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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1924
Page
7
The Farmer Today’s Market News reports a sharp drop in wheat prices amid market uncertainties. Rural education and community effort in Orange township are praised by R K Bliss as key to future farm progress and youth engagement.
Floyd County Poultry association schedules exhibition in Charley City on December 3 4 and 6. The piece notes Floyd County as a premier corn wheat oat and hay region with many purebred flocks. The event will follow American Poultry Association rules with a competent judge and a day for lectures on feeding culling marketing and diseases.
Independence Iowa May 21 Directors of Buchanan County Farm Bureau approved scheduling the annual Buchanan Farmers Picnic for Thursday June 18. Committees were named to choose the venue arrange speakers and features for the program while members split on national issues including the McNary Haugen bill and postal rate increases.
Instructions invite readers to send questions and comments to the Farm Department at the Waterloo Evening Courier in Waterloo Iowa. Communications should be addressed to Editor. Phone number provided as 5100.
Frank Miller north of Waterloo uses straps attached to bridles to calm and control two 1200 pound mules while working in summer heat. He explains mules handle heat better than horses and can be economical, with training and the strap method enabling safe driving. Also notes three mules owned by neighbors Clarenee Miller and family. Ends with a market note: New York markets closed.
Independence Iowa May 31 Special Wednesday May 14 Carl Walter a young farmer near Quasqueton lost his barn seven work horses and other property. May 22 forty eight men brought one hundred one horses and machinery to the Walter farm plowed sixty acres dragged forty two acres and planted thirty seven acres of corn. Through this generosity he was enabled to get his farm crops in as usual.
Representative Hull of the Second district says he will remain in Washington to push for relief for farmers through the McNary Haugen agricultural bill or another measure. He vows not to adjourn until a beneficial law is enacted, even if that delays his reelection campaign. Hull favored the McNary Haugen bill but would oppose adjournment if it fails to gain enough votes.
Readlyn man Roeadlyn, May 54, begins in the Jersey business with four head of purebred Jerseys. He plans to raise dairy cows and improve his herd after visiting herds in other counties. One of his sons may join the dairy calf club.
Cedar Falls reports that Congressman Dickinson and Senator Kenyon cannot attend the county farm bureau picnic. The program committee, including Art Kreger H W Miller and Mrs P L Fried Ivy and D S Heiple, is undecided on a replacement speaker as no picnic date has been set.
The U S Department of Agriculture reports a western foot and mouth outbreak nearing containment. Of 16 California counties quarantined, six show no new infections for over a month and four more stopped outbreaks within 2 months. In two counties nearly a week has passed without new cases, suggesting eradication progress amid the highly infectious disease.
A wheat market report from Chicago and other centers notes May 31 weather rains in the southwest weigh on prices, with July and September futures dipping then a Winnipeg market weakness drags values lower. Corn and oats show firmer tones early but end mixed. provisions stay firm on hog values. Grain prices and bids are listed for Chicago, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Peoria, Omaha, and St. Louis, with representative bids for flour, seeds, and hay.
Chicago market report May 31 shows hog receipts 13 000 with strong demand for 250 to 300 pound butchers at 7.40 to 7.50 and 160 to 225 pound bands at 7.10 to 7.45. Slaughter sows 6.50 to 6.60, feeding pigs 6.28 to 6.13. Cattle receipts 3 000 with fed steers active and yearlings weak to 25c lower. vealers 25 to 60 cents higher. stockers and feeders 500 lower. best yearlings around steady. Cows 5.25 to 7.00. heifers 6.50 to 8.00. veal calves 8.09 to 8.20. Sheep receipts 6 000 with market steady. lambs strong, fat lambs 14.00 to 14.73. spring lambs 16.00 to 16.75. western springers 17.25 to 17.43. ewes 6.00 to 7.00.
Receipts and price ranges for cattle and sheep across Omaha and Kansas City markets. Cattle torchers show mixed changes with steers steady to down, feeders and cows varied. hogs steady to higher. Spring lambs firm, top prices around 16 dollars, with regional differences and weekly shifts noted. Notable entities include Omaha, Kansas City, and regional livestock categories.
New York and Chicago markets report mixed dairy values with butter and eyes unsettled. Butter creamery and extra series range around 38 to 46 c in New York and Chicago, with receipts totaling 18,844 pounds and 36,?56 cases respectively. eyes show varied offerings from nearby whites to fancy shades with prices from 10 to 33 1/3 c. Cheese features twins new at 18 32¢ and longhorns beeches at 19 4¢, brick at 15.
Chicago May 31 crop outlook improves in the southwest and west while European buying curbs 상승. Wheat holds near last week, corn and oats vary with weather, and provisions ease. Rain in Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska shifts prices, with export prospects improving between Winnipeg and Chicago. Foreign exchange mixed as New York flour markets stay firm with various patent and straight grades priced.
East St. Louis receipts 12,000 cattle and 1,700 cattle with mixed prices. Good butcher cattle 200 pounds plus 7.50 top. hogs 120-130 pounds 5.50 to 6.75. cattle steers top 16.25, yearlings 9.50, natives 8.15 to 8.50. sheep and lambs steady to strong with tops near 56.25 for lambs. Sioux City reports cattle receipts with steers around 9.59 yearlings, hogs top 7.00, bulk 6.70 to 6.95, cows and heifers weaker. sheep and lambs mixed with spring lambs around 16.00 to 14.40 and ewes around 4.75 to 6.30.
Receipts and price trends for ST PAUL LIVESTOCK show fat steers and yearlings down about 30 cents, stockers and feeders 25 to 50 cents lower, hogs steady to up slightly with top around 6.90, sows to 6.10, sheep largely steady to down with springer lambs at 16.00 and clipped ewes around 7.25, dairy milk and cream totals reported.
Milwaukee announces the merger of the Evening Sentinel with the Wisconsin News and Telegram to form a combined edition due Monday. The Sunday Sentinel will join the Telegram for a new morning edition, signaling a full reorganization of Wisconsin's oldest paper dating to 1867.
Norwalk Conn May 31 Joseph Davis a local clothing merchant refused to keep his cellar door closed. City police stationed two officers at the doorway to prevent accidents until Davis appealed to state courts. An injunction restrains officers from blocking the doorway while court proceedings proceed.
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