Monthly Archives: July 2001
Government intervention gets failing grade
A reader comments on the Bush education policy that threatens new orgies of spending, legislating, centralizing, and reforming.
Dairy Excel: Ohio inches forward on PDR plan
James Skeeles, OSU Extension ag agent in Lorain County, writes about how a Farmland Preservation purchase program might operate.
Hazard A Guess: Week of July 26, 2001
Each week Farm and Dairy challenges readers to identify a small tool or gadget.
Read it Again: Week of July 26, 2001
Each week Farm and Diary takes a look at what was making news in years gone by.
Wish for fish
Farm and Family Living columnist Laurie Marlatt Steeb writes about her daughter's first taste of independence and her own taste for fish.
History of Victorian furniture
Antique columnist Roy Booth writes about what happened to the chair between in the first half of the 19th century.
State-of-the-art technology can clean wastewater from swine production
Japanese state-of-the-art technology for treating municipal wastewater has been adapted to replace lagoons on a hog farm.
Soybean aphids attacking fields
Growers should scout fields to check for soybean aphids, a new pest attacking the Midwest.
Should the penny be discontinued?
Recently, there has been significant debate over whether to keep the penny as part of U.S. currency or to discontinue production of the penny.
Rare candlestand lights up Roadshow as $150,000 find
An 1765 table handed down from a grandmother was appraised as having been the nicest candlestand in Philadelphia at the time, and may be one of only about 15 left in existence.
