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COURTESY THE SNAVELY FAMILY

The Snavely sugar camp as it looks today.

PHOTO BY MICHAEL CARTER

Paul Snavely stands with the new reverse osmosis system.

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Lance Snavely, age 8, helps out collecting sap on the Snavely farm operated by his grandparents.

For more than 125 years the Snavely family has been one of Seneca County’s largest Maple Syrup producers. Paul and Evelyn Snavely are now in charge of the Maple Camp that dates back to the late 1800s.

Paul and Evelyn, both 68 and married for 50 years, have plenty of help, however. They, along with Paul’s brother, Steve, and their sons, Brian, Rodney, Chris and Mark, have a hand in the maple syrup process.

“This is 100 percent a family business,” Paul said.

“We have help from all our families’ wives and children included. Our grandchildren are actually the seventh generation of Snavelys to work this camp.”

The maple collecting process gets started around the middle of February. It is, however, weather dependent so things can get started at almost anytime during the month.

“You need the thawing and freezing to go back and forth,” Paul explained. “We normally start tapping trees around the 14th or 15th of February, but last year it was much earlier than that with the mild winter and early spring.”

Trees collect sugar and starch from their leaves all summer long. They then store that sugar and starch in their roots for the winter. As the spring approaches and the thaw begins, the trees start to release that sugar and starch from the roots and that is when the maple sap is collected.

“We are just now getting started,” Paul said on Feb. 14.

“We are getting our buckets ready and the collection will start soon.”

The Snavelys collect sap in six different woods today.

They hang between 1,500

and 1,600 buckets each year.

The family business still operates the way it has for generations in some respects by still using buckets.

“We probably have over 100 acres of woods to collect from,” Paul said. “We have always collected from our family woods, on Township Road 138, Seneca County, but we also have five other woods that we now collect from.”

All the sap is collected and then transported to the Maple Camp on TR 138 where it is processed into syrup.

“It takes 45 gallons of sap to produce one gallon of syrup,” Paul said. “We collect the sap on a daily basis and store it all at the camp. Once we have enough collected, we start the boiling process to separate the water out of the sap to give us the maple syrup.”

In the past the Snavelys have produced about 4 gallons an hour, however, they purchased a new reverse osmosis machine that will extract the syrup faster and give it a higher sugar content. Last year the Snavelys went through 7,000 gallons of Diesel fuel as part of their process which led to the decision to switch to reverse osmosis, he said.

“Our new system should make us a little more efficient,” Paul said. “By forcing the sap through this machine at 400 pounds of pressure, we will get a product that has around 8 percent sugar content compared to 2 percent the old way.

“This will cut down on labor and fuel costs tremendously. By using this process we should be able to produce around 16 gallons an hour compared to the four the old way.”

The change keeps expenses down and the farm can still offer Pure Ohio Maple Syrup at $45 a gallon - far

different that many store syrup products that are flavored maple and made with corn syrup.

The Snavelys have produced as much as 600 gallons of maple syrup in a year and figures they need to produce at least 200 gallons to cover their costs.

“We had a very good year last year and produced 550 gallons,” said Paul.

“Things are not always that good,” he added. “I remember back in 1991 we only produced 70 gallons, is was just a very bad year for us.”

The Snavelys distribute most of their syrup to lifelong customers.

“We have had people who have used our syrup for generations, and those are the people we like to take care of first,” Paul said.

“We do, however, have a few dealers who sell our syrup. We have Bergman Orchards in Marblehead, Coopers Mill in Bucyrus and Molyet’s Farm Market in Tiffin.”

Snavelys package their syrup in containers as small as 3.4 ounces up to gallons and every size in between.

“I have been doing this for as long as I can remember,” Paul said. “I remember getting off the bus as a kid and going directly to the maple camp to help Dad. Now I own and run the camp and also sit on the Ohio Maple Producers Association Board.

So this has pretty much become my way of life.”

Snavelys Maple Camp is located near their home at 9735 E. Twp. Rd. 138 in Seneca County. You can contact them by calling either (419) 639-2049 or (419) 307-2173.

“This is just something I love to do,” said Paul. “I have been doing this for so long I just don’t know what I would do without it in my life.”

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From America to China - With Love No one is really sure how much Ohio corn, wheat, soybeans, dairy and meat products end up in China.

But it is a safe bet that more will go there this year than went there in 2012.

And more Ohio farm products will go to China in 2014 than this year.

Every year, the need for food in the world’s largest country increases as quickly as the population. That fact isn’t lost on many American farmers.

And while politicians may rale against the oppressive Chinese government, that doesn’t stop American businesses from doing what is in its best interest — to sell as much American products to China as they can. And that includes the most important American product of all — food.

American agriculture experts, including many at Ohio State University, regularly travel to China to observe their farming methods and advise the Chinese on how we do what we do.

In last month’s ACRES, one of the biggest topics covered was yield. How much of what crop was being produced per bushel per acre - and what can be

done to increase that yield.

The same holds true in China.

But according to people like retired OSU agriculture professor Dr. Allan Lines, the Chinese are still well behind American farmers in productivity.

They are just now beginning the agonizing transformation to a more corn and soybean-based agronomy.

In the past, you have to understand, economy of effort wasn’t such a big issue for a nation with an unlimited supply of cheap labor.

Cheap and frequently involuntary labor.

But the Chinese government is starting to face reality. Their endless supply of people also has an endless need for food. And China just isn’t producing enough of it to feed all its citizens. They are working to boost their yield, but they just aren’t producing more food fast enough.

Perhaps the biggest little secret of all is an even greater reason for Chinese agriculture’s need to change — the Chinese peoples’ tastes are changing. Rice may still be the staple food in China, but the nation has increasingly been “Westernized” in its cultural desires.

Did you know there are

more than 3,200 KFC way to China each day? No chicken fast-food restauone is sure. Dr. Lines tells rants in China today? And me that it is very difficult more than 500 Pizza Huts? to harness Ohio exports of There are more that a thou- agricultural products to sand McDonald’s in China China, since most of what and that company hopes to moves out of Ohio hit 2,000 restaurants this becomes combined with year! farm products from other The fact that images of states.

“The Colonel” are more But what we do know is prominent in Beijing and that Ohioans are sending a Shanghai lot of produce to than the the world’s late largest nation.

Chairman And that will Mao only increase in shouldn’t coming years. be lost on The fact is American the world’s farmers. largest nation, The for a number of Chinese reasons, is limitconed in home sumer’s much food it tastes can produce, have now and in the changed future. They Gary Brock for good, can’t feed themand there is no going back. selves, so we in Ohio and Chinese consumers will no America will. longer be satisfied with rice NEXT MONTH: and tofu.

ACRES looks at what So farmers in Ohio are Ohio farmers need to know exporting to China more about Chinese agriculture and more corn, chicken, and what it will mean to soybeans and other food to them in the future. How a nation not just hungry for can Ohio farmers capitalize more food, but hungry for on the growing ChineseOUR food. Animal proOhio Connection? tein.

How much Ohio proGary Brock is Editor-induce and meat makes its Chief of ACRES.

School foods: which are out

BY MARY CLARE JALONICK APExchange The Agriculture Department is proposing new nutritional rules that would apply to most all foods sold in schools. The rule would apply to “a la carte” lines in school cafeterias, vending machines, snack bars and any other food sold regularly on campus. It wouldn’t apply to fundraisers, after-school concession stands, class parties or foods brought from home.

Most every food sold in school would be subject to fat, calorie,

sugar and sodium limits. Snack foods would have to be under 200 calories and have some nutritional value. Drinks would be limited to 12-ounce portions in middle schools and 8-ounce portions in elementary schools.

Some examples of what could be in and out under the rules, provided the items meet or don’t meet all of the requirements: What’s in — Baked potato chips, Granola bars, cereal bars, trail mix, dried fruits, fruit cups, yogurt, whole grain-rich muffins, 100 percent juice drinks, diet soda (high schools), fla-

vored water (high schools), lowercalorie sports drinks (high schools), unsweetened or diet iced teas (high schools), 100 percent juice popsicles, baked lower-fat french fries, healthier pizzas with whole grain crust and lean hamburgers with whole wheat buns.

What’s out — Candy, snack cakes, most cookies, pretzels, high calorie sodas, many high-calorie sports drinks, juice drinks that are not 100 percent juice, most ice cream and ice cream treats and greasy pizza and other fried, high-fat foods in the lunchroom.

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Beetles, borers, and other nuisances

BY BECKY BROOKS bbrooks@civitasmedia.com GIBSONBURG When Kathy Smith, the Ohio State University Extension Forestry Program director, spoke at the annual Northern Ohio Crop Day in February, it was no surprise that she was discussing the Emerald Ash Bore while updating a full house at Ol’ Zims.

While talking about woodlot management, Smith admitted that the newest invasive pest in Ohio scared her.

That bug is the Asian Longhorn Beetle.

Like other aspects of agriculture, woodlots can be looked upon as a crop area for development, and like a field it needs care, she reported.

A forest highlights sheet shows that Ohio’s forests have doubled in area since the 1943 inventory. There are 8.1 million acres covering nearly one-third of the state. Of that, family-forest owners hold 5.8 million acres or 73 percent of the state’s forest land.

There are approximately 340,000 private owners of forest land and Ohio’s forest products industry contributes $22.4 billion to the state’s economy, according to data from a U.S. Forest Service report.

Smith shared all those facts with farmers attending the annual Crop Day event.

She also shared the history of the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) — which is now a wellknown pest in the state.

Smith said EAB is not the first blight to hit the state. In 1904, Ohio was hit by the chestnut blight and at the time 50 percent of the state’s forests were chestnut. Then in 1987, the state was invaded by Gypsy Moths, she said.

“It’s become very slow moving,” she added.

“We’ve dealt with

The Asian Longhorn Beetle has been found in one county in Ohio and several states. Forestry officials are concerned this pest could spread and do more damage than the Emerald Ash Borer. (Contributed photograph)

Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) larvae: EAB larvae are flat, legless, heavily fragmented, creamy white, and reach 1 inch in length when fully mature.

things before,” she shared, noting the forests have sprung back.

When the EAB invaded Ohio, Ash was 12 percent of Ohio’s forest canopy. Initially, counties in Ohio were quarantined to keep infested wood from moving county to county. Today, EAB is a statewide issue – although the pest has not been identified in all counties, Smith reported.

The forestry expert told farmers it is time to walk their woods and determine how they want

to manage it – plus also determine what their own goal is for the woodlot.

Are they interested in lumbering, wildlife, privacy, farm history or hunting.

“You need to be familiar with your woods,” she stressed.

If a pest like the EAB hits a woods and no action is taken, a woodlot owner could lose a whole grove if it has a heavy concentration of ash, she pointed out.

If they know the size of their trees and what

the canopy includes, even with ash — fast action can result in some large — 12 inches in diameter or larger — infested trees being harvested.

After ash trees are dead, a woodlot owner has up to a year to remove that tree for harvesting, she added.

Smith also advised that if there are ash trees dead from an EAB infestation – large chunks of the tree will fall off.

She said farmers should consider this when talking with anyone hunting on their lands and in woodlots.

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As ash trees are removed it can allow smaller trees room to grow or Ash can be replaced by new types of tree resistant to EAB, she added as a positive point to managing your canopy.

After her talk at Crop Days, Smith said she is concerned that farmers may use the damage caused by the Emerald Ash Borer as a reason to clear woodlots, which she said would be a detriment to the state.

She commented that many woods, especially in Northern Ohio – where she was speaking last month include wetland areas and wetland areas have very specific federal regulations. Those restrictions are available from the the Farm Services Agency.

Smith said woodlot owners should understand trees are a crop and proper thinning – EAB or not – increases the value of their lot when they focus on growing trees such as oaks, walnut and maple.

For optimum production in a woodlot, the area should be thinned 20 to 25 percent – but due to the Emerald Ash Borer a whole area can be wiped out if not handled properly.

“Five years ago, we did not spend enough time on invasive species control,” Smith advised.

She said it is not only pests that are invading woodlots in Ohio, but also plants which can strangle young trees and native plants.

While Ohio is still dealing with the Emerald Ash Borer, Smith said the a worse bug is on the horizon ,and it could be devastating for more than one type of tree – including Ohio’s big money making tree stocks The Asian Longhorn Beetle loves maple trees, she told her audience in Gibsonburg.

What is worse – it infests 13 different species of trees, she added.

Smith said that so far the ALB has been detected in only one Ohio county — Clermont — and it is now quarantined. The beetle was discovered there in Ohio in 2011.

“Will it get here?” she said about northern Ohio, “We hope not.”

Smith said a couple other states that are battling the Asian Longhorn Beetle have found success in stopping it.

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O H I O ’ S

BY SALLY BOYD sboyd@civitasmedia.com WAKEMAN — It’s often difficult to keep secrets in the small communities which dot Ohio’s rural areas, but for Ken Green, of Wakeman, his family has maintained “the best-kept secret” of that north central Ohio region for nearly 200 years.

“We are the best-kept secret in Wakeman. We have really good neighbors,” Green said about his Ohio Century Farm,

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founded in 1817. “Our neighbor’s farm was also started in 1817.”

Green, who is the sixth generation to farm his family’s Huron County Century Farm, is passionate not only about Willow Brook Farm’s history, but equally so about keeping it going forward. He believes firmly the history will keep going, for generation seven, his son, Kris, 31, is working full-time on the farm, often joined by his son, Ezra, 4.

“Kris handles the

mechanical end. I take care of the business end.

When it comes to planting or harvesting, we are all out in the field.” Green said.

In addition to Kris, Green has a full-time hired man to assist with the 2,000-acre farm. As with most Ohio farms, Willow Brook sustains itself with crops of corn, soybeans and wheat. Kris also raises a few head of beef for family use. A second son, Keith, is a farrier, and Green has four grand-

children, three girls in addition to little Ezra, who likes to spend time on the farm with his dad and grandfather.

The family’s deep ties to their history is evident in the many items which have been passed down through the seven generations, including an ox yoke, which brought the family founders to Wakeman Township on July 4, 1817.

Independence Day, 1817, was the day Samuel Bristol, his wife, Eunice

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Sherman, and their son, Nelson, arrived in the Firelands area from Connecticut, becoming the third settlers to take up residence in the region.

The War of 1812 had been raging on. Indians, many of whom lived in Ohio at the time, were a big part of the challenge.

“Who in their right mind would want to come here?” asked Green.

After their marriage, Eunice and Samuel Bristol rented a small farm in Connecticut until he had

saved $1,200, allowing the family to move west to uncharted land made available after fires wiped out many of the Connecticut properties.

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‘AG-Gag’ law controversy continues but doesn’t stop proponents

BY RANDA WAGNER rwagner@civitasmedia.com Do you know where the meat on your dinner table comes from?

From beef, pork and poultry producers, you might answer, and you’d be correct. But between the farm and the grocery store, animals have to be slaughtered, butchered and sometimes packaged for sale in meat-processing plants.

That is where there can be big problems, say humane societies and animal rights activists.

Since 1990, states have been adopting what has been tagged “Ag-Gag’ laws: bills passed by state legislatures to prohibit undercover photographs, video and sound recordings of animals suffering abusive or cruel handling and conditions in meat processing facilities.

Many of these recordings have found their way onto the internet via YouTube and other venues. What the undercover videos show is difficult for many to watch: workers using electric prods on cattle that can barely walk; workers at a major turkey farm kicking and stomping birds, some of them with open wounds and exposed flesh; chickens being twirled through the air with a rope around their neck by a worker strolling through the plant... you get the idea. Don’t forget - this is meat that makes its way to your table.

Why would anyone defend this kind of activity and endorse laws to protect it? “Proponents of the bills claim that they are necessary to protect agricultural interests,� writes Doris Lin in her March 2012 article

for About.com Guide.

They say if animal cruelty or any illegal activity is taking place at a facility, the employees can notify authorities. “There are several problems with this argument,�

Lin maintains. “Notifying authorities and waiting for authorities to get either a warrant or permission to enter the premises gives the wrongdoers a chance to cover up the problem.

Cruel practices that are illegal will likely not be reported or exposed. Also, employees won’t report themselves to authorities and might be hesitant to report their co-workers and supervisors.�

Aren’t there folks out there who inspect meat processing plants regularly, you might ask? Due to limited funding, regulators are only able to inspect a small percentage of the food we consume. I recall having lunch with a group of friends recently, and the discussion came around to food quality. A new acquaintance in the group said he worked for a meat processing plant years ago, and his job for several months was to stamp each beef carcass that passed by on the hanging conveyer with the purple-inked USDA Quality Inspection Stamp. “You mean, they didn’t really inspect the meat?� asked ‘naive’ me, which prompted an outburst of laughter at the table. No, he admitted, they did not inspect the meat.

Last year, activist group Compassion Over Killing released disturbing video footage from a National School Lunch Program supplier, Central Valley

Meat, said M. Joy Hayes, Ph.D., in a February 14, 2013 article for The Motley Fool. “It shows cows, before slaughter, covered in feces, writhing on the ground in blood, and projectile-vomiting from the stress of being repeatedly struck by a bolt gun (a weapon that pierces the skull to stun or “euthanize� the animals),�

Hayes said. “Before the footage was released, Central Valley Meat also served as a supplier for McDonald’s and Costco.

Both have since cut ties with the company.�

Hayes recalled how an undercover investigation led by the Humane Society led to the largest beef recall in history — removing meat that may have been tainted with mad cow disease from school cafeterias around the country.

The 2008 massive beef recall came about, she said, from a Humane Society undercover investigation that provided a video of “downer� cows — animals too weak or sick to walk — being dragged to slaughter at Hallmark Meat, a supplier to the National School Lunch Program. This led to a recall because a cow’s inability to stand or walk is a possible indicator of mad cow disease.

Farm groups claim they are appalled by animal cruelty, but that the exposĂŠs by animal rights groups are not the best way to solve the problem.

The “ag-gag� laws, Hayes explained, are designed to prevent anyone other than regulators or law enforcement officers from investigating dangerous or illegal agricultural practices that lead to mad

cow disease, salmonella or Listeria poisoning, and other food-borne illnesses, Kansas was the first state to enact an ag-gag law, in 1990. Montana and North Dakota followed in 1991. Iowa and Utah have signed on as well.

The law passed in Iowa in 2012 just a few months after an ABC News report with an undercover video made by an investigator for Mercy for Animals who worked at a large egg factory in Iowa. The report led to new procedures at the egg factory, but the investigator would not be able to do now what he did then, under the new law.

Ag-gag laws have been proposed by politicians in Arkansas, Indiana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, and Wyoming. Legislation may be introduced in Minnesota, Pennsylvania and North Carolina.

In Utah last year, lawmakers referred to the animal welfare groups as “terrorists� and the enemy of farmers. “This is about a group of people that want to put us out of business, make no mistake about it,� said Utah state Rep. Mike Noel.

The state laws are part of a campaign by lobbyists for the agriculture industry to put an end to the undercover videos they say have cast a harsh light on the operations of large-scale farms. Because of these new laws, animal rights activists have stopped undercover camera investigations into animal cruelty in states where it is prohibited. This leaves no one but a few regulators spread too thinly to look into allegations that come up in

thus states.

How an animal is processed and handled directly affects the meats you buy as a consumer.

Aside from human health and animal cruelty issues, other issues arise. “These bills are troubling not only to animal protection activists, but also to those concerned with food safety, labor issues, free speech, and freedom of the press,� said Lin in her article. “The bills would apply equally to journalists, activists and employees. By prohibiting any type of undercover recordings, a farm’s own employees would be prohibited from attempting to record food safety violations, labor violations, sexual harassment incidents or other illegal activity.�

First Amendment concerns were raised, she said, because the Minnesota bill would have prohibited the broadcast of undercover videos, and the Florida bill originally prohibited any unauthorized photos or videos of a farm, including those shot from a public street. “Agribusiness interests, rather than trying to prevent cruelty to animals, are trying to prevent the public from seeing what’s going on factory farms in the United States,� Wayne Pacelle, CEO and president of the Humane Society of the United States, told ABC News. “You will never stop the abuse if you shut the cameras down.�

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One of every three mouthfuls of the typical diet directly or indirectly benefit from honey bee pollination.

It's no wonder then farmers, beekeepers, researchers and others are concerned about the sudden and unexpected loss of entire colonies.

The phenomenon, known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), has so far been observed in 22 states, including Ohio.

The cause remains unknown.

“It's rather unexplained,” said Barbara Bloetscher, Ohio's apiarist.

“Most of the bees in the colony just leave.”

Unexplained colony losses have

happen in the past. But Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) drew greater attention in the wake of beekeepers across the country reporting 30 percent to 90 percent losses of their colonies in 2006.

In most cases, the the queen remained in the hive along with immature bees. However, no adult honey bees remain, and there are no dead bodies.

“They are just gone,” Bloetscher said. “They're not dead.”

While there is no clear-cut explanation for the sudden hives losses, most researchers believe it is the result of a myriad of factors, including varroa and tracheal mites, poor nutrition and exposure to pesticides.

“It just seems like the bees are able to deal with some of it but they can't deal with all of it,” Bloetscher said.

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“It's just in its infancy now and we hope we can keep it there for now,” he said.

If not, America's agricultural industry could suffer. Pollination is responsible for $15 billion in added crop value each year, according to the Center for Disease Control.

Honey bees do the job better than most insects.

"Lots of insects pollinate, but they don't pollinate with the efficiency of the honey bee,” Conrad said.

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The extent of the problem is also unclear. Because researchers rely on the self reporting of beekeepers there is no way to know if the problem is over reported or under reported, according to Reed Johnson, an assistant professor of entomology at Ohio State University.

“What's not in question is that beekeepers have been losing bees,” he said.

Delaware County beekeeper George Taylor, owner of Waldo Ohio Apiaries, said his 800 hives have not been affected by CCD. While he has lost some bees, he chalks that up to nature.

“You have to accept that some of them are going to disappear,” he said. “It's just a regular thing with me.”

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We are having some bad weather work to go with us which I am glad for.

Days like that can be more stressful than being at home working.

We always like to start out three hours ahead of our appointment time so that we can get there on time. You never know when you get delayed in the traffic.

Because of the weather we will be leaving at 6:30 a.m. so it will take most of the day.

Last week Joe and I attended the funeral of Joe’s cousin Willis’ wife Irene.

She had a battle with cancer. Such a dreadful disease.

Our sympathy and prayers go to the family. Their house will seem empty without a mother in it. God had all of this happen for a reason. In less than three weeks three of our cousins all around the same age were taken from this earth. Our hearts ache for all of the families left to mourn. The only comfort we can have is knowing that God makes no mistakes.

Yesterday I was finally able to do our laundry for this week. It had amounted to quite a bit.

Monday I couldn’t start the motor on the washing machine. The children were home from school all day due to icy roads.

Verena went along with Susan to her babysitting job. She enjoys the little children.

The darkness of the early morning is leaving and daylight is appearing. We are being greeted by a world of white. It has been snowing all night and several inches are covering the ground. Snowflakes are still coming down very thick. I love to watch it snow. So many snowflakes and our wonderful God created each one. We are also having wind along with the snow. After a rainy week in January we are happy to see snow again. The children are looking forward to some more sledding.

Warm weather and rain we had this week probably ruined the lake for ice fishing. My husband Joe and sons Benjamin and Joseph along with Timothy and Susan’s friend Mose spent last Saturday ice fishing.

They had two ice fishing shacks with a propane heater in each one so they stayed quite warm. They didn’t have too much luck with getting fish but they still enjoyed the day. Tomorrow several of our children have doctor’s appointments at the children’s hospital two hours away. I hope and pray that we will get back from there safely.

Our friend Irene usually takes us and she is a safe driver but accidents can still happen.

I think a lot more about accidents since the tragedy that took the life of two of my cousins two weeks ago. Joe will take off

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NW Ohio leaders say flood work will help economy FINDLAY (AP) — Community leaders in northwest Ohio think completion of flood-control work for the Blanchard River will be a big boost to the area's economic development.

Government and business development officials say a completed floodcontrol plan will spur even more investment in the community that has been hit hard by flooding in recent years.

Flood prevention has become a top priority along the river, especially since the 2007 flooding that caused millions of dollars in damage in Findlay and Ottawa.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has presented tentative ideas that it says would not eliminate flooding but could decrease floodwater levels by three feet in Findlay during the worst flooding.

Federal officials said in December that flood control for the river could cost up to $150 million or more and have been seeking public comment on the ideas. Funding for finishing the study to come up with a plan continues to be a primary concern and remains uncertain, according to the Corps.

Local officials are confident that a federallybacked food control plan

will happen.

Findlay Mayor Lydia Mihalik said that she believes the day will come when rain won't cause anxiety in the area, The Courier reported.

"We will be a community that no longer fears the rain," she said.

"Because of that, our economy will boom. I see us as being the benefactor of great investment now and better investment in the future."

Hancock County Commissioner Phil Riegle said he foresees far more businesses relocating to downtown Findlay once flood-control work is done, and more green

space being created along the north side of the Blanchard River. FindlayHancock County Alliance President John Haywood said he expects to see more people living downtown.

All three leaders say they are encouraged by the expansion of existing businesses and believe that expansion shows the commitment those corporations have to the community amid an improving economy.

"We have a good economic and business environment here. I think that makes it easier to invest here than other places," Riegle said. .

2013’s National FFA theme is ‘Grow’

BY RACHEL GARRISON

from the beginning of FFA to show just how much the FFA has grown over the last 85 years.

The presentation posed questions such as, “Did I Grow today?” and “Who did I inspire to Grow?”

The presentation closes with “We Can…We Must…Grow Ourselves, FFA, and Agriculture.”

For everyone at the first session the challenge had been given, how could we, as individual members, help the FFA, on a national, state, chapter, and individual level.

Rachel Garrison is the MadisonPlains FFA reporter.

ST. LOUIS — This summer, 10 U.S. soybean farmers from across the country will get the chance to see how the United Soybean Board (USB) puts their soy checkoff investment to use. To find out who those 10 farmers will be, the national soy checkoff has begun accepting applications for its sixth annual See for Yourself program.

See For Yourself offers farmers the chance to see the checkoff in action and evaluate a wide range of checkoff activities.

The 2013 See for Yourself session will take place July 21–27.

The soy checkoff invites all soybean farmers from around the country to visit USB’s website and apply. The application deadline is April 1.

“See for Yourself is truly exceptional,” said David Hartke, chair of the USB Audit and Evaluation committee, which sponsors See for Yourself. “Farmer-participants have the chance to see the activities of their checkoff up close, and draw their own conclusions at the same time.

It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.”

Selected farmer-participants will visit several sites that demonstrate the soy checkoff’s efforts to improve the value of U.S. soy meal and oil; ensure soybean farmers and their customers have the freedom and infrastructure to operate; and meet the needs of U.S. soy customers.

Participants will first meet in St. Louis, headquarters of USB, to receive an overview of the organization and see how the checkoff works on behalf of soybean farmers domestically. The group will then travel to a location abroad to learn about the demand for U.S. soy internationally and to see some of the many uses for soy.

Examples of what participants might see include the use of biodiesel at a major airport, the importance of soy to animal agriculture and the use of soy by the food industry.

USB will cover all travel, lodging and meal expenses.

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This year’s National FFA theme is “Grow” and at national convention in Indianapolis, with 50,000 blue coats, the National FFA officer team blasted this song on the mega screen.

The quote is a few select lines from the 2012 National FFA theme video.

The national officers perform every year to start off each session showing this video right before the opening ceremonies. The officers step

out to be introduced while the mega screen is prepared for the opening session reflections.

Once the officers had been introduced a presentation was played.

The presentation displayed the following statistics: the number of FFA degrees awarded, the number of National FFA scholarships given, the number of participants in career development events, the total number of FFA members, the total number of chapters, the amount of money raised by the foundation, the number of total media users, and the population growth in correlation to the agriculture growth.

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Farm briefs MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION PREVENTION TRAINING WOOSTER — Ohio State University’s Fruit and Vegetable Safety Team will hold grower workshops in Zanesville and Newark on March 11. The topic of both programs is preventing microbial contamination on fruit and vegetable farms, including the use of Good Agricultural Practices, or GAPs. Speaking will be specialists from Ohio State University Extension, the outreach arm of Ohio State’s College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences.

The times and locations: 1-4 p.m. in OSU University Extension’s Muskingum County office, 225 Underwood St., Zanesville.6-9 p.m. in Hopewell Hall, Room 53, on Ohio State’s Newark campus, 1189 University Drive, Newark.

Participants will receive a resource workbook, paper handouts and a certificate of participation as verification for their customers that they have received GAPs training.

The workshops don’t provide formal certification in GAPs, however. That instead requires a farm audit conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture or a third-party company. “Not all farms are required to be GAPs-certified by a third-party audit,� said Ashley Kulhanek, an OSU Extension educator in Medina County and a member of the team. “Many small farms will be exempt from federal regulations requiring audits, but customers of small farms or managers of farmers markets may have some expectations for farmers to have been trained in GAPs or to

have some food safety measures in place, if not fully audited. “GAPS training in general can benefit growers by increasing their competitiveness in the marketplace by showing their efforts to cut the risk of food-borne illness.�

Pre-registration is encouraged but not required. Walk-ins are welcome. Registration is $10 per person, payable by cash or check, with checks made out to “Ohio State University.�

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Financial support for the programs is provided in part by a grant from the Ohio Department of Agriculture Specialty Crop Program, which has helped reduce the registration cost.

ANIMAL SAFETY ADVICE Even good-tempered animals can become dangerous.

Cattle can knock down and trample a toddler without noticing the child is even there. Keep children away from animals, especially in livestock-handling areas. ¡ Children love animals, but animals don't always love children. ¡ Children need to be taught how to handle and work around animals to lessen potential hazards. ¡ Household pets can be as dangerous as farm animals. Know your local lawssome municipalities differ. ¡ Respect for all animals should be one of the first things taught to young children. ¡ Keep livestock in the appropriate pens or fenced areas. ¡ Children need to be

aware of their location so they do not end up behind an animal and get stepped on or kicked. Running or screaming around animals can cause the animal to become spooked, which could lead to an injury. ¡ Children also need to be warned to stay away from any farm animal with its young. A new mother can quickly turn on a child if she feels her young are threatened.

When working around animals encourage children to: ¡ Be calm, move slowly, and avoid loud noises. Wear steel-toed shoes. Avoid the hind legs of the animal. ¡ Approach large animals at the shoulder. Children should avoid handling stallions, bulls, rams, and boars. ¡ Always have an escape route when working with animals in close quarters.

Wear helmets when riding horses.

Safety advice provided by Annetta Chappell, A. C. Insurance Agency, 920 N. Main St., Bellefontaine, OH 43311 BLACK BEARS RETURNING TO OHIO Something magical and quite rare likely is occurring in a least a few hidden locations around Ohio – the birth of newborn black bear cubs. While black bears are considered rare and endangered in the Buckeye State, the ODNR Division of Wildlife confirms a very small resident population of bruins is present. While most of the bears seen in Ohio are young juvenile male black bears searching for a new territory, the sighting of female bears (sows) with young cubs have been recorded in recent years.

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efforts to do direct injection treatments into trees where the ALB has been found, but she commented that while it may delay the spread of the beetle it has not been overly effective. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our woodland resources are very important,â&#x20AC;? she stressed.

The black-and-white beetle makes a large hole in a tree and is a handful of beetle when grown. If a No. 2 pencil will fit in a pest hole on a tree- a property owner could be looking at ALB, she said.

Smith added that the United States Department of Agriculture is involved in fighting the beetle, which has been located in Chicago, and east coast states. Ohio is the southern most state where it has been found.

OSU has been working with Georgia on documenting the beetle.

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That also allows officials to document locations of pest infestations in real time, according to Smith.

The main effort to control the Asian Longhorn Beetle in Ohio is being coordinated by the USDA. The USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service revised its eradication program for the Asian Longhorn Beetle in January in Clermont County, Ohio. A report on the plan shows that the beetle is drawn to 13 genera of hosts trees - various hardwoods where females chew depressions into the bark and lay eggs.

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Kathy Smith, OSU Extension Program Director for Forestry, recently traveled to Gibsonburg for Northern Ohio Crop Day to share information on pests that are impacting woodlands in Ohio.

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Cut trees also would need to be chipped, and this option is similar to eradication programs used in Massachusetts and New York, the report noted. The alternative also includes application of herbicides on the trunks.

The USDA APHIS reported it expects up to 150,000 imidacloprid treatments to be applied and up to 15,000 trees to be removed per year.

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Monday, March 4, 2013

Ohio's Sweetest Season:

MAPLE SUGARING

COLUMBUS, — It's time to tap those trees!

Ohio's maple sugaring season offers travelers tasty family fun as maple trees are tapped and the sap begins to flow. Ohio is the fifth largest producer of maple syrup in the United States, and March is the month when all the magic happens.

Surprisingly, the creation of maple syrup hasn't changed all that much from the days of Native Americans. Some farms employ a bit more technology, but the process remains the same. Maple trees are tapped by boring holes through the bark to a depth to reach the sap, then sap is boiled down to remove the water leaving sweet syrup. Nothing else is added to pure maple syrup.

According to the Ohio Maple Producers Association, it takes 35-45 gallons of sap to make a gallon of syrup, and Ohio produces approximately 125,000 gallons of syrup annually.

Over the course of the next several weekends, maple sugaring businesses are opening their doors and sharing their centuries-old methods of producing the tasty topping. Visitors can experience this process and enjoy a walk or wagon ride through the sugar bush.

And when you've finished sampling Ohio's maple sugaring fun, stop at one of Ohio's historic working mills for some stone-ground pancake mix that will be a perfect pairing for your fresh maple syrup. At Historic Clifton Mill in

Clifton visitors have plenty of pancake mix choices, including: whole wheat, blueberry, buck wheat, corn meal, apple cinnamon and buttermilk.

Bear's Mill in Greenville offers its own stone-ground meal and flour, along with a generous selection of handmade arts and locally made pottery.

Following is a sampling of festivals and events tied to Ohio's maple sugaring fun: • Pancake Breakfast at Century Village, Burton - March 3, 10, 17, 24 Enjoy the sweet taste of home-grown maple syrup at the Geauga County Historical Society's annual pancake breakfast. It's quite a feast with pancakes, sausage and omelets served hot off the griddle. Once you're full of maple syrupsoaked pancakes, stick around to learn about the history of the Western 28th ANNUAL FREMONT

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• 37th Annual Maple Syrup Festival at Malabar Farm State Park, Lucas March 2, 3, 9, 10

Take a horsedrawn wagon ride and see demonstrations of sugar making through history. Make sure you bring your appetite - maple syrup, fudge and maple products will be available for purchase.

• Maple Syrup Festival at Hueston Woods State Park, College Corner March 2, 3, 9, 10 Maple syrup wasn't made just to be admired from a distance, so bring your fork and enjoy a pancake breakfast from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Hueston Woods State Park. While you're there, explore the state park with a tour of the sugar bush, offered from noon to 4 p.m.

• March Maple Madness Driving Tour, Across Ohio - March 9, 10, 16, 17 For two weekends in March, sugarhouses across Ohio open their doors and invite visitors to see firsthand how pure maple syrup is made. The March Maple Madness Driving Tour is a statewide event sponsored by the Ohio Maple Producers Association and Ohio syrup makers.

Experienced maple syrup makers will be on hand to answer questions during the free, drive-it-yourself tour across Ohio. Stops include small, backyard ventures and large, commercial operations.

• Maple Sugaring in

the Hills at Hocking Hills State Park, Logan March 9,10 Come to the Naturalist's Cabin at Old Man's Cave in Hocking Hills to discover the many methods used to make this tasty treat from local maple sap.

Samples will be available, and you can also enjoy a pancake breakfast at the dining lodge.

• Maple Syrup Open House at Mapleberry Farms, Waverly - March 16 Mapleberry Farm began as a winter hobby, but now is a full-time family business. Visitors are welcome to stop by and learn about the maple sugaring process and enjoy the sweet taste of home-grown maple syrup.

Nostalgic scenes like this one of galvanized buckets capturing sap from sugar maple trees are plentiful in Ohio, due to the state’s 900 maple producers. Most likely, though, you’ll come across webs of gravity-fed piping that takes the sap directly to the sugar house to be boiled down to make pure maple syrup.

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BY JANE BEATHARD Staff Writer At more than 100 years old, the London State Fish Hatchery is thriving on a colorful past and looking to a bright future.

The oldest of Ohio’s six state fish hatcheries is slated for an upgrade, beginning in the spring of 2014.

A $2.1 million project to improve electrical service, install back-up generators and add alarm systems to monitor dissolved oxygen in the water is proposed in the state’s new biennial budget, according to Scott Hale of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife.

ODNR’s engineering division is working through pre-construction details, Hale said.

Improvements are welcome at 83-acre London facility that currently produces both rainbow and brown trout, as well as muskellunge (muskies), for stocking in Ohio’s public

waters.

Historically, its natural cold springs and the presence of Oak Run Creek made it an attractive site for growing fish. But, the property had other uses in the early 1800s.

It was once the site of a distillery and a grist mill.

Settled in 1812 by John and George Sutherland, it was acquired by Jacob Garrard in 1823, according to a history compiled in 1978.

ODNR’s predecessor, the Ohio Fish & Game Commission, obtained the hatchery’s original 7.8 acres in 1896 from a Garrard descendant.

George Morcher was hired as the first superintendent in 1898 and held the job for the next 39 years.

In those days, the “fish farm” (as it was called) produced large and smallmouth bass, crappies, rock bass, bluegills and marble catfish for stocking in central Ohio waters. A sanctuary for birds and a wildlife

display drew visitors who often picnicked on the grounds. The neighboring Roberts family held annual reunions on the grounds.

Widespread drought in the early 1930s reduced the hatchery’s natural water supply and forced the facility to close in 1940.

ODNR reopened the facility 20 years later and began restoring drains, dikes and ponds in order to raise muskies on a limited basis.

Inmate laborers from the adjacent London Correctional Institution reconstructed ponds and installed a new drainage system in 1962.

Abundant supplies of cold spring and sub-surface water made the hatchery

ideal for growing coho salmon. In the late 1960s, ODNR drilled wells and constructed a raceway — a man-made canal with rapidly flowing water — for salmon production.

In 1969, ODNR began an ambitious improvement project. New buildings, including a new home for the superintendent, went up. A new dam with flood gates spanned Oak Run Creek.

In the years since, state biologists used the facility to experiment in raising a variety of fish species, including walleye, bass and saugeye.

Seven wells now pump 600 to 1,000 gallons of cold water per minute into nine indoor rearing troughs, 34

ponds and the outdoor earthen raceway.

Until recently, the hatchery raised trout from its own brood stock.

However, that proved financially unfeasible.

London’s technicians now buy rainbow trout eggs from hatcheries in the Pacific Northwest. Those eggs are hatched and grown to fingerling size, then transferred to state hatcheries at Kincaid in southern Ohio and Castalia near Lake Erie. It takes about a year for the teenage fish to reach a stockable length at those facilities.

Brown trout eggs come from a federal hatchery in Wyoming and are grown to stockable size at London.

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ed from female fish in state reservoirs in April, hatched and reared at London, then stocked in public lakes and reservoirs in September.

Forage minnows to feed the growing muskies are also grown at London.

In the past, fish hatchery staff also cultivated hybrid striped bass. Efforts to expand this program will continue, Hale said.

Doug Sweet, the current superintendent, said hatcheries like London improve outdoor recreation in Ohio and are financially self-sustaining.

“All fish stocked — especially trout — return revenue to the state in the form of fishing license sales,” Sweet said.

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BY MARTHA FILIPIC Q:How much protein should I eat every day?

A: Determining how much protein an adult should consume each day might seem confusing. According to the Institute of Medicine, which sets nutrition recommendations, a healthy adult should consume anywhere from 10 to 35 percent of total calories in protein per day. That’s a big range.

The average American diet amounts to about 15 percent protein, or about 75 grams a day for those on a 2,000 calorie-aday diet.

Additionally, the Institute of Medicine advises that adults should eat a minimum of 0.8 grams of protein per kilogram (or 0.37 grams per pound) of ideal body weight. For a person whose ideal weight is 160 pounds, for example, that would be a minimum of about 60 grams of protein.

Paying attention to both pieces of guidance is important — particularly if you’re severely restricting calories for weight loss.

If you’re eating, say, 1,200 calories a day, and you’re keeping your protein to the minimum of 10 percent of total calories, you’d only be consuming 30 grams of protein a day (each gram of protein has 4 calories). That’s not nearly enough for most adults. You’ll want to eat a higher percentage of protein and trim back one or both of the other macronutrients, carbohydrates and fat.

Note that when you make shifts in one macronutrient, it affects the percentages you’re consuming in the whole diet.

Total fat should be limited to 30 percent of total calories, with most coming from healthier unsaturated types. For carbohydrates, the recommended range is 45 to 65 percent of total calories, with half coming from healthier whole grains. A minimum intake of 130 grams of carbohydrates per day is necessary for normal brain function.

For protein, the best choices include meats with relatively little fat, including lean beef, pork and poultry; fish, including salmon, trout and other choices high in omega-3 fatty acids; and beans, peas, soy products and unsalted nuts. For more detail, see the advice for protein in the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans at http://bit.ly/chooseprotein.

If you’re trying to lose weight, you might have noticed that many mainstream diet plans recommend a higher proportion of dietary protein. And it’s true that protein helps with satiety, that feeling of fullness after eating. So, if you’re stuck in your attempt at losing weight, you might consider bumping up your lean protein intake while reducing carbohydrates, as long as you stay in the overall guidelines. That said, a 2009 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine comparing different regimens showed restricting calories overall was the key to weight loss, not where the calories come from.

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THE FOLKS OF FOX HOLLOW

BY ZACHARY GRIMM Knox County Citizen

In turn, their 70 head of cattle and 275 head of sheep, are allowed to live The story of the and grow naturally on the Rickard Family’s farm, Fox grass pastures, being Hollow Farm, begins not healthier at the same in Knox County, but in time. When the animals New Jersey. are raised this way, the There, Bruce and Lisa Rickards believe the cusRickard met. Having tomer then gets a prodalways wanted to be a uct—be it pork, chicken, farmer, Bruce relocated or beef—which is a with Lisa to Columbus 26 healthier choice all years ago with only eight around. lambs, but plenty of ideas.

While not yet certified It was on Gilmore Road an organic operation, Lisa that they found Fox points out that their famiHollow Farm, aptly named ly “does follow organic by the locals in the valley principles.” They raise where the Rickard homechickens for the purpose stead would come to be. of meat rather than just The Rickards admiteggs, and make a contedly didn’t know a whole scious effort not to raise lot about farming when their larger livestock they came to Fox Hollow using hormones, and Farm, but they soon disrarely introducing antibicovered that a process in otics into their systems. which basically everything Those healthier livestock on the farm ties into then go to Dee-Jays in everything else was a Fredericktown and are lucrative and natural way also sold to local restauto go. Their main grassrants. growing practice thrives Lisa, Bruce and Jesse on the idea of intensive Rickard take a lot of pride grazing, which, Lisa says, in the ways they’ve suc“maximizes grass produccessfully built both their tion.” One way this is evihomestead and their busident is their process of ness. allowing their grazing ani“We don’t feel as mals to feed on one strip though there are a lot of of pasture at a time. As small family farms like son Jesse explains, doing ours,” says Bruce. In their so allows the pasture eyes, not many other which was just foraged to farms the size of theirs grow back fuller and with partake in much direct more and stronger nutrimarketing, which the ents in the new plants. If Rickards are very much in all the animals are foragfavor of. ing on the same piece of “We felt like we needpasture, the quality and ed to focus on direct marquantity of viable food is keting, that way we could going to be much lower control the prices of our than if they are moved products.” periodically.

When direct marketing is the core value, the Rickard family believes that, since everything is grown together and sold together, “there is more of a choice for consumers.”

In addition, the family feels as though their intensive grazing method is not common, thus perhaps giving them an edge.

“We do what we do to help our community. Our business is something we consider a community service,” Lisa adds.

In order to further that community service, a Freshly-shorn sheep live business should surely inside their enclosure durmarket both its products ing the colder months. and its name. The

Rickards have done this very well, having a Facebook page and a very successful online avenue for people to order their grass-fed products direct from their website. Lisa, Bruce and Jesse attribute much of the success of the “more high-tech” portion

of their business to their online order form.

They participate in the Mount Vernon Farmers Market and the Local Roots Market in Wooster.

They also participate in the Harvest at the Woodward, also in Mount Vernon. The Rickard

family spends a good deal of time putting a true face to their farm’s name by having been a stop on previous Heart of Ohio Tours.

When they want to go beyond what they can do in Knox County to market their products, they have gone to the OEFFA (Ohio Ecological Food & Farm Association) Conference. There, Jesse and farm co-worker Chelsea learn about new ideas to try at Fox Hollow Farm and Bruce and Lisa are able to teach a workshop or two, as well as meet old friends and perhaps get new ideas as well.

Perhaps the two most surprising and interesting things the Rickard Family does to actively be a part of the community they so willingly serve are their yearly Open Farm Days, a time in the spring when

the family opens Fox Hollow Farm to the public for a few days so the public can see and learn what the family is doing to raise their healthy, grass-fed products.

Secondly, Lisa and Bruce work closely and often with Kenyon College, allowing interested students to participate in an extended on-site experience with the Rickard family, helping them with the day-to-day tasks of a grass farm while learning the importance and benefits of such an operation.

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The Rickard Family “Egg Mobile.” Housing the 200 laying hens for the egg business of Fox Hollow Farm, the structure was painted specially by students at Kenyon College, which also allows their interested students to intern on the Rickard family farm, giving the young men and women first-hand experience of an operation which follows the principles of organic farming methods.

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They arrived on July fourth in Vermilion where Eunice and Nelson resided with acquaintances for a few weeks while Samuel built a log house on the newly purchased property. The house was later replaced by a frame home nearby when Samuel learned a road was to be built from Fitchville to Lake Erie.

Samuel also cleared three acres and sowed wheat as his first crop.

When Ken Green looks out from his Fitchville River Road home, he can almost, with great certainty, spot the area along the banks of the Chappell Creek where those first early Bristol homes were erected. Indeed, the farm’s name, Willow Brook, was taken from the clumps of willow trees which once grew thickly along the creek.

A history of Wakeman Township notes that most of the original Bristol land has been owned by their descendants, passing from generation to generation through inheritance. Additional land was later purchased by Samuel Bristol in 1823, and it is on one lot

where the first frame house was constructed.

Just prior to 1886, the house was moved by their grandson, Samuel, to make way for a new house — the one adjacent to the road where Ken Green now resides. After 1886, the “old house” was used as storage and as a chicken coop, with a corncrib added to the rear. It was finally dismantled in 1989, but even then gave up a few family secrets as a candlestick holder was found in a second story wall.

In the intervening years of 1817 to 1866, according to a family history compiled by Ken Green’s brother, Dennis, the Bristol families accumulated considerable property as Nelson Bristol grew up and married Julia Sherman. Their son, Samuel B. Bristol and his wife, Louisa M. Gilder became the third generation.

It was this generation of Bristols who built the home on Fitchville River Road where Ken Green grew up and still lives. The Green generations began when Samuel B. and Louisa’s daughter, Hazel, married Ezra R. Green.

That couple’s future was cemented by quite an unusual circumstance around 1910 when a group of young friends were attending a school picnic at nearby Ruggles Beach. Hazel slipped in a hole and went beneath the waves, bobbing up and down until Ezra, described as an “ardent admirer” of Hazel, put his expert swimming skills to use and dove for her unconscious body. Then a student at Ohio State University, Ezra is said to have worked to revive Hazel for one hour, not giving up until she “was out of danger,” an action that, according to the family history, “gradually led to a deeper friendship.” They were married in 1917.

The fifth generation was created when Ezra and Hazel’s son, C. Nelson Green, married Ella Mae K. Read. They became parents of four children, Dennis, Dan, Diane and Ken Green. Today, Ken lives on the family farm, which has expanded considerably from its nearly two century-old roots. He credits his brother, Dennis, with “doing all the work” to get the farm certified as a

Century Farm.

As a result, Dennis put together the family history, which features each of the Bristol/Green generations complete with lots of photographs both of the people and the many historical objects which the family has retained.

In 2012, Ken and his older brother, Dan, returned to their original roots in Woodbury, Conn., even meeting the family which now occupies the ancestral home of their great-great-great-grandmother, Eunice Sherman Bristol, and attending a Bristol family reunion.

The pride which Ken Green takes in his family’s heritage is obvious through his “hobby” — restoring the family carriages, which have been kept for so many generations. Four of those have been accurately restored, with much of the work done by the Amish.

The family enjoys dressing up in period costumes and participating in nearby parades, having trained a horse to pull the carriage.

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He also focuses on keeping the family heritage going.

“I love to improve the land,” he said. “To be successful, you have to be efficient. I am a big advocate of subsurface drainage. I also like a good freeze. It helps us fix the mistakes of fall. There are a lot of benefits to a good freeze. It not only kills off bugs, but allows us to work on the land, clearing fence rows and so forth.”

Green has a plan for his own future. He wants to build himself a one-story cabin on the west bank of Chappell Creek so that his son, Kris, and family can move into the family farmhouse.

With all five previous generations of his family buried in the nearby local cemetery where his daughter-in-law is the caretaker, Green, who is not yet ready to quit, has yet another goal — to continue “to instill our heritage in my family” with the hopes that Willow Creek will be in the Green family for decades to come

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12 DODGE GRAND CARAVAN SXT - STO & GO - REAR HEAT/AC - 13,000 MILES - BRIGHT SILVER ..$20,995.00 06 CHRYSLER TOWN & COUNTRY - STO&GO - POWER DOORS - REAR HEAT/AC - MAGNESIUM ......$6,995.00 05 PONTIAC MONTANA EXTENED VAN - REAR SEAT HEAT/AC - TAN ......................................................$4,995.00 01 HONDA ODESSEY - 7 PASS - LEATHER - TAN ........................................................................................$4,295.00

SPORT UTILITY 12 JEEP LIBERTY SPORT - CAST WHEELS - ALL POWER - V/6 - BRIGHT SILVER ................................$18,995.00 12 JEEP PATRIOT 4X4 SPORTS - 4CYL - FULL WARRANTY - LOW MILES - MINERAL GRAY ..............$17,995.00

TRUCKS 12 DODGE RAM 1500 4X4 QUAD CAB SLT - BEDLINER - TOW PKG - LOW MILES - TAN ....................$25,995.00 13 DODGE RAM 2500 HD - 4X4 SLT - BIG HORN - CUMMINS - 10,000 MILES - RED ..........................$40,995.00 09 DODGE RAM 1500 4X4 REG CAB SLT - SHORT BED - TONNEAU - LOW MILES - RED ....................$14,995.00 07 DODGE RAM 3500 HD 4X4 QUAD CAB SLT - CUMMINS - LONG BED - BOSS PLW - BLUE/SILVR $27,995.00 07 FORD F-250 4X4 EXT CAB LARIAT - LEATHER - POWER STROKE - DARK RED................................$22,995.00

SpeedTender J&M SpeedTender • 275, 375 or 500 unit capacity • Dual compar compartment • 2 or 3 axle undercarriage with brakes • Honda engine with electric star startt • Available Available with conveyor or poly cup auger • Available Available with scales • Gooseneck or bumper pull

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$35,915.00 $32,490.00 $32,590.00 $24,780.00

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Ohio’s outstanding FFA alumni COLUMBUS — Jack Mason of Anthony Wayne was named the Ohio FFA Alumni Association Outstanding Member.

Mason of the Anthony Wayne FFA Alumni Affiliate was awarded a clock trophy for being named the Outstanding Member of the Ohio FFA Alumni Association during the 41st Ohio FFA Alumni Convention held in Columbus, on Saturday, Jan. 26. The FFA Alumni Association is an organization that supports and serves agricultural education programs and the FFA in Ohio and across the nation.

Mason has been an active alumni member for 12 years. He has attended and chaperoned many state and national FFA conventions. He has worked many hours at the alumni shopping mall, golf outing and attended state alumni meetings and has served as a national delegate for four years. He has coached numerous CDE areas and has served as a judge at local, district and state contests. He has been on state council serving as vice president and president.

Other outstanding members are: Ron Burkholder and Charlie Kennel.

Burkholder is from Pettisville and became a lifetime member when his daughter joined FFA. He has chaired the bake sale at the annual Pumpkin Fest for seven years and has given more than 100 hours in driving and assisting in land, equipment and labor with multiple SAE projects.

He assists in equipment set up for the mechanics lab and has helped with their special benefit auctions. He has attended many state and national conventions and worked at the state shopping mall.

Kennel is from Talawanda where he

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Smugglers cashing in on Michigan cans

BY ALANNA DURKIN Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan lawmakers want to crack down on can and bottle smugglers they say are scamming Michigan for undeserved recycling refunds, corrupting a generous 10-cent per container payback policy once infamously portrayed in a “Seinfeld” episode and which beverage officials now claim costs the state millions of dollars annually.

“Seinfeld” characters Kramer and Newman failed miserably in their comedic attempt to cash in on the refund, when they loaded a mail truck full of cans and bottles in New York and attempted to drive them to Michigan. But lawmakers say it’s a serious problem, especially in border counties, and they want to toughen penalties on people who try to return unmarked, out-of-state cans and bottles for refunds.

“If you are intending to defraud ... then you should be held accountable for it,” said Republican Rep. Kenneth Kurtz of Coldwater. He recently introduced legislation aimed at cracking down on scammers who drive car and truck loads of cans from Indiana, Wisconsin and Ohio — states that do not offer refunds — to stores across the border in Michigan.

His legislation would make an attempt to return between 100 and 10,000 non-returnable containers punishable by up to 93 days in jail and a $1,000 fine. Current law sets penalties only for those who actually return fraudulent containers.

Michigan’s 10 cent-per-container refund — the highest in the country — was enacted more than 30 years ago to encourage recycling. Many say it’s worked. The state’s recycling rate for cans and bottles was nearly 96 percent in 2011. By contrast, New York, one of nine states with nickel deposits on most containers, saw only a 66.8 percent redemption rate in 2007, the most recent figure available.

Despite measures Michigan lawmakers have taken over the years, including tougher penalties for bottle scammers and new machines that kick out fraudulent cans, store owners and distributors along the border say illegal returns persist.

Mike Hautala owns Hautala Distributing, which services Gogebic and Ontonagon counties in the western part of the Upper Peninsula near the Wisconsin border. He said for every case of beer his distributorship delivers to a store along the border, it picks up about seven more cases of empty cans.

The state loses $10 million to $13 million a year to fraudulent redemptions, according to most recent 2007 estimates from the Michigan Beer and Wine Wholesalers Association. Angela Madden, the association’s director of governmental affairs, said that number has likely gone down slightly because of changes implemented since, but not by much.

Bill Nichols, store director at Harding’s Friendly Market in Niles about three miles from the Indiana border, said the store takes in about $6,000 worth of cans a week. He said every week he kicks out people for trying to return large garbage bags full of cans from Indiana, a state that offers no refund.

“You can go into the parking lot and look at the license plates and see that it says Indiana,” he said.

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The outstanding Ohio FFA Alumni members are from left: Jodi Hassan, Ohio FFA Alumni President; Jack Mason, of Anthony Wayne, Ohio Outstanding Member; and Jim McCray, Illinois, National FFA Alumni President-Elect.

helped coordinate the food booth and has grilled for the consignment auction for 12 years.

He has grilled for committee meals and the buyer’s supper. He also manages the pork producer’s booth at the fair and has chaperoned state and national conventions.

The Agricultural Education Promotional Award recognizes outstanding accomplishments in promoting ag ed and the FFA. This year’s winner is the Pettisville Affiliate. They conducted a hog roast during the local science fair judging.

The hog roast provided a lunch for students, judges and parents. The activity is promoted through the school newsletters and on the businessmen’s page.

The hog was donated by an alumni member and roasted by an alumni member. Some FFA Alumni members also served as judges. Monies raised helped 10 students attend conferences and seven students receive cash prizes for their research.

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Wayne.

Bellevue conducted a pork chop stand at the fair and conducted a pork chop and chicken barbecue where they promoted the alumni and the FFA. They handed out membership materials and gained new members.

Anthony conducted an Ag Day at the elementary school. They had exhibits on farm equipment, grains and animals. The interactive exhibits for the children showed where their food came from and some of the processes of getting food to their table.

Anthony received the Coaching Affiliate Award for training career development teams. Points are earned by training FFA members and traveling to and assisting with contests.

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