Evolution of insurance from merchants to crop coverage
The excerpt traces insurance origins from merchant risk sharing to fire and life policies, notes Lloyds total loss ideas, and cites Charlton Lewis on insurance's social value. It then analyzes crop insurance viability, noting risks of high or low rates, valuation, provable losses, and farmer coinsurance, aligning rates with crop values and production costs.
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United States
Lloyds
London
Charlton Thomas Lewis
Encyclopaedia Britannici
Farm crop insurance through mapping and government role
The text argues for surveying farms to fix fair crop insurance rates using soil, area and productivity data mapped similarly to fire insurance. It recalls the WWI War Risk Insurance Bureau, which issued 2.25 billion in policies with 29 million losses and a 17 million profit, showing efficiency of government-led insurance.
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Texas
United States
Canada
New York City
Congress
Farmers to Demonstrate Drainage Benefits and Methods
Four farmers near Berea collaborate with County Agent R F Spence and the College of Agriculture extension division to show drainage advantages and tile installation practices. Co operators include Charles Jett Richmond M T Moore Berea J J Belch Crab Orchard and J S Swinford disputana. Surveys for Jett and Moore completed. partial installation by Jett already in place.
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Berea
R. F. Spence
College of Agriculture Extension Division
E. G. Welch
Charles Jett
Richmond
M T. Moore
J. J. Belch
Crab Orchard
Swinford
Disputana
College Farm Engineering
Jett
Moore
Poem on temperance and prohibition era drink habits
A rustic verse by Uncle John rails against drink as a social ill. It mocks moonshine and strong spirits, praises temperance, and urges obedience to law across the year, concluding with a call to collective action and memory of widespread will.
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