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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1889
Page
7
Regular notes and opinions from the Alliance Department discuss progress in the alliance and improvements in farming. Corres pondence solicited for further input and guidance.
The piece surveys multiple state alliances active in North Carolina Mississippi Texas Alabama and Georgia. It notes consolidations funding for a cotton factory in Centre Alabama plans for a bagging factory in Mississippi and calls for state textbook uniformity a railroad commission and voter tax receipt checks in Texas. It mentions animal husbandry tips hog cholera origin and typhus links and ends with Texas alliance demands for agriculture and treasury surplus distribution.
A collection of agricultural tips covers earthworms, cattle care, seed selection, and feeding regimes. It emphasizes good husbandry, proper corn and wheat cultivation, and the profitability of Wyandotte chickens, with notes on fruit culture and farm management.
The Farmers' Alliance of Mississippi bought grounds and buildings to run a factory for making agricultural implements. It will manufacture and sell tools to Alliance members at actual cost. The plan aims to expand cooperative efforts among southern farmers.
An expert on grain growing finds the five year average cost to raise a bushel of wheat in Michigan is 70 cents. With wheat at 1 dollar the producer, middlemen and brokers gain 80 cents. The farmer's share is estimated between 10 and 18 cents, varying with speculation and middlemen profits.
A narrator recalls visiting England and observing firemen pouring water on coal heaps before firing. They claimed wetter coal burned hotter, surprising the observer who doubted the method, then used very wet tan bark to feed furnaces. The anecdote ends with the narrator still puzzled by the experiment.
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