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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1921
Page
13
The Chicago market shows wheat climbs to new highs for current season with September and December deliveries, then eases amid delivery concerns. Corn and oats follow uneven paths while hogs lift provisions. cash quotes show varied No 1 and No 2 grades across Chicago, Omaha, Peoria, and Minneapolis markets.
Waterloo markets report prices across groceries and farm produce including flour pat, corn, oats, eggs, butter, creamery, cheese, and live stock quotes. It lists cattle and hog ranges, hay, poultry, hides, and produce prices tied to New York and other markets with notes on butter, eggs, and sugar futures trending flat to higher.
Chicago hog and cattle receipts show steady demand with mixed price movements. Bulls and calves rally while sows and canners ease, hogs averaging near 10.00 with top around 10.40 and steers trading mostly between 7.25 and 8.40, veal calves near 20.50, and sheep and lambs around 9.75 to 10.55 as totals reach about 20 to 50 thousand head.
Receipts: cattle 100, hogs 1,800, sheep 100. Texas steers majority, sales down about 23 cents. native steers steady, cows mostly under 34.00. bulls scarce. Hogs active, price spread 9.50 to 10.05, most packers paying around 10.00. sows 8.60 to 9.00. Sheep steady, native lambs at 9.50.
East St Louis market reports steers strong demand with light yearlings and heifers softer. Calves milk and mixed cows and veal top around 33.10. hog receipts near 5990 with weights up to 12.00 traded. packer sows up 25c. pigs steady to higher. Sheep receipts 600 with lambs topping 29.50 and bulk between 9.25 and 7.50. market generally steady to higher, some lower grades unchanged.
Stocks opened under heavy pressure with waves of losses across steel, oil, and equipment shares led by Crucible and Bethlehem Steel, Harvester, General Electric, and Sumatra Tobacco. Market activity remained thin, with marginal recoveries before noon and a heavy close as call money rose to 6 percent.
Worden Miller, Orange township supervisor, becomes the county’s first Black Hawk farmer to thresh this year. His 220 acre field yielded an estimated 30 bushels per acre, not a record but promising. The Janesville 40 acre field owned by Marion Williams is also threshing and expected to fare well amid county activity.
Omaha Nebraska July 15 hogs mixed grades mostly steady with values $8.90 to $10.00 per hundredweight top, cattle receipts about 1,500 with steers and feeders steady to higher, sheep and lambs active with western lambs at about $14.60 and ewes around $4.75. Sioux City market also July 15 shows steady cattle with veals and calves lighter, hogs around 6,000 receipts with shipping demand.
July report from St Louis notes no major shift in lumber conditions. Demand remains weak for hardwoods and low grades while yellow pine shows activity. prices edged up on upper grades. Rail rate reductions and wage cuts may boost buying power. building permits rise and labor disputes ease. Overall, outlook favors improvement and stronger buying before August.
A compilation of short items: property sale in Greene, Iowa. Huston family motor trip to Indiana. Paul estate hearing postponed due to judge’s absence. Orange Grove band concert with A L Schmolt directing. Rowell family traveling to Maryville Mo for grandson’s move to Los Angeles. M J Johnston returns to Waterloo after Omaha sales stint. James Black Dry Goods display man Thomas Eaton at St Paul convention. Lloyd Dunbar returns from visit to his father. Dr G J Mack office theft of cocaine morphine and stamps. Miss June H Hecklinger resumes Mercy Hospital nursing in Davenport. missing man case spurred bloodhound search from Minneapolis. Miss Marion Brown treated for appendicitis at Spirit Lake and operated at St Francis Hospital. Dr Carl Bickley and family travel from Santa Monica via auto. various estate administration and accident notes. baseball game list Oelwein vs New Hampton.
Readers are invited to address communications to the Editor Farm Department of the Evening Courier and Reporter in Waterloo. The note mentions plane price at 330 dollars and requests input from farmers and the public.
Des Moines July 15 Indiv idual counties may stage animal tuberculosis eradication campaigns with permission from the Iowa animal health commission One county Winnebago may hire a veterinarian to test all breeding and dairy cattle under accredited testing in cooperation with state and federal authorities The plan aims to test all cattle in a county within about six months and fund the effort by owner fees per head while leveraging county agents and farm bureaus in the joint effort through a cooperative agreement.
The Horse Association of America reports cornbelt states are increasing work animal efficiency. Experiments show single handlers may guide nine acres daily with ten horses on a three-horse plow, and twelve horses on a double disc barrow cut about 40 acres daily. Census 1920 shows corn belt dominates horse and mule breeding, with Ohio to North Dakota producing most foals in 1919. Eastern zone produced only 40,230 foals, while southern states foaled 86,735, not meeting regional needs.
Clarksville Iowa July 15 Byron Doty assisting Paul Harris at haying when a fodder wagon overturned and horses bolted. Doty suffered a broken leg and minor injuries while the wagon and machinery were ruined. The report notes an unrelated line about UNC and women students in 1597.
A Waterlog area farmer, Thr Blough, runs a fully equipped farm shop four miles southeast of Waterlog in Orange township. He reshapes equipment, performs all repairs, and emphasizes tractor use to boost profitability. He keeps tools under cover, maintains a 45-foot machine shed, and plans to modernize his operations with intensified farming and crop rotation including corn oats and alfalfa while selling some stock to focus on prods.
Black Hawk County beekeepers aim to form a countywide organization to seek aid from the state apiarist and establish a state demonstration apiary near Waterloo. Despite past disorganization, 1,083 hives yielded 21,682 pounds of honey and 284 pounds of wax last year, with this year’s flow expected to rise. Producers discuss inviting State Apiarist from Ames and other specialists to spur action, with leaders including Amos Burhans and M. M. Moore among others.
An Ames experiment reports total feed cost of 4.57 dollars for 225 pounds of pork, excluding interest and labor. Feed items include seeds at 0.50 per bushel meat meal 90 dollars per ton wheat middlings 29 dollars per ton alfalfa pasture 10 per acre. Seventy pigs were used, seven died, with cost varying by season feeds system and methods.
A Waterloo letter to the Courier urges farmers to test using corn instead of coal to cut heating costs. The writer suggests weighing weekly coal use versus corn use, reporting results, and considers a shift to corn could lower coal demand and prices while boosting corn markets. He appeals for farm youth participation and broader farmer support.
July 13 Janesville Indiana farmers warn that without rain the crop prospects look poor for melons and garden truck. Sandy soils show signs of firming. potatoes reach fair size though few in hill. Three Thoria township farmers Wallace Peters Fremont Ogte and William Flenagag form a threshing ring in West Union and plan to start work Monday.
Des Moines July 15 state department plans a marker near Peru Madison County to honor the original Delicious apple tree on the Wyatt farm. The tree, grown by Walter Wyatt, produced aromatic apples that inspired a famed variety now cultivated in thousands of orchards across the nation. The farm, later sold to the Landis family, remains cared for by the nursery that acquired the tree.
A weekly crop report notes continued very warm conditions across the district with hot spells from Dubacque west to the Timas Central. Corn remains excellent but needs rain while spring wheat and oats are being harvested. truck crops suffer from heat. some oats and pastures in poor condition. showers in Mitchell county aided veritation but many regions report moisture shortages and potential below last year’s yields.
A choice selection of young bulls including Lely Towns and white varieties is offered at private treaty. Located near Waterion two miles west and Hudson two miles east, Lloyd 3 Loona n Waterloo, Kansas.
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