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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1929
Page
9
New York reports butter receipts 6 157 tubs and mixed poultry prices with fresh and frozen divisions. Chicago records butter receipts 6 330 tubs and 4 423 eggs cases with varied grades. Foreign exchange rates show mixed demand with multiple country currencies quoted against the dollar.
Multiple probate notices in Black Hawk County Iowa appointing Bertha Barker Brandes executrix of Nannie T. Barker. Olive Poyner executrix of Henry Poynier. G. Griffith administrator of Florence M. Griffith. dated 1929, with payment and claim procedures and attorney details.
H G Peverill of Waterloo was reelected president of Black Hawk County Farmers Union. About 157 members attended in Raymond as Nick Ehr Jesup and W R Nickerson Raymond were elected VP and secretary treasurer respectively. The group plans expansion with new locals and an intensive campaign for 1929. The next county meeting will be in March.
The twenty seventh annual Farm and Home Week at Iowa State College runs Jan 28 to Feb 1 with breed association meetings speeches and demonstrations on farming and homemaking. Key events include a corn and small grain show and an evening mass meeting by Dr Burris Jenkins.
In Sumner Indiana farmers and members of the Sumner Co operative Livestock Shipping association heard Dr Sawver of Chicago and Dr J W Morgan outline rail funded efforts to cut hog losses in transit. They cited improved bedding and feeding practices and an educational campaign to reduce dead and crippled hogs from loading to unloading. Henry Henniges, president of the local shipping group, presided.
Chicago news reports Dr. A V Domm of the University of Chicago describes experiments turning roosters into hens by gland transplant and claims he can also reverse the process. Roosters made into hens lose crowing but cluck. Domm aims to create a rooster that lays an egg.
Fayette county assessors voted to reduce farm land valuations by four percent in this year's assessment. County Auditor J. H. Cline noted Fayette land averaged $61.17 per acre, above the county average in the fourth district, while livestock values remained unchanged. Present were County Agent B. W. Lodwick and Fayette official Frei Finch, who urged broader real estate revaluation alongside farm land.
Ames Iowa January 11 The Percheron Society of America adopts a plan by J C Halart to rank worthy sires with credible show winnings. A committee including E L Hurmbert W S Corsa and Ed Nicodemus reviewed and approved the proposal. The system will rate sires by their own and their progeny show results, a first for horses.
Maynard Ta Jan 11 Patrons of Harlan Mutusi Co operative creamery paid an average of 1. a pound for butterfat for the year ended. The plant produced 215303 pounds of butter from 181043 pounds of butter fat with 21.8 percent overrun monthly. Cash paid patrons 91024.58 and total receipts 100967.73 with expenses 9033.5. Officers: Henry Henniges president F Sewell vice president A B Bhune treasurer. Directors: Henry Schrader W B Simpson Jake Ponsar S H Harrison Fred Wolfe. Scoring cream was discontinued at the Ames extension service. Glen Muttlstadt buttermaker assigned the work. The Maynard creamery manufactures "Jown Brand" butter.
December butterfat produced at the Hudson plant showed Henry Lafrenz as manager. The largest fat batch came from A. E. Redaigh of Geneseo with 411 pounds. Other patrons included H. T. Anderson of Dike and numerous Waterloo and Cedar Falls contributors. December butterfat price was 57 cents per pound, up from prior months.
Benson Co-Operative Creamery plans its annual meeting Monday afternoon aboardlock. P A Lund secretary and manager announces two directors will be chosen for three year terms to replace N C Lynden gird and Marius Bergatram. Also to select help to haul coal salt butter and butter tubs and disposal of surplus butter milk.
At Washington township farm bureau meeting in the Wolf Hatchery Bremer county members staged a trial with Alvin Guether as John Doe. Former officials acted as judge and attorneys while witnesses mocked the proceedings. Doe was sentenced to jail with a year of hard farm labor and paroled to his wife. The meeting approved sending Elmer Reeves to a state burral convention and planned a new play to raise funds.
Floyd County Farm bureau leaders R F Dunkelberg and Earl Winterink will join County Agent William Dietrich to attend the annual state farm bureau conference in Des Moines January 15 to 17. Mrs Charles Ratcher and Mrs G E Tracey named as delegate and alternate for the woman’s project. bankers aid bureau in alfalfa growth efforts.
Bristow Iowa activity opens the year with heavy corn shipments bringing about three cents here per unit. Local livestock dealer Clare Write reports shipments of hogs and cattle from Bristow and Allison with managers H Seedy and J By Wreires overseeing.
An all day Cedar Township Farm Bureau meeting at Mrs. Frederick Wheeler’s home in La Porte City outlined plans to stage a one act play at the Wheeler residence on February 17. North Cedar Farm Bureau members also plan a second play within two months and will enter it in the county contest later winter. The next Cedar meeting is January 24, to cover parliamentary law and music appreciation.
Osage creamery reports butterfat payments for the last two weeks totaling $153.70 to C. J. and Roy Fish. Prices center at 54.2 cents per pound. Other high producers include Burton Stacy and Swalm & Bosworth with amounts ranging from $76 to $103.41. New York raw sugar shows today with no sales, refined prices up by small margins.
Chicago trade reflected overseas wheat influence with Argentina and Australia affecting prices while demand from abroad stayed limited. Cold wave forecasts spurred selling in winter wheat. corn and oats moved modestly as moisture and European needs influenced shifts, with March wheat around 1.17 and May near 1.21 dollars.
Washington reports weaker feed markets due to slow demand. Wheat feeds fell while primary concentrates stayed near steady. gluten feed and meat maintained strength with brisk demand for limited supplies. Prices span multiple cities for bran middlings flour middlings linseed meal gluten feed and other feeds.
Chicago January 11 Board of Trade quotes list No 3 hard wheat at 1 18 ¾ to 1 19 ¼ per bushel with other grades varying. Oats No 2 white 61 0, No 3 white 47 4 to 48 1/2, rye No 3 1 02. Timothy seed 5 10 to 6 30. Cloverseed 32 25 to 32 30. Provisions lard 21 80 rib 19 25 bells 12 62.
Livestock receipts at Chicago show 43 000 hogs 2 000 calves and 14 000 sheep with hogs up to 20 cents higher and bids modest for lambs. Cattle steady with light weight steers strong and cows and calves holding. weekly stock totals and futures for butter eggs and produce quoted.
Heavy buying and favorable trade conditions lifted U S Steel and other leaders as prices moved higher in early trading. Bulky gains in Pere Marquette and several utilities followed with Liberty bonds firming and a brisk close seen despite a mixed session.
New York investors pushed bonds higher in light early trading with Public Service Corporation of New Jersey reaching fresh highs for the third day. Utilities moved little overall while St Paul Adjustable fell short of gains and Anaconda Copper and Abraham & Straus 5s rose fractions. Industrials led activity on a firmer foreign list with several issues advancing.
Cattle receipts 1700 steady on most classes as steers yearlings and fed cows top around 12.50 to 13.50 for selected lots. Calves 1800 mostly 14.00 to 14.50. Hogs 13000 up about 10 cents with values 8.75 to 8.80 for lights and butchers, sows around 8.60. Sheep 1500 bids sharply lower with best lambs near 6.00 and sheep scarce.
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