The 1952 Dodge County Extension Service annual report contains two documents: 16-page Annual Extension Review, Analyses, Interpretation and Presentation Summary; and 94-page Extension Narrative Report. The Narrative Report includes: Statistical Summary (page 1); General Weather (pages 2-3); Organization Committee, budget and resources, program planning (pages 4-6); Projects Goals and Methods (pages 7-10); Planning for National Plowing Contest leaders, committees with designations, names include committee donors organizations assisting (pages 11-14); Red Cross, Dairy Council (page 15); Dairy increase production, DIHA annual summaries, officers with picture, Brucellosis Council officers, meeting with picture, ring test (pages 16-24); Sheep Beef farmers making change from dairy to beef (pages 24-25); Swine only upper one third doing a good job (pages 25-26); Poultry larger flocks, improved housing, community nests, earlier hatching (pages 26-27); Crop Production highly diversified, 2 registered and 37 certified seed providers, seed treatment, silage management, six year rotation test (pages 28-32); Gardens seeds and varieties (pages 33-34); Soil Conservation meetings, picture of officers, tree planting County Ministerial Group Tour (pages 35-39); National Plowing Contest 2000 trees planted, air tour committee members, 405 visiting planes (pages 39-40); Marketing mild quality, swine production, two pictures (pages 41-46) Home Management lessons, names of local leaders, Freezer Varieties, Pots and Pans, Inheritance and Wills, picture of lesson meeting (pages 47-52); Farm Management loans, Income Tax Meeting, management meeting program (page 53); Farmstead Improvement picture of windbreak, Water systems (pages 56-58); Safety Scotchlite program, picture at safety meeting (pages 59-60); Insects, Rodent, Weed Control (pages 61-62); Other agencies War Mobilization (page 63); 4-H adult council, project leader names, 4-H Policy, club names, location map Clubs (pages 64-67); 4-H Organization of clubs new club Mantorville Meadow Larks, project meetings, Federation meetings, demonstrations with names (pages 68-74); 4-H Statistics, County Fair, contests, band member names, talent show program with names, all other 4-H activities (pages 75-84); 4-H Agriculture projects picture of Ervin Erler (pages 85-92); Summary, Outlook and Recommendations (pages 93-94).
Contributing Institution:
Dodge County Extension Office, University of Minnesota Extension
The 1936 Dodge County Extension report contains six documents: 33-page Annual Extension Review, Analyses, Interpretation and Presentation Summary; 55-page Extension Narrative Report; 4-H Narrative Report; Agricultural Conservation Blockman Report; 4-H Work Scrapbook and Miscellaneous lose papers. The Narrative reports contains: statistical summary (page 1); Projects Goals and Methods (pages 2-9); Cereals disease, varieties, trial results, Stussy Limestone Pit (pages 10-12); Poultry feeding, parasites, housing (pages 12-13); Horses (page 13); Dairy testing purebred sires, dried milk plant in West Concord (pages 13-14); Sheep and Swine Harold Saettre demonstration, hog cholera, anemia, Hog Improvement Association, Sow Improvement Association (pages 15-16); Farm Management accounting, record keeping, loans with Farm Credit Association (pages 16-17); Home Management and Nutrition (page 17); 4-H full time Club Agent, Leaders Meetings, One-act Play, County Picnic, enrollment numbers, County Fair, State-National-Jr Livestock Show results, livestock parade, food stand netted $52 (pages 18-20); Weed Control condemned crop field, thistles; Community Activities Adult One-Act Play, Rural Youth Group officers, Corn Husking Contest, Dodge County Service Company affiliates with State Farm Bureau Service, shares sold, Farm Bureau picnic 600 attended, Mrs. Forrest Chapin wins Womens Speaking Contest at State Fair; (pages 21-23); Emergency Projects shortage of seed, Soil Conservation map (pages 24-25); Farm Management Cooperators member names and location map (pages 26-27); 4-H Clubs names and location map (pages 28-29); Farm Bureau Board of Directors (page 30); 1937 Projects Goals and Methods (pages 31-36); History of Dodge County Extension Work (pages 37-39); Crops Wheat Adjustment Program, disease control, Herman Peterson produces Hybrid Corn seed, expense of lime (pages 39-41); Dairy low prices, State Livestock Sanitary Board testing (pages 41-42); Seine disease problems increase (pages 42-43); Sheep and Poultry disease, better feed (pages 44-46); Better Farming Club (pages 46-47); Coop Dairy Manufacturing Plants (pages 47-48); Weed Control Issues (pages 48-49); No Home Project in 1936 (page 49); 4-H Banner Year, special attention to Health Project (pages 51-51); Farm Bureau new unit organized, meetings, Mrs. Chapin receives perfect score in National Speaking Contest, Oil Coop Problems (pages 51-53); Outlook for 1937 (pages 54-55). The 1937 4-H Club Agent Report: letters, project requirements, clubs names of officers and meeting schedules, Leaders Meetings, cost vs. value, information on all activities including Fairs, newspaper articles. Black & white photos: Pauline Gossard, sewing; Phyllis Simonsen, bread baking; Florence McMartin, clothing; Donald Trapp, Grand Champion Pig; One-Act Play Group. SE District Ag Conservation Report covers Projects Goals and Methods, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn, Houston, Mower and Olmsted Counties. Scrapbook 4-H Report contains letters sent, contest and fairs including clubs, individual names and results. Loose Documents donated by Mrs. Perry Aspery contains Extension booklets, letters, kitchen plans, lesson plans for Womens Project Groups.
Contributing Institution:
Dodge County Extension Office, University of Minnesota Extension
The 1948 Dodge County Historical Society annual report contains two documents: the 98-page Annual Report and the 16-page Combined Annual Report. The Annual Report includes Problems and Objectives, Statistical summary, Office Staff, Organization and Planning, Agricultural Program Planning, Plan of Work, Crop Production, Livestock Production Conservation of Natural Resources, Farm Management, Marketing and Distribution, Housing, Farmstead Improvement and Equipment, Home and Community Chairman Organization, all other work, Assistance Rendered Other Federal Agencies, 4-H Club Work, Annual Report of County Club Agent, Extension Conference. The reports includes nine illustrated maps. Items of interest include: Mobile chest X-ray screening for tuberculosis; County opened bids for cutting standing timber in the Severance Forest, purchased by Stewart Eayrs, used as demonstration on how to scale the logs and pile sawed lumber.
Contributing Institution:
Dodge County Extension Office, University of Minnesota Extension
Plat book of Grant County containing plats of all townships with owner's names, farmers' directory, also maps of the state, the United States and the world also an Outline Map of the county showing locations of townships, villages, roads, schools, churches, cemeteries, and railroads.
Plat book of Dodge County, Minnesota 1905 contains township maps, town maps, history of Dodge County, photographs of citizens and public officials, residential and commercial buildings, biographies of residents, and information on the government
Heatwole's Dairy Paper, Vol. II, No. 2, April 1907. Cover features a photograph of a good type of Holstein Cow showing good udder and digestive capacity. Cover story: McCleod County Meeting, Knee Deep Mud Does Not Dampen Dairy Enthusiasm.
Heatwole's Dairy Paper, Vol. II, No. 10, December 1907. Cover features the program for the Minnesota State Dairymen's Association 30th Annual Convention at Northfield, Minnesota January 21-23, 1908. Cover story: A Great Dairy State, Four Hundred Million Dollars Spent Annually for Nation's Butter, How Minnesota Stands, by W. W. Wall.
Heatwole's Dairy Paper, Vol. II, No. 12, February 1908. Cover features a photograph of Dinah Pauline, a cow that made 19.98 pounds of butter in seven days. Cover story: Annual Convention of Minnesota State Dairyman's Association for Nineteen Hundred and Eight.
Heatwole's Dairy Paper, Vol. II, No. 11, January 1908. Cover features a photograph of Paul Soldine DeKol, the first-prize aged sire at the National Dairy Show in Chicago in 1907, owned by F. P. Knowles of Auburn, Mass. Cover story: Testing the Herd, by Lucien A. Sweet.
Heatwole's Dairy Paper, Vol. II, No. 5, July 1907. Cover features photographs of floats and the parade at the Annual Dairymen's Picnic at Hutchinson, Minn. Cover story: About Poultry Raising, Editorial Experiences While Visiting in the East.
Heatwole's Dairy Paper, Vol. II, No. 1, March 1907. Cover features a photograph of the first-prize Plymouth Rock Cockrel owned by John G. Gemundson of Nerstrand. Cover story: ""Detroit Physician Writes, Some Pointed Arguments in Favor of Good Wholesome Milk,"" by Arthur E. Gue, M.D., of Detroit, Michigan.
Heatwole's Dairy Paper, Vol. II, No. 3, May 1907. Cover features a photograph of Colantha 4th Johanna, the world's record butter cow, owned by W. J. Gillett of Rosendale, Wis. Cover story: Expensive Proposition, Minnesota Farmers Being Urged to Make a New Breed of Dairy Cattle.
Heatwole's Dairy Paper, Vol. II, No. 8, October 1907. Cover features a photograph of the first prize Dutch Belted Cow at the National Dairy Show. Cover story: The Dairy Paper, Its Value to the Dairyman and the Average Farmer, address by N. P. Hull to Michigan State Dairyman's Association.
Heatwole's Dairy Paper, Vol. I, No. 6, August 1906. Cover features photographs of the Dairy Hall at the Minnesota State Fair Grounds, and the Mammoth Live Stock Amphitheater at the Minnesota State Fair Grounds, to be dedicated on the Opening Day Monday, Sept. 3, 1906. Cover story: ""The Care of Milk,"" written by President [L A.] Sweet of the State Dairy Association.
Heatwole's Dairy Paper, Vol. I, No. 12, February 1907. Cover features a portrait of F.H. Scribner of Rosendale, Wis. Issue reviews convention of Minnesota State Dairymen at Owatonna. Cover story: ""Breeding of Dairy Cows,"" by F. H. Scribner.
Heatwole's Dairy Paper, Vol. I, No. 11, January 1907. Cover features Dr. M.B. Wood of Mankato, Minn., a friend of the Guernseys. Cover story: ""Quality and Quantity, Address of Hon. E.K. Slater at Agricultural Gathering in Minneapolis""
Heatwole's Dairy Paper, Vol. I, No. 4, June 1906. Cover features a photograph of William F. Schilling holding a milk pail and a milking stool: ""Editor of Heatwole's Dairy Paper, The only editor of a dairy paper in America who practices what he preaches."" Cover story: Holstein-Friesian Cattle, A Brief History of the Breed and Individual Records.
Heatwole's Dairy Paper, Vol. I, No. 1, March 1906. Cover features a portrait of Prof. T.L. Harker, Minnesota's Greatest Dairyman. Main story is by Prof. L T. Haecker: ""Dairy Cow Rations, Economical Feeding for Milk Production.""
Heatwole's Dairy Paper, Vol. 1, No. 3, May 1906. Cover features a portrait of Chas. W. Wood, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. Cover story: ""Purity of Standard: A Massachusetts Attorney Hits the Nail Squarely on the Head,"" address delivered by Wood to the Worcester County Harvest Club.
Heatwole's Dairy Paper, Vol. I, No. 9, November 1906. Cover features Alcartara Polkadot, a Holstein-Friesian cow sold October 26 in Chicago for $1,350. Cover story: ""Wonderful Machine, The Cow Milking Device is Proving All That is Claimed for It.""
Heatwole's Dairy Paper, Vol. I, No. 8, October 1906. Cover features the commodious farm house and barn of F.P. Knowles, Auburn, Mass., and a herd of pure-bred Holstein-Fresian [sic] cattle and ten-acre apple orchard of Knowles. Cover story: ""Improve Quality in Milk, Eastern Holstein Breeder Offers Some Valuable Suggestions,"" by B.W. Potter of Rutland, Mass.
Heatwole's Dairy Paper, Vol. I, No. 7, September 1906. Cover features the stock farm of A.W. Edson at Austin, Minn. Cover story: Riceland, Minn., Creamery, New Plant That Takes the Place of One Destroyed by Fire - James Rasmussen the Buttermaker.
Book about the International Stock Food Farm owned by Marion Willis Savage. Marion Savage bred horses for racing at the farm. The famous harness racing horse Dan Patch, spent many years at the farm. Savage bought Dan Patch to help promote his business. Consequently, Dan Patch is featured on many International Stock Food Products. The horse and his owner had a close connection: Dan Patch died July 11, 1916; Savage died of a heart attack a few days later. Dan Patch became less significant as America embraced the automobile. Ironically, Savage started manufacturing the Dan Patch automobile in 1911.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
The eleventh volume of Randolph M. Probstfield's personal journals. These accounts discuss weather, agriculture, visitors, household expenses and many other details of family life.
Minnesota Dairyman, Vol. III, No. 2, April 1908. Cover features an appeal to subscribe to the Minnesota Dairyman. Cover story: Another Letter, The Dairy Shows Profit Under Capable Management.