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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1914
Page
1
A garbled notice mentions a tor sale and gravel goods with unclear parties. Names are unreadable, offering little concrete detail beyond a sale of materials.
J L Strong of Clarinda has kept bees for 46 years, giving up carpentry to devote full time to apiary work. He built a home and expanded with new buildings and machinery, developing a mail order business nationwide. He emphasizes beekeeping as a viable path for workers to create a home and self-sustaining enterprise.
Hummel, living near Nichols, Iowa, rents 160 acres on a five year lease for 650 dollars yearly. Farm value about 25,600 with 4,000 in improvements. Last year 65 acres corn yielded 3,260 bushels. 18 acres oats 1,000 bushels. Cabage brought 1,000 dollars from 15 acres. 4 acres potatoes yielded 380 bushels and 150 dollars value. Ten cows, dairy products 284.95, poultry 57.60. labor cost 190 dollars plus work by his 16 year old son. Continuous surface cultivation credited.
Arthur W. Runfit, seventeen, of Grundy county, topped nearly 1000 Iowa competitors to win the state acre corn clubs championship and a free trip to Washington, eastern cities, and Niagara Falls. Agnes Friedel of Black Hawk county produced 3400 pounds of corn and earned a trip to Washington as chair of the State Garden and Canning club. Runfit’s victory came after Reed corn testing and careful seed-bed preparation, with a prior 1912 Farmers’ Institute premium for best ten ears in Grundy County.
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