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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1976
Page
4
The article extols relaxation for farm wives and husbands as essential for mental growth and broadening perspective. It argues that regular leisure with neighbors or kin fosters cheerfulness, heartiness, and a fuller, nobler character for both spouses.
The article traces agricultural progress from Conestoga horses and oxen to modern tractors and self propelled combines. It highlights Lancaster Pennsylvania as a center of farming innovation and notes Lancaster County leads non irrigated farm income. It recalls the 1816 year without a summer and contrasts historical equipment values with modern expects.
History shows confusion about how farmer prices relate to living costs. In colonial England imported American corn and beef markets illustrate price transfer effects. Even when farmer prices fall, consumer food costs can stay steady or rise, reflecting complex off-farm economics.
In Lycoming County Pennsylvania during 1865 more than 200 farms on rounded hills used strip farming with alternating crops such as corn and uncultivated grass or winter wheat. The practice gradually spread as the U S Department of Agriculture began to warn farmers in 1928 about the dangers of poor farming methods.
The bulletin recalls Soil Erosion as a national menace and cites the 1934 Black Blizzard that devastated farms across Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Colorado. Droughts and winds drove migrations, boosting Soil Conservation Service efforts created in 1933, and notes Guinea hens used to deter hawks from crops.
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