Wisconsin is known for its leadership and tak-
ing on the big projects. Robert Spitzer, now
retired president of MSOE and Murphy
Products and coordinator for Food for
Peace in the Ford administration in 1975 is
working with Rotary, International to elimi-
nate world hunger. One of the greatest
inventions to help with his world problem is
the concept of solar cooking with solar
ovens, developed in upper Wisconsin and
now used throughout developing countries.


H. and Lawrence E. Murphy estab-
the Murphy Products Company on
Street in Burlington, Wisconsin in
James attended the University of
sin and was the first country agricul-
gent of Walworth County, Lawrence
teacher in Kewaunee, WI, Century
ýding practices were being changed
ýId promise of improving livestock and
production. Murphy's Minerals and
ý's Concentrates supplied nutrients
lequately found in farm grains and
ige. In 1947, the Murphy's saw the
ýs growing to a highly technical and
gricultural industry, In the 1970's, the
ýny and Schlitz Brewing Company
Ped methods to convert brewery
to more useful animal feeds. Plants
Jed to Texas, Missouri, California and
Carolina, Ultimately, the businesses


were sold and the original plant is now
owned by Maple Leaf Farms and is leased
to Ralston Purina.


The Murphy Products Company sponsored
'The National Barn Dance" from Eighth Street
Theatre in Chicago on WLS Radio every
Saturday night at 8:00. Before television, this
radio show was very popular with not only
farmers, but all the people who loved coun-
try living. Skyland Scotty, Uncle Ezra, Arky the
Arkansas Woodchopper, Dezurich Sisters,
LuLuBell and the Three Little Maids were part
of the entertainment. Interestingly, Marge,
one of the Three Little Maids became Jim's
second wife and today lives with one of her
children in California.


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