Beef trade puzzles amid import export clash in era
The column analyzes conflicting beef flows with Argentine imports aboard the Baltic versus U S exports at home. It questions why English demand spurs shipments while American beef sells for a higher price domestically and hints at a possible beef trust strategy. It also touches on political notes about U S Senate candidates, U S Mexican policy, and rising living costs.
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Harbor
New York Sun
Liverpool
Queenstown
Southampton
Buenos Ayres
Baltic
Minnetonka
London
Swift & Company
England
Beef Trust
Bean King of sixty acre farm nets five thousand dollars
Clear Lake Iowa reports Samuel Kennedy on a sixty acre farm cleared five thousand dollars with beans earning 2.75 per bushel for 600 bushels while onions yielded 788 bushels at one dollar each and potatoes 90 to 100 bushels per acre at one dollar. Kennedy is dubbed the bean king and plans to hold prices. The piece links small, tillable plots to higher earnings and broader farm reform.
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Courier
Agricultural Department
Government
Nebraska
Clear Lake
Iowa
Samuel Kennedy
Tore
Kennedy
Hain
The Monitor Ranks High in Kossuth County Weekly
The Burt Monitor declares it will not print excess youth gossip nor rival other papers, aiming instead to be the best country weekly in Kossuth county while paying respect to the Algona Courier.
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Burt Monitor
Kossuth
Algona Courier
Werdo
Hogs and Serum Show Early Treatment Key to Cholera
Hints from Ames outline hog cholera serum effects across Iowa. In Scott County with strong agri advisers, treatment reduced deaths markedly when given early. Ninety five percent died without treatment, fifty eight percent died when treated late. early use cut losses to about one to one and a third percent in pre outbreak herds.
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Iowa
Scott County
New Cure for Hog Cholera Reported in Lake Park Area
From Estherville Democrat via Lake Park News comes a tale of hog cholera cured by whiskey. Ferdinand Pabet near Lake Park fed each ill hog a small whiskey glass dose, with others in the area reportedly seeing improvement and no further losses. The item notes similar results among other farmers, and jokes about whiskey's fame. Also mentions sales and notices about livestock, a costly lesson in Perry, and local business changes including Ferguson & Gillespie’s shop transfer to Peterson of Spencer.
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Estherville
Lake Park
Ferdinand Pabet
Sand
Ales
Pabst
Sug‘geata
Milwaukee
Peoria
Young Illinois farmer Werner Kreimer earns vast wealth early
Hints from Ames describe Werner Kreimer of Will County Illinois, a nineteen year old who studied agricultural bulletins, applied improved farming methods on his father's farm, increased production by forty percent, and then bought his own forty thousand dollar farm before reaching legal adulthood. He has accumulated more money than many men earn in a lifetime despite limited opportunities.
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Illinois
Werner Kreimer
Will County
College of Agriculture
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Ohio
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Massillon
Dayton
Longview
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Lake Pars
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Salh
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Jersey Boars
Frank Capesius
Algona
Rt 3
Perry
Charles West
Dallas County
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Larson
East State Street
Peterson
Spencer
Otto Neuman’s
J. R. Laird
Everthing
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