The 1975 Dodge County Extension Services Annual Report contains the 41-page Annual Progress Report . The report includes: Short Summaries on Agricultural and Related Industries, 4-H and Youth Development, Community and Resource Development. Components of the report also include: Dairy Improvement, Farm Management, Soil Fertility, Demonstration Plot, Beef Production, Swine Improvement, Soybean Production, Corn Production, Forage and Small Grain, Art, Clothing, Foods and Nutrition, Home Decorating with Color, Horticulture, Low Income, On Your Own Lesson, Youth Technology, Leadership and Citizenship, 4-H In Depth Review, Planning and Zoning, Trees and Wildlife, Pollution Control, Professional Improvement, Extension Administration, Equal Program Opportunity, 4-H Knitting and Crocheting. Items of interest include: Junior Holstein Association organized fertilizer costs tripled in past year; Labor Day frost;, 2nd 4-H Livestock Auction nets $3,000; First County Fair overnight Arts-In; Pat Stark hired as Youth Assistant; Junior Riders Club out of probation; one large 4-H club split into three.
Contributing Institution:
Dodge County Extension Office, University of Minnesota Extension
The 1974 Dodge County Extension Services Annual Report contains the 31-Page Annual Progress Report. Components include: Beef Management, Swine Technology, Dairy Management, Crop Decision Making, Corn Management, Small Grain and Forage Management, Soybean Management, Soil Management, Pesticide Training, Low Income Farmers, Art, Clothing, Home Furnishing, Home Management, Family Living, Foods and Nutrition, Horticulture, Home Economics-Low Income, On Your Own Program, Other Planned Homemaker Activities, Youth Technology and Communication Skills, Leadership and Citizenship, Low Income, 4-H Leader Training, Planning and Zoning, Tree Planting, Fruit and Vegetable Gardens, Wells and Septic Tanks, Pollution Control, Professional Improvement, Extension Administration Affirmative Action EPO, Improved Staff Development. Items of interest include: Soybean variety Hodgeson available; Beef Computer Program; Hay costs $40 per ton; Food Stamp program; Crocheting and Mens Sport Coat lessons; 4-H Fund Raising Controversy; Mulligan Stew TV Series; 4-H Citizen Short course in Washington Dodge County Extension Service cost $250.
Contributing Institution:
Dodge County Extension Office, University of Minnesota Extension
Harold Nelson, Member of the Minnesota Dahlia Society and superintendent of the flower division at the Minnesota State Fair admiring his dahlia display. He has been cultivating dahlias since 1931 and maintains that growing them is habit forming.
Built in 1880 the Savage Minnesota Railroad Depot closed in 1970. During 1973 the Depot, without the outhouse, was purchased and moved to Murphy's Landing in Shakopee Minnesota. In 2005 the City of Savage, Minnesota repurchased the building and returned it to Savage's Town Square, across the road from its original location. Del Stelling worked as a newspaper reporter and photographer, covering Savage, Burnsville, Eagan and other areas of Dakota County, Minnesota from 1959 - 1984.
Science Specialist Judy Klatt with students in courtyard of Maxfield Elementary School, St Paul. Studentts are examining a Spirea japonica Little Princess shrub.
A farm building at the Walter and Rose Kennelly farm. This farm later belonged to Joe Kennelly. Located on Highway 13 in Burnsville, it stood 1905 - 1994.