Addy's turkey patch

This is my turkey design. This is for a contest. I had fun making it and I also hope I win because the winner gets $100.

If I win, they will make it into a real patch.


Note from Mom: Addy loves entering contests and I like that they give us a focus to learn something new in addition to our regular schoolwork. We read about this one in Farmers' Advance. The contest is to create the design for a Wild Turkey Management Cooperator patch. The DNR will give the patches to hunters who bring in a wild turkey for inspection in 2010.

Addy's patch is in the shape of a tom turkey, complete with beard. She added another turkey inside the design, at the bottom. Within that is a yellow turkey footprint.

Cutworm

I helped Daddy get enough cutworms to prove that cutworms are travelling into Michigan. I helped him prove it by giving him my cutworm moth out of my bug box. I went with him and looked for some more in the trap in a corn field.

Daddy gave me a cutworm moth to put in my bug box that I took to the fair, but I had to give it to him to prove that they're travelling into Michigan. He promised me that he'll get me one for next year.





Note from Mom: Addy said she felt proud of herself when she saw the results of her trips to check the trap with Bob published in the Pioneer ad, above bottom, in Michigan Farm News. Their trap is the one in the county at the tip of the Thumb (mustard color). Bob made the trap out of a milk jug, antifreeze and pheremone as an attractant. Addy sometimes went along this summer when Bob checked and emptied it. We sometimes wonder why schoolchildren are made to do meaningless, made-up projects when there is so much real and meaningful work in which they can participate. Not everyone has a father doing Extension research, but ...