Excerpts from the Osceola Sentinal
April 21, 1904
AGRICULTURE NOTES BY TRIGG
The hide of the average horse is worth about 83. It pays to save it. More leather goods are made of horsehide than people have any idea of. The average earnings of the agricultural laboring class in Russia is said to be $128 per year, and out of this the government takes the sum of $48 as taxes. A hen can lay, all told, about 600 eggs, and it will take her eight or nine years to do it. Most of these will be laid during the second and third years of her life. The onions which were slow sale last fall at 40 cents a bushel are in sharp demand this spring at $2 per bushel and over. But then we did not know that the market would take this short of a turn. The onion is the most uncertain of all crops. Through much of the west farmers need more to learn how to raise a crop of potatoes than how to improve their corn or their daries. Not one farmer in twenty where the writer lives raised last year enough potatoes for his own use and has to buy what he gets at over a dollar a bushel.
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June 2, 1904
Last March 1st Messrs. J. Goldsmith & Sons started an egg prize contest, giving prizes to those who marketed the largest number in their store in three months, contest closing June 1st. The prizes and winners are as follows:
| Name | # of dozen | Prize money |
| J. E. Benbow | 419 |
$20 |
| D. B. Bechtel | 384 |
10 |
| N. M. Bisel | 309 |
5 |
| C.K. McNichols | 280 |
3 |
| Wm. Kelley | 251 |
2 |
| Fred Burgess | 251 |
2 |
| Orson Swan | 232 |
2 |
| C.B. Eggleston | 207 |
2 |
| J. B. Aringdale | 198 |
2 |
| R. N. McQuern | 159 |
2 |
| I.J. Baker | 156 |
1 |
| M.E. Teller | 156 |
1 |
| A.F. Williams | 155 |
1 |
| Jas. Gilbert | 144 |
1 |
| A.M. Kelley | 132 |
1 |
| Frank Reed | 130 |
1 |
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