The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1953-06-11, Page 5THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 11, 1953
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The agriculture department at
South Huron District High School
claims a unique distinction over
similar departments in other On
tario secondary schools:
It has organised in one year
close to 20 practical farm pro
jects for its students to partici
pate in and all this activity didn’t
cost the ratepayers of the district
a single, red cent.
The department’s year-end re
port shows it paid, for all the ex
penses of tbe projects, provided
students with a bonus for their
work, and still has a comfortable
surplus left in its bank account.
This enviable record (a happy
one for taxpayers) was achieved
under the direction of Andrew
Dixon, a part-time farming en
thusiast himself, who is in charge
of the local school’s agriculture.
His assistants in the department
are John Mahon and Gordon
Koch.
Achievements
The report
ments of ’
the year:
Carried
struction
hensive and practical.
Has paid all its expenses ex
clusive of tractor.
Has paid for $44.79 worth of
new equipment in addition to a
purebred Yorkshire sow.,
Hus distributed $141.70 in
cash dividends to students and
given them 'bulbs for home forc
ing that cost the school $29.56
a- well as ornamental shrubs for
home beautification.
Has deposited $74.56 in the
hank in excess of expenditures.
Has donated 21 bags of pota
toes to the cafeteria.
Has served the community by
growing and distributing regis-
sideward
action
RAKES
FASTER
with LESS
LEAF LOSS 1
the
on
that
lists the achieve-
department during
a program o£ in-
has been compre-
tered bean seed.
Has raised and distributed purebred Yorkshire breeding
stock.
Has landscaped and made at
tractive grounds to serve as a
source of community pride.
Has promoted and supervised
home projects for students.
Today the department has
$611.23 in the bank and negoti
able assets, in excess of equip
ment, of approximately $275,
This money has been accumulat
ed by the department at no cost
to the school board except for
the $115 worth of material to
build a colony house which was
sold after the barn was built.
Projects
The projects of the school dur
ing the year included a variety
of activities.
Registered beans were grown
and harvested, shown in fall fair
competition, and distributed!
among farm students at the
school. An interesting comment
on this project is the fact that
the smallest yield report from
this seed was 27 bushels per acre
which is much higher than the
Huron County average.
The students conducted a lay
ing hen project, keeping a strict
accounting ol’ the cost of produc
tion, and at the same time con
ducted an experiment to compare
two commercial feeds.
Over 400 chicks were raised in
the school poultry pen and sold
to the students for raising on
their own farms.
The department has cared for
a Yorkshire purebred sow
distributed 14 to boys in
course for breeding stock.
The vegetable garden was an
outstanding success. The
drew over $3 0 in prizes at ~ Of ‘if was
retail store.
donated to
Rod row
Evening Service
By D. I. HOOPER
Declare Weeds
Open this Sunday, Wednes
day afternoon, and during
the evenings throughout the
week:
SOUTH END B.A.
Service Station
p.m. — 1.23 inches. E.g.
inches every 24 hours. These are
weeks
Home Activities
During the summer, the stu
dents completed a number of pro
jects. The boys raised 47 pigs to market age, raised 50 chicken,
185 ducks, three calves, 15 acres
of beans, made 10 lawn chairs,
one utility table, sided a garage,
built a picket fence, painted three
farm implements, forced two doz
en bulbs, top worked an apple
tree, raised 11 pheasants, kept
one colony of bees and made a
weed seed collection.
The girls grew yellow wax
beans, turnips, barley, raised
calves, ducks, roosters, decorated .
a kitchen, cared for gardens, I time this year. The weather has
canned vegetables and fruit and’been too cold and wet, but don’t
computed the cost of running a lulled into thinking thev have /«iv fnv tsiv mnnfnu *gone visiting. They’re still with
us.
Cultivation is the old standby |
for many farmers, and for the j
early planted corn and sugar beets it will be more than neees- '
sary to aereate the soil to pro
mote fast growth. If heavy crust
ing has occurred harrowing of
the corn fields BEFORE cultivat
ing will pay off. Rotary Hoes or
Weeders will also show their
worth this year. These come in
gangs or as attachments for your
cultivator. The attachments, of
ten called spiders, are very rea
sonably priced and will pay for
themselves many times over.
It has been the* writer’s exper
ience that weeders used in corn __and beans at the right time and’sprayed
car for six months.
The students kept a record of
the expenses and receipts of all
their projects.
The results of the department
show the attitude of Mr. Dixon
toward agricultural instruction.
Although his department gives a
considerable amount of agricul
tural theory, it emphasized as
much as possible student parti
cipation in practical projects. The
department is one of the most
aggressive in the province.
Mr, Dixon operates a farm in
McGillivray township on which
he has a large orchard, He is a
member of the Exeter Agricul
tural Society and an executive
member of the Ausable Valley
Conservation Authority.
Not too much evidence of the
vagrants in the fields at planting
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The new Ferguson Side-Delivery Rake lifts the hay gently
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No pitching, kicking or tossing—far less rolling and churning!
Less leaf loss. Power take-off driven—tractor-mounted—Finger
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silage” mixtures such as Millet, Sudan Grass,
Soybeans, Sorghum and Cane, sowed broad
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The same Basic Harvester Unit, with own engine
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eter Fair. Some
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Potatoes were
school cafeteria,
plots have been planted this year
as well as a carefully planned
section of vegetables.
Cuttings were taken from
many varieties of shrubs, devel
oped in the propogation bench
and 50 bushes were distributed
among the students.
The school orchard was en
larged this year with the planting
of grape, peach, pear and dwarf
apple trees. The mature trees
have been mulched, and painted
with rabbit repellant.
Twelve dozen eggs were
hatched in the school incubator.
The students visited the or
chard of Mr. Dixon and all made
a graft.
About 3,000 trees were planted
by the students on the farm of
Gilbert Dow on the banks of the
Ausable.
In addition to these projects,
the school has conducted activ
ities in beekeeping, insect collec
tion, hot beds, bulb forcing, and
landscaping around the school.
Several students participated in
plowing contests locally and four
were sent to compete in the In
ternational match at Carp.
The school also built a model
hog production barn for display
at Clinton seed fair.
Report On
Grand Bend
By MRS. IRENE MEYERS
■Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Barbour,
of Toronto, spent last weekend
with the
Flear.
Mr. and
of Deroit,
Mr. and Mrs. Alex Campbell, last
week.
Mrs. George Graham spent last
week in London.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Dallas, of
Detroit, visited the latter’s
mother, Mrs. George Graham,
over the weekend.
The United Church turkey
supper was well attended.
The Anglican Church Corona
tion service on Tuesday, June 2
was well attended by the W.A.,
the veterans and the Boy Scouts.
Mr. Stanley Gill has been ill
in hospital in London.
Mr. R. Flear’s uncle, Mr.
Richard Hunt, and Mrs. Hunt, of
Honeywood, visited the Flears,
Sunday and Monday, enroute to
Vancouver.
Mr. Peter Eisenbach’s racer
took several prizes in Batavia
last week.
Two men working with Mr. F.
Negrijn on the bog during the
thunderstorm last Thursday, had
an uncomfortable experience
when lightning singed their arms
and hands.
Mr. Harold
ciigars around
day evening „ ___„ __
Lions Club to e delicious dinner
served by the swimming pool.
The occasion was a celebration
of the arrival that evening of a
new daughter. Congratulations,
Harold.
Mrs. K. Young received a nasty
cut on her eye on Sunday.
Mr .and Mrs. Roy Flear at
tended the marriage of their
son, Dennis, to Miss Shirley
Brush, of Mossley, The happy
young couple are honeymooning
in Northern
reside
return.
latter’s sister, Mrs.
Mrs. John Campbell,
visited their parents,
amine solutions. Under certain
conditions this is sufficient but it
will not kill foxtail or twitch.
While spray enthusiasts claim
that no cultivation is needed after
planting this is only true under
certain moisture and soil condi
tions. Also the type of weeds
growing in the corn field have a
definite bearing op the matter.
DID YOU KNOW . . ,
That corn grows faster at
night? Research results show
that from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. corn
grew 1.28 inches, 7 a.m. to 7
p.m.— 1.23 inches. E.g. 2.51
average figures. Certain
‘corn .grew 30 inches.
‘thih week . . .
Stop worrying.
Cultivate corn.
Hoe sugar beets.
Cheek sale blocks.
Spray flies---they spread dis-!
jeas- including Hog Cholera. i
i Check harvest machinery, and;
buy repairs now. j
Check water in tractor battery;
■’ ....they use more in '
i properly adjusted, will make a I
more efficient job of weeding ■
than human hands. Their results1
are much like the harrow except
that they will not injure and de- (
stroy corn plants so much. Ra-|
tlier than set the plants back1
they seem to promote growth.
; The best time to hit foxtail and "radiator- t.......... ..
and ragweed is when they are .‘hot weather-—remember?
small, less than one inch high,!
before they have time to become j
firmly rooted. The weeders should,
be used before the first cultiva-j
tion at the same time with trac- i tor speeds not below three m.p.h.!
True they will not remove too ’ .much Canada thistle, bindweed, ’
twitch grass, or sow thistle, even j
after the second time over, hut j
in com these, with the exception
of the twitch, may be eradicated j
very cheaply by spraying with ■
2-4D.
Many large corn fields are now
only cultivated once and then
with either
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