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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1918
Page
5
A garbled notice outlines a seed sale or product release involving Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin regions. It mentions figures like 21.2 percent and references gears of agriculture or distribution, with names and places largely unclear.
Numerous small ads list items for sale including refrigerators and a baby push cart, plus rental offers for rooms and furnished apartments. Several entries provide addresses such as 511 East Second St and 1092 Commercial St, with phone numbers Black 4198 Red 3182 and others. Some notices reference repairs, building space, and a garage or repair shop building for sale. One entry mentions a lost item and another offers jobs in grocery work or school-yard work.
The report notes swift shifts in grain and provision prices with white steel corn strengthening locally while overall provisions and coarse grains move lower. Moisture and erratic weather threaten immediate supply, seeding shows progress, and cotton futures in New York open steady with mixed new and old crop quotes.
The article describes heavy liquidations and extreme weakness in grain and oats markets in Chicago with futures leading the downturn. It notes liberal receipts and weather adding to depressions, a brief rally as industry buying resumed, and net lower prices for March and May contracts while hog prices rose despite weak provisions.
Chicago cash quotations show corn No 2 low at 1.40 and oats No 3 white at 0.74. Clover and timothy values listed, with standard prices around 23.00 to 25.42. Kansas City cash corn No 2 mixed at 1.58 to 1.68, white 1.3 plus. St Louis corn No 2 track 1.70 with oats 0.59 to 0.60. Peoria reports mixed and white corn ranges and various yellow and mixed lots with prices around 1.05 to 1.15.
Stock traders showed renewed activity at the open led by eastern rail shares after a 15 percent rate increase lifted sentiment. Canadian Pacific faced selling pressure while Erie issues Reading Chesapeake & Ohio and Bethlehem Steel saw gains. Industrials remained irregular with a broad array of advances and losses across the list as investors weighed the rate decision and freight outlook.
Chicago yards report higher hog prices as supply tightens. Cattle remain scarce while sheep shipments go to slaughter. Receipts show hogs $17.25 to $17.85, light $17.20 to $18.00, mixed $15.00 to $15.00, heavy $16.35 to $17.55, pigs $10.75 to $17.20. Cattle receipts around 31,000 with steers $9.50 to $15.50 and cows $7.19 to $12.10. Sheep receipts about 4,000 with lambs $14.50 to $18.25. Data from Omaha market also listed.
Sioux City Livestock delivers a March 16 market update with hogs steady to higher prices led by light and heavy trades around $16.99 and $14. bulk at $16.80. Cattle receipts 2,000 steady with steers $10.00 to $13.50, cows and heifers $8.00 to $11.50, calves $8.00 to $12.50. Sheep receipts 1,500 higher overall.
Kansas City market prices show hogs receipts at 3,000 with bulls heavy and pigs trading from 12.50 to 15.50 per hundredweight. Cattle receipts 400 with steers 5.50 to 13.00, cows 7.50 to 11.00, heifers 7.75 to 11.75, calves 7.50 to 13.00. Sheep receipts none with lambs 27.00 to 18.60, yearlings 13.50 to 15.50, wethers 12.50 to 14.00, ewes 11.50 to 13.00.
Hogs receipts 4,000 with top at 17.55 and bulk around 16.75. Cattle receipts 500 with steers near 9.00 to 31.73, cows and heifers 2.00 to 12.50, calves 7.60 to 14.50. Sheep receipts 230 with lambs 14.00 to 18.25 and ewes 7.00 to 13.50.
Hogs steady with varied classes from feeders to good heavy trading at St. Louis market. Cattle receipts about 900 with steady to higher price ranges for steers heifers cows calves. Sheep receipts none with lambs and ewes priced across mid teens.
Prices and receipts for butter eggs cheese poultry and potatoes in New York Chicago and St Louis with changes and settlements. clearing house reserve figures. London silver and money rates. mercantile paper. Waterloo market notes on grain and livestock prices and quality.
Readable items list wholesale prices for eggs creamery butter and potatoes. Includes roosters ducks turkeys hides veal kips calves horses and mules with varying grade numbers and weights.
A promotional piece touts the Lower Rio Grande Valley Texas as a fertile area with three broom corn crops per planting yielding 1.5 tons per acre and selling at 365 per ton, corn yields 60 to 1060 bushels first crop and 40 to 75 bushels second crop, alfalfa 7 to 18 cuttings yielding 7 to 14 tons yearly at 40 per ton, plus a third winter crop of onions and cabbage promising land purchase coverage. It invites Iowa farmers to inspect and visit with reservations urged for a large crowd.
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