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Newspaper

Country Today

Location

Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States of America

Date

Dec 28, 1983

Page

9

Admiral Blue Cookstove Reverie From a Final Kitchen Era

A nostalgic memoir centers on a family kitchen dominated by the Admiral Blue cookstove. The piece recalls the stove’s pride, cataloged copies, and unique warmth. Details cover warming closets, tools, wax can, waxy soot, drying shelf, and family storage. Kids collect butterflies, stamps, and other curios behind the stove while learning to share space and respect each other’s property.

Buttermaker Memories at Barron Co-op Creamery Barns

Recalled scenes around 1900 of Buttermaker families near Barron Co op Creamery. The elder narrator details cooking, canning, and sausage prep, along with the blue Admiral stove, daily smells, warmth, and a wood stove survival symbol. It recalls children, animals, and winter routines shaping a rural homestead memory.

Barron Co-op Creamery The State Historical Society of Wisconsin Admiral Blue

Chippewa Leads in Soybean Yield Across UW Trials 1983

Chippewa County had the top average soybean yield in UW variety trials for 1983 with 17 varieties on Dayton Reed farm in Wheaton township averaging 62.8 bu/acre in 7 inch rows and 58.6 in 32 inch rows. Five public and 12 private varieties were planted May 24 and harvested Oct 18 and 22. NK 09-90 led narrow rows at 70.4 bu/acre, Funk 12231 topped wide rows at 66.9 bu/acre. Across locations Arlington to Ashland, maturities ranged 80 to 100 days, with earlier maturity in wide rows and slightly taller plants in narrow.

Chippewa County Dayton Reed Wheaton Township Arlington Janesville Racine Oshkosh Galesville Durand Marshfield Antigo Hancock Spooner Ashland

Wisconsin ASCS Prepares Yield Notices for 1984 Base Acres

County ASCS offices in Wisconsin will mail notices listing each farmer’s 1984 base acres and yields. Farmers aiming to establish proven 1983 feed grain yields should gather production records by year and by farm. Information available at local county ASCS offices and the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture notes random inspections of PIK grain storage and complaints about grain grading accuracy.

ASCS Wisconsin County Wisconsin Department of Agriculture Donald Soberg

Milk jug lumber from Luxemburg firm turns jugs into lumber

N E W Plastics Corp of Luxemburg Wisconsin converts about 50 million used milk jugs annually into plastic lumber for park benches foot bridges and fence posts. The material is waterproof can be nailed drilled or sawed like wood and comes in colors without painting. Environmentalists praise reducing landfill waste while a tax notice remark highlights supply and demand dynamics.

Luxemburg Wis Kewaunee County N.E.W. Plastics Corp

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