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| Year | Stories |
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| 1902 | 2 |
| 1903 | 3 |
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- Railroads vs. The Ranchers
An editorial warning that railroad companies are risking their own future by cutting off travel perks for livestock shippers.
- Formaldehyde in the Milk
The Fashion Cafe sues the Royal Dairy and Dairy Commissioner McDonald for $7,500, claiming the milk it was served was laced with embalming fluid — and that the official paid to police the dairies knew all about it.
- State Funding for Washington's Farmers' Institutes
For the first time, the state legislature has appropriated $5,000 to support agricultural education across Washington's counties.
- Wenatchee Booms—But Its Hotel Tables Don't
The valley's population is surging and its fruit is prize-winning, yet a Seattle agricultural paper finds the Bell Hotel a sorry advertisement.
- The Palouse Professor Who Helped Rediscover Heredity
Before 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.