Avitrol helps reduce blackbirds in Lake Erie cornfields
Avitrol 200 aerial applications show promise in Erie and Sandusky counties as a targeted cornfield treatment. Only a small fraction of kernels carry the toxin, protecting ground birds at field edges while distressed birds warn others away. County agents back combined use with cannons or sirens.
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Lake Erie
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Floren James
Erie County Cooperative Extension Service
James
Erie
Sandusky
Field strolls urged to plan next year's crops
Ohio State agronomist Hunter Follett urges weekly field walks to plan 1973 crop production. He advises checking planter performance, stand establishment, drainage, and weed problems, with soil and plant samples and notes on when issues occur to guide next year's practices.
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Columbus
Lover’s Lane
Hunter Follett
Extension Agronomist
Ohio State University
Follett
Going Orange in Any Size at Jim Scheafer Garage Belden
Advertisement for Allis-Chalmers tractors including One-Ninety XT One Ninety One Eighty and One-Sixty. Highlights horsepower options 93.64 89.53 77.20 and 64 at PTO with diesel and gasoline engines. Emphasizes roomy platforms low dust open hood visibility and easy maneuvering. Factory schedule-beaters showcased at Rt 76 Belden for demonstration and sales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allis-Chalmers
Jim Scheafer
Rt. 76
Belden
Jim
Potato grading standards revised for U.S. Extra No. 1
The U S Department of Agriculture updates potato grading to emphasize cleaner uniform sized tubers. Top grade now U S Extra No 1, followed by U S No 1. shoppers should seek firm smooth potatoes with few eyes and no major cuts bruises or decay. Green spuds may be bitter and musty or moldy smells affect flavor. Hollow centers or severe discoloration should be returned to the grocer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S. Department of Agricultects
Ture
Country Wife Staring into Space
A farmer's wife reflects on a July afternoon respite by the Vermilion River. She contrasts labor and leisure, honors her mother-in-law, and finds renewal in a rock vantage point while contemplating chores and future summers.
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Vermilion River
Ohio State Fair Half-Price Tickets Offered
Elderly residents can buy half-price tickets to the 1972 Ohio State Fair through the Division of Administration on Aging AO A. Dr Kenneth D Gaver, director of the Ohio Department of Mental Hygiene, comments on the program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
Division of Administration On Aging
AOA
Kenneth D. Gaver
Ohio Department of Mental Hygiene
Ohio Department Building
Milan Tractor Pull Planned With 1200 Dollar Purse
Milan hosts Power Pull 72 featuring stock and hot red categories for 5 7 9 12 thousand pound classes. Contestants from Ohio Michigan Indiana compete. Event sponsored by Erie Huron Ottawa Young Farmers with senior citizen programs at the fair August 24 to September 2.
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Milan
Ohio
Michigan
Indiana
Erie-Huron-Ottawa Young Farmers
Peace Corps volunteer helps Indian farmers learn tractors
Paul Schriver, a Grafton Township resident, spent two years in Punjab teaching tractor use and simple farming methods to raise yields. He notes a 25 percent field loss and similar losses in threshing and storage, cites a canal-fed, eight-rain year climate, and explains limited tractor access via a lottery system for area farmers.
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Punjab
India
Paul Schriver
Peace Corps
Bawa Nargin Sing
Dave Cordell
Seattle
Wash
Nietu Singh
Punjab College
Schriver
Rupinder Singh Sidhu
Government-Soon- Schriver
Sehriver
Henry Schriver
Mennell Road
Grafton
Turkey market plan up for vote in Ohio
Ohio turkey producers over 1000 birds yearly will vote this week on forming a turkey marketing program. The plan, funded by a 3 cent per hundred pounds assessment, aims to boost turkey image and sales and requires ballots returned to the Ohio Department of Agriculture Division of Markets.
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Ohio
Gene R. Abercrombie
Star Builders Summer Special Storage Building
Star Builders Inc offers a 40 by 64 by 13 foot pole type storage building at 4.625 including roof and siding, gutters, doors, and a walk in door. The firm emphasizes good standing with the Lorain County Home Builders Association and invites inquiries at 986 3951 or its Amherst area office.
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Star Builders, Inc
Rt. 113
Rt. 58
South Amherst
Star
Star Builders
Ohio hog and cattle slaughter trends in May 1972
Hog slaughter in Ohio for May 1972 fell 6 percent from May 1971 to 346000 head while cattle and sheep rose from a year earlier. Cumulative May totals show a 9 percent drop versus 1971 for January to May, with cattle 1 percent below the prior year’s pace. Calves and sheep were up from April 1972 and May 1971.
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Ohio
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Fish and Wildlife Division
U.S. Department of the Interior
Lorain County
Art Blackwell
Federal Land Bank
State St
Fremont
Umer
U.S
Ford Good Auctioneer
Seville
Creston Poultry & Egg Auction
Born
Ermilion Rd
Kipton
Freezer
Ohio Department of Agriculture
Hall Bros. Inc
Murrey Ridge
Pat Leimbach
Elyria, O
Man
Chronicle-Telegram
Area Man
Grafton Township
Turkey
Division of Markets
South Front St
Lorain County Home Builders Association
All Star
Heen
Creston Livestock Aoe Icrestoa
Star Bailders, Inc
Krystowski
Wellecton
Aerial Farming Service, Inc
N. Central
John Oldman
Shreve
Jim Schaefer
New Holland
LA Grange Tractor Sales
N. Center St
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