W. J. Spillman
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- Apr 2, 1898The Palouse Wheat Boom Was a Gold Mine—Until the Debt Came DueAn agricultural professor traces the Palouse’s speculative wheat economy: inflated land purchases, the rain-ruined crop of 1893, the panic that followed, and the sudden recovery by 1897.Palouse, WA
- Sep 29, 1898The Future of Farming at Washington Agricultural CollegeA visit to the Pullman campus reveals the experimental work being done to improve Eastern Washington's agricultural yields.Washington State University, Pullman, WA
- Oct 13, 1898The Mystery of the Curdled CreamA Falls City dairyman and a professor clash over a strange bacterial contamination affecting local butter production.Fall City, WA
- Nov 24, 1898The Butter Wasn't From Washington—and the Dairymen Knew ItCreamerymen and farmers across Washington protest dealers who relabeled eastern butter as local creamery product, calling it a fraud on consumers and a threat to a young industry's hard-won reputation.Seattle, WA
- Jan 5, 1899The Gospel of the Cow: A Governor Tells Washington Dairymen How to Get RichAt the state dairymen's convention, Wisconsin's Gov. W. D. Hoard preaches cleanliness, cold wells and the Chicago market — and spins the tale of Carl the German farmer who turned stinking butter into $50,000.Yakima, WA
- Nov 1, 1902The Palouse Professor Who Helped Rediscover HeredityBefore Mendel's laws were famous, an agriculturist at the Washington State Experiment Station stood alongside three European scientists as a co-discoverer of them — and proved the principle with velvet-chaffed wheat.Pullman, WA