This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 5 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Country Today
Location
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1982
Page
13
Winter to spring focus shifts to herd reproduction. Goals include a 12 month calving interval, 75 percent conception rate, and 1.5 to 2 services per conception. Observe heat signs 30 days after freshening and breed back 43 to 45 days after. Heifers reach puberty at 550 to 750 pounds and should hit calving around 24 months. Dan Draxler, Polk County livestock agent.
Farmers in Buffalo County continue costly erosion-control projects with 1981 accounting showing 16 percent of Wisconsin funding for erosion-control structures. Ten ponds were built for gully control and runoff impoundment and 23 water-control structures, mostly under ACP cost sharing at 75 percent with a $3,500 per farm cap. Local names span Roy Michaels to Loren Wolfe among contributing landowners and pooling groups.
Farmers face weather, soil warmth, fertilizer, seed, and fuel price concerns each year but the core issue remains soil conservation. Wes Sander, St. Croix County SCS district conservationist, notes rising costs and questions about erosion, soil loss, and gravel presence on fields. The passage ends with a tax joke about income tax complexity.
The narrator recalls ancestors crossing the plains from Arkansas City to Kansas and Oklahoma in the opening of the Pawnee strip. Esaw and family race to claim land at Pawnee amid the Sooner rush, enduring a long registration line, claim jumping dangers, and a multicharacter trek with wagon wheels altered. The tale weaves family names like Esaw, John, Fred, and Alfron, and recalls songs and frontier hardships.
A Texas department store ad highlights the start of the 1889 land rush in Oklahoma. Ida Cook's great-grandparents took part, linking the purchase to a historic moment and a family memory.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.