A Better Apple Market and Apples From Growers to Consumers
In Better Fruit two leading articles by Chas H Collins and H M Gilbert of North Yakima discuss apple marketing and the consumer dollar. They quantify distributor shares, warn against excessive retailer profits, and urge cooperation and centralized selling to improve prices for Yakima Valley growers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chas. H. Collins
H. M. Gilbert
North Yakima
Gilbert
Richey & Gilbert
Yakima Valley
Collins
Kennewick
Fruit Growers’ Association
North Pacific Fruit Distributors
Commission House
Hog profits shown in Kennewick Valley hogs record
Will Amon expanded one hog into substantial profits over three years. He sold over eight hundred dollars worth of pork and used meat on the farm valued at about two hundred dollars. He still owns more than fifty pigs, with feed costs offset by field fertilization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will Amon
Lars
Glista Cora
New York State College of Agriculture
Cornell University
Alfalfa A To Z Classic Field Advice
A historical list outlines alfalfa cultivation tips including inoculation drainage deep roots and late season cutting. It notes alfalfa thrives with well drained seed beds and manure, seeded with nurse crops, drilled, and not pastured early. It praises drought tolerance and high yields, while warning against wet feet and poor weed control.
Persistent milker cows yield most butter fat and profit
The Kansas Farmer notes the persistent milker, not just high milk flow, drives annual butter fat production. Recording monthly milk output and butter fat percentages aids selecting cows for profitability, while testing milk samples guides herd decisions and future calf value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Silage as Horse Feed Gains Favor With Studys Report
A Pennsylvania station report compares silage with hay and other forage in horse rations. Horses fed silage used less grain, gained efficiently, and finished sleeker. Recommended silage free of mold from well matured corn and fed five to twenty pounds daily with caution after heavy work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
Sheep as gleaners in Mississippi Valley fields
The article notes sheep serve as gleaners in fields by picking up wasted grain and grazing weeds. It cites that cattle eat 56 of 600 native weeds, horses 82, while sheep eat 576, and that lambs turned into fields after corn matures consume grasses and weeds before grain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mississippi Valley
Kansas
Sheriff Sale Notice of Irvin Real Estate in Prosser
The Edinburg Lombard Investment Company sues James F Irvin Anna E Irvin Eva Irvin unknown heirs Ella A Irvin Bert Winter Boise State Bank et al In Benton County Washington execution foreclosures sale of The Southwest Quarter Section 26 Township7 North Range29 EWM at Prosser On May 24 1918 at 10 a m sale at the court house front door Prosser cash to highest bidder Sheriff W B Manan Deputy Hugh Forsyth 4:25-5:23
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State of Washington
Benton County
Edinburg-Lombard Investment Company, Limited
James F. Irvin
Anna E. Irvin
Eva Irvin
Ella A. Irvin
Bert Winter
Boise State Bank, Limited
Prosser
Edinburg- Lombard Investment Company, Limited
Range Twenty
Court House
Wash
W. B. Manan
Hucgh Forsyth
Vandewater Visit Questions Viability of New Branch
A committee from the Business Men's Association arranged by J. D. Farrell, president of the Oregon Washington Railroad and Navigation, hosted C. F. Vandewater, traveling freight agent, who surveyed the proposed branch route last week with F. J. O'Brien to determine if sufficient tonnage exists to justify construction at present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oregon- Washington Railroad and Navigation Company
Portland
C. F. Vandewater
Mr. Vandewater
F. J. O’brien
Mortgage Foreclosure Notice in Benton County
Public summons requires Geo Batters Ellen Batters W R Lamb Julia Lamb to answer within sixty days of April 18 1913. Plaintiffs seek foreclosure on real estate in Benton County Washington Lots 1 2 Block 2 Town of Benton now Richland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Superior Court
State of Washington
Benton County
C. G. Vreeland
George Batters
Ellen Batters
W. R. Lamb
Julia Lamb
W. R. Amon
J. G. Glen
Jane Doe Glen
County of Benton
Geo. Batters
Washington
Benton
Richland
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Yakima- Columbia Abstract & Title Company
Jas.g. Boyle
Mgr. Prosser
The
Kennewick Sheet Metal Works
Lilly Webster Carabana van Dyke
Prince Henry
Royal George
Hamilton Supply CO
Kennewick Valley
Drouth
Ity
Legal Publications
Vandewater
Men’s Association
J. D. Farrell
Chas.h. Flilly CO
Kennewick Lodge
Sen
Knights of
As Pythias
Hany
Visi Brothers
Earl Ferrell
J. A. Bellows
K. of R
C. L. Hotcoms
P. O
C. L. Holcomb Lawyed
Bank of Annal
United States
Kennewick, Wash
C. Staser
Lockerby & Kolb
Attorneys-At-Law
Bank of Kennewick
Moulton & Henderson
First National Bank
F. M. Crosby
C.M
I. N. Mueller
King Block
D. S. Brogumer
International Bank
L. G. Spaulding
Emigh-Howe Bld
G Res
B. L. Cole
Emigh-Howe
Althea Rebekah Lodge
Masonic Hall
Ona J. Taylor
N.G. Mar Shanafelt
Kennewick Lodge F.&a.m
Ed Angell
Eastern Star
F. L. Watson
W. M
T. J. Wright
Sprague
Spokane
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