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- Oct 1, 1902Seattle's Fruit Inspection Racket: Dumping California Produce to Protect Local MarketsA dispute over British Columbia's fruit inspection leads The Ranch to admit that Puget Sound inspectors have used the law to condemn California and Oregon fruit, easing market congestion and raising questions about regulatory abuse.Seattle, WA
- Nov 1, 1902"You're Stealing Every Day": A Redmond Dairyman's Anonymous CryWriting to Seattle's dairy journal under a pen name, a Redmond farmer accuses the creameries of skimming pounds off every can of cream and getting rich on other men's cows — and the editor answers with a demand for a name he can prosecute.Redmond, WA
- Dec 1, 1902The Cream That Wasn't: A Milk War Lands in SeattleAn Illinois condensery mails Seattle a warning that a Washington company is skimming the butter fat out of its milk. The Seattle Times demands a prosecution; the local trade paper calls the charge a stunt — then quietly admits the 'Carnation Cream' label is a lie.Kent, WA
- Jan 1, 1903Seattle's Farm Paper Says No to Paying for Portland's World's FairAs The Oregonian promised a $100,000 state appropriation for the 1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial, a Seattle agricultural journal argued the money would be better spent on roads and irrigation — and doubted the crowds would ever show up.Seattle, WA
- Jan 15, 1903Budget Cuts Silence Washington's Farmers' InstitutesA Pullman college president tells The Ranch that six or seven faculty posts were cut, leaving no one free to carry agricultural lectures into the countryside in 1903.Pullman, WA
- Mar 15, 1903A Farm Paper Accuses Olympia of Auctioning a Senate SeatAfter the 1903 legislature adjourned, The Ranch blasted lawmakers for graft, railroad favoritism, a $3.25 million budget and $125,000 in fair appropriations.Washington State Capitol, Olympia, WA
- Mar 15, 1903The Farmer Who Said the Colleges Were Failing Rural WashingtonAddressing the state dairymen, farmer Wm. F. Izett argues that the land-grant colleges move too slowly and cost too much to save the farm — and pitches a cheaper, faster kind of agricultural school as the 'machine gun' the countryside needs.Seattle, WA