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3 stories matching factor
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- The Creamery War Comes to the Yakima Valley
Seattle money builds a permanent milk plant at North Yakima, and the dairymen of Central Washington suddenly find themselves with buyers competing for every can of cream.
- How an old mining ditch and a boulder patch became a $6,000 orchard
A correspondent's tour of the Methow valley and the benches above Pateros finds peaches by the boxcar, seven-pound carrots, and a warning that California land had already outrun the poor man.
- 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.