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The term rain garden is something of a misnomer. A rain garden conjures up visions of perpetually moist landscape features; juicy basins teeming with thirsty plants and perhaps an amphibian or two. In fact, rain gardens experience a wide range of moisture conditions, ranging from temporary flooded bog, to bone-dry. According to the Soil Science Society of America, a rain garden is a feature “used to slow, collect, infiltrate, and filter stormwater.” Rain gardens improve the environment, and look beautiful while doing it. Learn how to put rain gardens to work in your landscape.
Read moreWheat has been fed to hogs in varying amounts for many years. Interest in wheat as a swine feed depends largely on the price relationship between wheat and other cereal grains. There have been periods in recent years when wheat has been competitively priced with other cereal grains, justifying its use in swine diets. When wheat is competitively priced with other cereal grains, it becomes especially attractive to Oklahoma pork producers since Oklahoma is a major wheat producing state. Wheat production in the state ranges from 100 to 200 million bushels annually. Often the state’s wheat harvest is five times as great as the combined production of sorghum grain, barley, corn and oats. Feeding wheat to hogs is viewed as a grain marketing alternative by some wheat producers who also raise hogs.
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DEAR ABBY: My friend “Gene” and I have been friends since elementary school. We’re now in our 50s. We were inseparable best friends all those years. When we were about 30, I started noticing our friendship seemed to be a one-way street because he made no effort to initiate contact.
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Today’s birthdays include Rachel Allen, Candy Allison, Shelly Bible, Jack Carbitcher, Boyde Coker II, Helen Cordell, Elizabeth Garbutt, Charles Goforth, Pearla Gunville, Rita Mikulecky, Zachary Morris, Pooh Notah, Meagan Ramsey, twins Lisa and Lori Robertson, Sophina Robinson, Rosalyn Reese, Fawn Rutherford, Inez Symons & Heather Wahlquist.
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A 37-year-old Seminole County man has been sentenced to prison for a fatal shooting and a separate assault that left the victim with severe facial injuries.
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Cromwell Left in The Dark After Storm Blows Through
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