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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1921
Page
11
Wheat and corn drift with government crop report awaited. Bears gain late as traders preview the USDA outlook, oats steady and hogs lift provisions marginally. Kansas City and Chicago quotes show mixed moves with slight net declines across grains.
Chicago livestock report shows hog receipts at 20 000 with 25 to 40 cent gains and top hog price at 11 05 per cwt. Bulk hogs near 10 85 to 11 00, 200 pound lots common. Cattle and sheep receipts steady to firm with gains in hog market lifting overall demand.
Kansas City stockyards report receipts of 10 000 cattle including beef steers and fat cows with prices mostly steady to 26 cents lower. Hogs total 9 000 with gains to 40 cents higher and tops at 10 59. Sheep receipts 5 000 with lambs up about 25 cents and heavies down 25 to 40 cents.
East St Louis market reports receipts of 3 400 steers steady to slow at $9.25 bid top, cows steady to strong, 6 50 to 7 75 on top. Hogs active with $11 45 top and $11 50 bid unsold, lights 13 25 to 11 40, mediums 16 50 to 12 00, heavies 10 09 to 10 50. Sheep dull with virtually no trading, lambs not moving.
Omaha market figures show hogs 6,900 receipts with prices from 9.40 to 10.19 per hundredweight and cattle around 9.85 with veals lower. sheep absent. St Joseph listings record 4,000 hogs up 35 to 60 cents, top around 10.60, 2,000 cattle steady to firm, calves around 10.00, lambs 8.75 to 9.75, ewes near 5.00.
Market notes show butter and eggs unsettled with higher creamery prices amid fresh receipts. Poultry steady with live birds firm, while oats, corn, and potatoes report varied gains and losses across markets in New York and Toledo reports.
New York trading opened with light, irregular dealings and pressure on rails and shippings. United Fruit, Mexican Petroleum and General Asphalt showed moves, while some readings improved briefly as shorts covered, then cooled. Bond and coffee notes appeared alongside questions about graphite grease and steel jackets for bullets.
Club rifle and pistol target shoots face a challenge setting prize matches fair to all. Proposes rematch style with standard conditions but zeroing any shots touching the 9 ring. Highlights blind luck via line shots, notes examples scoring 49 of 40 and 35 with few lines touching. Encourages testing suggested conditions to avoid confusion and boost interest.
A Sunday School lesson presents biblical insights in a concise devotional style. The author, Rev P R Fitzwater D D, teacher of English Bible at Moody Bible Institute in Cal Caro, shares reflections suitable for classroom or personal study.
The lesson outlines Jesus at the Passover with friends focusing on Judas betrayal, the preparation of the Passover, and the institution of the New Covenant meal. It emphasizes self-examination, obedience, and bearing crosses with faith amid sorrow, plus a wedding notice from Dubuque.
Isaac Schmidt of Grand Home farm between Cedar Falls and Dike plans a registered Guernsey herd and official testing. His cows include Marcus Glenwood’s Daisy with fat tests near 317 lbs as a two year old, and daughters in the 500s. He notes records, creamery checks, and tuberculosis testing as essential for shows. Fox township statistics show farms, crops, livestock, and Jubilee creamery history.
Woolgrowers of Black Hawk County plan a Saturday meeting at Greater Waterloo association rooms. Thomas Stone will discuss grading and marketing for the coming year and potential protective legislation for growers. The National Sheep and Wool Bureau warns of losses without protection and notes war risks to wool supplies.
The Iowa federation reports 83 percent of 1921 dues paid with counties showing membership gains. Local talks propose three bills on collective bargaining through farmer cooperatives, bonded warehouses, and a farm credits corporation. Additional measures aim to simplify land title registration and require railroads to add unit storage tracks. Pruning advice for prune fruit trees emphasizes low headed forms and careful cuts to ease harvesting.
The text advises smooth cuts on pruning to avoid moisture and fungus, cut on a stance to shed rain and snow, and cut close to the main trunk to allow healing. It notes that cutting limbs near the trunk leaves a clean bear and reduces decay.
In Des Moines March 8 Senator Billy Haskell urged a floor motion to preserve a Bourbon Democrat specimen by allowing alcohol use for preservation, asserting the genus Democrat is rapidly extinct. The measure argues this would aid posterity and would not violate the eighteenth amendment.
Washington March 8 Wheat held on farms March 1 was about 207,591,000 bushels, or 25.4 per cent of the 1926 crop, compared with 164,624,000 bushels, or 17.6 per cent of the 1919 held a year ago, the department of agriculture announced today.
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