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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1902
Page
3
A rural column reviews drought and odd crop fortunes, livestock remarks, and farm practices. It notes dry weather forecasts, forage and feed quality, prices and markets, grape and strawberry planting tips, and practical anecdotes about cattle, corn, oats, and garden greens. It highlights regional pest patterns, drainage needs, and emerging farming technologies like silos and stalk shredders.
The west and northwest face a shift in farming as land users must fund study on new profitable techniques. Many clinging to old ways resist book farming and higher costs, while areas with unreliable rainfall tempt settlers to buy cheap land and plow soil despite evidence that cultivation does not raise rainfall.
The piece discusses a movement to unite individual mines of business into large creamery concerns. It notes large centers forming companies to bind all cream within 100 to 200 miles, offering higher prices than local creameries. The author cautions dairymen to remain with local firms to avoid a trust that could crush competition and later pay producers full value.
A critical view argues the July 1 tax reductions favored financiers, banks, and industry over common people while raising the sugar price squeeze. It calls for partial relief on sugar duties and condemns the auger tax as a burdensome burden on everyday living costs.
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