Prospect of record harvests in Box Butte county
A Monday tour through Box Butte county reports the northwest region as highly prosperous. Farmers describe bumper wheat, corn, spuds, and oats amid favorable weather, with expectations of the largest croppage in county history. The piece highlights Joseph Stumf, a Bohemia immigrant with 1600 acres, who built sizable holdings and wealth in thirteen years from modest beginnings. He praises the area and its earning potential.
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Cox Butte
Box Butte
Farm Visit Remote Farmer Possesses Large Mixed-Livestock Patch
The party stopped at Fred Nikont’s home southwest of Hemingford. He owns 1040 acres with 70 oats 15 millet 6 corn 8 potatoes 10 spelts and 20 cattle 30 horses 10 hogs. Fred says the land is easy to own, supports mixed farming and stock, and he came here without a dollar.
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Fred Nikont
Hemingford
Fred
County Landowners Share Views On Drought and Wealth
The article visits Hans Wiese who relocated from Sarpy county twelve years ago and praises the county for better health farming ease and higher income. At J S Kaper's, a longtime resident with 2560 acres, we tour crops including 60 acres of wheat 30 oats 40 barley 100 corn 60 alfalfa along with 75 cattle 15 horses and about 100 hogs. He notes corn hogs alfalfa and winter wheat performed best and says the area offers good start prospects for a poor man.
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Nikont
Hans Wiese
Hans
Sarpy County
Sarpy
Farmer Joe Jansa Relocates to Prairie Lands
Joe Jansa arrived from Minnesota four years ago and owns 160 acres with 30 wheat 30 oats 20 corn and 12 potatoes. He says Minnesota suits rich men, but this country favors men who can buy land and soon own a home.
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Joe Jansa
Minnesota
Joe
Landro
Dyer Settles Here From York County with Farmland and Cattle
W. W. Dyer arrived from York County a year ago and now owns six hundred forty acres with eleven hundred twenty in operation. He cultivates one hundred ten wheat forty five oats twenty rye forty corn twenty six sorghum and millet twenty cane millet and twenty six cattle and twenty hogs. Dyer claims a poor man has a better chance locally and that crops here can match his former county.
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W. W. Dyer
York County
Farmers Relocate to Open Land in North Carolina Excerpt
Emmett Johnson arrived from North Carolina thirty four years ago and now owns 3000 acres of fertile land. His holdings include 120 acres of wheat 20 oats 50 corn 50 potatoes 10 alfalfa, 130 horses 40 hogs 8 cattle 400 chickens and 25 miles of barbed wire. H S Keane arrived 27 years ago from Richardson county and owns 500 acres with 40 acres each of wheat oats corn and 16 spuds, 60 cattle 17 horses and 23 hogs. He says land here is affordable and worth buying with payments possible.
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Emmett Johnson
North Carolina
Johnson
H. S. Keane
Richardson County
Immigrant farmer Louis Barta builds homestead near Hemingfort
Louis Barta, arriving from Omaha thirty six years ago, owns 1400 acres eighteen miles west of Hemingfort. His holdings include 75 acres wool wheat, 40 oats, 65 corn, 15 spuds, 10 millet, 30 alfalfa, and 80 cattle with 60 horses and 15 additional. He believes the area offers a quick path to ownership through profits. Barta came here penniless and has saved enough for one man.
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Louis Barta
Omaha
Hemingfort
Louis
Mr. Barta
Local farmer runs 320 acres of land since moving from Bohemia
Aldrich Stumf arrived from Bohemia thirteen years ago and presently operates a 320 acre farming property.
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Aldrich Stumf
Bohemia
Local farmer Joseph Barta builds on 800 acres of mixed farming
Joseph W. Barta, a lifelong county resident, owns 320 acres now being improved with new buildings and a bright coat of paint. He reports 35 acres of wheat, 26 of oats, 23 of corn, 10 of potatoes, and says the area offers quick home opportunities through mixed farming and cattle raising.
Farmer Frank Stransky Prefers New Home Fields
Frank Stransky, who moved from Minnesota ten years ago, now owns 320 acres of improved land with thirty acres of wheat, twenty-five of oats, twenty-seven of corn, thirteen of potatoes, six of millet, and keeps fifteen cattle and thirty-five hogs. He says the country suits him better than Minnesota and is a good place for a poor man.
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Joseph Stumf
Bohemia
Joseph Lances
Frank Stransky
Minnesota
Joseph Sokol
Joe
Early Box Butte settlers boast rich yields and spud crops
The article profiles multiple Bohemian and local settlers in Box Butte County, detailing land holdings from 480 to 1,280 acres and crops including wheat, corn, oats, spuds, millet, and alfalfa. They tout farming ease, growing variety, and hogs cattle and horses as key profits, with personal notes on land values and climate.
Farmer from Ryland County Aims High With Cropland and Wheat
The subject is a Madison County transplant who owns 1200 acres of improved land at Ryland. His crop mix includes 100 acres of wheat, 50 oats, 50 corn, 25 spade, and 20 rye. He praises potatoes as the surest crop and claims this country is a friend to the poor. Wanek, once Lawnport postmaster, served on the county board and helped build the courthouse.
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Ing
Madison County
Joe
Madison
Mr. Wanek
Lawn
Pioneering Dodge County farmer builds thriving mixed farm
Co Klemke settled in Dodge County thirty six years ago with only a yoke of oxen and 25 dollars. He now farms 1600 acres with twenty cows and a modern dairy. His garden yields fruit and canned 500 quarts two years ago. He grows wheat oats corn alfalfa and raises cattle horses and hogs.
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Co. Klemke
Dodge County
Klemke
Bert Lance Finds Ideal Land In Gosper County
Bert Lance, who moved from Gosper county two years ago, owns 220 acres of prime land with rye, winter wheat, oats, rye, corn, potatoes, cane and millet, and alfalfa. He praises the cool summer nights that help folks rest, saying he prefers the area to any other place he has lived.
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Bert Lance
Gosper County
Bert
Nebraska Legion Drives to Recruit Members in Army Style
Commander Robert G. Simmons orders a 4:35 a m advance as Legionnaires push to recruit from 55 000 wartime members. About 15 000 current Nebraskan Legionnaires aim to gain at least two thousand more, boosting Nebraska to lead the state standings.
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Robert G. Simmons
Anq
Nebraska Lejon
Nebraska
Iowa
New Hampshire
South Dakota
Impressionable Youth Warned About Pitting Danger
A cautionary note warns that impressing a small boy with one missing front tooth by pitting is a dangerous pastime. The fragment suggests concern over risky activities directed at children and the potential harm from such actions.
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