Dairy Channel: Biotech: Science vs. pseudo science
Scientific advance always involves some risk of unintended outcomes. Columbiana County Ag Agent Ernest Oelker ponders comments by Norman Borlaug and their meaning for agriculture.
Reader says United schools needs change
Politics rearing its head at United Local School District board meetings.
Protecting church from the state
'Separation between church and state' has been misconstrued, misused and misapplied.
Columnist off base with poison idea
Starling and sparrow traps better answer than poisoning.
On the origin of fireplace tools
Collectors often referred to fireplace implements as "furniture."
Mend Fences or Tear Them Down?
Although it might be time to check fences and make repairs, there is another way to look at them. This was sent in to family life editor Laurie Marlatt Steeb by an anonymous reader:
Learning to let go is a hard lesson
Columnist Kymberly Foster Seabolt lost two of her pets this month. Telling her two children was the hardest thing she ever had to do.
Time, patience, could make Kura clover a permanent pasture
Kura establishment has been characterized this way: "First year it sleeps, second year it creeps, third year it leaps."
Rail wood burners light Americana
By mid-1800, rail systems were consuming more than four to five million cords of wood per year. More than 5,300 men earned a living in Massachusetts supplying the local railroads with wood.
Help! Open the Window!
Farm and Family Living columnist Laurie Marlatt Steeb enjoyed last weekend's warm weather with a frenzy of outdoor activity.
