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Hazard A Guess: Week of Aug. 12, 2004.
Each week Farm and Dairy challenges readers to identify a small tool or gadget.
Quiet, hard work leads to good things
Judith Sutherland contemplates how some people find a way to quietly build a thriving life with so little.
You’ll know it when you see it
In the 1964 U.S. Supreme Court case Jacobellis v. Ohio, Justice Potter Stewart wrote a concurring opinion he hoped would establish a legal standard that protected every American’s right to free speech yet guarded “community standards” against “hard core pornography.” That competing interest, Stewart wrote, was difficult to balance because it was difficult to define
Folklore is wrong: Woolly bears can’t tell future
The parade has begun. Yesterday I counted six as I walked from the house to the garage. This morning I spotted another handful crossing the road as I walked to the mail box. Woolly bears are on the move. Seasons changing Woolly bears are just one of many reliable signs of seasonal change that begin
Vacation with us…Solomon
In 2008, Farm and Dairy ran a story on the Cross Border Animal Power Project for Peace, which is a program that teaches ox-driving skills to people in war-torn Uganda. Vicki Solomon of Huntsburg, Ohio, (second from left) was one of the instructors. She remembered to take Farm and Dairy along on her adventure and
Mark Your Calendar; Next Week’s Full
Farm and Family Living columnist Laurie Marlatt Steeb wears green to the barn, de-clutters the stalls, and shares some chocolates in celebration of next week.
That sneaky ride on an Earthworm tractor
The Earthworm Tractor Co., located in Earthworm City, Illinois, made crawler tractors and had a head salesman by a man named Alexander Botts.
Building a car in Butler County, Pennsylvania
I had a real treat this past August at the Northeast Pennsylvania Steam Engine and Old Equipment Association show in Portersville, Pennsylvania. Several times in past years at the show I’ve seen a huge, shiny old touring car, painted a deep maroon and sporting acres of polished brass on the outside and under the hood,
Invention of cars link cities
During the 1800s and early 1900s, many American farmers were extremely conservative and disliked innovation and the unconventional. This was especially true when the first automobiles appeared on country roads about 1900. The first cars were bought by more or less affluent individuals who mainly lived in towns and cities and who headed for the
Pigskin on the minds of Lawrence hog exhibitors
New records set at Saturday sale; Tampa Bay Buccaneers rookie among buyers.
