Goan Planting for Three Billion 1910 Crop
Kansas City report from April 22 describes a nationwide effort by a million farmers in the corn belt to boost 1910 production under the motto More Corn to the Acre. It highlights Leonard B. Clore as the corn king in Indiana, farming 8 acres but achieving record kernels per ear through seed selection and soil care, illustrating a broader push toward scientific planting and larger plowed fields across the region.
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United Prep
Kansas City
Coun
County
Indiana
Leonard B. Clore
David Rankin
Tarkio
Turkic Bank
America
Longtime farmer near Carbondale lives on 26 acre homestead
A man in his nineties resides on a 26 acre government grant farm near Carbondale. Bought about 60 years ago at 1.25 an acre, the title has never changed hands. The land once yielded bumper crops but has declined due to lack of crop rotation, barely producing ten bushels per acre of corn with no profit that year.
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Carbondale
What One Acre Of Corn Costs
Plowing and land preparation costs and fertilizer totals lead to a per acre budget. The cited sequence shows planting cultivating harvesting and weather impacts with a total of 1326 and a calculated net profit of 12.94 dollars per acre at a 66 percent yield and zero price per bushel.
Rankin’s Missouri Farm Profits From Corn to Meat
Rankin, a veteran farmer in Missouri, explains his income relies on turning corn into meat rather than selling bushels. He notes his operation plants 15 acres of corn, uses hundreds of horses and workers, and ships cattle to Omaha stockyards, reflecting a profit model focused on meat output over crop sales.
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Rankin
Missouri
Omaha
Vast Corn Field Displayed With Heavy Plows and Seeders
A passerby describes a 6,000 acre corn field, the largest in the world, with large plows turning stubble, harrows following, and thousands of men prepared to plant seed in long parallel rows.
Bar Association Clears Ballinger in Seattle
The Seattle Bar Association exonerated Secretary of the Interior Ballinger from all charges raised by Collier's Weekly. C P Connolly of Collier's staff alleged sharp legal practice tied to a Ballard shipbuilding firm, prompting a special bar meeting at the Chamber of Commerce. All but Henry F Blake voted to condemn the article as a wanton and vicious unfounded attack.
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Seattlie Bar Association
Secretary of the Interior
Hallinger
Collier’s Weekly
Seattle
C. P. Connolly
Collier's
Sharp Legal
Ballard
Ballinger
Chamber of Commerce
Henry F. Blake
Roosevelt mourns Twain as he travels Africa
Paris April 2 Theodore Roosevelt felt deep sorrow on hearing of Mark Twain's death. The president valued Twain's humor and literary work and kept Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in his African library during travels with T. R. in Africa.
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Paris
Theodore Roosevelt
Mark Twain
Roosevelt
Devoted Wife Seeks Pardon For Bank Wrecker Morse
New York April 22 The wife of bank wrecker Morse travels to Miami and other places collecting names for a petition to President Taft asking for her husband’s release from Atlanta prison. She defends Morse as brave and insists she is innocent of wrongdoing.
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Morse
New York
Chas
W. Morse
Atlanta
Fee
Fee Trust
Mlabi
Taft
Mrs. Moree
Mr. Moree
Mr. Morse
Boya
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