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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1901
Page
5
The Journal publishes an abstract of Republic county agricultural statistics for the year. It notes fewer farms, more total acreage, higher farm value and machinery value, shifts in wheat rye corn oats and other crops, and changes in livestock and poultry production. Population rises slightly. incorporation vote set for next Thursday.
City Council proceedings from July 1 include mayoral oversight, committee referrals, and approval of claims for street work salaries and city hall insurance. An ordinance fixing the tax rate is introduced and read, with passage by section and a brief editorial note laments crop prospects amid drought and pests.
The text describes vanilla as a fleshy green climbing plant from the West Indies to Mexico and South America. It explains simple cultivation by attaching a slip to a tree, fruiting in three to forty years, and drying the harvested beans in a sweating process, with vanilla extract sold at fifteen cents per ounce from Mexican beans.
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