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- The Great Soil Debate of 1897
A Washington agricultural expert challenges the common practice of summer-fallowing, warning that the method is depleting the state's soil nitrogen and threatening long-term fertility.
- Fire Eats a Five-Story Dormitory at the Pullman College
A brick residence hall at the Washington Agricultural College burns to the shell, taking $3,000 of students' clothing and furniture with it — and the editor cannot resist a word about the building's own bad design.