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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1924
Page
9
An agricultural bulletin discusses baby beef clubs and farmers market news. It recommends barley as a substitute for oats, suggests crack rolling or cooking barley, warns against overfeeding, and advises dry housing and fly control to improve calf health and weight gains.
Price quotations cover multiple markets with assorted items. The report lists dairy meat and poultry quotes, including milk, beef, veal, lamb, eggs, turkeys, and chicken products, plus regional farm staples like hay, flour, and potatoes, reflecting the day’s market levels and steadiness across rows.
Rain fell across Kansas with reports of moisture improving crop prospects in Nebraska. Grain and livestock markets showed mixed activity with corn and wheat prices fluctuating in Chicago and Minneapolis while Chicago cash bids weakened slightly and cattle sales remained steady at St. Louis.
Peoria Livestock reports cattle and hog submissions with slow to steady demand. Steers and heifers show uneven prices, fat cattle around 94 dollars, hogs mixed with lights and butcher grades down slightly, sheep light and steady. Representative sales compiled by Lamson Bros. & Co.
Traders saw uneven action as New York stocks opened higher with United States Steel and Anaconda advancing while motors and oils weakened. Several leaders like Baltimore and Norfolk Western declined from early highs, while Public Service of New Jersey moved up toward yearly peaks amid a broad sketch of mixed movments and restricted participation.
Partial OCR lists dairy receipts and wheat market figures with scattered, unclear entries. Mentions Waterloo Corype and New York flour markets, with dates around May and May 4. Names and figures are interspersed, but specific trades or totals are not clearly stated.
A local Rainbow club report notes weekly Farm Women Department activities, nutrition lessons, and home demonstration progress. Members discuss cabbage and over winter storage, weigh gains, and improvements in family meals. A future meeting is planned with Miss Gillinet and Mrs. Wingina leading.
The article describes a women's project led by Mrs Almateas focusing on nutrition courses, millinery, dressmaking, and crafts. It covers unit courses for 7 plus year olds, instructor Miss Judah Hard, and Ames Waverly activities with county government, cereal study, and a site fair exhibit planning led by state leader Mrs Knowles.
Cedar Falls allocates forty plots on Wiper to test soil amendments and crops. A. H. Refshianes and others outline two-part experimental tracts with four subdivisions. Limestone, acid phosphate and fertilizer will be tested with halatin soybeans corn potatoes and other crops under Nordlaker of Swift & Co. supervision.
An article notes frost damage evident several days after a frost event. Observers report fruit buds appear bled or injured with differences in damage across varieties and patches, suggesting varying susceptibility to the cold.
Readers send questions and letters to the editor at the Farm Department of the Waterloo Evening Courier Wa terloo Tone phone 4100 for farm topics and advice.
A fragment notes a survey on homemaker interests at Iowa State College this year. It mentions a special event and region focus in Ames, Iowa, with attention to popular home crafts or products among residents.
Women of Spring Creek Township held a meeting at Mrs. Fred Pump home with plans for a township achievement day in July. A rabbage experimental plot will be located locally under farm bureau and extension service guidance, with Mrs. Iryin Budile and Miss Barbara Slawery leading. Elizabeth Mindson led a Q&A session on the nutrition lesson and a review of the amercian project. Pastors will be invited at the June meeting as Spring Creek aims to top last year’s county exhibit record at the state fair.
Bremer county farm women will meet at the schoolhouse on Wednesday June 4 for achievement day. They will bring nutrition work products and posters for the town fair exhibit to Des Moines. The Bremer women have completed a nutrition course taught by Town Extension specialists and a mammoth picnic dinner will be served at noon.
Cass Township Farm Bureau women met in Elkader for an afternoon session at Mrs. S Shoentage’s home. Twenty four members learned sawing shortcuts and textile help including making hoods and pockets. Lunch was served after the meeting.
Vinton Iowa May 28 township women’s clubs can win 350 in posters at the county fair exhibition. The aim is to show the extent of the community education project and prove its value. Posters and scrapbooks will be major display components with space allocated for each township.
Warmer weather at the start of the week encouraged farmers in southwest Cedar Falls to hold hope they won t need replanting. A Ohio seedman reported farmers near Waterloo finished planting and expect favorable conditions after soil temperatures rise, with seed germination underway and good sprouts forming. A three week delay in corn emergence is noted as unusually long, keeping watch for warmer weather to finalize decisions.
Cedar Township Farm Bureau will hold a meeting at the schoolhouse Thursday evening May 29. Miss Elizabeth Hudson home demonstration agent and A A Burger county agent will be on the program. Refreshments will be served.
Receipts show hogs at 28 000 with steady to higher demand for midweight pigs and steady cattle action. Prices list fat hogs around 6.00 to 7.40 with top steer bids near 11.50, while sheep and lambs rise modestly on lighter offerings. Packing demand remains variable as buyers and sellers adjust to the week’s trends.
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