Wheat supports: unlikely to end, but debate grows
The article argues that wheat price supports favor Plains producers and criticizes Lancaster County farmers for opposing or fearing changes. It outlines how dryland irrigation, low input costs, and large scale farming affect production, costs, and profitability, while predicting possible shifts toward a free wheat market and congressional reform.
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Lancaster County
Great Plains
Great Plains States
Kansas
Texas
Oklahoma
Plains
United States
Washington
Congress
District of Columbia
50 Years Ago This Week in Lancaster Farming
Recap of 1907 events including home education values, whiskey labeling rules, a distillers debate, hobos and park dandies ordinance, a cigarette sales law for minors, Carnegie gifts to Luther Burbank, Calvart Maryland bogus Lord Stanley romance and a fraud marriage tale in Oxford Pennsylvania with Miss Irene Clayton.
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Calvart
Cecil County
Maryland
Stanley
Irene Clayton
Miss Clayton
Oxford
J H. Roger
Bananas and Betsy: Oddities From Historic Public Notices
Sidelights from 1849 Versailles sale announce a farmer's move to Oregon with enslaved people included in one party. The excerpt shifts to 1931 banana import figures and assorted small-town curiosities, from a cheese theft to a cod with a diamond ring and a missing watch found by a plowman.
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Versailles
United States
National Geographic Society
What Is Greatness in Joseph and Others
The devotional discusses Joseph as a model of greatness through the High Soul Open Mind and Wide Heart. It cites faith in God guiding every step, willingness to revise prejudices, forgiving mercy, and returning good for evil as essential traits of a great person.
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Joseph
Egypt
Abraham Lincoln
Dwight L. Moody
Helen Keller
God
Palestine
Voltaire
Division of Christian Education
National Council of the Churches of Christ
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