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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1921
Page
15
Wheat prices drop to season lows as selling pressure dominates across futures. May and July contracts drift, with later rally from export buying. corn and oats similarly hit fresh seasonal lows while hog provisions rise. Cash quotes show mixed endings across Chicago and regional markets, with continued bearish sentiment in grain markets.
Black Hawk County Abstract Co. notes Waterloo Clearing House weekly clearings totaling 1 256 470.08 with daily breakdown 68 690.22 for Friday Saturday Monday and 157 793. the report compares with corresponding weeks in 1920 and 1919 showing instruments recorded at 225 208.54 419 420.28 27 587.70 19 758.08 and 27 760.01 filed to date with last year’s figures 200 008.
Market notes list flour butter lard cheese and poultry prices with numerous odd spellings. Includes fresh butter from multiple creameries, fat cattle receipts, packing stock, cheeky figures for premiums hogs and poultr y, hay and miscellaneous items along with hides and pelts. The fragmented OCR provides a snapshot of early 20th century market conditions and commodity ranges in Waterloo.
Chicago and St Louis market notes report unchanged butter and poultry prices with slight movements in eggs and potatoes. Poultry prices show higher for alive fowls and springs, while other poultry lines hold steady. Potatoes in Chicago show receipts and varied sacks and bulk pricing.
The New York stock market opened lower as leaders in art, steel, equipment and motor groups fell under pressure. Prospects of tighter money rates spurred short selling, with declines extending from 1 to 3 points in early trading and broad losses across many key issues. Only Atlantic Gulf and International Harvester showed relative strength, while several major stocks including Mexican Petroleum, General Asphalt, and Union Pacific trailed the market.
Chicago market report shows cattle steady to higher with steers 10 to 15 cents up and hogs 10 to 25 cents higher. Receipts light, top yearlings at $10.00, bulk beef steer $9.50 to $9.75, cows and calves steady, stockers and feeders up to 35 cents, hogs mostly 10 to 25 cents higher with best around $9.50, sheep steady with wooled lambs at $9.25 and bulk $8.50 to $9.00.
Receipts and prices for cattle, hogs, and sheep across East St. Louis markets. Cattle top around 33.75 with steers higher by about 15 cents. bulls, cows, and stockers showing varied gains. Hogs show 10.60 top for 210 pounds and lighter, with lights and butchers stronger. sheep and lambs mostly steady to slightly lower, with top lambs near 9.50 and lambs around 9.85. Regional buyers from Colorado and Texas cited. market activity described as slow in some categories and steady in others.
Nedmar 31 Omaha receipts show hogs steady to higher with top $9.50. Cattle receipts 2,390 steady to strong on best beef steers and heifers, bulls and veals weak. Sheep receipts 3,100 steady with lambs at $9.00 to $9.30 and best ewes up to $6.00.
Sioux Ally market receipts for 2 100 fed steers and yearlings 6.50 value. fat cows and heifers 35. veals 56. feeders 6.00. hogs receipts 8 906. market steady to higher. St Joseph Mo March 31 hogs 1 008 steady to higher. cows 4 500 receipts active steady to strong. lambs 8.25 83.50. ewes 4.50 5.50.
The financial section of the League of Nations Secretariat reports that 97.5 percent of the 1,279,292 pounds first budget was paid and all members except Argentina, Paraguay, and Salvador remitted their dues. The statement notes prompt payments by member states in Geneva.
The midweek provision letter from W. G. Preas & Co Chicago notes Germany’s purchases of American lard, with 386,606,566 pounds exported from Nov 1, 1920 to Mar 18, 1921 and a 74,251,900 pound week ending March 26. It highlights rising German demand, stock on hand, and hog receipts in principal markets amid labor tensions and transport delays.
Poultry experts at Iowa State College warn against feeding spoiled vegetables to chickens noting cases where spoiled pumpkins caused deaths. They advise discarding moldy produce, maintaining clean coops, and applying a stock dip and kerosene mixture to roost corners while spreading air slaked lime weekly to prevent disease.
William Benny, a colored war veteran, had his horse disappear last Sunday after starting a relief hauling ashes job. A farmer two miles north and east of St. Francis hospital reported the gray horse was found, ending Benny’s grief over the loss.
United Press from Washington reports three more Americans killed in Mexico. Victims include Edward Davis an Arizona miner John C Quinn a sailor from Jamaica Plains Massachusetts and A D Bridges a Galveston Texas resident. State department advisement confirms the deaths.
La Porte City hosts a March meeting at the home of Mrs. John V. Kline with Mrs. W P Mayes Mrs H P Goodwin Mrs B E Ashey and Mrs R B Field assisting. Despite rain attendance was good and a program with Lola Miller piano and saxophone solos was presented before a social hour with refreshments.
Jersey cattle breeders in Iowa voted to fund a $1500 share toward a regional campaign to promote the breed in Wisconsin Minnesota Iowa and the Dakotas. The group aims a strong publicity push and field staff, with total district funding of $7500 and an outstate contribution to reach the goal. Leaders stressed rapid action to secure remaining funds and expand public awareness of Jerseys.
The U S public health service endorses the septic tank for small communities and isolated homes. A 5.4 by 6.0 foot concrete tank with 94 cubic feet capacity serves about 20 people, buried 12 to 18 inches deep and connected to the house. Effluent should be discharged via surface irrigation suited to soil. consult state health authorities before installation, especially in limestone regions to protect springs and groundwater.
Ninety percent of the nation s 25 million horses and mules are on farms with only about nine percent in urban areas, per 1920 census figures. The nine central corn belt states Ohio through the Dakotas supply about three fifths of work stock, aiding farms, eastern states, and city needs, with many animals cycling from farms to cities and back over their lifetimes.
Early in spring remove refuse from asparagus beds to boost growth. Work in barnyard manure to add humus and warm the soil. Beds should be at least a year old before harvesting, then can produce healthy food through June.
Remove salmon from can and break into pieces. Dice potato and cut pork and onion into half inch dice. Fry pork and onion until light brown. Add potato fish pork and onion and simmer in water twenty minutes. Stir in milk and crushed crackers. Serve hot in soup plates. An inexpensive nutritious chowder.
Letters from E W Booton of Allison Geo Stires of Mitchell and Mr and Mrs T J Lane of La Porte City praise the Courier as a top paper. The fragment also notes Garland Flour advertising and a garbled phrase about making good.
Iowa dairy commissioner H K Forrester says farm price drops benefit farmers by shifting focus to dairy production. He notes rising cooperative creameries and warns against abandoning land fertility, while recalling past profit from higher feed prices and urging continued dairy expansion.
H B McMurray of Tesitp Iowa argues for federal packing industry control to stabilize livestock markets. He notes farm labor wages have returned to prewar levels, predicts $35 to $45 monthly wages with room and board, and says workers must regain old efficiency. Cedar Falls reports farm work resuming after frosts and holidays.
Calendar item list announces events for agriculture groups and marketing committees. April includes a Midwest Farm Bureau presidents and secretaries conference in Indianapolis, a fruit marketing conference in Chicago, a ratification meeting of the Farmers' Grain Marketing Committee of Seventeen in Chicago and LaSalle Hotel, another Farmers' Livestock Marketing committee gathering in Chicago, and a May 3 dairy marketing conference in Chicago.
Electricians meet at Earle hall at 8 p m to discuss a new pay scale offered by Waterloo contractors cutting wages from 1 to 30 cents an hour. The old contract expired today. an officer believes the new rate may be accepted amid broader wage adjustments across Iowa trades.
Police report a wave of tire thefts statewide with two more tires taken from cars parked near a church last night. Victims include C. A. Nash at 630 Independence Avenue and J. Roepe at 136 Webster Street. Nash car tire was worth 50 dollars after thieves cut a steel cable and Yale lock. Chief H H Young says 15 to 20 tires have been taken nightly in Sioux City, with 2,000 to 3,000 cars in city streets each evening, hindering arrests but new measures are planned.
Isadore Williams, a colored man, was fined 50 dollars and faces 30 days in county jail on a charge of carrying a concealed weapon, flourishing a gun, and threatening two men. Judge Courtright ordered the gun produced for forfeiture or held for the grand jury on a state charge. Williams allegedly threatened Arthur Pullen in Pullen’s home as police arrived.
The piece explains White Diarrhea is caused by the bacterium Pullorum and spreads quickly among chicks. Prevention starting at hatch is advised, with intestinal antiseptics to kill the germ. Mercuric chloride is noted as effective but unsafe, recommended only when safer remedies are unavailable.
Dear Sir reports a poultry keeper describing White Diarrhea affecting day old chicks. After trying various remedies, a Walko White Diarrhea Remedy was used with success, saving all chicks and enabling a larger flock. The letter asks others to learn of this remedy’s effectiveness. Shenandoah Iowa is noted.
An old advertisement warns buyers not to delay treatment for White Diarrhea in chicks and promotes Walko as a preventive product. It offers a money back guarantee with a 60 cent or one dollar box and notes availability at all druggists.
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