Volume 11 , Issue 38

1882 - Agriculture

1882 - Agriculture -- Drought continues on western U.S. ranchlands.

Edinburh's Prairie Cattle Company pays $350,000 to acquire the Quarter Circle T Ranch of Texas Panhandle rancher Thomas Bugbee who in 1876 drove a small herd from Kansas to the Canadian River and established the ranch.

The Farmer's Alliance claimed 100,000 members in 8 state alliances and 200 local alliances. The Alliance was headed by Milton George.

The bacilli that produced swine fever (hog-cholera), swine erysipelas, and ganders (another livestock disease) were discovered at Berlin's Friedrich Wilhelm Institute by German bacteriologist Friedrich August Johannes Loffler, 30.

Germany would assume leadership of European industry in the next two decades, but the Germans would attempt to maintain self-sufficiency in food production where the British had not. The Germans would plant another 2 million acres to food crops and would use high tariffs to protect German farmers from foreign competition even though such a policy meant keeping domestic food prices high.
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