Skagit Valley Dutch echoes amid dikes and daffodils
A narrator tours Skagit Valley near Mount Vernon with Nick Stevens of the Federal Land Bank. He notes Dutch transplanted features, green fields and dikes to contain floods, crops of vegetables and bulbs, and a landscape resembling the Netherlands with Mt Baker in the distance. Dorothy and Toto observations float through the prose.
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Nick Stevens
Frank Morgan
Cascade Foothills
Puget Sound
Jacob Ruisdael
Washington
Skagit River
Seattle
Skagit
Nick
Mount Vernon
Federal Land Bank
Mt Baker
Cascade Range
Skagit Bay
San Juan Chain
Skagit Valley
Netherlands
Mystic Mountains
Dorothy
Kansas
Firelands 4-H Club Elects Officers And Plans Easter Seals
David Bennett is elected president of the Firelands Farmers 4-H Club with Shawn Parker as vice president and Debbie Dieh as secretary. Additional officers include Sharon Hartenstein treasurer Cindi Wade reporter and numerous committee chairs. The group met for line dancing led by Dave Zech of Henrietta and schedules a meeting at Birmingham Methodist Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Bennett
Firelands Farmers 4-H Club
Shawn Parker
Debbie Dieh
Sharon Hartenstein
Cindi Wade
Jim Parker
Estenian
Lora Hartenstein
Christie Carp
Michele
Henrietta 4-H
Doriame Mileti
Amherst
Richard Statler
Earl Berg
Tracy Listak
Jenn Hauer
Lois McDowell
Donna Phillips
Cindy Nilets
Marci Surrerrer
Hilary Hubbard
Jean Squire
Linda Surrerer
Milkmaids Return to Dairies as Parlor Methods Expand
Dairy parlors replace flat barns enabling women to milk thousands of cows twice daily. New platforms and trenches let workers attach milking gear without squatting. Farmers say milking speed and gentler cow handling improve operations and animal welfare.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florida Agribusiness
Blanche Wack Delivers Fresh Farm News Pieces
Blanche Wack contributes new items to the CT farm pages, focusing on agricultural updates, crop yields, and weather impacts for local farmers. Her columns offer practical tips, market notes, and timely notices for rural readers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blanche Wack
CT Farm Pages
Four vie for Dairy Princess title in Lorain County
Four area girls with dairy backgrounds enter the 1981 Lorain County Dairy Princess Contest. Contestants include Traci Reinders Laura Morgan Nancy Hardy and Mary Lou Diedrich as they seek to represent the Lorain County Dairy Men and promote dairy products at the 46th annual Dairymen's Banquet April 4 at Firelands High School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lorain County
Firelands High School
Lisa Conrad
Keystone High School
Traci Reinders
Laura Morgan
Nancy L Hardy
Mary Lou Diedrich
Traci
Richard Heinders
LaGrange
Lorain County Joint Vocational School
Future Farmers OF America
FFA
Laura
Joe Morgan
Route 301
Wellingwn
Rising costs bite cattle feedlots nationwide
Rising costs hit the cattle feedlot industry in 1980 with an 8 percent drop in numbers to 113 326 from 123 436 in 1979. The Farm Paper Letter notes this as perhaps the sharpest year to year decline since 1962. About 23.2 million cattle were marketed from all feedlots, down from 24.6 million in 1979 and 26.6 million in 1978.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Office of Governmental and Public Affairs
Area fruit growers school in Brunswick area
Area Commercial Fruit Growers School for commercial fruit growers in Lorain Cuyahoga Medina Ashland Wayne and Summit Counties will be held March from 10am to 3pm at Mapleside Farms 294 Pearl Road Brunswick Featured speaker will be Richard Funt extension horticulturist from Ohio State University His topics include herbicides and cultivars for strawberries brambles and tree fruits apple rootstock and varieties for tree fruits and diseases and deer control problems A Extension plant pathologist and entomologist will discuss apple scab and other fruit diseases and insect problems Registration fee including lunch is 5 per person Checks and registration forms should be mailed to the Medina County Extension Service 144 North Broadway Medina}
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Lorain
Cuyahoga Medina
Ashland
Wayne
Summit Counties
Mapleside Farms
Pearl Road
Brunswick
Richard Funt
Ohi State University
Medina County Extension Service
North Broadway St
Medina
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Dorothy and
Toto
Holland
Elvrra
Richmond
Pat Leimbach
Knight-Ridder Newspapers
Stara Builders Inc
South
Jin Scheater
Belden
Ckubota
LYRII
Ates
Elyria
Dave Poling
Dean Poling
Vermont Street
Litchfield
Craig Canfield
Carroll Canfield
Route 18
Wellington
Virgil Tompkins
Keystone
Future Farmers’ of America
George Hyatt
United Methodist Church
Nancy JS
Blouise Rowland Hardy
RD 1
New London
University of Cincinnati
Mary Lou
Elyrra Catholic High School
Carl Thedrich
Farm Bureau Youth Corner
OTBER
Ray Twining
Charles Trinier
Vermilion
Jim McConnel
Lorain County Extension Office
Nancy Hardy
Grafton
Kipton
Kipton Elevator Assn
Beriswill Insurance
Op Carnes
LaGrange Tractor Sales
N. Center St
Giloman
Tou
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