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Newspaper
Country Today
Location
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1985
Page
11
Growmark expert Mel Baddorf warns that bringing charged batteries into winter storage is risky and not needed. Store fully charged, cool and dry, use a trickle charger, disconnect units, and avoid flames while charging to prevent hydrogen ignition. If frozen, do not charge until thawed at room temperature.
Senate Democrats vote against Republican James Harsdorf's plan to split the Senate Agriculture and Human Services Committee. Chair Rod Moen notes past sessions combined agriculture with other areas, while Harsdorf laments agriculture’s subcommittee status amid bipartisan debate.
USDA officials say meat import data indicate 1985 quota type imports will not exceed 1.2 billion pounds, about 104 million pounds under the trigger level of 1.3 billion. If quarterly estimates reach the trigger, quotas apply for the rest of the year. Quotas cover beef veal mutton and goat from Australia New Zealand and about a dozen other countries.
A balance sheet helps track assets and liabilities, forming the farm's net worth. It emphasizes five-part accounting and the importance of including assets, liabilities, revenue, and expenses. Extension offices offer materials to assemble this statement, per Steve Baver.
U S wheat growers seeded 57.6 million acres of winter wheat last fall for 1985 harvest, down 9 percent from the prior year and the lowest since 1979. Kansas fell 5 percent to 12,700 acres, Texas rose 9 percent, Oklahoma up 1 percent, and Wisconsin planted 135,000 acres, 35,000 fewer than the year before.
In Calvin Coolidge days a dollar was a dollar and six dollars a week plus room and board was standard for maids. Our graystone house with 12 rooms had long since lost its staff and my ailing mother struggled to cover chores with three children. Descriptions of several temporary helpers follow, including Edna who cooked poorly and clashed with my father, Elsie who grew fat and left, Jenny the poor cook, and Delia who managed work but lived a lively social life. Delia’s pin cushion message God is Love and her scare at a devil costume incident stand out before she departed.
The article highlights Louis L Arnold then almost 18 years old as an apprentice diver for L G Arnold Inc of Eau Claire. In summer 1934 the firm laid a 36 inch water pipe across the Chippewa River above Dells Pond as a city water extension project.
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