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TIDBITS® GOES DOWN ON THE FARM

by Kathy Wolfe

Ee-i-ee-i-oh! This week, with an oink-oink here and a moo-moo there, Tidbits takes a trip to the farm and looks in on all sorts of farmyard activities.

• The 1819 “Farmer’s Almanac” advised, “Think not that because it is winter, a farmer may lie idle. Busy, sir, busy! This is the word for all farmers at all times and seasons.”• The farmer’s field received its name from the an-cient Anglo-Saxons. When they were preparing to plant, it was necessary to first clear the heavily for-ested lands. Areas that had been cleared of trees were referred to as “felled,” hence the name “field.”• A top-of-the-line steel beam plow could be pur-chased from the 1910 Sears & Roebuck catalogue for about $10. Their best wheelbarrow was $8, while a top-quality 24-tooth hay rake retailed for $18.75. • Cows don’t really have four stomachs, but rather one stomach with four compartments. The stomach muscles send food back into a cow’s mouth to be chewed and swallowed again. If a cow is “chewing her cud,” she is actually re-chewing food she already chewed before! Cows are ruminants, which refers to this type of stomach that sends food back to the mouth.

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With 14 gold and eight platinum albums to his cred-it, John Denver was one of the most popular artists of the 1970s. Follow along as Tidbits looks into the life of this gentle, down-home singer.

• Although John Denver was born in New Mexi-co, he didn’t stay there for long. Born Henry John Deutschendorf Jr. into a military family, his father’s Air Force flight instructor position took them from place to place. As a youngster in Arizona, he sang in the Tucson Boys Choir for two years, and at age 11, was given a guitar that had belonged to his grandmother. • Denver enrolled in college at the Texas Techno-logical College in the school of architecture, but it didn’t take him long to realize that his future was in music. At age 20, he made the move to Los Ange-les, and at 22, joined The Mitchell Trio and started his recording career. After three albums with the trio, he branched out on his own at age 26. His friends urged a name change, suggesting John Sommer-ville, but John loved Colorado so much, he opted to use its capital city for his stage surname. • John Denver’s first album was “Rhymes and Reasons,” a 1969 production that featured one of his most famous compositions, “Leaving on a Jet Plane,” which had been recorded by Peter, Paul and Mary two years earlier. After Denver’s own re-cording of the song was released, the other version rose to No. 1 on the Billboard charts. • “Jet Plane” was closely followed by “Take Me Home, Country Roads,” a Billboard No. 2 hit. In 1974 and 1975, Denver was a major player on the charts with four No. 1 hits, “Sunshine on My Shoul-ders,” “Annie’s Song,” “Thank God I’m a Country Boy” and “I’m Sorry.”• “Annie’s Song” was written for his wife Annie Mar-tell, whom he had met while performing at Minne-sota’s Gustavus Adolphus College and married in 1967. He composed the song in ten minutes while riding a ski lift. • Over the years, Denver recorded about 300 songs, with 200 of these being his own composi-tions. The state of Colorado named him their Poet Laureate in 1977, and he was inducted into the Songwriters’ Hall of Fame in 1996. • Denver branched out into acting and was praised for his role opposite George Burns in the 1977 com-edy “Oh, God.” He also guest-starred frequently on “The Muppet Show,” which was the start of a long friendship with Muppets creator Jim Henson. Dur-ing the 1970s and 1980s, he was the host of the Grammy Awards five times, and also was a fre-quent guest host on “The Tonight Show.”• Denver was a long-time advocate of the environ-ment, campaigned consistently for its conserva-tion, and reflected his love of nature in many of his songs. • Denver’s love of flying eventually led to his death. As a pilot with over 2,700 hours of experience, he had mastered several ratings, both land and sea, single- and multi-engine, and Lear jet proficiency. Yet, in October of 1997, while piloting his recently-purchased Long-EZ plane, he crashed into the Pa-cific Ocean near Pacific Grove, California. Follow-ing cremation (along with his grandmother’s 1910 Gibson guitar), his ashes were scattered in his be-loved Rocky Mountains.

MUSIC LEGEND:JOHN DENVER

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TOP TEN VIDEO, DVD of October 9, 2010Top 10 Video Rentals1. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (PG-13) Jake Gyllenhaal2. Killers (PG-13) Aston Kutcher3. Letters to Juliet (PG) Amanda Seyfried4. Just Wright (PG) Queen Latifah5. Date Night (PG-13) Steve Carell6. The Back-up Plan (PG-13) Jennifer Lopez7. Solitary Man (R) Michael Douglas8. Marmaduke (PG) Owen Wilson9. The Last Song (PG) Miley Cyrus10. Death At a Funeral (R) Chris Rock

Top 10 DVD Sales1. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (PG-13) (Buena Vista)2. Letters to Juliet (PG) (Summit)3. Barbie: A Fashion Fairytale (NR) (Universal)4. The Big Bang Theory: The Complete Third Season (NR) (Warner)5. Just Wright (PG) (20th Century Fox)6. Glee: The Complete First Season (NR) (20th Century Fox)7. Glee: Season One: Volume 2: Road to the Regional (NR) (20th Century Fox)8. Grey’s Anatomy: Complete Sixth Season: More Is Better (NR) (Buena Vista)9. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia: The Com-plete Season 5 (M) (20th Century Fox)10. Killers (PG-13) (Lionsgate)

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“Back to the Future: 25th Anniversary Trilogy” (PG) -- Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd star as Marty McFly and Doc Brown in the clas-sic madcap time-travel trilogy. All three films on six discs -- three of which are packed to the rafters with special features, including a brand-new six-part retrospective featuring the cast and crew. If you don’t already own the series, this release is the definitive collection for your DVD library.

“Paths of Glory” (The Criterion Collection) (Un-rated) -- Directed by Stanley Kubrick and star-ring Kirk Douglas, “Paths of Glory” is an epic film set in World War I and was the film that put Stanley Kubrick on the map as a director of note. Douglas stars as a French colonel who orders a squad to capture a German patrol. The men fail, and the colonel’s commanding generals order him to arbitrarily choose three men to be tried for cowardice. “Paths of Glory” is not only a bril-liant depiction of the hell of trench warfare, it is also a gripping indictment of war’s folly and the ambitions of those in power whose pride leads to the senseless slaughter of good men.

“You Don’t Know Jack” (Unrated) -- After spend-ing more than a decade phoning it in, Al Pacino finally delivers a tour-de-force performance as the controversial doctor Jack Kevorkian in this HBO docudrama. Directed by Barry Levinson and featuring a stellar supporting cast (Susan Sarandon, James Urbaniak, Brenda Vaccaro, John Goodman), “You Don’t Know Jack” is not only a humanizing glimpse into the life of a misunderstood man, but a film that address-es the fundamental question: “Whose life is it, anyway?” Does an individual have the right to choose to die? And if so, if they ask for assis-tance, is the person helping them committing murder or mercy?

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¥ It was British mathematician, historian, logician and philosopher Bertrand Russell who made the following sage observation: “Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half of the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.”

¥ The next time you’re in South Dakota, you might want to make a side trip to the town of Rosalyn. Visitors there can take a look through the Interna-tional Vinegar Museum.

¥ Statistics on sporting events show that 17 of the 20 sporting events with the most attendees every year are NASCAR races.

¥ Though coffee has been around for about 700 years, instant coffee was invented just more than 100 years ago, in 1906. By George Washington. Of course not that George Washington. The man who made coffee more convenient was from Belgium. ¥ Albert Einstein’s theories of relativity suggest that the passage of time is affected not only by accel-eration (a person traveling at the speed of light, for instance, will age more slowly than someone who is stationary), but also by gravity. Scientists using ultra-precise atomic clocks have proved that people who experience a stronger gravitational pull age more quickly. What does this mean for you? If you spend your life precisely at sea level and your twin lives at 1 foot above sea level, over the course of a 79-year lifespan a difference of 90 billionths of a second will develop between your ages.

¥ The average coffee tree yields only enough beans every year to make one pound of coffee. ¥ You might be surprised to learn that, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, the car that was stolen the most in the United States in 2009 was the 1994 Honda Accord.***Thought for the Day: “Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.” -- Stephen King

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DOWN ON THE FARM (continued):• Texas leads the Unites States in the number of beef cattle, while Wisconsin is the leader in dairy cattle. The country with the most cattle is India, where the cow is considered sacred.• The average dairy cow gives about 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime. That’s an annual out-put of about 1,600 gallons per cow. • Although we in North America drink mostly cow’s milk, worldwide, more people drink goat’s milk than cow’s. • Do you speak “chicken?” These feathered crea-tures have been the inspiration for all kinds of idi-oms in our language, such as “chicken-hearted” and “chicken-livered” to denote cowardliness. We “walk on eggshells” when we proceed cautious-ly. Our “nest egg” is money saved for the future. An “egghead” is overly intellectual, and a person is seen as a “good egg” or a “bad egg.” If you’ve done something that made you look foolish, you have “egg on your face.” We’ve all “run around like a chicken with its head cut off,” “counted our chick-ens before they’re hatched,” and been advised not to “put all our eggs in one basket.” Many offices have a “pecking order,” and some men claim to have been “hen-pecked” by a “biddy.”• There are more chickens in the world than any other bird. That little red growth that hangs beneath a chicken’s beak is called a wattle. It’s red because it has a rich supply of blood. • A female chicken less than a year old is known as a pullet, while a very young male is a cockerel. When a cockerel is 8 to 12 weeks old and weighs 2 or 3 pounds, he is referred to as a broiler.• The average baby pig weighs in at about 2.5 pounds (.93 kg), doubling its weight during its first week of life. Adult males can reach about 500 pounds (186 kg), with sows at 450 (168 kg). Most hogs are off to market at about seven months old. • Let’s not waste anything! A pig’s fat, skin, hair and glands are all used in manufacturing and in-cluded in products such as soap, shaving cream, explosives, fertilizer, glue and medicine, including insulin.• If you’re feeding the Embden, the Toulouse, Sebastopol or the American Buff, you’re a goose farmer. If you’re eating your Christmas goose, most likely it’s of the Embden variety.

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• The delicacy pate de foie gras is made from the livers of geese. In Europe, geese are forced to eat more food than normal to produce a large, fatty liver. But don’t try it in America … This method of feeding is illegal in the States. • According to folklore, when sheep run back and forth, jump up and down, and fight as they frolic, it means a change of weather is on the way. Leg-end further maintains that if oxen are licking their forefeet, hens are taking dust baths, or frogs are croaking more than usual, rain is forthcoming. A chicken standing on one leg denotes impending cold weather. • Roquefort cheese is made from the milk of the French Larzac, or Roquefort, sheep. The fat con-tent in sheep’s milk is much higher than that of cow’s milk. • What’s for dinner? If you’re having moussaka, you’re eating a dish of lamb and eggplant. Kibbe on the menu denotes ground lamb. • When a female horse and a male donkey mate, the result is a mule. An old proverb says: “Mules make a great fuss about their ancestors having been horses.” • The most common duck raised in the United States is the White Pekin. The Pekin duck, which originated in China, was introduced to America in the 1870s.• Although most folks eat turkey in November, the month of June has been dubbed National Turkey Lovers’ Month. September is National Chicken Month, May is National Egg Month, and October is National Pork Month. For those non-meat lovers, October is also Vegetarian Awareness Month, and November is Peanut Butter Lovers’ Month. • Although we think of turkeys as gobblers, only the male toms actually gobble. The female hens make a clicking noise. A mature turkey will have about 3,500 feathers. • A horse’s teeth take up more space in its head than its brain. While a male horse will have 40 teeth, the female’s mouth contains only 36.• We generally mount a horse on its left side. This practice has been around since the days of ancient Greeks, when the soldiers carried their weapons on their left side, making it difficult to mount on the horse’s right side.

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