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Newspaper
Country Today
Location
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1987
Page
13
Comprehensive grain handling safety guidance warns against entering bins during unloading and when grain is flowing. It stresses lockout of motors, use of safety ropes, respirators for dusty grain, two outside workers with one inside helper, and vigilance for spoiled or crusted grain, cave-ins, and moving machinery to prevent fatalities.
Scott Hendrickson of Manitowoc County reports that warm July weather has raised daily growing degree day accumulation to as high as 30 GDD. With 1,100 to 1,200 GDD needed from silk to maturity, harvest could occur sooner than the usual 55 to 60 days, increasing kernel development and advancing the silage window.
A new demerit point structure replaces the escalating scheme. Speeding up to 10 mph over the limit earns three points, 11 to 19 mph earns four points, and 20 mph over earns six points. Accumulating 12 or more demerit points in any 12 month period can suspend or revoke a license. The 18 or 24 point thresholds over 24 or 36 months are removed and only 12 month counts remain. Other parts of the state point law stay the same.
University of Wisconsin Madison entomologist Walter Gojmerac notes an unusually warm winter boosts queen survival, leading to more bees hornets wasps and yellow jackets this summer. He urges not to wave at nests and to avoid attracting them by leaving trash and ripe fruit.
Local Extension offices offer tools to balance short feed stock with drought impacts. Farmers should inventory forage and separate high quality alfalfa for milking cows while feeding dry cows and heifers with lower quality hay and corn silage. Two computer programs assist in selecting economical rations.
A reminiscence of childhood pretend play in a wooden corncrib using mud pies and simple materials. The author recalls siblings Gladys Bernice and Ethel Grace Ella Milla, makeshift kitchen, toy house, water hole trips, and a storm that toppled the corncrib ending their play era. Now senior citizens, they cherish those carefree days and note the piece was reprinted from UW Extension Yarns of Yesteryear Contest entries.
A mailed postcard to Mrs. Frank Tanz in 1914 notes good times in Thorpe and attendance at a show the night before. Submitted by Margaret Tanz of Fall Creek.
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