The Brussels Post, 1972-11-08, Page 14Village Of Brussels
SENIOR CITIZEN
APARTMENTS
* IF YOU ARE SIXTY YEARS OF AGE OR OVER
* IF YOUR PRESENT ACCOMMOD ATION IS INADEQUATE . .
* IF YOUR INCOME IS MODEST
* IF YOU ARE A RESIDENT OF BRUSSELS, MORRIS OR GREY
THIS IS OF INTEREST TO YOU!
The Ontario Housing Corporation, at the request of your municipal council, is
considering the development of senior citizen housing in the town. To determine the
local interest in this type of accommodation, survey questionaires are now being distrib-
uted.
ONLY BY FILLING OUT A QUESTIONAIRE CAN YOU
HELP TO DETERMINE WHETHER A PROJECT
SHOULD BE DEVELOPED.
Further information and questionaire
forms are available to all interested persons'
60 years of age and over at the
Clerk's, Office
Wm. H. King
VILLAGE OF BRUSSELS
Pork Cubes with Rice
1 pound boneless pork
shoudler, cut in 1-inch cubes
1 tablespoon lard or dripplius
4 medium-sized onions, thir.1
sliced
3/4 cup rice, tincookm
2 teaspoons salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1/2 teaspoon sage
2 cups water
Brown pork cubes in lard
or drippings. Cover tightly and
cook over low heat . for 30 min-
RernoVe meat to absor-
bent paper., Pour off all but 1
tablespoon drippings. Lightly
brown onion In reserved drip-
pins. Add rice ; Salt, pepper
and sage: Stir in water; then
meat. Cover and continue cook-
= slowly 30 minutes or until
meat is ,lone. 4 to 5 servingS..
BRUSSELS POSI, NOVtMBER 8, 1972
How rnuoll is it costing you to
own 244 operate your farm mach*
inery? Can you reduce these
costs and are there alternatives
to your present set of farm equip-
Ment?
These questions and others
are discussed in a new publica-
. eon called "Farm Machinery
Operating Costs", issued by the.
Statistics Branch pf the Ontario
Department of Agriculture and.
Food. Methods of calculating
annual use and operating costs
for all types of farm machines
are explained.
For costing purposes, the
whole range of farm machinery
has been grouped into five main
classes as follows:
(a) Tractors - 10 years life.
(b) Group I Machines - 1.0 years
life.
(c) Group II Machines - 15
years life.
(d) Farm Trucks - 10 years'
life.
(e) Obsolete Machines - over
10 or 15 years old, all types.
One schedule of hourly rates
(or costs) has been calculated
for the normal life span of mach-
ines, and a different schedule for
the obsolete stage. There is a
section on second hand or used
equipment suggesting a simple
and practical method of arriving
at hourly costs for machines
that were not purchased in a new
condition. -The section on farm
trucks shows three ways of figur-
ing costs for trucks:
(a) Cost per mile of use.
,(b) Cost per hour (motor run-
ning).
,(c) Cost per hour (motor not
running).
A schedule of reliable cost
data on farm machines can be
used for a number of purposes:
- to aid farmers or research
organizations in cost-of-produc-
tion studies on farm enterprises
and in other investigations.
- to help in farm budgeting and
planning.
- to facilitate counselling by
extension workers.
to determine custom or rental
charges for farm machines or
-sets of equipment.
- to compare costs of alterna-
tive methods of performing the
same task or series of opera-
tions.
- to discover which farm prac-
tices pay best.
- to find ways of reducing costs
and increasing net returns.
- to make decisions about the
purchase or sale of farm mach-
ines.
A convenient method of arriv-
ing at total machinery operating
costs is to establish a basic cost
(depreciation, interest, housing,
repairs, insurance, maintenance)
and then add to this basic cost
the other costs (such a s fuel, oil,
grease and oil filters). The for-
mula is: basic costs plus other
costs equal total cost of operat-
ing farm machines.
Tasty -Topic
Operating
costs of farm
machines
studied