Farm sale listings of livestock, feed, and implements
A dated notice for a cash auction at 11 o clock lists horses and mules including several mares and a sorrel draft colt, cattle such as Jersey cows and white face cows with freshening dates, sheep and hogs, chickens, feed supplies, and farm equipment. Auctioneers J. B. Fleming and clerk Guy Johnson conduct the sale with a Ladies Aid lunch served.
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Ladies Aid
J. B. Fleming
Guy Johnson
Missouri Penitentiary history from 1833 to modern reforms
This week in Missouri history recalls the 1833 act authorizing a state penitentiary at Jefferson City, its early evolution, and the shift from punishment to reform and rehabilitation as criminal justice modernized. The prison began in 1836 under a warden system, later under a board, and since 1921 under the State Department of Penal Institutions.
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Floyd C. Shoemaker
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Missouri
General Assembly
Jefferson City
St. Louis
St. Charles
Franklin
Dunklin
Senate Journal
Missouri Penitentiary
State Department of Penal Institutions
Egg Cost Reductions Lag as November Farm Flock Report Sums Returns
The November Farm Flock Laying Contest report shows 368 flocks matched 11 year average size with a 45 percent rise in eggs per bird but a 9 cent fall in egg price cutting income over feed to 15.81. Egg production averaged 5.87 per hen in November with 37 cent eggs and 30 cent feed per dozen. Top flocks were White Leghorn dominated with Wallace H. Eads leading the individuals from Jackson county and Meeker Farms of Texas heading the commercial group.
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Missouri College of Agriculture
Wallace H. Eads
Jackson County
A. A. Taylor
Chariton
Harry Claypool
Max Mause
Laclede-Dallas
C. Tonjes
Benton
J. Z. Hobbs
Ozark
Verne A. Dale
Jasper
J. F. Crisleys
Butler
A. Fellows
McDonald
Orpington
Rhode Island
Missouri Straw Berries Lead Nation in 1927 Production Value
A Missouri College bulletin on strawberry economics reports 1927 state farm crop value at 3 812 300 dollars, making Missouri the leading U S producer with shipments to 190 cities in 27 states and Canada. It analyzes marketing advances since 1904 and calls for standardized, cooperative marketing to improve prices and distribution.
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Missouri
Missouri College of Agriculture
United States
Canada
F. L. Thomson
G. B. Thorne
Ozarks
Com
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Bill
Dodgers
Browning
Browning, Missouri
Bachelor Jim Gooch Farm
Purdin, Mo
Lamb
Coops
John Deere
H. M. Buswell
Missouri Straw
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