Wheat Off Rally and Cattle Market Report Sept 11 1931
The wheat market opened weak on bearish Argentine buying and steady overseas sentiment, then rallied on improved exchange rates and rain prospects in the northwest. December and May futures fluctuated with a late day finish near yesterday, while corn and oats drifted lower. hogs supported higher provisions. Chicago cash quotes, regional grain prices, and livestock values are noted for Sept 15–16 with mixed results across wheat, corn, oats, and potatoes.
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Associated Press
Prices and market notes from New York and Chicago Sept 16
Market brief reports butter cheese and poultry prices in New York and Chicago with receipts and term figures. Butter creamery prices firm with extras and firsts noted. eggs and poultry steady or unchanged. money exchange and government bond status listed. regional items include St Louis and Kansas City notes.
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Lumber Market Mixed Gains in Demand and Prices
A trade journal notes moderate improvement in hard wood demand and firmer prices at northwestern mills. Yellow pine shows continued gains with overall hardwood buying rising, aided by increased activity from plating mills and flooring makers. Softwood prices hold steady with the Lumber Softwood Price Index up for the first time since August 1920.
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Lumber Today
Northwestern Mills
Chicago
Hogs and cattle prices tumble through midwest markets
Chicago reports mixed cattle and hog prices with receipts around 25 000 hogs and 4 990 cattle. Prices show slight gains for some weights and steady to weak for others while sheep and lamb markets vary across Kansas City East St Louis Sioux City and Sioux City spots. Leading figures include 9.65 top steer price and 10.25 top hog value with regional shifts in buyer demand and packer buying.
Omaha Livestock Prices Hit Mixed in Sept Market
Omaha Nebraska Sept 15 hog receipts 3500 steady to higher close weak on packing grades bulk better grades top 8.10 26.75. Cattle receipts 1100 beef steers and stockers weak bulls steady. Sheep receipts 5500 lambs stronger best western lambs 9.80 natives 6.75, sheep and feeders steady, ewe top 4.40.
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Livestock sale receipts and prices report
Cattle receipts 69 with steers around 4.22 to 4.28, heifers near 3.59, stockers and feeders varied. Sheep receipts 1,500 with ewes about 3.79 to 4.25, cows around 70. market steady with price ranges indicating modest demand. Bulk of sales led by cattle and sheep categories at notable bid levels.
New York Stock Market Opens With Mixed Early Gains
The market shows divergent sentiment as prices move on an unsettled start. Gains for Baldwin Studebaker Reading are offset by declines in Royal Dutch Northern Pacific while rails oils and equipment push higher. Liberty bonds advance and call money opens at 3 percent amid a steady close.
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Little Snapshots at Everyday Life
A collage of small-town vignettes and curiosities. Boys fashion toy ships from river refuse and chase muskrats at Black Hawk creek. A cafe cashier chases optimism while an umbrella maker laments a bad day. A math puzzle and a dead canary conclude with quiet, everyday moments. A reporter tracks life from cradle to hearse in three brief scenes.
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Rev Clements to give invocation at G A R Meet
Rev Mr Clements of Porte City will deliver the invocation at the evening meeting of the Black Hawk County Veterans association reunion in Memorial hall Tuesday. His name was omitted from yesterday's program. George Moody will perform a famous patriotic song on the program.
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Boxer Dies From Injuries in Ring Contest
James McDonald a 21 year old boxer died in Binghamton after sustaining injuries in a match at an athletic club. Autopsy found death caused by rupture of a small blood vessel in the brain following his collapse in the ring.
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Associated Press
Binghamton, N
James McDonald
Twenty-Two Chicks Net Farmer More Than Load of Corn
Nashua Iowa Sept 16 eighty seven pounds in live poultry netted Henry Maloy farmer west of Nashua 1620 more than a ton of corn Last Wednesday he brought to town a load of corn which weighed out 539 bushels On top the load was perched a crate of 22 chickens which weighed 87 pounds He received 36 cents a basket for his corn which netted him 14.04 and was paid 13 cents a pound for his chickens or 15.66
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Nashua
Henry Maloy
Freight rate cuts favor Western stock growers only
The 20 percent freight reduction for cattle hogs and sheep, set to take effect Sept 2, mainly benefits Western stock growers and feeders, not Iowa shippers. Rates from Rock Rapids to Chicago show wide variation, with small potential savings for ranges-fed cattle and sheep. A US-wide carrier hearing by the Interstate Commerce Commission will seek broader readjustments beyond cattle hogs and sheep, with farm groups planning to press for changes this fall.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
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Pig Club Gilts to Be Auctioned
The 50 head of purebred gilts raised by Black Hawk county pig club members will be sold at public auction Saturday afternoon, Sept. 24. John Keane and Will Meier shipped two fat steers to Chicago last week, among the last cattle on feed in Barclay township.
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Local Breeder Is In Demand as Beef Cattle Judge
Harvey Jess of Hares and Brown Orange township leads in Angus judging across the country. He departs for Nashville Tennessee this week to judge at the Tennessee fair. Next week he is set for the Tennessee Breeders exposition in Knoxville and another show in Memphis. John Brown will judge Angus cattle at the Texas stock show in Fort Worth in October.
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Ayrshire herd from Martinsville arrives for Dairy Cattle Congress
Gossard Breading Estates brings 29 Ayrshire cattle to Indiana Dairy Cattle Congress barns in Indiana. One cow calved en route, cow and calf report nicely. J F Beldon, manager, expresses optimism for top placements. Noted Ayrshire lines trace to Beuchan Peter Pan. world record cow Willowmoor Woodbine C holds top Ayrshire marks. Prof J A McLean to judge Ayrshire division.
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Ind
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Cedar Falls
R. J. Reilnsen
Waterloo
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Chicago
Dubuque Farmer Markets Double Crop at One Time
A Dubuque County farmer reported operating costs of 2700 dollars for 1920 and 1921 while marketing 7000 bushels of corn. The 1920 crop of 2000 bushels cost a dollar per bushel to raise, sold at 40 cents, losing 1000 dollars. the 1921 crop of 5000 bushels cost 60 cents to raise, sold at 30 cents, with rains reducing 39 percent and marketing losses totaling 2700 dollars.
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Associated Press
Three Cent Rate for Husking Corn Near Cedar Falls
Farmers in Cedar Falls area agree to a 3 cent per bushel rate for husking corn this year. With frost expected soon, many are ready to start field work and complete odd jobs around their farms as the corn season approaches.
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Cedar Falls
Ortner to Crib Corn Early This Week at Dunkerton
John Ortner reports he will start cribbing his corn this week at Dunkerton Iowa. His field was planted on sod and is perfectly ripe. He notes they never began so early before but aim to finish by election time.
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Dunkerton
John Ortner
Mr. Ortner
Closing out sale yields solid cattle prices for local farmer
Cedar Falls on September 16 reported that the closing out sale of Andrew Madison, a local farmer, was very satisfactory with cattle averaging from 69 to 85 dollars per head and 58 pigs selling for 8 to 10 dollars each. In Dunkerton on the same date, John Stewart had his stacked grain threshed by Otto Bubner last week.
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John Stewart
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