New milk price offers relief for dairymen yet cautions urge restraint
In a negotiated price of 6.10 dollars per hundredweight for Class milk starting Aug 1, dairymen gain a six to seven cent per gallon edge. Yet experts warn better margins do not replace good management and urge re evaluation of operating programs, feeding strategies, and per cow production to sustain profitability.
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Marshall Whisler
Extession Agent Farm Management
Wakeman cow rated excellent in Holstein classification
Brattleboro Vermont report notes Wakeman a registered Holstein in George H. Dalton's herd achieving the top type score of 90 points in the Holstein Friesian Association program. Only 785 of about 72,700 cows classified last year earned excellent.
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Trinter
Burke
George H. Dalton
Wakeman
Holstein-Friesian Association of America
Roger P. Denney
Prodestes
Maryland
National Holstein Organization
English by mail order aids Saudi students at IU
In Bloomington Indiana Saudi Arabian students study English at Indiana University using a mail order catalogue as a text. Edna Ballinger instructor says the illustrations and descriptive text help the learners improve their English.
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Bloomington
Ind
Indiana University
Edna Ballinger
Telling tags at Lorain County Fair for 4 H alumni and tots
Lorain Club members will hand out circular white tags for children and parents at the Lorain County Fair. Signs at fair entrances invite parents to tag their kids. 4 H Alumni pins, green with the clover, will be distributed by JL members at Milk Bar and the Junior Fair Home Economics Building. The fair runs August 22 through 26.
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Lorain County
Janice Simms
Lorain County Fair
Chris Burrer
Corwin O. Burrer Jr
Oberlin Rd
Ann Emerick
Wellington Fairgrounds
Lorain Club
Allen Ulrich
Junior Fair
Dairy association sets grades for October heifer sale
North east Ohio Dairy Heifer Sales Association adopts a graded system for the first Ohio graded sale on October 6 at Sugar Creek Livestock Auction. Grades range from registered supreme to utility, with specific DHIA production and registration requirements. off-site screening will be by association reps. Cattle arrive by 1:00 p.m. with health papers and transfer/production records if available.
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Northeast Ohio
Ohio
Sugar Creek
Ami
Surpluses spark push for farmer bargaining groups
Washington AP report details how lack of surpluses currently limits farmer bargaining power. The American Farm Bureau and National Farmers Organization push to organize producer groups to bargain collectively with processors for higher prices, aiming to use contracts, improved marketing standards, and quality controls to lift incomes amid fluctuating crops such as corn, wheat, cotton, and soybeans.
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Ovid Martin Ducers
Oren Lee Staley
Washington
Farm Bureau
Amer
Ican Agricultural
Chicago
Agriculture Department
American Farm Bureau
Igras
Dis Federation
Jers
Edwin A. Jaenke
Ment
National Farmers
Totion and Conservation Service
NFO
New research urged to feed future Americans
Washington reports a National Academy of Sciences committee urges a major federal push in plant science research to boost food production. It calls for about 1 billion dollars over the next decade and highlights advances in biochemical engineering and heredity control as key to expanding crop yields and meeting growing global demand.
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Washington
UPI
Depther Aga
Gov
Alernment
Plant Sci
Nvnidincet Ie
Kenneth V. Thimann
University of California, Santa Cruz
Patel
Area Holstein Is Champ At State Fair Show
Captain Will-Ada Crisscross a two year old registered Holstein bull owned by the William Dalton family of Wakeman was judged Grand Champion at the State Black and White Show at the Ohio State Fair grounds in Columbus. He placed first in the two year old and over class and then won the Championship. The Dalton herd sire is a son of three times All-American bull Grayview Crisscross.
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Will-Ada
William Dalton
Wakeman
Ohio State Fairgrounds
Columbus
Dalton Herd
First U.S. bike built for Col Pope in 1877
The first bicycle manufactured in America was built for Col Albert A. Pope in 1877. It weighed over 70 pounds and cost $313.
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Boston
America
Albert A. Pope
Country wife by Pat Leimbach and the homestead nostalgia
A reflection on kin visiting the home place reveals how memories shape longing and change. Family discourse centers on landmarks, interiors, and the tension between preserving tradition and modernizing the inherited homestead as grandparents fade from the porch.
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Country Wife
Pat Leimbach
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