Monthly Archives: May 2001

Home Living columnist Laurie Marlatt Steeb writes for National Police Week about a policeman she knows and admires.

Antique columnist Roy Booth writes about the evolving art of making jars and vials in which people keep their healing potions.

New soybean crop is headed toward setting a record production.

Every small fruit and commercial vegetable grower should have at least one complete plant tissue nutrient analysis from each field for each crop before harvests begin, said Virginia Tech horticulturist.

"The Art of Humane Propaganda: Photographers of the Farm Security Administration During the Great Depression," is a photographic documentary on exhibit at the Columbus Museum of Art through Sept. 2.

Jean Bahr a University of Wisconsin professor of geology and environmental studies and an international authority on ground water, has installed an affordable, practical system into her Wisconsin home that transforms light from the sun into electricity, enabling her to meet a significant portion of her own electrical needs and to feed excess electricity into the Madison Gas and Electric power grid.

The switch to Mandatory Price Reporting for livestock sales data has been rocky, but the new system has the potential to provide more detailed information price information, segmented by livestock weights and quality levels.

Phenology is a field of science concerned with the timing of natural living processes with weather events over a period of years. Studies in phenology focus on when plants bud, flower and fruit; when insects emerge; when frogs get active in spring; when lakes freeze and thaw; and when birds migrate.

The cost of postage raised on just about everything except the first-class stamp, that went up in January.

Powdery mildew is present in certain fields of susceptible varieties in north central and northeast sections of the state.