Modern Dairy Farm Shows Automated Milking Parlor
Stanton dairy farmer Maxell fills bulk milk in a cooler room. A pipeline runs from milking machines directly to the milk tank with human hands not touching the product. The front image shows Maxell’s six-stall milking parlor.
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Rence Maxell
Stanton Dairy Farmer
Maxell
Stanton Dairy Herd Seeks Expansion Under Clarence Maxell
Stanton dairyman Clarence Maxell aims to grow his registered Bel cattle herd from 36 to about 80 to 90 head. He plans to expand with home-raised stock and meld new animals into his operation.
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Clarence Maxell
Stanton Dairyman
Mavell
Stanton dairy farmer expands operation and water system
Maxell farms 400 acres near Stanton expanding milking parlor water pressure with a new pipeline from cooler to parlor. The operation handles Grade A milk with a bulk tank and direct pipeline to the dairy, while feeding 140 acres pasture and 80 acres corn silage. He adds 22 acres popcorn and 20 acres soybeans this year.
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Maxell
Came the Dawn Wife at Movies Exchange Seats Joke
A light exchange during a couple’s movie outing shows the wife asking about comfort and view before urging her husband to swap seats with her. The husband replies politely, calling her dear and darling.
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Hubby
Ime
What Farmers Read and Like sparks farm magazine insight
Donald R. Murphy author of What Farmers Read and Like draws on more than two decades of survey work with Wallace's Farmer and other titles. The Iowa State University Press edition examines advertising color typography readability illustrations and subject selection to better reach farm readers. Copies priced at 4.95.
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Ames
Iowa
Univerity
Donald R. Murphy
Wallace
Farmer
Murphy
R. Murphy
Wisconsin Agriculturist
Bryant Kearl
Department of Agricultural Journalism
University of Wisconsin
Iowa State University Press
Iowas Spring Pig Crop Dips Four Percent
Iowa reports a 1962 spring pig crop of 11,143,000 head, four percent below last year and 12 percent under the ten year average. Fewer sows farrowing and smaller litters, with 7.03 pigs per litter, account for the decline amid a severe winter and fluctuating spring. More sows farrowed Jan–Mar, offset by fewer in April, the peak month.
Wild hogs captured after long mysterious wanderings by river bend
A Georgia river story recounts how a stranger lured a herd of wild hogs from floods and droughts by corn then built a rising pen and trapdoor to capture them. The tale mixes folklore quotes on folly and reform as it closes with reflective maxims.
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Ocmulgee River
Georgia
Irresolution Carries Weight in Axiom Paraphrase
A fragmentary quotation notes that giving up wealth to the head yields no loss to others and that wavering resolve is a heavy, looping burden pushed uphill by a weak effort and then returned. The source blends Franklin insight with a reflective, philosophical aside.
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Franklin
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