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| Year | Stories |
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| 1902 | 1 |
| 1903 | 6 |
| 1904 | 4 |
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- Seattle's Fruit Brokers Declared War on the Shrinking Apple Box
In a market where every Puget Sound mill cut its own crate, Seattle commission men pushed a uniform standard—and growers demanded $5,000 bonds to keep the middlemen honest.
- The Alfalfa Controversy
A Kansas farmer warns that the popular forage crop may be causing health issues in work horses, sparking a debate among Pacific Northwest agriculturalists.
- The Orchardist’s Hard Lesson in Elevation
After a devastating May freeze wiped out his peach crop, a local grower shares a hard-won lesson on the importance of topography and variety selection for Pacific Northwest fruit farming.
- A Colville Judge Just Voided Thousands of Tax Deeds — and Owners May Get Their Land Back
A Stevens County superior court ruling invalidated tax titles tied to a 1902 foreclosure judgment, unsettling more than 3,000 properties and opening a path for former owners to redeem land.
- The Farmers' Own Store: Stanwood's Answer to the Butcher's Price
A correspondent from Florence reports that cooperative Rochdale stores are spreading down the West Coast — Stanwood's has been open six months, and its shareholders have just voted to add a butcher shop rather than keep selling cattle at a loss.
- The Great Chicken Confinement Debate
A practical poultry raiser challenges the industry-backed myth that fancy, confined birds require expensive, proprietary feed mixtures to survive.
- Who Really Raised the Price of Milk?
A White River dairyman writes back: the condensery isn't being generous — feed, hired hands and land rent have all doubled, and the company still pays as little as it can get away with.
- The Man Who Sold Yakima Valley a New Miracle Crop Every Week
A Seattle farm journal accuses the Post-Intelligencer of letting Joel Shomaker tout Russian brome grass, teosinte, ginseng and squabs as the valley's next sure fortune.
- 'Only Another Name for a Sort of Annual Picnic': Washington's Road-Tax Fight
A good-roads convention hears that farmers resent paying their road tax in cash instead of working it out, that the money vanishes into 'graft or rake-off,' and that Spokane County's section-line roads were laid out so badly they must be rebuilt from scratch.
- The $2,000 Apple Lesson: A Walk Down Seattle's Produce Row
A farm columnist tours Seattle's commission houses on Western Avenue, where a single packing mistake cost one grower a season's profit — and offers a cautionary tale for every farmer shipping to the city.
- A Creameryman Confesses: 'Our Business Conditions Are Rotten'
In an unusually candid letter to The Ranch, the manager of the Rockwood Creamery Co. says reckless price-cutting and smooth-talking rivals are cheating Washington dairy farmers and quietly ruining the state's butter.