Agricultural Notes on Texas Cattle and Farm Life
S Trigg surveys Texas cattle feeding for Cuba, potato prices, Missouri drought, and clover as a soil enhancer. He cites feeding calves milk substitutes, home creamery alternatives, and millet in North Dakota beef finishing. He notes farm neighbors, Golden Rule, drainage projects, Texas sugar mill by convicts, horse training, mad dog scares, agricultural school graduates, and meat export markets driven by large packing firms.
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North Dakota
Mutual telephone co operatives expand across West and Northwest
Farmers organize mutual telephone companies to supply service at about 30 per patron for line installation. Ten to twenty patrons form an initial network with potential self built poles, linking to a central station for broader connectivity. Maintenance costs are low, with weather and lightning as main risks.
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Mutual Telephone Companies
Farmers’ Mutual Telephone Company
West
Northwest
A Theological Brand And Timber Value Debate
A farmer's wife promotes using flour sacks as undergarments, detailing washing to remove brands while recounting a humorous episode with the branded sack in church. The piece then questions annual timber growth on second growth hard maple oak and hickory, valuing land at zero, concluding timber culture yields little financial reward despite high meat prices and noting attitudes toward religion and storms.
Beef Trust Tales and a Farmer's View From Uncle Bill
In a rustic voice, Uncle Bill recalls high beef prices and stockyard chaos as a beef trust debate stirs farmers. He links market forces, trusts, and working people’s costs, then reflects on farming evolution from 1853 plowing with oxen to modern sulky plows, noting progress yet enduring labor.
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Bill
Cheap Eastern Farms for a Real Chaap Farm
The piece argues Eastern farms are poor sellers but offer fine buildings, improvements, orchards, and easy access to markets. It notes poultry fruit and cattle can be raised, making a capable farmer able to prosper, while a lazy person should seek opportunities in the West where eastern wastes yield profits.
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Grant
Weeder to Replace Cultivator for Land Prep
The article argues trying the weeder this year to prepare land before planting. It suggests the device covers much ground daily, offering preventive weed control and less labor for corn, though it cautions the possibility of being fooled and notes its aim to curb weed growth more effectively than weed exterminators.
Farmers eye crop output to lift prices and curb weeds
It will take more than one big crop to bring prices of farm produce back to average levels. There will be too much of nothing raised this year. Let no corners grow only weeds this year.
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