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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1925
Page
7
Cedar Falls special reports beekeeping guidance aimed at protecting honey bees in cold, windy weather. Iowa State Extension suggests home packing cases with insulation, natural windbreaks, and cellar alternatives. Instruction notes feeding methods and equipment like friction-top pails to supply syrup before cold weather.
The second annual Bremer county dairy calf club banquet will be held in the high school gymnasium on Friday evening Oct 30. After a successful season the club votes to invite parents bankers newspaper editors farm bureau officials and notable men from across the state. Principal speaker will be Prof Earl Wraver of Town State college. Lenora Ruethe will give a demonstration. Notables include Jobin Thompson editor of Iowa Homestead and other prominent Iowa men.
Readers from the Farm Department at Waterloo Evening Courier invite questions and comments to be directed to the editor. The call encourages input on agricultural topics and related issues for publication consideration.
About 85 neighbors of the A family gathered at the Vernon Ty farm to assist after two barns and other buildings were burned. A housewife picnic was held, and Mr. Henry plans immediate rebuilding. Local fire loss and community aid described in a small rural report.
J. J. Uban was unanimously re elected county agent for Black Hawk County by the Black Hawk County Farm Bureau board at the courthouse. He will continue on the same salary and mileage basis since last November. Directors praised his efficiency and widespread friendship, noting growth in bureau membership due to his organizing work. Plans include five day daily demonstrations in November as part of the bureau swine program, with many township bureaus hosting fall festivals early in November.
Henry Howard Clemons and Bert Gittins, senior animal husbandry students at Iowa State College, were chosen to represent Iowa in a national Hereford story writing contest. The event, run by the American Hereford Breeders Association and Robert Hazlett of Hazford Place, will have two seniors from each surrounding state colleges enter. Contestants visit Hazlett's farm October and submit stories to the American Hereford Journal for final judging and a $24 prize. Hazlett bears contestants' expenses.
The John Hanus farm of 166 acres in Carroll township Carroll County was sold to Joseph Dostal for 153 per acre. Dostal bought it for his son James with possession set for March 1. The Kuzela family had owned it, paying 180 per acre months earlier, and may move to Clutter or a nearby smaller farm.
Farmers update homes and farm buildings with modern features. Treer and Wittlam Untiedt plan new brick structures and heating, with up-to-date doors and trims. The event coincides with a regional farm show area featuring crop exhibits and livestock displays by Wilkins and Shearer.
A 11 pig litter from Craft Brothers of Port City weighs over a ton in 180 days and tops the judging by the Iowa extension service. Costs per pound totaled around 12 cents, with feed and pasture contributing to the gain. Weighing was witnessed by County Agent J L Uban and Waterlow Evening Courier editor Walter Hunt. Results will be announced November 20 at Ames Swine Feeders' Day.
The wheat market opened higher then fell on heavy selling amid frost reports and wet conditions in key growing regions. December and May contracts moved to lower closes as corn and oats also shifted, with oats edging up early but giving back gains by close.
Tract Iowa report from Oct 7 notes W T Seamans of Indian Village township Tama county sold a truckload of yellow dent corn from this year’s crop. The corn was matured and dried for cribbing and praised as the best seen by several inspectors. Seamans, who owns 60 acres of corn, expects yields near 75 bushels per acre. He husked the 26 bushel truckload in two hours.
New York hay and grain markets show mixed moves with prices for oats rye and barley steady to firm. Cotton opens lightly lower across near term contracts with October at 22.88 cents and December around 22.90 cents, showing a cautious start to trading.
Wheat prices mixed with No 2 and No 2 white bids in the quotation list. Cash grains show figures for FTE Gilead Blye and other brands with barley prices around 7 to 8 dollars and rye noted.
Chicago market receipts show hogs 16 006 mostly steady with top hogs at 12 75 per cwt and heavy weights around 12 00 to 12 34. Cattle receipts 14 008 with fat cattle steady to 25 lower, better fed steers and stock showing declines, early top around 12 50. Sheep receipts 13 000 with fat native lambs near 15 25 to 15 50 and packers paying up to 15 75 for late sales, few early sales noted.
South St Paul and Sioux City market notes show receipts and price ranges for cattle calves hogs and sheep with mixed movement. Hog prices around 10.25 to 12.90 for packing hogs while cattle and calves vary 3.25 to 9.50 for cows and calves and stockers. Sioux City and St Joseph listings parallel steady to lower trends for hogs and cattle with lambs near mid teens.
Ames Iowa October 7 Special Don Blanchard grand champion Hereford steer at the South St Joseph Baby Beef show has been donated to Lawn State College by Anchor Serum Co of St Joseph. Serum Co purchased the steer and pays all transport expenses to Ames. W J Kennedy formerly head of animal husbandry and extension departments helped secure the donation. Blanchard will be fed and shown at the International Livestock Exposition in Chicago next month. Ames will also exhibit the 1925 grand champion baby beef, a Shorthorn, aided by the American Shorthorn Breeders Association. Goospring pigs: George Knapp of Mt Vernon Township sold 25 spring pigs averaging 205 pounds, six months three days old, fed on oats and oil meal, ranged on blue grass, then ran in standing corn. Topnotch Belgian colts: a Cedar Falls Clark farm sale sold two-year-old Belgian colts for 320 dollars. steers sold for 65 dollars a head. Corn in the field worth 28 dollars an hundredweight. estimated yield 60 bushels per acre.
Fragmentary dispatch from New York October 7 mentions potatoes receipts and vital United shipments. The text also references Liberty bonds with unclear figures and partial numeric data, reflecting a rough wartime market update amid deciphering OCR.
In New Orleans on October 7, the Protestant Episcopal Church opened its forty-eighth triennial convention with a grand service under live oak trees in Audubon Park. Thousands of delegates from many nations attended as business sessions were to begin later that afternoon. Marriage: Bissences Watter Johny Brandt Dysart 22 Rae Jessie Palmer Ta Pore City.
New York October 7 AP The stock market firmed as favorable trade reports and a large weekly volume of holdings boosted buying in many sections. Juckard rose to a new water group peak with a 10,000 share transaction and a 14 percent overnight gain, while several issues showed support as money supplies increased. The day closed irregularly with large gains for United States Realty Intercontinental and Ward Baking, and catalogues of listed companies moved with notable price changes across the board.
Chicago and New York markets report varied produce pricing across butter creamery eggs and cheese. Butter receipts and prices are listed with creamery extras and firsts. eggs show steady but varied pricing. cheese and poultry values noted with regional distinctions for New York and Chicago markets.
Receipts at Omaha reach 4600 in cattle and 600 in hogs with steady to higher bids. Cattle include fed steers and yearlings mostly steady to $2.00–12.00 higher, stockers and feeders varied, veal tops around $11.00. Hogs show gains with average around 3.11 per cwt and weights 149–280 pounds. Sheep and lambs mostly steady to firm with top ewes near $7.50 and lambs around $5.50.
La Porte City items note Mr and Mrs George Nichols visiting in Salem Oregon after a West Coast trip via Yellowstone Vancouver and Portland with plans to visit Los Angeles and New Mexico. Harold Unger returns to Newton home after a work stint with Mayfair Manufacturing. Mrs M S Allen visits Adams home after winter in St Petersburg. Bridge club and social visits featured, plus wool market notes from New York and Cleveland seed prices. Austrian rail electrification project announced using Lake Achen water power.
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