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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1922
Page
13
Evening Courier and Reporter in Waterloo Iowa invites readers to address Better Farm Department with questions and comments. Communication channel listed as phones 3430 and postal address for the department.
Independence March 28 Roy T Lee Buchanan County agricultural agent has resigned to join the Iowa Jersey Cattle Club and the American Jersey Cattle Club as field representative in Iowa eastern Kansas and Nebraska. He led community center work soil sampling and poultry and dairy calf club programs, shaping Buchanan County Farm Bureau progress and earning multiple offers.
Thomas Glenny and Walter Anderson, living southeast of Cedar Falls, completed a major corn delivery to the Cedar Falls mill. Glenny shipped 1,600 bushels and Anderson 1,200, the heaviest corn delivery of the week. Glenny earned 45 cents per bushel and Anderson 43 cents, with no future delivery contracts.
The Tamworth herd at Cedar Crest Farm, owned by James Mackay and J. B. Mackay in Iowa, gained fame after a founder’s interest sparked rapid breeding growth. The herd’s sows and boars produced large litters, with the line spreading to 36 states and Mexico. The article notes the breed’s muscular build, bacon-type qualities, and wide distribution, including the Beltsville, Maryland experiment farm.
President to invite foreign governments to attend the World Dairy Congress in 1923, aligning a broad dairy industry network worth billions. The event, planned with the Agriculture Department, aims to unite producers, creameries, and distributors for a two week international program in a yet undecided host city. About 500,000 visitors are expected, with sessions preceding the national dairy show.
War Week notes a store sale transfer to R A Sibrel who took charge March 27. Community events include birthday celebrations, Campfire Girls pantomime, cemetery bylaws meeting, Epworth League appeals, and funeral details for Mrs Jessie Gorton. Also reports hospital readmissions and school absences.
Charles City Iowa March 28 six cooperative neighbor spray rings formed after four orchard demonstrations led by county agent W A Dickinson and Henry Patten of Charles City. Patten urged hardy winter varieties like Melinda Northwestern Graming and Brilliant and noted Iowa can rival western production with lower handling costs. Demonstrations at Swedberg Rock Grove spawned four rings. at Dreyer Hast St Charles three more sprayers were ordered to cover 350 trees. Attendees at Ruzicka Union township and Drey er Hast St Charles rallies also adopted spray rings, with Sonaschign assisting orchard work through feeding and caring demonstrations.
Residents of St Ansgar and Fairbank report visits and travel notices. Mrs Charles Bacon of Madison Wisconsin spent a week with L G McKinley family and returned home. Nina Jackson left for Dell Rapids South Dakota to visit her brother Peter Péterzon. Other locals include Miss Mac Hansen returning from Upper Iowa University for spring break, Mrs Albert Schmidt visiting Fergus Falls, and Luncheon for the Tuesday club. Also noted are oil business visits, travels to Cedar Rapids Chicago and Moline, and church and community events with several health concerns and hospital visits. A separate note mentions Reverend J G Maton traveling to Eagle Grove for a funeral, and various residents visiting Waterloo, Dunkerton, and Rome.
Local items from Shell Rock and surrounding areas detail visits, funerals, school reopens, and community events. Mentions include Mrs. Wameake returning with daughter, Will Anderson moving furniture to Mason City, funeral attendances for L. J. Tryon, M. I Ladies Aid meeting changes, and shell Rock school consolidations. Other notes cover residents’ travels, visitors, and church services, plus foreign exchange rates and regional notices.
Mrs Tove Hates travels to Bisinwick N Y for family matters. Local relatives and neighbors gathered for a burial service at Mercy Hospital and a funeral in Fairbank cemetery. Community members share aid for fire losses and recognize Adolph Fourtoh in a Relief tribute. George West dies in Spearfish and his sister attends funeral services.
Markets reported wheat corn and oats quotations from St Louis, Minneapolis, Peoria and Kansas City with varying prices and futures. Receipts and cash bids appeared for No 1 northern No 2 yellow and other grades. Milk and cream receipts were tallied at Waterloo Co operative Dairy and raw sugar markets were quiet in New York.
Market notes from New York and Chicago show steady butter with creamery extras and higher receipts at 8 690 tubs. Cheese unsettled with 2 615 receipts. milk and eggs mixed, poultry prices mostly steady with slight gains for some categories. Broad market activity in dairy eggs poultry and meat items across regional wholesale outlets.
Market report shows hogs up 5 to 10 cents with receipts around 26,000 at the midwest auction, cattle steady to weak with prime loads around 12.60, veal calves mixed, sheep higher on 14,000 head with lambs near 14.00 and yearlings around 9.75, Kansas City and Houston areas noting varied gains and steady demand.
Opening trading showed reactionary tones as railway and industrial leaders faced negotiations and selling pressure. Gains appeared in Pullman, International Harvester, and Central Leather while Mexican and California Petroleum weakened. Call money opened at 4.4 percent. closing sentiment remained strong on support for oils, equipment, and food shares.
Receipts at Bart St Louis Livestock show mixed action with beef steady to strong on early price levels, later market easing. Hogs 11,000 with a steady to fully steady tone, cattle and sheep mixed as buyers weigh higher loads against lighter demand. Lambs move to $26.80 with moderate demand and several lots of good to choice quality cattle offering steady prices.
Receipts for hogs around 14,000 with bulk at 210-pound butchers near 9.60 to 10.25 and 245 bid. Cattle receipts about 7,000 with feeder and steers holding steady. Sheep receipts around 40,000 with killing classes strong to higher and early sales mixed with clipped lambs and feeder activity. Prices show varied bidding and markets in flux across hogs cattle and sheep categories.
Receipts of 3,000 stockers and feeders show weak demand for steers with prices around 16.2 to 16.0 and butcher stock nearly steady. Fed cattle and yearlings show improved prices near 5.00, fat cows and bulls around 42.00, calves 44.50 to 47.25. Hog receipts 7,600 with prices mostly down 15 cents. butchers about 9.40 to 9.65, lights near 9.75. Sheep receipts around 600 with steady market.
Receipts at St Joseph Missouri on March 28 totaled 5000 with cattle and sheep notable. Cattle receipts about 2000, generally unready with steers and heifers around 35.60 to 41.80 per hundredweight. cows steady. Sheep receipts 4600. Copper prices steady at 18.12 for spot and futures. electrolytic copper near 18.12. New York exports show high money at 4 percent, with minor shifts in loan rates and mercantile paper rates. Toledo seed prices listed for Clover seed around 18.06 with futures at 15.00 for March and 11.00 for October.
A fragmented wartime Waterloo market and rail timetable lists train arrivals and departures at Union Depot and nearby stations, with cargo and passenger movements. It includes livestock prices, butter and milk quotes, local farm goods, and various line connections to Chicago Des Moines and Dubuque, reflecting daily commerce and passenger flows in late March 1942.
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