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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1921
Page
5
Report from a morning tour visiting William Goes, Mundt, Hawkins, Roy, and J D Linder. They discuss farm sizes, crops including corn oats barley wheat spuds rye and livestock, and comment on local county comparisons and settlement of new residents.
The Herald visits Samuel Mundt of Berea area and Alex T. Lee of Nebraska Farmer, detailing Mundt family ties and farming mixes. It describes Mundt’s eighty acres of wheat, thirty-five corn, and forty-five potatoes with dairy, and Lee’s shift from Denver to farming two hundred sixty acres with corn, wheat, oats, rye, potatoes, and forage crops.
The Stenberg brothers manage diverse crops and livestock aiming for top milk Shorthorn cattle Hampshire hogs and Barred Rock chickens. They rotate crops including alfalfa twenty acres for hogs and trial sweet clover pasture while farming 100 acres wheat 60 oats 70 corn and 30 potatoes. They came from Lancaster county three years ago and plan to keep thriving in the area amid good rain and growing wheat oats and grass. Mrs Etta Beal's dairy farm impressed with Holstein cows and an eighteen-stall barn and modern facilities during a milking visit.
Mrs Beal runs a dairy on 160 acres renting 100 acres with 60 more for feed. She milks 17 cows and maintains a clean, well kept setup called the dairy. A herd of Hampshire hogs and alfalfa with two silos supports the operation, supplying feed for about 30 cattle.
The article profiles Gall Price, raised in the county, farming about 320 acres with a tractor. He plants 80 to potatoes, 35 to oats, 35 to wheat, and 40 to corn, praising hog and corn as a strong combination. It also describes nearby farms of Mrs. F Gilleran and Clyde Rust, plus R L Harris with a well equipped dairy and hog operation.
Readers are urged to buy small graduation gifts at Thiele's and reminded of the United States Chamber of Commerce view on the golden rule in business. The piece also notes cottonseed cake for sale and jokes about milk from “milkless cows” vs boosters’ claims.
A Brooklyn woman lecturer mentions a divorce affecting a relationship and a land matter. The fragment references Neuswanger, a person named Shon Iy, and a phone number 71, with hints of a separation and property interest.
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