May on the fair big Horn county plans big exhibit
W. H. May reports on a county fair drive by the Farmers' Fair Association executive committee sending the secretary to Nowood and Paintrock valleys. He describes meetings in Manderson Hyattville and Bonanza with hundreds of farmers and families expressing support, promising prize-worthy crops and exhibits to boost the 1914 Big Horn county fair and state fair preparations in Douglas.
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Big Horn County
Farmers’ Fair Association
Nowood
Paintrock
Manderson
Committee On
Apacijua
J. Stant Brown
Nowood Valley
Severson
Mercer Bros
Saurday
Hyattville
W. J. Booth
Wille Booth
Booth
Kinzer
Collins
Bonanza
Graves
Pickett
Bonanza Loyal
Washakie County
Basin Gardenites
Douglas
W. H. May
Raising Corn And Pigs In Illinois Farm Life
In the August American, an Interesting People feature profiles John Honeycutt of Am boy Illinois dubbed the Pled Viper of Pigdum Polowirg. The piece traces his push for bigger hogs and corn and his influence on local farmers and Chicago buyers, noting his rise as an educational institution and a symbol of rural enterprise. It also discusses wheat markets, war impact on prices, and farming reform ideas, including silo prosperity, marketing, tenancy, and farm co operation.
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Join Honeyeunt
Illinois
John Honeycutt
Chicago
Amboy
Ilinois
Native Sons of Illinois
Board of Trade
Russia
France
Austria-Hungary
Germany
Spain
Europe
England
Holland
India
Argentina
United States
Order of Chigres
Chautauquas
Ab Adkins
Rufe Hoskins
Hog’s Path To Slaughter House Sermon Cited
A fragment quotes a preacher extolling the hog's cloth and capital glory as the means to eat. He rails against waste and preaches the “straight and narrow” in hog terms, likening a man’s path to the road to the slaughter house.
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Cardinal Ain
Department tests parcels post to market eggs elimination of middleman
Officials of the United States department of agriculture report successful use of the parcels post to market eggs, shipping 466 totes as part of the test. The program aims to remove middlemen and improve farmer returns.
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United States
Agriculure
Parcel post eggs save middleman profits in Wyoming
A report notes 9 131 eggs shipped nationwide with only 327 broken upon arrival. Ten dozen eggs travel 150 miles in one container at 4.7 cents per dozen, including transport and container. Wyoming farmers use parcel post to sell farm goods directly, cutting middleman gains as retailers paid high prices earlier.
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Wyoming
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Chicago Board of Trade
Japan
L.C. Smith & Bros
L. C. Smith & Bros
L. C. Smith & Bros. Typewriter Co
Champa St
Denver, Colorado
Basin
St. Paul
Stella Lucas
Cook
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