quoted ranges. Eggs in Chicago receipts show creamery quality and firsts at multiple figures. Kansas City reports eggs at 28 cents and poultry prices broadly steady with springs and roosters noted.
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New York
Pacific
Long Island
Midwest
Santos
Tse
Chicago
Kansas City
St Paul Livestock and Kansas City Grain Report
St Paul Minnesota cattle receipts numbered 900 with mixed changes as bulls and stockers up to 25 cents higher and fat cows and heifers trading 5.50 to 7.50, calves down 1.50 to 2.00, hogs and sheep listed with varied price movement. Kansas City grain shows wheat prices steady to lower with No 2 dark hard around 1.31 to 1.60 and corn unchanged across several classes.
Chicago Leads As Butter Prices Rise
The week ending August 27 saw firmer butter prices with Chicago showing the sharpest gains as fancy butter remained in very light supply while other grades were not plentiful. Market activity was satisfactory to receivers and jobbers, though some doubt the longevity of the uptrend. Receipts across four markets were steady, butter moving into storage at a slightly slower rate than the prior week but above the year earlier level.
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Chicago
Farmers oppose three day pheasant season in Black Hawk county
Cedar Fells and Waterloo area farmers and business owners organize remonstrances against a proposed three day pheasant season. They argue pheasants help control pests but fear influx from other counties and potential rule violations. Some propose a staggered three week plan to limit outsiders. Local leaders urge moderation while some farmers welcome pheasants as beneficial wildlife.
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Cedar Fells
Black Hawk County
Waterloo
Cedar Falls
Falls
Lawn City
Weekly Grain and Provisions Review from Chicago
The report estimates 95 million bushels of export grain for the 1927-28 season barring frost in Canada, with prices mixed as corn gains, oats steady, and provisions steady to up modestly. Soft corn possible in main producing states. drought risks and late harvests noted. Available supplies for 1927-28 expected well under last year after farm reserves. Hog markets shift from profit to loss feeding, oats threshing slowed by rain, January lard demand highlighted.
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Chicago
Canadian Northwest
Missouri
Feoria Corn Receipts and Prices Aug 27 Peoria
Corn receipts total 89 cars with various grade prices listed. No 39 yellow at 1.0832, No 4 yellow 1.07, No 5 yellow 1.052, No 6 yellow 1.0414, No 4 white 1.07, No 5 mixed 1.0513, sample 1.00451,02%4. Cars receipts 6 steady with No 3 white 24 5 and 45% c.
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Peoria Gealn
Feoria
Grain Prices From St Louis Market Report
St Louis market notes list wheat at 1.48 for No 2 red and 1.39 to 1.40 for No 2 hard, corn values show No 2 mixed at 1.07 and No 2 yellow at 1.21, oats quoted with No 2 white at 50 5e and No 3 white at 47 49e as of August 27.
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ST. Louis
Wine sale raises funds for flood victims in Mississippi Valley
In Granite Falls Minnesota three bottles of French wine sold at public auction enriched the relief fund for Mississippi valley flood sufferers by 225 dollars. One pint brought 125 dollars, the second 65 dollars, and the third 35 dollars.
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Granite Falls
Minn
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E. ST. Louis Livestock
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Mr. Dresser
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