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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1924
Page
9
Questions and comments invited for the Farmers Department at the Waterloo Evening Courier in Waterloo Iowa Communications should be sent to o Editor Farm Department Waterloo Evening Courier Waterloo Iowa Phone 6100.
Farm editor reports on the Iowa Holstein Friesian Breeders' auction with 49 head selling for a total of about 8400 dollars. High prices included Sunny Bietertie Ormedy Piebe at 410 and Wildare Pledge Auggie at 410. The meeting of dairy groups in Des Moines approved calf club prizes and planned an outreach campaign to boost Holstein youth involvement and a possible Des Moines 1925 annual meeting.
A two day vaccination school in Readlyn In will run Friday and Saturday March 21 and 22. The event offers discussion of urine diseases and their prevention.
In Traer Iowa March 20 farmers discussed forming a cow testing association to boost dairy profits. County agent plans to assist, noting Iowa has seen rapid growth in such groups across counties and believes dairy testing improves feeding, breeding, and management.
The article notes hogs will be posted for the second day to show funeral conditions caused by disease. Dr Craft of Town Extension will supervise. An examination is planned for the afternoon of the second day to select those qualified for permits to vaccinate hogs.
Atlantic March 20 report from local bankers notes a liquidation of indebtedness and renewed farmer confidence. Banks report rising collections as long-time notes mature, with fewer bankruptcies and prices for farm products climbing signaling a tightening prosperity cycle.
Reports indicate at least acres of new alfalfa near Austinville and Aplington with several farmers interested. Two carloads of agricultural limestone have been ordered for delivery locally and one to Aplington. Tama county farmers show rising interest and 10 carloads of limestone have been received for spring trials.
Grundy Center Iowa March 20 L Johnson Grundy county feed as on the Chicago Market Monday with two loads of hogs which Were reported as having sold at a satisfactory figure. S01.25 for Steers Toledo Ta March 20 A load of 1 471 pound steers sold on the Chicagos market Monday to Armour Co for 11 25 P CL Smith tama county was the shipper.
The Holstein sale opening drew few calf club buyers and no suitable junior heifers were offered. A big call club meeting will be held at Greater Waterflood association rooms Saturday afternoon March 22 with representatives from Guernsey Ayrshire and Holstein to discuss club problems and progress.
Tripoli Jamaica March 19 The Tripoli Co operative creamery annual meeting re elected William Hagen GC Prestela and C H Schmidt as directors for three year terms H C Ladage buttermaker reported higher business this year and earned another gold medal for top butter score at 96 percent leading eight three entrants among buttermakers
Georges Carpentier of France and Tom Gibbons of Minnesota are matched to box July 4 in Michigan City with Jack Dempsey financing. Fitzsimmons announced Dempsey’s association and hinted at a Dempsey Firpo rematch on Labor Day. Carpentier and Gibbons will reach town two months before the fight.
Sioux City, Ia March 20. Charles Wilder 50 is held in the county jail without bond charged with beating and kicking his 15 year old stepson Howard Cash. The boy told Sheriff Paul T. Beardsley that Wilder drove him from their home Sunday night during a blizzard and forced him to stay out all night. He also said Wilder knocked him down and kicked him in the eye.
Public sale of furniture and other property used by the former German crown prince during exile in Holland yielded about 100 pounds. The event drew expected American and English souvenir hunters, with meager proceeds benefiting Frederick William’s pockets.
New York and Chicago markets report steady to firm butter and egg prices with mixed discounts on cheese. Butter ranges around 49c to 81c, eggs show unsettled near 34c to 36c, and poultry quotes list broilers and turkeys with various regional figures. Foreign exchange data also appears with irregular quotations for multiple nations.
Chicago reports a price up turn as export demand for corn increases. Wheat and oats show independent strength with May and July contracts firming. nos. 1 hard wheat near 1.07 to 1.08 dollars. Scattered cargo sales and weather concerns keep oats cautious, while provisions stay steady amid hog price dips.
Bank clearings in Waterloo for the week ending March 20 1924 totaled 11 272 908 07 with year earlier and instrument counts shown. Minneapolis wheat and grain quotations for the same date list No 1 northern No 1 dark northern spring and corn oats prices with December and future months quoted.
Hogs remain near yesterday’s prices with top at 12.00 in Chicago and varied loads across the Midwest. Cattle receipts around 12,000 with beef steers and yearlings steady to higher, bodies around 10.75 to 12.00, and calves showing limited gains. Sheep receipts near 3,000 with fat lambs and ewes trading unevenly but steady at several markets. Additional reports from Sioux City and East St. Louis show mixed hogs, steady to weak cattle, and varying sheep trades with top lambs around 14.00 to 16.75.
New York March 26 continuation of short covering kept stock prices firm at the open. General Electric advanced further while Independent Rockely recovered from yesterday's weakness. Rail shares held gains with Norfolk & Western at 123 and Atlantic Coast Line up five points. several others rose fractions.
A grain warehousing board was organized in Tamaco to allow farmers to seal under law inspected cribs or bins. Two permits were issued to store grain and obtain receipts to borrow money. Local organizers named Claus, Raume, K Lundt, Henry Dan Schmuidt, Reinbeck, Maurice Jenson and Frank Cold in the effort, authorized by E W Cassady Iowa secretary of agriculture.
In Grundy Center Iowa Br Peter Malcoial state veterinarian will speak tomorrow at 1 20 pm in the courtroom to outline an area wide tuberculosis eradication plan and a county testing campaign will begin at earliest opportunity.
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