A. B. Leckenby
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- Jul 29, 1897Battling the Invasive ThistleA coordinated effort between the state college and the Northern Pacific Railroad aims to eradicate destructive weeds from the Washington landscape.Yakima, WA
- Aug 5, 1897The Railroad Barons and the Range WarsNorthern Pacific executives visit Yakima to defend their controversial new land-leasing system against local sheepmen.Yakima, WA
- Feb 5, 1898Yakima Farmers Answer the Call to OrganizeAt Mason's Opera House, A. B. Leckenby tells North Yakima growers that cooperation—not outside capital—is the valley's best hope, and a countywide farmers' club takes shape for Feb. 12.Yakima, WA
- Feb 5, 1898They Called the Prairie Worthless. He Planted Wheat Anyway.A government immigration inspector bought gravelly land south of Tacoma and proved the skeptics wrong — sixteen bushels an acre of No. 1 hard wheat.Roy, WA
- Jul 30, 1898The Tumbleweed That Threatened Washington's WheatIn 1898, a state agricultural professor traced an invasive Russian thistle to railway yards and warned that Yakima County was already infested.Toppenish, WA
- Dec 1, 1902The Professor Who Gave Colour Photography Away for FreeAn Oregon experiment-station scientist stumbles on a way to fix true flower colours permanently in a photographic print — then walks into Seattle and refuses to patent it.Seattle, WA