Annual Report includes the Board of Trade membership and officer's list and the Secretary's Annual Report. Report includes status updates on harbors, railways, finances, grain prices, and amount received. Includes data for harbor opening and closing dates back to 1855.
Published on Thursday, May 6, 1909, this cartoon is divided into two frames. The upper frame shows wheat from Canada being led to flour mills in the United States by the "Tariff Provision by which Canadian wheat may be milled in the United States and have drawback of duty when exported as flour." Its caption reads, "The wheat must go to the mills." The lower frame shows United States flour mills running toward the Canadian border, where a smiling wheat figure beckons to them. Here, Uncle Sam, holding a shepherd's crook tagged "Any kind of a drawback," pursues the mills, hoping to hold them back. This frame's caption reads, "Or the mills will go to the wheat."
Theodore Barrett wrote to his future wife, Georgia McKee, about the progress planting wheat and planting trees for a grove around the farm. He enjoyed watching the trains that go by near the farm. He inquired about when he should go to her. He cannot leave before May 30th and must be back by June 30th.
The Zumbro Flour Mill was owned by John M. Cole. This mechanical drawing provides a cross section of the mill and includes details on the water wheel, separator, cockle machine, bran duster, purifier, wheat bins, stock hopper, flour bins, grading wheels and receiving elevator and other machinery.