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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1925
Page
9
The Home Garden Handy advises gardeners to plan and stake their garden before sowing seeds. Use labeled stakes and a scaled plan to align rows with labels and dates, ensuring orderly seed sowing, accurate transfers to soil, and efficient use of time.
About 75 farmers gathered at the courthouse to hear W. Schilling of Twin City Milk Producers Association discuss forming one large producer group to market milk. He urged 5 percent contract signers and outlined fair dealing with distributors, with an emphasis on centralized handling, pricing, and coordinated surplus management.
March meeting at the county farm bureau will include poultrymen selling hatching eggs and seeking higher prices. Petitions circulated advocate about 4 dollars per 100 eggs as fair. Reports also cover spring chick numbers, market openings, and grain and livestock prices in Waterloo and nearby markets.
A Black Hawk County farm family led by J A Bierschmitt thrives on livestock feeding, crop rotation of corn oats and clover, and manure fertilization. The father credits encouraging work and personal interest as key to sons choosing farming, while noting profits from cattle and grain and plans to buy young stock.
Hog prices rise 25 to 30 cents while steer trade slows. Receipts total about 48 000 hogs and 19 000 cattle with varied weights and weaker demand. Prices show mixed gains in hogs and generally steady to lower bids for cattle and sheep with dull activity and few early bids.
Receipts 4,400 cattle slow with fat steer prices down 75 cents. Sluggish demand for stockers and feeders. calves uneven with top sorts near 11.25. Hogs 16,400 strong to slightly higher. good to choice medium weights 13.50–13.60 with some loads to 14.75. Pigs steady to up 25 cents. bulk around 11.15. Sheep 1,200 steady to strong. few sales early. fat natives 5.50–6.00.
Craft Brothers auctioned about 40 purebred Duroc Jersey sows and gilts at a pavilion sale, averaging $47.75 with a top price of $71. Only three lots fell below $40, two of which were smaller than average. Buyers came from Vinton and nearby towns. market tone was slightly weak but turnout remained good as roads limited movements.
At Fred Cheruey’s sale in Toledo Louisiana on March 16 two horses fetched $168 each. A third horse brought $150 and a fourth sold for $126. Cattle sold up to $56 with calves reaching $20 to $30 and chickens sold between $1 and $1.25 each.
Bremer county farmers vote to retain Agent Offringa for another year with a salary increase. He has served three years, moving here from Ames where he worked with Iowa State College extension on dairy problems.
Community readers are invited to send questions and comments to the Farm Department of the Waterloo Evening Courier in Waterloo Iowa. Communications should be addressed to Editor Farm Department and use the provided mailing details.
Chicago markets show mixed futures and cash bids for wheat and corn across grades No. 3 red No. 2 hard and mixed varieties with prices around 1.60 to 1.75 per bushel and corn around 1.13 to 1.17 while barley and oats report scattered values in the 60 to 70 cent range. New York prices echo steady to firm grain quotes with rye and barley noted and Minneapolis and Omaha bids listed for wheat and barley with varied futures.
Chicago and New York markets show higher butter prices with creamery butter around $81 per case and extra firsts listed. Cheese and milk grades appear with various price postings. hundreds of cases and stock figures noted alongside poultry and eggs. Kansas City and St Louis regions report mixed produce and poultry prices with potatoes and butter fluctuations across dates March 15 to 18.
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