The 1953 Dodge County Extension annual report contains two documents: the 32-page Annual Extension Review, Analyses, Interpretation and Presentation Summary; and the 50-page Extension Narrative Report. The Narrative Report contains: Extension Organization Commissioners, budget and expense (pages 1-3); Program Planning meetings includes Township leader names (pages 4-7); Projects Goals and Methods (pages 8-11); 4-H Club Program Planning (pages 12-13); Home Economic Program Planning (pages 14-15); Crops overview, location map Crop Plots (pages 16-17); Livestock Production Cow Testing Association, location map Cow Testing membership, artificial insemination, disease control, outlook (pages 18-21); Beef buying right and feeding for less (page 22); Poultry income from eggs ranks close to dairy (page 23); Swine (page 25); Sheep keeping weeds down not income (page 25); Horses Dodge County Saddle Club, sires for draft hors d'oeuvres mares (page 26); Marketing, Distribution, Farm Service (pages 27-28); Soil Conservation farmers need more selling on idea of buying fertilizer to fit their soil needs (page 29); Farm Business (page 30); Buildings and Mechanical Equipment sanitation codes, cost analysis (page 31); Home and Family Programs - food, clothing, home safety, community (pages 32-36); 4-H Club overview, club names, location map clubs (pages 36-45); Miscellaneous Agriculture information (pages 46-48); Summary (page 49); Use of Press and Radio (page 50).
Contributing Institution:
Dodge County Extension Office, University of Minnesota Extension
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
Atlas of Sibley County Minnesota, March 15, 1952. Containing plats of each township, a county road map, rural directory of farmers and a map of Minnesota and other features.
An arrangement of delphiniums and carnations beimng prepared for display and judging. Left to right: Mrs John T. Jackson, Mrs. Verle Nicholson, Mrs. William Klein.
Minnesota Horticultural leaders Dr. Leon Snyder, director of the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum (left) and Eldred Hunt, executive secretary of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society, exchanging views during a Minnesota Nurserymen's Association convention.
Photograph of members Men's Garden Club of Minneapolis. Back row L-R, Eldred Hunt, Cortis Rice, Joe Witmer, G. Victor Lowrie, Archie Flack. Front row unidentified.
Portrait of Kermit A. Olson. He was a graduate of the University of Minnesota with a major in horticultural science. Following graduation, he became superintendent of the Soil Conservation Service Nursery at Winona. After four years of military service during World War II�in the South Pacific with the 303rd Air Force�he served as the landscape consultant for the Veteran�s Administration, and the manager of the Grandview Seed Store in Edina, the Farm Store in Excelsior, and the Danish Seed Store in Minneapolis. At the time of his death, he was head horticulturist at the Veteran�s Administration Hospital in Minneapolis.
Pictured from left to right are Robert and Carol Dvorak, Beatrice Slavicek, and an unknown woman sitting on a bench at the Slavicek family farm in Jordan, MN.