Corn Planting Rises to Record Acreage in Mos cow District
May 25 marked the start of corn planting in the Moscow district with the largest acreage on record. Idaho's University experimental station reports up to 100 bushels per acre from a strain, while Eveleth ranch in Ferry buys a foundation herd of about 35 purebreds for Inland Empire.
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Moscow
University of Idaho Experimental Station
Inland Empire
Eveleth Ranch
Ferry
Chamber of Commerce At
Palouse
Training youths to invest in future farming success
A message praising boys and girls club work as the best farm investment. It argues training youth, involving them in buying and selling farm products, and supporting girls learning homemaking builds a future farming economy. It notes bankers loaned nearly a million dollars to club members with no losses.
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Extension Service
State College
United States
Purple Vetch Seed Boom Spurs California Green Manure
With USDA help 2,190 acres of purple vetch are grown in northwestern California for seed to be used as superior green manure in southern orchards. The crop, uprooted from Italy in 1899, offers greater winter growth and can be turned under earlier than other legumes. Northwestern growers face seed scarcity but a California fruit growers' association helped expand this year, paying 14 1/2 cents per pound for triple vetch seed and promising $150 to $200 per acre plus straw. seed supply is expected to meet future needs.
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United States Department of Agriculture
California
Italy
California Fruit Growers’ Association
Oregon
Utah's Lopty Mountains Raise High Peaks
The text notes Utah's Lopty Mountains with six summits over 15 000 feet and nearly sixty above 2000 feet per the USGS. King's Peak leads at 18 493 feet, with Mount Emmons at 12 428 and Gilbert Peak at 13 422 feet.
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Tah
United States Geological Survey
King’s Peak
Mount Emmons
Gilbert Peak
Utah
Boys and girls clubs loaned nearly a million dollars
In a year the nation’s junior clubs borrowed about one million dollars from 3000 banks to finance livestock and crop ventures. They repaid every cent with a profit near two million, while costs and a loan totaled 3. The program, led by George Farrell, boosted agriculture and personal development nationwide.
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George RE. Farrell
United States
Washington
Wisconsin dairy cows fedHydrolized sawdust diet study
The Forest Service reports cows at the Agricultural College of Wisconsin thrive on a ration with one third hydrolized sawdust, trending similar to previous one fourth wood meal. The USDA plans year long trials using hydrolized wood feed, produced at the laboratory, initially from white pine with future testing of western woods.
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Wisconsin
Forest Service
United States Department of Agriculture
Agricultural College
Bureau of Animal Industry
Forest Service Laboratory
Elevator mishap in western office building stalls briefly
A crowded elevator in a western office building dropped a few feet then recovered and continued at normal speed. The elevator boy reassured riders with a quip about a fall meaning a couple of stories. A portly man added a solemn remark referencing two newspapers.
Willie Kipling Poem Excerpt Warning Against Sea Life
A Kipling verse warns Willie against seeking wages and comforts at sea or arguing with others. It contrasts life at sea with a harsher land path, suggesting angels may come for him but he will not be wanted on earth. The fragment presents a cautionary, moralizing voice about duty and acceptance.
Leavenworth Mercantile Sues O Howell for 87.14
In Justice Court Leavenworth Mercantile Company files a claim against O Howell to be heard July 1 1921 at 3 PM in Leavenworth Chelan County Washington. The suit seeks 87.14 for goods furnished within three years as assigned by Leavenworth Pharmacy. Justice J C Davis notes complaint filed May 16 1921 and marks June 5 1921.
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J. C. Davis
Leavenworth Precinct
Chelan County
State of Washington
Leavenworth Mercantile Company
O. Howell
Leavenworth
Washington
State land sale terms and timber restrictions announced
The notice outlines sale terms for state lands including payment options, deed issuance, and prohibitions on cutting timber until payment completion. Lands are subject to reservations for oils, minerals, fossils, and to laws from 1907 and 1911, with easement rights and timber transportation rules. The sale follows board orders and is filed with the Clark County auditor.
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Commissioner of Public Lands
Board of State Land Commissioners
State of Washington
Said County
Clark V. Savidge
Notice of Sale of State Lands Wenatchee Chelan July Fifth 1921
Public auction will be held July 5 1921 in Wenatchee Washington for 40 acres NE SW of section 16 township 24 north range 18 east W M appraised at 760 dollars. Sale requires at least one tenth of the price at sale and annual payments with six percent interest thereafter. Easement for irrigation ditch to Seicle Canal Co applies.
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City of
Wenatchee
Chelan
State of Washington
Board of State Land Commissioners
W. M
Seicle Canal Co
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Seattle
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Coeur d Alene
Pot Falls
Spokane Valley
Graham, Striped
Sunset Peaks
Coeur d'Alene Mountains
U. S. Forestry Service
Placer Creek
Lewiston
Walter EB. Liegh
Walla Walla, Palouse
Big Head
Frank M. Rothrock
Jeston
Panama Canal
Pacifi Northwest
Choice Meats and Poultry Telephone
Leavenworth, WN
Utah’s
Lopty Mountains
The
Star
the Times
American Legion Weekly
Kipling
Willie
Herriman’s
Myrtle Snyder
Barclay Hotel
Georgian Annex
7Th Ave
Pine St
Louis Lucas
Pic Larts
Herman Howe
L. J. Nelson
Nelson & Howe Law Offices
Elliott Building
J. T. Lindley
J. W. Elliott
Bert Williams
Draying
G. W. Hoxley
W. W. Elmer, M. D
Leavenworth, Wash
C. A. Laws
Leavenworth Undertaking Co
Town & Hennessy
L. H. Brockway
Ash Street
Sam R. Sumner
Columbia Valley Bank Bldg
Burt J. Williams
Chelan Co
N. M. Sorenson
Blue Wenatchee
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Columbia Valley Bank
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Nat’l Bank Blde
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