Capital-Fixed and Working
The article contrasts 40 years ago and now for corn belt farming. It notes land prices rising from $3.17 to $25 per acre then to $100–$200 now, and describes added fixed capital needs such as woven wire fences, cellars, furnaces, barns, deep wells, windmills, water tanks, and paved barn yards. It also highlights increased working capital with more expensive plows, more horses, and diverse farming implements, including harrows, disk cultivators, silos, and manure spreaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corn Belt
Iman
Credit, tenancy and fixed capital in western agriculture
The article discusses rising stock prices and the need for increased fixed and working capital for farmers, noting tenantry now cultivates about 40 percent of land. It argues for credit systems based on trust, the limits of government funding, and the potential of cooperative lending with borrower oversight to enable land purchase. It warns that character and mutual reliability, not simply money, drive practical credit solutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wwe
Atock
Sorn
Corn Belt
W Wallace
Exterminate the Fly and Fight Typhoid Nuisance
A vintage wartime style exhortation urges public action against flies to prevent disease. It stresses screens on doors and windows, proper sanitation, and personal effort, noting Panama Canal zone improvements and the broader risk of typhoid and other intestinal diseases. It warns that neglect could be deadly and calls for decisive communal work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fief
State Board of Health
Boards of
Clas
Florida
Georgia
Tennessee
Lews Janm
Chicago
New York
Boston
Galvestém
California
United States
Panama
Community Notes From Algona District
Sunday visits fill local homes as Chaffen and family, Lewicks, Hawcett, and Graham guests share news. A Friday District No. 6 picnic drew many parents despite cool 50 degree weather indoors. Miss Kin yon returns to Algona while Sylvia Anderson enjoys a mahogany Epworth piano from family. Interment and illness touch families as a daughter born May Sth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bart News Bdd
Chaffen
Henry Lewick
S. Jt
S. Anderson
R. F. Hawcett
Will Harsh
Mae Valentine
Marjorie Stable
CBE
Vallentine
Anderw Chaffee
Geo. Allen
Sylvia Anderson
Charles
Sylvia
Fred Genrich
Algona
Auto
F. Hawcett
A. A. Graham
Burt
Jesa Valentine
Blanche Chaffee
Lone Rock
Will Chaffee
M. E. Echayel
Sadie Brieley
Eggleston
Schenck
Perry
Burt area social notes amid illness and a wagon accident
The report lists visits and gatherings around Burt including Mrs Hart assisting her son and family, Perry and friends visiting the Nyman home west of Bancroft, and several Algona area callers. It mentions a schoolgirl Dorothy Haweck injured in an auto incident near Bancroft, a nurse attending Mrs Hefler, and other local residents and families visiting or moving through the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burt
Sam Hart
Orville
Peargon
Becker
Dorothy
Haweck
Forkum
Also Mentioned on This Page
J. J, Budlong & Sons
First National Bank
Titanka
U. 5
Federal Reserve Bank
Essere Ee
Chicago & St. Louis
Federal Reserve
U.S
Treasury Ft
Counly
Vee Ee
VSL
Vrsenees
Lowa
Kossuth
J. J. J. Cosgrove
J. Cosgrove
Edith Budlong
L. O. Wolfe
A. Schram
G. D. Welhousen
Matern & Kunz
Kossuth County
Iowa
Wesley
Wesley, Iowa
Titonka ® Grain Company
Motor Company
Bismark
Lamoreux
Titonka
Koss
J. N. Haxton
Sec
Iowa Stallion Law
General Assembly
Des Moines
R. Corey
Iowa State Department of Agricul
GEO
Lamoreus
Col. V. B
Jones Auctioneering School
General Farm
Germania
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