The renewed exposure isn't too shabby for a property that debuted back in ' Rather than fading into the background with other retro entertainment, today more than 58 million Where's Waldo? I'll admit I have it on my phone! Incredibly, Waldo also has 4. Aside from donning your best Waldo getup today, here are a few other ways you could mark the occasion:. If my favorite candidate receives the fewest votes, he or she is eliminated and my ballot now counts for my second preference.
Voting results are counted again yielding a winner with a majority of the vote. Why does the angry, hateful, and racist behavior of our governor and some of the presidential candidates really matter? Because regardless of their political viewpoints, their prominent voices in the public arena create new acceptable norms of behavior.
As they express their outstanding lack of civility toward others, the door gradually opens to others whose hate has been contained by what society has found unacceptable in the past. Is this the society we want? It takes no courage to hate. To use hatred to scare people into voting for you is especially pathetic. Imagine if we all behaved like that every day in our communities. That would be an ugly world in which to raise our families. Recently a gentleman who lives in the Midcoast area of our state was walking home from the library.
A state trooper drove past him. The Maine state trooper then turned around, came back, and stopped the man. The trooper asked what he was doing there. How many times have you, or a member of your family, been stopped and questioned as you walked down the street of your own town, perhaps on the way to the store, or to visit a neighbor, or on your way back from the library?
Please, think about this. I certainly never have been. But then again, my skin color is not dark brown. In , there was also no significant linear relationship between relative maturity and expected milk yield. Again, these relationships have been weak, but consistent in the past, with an increase of 91 — pounds per acre of milk expected for each day increase in relative maturity Table 5.
Shorter season hybrids offer options for improved cover crop establishment and the potential for double cropping. Although they may be slightly less productive in some growing seasons, this additional crop flexibility can significantly improve the total yield of digestible nutrients per acre.
There is risk associated with choosing longer season hybrids for higher yield. Yield responses to longer maturity was greatest in the highest growing degree years, and it was not present under average growing conditions. By choosing short-season or mid-season varieties, producers help to guarantee a level of maturity and dry matter that produces quality corn silage that ferments well in the silo.
They become less vulnerable to late wet harvest years. This also opens the door for improved nutrient and soil management options such as cover cropping. In most years, earlier-maturing hybrids showed optimum or close to optimum dry matter content at harvest time.
Later-maturing hybrids tend to show somewhat lower than recommended dry matter content at harvest. In , nearly all hybrids had lower dry matter than optimum due to the early harvest. Once again, there was a significant linear relationship between relative maturity and dry matter, with later-maturing hybrids being wetter at harvest.
In , , and , hybrids with shorter maturities showed higher dry matter content than recommended, indicating that they could have been harvested earlier. We would like to thank John Stoughton and the farm crew at Misty Meadows Farm for their help with planting, crop management, and harvest. Thanks are also extended to the seed dealers who helped with seed donation, planting, and harvesting and to staff and students who helped in the field and in the office.
Calendar Give News Find us Contact. Cooperative Extension in Waldo County. Table 1. Growing degree days, Maine corn silage variety trial, Table 2. Monthly rainfall, June 1 — September 22, , Waterville, Maine. Month Rain inches June 5. Table 3.
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