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Library of Congress1946

Image 1 of The Poplar standard (Poplar, Mont.), March 8, 1946

lIJ A Volume XXXIX Ne 49 FEDERAL CROP INSURANCE IS NOW AVAILABLE TUPLE A OFFICE ANNOUNCE URGENCY OF GETTING AP PLICATIONS IN BEFORE PLANTING TIME Federal Crop Insurance can be attained from designated agents Md county AAA offices accord to announcement made this week Application must be signed before the crop is planted or be fore the specified closing date Insurance is being offered now an wheat in Roosevelt county The elosing date is April 10 1946 or year planting time whichever eames first Triple AAA officials say Farmers like other business ten must take risks Some risks cant be avoided But there is no laager any need to gamble on the weather and other natural haz ards which may damage or take your wheat crop Insurance against natural haz ards is now available for the busi ness f farming Allrisk Federal Crop Insurance at nonprofit rates will guarantee a return from the federal Crop Insurance is back ed by Uncle Sam who pays the operating expenses Every penny of premium is set aside to pay crop losses Crop insurance protects against crop damage from all natural caused The contract covers up to specified per cent of your nor mal

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Library of Congress1910

Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), December 22, 1910

VearforFarmProduCtS 0 KdT3926000000 lUlUe f omniscience can gras ilnffho farm products of thii lf statement of the U S is pe agriculture in his annua gttf otiqVo At no time in th for a country produces b lS within one year with i lit cOiOOO which is the f nciiltural products ol iiii The total value for i lie last 12 years ii MiiPnjj f 121381000 busheli rpcord year 1906 anc itfs he average crop of the yars by 14 per cent of this corn crop ii any and also of 1908 il ckoned as less thar I crop of this year maybe It j seed a round 900000 ir r more than the corr s r on year prior to 1901 if r ce nt above the five value i i it o the hay crop is aboul unt which has beer i ce and that in 1907 it if i v the average of the per heat crop is dividec atumn and spring sc ft subject to differ ts as was the case notion of spring anc 1767000 bushels oi rage of the preced f ioas the value is i 76 per cent above in point of value

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Library of Congress1950

Image 45 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), October 13, 1950

yy I l I U H 1 i 1 I i 1 I 1 Furniture STORES 1 V I I I I ANNIVERSARY SALE 1 I E SAVE IN ALL 24 I DREAMHOUSE E f DEPARTMENTS J H St at 7th NW I jj 1106 G Street NW i i 215 King Street 1 Alexandria i I I Blair Lee House Silver Spring Crops Out of Control DELBURNE Alta In 1948 a barley crop was sown and har vester near here Last year a good volunteer crop came through from seed accidentally scattered the year before although the land was due to be summer fallowed This year another volunteer crop is under way and looks as though it may be the heaviest of the three The Workers and Peasants Party of Bombay India has gone Communist i A FASHION SHOW ydurno I auHCAm l EVERY SATURDAY at I PM I staged and narrated by p MRS CLADSTONE WILLIAMS PrizesGuest StarsFavors j HOTEL RALEIGH I For res call Pierre NA 3810_J La Prensa Executive Receives Award for Freedom Efforts By the Associated Press NEW YORK Oct 13Dr Al berto Gainza Paz director of the Buenos Aires daily newspaper La Prensa last

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Library of Congress1908

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), December 24, 1908

u 1 Wealth By The Billions Tears Farm Products Worth 7 778000000 Washington December 14th After twelve years of service as head of the Department the Secretary of Agricul ture in his twelfth annual report to the President issued today renders a com prehensive account of his stewardship and presents a review of the progress of agriculture in the United States during this period Concerning the farm pro duction of 1908 he says that the farmer has created wealth by the billions Pro duction has been above the average of recent years with few exceptions and while some prices have fallen others have risen The farm value of all farm products ot 1908 reaches the most extraordinary total in the nations history7778000000 This is about four times the value of the products of the mines including mineral oils and precious metals The gain in value of farm products in 1908 over 1907 is 290000000 and would have been much larger had not the prices of cotton and hay been low Greatest of all crops is Indian corn whose production this year is 2543090000 bushels The value of this crop is 1015000000 It seems likely that the cotton crop is one

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Library of Congress1907

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), February 28, 1907

Maines herbalist Abandoned Farm Made to Pay Good Money You Can Smell His Catnip Crop Half a Mile Away Boston Sunday Globe The story of how William K Burgess of East Bucksport has managed one of Maines famous abandoned farms aud won prosperity and considerable fame from land that was cluttered with loose stones and iufested with pernic ious weeds deserves to be elevated into a treatise on agricultural economics and a place in the libraries of agricultural colleges Less than 20 years ago when Mr Burgess went to East Bucksport from a farm in Monroe Me he was rich in health and hope though poor in finan cial resources so when he had bought two adjoining tarms on the shores of Long pondboth of which had been cropped clear down to hard pan and undergone the process which Maine farmers term skinning until there was nothing left to skinhe found himself at 35 years of age without an available dollar in the world and hitch ed to a barren hillside farm which according to local report was not able to sustain a pair of rabbits The first thing which Mr Burgess needed was ready money Local ways of securing

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Library of Congress1951

Image 6 of Jackson advocate (Jackson, Miss.), June 16, 1951

Miss Farmers Continued from Page One liood enough stand to justify culti vation This represents a larger acreage than the 2035000 acres harvested in the State last year but is below the 1951 goal for de fense needs Over t0 percent of the corn crop j is up to a pood stand with 88 per cent of the State poal planted apencies estimated Both soybean and rice acreapes will preatly ex I ceed early estimates Do not plaw up land in the Delta i where cotton is planted and seed i are still pood leaders recommend ed If the seed perminate by June BEST PRICES FOR YOUR WEEKEND SHOPPING Groceries and Meats Priced Right FREE DELIVERY STEAK A Grade Lb59c PORK CHOPS Center Cut Lb 59c BACON Sliced Lb42c SALT MEAT StreakOLean Pound30c ROAST Best Beef Lb59c PORK LIVER Lb37c BEEF LIVER Lb69c CHICKEN Fryers Lb49c SUGAR 5 Lbs46c POTATOES 5 Lbs15c RICE Short Grain Lb10c NEW JACKSON MARKET AND GROCERY STORE 225 N Parish St Phone 26589 1015 twothirds of the a crop can normally he expected under good management based on experi mental results at the Stoneville Station Leave fields with 50 per 1 cent of a stand

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Library of Congress1895

Image 4 of The Meridional (Abbeville, La.), October 12, 1895

Coutona During the week under review the only signi ication change in the con dihlns surrounding the cotton market has been the appearance of Eiglish and Continental spinners as large buyers of actual cotton Sales of spot cotton in Liverpool since Friday the 13th inst are estimated at 54000 bales as against 43000 bales for the preceding week This icreaie in the demand for actual cotton is attributable to a disposi tion on the part of spinners to give inore credence to the reports of crop damage on this bide the water The result of this increased demand for cotton has been to stimulate pri ces and yesterday the high water mark for the week namely 8 27 for January was reached On Friday last January contracts sold at 8 19 but mnder liquidating sales induced by the lack of speculative demand jfr cotton prices gradually receded until on Monday the 16th inst enlee were made at 796 Snite that time however Europe appears to have awakened to the fact that perhaps after all there is more truth in the reports of crop damage then they have heretofore be willing to acknowledge This fact is evidenced by their increased purchasea

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Library of Congress1901

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), February 28, 1901

NEWS ROTES James M Smith near Athens Ga sold his cotton crop 2o00 balesfor 100 000 Fourteen women received the doctors degree last year at the University of Zurich Congress has adopted the slowsand system of filtration for the water sup ply of Washington Emeralds have been discovered in Arizona and it is said in North Caro lina They are however very small A few days ago at Littleton N H the mercury changed from 40 below to 40 above inside of twentyfour hours It has been found in India that in oculation against rinderpest will protect an animal for a period of seventy or eighty days Iron lands showing more than 7000 000 tons of ore have been leased in Northern Minnesota by the American Steel and Iron Company Arkansas legislators could not decide whether the State flower should be an apple blossom or passion flower and re ferred the matter to the committee on education A bill is before the Federal Council of Germany providing that the time of study shall be for medical students five years instead of the present term of four years and a half There is a Chinese farm in Florida where the Johns

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Library of Congress1903

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), August 27, 1903

UP IN MAINE SAYINGS AND DOINGS IN THE PINE TREE STATE WIALM IN AN ALDER SWAM A Waldo county man sends the Ban go r News a story about a neighbor of his who is making money from an al der swamp which has an area of no more than ten acres The land was low and mucky and very wet Except for large crops of mosquitoes the prod ucts of this piece had been hardly worth recording The purchaser paid two dollars an acre for the lot or 20 in all and at once took possession by fitting up and moving into an aban doned farm house which stood on a knoll at one corner of the swamp the only dry piece of land in the pur chase He proceeded to map oft his tract in true forestry style planning to cut one acre every year and to proceed in that ratio until at the end of ten years he should come back to his origi nal lot In this manner he has kept at work cutting his alders in June and trimming out and peeling the larger and crooked sticks to be made into rus tic furniture during

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Library of Congress1905

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), October 5, 1905

EARLY DAYSJN JACKSON REMINISCENCES OF AN OLD SETTLER Thinking that stories of old times as told by our older people would he of in terest to our readers we several weeks ago wrote to a number of old men in this and surrounding towns asking them to call on us when in 1J rooks This week we had the pleasure of meeting and conversing with one of these venerable men in the person of Uncle Jewell Piper of Jackson who cailed at our office in response to our letter He said he would have called before this had he not been so busy for after harvesting his own large crop of hay lie had been working by the day haying lor others and didnt want to quit until everybody had got quite through After getting well seated and ins pipe lighted Uncle Jewell said he was ready to talk A few leading questions got him under way and for about two hours we sat and listened to the stories and happenings of the earlier days as they fell from the lips ot this citizen of Jackson Uncle Jewell says he was born in Jackson December 111808 and therefore will be

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Library of Congress1907

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), June 27, 1907

COME TO MAINE GOOD WORDS FOR OOR STATE AMD OCR CITY Tlie New England Homestead is pub lishing a series of articles on home industrial opportunities and promoting New England uplift and a recent issue contained the following articles which we take pleasure in reprinting COME TO MAINE DR G M TWITCHELL AUBURN ME Naturally the home seeker wants a good climate healthy conditions a productive and retentive soil naturally adapted to a variety of crops a strong positive moral sentiment and a frater nal sympathetic atmosphere Beyond this the thinking man will look to school houses and school privileges and churches and church attendance No man wants to locate in a malarial at mosphere whether it be physical or moral All these points should enter into the account 1 am convinced there is no State which today offers the substantial at tractions to be found in the State of Maine 1 would not be loyal to my native State did I not declare this I would not be true to myself did I not give good substantial reasons for my faith in the first place a granite soil insures certain qualities of water and peculiarities of disposition not to

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Library of Congress1909

Image 2 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), April 22, 1909

THE REPUBLICAN JlURNAL BELFAST THURSDAY APRIL 22 1909 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY The Republican Journal Publishing Co CHARLES A BILSBUKY BuStSnager Subscription Terms In advance 200 a year 100 for six months 50 cents for three months Advertising Terms For one square one inch length in column 50 cents for one week and 25 cents for each subsequent insertion MAINES LITERARY OUTPUT Maine has many claims to distinction If it may no longer be called the Pine Tree State we can take the spruce as an emblem or adopt Miss Sarah Orne Jewetts designation The Land of the Pointed Firs We no longer build ships but they are not built elsewhere and until this class of shipping went into decadence Maine held her supremacy both in ships and their commanders Un til the advent of the artificial ice plant and the Morse ice trust our ice crop furnished employment to hundreds of men and horses in the winter months and when the rivers opened our vessels carried the ice to market Maine is be coming the summer playground of the nation and the mecca of sportsmen dur ing the fishing and big game seasons Lumber and granite are important fac

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Library of Congress1910

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), May 5, 1910

Missouri Matters The Growth of Springfield Elections and OfficeSeeking The Agricultural Outlook Correspondence of The Journal Springfield Mo April 30 1910 The weather for the past winter and the spring to the present time has been de lightful The fall months are uniformly pleasant in this latitude The winter weather is often far from pleasant changing frequently from cool to warm with quite a percentage of cloudy and rainy days The spring weather is apt to be tedious warmer and cooler The past seasons however have been an ex ception The winter months set in dry and cool and so continued for an unusual ly long period Late in February the weather began to get warmer and up to the present writing we have had no seri ous or sudden changes All kinds of fruit trees have been full of blossoms which fortunately have not been subject to either freezing weather or cold rains so that at the present time the prospects for a large fruit crop are excellent Two or three weeks ago the blossoms on the trees presented a beautiful picture One of the most beautiful of the blossoms is the peach and one of the most fragrant

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Library of Congress1916

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), June 29, 1916

D June In Missouri Correspondence of The Journal Springfield Mo June 13 1916 The month of June is to us full of joy and beauty To begin we have been favored with an abundance of delicious straw berries gathered fresh from our own patch in the garden For more than four weeks morning noon and night we ate them without stint or weariness and handed over the patch at surplus times to neighbors and friends We have also been bountifully supplied with radishes lettuce beet greens and yesterday we picked our first mess of string beans This morning we cut our first crop of en dive and dug our first mess of new pota toes one hill being sufficient for the days needs Not only do we partake of the eatables but our eyes are being feasted with the sight of the beautiful Flowers of almost all early varieties are to be seen everywhere in profuse abun dance particularly is this true of the roses which just now are exceedingly pro fuse A week ago we were charmed and delighed with the sights which met our eyes as we drove through the Btreets of the city Last night in our

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Library of Congress1925

Image 9 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), May 25, 1925

Today the effect of your morning news paper advertisement is evident in sales made to residents of this dty You cover a vast multi tude of buying families within the city limits But you reach also another abletobuy field outside of the city limits TrDayWl tuyingToutr JJORNING newspaper advertising lives two days This fact has dis tinct bearing upon the manner in which you use morning newspaper space if you wish to obtain maximum returns from your advertising investment Ad vertising messages in this morning newspaper that are planned to inter est and inspire returns from two sep arate and distinct classes of readers on two different days will bring two days of active selling to you Newspaper space is like a field of fertile ground The better the plant ing and cultivation the betterthe crop Discuss this vital pointwith your advertising department or agen cy Plan your messages in morn ing newspapers for a 2day pull Dailx Kennebec Journal Copyriilit TO5 EMERSON B KNIGHT In INDIANAPOLIS Tomorrow the effect of todaya delivered and read today advertise ment is shown in sales made to suburban and rural families Throughout die entire trading zone this newspaper is the strong est link

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Library of Congress1956

Image 17 of The Sidney herald (Sidney, Mont.), October 4, 1956

Oct 5 Is Last Day for Acreage Reserve Signup Montana wheat growers were reminded this week that Friday October 5 is the last day they may sign agreements to partici pate in the 1957 Acreage Re serve program The reminder was offered by Leo S Kolstad State Agricul tural Stabilization and Conserva tion administrative officer as he pointed out that October 5 is the end of the twoweek extension made by USDA to give farmers more opportunity to learn about the program and sign agreements Farmers who will grow only spring wheat in 1957 or who have normally planted spring wheat will have an opportunity to sign agreements before spring plant ing time Any producer who has a regu lar wheat acreage allotment Is eligible to take part in the Acre age Reserve program Kolstad explains Payment will be earn ed by reducing the wheat acre age below the 1957 allotment in accordance with terms of the agreement The acreage reserv ed from wheat production may not be cropped or grazed during the period of the agreement which will be from the date of signing or January 1 1957 whichever is earlier through December 31 1957 Although agreements are calendar

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Library of Congress1922

Image 6 of Great Falls tribune (Great Falls, Mont.), July 28, 1922

FARMERS HARVESTING GOOD WHEAT CROPS NEAR GREAT FALLS s 35V j v jf A x V x v S WSMkv vw iy t v AV VÄVAÄ XV V yiMX t y ii s V s V î v Ä m WM y m 3 xm y j8 y K pr myï WWm mmm mœtm gmftfcs Photo by Heyn A A 480ACRE FIELD OF WHEAT FOUR MILES EAST OF GREAT FALLS ON THE HIGH WOOD ROADE COOPER OWNER INDIAN NAMES ARE CONFERRED ON 14 EDITORS Members of Editorial Adopted by Cheyennes and Blacftfeet Paring their travels through Mon tana 14 members of the National Edi torial association party have hern adopted into Indian tribes of the sen Partv J 1 U u J h ihr ton two having had that honor thrust upon them by the Cheyennes at Miles City while Indian names were attached i to 12 at Glacier park where they were taken into the Rlackfeet tribe At Miles City Chief Spotted Hawk conducted the ceremonies wherebj Mrs H i Hot a linp of Mapleton Minn wife of the executive and recording sec retary of the association was made waTgiven the nnmïManwn Benï woman while 1 B Brimblecom of

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