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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1934
Page
4
A Farmers' Week letter to poultry raisers notes higher spring chicken prices, discusses hog pricing and a processing tax, and warns against selling immature birds to chase quick income. It warns of looming food price rises despite government steps to curb profiteering and urges restraint unless necessary.
A letter from W. F. Priebe discusses marketing trends, noting that chickens weighing four and five pounds could fetch higher prices this fall as many are marketed early. The author signs off with a considered note to readers.
The Missouri Association of Public Utilities says electric gas and water firms pay about 8 million dollars yearly in taxes. This sum funds school districts cities counties state and federal governments with schools receiving around two million dollars annually. The group notes taxes are not passed to consumers and that rates could drop further if the burden were removed, though municipal plants pay little to no taxes and still charge higher rates.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Johnson and family returned to their Denver home after spending their vacation with Mr. and Mrs. R. I. Fuller and other relatives last week.
J W C Anderson of the Missouri College of Agriculture notes a normal fall allows growing lettuce radishes spinach mustard turnips beets and kale in central Missouri. Carrots need 70 80 days and Chinese cabbage if transplanted now could form heads before frost. Corn salad offers green food through fall winter and into spring with straw mulch.
Following this drought blue grass lawns will need attention and reseeding. Obtain seed from a section not injured by the drought. Roots of shallow rooted trees like poplar soften the ground with water to save shrubs and young evergreens.
Sullivan County farmers facing crop failure due to drought seek to preserve their breeding herds with help from federal and state relief. Government cattle purchases now reach 500 head weekly with 54 percent loans through the county agent's office and freight rate reductions on feed shipments. Missouri cattle purchases exceed 48 000 head with 70 000 dollars daily in new payments anticipated for farmers across 110 counties as agencies coordinate rail and industry support.
C A Helm of the Missouri College of Agriculture, named chair of the Missouri Seed Stock committee, urges farmers to save all ears sound for seed from their 1933 and 1934 stocks. With few seed corn supplies expected for 1935, and demand from feeders high, seed from local cribs and from varieties such as Columbia, Fulghum, and Kanata is recommended over distant sources to ensure better germination and yields.
The notice states pricing labeled as live and let live with no further details on products or terms. It provides no names, dates, locations, or organizations and is too fragmentary to identify a specific event or notice type.
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