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The following article is part of the Diamond Club Member group that began in the January 7, 1943, issue of the Rock County Star Herald. Members of this group consist of persons of age 75 and older.
The following appeared in The Rock County Herald on May 13, 1943, and is continued from last week’s...
This is the fourth installment of the do-it-yourself obedience training for your own dog. Prior columns have covered the basics of getting the sponge in the obedience bucket level of obedience outcome when training in your own dog.
The steps covered in the first three articles should have taken...
Debuting this week is the inaugural “Seen Through Horses,” a national awareness and fundraising campaign sponsored through Horses for Mental Health coalition.
Fifty charity partners throughout the U.S. are the recipients of funds raised this week.
Rock Ranch near Hills is one of them.
Rock Ranch...
In today’s Star Herald you will find my column among the Ag Mag pages.
I am not usually a columnist for our many special sections, but the topic of my column in the Ag Mag is about an ag job I had on a farm outside of Brewster when I was in high school. I tried to recap that experience in the words...
The following article is part of the Diamond Club Member group that began in the January 7, 1943, issue of the Rock County Star Herald. Members of this group consist of persons of age 75 and older.
The following appeared in The Rock County Herald on May 13, 1943, and is continued from last week’s...
We are working our way into the third installment of a four-part series in the subject of training your own dog.
We started with owner commitments and expectations and moved into how easy it is to get your dog to go for a relaxing walk with you or another member of your family.
Today we start with...
Rock County voters have a difficult decision to make on Election Day, Nov. 8, 2022.
Two really nice guys are running to represent Minnesota District 21A.
The Republican incumbent Joe Schomacker and the Democratic-Farmer Labor challenger Pat Baustian are both really nice guys.
Both live in Luverne...
Question: Is it legal for farmers to load hay on a state highway? Our neighbor bales several miles of state highway ditches. To load the round bales, he drives down the highway with a pickup and bale wagon. His son is in the ditch with a tractor and loader. The son gets a bale on the loader and...
The following article is part of the Diamond Club Member group that began in the January 7, 1943, issue of the Rock County Star Herald. Members of this group consist of persons of age 75 and older.
The following appeared in The Rock County Herald on May 6, 1943.
This is continued from last week’s...
We are in late September, and if you have had house plants “vacationing” outdoors for the summer, I have a few tips to help them acclimate to their indoor location.
First, make sure there are not hitchhikers coming in with the plant. Insect pest populations are kept in check to a degree by outdoor...