Extension Service offers home improvement and decor workshops
The UVM Extension Service announces meetings in Arlington and surrounding towns. Kay Strassburg will host an inexpensive decorating ideas session using sheets and paint on April 14. Milo Moore will teach do it yourself fixes on April 28. September dried flower lampshade workshops are planned for Bennington and Manchester with pre registration through the Extension Service. Call 447-7582 for details.
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Dianne E. Hall
UVM County
St. Margaret Mary’s Parish
Milo Moore
AVM
Arlington
Milo
Bennington
Manchester
Rainmaking in drought regions sparks federal interest
In 1894 Nebraska rainmaking attempts using dynamite failed to bring rain, while 1971 Oklahoma success prompts Sen Bellman to back cloud seeding federal funding. The piece surveys drought trends, past and potential weather modification programs, costs, benefits, and critics amid debates on environmental risks and policy.
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Altus
Oklahoma
Bellman
America
Great Plains
California
U.S
Douglas Jackson
Jackson
South Dakota
Robert M. White
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Ford Administration
Geneva
Switzerland
United States
Soviet Union
Joseph Martin Jr
Beef producers to meet discuss farm problems
Beef producers will meet University of Vermont and University of Connecticut specialists on April 10 for a hands on farm problems course. The program co sponsored by UVM Animal Science Department Extension Service and Vermont Beef Producers Association runs 9 30 a m to 3 30 p m at the Given Medical Building and Spear Street Farm.
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Burlington
University of Vermont
Connecticut
UVM Animal Science Department
The
Extension Service
Vermont Beef Producers
Europe
Albert Kittridge
Orleans
R.P. Davison
James Wadsworth
UVM
Randy McLaughlin
AVM
Steve Abbott
John Durfee
Bridport
Roland Desforges
John Price
Stewart Gibson
Extension Dairyman
Louis Markus
UCONN
Frances Haggerty
Donald Kinsman
County Extension Office
April milk prices released schedule of minimum prices
The Vermont Milk Control Board announces April 5 1976 minimum prices for Area I markets with discounts for larger monthly deliveries. Prices cover 3.5 percent milk low fat and skim milk for home delivery store wholesale and bulk options. Stores wholesale gallon prices double half gallon listed rates. other rules remain in effect.
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Area I
Vermont Milk Control Board
Area II
Census makes 1976 profile
Washington based report shows US population nearing 200th birthday is more prosperous educated independent longer living and marrying later while divorces rise. The Census Bureau released its second annual report on population characteristics highlighting these shifts among the nations 214.5 million people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
United States
Census Bureau
4-H Clothing Day Draws 60 Participants and Judges
The annual 4-H Clothing Day in AVM County drew about 60 girls with roughly 150 attendees. Debbie Goff narrated the dress revue, while nine judges evaluated garments before two age-based groups selected 15 senior girls for Bennington County at State Day in Barre on May 22 and for Mini State Day in Bennington on May 1.
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Debbie Goff
Central Vermont Public Service Corporation
John Shapiro
Alan
Adam Tschorn
Virginia Andrews
Barbara Elliot
Bennington County
Barre
Bennington
Mammoth Mart
Ruth Fisher
Tracey Matteson
Kathy Sargent
Wendy Sherman
Dawn Wood
Carol Matteson
Doreen Matteson
Melissa Matteson
Ellen Decker
Lynn Grant
Ruth Ford
Tracey McKeighan
Terry Taylor
Brenda Carrington
Donna Hay
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Kay
Chicago
O’neill, Neb
Minden
Neb
Henry Bellman
National Wheat Growers Association
TNT
Department of Agriculture
Farmers Home Administration
Christian Science Publishing Society
Ra ST
Weld
Taro
Main Street
William C.snow
AVM County Extension Agent
Spinet
Cable
Musette
Viscount
Gulbransen
Unham’s
Ayaa Eee
Jersey
Snow
RT E- Tel
Vermont
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