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Love dairy goats (1)


Take appropriate care of goats, a backyard farm or me stead ho is not rocket science, but it takes so me, preparing. These animals are not as hard as me, so as to make them cartoons. They me is so special, including proper Shelter and the right to food. So you can follow these steps and you be off on the right.

The Shelter

These initiatives need to be so me, sort the rain shelter to hate and should not be a matter of fact, it is downright. dangerous goats can easily be me beco sick from the permanent of rain point. Therefore, be sure to provide them with a minimum of three out-of-the-wall and roof and rain wind. If you have smaller animals, such as the nigerian dwarf dog House up-or of the dog House of igloo. Dirt floors is intact, and many users prefer them. Excess urine soak into the soil, and less bedding is required.

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Roy Rogers might have balked fence is currently a concept, but a (d) the pen is of crucial importance for the safety of the precious animals. Inventory paneling is probably the best and me the most cost-effective to keep them in a smaller area of the thod. These panels are easy to install and Move.

Use the field fence, because it is too prepared. Exclusive Oman and stand for lean against it until it sags during so badly, he will walk right over it. If you have to write a large area and the field is used fence, then also include the electric wiring lannistanut big buck it permanent and ruining it.

What to feed them

They should, as a matter of priority, to eat the grass. Hay is made on the basis of the Poaceae, or to me s legu that early Cut their me nt develop and dry in the Sun. Hay there should be a green color. It is a grass grown recording feed an grass, such as alfalfa and timothy grass. Feed quality depends on how it is in the field smoked. If the rain it s, while the feed is drying, it loses its value and mold. If the feed is not too dry, on the other hand, the use of nutrition during the shattered and lost the baling.

Goats, to the best of hay is alfalfa or clover Hay, because it is a high level of protein and calcium. However, do not feed White, such as poisonous. Straw, is on the other hand, rain, (g) the Uninstaller, remnants, after it is connected to the dried leaves and stems-, barley, oats and wheat. Straw is a golden colored, and never used for bedding and food.

They should also be fed concentrated rain kasvatusaikana g on a daily basis to make certain standardisation needed vitamins and minerals. The goats eat feed, which has been ground dust, a security financial collateral arrangement so provide, they cracked or even entire rain s g, including barley, buckwheat, maize, oats and soybeans. In addition, a good feed is to make it taste better, molasses, and constitute an important source of iron.

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If you do not have a goat, which produces milk, when it me p. co, the feeding goat rain g, less is definitely more. Go to g rain sparingly, especially if you're a goat rain feed (g), which is a large alfalfa. Goats who overeat can get too much gas, bloat-that they will not be able to burp out. It is to me ly extre painful and could kill your goat when dealt with immediately. If you're using goat milk, to deal with him the bloat of the people's Republic of China.

Feed Manger

Throw in the Hay, never simply because, since it could lead to parasites. In addition, many goats can never eat anything that has fallen to the ground. (A) to provide Hay manger. Set it to a sufficiently high so that they may not be able to navigate and contaminate the land covered with grass.

To ensure their hooves

You need to cut your finger and toenails, on a regular basis, or you're having trouble walking and using your hands. Similarly, you need to trim your own goat hooves 2-3 months. If you do not do so, it may eventually will cripple them. You need especially if your animal to spend all their me ti walking soft from the beginning.

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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Growing as baby boomer


He is retired and is to me ti back to see how we grew up. I can now see that, while maintaining a hectic schedule and eating often myself, brothers and sister never worried about the , the weight of the was without problems. Ho , we we had a Garden was great for the multilateralization of positions resulting from the pain. First off, to till the ground, with all the seeds and plants for shovel shaft. Then, drag the water weeds water plants. From the barrels, which the rain is set to the spouts Garden, you can save. Then picking beans, peas, tomatoes, lettuce, carrots, beets and digging of potatoes, it was difficult, where we all hated. Never weight loss for any thoughts that me a ti on their lives, even though.

Oh yes, sweet corn patch had to deal with different size. It was planted in the me ti farm machine one-line. This had to be more than one harvest date, so we had the corn, but much longer than anyone else's Central maissintähkä. By planting with to me in the farm, it could be a server farm with me nt, nt also. This accelerated our thoughts to you will be able to relax a little bit more.

But, as derived from maize with the field in the or grass and weeds growing line was still manually pulled or cut off. field s so they stuck in the wood, the cultivator. This task if the child so me, expenditure money. If we've helped neighbors it advertised a lot more to raise money for the expenditure for us. It also keeps us busy all day, without having to go to the me ti already to engage in, there is a gym. We had never diet do anything to stay thin or s weight.

Now, according to the field Jul-s were ready to harvest, accompanied by Little John Deere mower and in the field of the animal. Cut the grass and hope for the rain is good to dry in the Sun, in order to determine what it Garden would need more water to run it in 3 days.

Then rake a neighbor and hire the windrows feed co., me and bale hay, she pulled it behind the baler so we rack Stacking is a sliding rack in bales of the ilo. This turned out to be my job as I had only one balance enough to throw or in bales, rolling chassis or rack with a stack of hay. Gopher holes and uneven soil provide the bumpy ride, me not ntion hill-sides. That challenged our ability to stack so that the bound them selves together, so they should slide off the rack in bales.

Neighbor wanted to my style, so he me ride hired as hay rack-me of, the sum of all the r for a long time that he made. baling I had a penny for each bale, which me earned a whopping $ 5.00 a day we had the highest day was $ 44 to me,. 00. Not bad pay is a teenager, I stayed with it until I graduated from high school.

It was only when we are in your own weight the beca me a problem. Eating more junk food, because it is easier to prepare or more accessible to us. The fact that the mother made us eat what was me the table see the cruel me (d). But looking at now was very by me a lesson learned.

I have never had problems with , the weight of the or the health. Yet today, 50 years after the discovery of its own, I really See what they eat, I eat, I have learned in the past as a way of life. I like to eat fruits and veggies were still living with (I think the idea of the plate current mothers to eat, or none) seriously the idea of a me to acquire drove unwittingly healthy food taste.

Unlike my siblings, who weight remains and the fight against health problems. When the left to me ne ho thought they knew more, what was good for them, so they changed their eating habits. Very short me ti (compared to the life of me ti) they me beca obese and have been struggling to weight with ever since. They jumped from one of the diet another fad, so me ti me s over eating, so me, ti me s starving them selves only, if you want to ensure that their resistance to the me ssed systems.

They are now fighting with diabetes, and , the weight of the line problems. Even if the parents (92 years young people) and I are still healthy and slim. I do not need to take me all dications for more than 65 years young.








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Every little boy loves tractors! There is me thing so about those big green machines. So, this birthday GO Green! Caller: use a template, the simple structure of the tractor and the green paper to outline in black. Yellow Book on a separate piece of paper, write the heading "our little Deere __ __, is coming to join us so me so good old farm fun!" Plain white calls can be made quite glad John Deere clip art or stickers. Picture your tractor should also call the wonderful and can be copied relatively easily and cost effectively by using a color printer or to a local photo Center site.

Place: how to hiking to? Pumpkin patch, Petting zoo, pony Riding, Center, or local farm could happen. One step forward on Oman, on the other hand, if you are already on the farm! Old old fashioned family bonfire is a wonderful back drop to such a transaction. Do not worry, even if your own city slicker, you can easily convert your me or ho, the backyard holding "House," John Deere birthday party! Decorations: green and yellow, of course! A wide range of goods, John Deere, you can buy access to the site or through the local party Center. Throw in the barnyard grass, saddles feel like bails, scarecrows, pitch forks, cowboy hats, and contact with animals from a holding on. Please me in co's finest denim garments, children's farm, but provide them with the straw hat and bandanna when they arrive.

Posts: cannot be a John Deere tractor without a party! So, if you do not have a real one tractor rides, contact on a regular old trolley as one of the 2 large cardboard pieces, the tractor model green paints, and so me, and imagination! A few comments in their imaginary tractor rides will love. Regardless of whether or not your party indoors or me so Add decoration, colouring matter of animal space use a set of tables. Covers the whole wall in World War II paper or high with the white paper on a roll. Make a farm-scene painting so me, grass, fence and blue sky. Children's color images, and cut and paste the pictures on the wall. Or you can even color on the right side of the paper to the wall of the children. Your child has a life of a farm-sized decorating scene in vacation.

GA me s: Haystack-a pile of hay to loose objects that hide the needle. Use needles parents party guests and small toys, the younger ones. They used the safety work gloves. If you do not receive your hands so me, hay, you can use several bags of raffia or dried grass clippings. Young or old, all me to keep ga horse shoes-what is younger child, what is closer to the ammutut line. Moo? -Attach a sticker or a picture for each animal the child back. Each player has to determine what kind of animal, they ask "Yes" or "no" questions. For example, "I fly?", "I am the pink?", etc. Catch more than 1 pig Grease pink bubble baby oil to each player and put a whole bunch of about 20 feet away from the once the children are at the top. Be the "GO", they run and try to catch a pig and set it back to the pen. The pen may be a box or container. Is hilarious and so easy! Is specified when the may occur in the cowboy skills, so me, cattle roping. A simple rope is well suited to a free horse and saw the father's garage Works great on animals. Chicken Easter Egg Hunt-plastic eggs again in order to meet their me so diluted toys, trinkets and candy and hiding them to party around the yard, or party room. Herding cattle, so me the color of the black cow spots on the white balloons.

By using the broom, the object is a SWAT 8-10 balloons in your room from one page to another. Stopwatch allows you to see the cows in the herd, who is the fastest. Hoe down-play me as country music and square dancing in line or the line dance lesson! Me nu: the good, old, me alas ho hamburgers, barbecue dog s hot, chili, water potato salad, me lon and corn. Snacks and salads can be served out of a galvanized buckets, mini golf, and fills in the wheel barrow ice to keep your drinks cold. There are plenty of wooden picnic tables on the other hand, with regard to the seats. The cake may be the shape or size, but must be bright green coloured icing, and John Deere. Use or to simply use decopac childs favorite toy tractor cake Center. Remember to sit in the mud or soil pile of tractor on the Web! Overhanging and soil pile is made murenee so me, dark cookies. Corral the tractor and the hill fence Pretzel stick with it.

Lot bags: all kids love dress up-cowboy hat, a pair of children's work and bandanna, gloves should be perfect gifts to move to me ho with them. You can also purchase John Deere toy tractors, stickers, launchers & keychains plastic lootbags. Plastic farm animals and the eggs should be a great bonus for the candy! All farms situated in the Garden include, but are not limited to, the SEC, so why not offer each guest a small pot with a few seeds and growing easily, such as bean or sunflower, Radish and "sowing the seeds." They take their me plants, ho, and watch it grow.








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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

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Get instant install Ruokamullan through the grass "


Lawns can require an awful lot of work, starting with the first of a growing grass. Rain can wash off the seed s, birds Like to eat them water-ing, and items may be required. You can do to curb the birds with a grass seed and sprinklers me using ti rs, but it is still a lot of work and to me a long ti. And that is easier to install Ruokamullan.

Ruokamullan is basically instant grass. It has already grown on farms, which crosses the Ruokamullan and sell long strips of grass roots, and so me, combined with the dirt. You can simply roll it like a carpet and viola, instant grass. Of course, there are some things that can help you make the more likely you will need to take root and Ruokamullan healthy lawn quickly, and to me a long ti. Even if the Ruokamullan is much more expensive than weed seeds, is widely available, and it may surprise you is affordability.

The first is removed the soil, so Ruokamullan can take root faster. The rake is working well. This is not a lot of work. So me is also a fertilizer to the soil bare and process it into the cavity of the dirt in my rake slightly.

Moisten with the soil lightly with the hose before installation Ruokamullan. Heavy water-ing is necessary and me nded recom. Then fix your own Ruokamullan. You want the edges against the overlapping with each other. Cut, if necessary, so that it can hold. Is a device that is known as ' Ruokamullan ' knife, which may be useful, even if you've never used one myself.

Next, it's a good idea to , the of water and it well, and every day until next week. I have water usually a week and a half so much I'm careful, unless, of course, rain is-ing a lot, which is common in the spring, the pri me,, Ruokamullan, ti me, amending Regulation (EC) No. Water-ing it is important, especially if it is a very hot to help penetrate the Ruokamullan. Don't stress if you miss a day through the game, because it is not critical.

Do not cut at least a couple of weeks, most people will tell you that you can Cut, when it deals with the height, and is an inch fine too.

Not exactly instant lawn is me so the work is involved, but it is fast and a lot faster and easier than growing grass seed.








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Monday, February 21, 2011

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What a wonderful situation to be in where you can get up each morning and venture down to the barn and greet your friends that greet you with a winney, or body language that says please hurry up because we are really, really hungry. Having your horses on the same property that you reside is a blessing. Not only is it convenient, but you won't miss the endless moments of fun and humor horses bring to us.

So, if you feed them at eight o'clock, try not to make it any later than eight thirty. Afternoon feeding should be the same, and if you can even split the daily rations into a third feeding, even better yet. I understand that having at least one to three acres of land per horse is not always possible, but this is a recommendation for the better health of your horse.

If you have stalls to clean, clean them every day. This means not only taking out the manure but the urine. Horses like to lay down, some several times a day or several times in the evening. That is why it is important to keep sufficient bedding underneath of them. Also, the more bedding you use as a general rule, the cleaner your horse will stay. Barely covering the bottom of the stall really is not sufficient. Some horses urinate a lot so you need enough bedding to absorb this and make it comfortable for your animal.

As far as fencing goes, there is nothing wrong with good old fashion three or four board fencing. Many farms now use the No Climb fencing which is an interwoven mesh wire pattern that horses cannot put their feet through or under. Of course you need a top board to hold everything in place. When building paddocks, there should be at least six to eight feet in between each paddock. This way the horses cannot fuss at each other over the fence. Not only do they tear the fences down but risk injury that not only can be costly but can put them out of commission for riding, for long periods of time.

Make sure the distance in between paddocks is large enough to get grass cutting equipment into that area easily. Try to set up your paddocks in a logical way that makes easy access and easy to keep a watchful eye on them. If your property does not have a sufficient amount of trees for shade, remember to limit the amount of time horses must spend in the harsh sun, rain or severe cold. For example, horses in hot weather should be brought inside during the day out of the sun and turned out at night when it is cooler unless you have a severe bug problem. Cold weather horses should be out during the day where the sun can warm them and in at night.

As far as water, good old bath tubs with the fixings removed, large stainless steel fifty or one hundred gallon tubs are available or automatic waterers are available in many varieties. Remember having a constant amount of fresh clean water available for your horse is imperative. Water is a nutrient that they must replenish as needed. Dehydration can be deadly.

Next, it is a good thing to have a designated riding area where you can have a one on one session without interruption, unless you are just interested in trail riding. Also you may want to have a round pen for lunging your horse before schooling them as this can take the edge off of horses that have a high energy level.

Next, keeping your grass cut often is important as horses prefer shorter, more tender grass. Allowing the weeds to grow, and seed to spread, will only cause more weeds. Keeping them cut often will help eliminate most of them. At the same time, make sure not to cut the grass too short as it will burn and rob your horses of not only taste, but nutrients, not to mention that some horses will start picking over the burnt grass or not eat it at all. Taking soil samples and fertilizing each year will help keep your grass enriched with all the nutrients it can offer to your horse and may reduce your feed bill depending on how often and how hard you are riding your horse.

Remember, horses are herding animals that were born to be with other horses and their system was meant to consume food often. If it is possible, try not to keep just one horse on your property. This is a lonely life for them. Even if they do not seem to get along with the only other companion that they have, they would prefer that over being alone. You will understand this when you try to take one or the other horse out of the paddock which can sometimes be a problem, but we will talk about this at a later date.








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There are probably more hay varieties out there in this vast world that I have never even heard of. The types of hay that I am familiar with are:

Timothy hay: This is a hearty basic hay that can be fed to horses in a considerable amount without worrying about causing a horse to gain too much weight too quickly. It consists of thick grassy stems with small one or two inch brush like tops. If you are new into the horse world, this is probably a good hay to start with.

Clover hay: Clover is considered a sweet hay that is quite rich. This hay is short stemmed with usually red or purple bulb like tops. It usually is mixed with other types of hay. If you were to buy straight clover be aware that it is not a green type of hay. It will have a tendency to turn more towards a darker brown color. The color may be off putting but as soon as you give it to your horse and see how quickly he or she gobbles it up, you will change your mind.

Orchard Grass hay: This hay is a bit richer than timothy but usually will have a blue green color. The strands of hay are usually quite long. This also is usually mixed with other hays. For some reason, horses seem to tire of just orchard grass very quickly

Coastal Bermuda hay: This is a long grassy type of hay. It is mostly grown in the southern states in a more sandy soil. It also is a hay that you can supply a large amount to your horse without worrying about too much weight gain. It is usually fed in very large round bales mostly in the winter months in order to keep something in the field for your horse to forage on. Coastal hay is notorious for colic. Many horses do well on this hay but a very hungry horse may need to be introduced very slowly to this particular hay or a horse that does not drink a lot of water may not be the best candidate for coastal hay.

Alfalfa hay: This is the creme de la creme of hay. grown mostly in the northern, central and northwestern states, this is a deliciously rich hay for horses that has a very high protein content as well as being high in Selenium and many other nutrients, which is why lactating mares and milking cows are usually fed this exclusively. Because of its richness, it usually is paired with other hays. If you need to put weight on a horse in a short amount of time, then this is the hay to feed. However, some horses will not be able to eat just alfalfa as it will cause their stool to become too loose.

During the summer months when there is plenty of grass, you would only need hay if your horse is in the stall for more than a short amount of time. Of course, you would need hay in the summer if your horse is in a small paddock that has no grass. As far as I am concerned, alfalfa hay was produced basically as a replacement for grass during the winter months. If your horse is out in the cold weather with just a lean-to for shelter, then using a good amount of alfalfa is usually a good thing in combination with grain. Horses burn a lot of calories in the process of keeping their bodies warm in the bitter cold weather. The problem with alfalfa is it is more expensive than the average timothy or coastal Bermuda. When you feed the proper amount of alfalfa, it will be consumed in a few hours and your horse has nothing else to eat for the rest of the day. So, mixing up the hay, maybe a few alfalfa flakes and a few timothy flakes will help with the boredom issue. If you are fortunate enough to be in an area where different hays are plentiful, then try for a good mixed hay. I love the mix of alfalfa, timothy, clover and orchard grass. The horses seem to like it very much also.

Always, always check your hay. What I mean is if you see any dust coming from your hay as you move it, smell it to make sure that it is not moldy. You are always going to get a bad bale here and there or somewhere inside of a bale you will have a few bad flakes. Moldy hay can colic your horse in a matter of minutes not to mention that respiratory problems can arise if you consistently feed your horse hay that is moldy or musty. If you give your horse hay and when you come back to feed, there is a lot of waste, cut back a flake. The next day, same thing, cut back another flake until you find the right amount for each horse. Making your horse clean up all of the hay in the stall is a good thing. Horses were born to foriage. If you have a horse that hogs up the hay very quickly, you may have to go to a lighter hay that you can feed more of, that way, he or she will not be standing hours on end with nothing to eat. Boredom can sometimes cause horses to start weaving, stall walking, cribbing or chewing down the barn.

Learning about the different types of hay, which type is best for which horse and how much to give takes time to learn. Like anything else in life, it is about balance. The balance between the right amount of feed, the right amount and right kind of hay, and the right amount of exercise are all lessons learned. Pay attention to your horses weight. Don't be afraid to ask questions. Trial and error will help you understand their nutritional as well as emotional needs. If you see changes in your horse that you do not like or something that they do not like, make adjustments. Rely on your instincts and how you feel. If it doesn't feel right, it probably isn't. As long as all changes are subtle, it'll be jusssssst fine.








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One would think significant differences separate conservationists, those interested in the protection of natural resources and those who since the beginning of time have converted forests and savannahs alike into productive farms. In Michigan's Saginaw Valley, however, farmers, urban volunteers, and conservationists represented by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service have joined together to protect and restore wetlands and native grasslands, creating an important refuge for nearly three hundred species of wildlife, many of which appear on Michigan's endangered species lists. In addition, ten thousand acres of former swamp became rich farmland of unparalleled productivity devoted to many crops including corn, soybeans and sugarbeets and by 1935 had become the largest single farm east of the Mississippi River.

It wasn't always that way. There was a time, 130 years ago, when the Saginaw Valley swamps bore the stigma of a wasteland. The idea of turning the muck that made up the low-lying marshland seven miles south of a Michigan lumber town, into productive farms seemed outlandish to all except one man. He was Harlan P. Smith, a visionary attorney.

It was hardly an idea that captured much interest because in the 1880s land was cheap. The U.S. government had a keen interest in populating lands secured by the 1819 Treaty of Saginaw when one-third of the state's Lower Peninsula passed forever from the hands of the Chippewa to the federal government. Unoccupied land tended to attract heads of governments. The U.S. had experienced French, English and Spanish flags flying over its Michigan Territory and wanted no more of the costly wars required to thwart the ambitions of European expansionists. To encourage settlement, the federal government handed out 160-acre land grants to veterans of the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, and the war with Mexico. The Land Act of 1820 allowed others to buy eighty acres from the government for $1.25 an acre, meaning that for $100 (about $1,500 in this era) a family could own an 80-acre farm on high ground.

Harlan P. Smith understood the descriptive, swamp, was owed to the wet and forbidding nature of the 28-square mile marsh, not only was erroneous but derogatory as well. Spring thaws overflowed the marshes to depths as great as fifteen feet and left behind mud and debris that discouraged farming. From spring until autumn, a coiling miasma of mosquitoes lifted from the foliage to mount relentless attacks on those who dared to intrude upon their domain. Those who stepped boldly out of doors usually developed a form of malaria labeled "ague" which was marked by alternating periods of fever, chills, and sweating. The vicious marauders had caused the abandonment of a military fort at Saginaw in 1823 only one year after its construction, whereupon its commander, Major Daniel Baker, declared in his final report, "Only Indians, muskrats, and bullfrogs can live on the Saginaw River."

The vast marsh lies south and west of the city of Saginaw, one hundred miles north of Detroit. It is an aftermath of a glacial lake formed during an ice age that ended 10,000 years ago. The glacier left behind a flat terrain situated a few feet above the nearby lake levels, a haven for wildlife and migratory birds: bald eagles, shore and wading birds, song birds, waterfowl, and - people. Navigable by canoes, Native Americans enjoyed game, fish, wild fruits and nuts and wild rice. Sugar-maple trees provided a supply of sweets and corn grew in abundance along the bottom lands. In addition to food, the marsh provided materials for habitation, canoes, weapons, and utensils. There was little to want for the Native Americans who lived among the prairie grasses for nearly five thousand years, according to some estimates, before European settlement.

U.S. Recognizes Need for Fish and Wildlife Protection

Today, under the protection of the U.S. Department of Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service since 1953, 9,620 acres or about one-half of the swamp that early settlers avoided is under the care of the National Wildlife Refuge System. Its legal designation is the Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) and is home to deer, beaver, muskrats, turtles, rattlesnakes and flocks of Canadian Geese, often numbering 25,000, many of which remain year around.

According to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Division of Conservation Planning, the Refuge's major habitat types include nearly 3,800 acres of wetlands, 3,500 acres of forests, 1,200 acres set aside for agriculture, and more than 500 acres set aside for grasslands. The Division of Conservation Planning relates: "This diversity of habitats supports an abundance of plant, mammal, reptile, amphibian, and fish species. The Refuge is home to a variety of species that are federally listed or state-listed as threatened or endangered. These species include the Eastern fox snake, the short-eared owl, the Peregrine falcon and the least bittern. Fish found in Refuge waters or expected to inhabit refuge waters include the lake sturgeon, state-listed as a threatened species in Michigan, and the river darter, a state-listed endangered species."

The Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge is a busy place year around. It is under the care of Steve Kahl, Refuge Manager and Assistant Manager Ed De Vries. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reports that "It provides food, nesting and roosting areas for more than 40 species of shore and wading birds. Average peak numbers range from 1,800 to 2,000 for shorebirds and from 400 to 500 for wading birds. Portions of the waterfowl flights from both the Mississippi and Atlantic flyways use the area each spring and fall. Peak waterfowl numbers on the Refuge exceed 40,000 to 50,000 ducks, 20,000 to 30,000 geese, and 700 to 1,200 swans. The American black duck and Canada geese are common on the Refuge in the fall, winter and early spring."

An important adjunct to Shiawassee is the Green Point Environmental Learning Center, a 76-acre tract within the city limits of Saginaw. Green Point, managed by Rebecca Goche, teems with wildlife observed by visitors who stroll along well-maintained trails. Friendly U.S. Wildlife Service Park Rangers, one of whom is Tom Horb, a retired school principal, guide groups, large and small, along rustic trails where they point out animals, birds, types of foliage, and conservation methods, all subjects of keen interest to eco-aware visitors. Tom spent ten years as a volunteer before accepting a full time position in 2007, thus knows all 76 acres as well as most of us know our backyards. He is on hand many summer weekends to give tours, hand out fishing rods, and answer questions all to the purpose of introducing visitors to the pleasures of the forest.

Early Settlers Focused on Immediate Needs

During the 19th century, however, America's settlers had less interest in wetland and wildlife preservation than in turning land into productive economic units. The marsh was viewed as a useless swamp because it could not easily drain, causing water to remain on the ground well past planting season. Seven-foot high grass and deep muck made farming the prairie beyond the capability of ordinary men and draining such a large expanse would require organization, capital, and management skill beyond the means of an individual farmer.

To turn a swamp into agricultural land, a visionary was needed. One arrived in the person of Harlan P. Smith. He was born Livingston County, Michigan on April 3, 1843, one of eight children. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a law degree in 1867 and then moved to Saginaw to join his brother Irving, older by thirteen years, in the practice of law. Quickly, his interest fell to timber lands, a hot growth industry because of the escalation of lumber mills throughout the American Midwest.

The nation's thirst for lumber brought thousands of men and women into Michigan's white pine forests, creating for the first time, a significant local market for mid-Michigan farm products. Smith looked at the wetlands south of Saginaw and saw opportunity in the fertile muck where others saw problems. He began acquiring title to the unwanted marshlands and induced others to join him in the undertaking. Eventually, he and his partners, fellow attorneys, Charles H. Camp and George B. Brooks, acquired approximately 10,000 acres situated in Albee and St. Charles Townships, south and east of the Flint and Shiawassee Rivers, and then began the development of what would become the largest privately owned contiguous farm in the state. Drainage became an immediate and demanding project. To that end, Smith and company cut a ditch from the northern section of the prairie to the Flint River, a distance of about two miles and in that way drained nearly 400 acres for immediate farming, a small but critical beginning. Out of the muck and the germ of an idea, a great farm was born and would carry the name Prairie Farm from its birth to the present.

The Prairie Farm would eventually encompass more than 10,000 acres. First, more drainage was needed and then roads, farmhouses and laborers. In many places, planks accommodated the movement of men, horses, and equipment. Even then, men had to leave boots and shovels mired as they escaped the sucking mud, leaving in their wake to die, horses too exhausted to extricate themselves from the ooze. Farm laborers demurred when offered jobs on the prairie.

Despite the horrors that descended on those who actually performed the farm labor, a case had been made economically for the further development of the prairie. Smith and his partners, however, decided to pass it on to others. They sold the farm in its entirety to the Saginaw Realty Company that then consisted of the Wickes brothers, Harry T and William J, successful machinery manufacturers, who both were well acquainted with the potential of sugarbeets. The new owners had watched with growing interest the construction of beet sugar factories in nearby Bay City and Saginaw. Partnered with them was the unheralded early promoter of the sugarbeet industry, Samuel G. Higgins, a Saginaw attorney.

The new owners found drainage costly, however, which made the land unattractive to farmers, especially when more suitable land was present in abundance. Several square miles of the marsh lay only a little more than three feet above the level of Saginaw Bay where for a half million years it had been a settling basin for rich alluvium carried by rivers from heights of 600 to 800 feet, flowing a hundred miles and more through fertile mid-Michigan regions. Rich as it was, farmers had no wish to contend with floods, remoteness and harsh farming conditions when better opportunities lay near at hand.

A sugar Company Begins Massive Development of the Prairie

The investment languished while the wildlife thrived. Area residents used it as a hunting preserve and sometimes a source of wild hay and probably shook their heads in wonder at the city investors who sank good money into land development when nearby land cost a fraction of that amount needed to drain the prairie. The lure, however, was the superior productivity of the land and the knowledge that reclamation was a one-time cost for which one could win an inestimable prize. Carmen Smith, no relation to Harlan P. Smith, an executive with the Owosso Sugar Company, a subsidiary of the Michigan Chemical Company, owned by Pittsburgh Plate Glass, founded and controlled by John Pitcairn, searched for a large tract in which to install a demonstration sugarbeet farm and enough acreage to assure the factory that it would have all the beets it would want. He quickly targeted the Prairie Farm and its disillusioned owners.

Smith completed the purchase from the Saginaw Realty Company on February 22, 1903 and soon, a steam-powered dredge, a monster designed for digging into mucky earth, was soon barged down the Saginaw River to the prairie. It bit into the earth in the front, forming a 20-foot high dike and creating a canal which it used to transport itself until acre-by acre, it claimed land that had waited a half a million years for the arrival of the mechanical behemoth.

Eventually, Owosso Sugar Company created thirty-six miles of dikes, some of them eighty feet wide at the bottom, forty at the top and twenty feet high. Others were of lesser dimensions but all designed for the same purpose - draining and then keeping the land dry. Roads crowned the tops of the dikes and the sides turned to grass for use as a sheep pasture. The sugar company laid out the land much like a giant checkerboard in twelve lines of sixteen forty-acre parcels with additional land set aside for growing peppermint and sheep grazing. Almost overnight, for a capital outlay of $400,000, Smith transformed the Prairie Farm from a losing proposition into the largest beet sugar estate in Michigan, and probably in the United States, if not the world - ten thousand acres. The new factory could now set aside worry about an adequate supply of beets.

Alicia - A farm town on the Prairie

Because the Prairie Farm lay seven miles southwest of Saginaw at the nearest point and seventeen to the farthest point, it would become important to the farm's success to achieve as much independence as was practical. For that reason, Carmen Smith established the village of Alicia to act as the organizing center of the farm and soon added two more, Pitcairnia and Clausedale. Pitcairnia, smaller than Alicia, was established in the center of the Prairie Farm's peppermint region. Its principal activity was the operation of a peppermint distillery and housing for the laborers committed to that operation. Clausdale served the needs of the farm's sheep operation.

Alicia served as the hub for hired workers and their foremen. Not only would the Prairie Farm represent one of the largest beet estates in the world but at the same time would be one of the most modern. A generator and water plant provided electricity and water to the farm's inhabitants. Telephones were available as was, beginning in 1904, the U.S. postal service.

Homes for workers and their families were set on posts and reposed on a half-mile long stretch of road. Nearby were two large dormitories for single workers and barns for implements, feed and horses. Sheep pens, surrounded by a blacksmith shop, a grain elevator, fuel tanks, and a community store completed the picture. A six-mile long rail siding afforded easy removal of sugarbeets and an economical method of importing supplies to the massive undertaking.

In 1900, horses and mules served as motive power for an extensive variety of farm implements, including plows, disks, harrows, planters, cultivators, mowers, and reapers. On the prairie, horses tended to bog down in the muck. In addition, since the greatest amount of needed power was for plowing, horse-pulled plows required the maintenance of a large number of plow horses year around for work that would take only weeks. Just three years after Chauncey W. Penoyar motored about Saginaw in the first horseless carriage seen on Saginaw streets (and shortly thereafter became involved in the city's first traffic fatality), the Prairie Farm introduced steam tractors and twelve-blade gang plows to overcome the dense soil. Plow horses, nevertheless, would have a place at the Prairie Farm for the next quarter century as they would throughout American agriculture. In 1910, there were more than 24 million horses and mules on American farms. Plow horses, moreover, drew more national and international attention to the Prairie Farm than did the raising of sugarbeets.

The Prairie Farm - Breeds Champion Draft Horses

By the time it became a major beet farm, the planting, cultivating, and harvesting of several crops in addition to sugarbeets, the Prairie Farm required three hundred head of heavy draft horses. Throughout each summer, about 75 teams, sometimes consisting of three horses, were in constant use. The farm was managed by Jacob DeGeus. He had been born in the Netherlands in 1854 and immigrated to America in 1888. His introduction to the American beet sugar industry occurred in Kalamazoo where he had been hired as an agriculturist. Later, he held the same position for a factory scheduled for Mount Pleasant. The Mount Pleasant project faded, however, so he moved on to Owosso, where he installed his wife Johanna and their four sons and a daughter on the Prairie Farm. While beet farming was his occupation, horses were his passion. He went to Belgium where he purchased the offspring of champion sires and mares and then spent years breeding champions that earned their living in the harness and winning awards at state fairs. One of them, Sans Peur de Hamal, was champion at the Michigan State Fair in 1915 and 1916 and was named grand champion of all breeds in 1916 and again in 1917. Another, Rubis, was awarded a silver medal by the King of Belgium in 1913.

The Prairie Farm Takes a Wrong Turn

By 1928, a faltering economy and dissatisfied farmers darkened the fortunes of beet sugar factory owners. The Owosso Sugar Company factory was in mothballs, its ownership now in the hands of Michigan Sugar Company, and the Prairie Farm, still in the hands of Pittsburgh Plate Glass, waited for new opportunities that came slowly as the country slid into the Great Depression.

In 1933, in the depths of a great depression, hope for the country's future reached a low ebb. John Pitcairn's heirs decided to sell the Prairie Farm. It was then that another visionary came on the scene, this one an adherent of the concept of collectivism. His name was Joseph J. Cohn. He leaped at the opportunity to build a society based on voluntary agreement and mutual cooperation. Born in Russia in 1878, Cohn arrived in the United States in 1902 whereupon he embarked upon a crusade that carried him across the country lecturing to socialist and labor groups. The land, means of production and other objects of common use should, he proclaimed, be vested in the community as a whole and all should work according to their ability and derive an equal share of the rewards of labor.

Cohn named the project the Sunshine Cooperative Farm Community. He said, "The farm is a highly productive one and can easily feed a thousand families...no one will have to work too hard and the community will have an abundance of things that are needed to make life attractive and worthwhile." At Sunshine there would be no worries about rent, food bills, and installment payments..."We will leave behind us all worry and care about a job and all fear of being thrown out on the dung-hill of derelict humanity".

The first of the 150 families that joined him in his dream entered the property on June 26, 1933. There they discovered a virtual paradise consisting of 2,000 sheep, 1,000 lambs, 200 pigs, a cow, five tractors three trucks, one old Buick and fields of peppermint, oats, barley, hay, alfalfa, timothy, clover, sweet corn, soybeans and 2,000 acres of sugarbeets. There were no farmers among them and all were poor. The community possessed one thousand dollars and owed four thousand to the few backers that had come to their aid.

Since the settlers lacked farming skills, Cohn turned to former employees, a move that then created a payroll, a feature of life that Cohn had hoped to avoid. Two thousand acres of sugarbeets demanded intensive labor, up to 350 laborers in a season. Sunrise Farms hired hundreds of workers. The hoped for profit from the first crop went instead to the overhead section of the income statement. The vast network of drainage ditches, Cohn learned in further disillusionment, required constant maintenance less it become clogged with weeds and trees. The crops for the next year looked promising until hoards of armyworms abetted by heavy rains and inexperience destroyed the corn and soybean crops. Sugarbeets usually achieved 10 tons to the acre at the Prairie Farm but in 1935, they averaged only five tons.

Dissent soon filled the air. Charges of corruption and incompetence flared along with anger, hatred and resentment that accumulated in concert with weeds that robbed the fields of productivity. Groups broke into factions and argued one with the other throughout the days and nights over matters large and small, sometimes ending in the exchange of physical blows. Formal complaints, investigations, and lawsuits followed. There was no peace for Cohn or his appointed managers.

By 1936, the weight of debt persuaded Cohn to sell Sunrise Farms to the Rural Rehabilitation Corporation, a branch of the federal government. The government paid $277,630, most of which was used to retire the debt of Sunrise. The Rural Rehabilitation Corporation's plan, an outgrowth of ideas encouraged by Rexford Guy Tugwell, an economist who became part of Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration, was to create a resettlement area for destitute farmers who would lease parcels of 40 acres according to one plan, and 80 acres according to another.

The Prairie Farm, under this plan, would no longer exist as a single farm but as a cooperative consisting of anywhere from 125 to 250 farmers most of whom would have limited capital and little or no experience with the complex nature of the Prairie Farm. Within a year of purchasing the property, however, the government changed course and gave up the idea of founding a cooperative that would in many respects differ not a great deal from the failed Sunrise Farms experiment. Instead, the government leased land to twenty-five families who remained behind when the Sunrise occupants decamped. They stayed for two years before they carried their idea to Samos, Virginia where they set up a similar community that also lasted a few years.

Prairie Farm Returned to Professional Farmers

The next eight years, under government ownership was a period of neglect. Buildings fell into disrepair as did the drainage ditches. On March 1, 1945, a group of farmers purchased the prairie for the bargain price of $265,000 with the understanding that the Prairie Farm would have separate ownership in parcels of approximately 600 acres. The government had lost faith in the collectivist idea, bringing to an end the Prairie Farm's identity as a single farm. There was no objection, however, to maintaining a cooperative for the purpose of purchasing supplies, maintaining dikes, and selling farm products. The new owners, thirteen in number, took ownership of individual parcels. They had been operating since 1944 as the Saginaw Prairie Co-Operative Farmers, Incorporated under the leadership of its President, Paul Albosta, Vice-President, Richard Price, and Jacob Spindler, Secretary-Treasurer. Now individually owned, the farmland quickly recovered from its period of neglect, becoming one of Michigan's most productive farm regions.

More than a century after a young visionary gazed upon a swamp and dreamed of productive farms, a visitor can see the that the combined efforts of conservationists and farmers has resulted in thousands of acres of useful crops, among them, sugarbeets, corn, soybeans, and wheat while at the same time preserving a wetland habitat that is of vital importance to waterfowl and other migratory birds and to humans on many levels.

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About the Author:

Thomas Mahar served as Executive Vice President of Monitor Sugar Company between 1984 and 1999 and as President of Gala Food Processing, a sugar packaging company, from 1993-1998. He retired in 1999 and now devotes his free time to writing about the history of the sugar industry. He authored, Sweet Energy, The Story of Monitor Sugar Company in 2001, and Michigan's Beet Sugar History (Newsbeet, Fall, 2006).


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Essentially the horse s diet nutrients may vary, hay, which is significantly depending on the selected quality.  Put the horse age is considered to be a daily routine horse is put in the work carried out as well. Parents horse s tend to do well in consumption (2) 2.5% of their weight weight per plant.

Producing mares and young people the horse s of growing alfalfa hay (usually the second or third cut) 18% or better, otherwise the horse s mature found higher protein with very approximately 12% protein to maintain diet healthy. High-quality alfalfa mix in the orchard and timothy horse Hay, than what I find works well by providing necessary nutrients as older or the horse s mature.  Approximately 20-25 pounds of total consumption of hay and other types of horse, 1000 pounds of feed.

As for those who are interested in a side note: the horse s, by its very nature must consume grass as their main grazers diet food and energy source for ary.  Horse s on our ranch, we noticed that the diet, high quality the horse hay "as is" without any other types of we supple, sweet feeds and g ntation rain demonstrate that was all we needed was the horse s to make a very light work. Periods of high workload rain supple g, me ntation, our only choice is approximately 1 gallon whole rolled oats, or once a day.  Please note, I am not a nutritionist, simply so me, one of which is for me since co Ranching history, many the horse born at the end of the day, and my father, who grew up riding horse and working time (s) of daily routines. Proposals for me have come a long the horse 's history, and so me t rain ing found I have taken the courses.  We the horse 's been a very diet type and look natural, when you think that the horse, s are in the nature of that sweet feeds grazers and molasses, etc., are generally not due to the nature of the horse s diet part.  Sweet diet s input, see the me (d) working okay, but you can me beco is very expensive, and it may be necessary to maintain a diet,, healthy the horse.

Minerals are more dependent on the other hand, horse the grass as well as corn, oats, etc. are kept and you might need to add soil quality.  Because a lot of minerals has been depleted a lot of farms today, placing free choice mineral blocks access to be in such a way as to offer other horse p. in minerals diet.

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