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Newspaper
Neosho Valley Register
Location
Iola, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1874
Page
3
DD Alflen offers day boarders and sale of goods, corn stacks and furniture items listed. Reports on county business, school meeting, weather, hay, travel, corn yields, grasshoppers, and upcoming district fair with notices from Ottawa Times readers.
Conover Brothers of Kansas City announce a thirty five dollar guitar for the best musical composition to be performed by the author or a friend at the Kansas City Exposition. The Allen County Fair starts October 7 with premiums for exhibits and babies. Local notices report fires, deaths, grasshopper damage, and community meetings.
Ecuo Grange No 98 meets to discuss the church bug and fund plans to burn bug harborage before spring. Resolutions urge neighbors to cooperate and protest hay shipping while noting grasshoppers arrived and threaten crops. Kansas Midland and Missouri Pacific rail updates accompany editorials on grasshopper control and local farming advice from F. Kramer.
A Kansas letter urges deep plowing of at least ten inches to bury grasshopper eggs and improve moisture penetration. It argues soil depth matters more than area plowed per day, recounts corn success in 1873 despite drought, and notes large scale grape cuttings as moisture and depth strategies. State news covers agriculture terms and local occurrences.
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