Montana wheat empire proves tractors beat horses in vast farm
Thomas D. Campbell drives a 200000 acre world’s largest wheat farm in Montana without horses. The project, funded via government support and New York financiers, uses 5000 acre units led by managers with tractor arrays and mechanized labor, leasing crops to Indian lands under terms favoring natives.
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Thomas D. Campbell
Grand Forks
Los Een Cal
Iin Feservation
Montana
Crows
Campbell
Indian “Bureau
Washington
Ana
Secrenterior Department
Pertary
Secretary of the Interior
Mr. Campbell
New York
J. P. Morgan & Co
Lane
Mr. Morgan
Montana Wheat Farming Corporation
Why Destroy Your Friends In The Suburbs
A thrift magazine piece notes a man arrested for shooting 883 robins and two cedar waxwings near a city suburb. It argues protecting native birds saves crops and controls pests, citing hawks and owls as persecuted killers of field mice and caterpillars, and warns continued bird destruction would harm agriculture.
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United States
Thrift ‘Magazine
York of Tennessee in Meuse Argonne hero tale
A lengthy wartime feature profiles Alvin C York, Tennessee mountaineer turned war hero. It recounts his valor at Meuse Argonne on October 8 1918, the 16 Germans he killed, 182 prisoners captured, and his later honors. It notes his craftsmanship as a blacksmith farmer, family ties, religious conversion, and pacifist stance.
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Falk
Thermopylae
Alvin C. York
Tennessee
John Dickinson Sherman
Lynn Cullum York
Wankop
York
Leutenant
Hans
New York
Otra 108
Cay
Church of Christ
Eutrak Union
Gordon
Danforth
Woork
France