Weevil woes curb Idaho hay production say extension official
F Rinehart extension animal husbandman at the University of Idaho notes heaviest hay losses come from weevil pressure and high raw crop prices. He says many cut hay to profit but ignore land use, while thousands of loads leave the state each summer. Traders seek return loads, driving hay from fields, so stockmen should buy hay as it ripens.
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F. Rinehart
University of Idaho
Rinehart
Members of Congress Hear Public Tax Groans
Washington lawmakers face loud public groans over the tax load. Citizens express frustration as Congress slows to listen and consider next steps amid rising fiscal pressures.
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Congress
Washington
Tax policy clashes with budget goals in Washington
Observers in Washington see no prospect for a tax increase this session despite the president’s budget push. The Chamber of Commerce notes 1930s and 1940s tax shares rose from seven percent to a third, arguing further hikes should target lower income groups while corporate rates outpace individual levies. The piece also discusses livestock disease control measures, urging blood tests and herd segregation to curb vibrionic infection.
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Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Chamber
Snyder
New Stock Disease Spreads Across U S Foundation Reports
The American Foundation for Animal Health warns that vibrionic infection, a serious reproductive disease, now appears in every state in the nation. It damages profits by causing sterile cattle and sheep, calf and lamb losses, and is hard to diagnose, often confused with other breeding diseases.
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American Foundation For Animal Health
Foundation
U P Route Change First Since Days Of Jim Bridger
Union Pacific begins a new 42 mile west bound line skirting Sherman hill between Cheyenne and Laramie. The upgrade allows a steeper 1.55 percent grade to 8,014 feet, while eastbound trains keep the current gentler route. The plan marks the first major route change since Bridger era.
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U. P
Jim Bridger
Union Pacific Railroad
Wyoming
Sherman Hill
Cheyenne
Laramie
Union Pacific
Omaha
Missouri River
Howard Stans
Sherman Hill and Dodge Explore Westward Route in 1860s
The article recounts Capt Stansbury guiding eastward across Wyoming with Maj Bridger to scout the Laramie mountains. Gen Dodge and his engineers faced Indian resistance near Sherman hill while surveying for a Union Pacific crossing. Reinforcements arrived, enabling a safer passage. The piece notes the historical logic of horse drawn grading and the planned $16 million UP project with two 150 foot fills. It also mentions Rose tournament queen Nancy Thorne joining a Pasadena ceremony and a Studebaker factory birthday context.
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Gen. Dodge
U. P
Sherman Hill
Dodge
W. C. Perkins
Union Pacific
Pasadena
Nancy Thorne
Nancy
Miss Thorne
Studebaker
South Bend
Palmer
Studebaker Co Celebrates 100th Anniversary This Month
The 100th anniversary marks the birth of the firm begun by Clem and Henry Studebaker in South Bend Indiana with a smithy and wagon shop in 1852. Dean Palmer of Palmer Motor Implement Co. notes the milestone falls in February and honors a historic era of American vehicle making.
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Studebaker
Clem
Henry
South Bend
Ind
Dean Palmer
Palmer Motor Implement Co
Conscience Twinge Haunts Robbers After Iron Lung Fund Heist
Burglars who stole 3100 from a club are said to have deposited over 50 dollars of the money in a coin collector for an iron lung fund before escaping. Authorities investigate the incident at the Orofine establishment.
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Orofine
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