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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1921
Page
13
Readers invited to send questions and comments to the Farm Department at the Evening Courier and Reporter in Waterloo Iowa Address communications to Editor Farm Department. The publication provides a contact phone 3330 for readers to reach out with farming questions or notes.
Bremer County notes celebrate Day, a veteran butter and cheese maker with 45 years in the trade. Born in Ohio, he moved through Royal and Waucoma creameries to Iowa in 1882 and eventually became Excelsior’s manager, still producing about 10 tubs a week in summer. He recalls early methods, such as dasher churning and no refrigerators, and has earned gold medals for butter quality.
Ayrshire breeder Fred H Baskins of Mt Vernon township shows a herd with top U S Ayrshire stock including descendants of Braes Rising Star and Auchlendbrain Toreador. His cows Margaret Starr and Bargence Lady Margaret carry strong Scottish show lines and his bull Cavalier Kilnford Marquis has a notable show record. Baskins has built a 50 head herd focused on quality over profit while showing across northeastern Iowa.
A snapshot shows workers handling samples, firing processes, arranging separators, filling butter pails for farmers, and maintaining plant sanitation. Sideline activity notes Mr Day purchasing around 40 cases of eggs weekly and transporting them to Sumner.
W. D. Hostrop of Cedar Falls owns Lady Papoose 2d a senior two year old Holstein aiming to break Iowa state marks for milk and butterfat. The cow has produced around 900 pounds butterfat in 239 days and may reach near 1000 pounds butterfat and over 1000 pounds of butter with continued test. Lady Papoose has earlier yielded about 20 000 pounds of milk in ten dates and the state record stands at 20 500 pounds. Hostrop runs cattle at Fairburn and Wood dairy farm in Fonda and plans a possible move toward Waterloo.
Black Hawk county farmers contemplate uniting the Hudson Benson Dunkerton and Waterloo creameries under a single federation. A special meeting at Hudson will include County Agent A A Burger and local creamery leaders to discuss buying milk and cream on a common basis and coordinating herd improvement efforts. This would mark a pioneering countywide consolidation in the state.
Waterloo banker A M Place lays 10 miles of tile on his four mile southeast Fredericksburg farm to drain low wet ground. Engineer A N Kemman tilled 25 miles of tiling across Chickasaw County this summer. Expected corn yield rises to 69 bushels per acre on redeveloped clay soil. G W Krause also tiles a 160 acre farm south of the project.
Richard returns to the lake to find his widowed mother has married the man she chose. Disappointed and disillusioned he seeks solitude and reflection by the river as he contemplates his failed hopes of making his mother proud. The scene centers on the stark breach between mother and son and the quiet drift of the waters along the silver lane.
North ern Michigan to become the starting ground for large herds of reindeer under a plan by state conservation commissioner John Baird who signed a contract with Danish attorney C. B. Olivarius for delivery of 64 Norwegian reindeer. The herd will depart Norway next February and be overseen by three Laplanders until state staff are trained. The project aims to turn northern lower Michigan wild lands into grazing fields and establish a profitable industry with 10 stags and 30 does at 200 dollars each, with propagation later handed to private interests and farmers in northern counties.
Fourteen Spanish American War veterans, part of the Military Order of the Serpent chapter, were hosted for dinner at the soldiers' home in Marshalltown. The group later formed a chapter of the order with initiation held by a Waterloo team. Also noted is a birthday surprise for Mrs. Ed Geren in La Porte City and a marriage license for Gordon B. Wright of New Hartford to Marie Smiley of Cedar Falls.
Chaney Witman, four, of Twelfth and Black Hawk streets, suffered a fractured skull when a moving van overturned at 4 30 p m yesterday. He remains incapphelous at St Francis Hospital with slim hope of recovery. Howard Brady, owner of the team, survived serious bruises. Hillman caused the accident by sharp wheel turn. he was hospitalized with the skull fracture and has a wife and child.
Bradstreet’s food index shows average prices per pound for 31 items at 2.92, down from 2.94 the prior week and 4.06 for the week ending Oct 1, 1920. Of 81 quoted commodities, 12 rose, 3 fell, and 28 remained unchanged, with a mixed list including butter, wheat, flour, sugar, steel, and tea among the items showing activity.
In Chicago trading, visible wheat supply slumped as traders weighed supply shifts and futures opened mixed. Prices closed unsettled with gains limited. December and May wheat moved around $1.50 to $1.60, while oats and corn showed modest activity and provisions eased on hogs. Regional quotes in Kansas City, St Louis, Peoria and Minneapolis varied with No. 2 red wheat at $1.78 and other grains mixed, reflecting a cautious market after a volatile session.
Reports from New York Waterloo and Kansas City show mixed dairy prices with creamery butter at varied rates and egg and cheese prices steady to firm. Cattle and hog markets indicate range shifts from good fat steers to veal and hogs, while grain and straw markets offer assorted prices and supplies.
Duluth Oct 24 As timber industry foresees the lightest season in years common labor pay drops to 26 a month and skilled wages to 30 to 35 with last year’s 65 to 80. Piecework cuts also hit treeties and pulpwood sticks while contractors offer 75 cents daily board and near cost supplies.
The Social Welfare League will hold its annual meeting on Wednesday at 8 p m in the Greater Waterloo Association club rooms. Officers will be elected and past year reports will be presented. Churches and philanthropic groups are invited to send representatives and all who support the league are welcome. Charles E Purmort named vocational agent for the district will work from Red Cross headquarters and the MCA building.
The New York stock market opened with investors optimistic over rail labor talks and iron and steel issues. Shares in Baldwin Locomotive, General Electric, and Virginia and Endicott Johnson rose, while Mexican Petroleum fell. Bond activity stayed firm amid Liberty bond posting.
Livestock prices show hogs 10 to 15 cents under Saturday quotes and sheep up 25 cents. Calves sell around 11 dollars, cattle mostly steady to higher. western feeders and yearlings show gains. Receipts near 20,000 hogs and 24,000 cattle with market activity described as steady to higher in parts.
The Kansas City livestock page shows feeders and steers trading mixed with steady to firm tones. Cattle prices range around nine dollars for some classes while hogs and lambs show varying quotes. Pigs stay steady with selective lots at higher values and ewes and lambs priced near several thousand.
Livestock sales show steady demand with strong steer quality but bulls and cows mixed. Stockers up to 2 higher. heifers mixed. hogs and sows varied with top loads around 8.20 to 8.40 for heavies. receipts steady. market receipts and prices noted with city butcher activity and packer demand.
Market notes for Sioux City and Omaha including cattle and hog prices. Receipts around 4,000 to 6,000 for hogs and cattle with steady to higher bids on some classes. Prices cited for fed steers, grass cattle, canners, feeders, and cattle by the load, plus regional figures from St Joseph and others.
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