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| Year | Stories |
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| 1854 | 3 |
| 1858 | 2 |
| 1860 | 1 |
| 1861 | 6 |
| 1862 | 2 |
| 1863 | 2 |
| 1864 | 2 |
| 1871 | 1 |
| 1872 | 9 |
| 1876 | 59 |
| 1877 | 48 |
| 1878 | 32 |
| 1879 | 8 |
| 1880 | 13 |
| 1882 | 9 |
| 1883 | 72 |
| 1884 | 33 |
| 1885 | 43 |
| 1886 | 20 |
| 1887 | 26 |
| 1888 | 50 |
| 1889 | 128 |
| 1890 | 18 |
| 1891 | 72 |
| 1892 | 95 |
| 1893 | 76 |
| 1894 | 87 |
| 1895 | 119 |
| 1897 | 12 |
| 1898 | 14 |
| 1899 | 23 |
| 1900 | 3 |
| 1902 | 1 |
| 1903 | 59 |
| 1904 | 37 |
| 1905 | 7 |
| 1907 | 1 |
| 1908 | 23 |
| 1909 | 65 |
| 1910 | 21 |
| 1911 | 6 |
| 1912 | 3 |
| 1914 | 15 |
| 1915 | 27 |
| 1916 | 35 |
| 1917 | 14 |
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| 1923 | 6 |
| 1924 | 7 |
| 1925 | 4 |
| 1928 | 1 |
| 1929 | 2 |
14 stories matching futur
- The Railroad Men's Retirement Plan
With jobs held at the whim of superiors, railroad employees are buying up farmland as a hedge against being fired or incapacitated.
- The Biggest Land Deal in Adams County
An Iowa speculator secures twenty sections of railroad land near Ritzville for a massive stock farm.
- The Ghost Town of a Pioneer's Dream
A German immigrant spends decades waiting for his Puget Sound homestead to become a metropolis, only to see the boom vanish as quickly as it arrived.
- The Future of Farming at Washington Agricultural College
A visit to the Pullman campus reveals the experimental work being done to improve Eastern Washington's agricultural yields.
- The Saloon at the State Fair: A Temperance Warning from Yakima
An impassioned editorial condemns the state fair commission for auctioning saloon rights, warning that liquor will corrupt young men and tarnish the fair's educational mission.
- The $100 Cannery: Whatcom Farmers Learn to Preserve Their Own Harvest
A traveling demonstration in Laurel and Nooksack City showed growers how to solder, seal and process fruit—and argued that small local canneries could outlast the timber boom.
- The Valley That Organized Itself: Nooksack Farmers Build a Co-op and Demand Pure Food
At a December meeting in Deming, farmers from the Upper Nooksack and Sumas Valley formed a permanent association, secured a power separator for 200 cows, and called for a pure food law to stop the adulteration of fruit jams.
- Wenatchee Bets the Valley on Alfalfa — And Dreams of Dairy Herds
A touring correspondent finds the apple country sowing alfalfa by the acre, convinced the real money is in feed, stock and cream rather than in boxed fruit shipped east.
- The Night the Chickens Sang Backup: Spokane’s Poultry Show
Spokane’s annual poultry exhibition drew hundreds of birds, a towering silver trophy, and an orchestra the chickens refused to let finish alone.
- When Every Eastern Market Was Swamped: The 1897 Fruit Glut That Broke Northwest Growers
A Northwest agricultural writer tallies the wreckage of a boom season — glutted markets, freight and icing bills nobody could pay, and a blunt prescription for growers: dry your prunes and hold for a price.
- The Orchardist Who Told the State Its Moth Spraying Was Useless
In 1898, a North Yakima grower argued that the state's codlin-moth spray schedule did not fit the Yakima Valley's climate—and warned that apple and pear growing might be doomed without better field science.
- A Fruit Grower's Pitch: Stop Sending Cash East — Feed Alaska Instead
Before the Northwest Fruitgrower's Association, S. L. Moore argued that Washington farmers should diversify beyond wheat and prunes, supply Alaska and Western markets, and let the Northern Pacific's traveling fruit exhibit lure settlers west.
- The $80,000 Cranberry Bog Behind the Ilwaco Beach
A state commissioner tours Pacific County's cranberry marsh — 1,600 acres, 7,280 bushels shipped to San Francisco, 200 pickers at fifty cents a bushel, and a company openly hoping to replace its Chinese crew with white labor.
- The Dairy Commissioner’s War on Adulterated Food
A Washington dairy official warns that fake honey, poisoned candy, oleomargarine and brewers’ grain are cheating farmers — and demands stronger pure-food laws.