RJECTIONAL PIRACY and the Tariff War
This column argues that protectionist tariffs since Morrill and McKinley have shifted wealth from farms to manufacturing. It compares 1850 1860 1870 1880 1890 wealth shares, cites census figures, and claims tariff policy enriched factories while impoverishing farmers, invoking Andrew Jackson and current political figures.
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Gorman Defends Sugar Tariff in Senate Speech
The Philadelphia Record notes Senator Gorman's defense of the sugar tariff and his forecast that Democrats will back the bill. It questions the chance of passage in the House and whether the measure aligns with party policy. It argues the sugar schedule favors the Sugar trust with 40 percent protection plus an extra eighth cent per pound on refined sugar.
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Gorman
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Philadelphia Record
Morton Letter Sparks Debate on Protection and Commerce
Secretary Morton delivers a biting defense of protective policy to the Young Men's Democratic club of Boston. He portrays lawmakers as travelers in Washington influenced by protectionists who seek higher wages for workers yet lower prices for goods, contrasting altruism with greed and urging skepticism toward commercial freedom. The piece cites American Industries as a voice warning against entangling restraint.
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Baltimore Sun
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Pilgrims of Protection
Warner Sees Need to Stand Firm on Tariff Patchwork
The Exchange notes that John De Witt Warner urges maintaining the McKinley tariff over adopting a Democratic compromise. He warns against the tinkerers who threaten party honor, insisting action is needed as the bill moves from the senate to the house for a heated vote.
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John de Witt Warner
Warner
Senate
House
An Effective Hand Cultivator and an Inexpensive Clod Crusher
Directions for a hand cultivator from oak or ash wood with a front end slot and rear slot, using fork tines heated and sharpened. Includes wheel adjustments to control depth and suggests pine handles. Describes a clod crusher built from light poles and a plank to smooth fields and tracks.
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New England
Chinch bug control method tested by Kansas and Nebraska stations
The Kansas and Nebraska stations report Professor Snow’s method using Sporotrichum globuliferum infected chinch bugs to spread disease in fields. In 164 farms the program reached, 61 trials yielded some success with large scale releases and careful handling of starter and healthy bugs.
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Kansas
Professor Snow
Nebraska
Wisconsin farmers urged to curb noxious weeds
Three thistles threaten Wisconsin with spread across the state including Russian, Canada and sow thistles. Professor E S Goff from the Wisconsin station issues a bulletin on noxious weeds with instructions for extermination. He urges concerted action and even suggests placing a Russian thistle in each schoolhouse to teach pupils to kill it like a rattlesnake.
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Wisconsin
Canada
E. S. Goff
Wisconsin Station
Goff
Coatworms Control Method by Professor McCarthy
Professor McCarthy advises using loosely tied balls of fresh clover or cabbage leaves moistened with a paste of paris green or white arsenic and flour. Place these balls about 20 feet apart in the field to lure and kill coatworms before planting crops.
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McCarthy
The Alfalfa Cutworm Damage and Remedies
The alfalfa cutworm is causing significant damage in several sections. A proposed remedy involves air stacked lime mixed with road dust or flour to dilute its caustic quality. Sprinkling over fields after rainfall is advised.
Shed design and attachments boost hay storage and pest control
A detailed plan from the Iowa Homestead argues sheds reduce hay loss, proposing a 23 by 40 by 10 foot shed with 16 foot roof boards and 6 by 6 posts, plus optional feeding sheds for a 2,200 square foot complex. It notes durability, space efficiency, and the possibility of adding barns around the main shed for greater capacity. A Wisconsin 1891 report describes a kerosene water mixer for knapsack pumps used as an insecticide, unpatented and adaptable to all Galloway pattern knapsacks, with broader applications for mixing liquids.
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United States
Iowa
Goff
Mississippi
Time of Harvesting Corn in Iowa Station Trials
At the Iowa station last season four corn lots were cut on Sept 26 27 Oct 6 and 13. The heaviest ear weight came from Oct 6 while the most fodder came from Sept 27. Between Sept 26 and Oct 6 kernel dry matter increased mainly by reducing leaves and to a lesser extent husks stalks and cob.
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Iowa
Tripod Swarming Device And Horticultural Tips From Rural Journal
The piece describes a Manum style tripod swarming device a wire cage on a pole used to catch bees during swarming with a queen capture method. It also notes a Mormon modification by A I Root a larger cage for multiple quarts of bees. Additional advice covers irrigation land leveling and ditch maintenance along with making a manure trap from nails and boards for sheltering stock and collecting manure.
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Manum
A. I. Root
Descaides
New Yorker
Iowa Homestead forecasts short hay crop over central region
The Iowa Homestead notes a brief hay crop across the region south of Iowa’s north line and Wisconsin’s south line extending to Indiana. It cites Morton appointing C L Marlat of Kansas as assistant entomologist and observes clover seed profitability, phosphates in South Dakota, Oklahoma farm land values, orchard counts, and rising fertilizer use by western farmers.
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Wisconsin
Indiana
Morton
C. L. Marlat
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Agricultural Department
South Dakota
Oklahoma
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