We supply units for equipment like bulldozers, coal hauling trucks and cranes, plus strip mines. It's essentially a four-month business, but now makes up about half of our total business.

The new store really caught on. During the 20s, they tell about hauling (train) carloads of flour, sugar and coal to the store, ... They'd bring 55-gallon barrels of kerosene from the railroad at Elmer. Sometimes, they'd sell a carload of flour a week. A lot of cowboys worked for the Waggoner Ranch just across the river.

We could actually use more livestock from a nutrient point of view. With good equipment and trucks we are able to transport farther. Injection (into the soil) reduces odors and runoff, and conserves on nitrogen fertilizer by preventing loss by evaporation, but the narrow application window is difficult. It could be only three weeks for some individual farms and 60 days overall, primarily in fall after harvest.

I was wondering what had happened to 2-month-old West African crowned cranes.

The public schools, trade schools and research schools, these are the coal mines of the 21st century,

Despite the initial progress, it cannot be ruled out that some unsafe coal mines are still in operation, and we will continue to strengthen our supervision and inspection.