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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1921
Page
13
Wheat market edges higher on official reports of France holding 28,000,010 bushels stock for bread and seed. December futures flirt with 1.27 to 1.31, while May near 1.31. Corn and oats slide to new seasonal lows as government crop report fears weigh.
Chicago and several other cities report grain and provisions quotes with bids on fats, corn, oats, barley, timothy, cloverseed, lard, and beef from September 1921. Markets show mixed prices, receipts, and freight terms across Chicago Peoria St Louis Minneapolis and Kansas City with varying bid levels for No 1 yellow corn and white oats.
Receipts total 3,000 cattle with feeders and yearlings trading from 4.00 to 10.00 per cwt. Hogs bring mixed prices around 6.25 to 8.00 with shippers 25 cents higher. Sheep receipts 2,000 with lambs generally 50 cents lower and overall market soft.
Market notes show varied receipts and prices for wheat corn oats and dairy products in New York and Toledo on Sept 21. Copper tin and lead futures moved steady to firmer while iron and alloys remained steady in East St Louis and nearby markets.
Water loo markets report prices on creamery products butter eggs poultry and grain with observations from Chicago Kansas City St Louis and New York. Bond and currency quotes include Liberty bonds prime money rates exchange and loan terms with cotton and flour futures data.
Fairbank notices recount the funeral of John Gerkin at the M E church and Marie Kerns death. They list marriages of Earl Bentley and Helen Lacer, Rev. Father A Ormsby visiting Britt, and parish social notes. Also noted are sickness, travel, and school sports results.
Chisago reports hogs up to 15 cents higher with best loads at 38.50 while cornfed steers hold steady. Cattle receipts around 10,000 with fat yearlings and cornfed steers steady, calves and stockers mixed. sheep slow with limited bidding. Kansas City and Minneapolis markets show similar gains for hogs and steady to weak cattle demand.
Receipts at East St. Louis totaled 19 000 cattle hogs and sheep with mixed activity. Cattle showed slow demand for steers and good cows around 4.50 to 5.99 while veal calves held steady. hogs traded strong to steady with top around 8.65 for lights and mediums. Sheep receipts 250 were slow with lambs down about 50 to 60 cents and ewes around 3.20 to 4.20.
Omaha market summary shows cattle receipts around 1 000 with steers steady to 25 center lower and veal weakness. stockers steady. Sheep and lamb reports list 15 000 receipts with lambs 25 to 30 lower, bulk western lambs 7.50 to 8.25, ewe tops around 3.85, feeding stams at 8.65.
At St Joseph Missouri on September 31 receipts show hogs steady to lower with top hogs at 2305. Cattle receipts around 4006 with steers near 6.25 to 7.25 and cows and feeders weaker. Calves trade from 4.50 to 9.06, lambs around 7 and 5.05, ewes listed at 3.00 region amid mixed demand.
Ed Brown arraigned in police court on intoxication charges and gave a joke about a hair cut that drew laughs before a $23.50 fine plus costs. Paul Dwyer pleaded guilty to resisting an officer after reckless driving arrest by Deputy E. V. Baldwin. he received a $15 fine and costs.
A garbled item notes a chaotic stock market day and social updates from Raymond Iowa. It mentions a rally in rails and steels, names firms like General Electric Bethlehem United States Steel, and local social news including Ladies’ Aid events, marriages, and farm moves.
The Crystal theatre will not show the comedy A Misfit Pair featuring Virginia Rappe today or for the rest of the week. Waterloo Woman's club urged manager Davis to remove the film due to its harmful portrayal connected to the Rappe tragedy. The program remains unchanged aside from the withdrawal. Owen Moore stars in A Divorce of Convenience tonight and Gilded Lies with Eugene OBrien continues for the week starting tomorrow.
F. M. Rich, formerly of Aurora, now visiting his son Jerome and daughter Mrs. John Laundry near Oelwein. He recently returned from Belfort France, sailed on the Maritana, then to Southampton. Paris and France described with renewed vigor and talk of another big fight.
Citizens invited to send comments to the Editor Farm Department of the Evening Courier and Reporter in Waterloo Iowa. Communications should be addressed to Editor and include a contact phone number.
Water County poultry fanciers announce a major show at the Cattle Congress grounds in a 90 by 16 ft tent. About 60 breeds and 2000 or more birds are expected with entries from several states. Judge Harry Atkins will oversee the event with entries due by Sept 25 and pens ready by Sept 27 at 9 am.
The Grain Dealers' National association will discuss its relation to co operative grain marketing at the twenty fifth annual convention opening Oct 3 in Chicago. About 2000 attendance from Chicago Board of Trade exchanges and grain men is expected. Speakers include Medill McCormick Frank Lowden and B E Clement. The special committee will report on grain pooling contracts and future activities.
In Black Hawk County Iowa the Willford family and local breeders tout the region as a seed and poultry hub with top poultry lines under leaders like Lapp of Ames. The article praises Hess Brown Angus cattle Belgians Percherons and notable seed corn and rye, highlighting Willford’s seed testing system and the 25 acre farm near Waterloo where corn was planted May 20 and harvested August 20 in just 94 days.
Mason City Iowa September 21. Dairy milk from Mason City area is found tubercular. Federal tester Dr Fincham and county agent Roy F O'Donnell report 50 percent of tested cows in a herd react to tuberculosis. Many tubercular cows are in other Cerro Gordo herds supplying milk. 11 of 19 cows in one herd react. Testing will continue county wide.
The Black Hawk County Pig Club sells sixty purebred boars and gilts at Cedar Valley fairgrounds next Saturday starting at 1 p.m. Jim W. Ford presides in the auctioneer box. Sixty pigs, with forty already placed, will be sold to the highest bidders.
Arthur K. Talcott of Lamont is highlighted as a top entrant in the 1921 Iowa Corn and Small Grain Growers association yield contest. The article outlines his method for selecting seed corn from field stalks, drying and storing ears, and his soil preparation practices including manure fertilization and green manures. It notes his careful fall and spring field prep and his use of Reed's Yellow Derr corn to illustrate the value of seed selection and soil preparation.
Littleton notices include a meeting at Mrs. a K Gig home with Mrs. Eq Hersen visiting at her daughter Mrs. Creed’s home. The funeral for Mrs. Emily Welkes of Portland, Oregon, will be at the Methodist church Sunday with ashes to be interred at Lite cemetery. The remark on polar regions notes rats are absent there.
The average dairy cow in the country produces about 4,000 pounds of milk yearly and 160 pounds of butterfat. United States Department of Agriculture data show the average Test Association cow yields 6,980 pounds of milk and 446 pounds of butterfat annually. World records reach 7,381.4 pounds of milk and 1,252 pounds of butterfat. The piece extols livestock improvement campaigns under the banner of better sizes better stocks to boost American dairy efficiency.
R M Gunn of Buckingham Ed Speer E Lambert and Frank Lockard of Tama county recently returned from St Paul with a string of feeders. This marks the first appreciable movement of feeders this season as farmers in southern Black Hawk counts prepare to feed bumper corn crops this winter.
Denver visits and church events highlight a weekend of family gatherings. Ed Meyers family, with Mrs Conrad from Warery, toured Denver and a birthday at John Kehe home. Martha Buss returns home. Grapes sold 2,000 pounds with demand for 3,000 pounds, signaling a possible shortage or rising demand.
Jersey cattle breeders nationwide plan a major boost to the Jersey breed at the National Dairy Show in St Paul. Iowa contributors will send a herd of grade Guernseys and several breeders will attend. Hugh G. Van Pelt says the aim is to elevate the Jersey cow’s standing through a extensive advertising campaign and strong show presence. Sid Campbell represents Iowa on the Jersey Booster committee for the National Dairy Show.
Four carloads of high grade dairy cattle have been shipped into North Dakota as a test to start farmers in a dairy business. Max Mor, a dairy specialist, says the campaign aims to help farmers enter dairy farming, with Tuesday seen as unlucky for weddings.
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