HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1973-12-26, Page 11About 194 students in the
orning and 192 in the afternoon
rote exams at S.D.H.S. Tuesday
ith only Principal L.P.Plumsteel
nd one teacher presiding. All
ther teachers joined the Ontario-
de walk-but.
Schools in Huron were hit to
arying degrees by a
rovince-Wide walkout of teachers
join the protest in Toronto-
gainst the provincial govern
ent's by prohibiting
trikes by teachers. Classes
ontinued as usual at other
Seaforth and •area schools.
D. J. COchrane, Director of
Education for the Huron Board
said all teachers in the
elementary schools under the
board's jurisdiction, and all
elementary students, - were
present in school on Tuesday.
In the County's five high
schools, Mr. Cochrane reported
That all the 264 teachers, except
one teacher and the principal in
each school were absent on
Tuesday. At Seaforth District
High School, exams went on as
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scheduled. 'with all students
their exams in the cafeteria and,
pre,sent. All the students wrote
the gymnasium.
At Central Huron Secondary
School in Clinton exams were also •
Everyone is watching the held according to schedule.
energy crisis with some measure F. E. Madill Secondary School, in. of anxiety. It was interesting to
Wingham had exams scheduled hear Ag. minister Whelan say at but,not enough students showed
up to write them. Those students the annual meeting of the
Wellington Federation of
who did appear were sent home; Agriculture, that it takes 20,000 An identical situation developed
BTU's of gas to produce one
at South Huron Secondary School pound of steel, but it takes 60,000 in Exeter.
BTU's for one pound of fertilizer. Classes were scheduled at the
If you, as' consumer, see, the Goderich District Collegiate
Institute Tuesday but were price of food rise some more; you
cancelled and pupils sent home know one of the reasons. Another
when it was apparent that a large reason for high fertilizer cost is,
number of students were not that Morocco raised the price of
attending. rock phosphate to four` times its
In the` Huron-Perth. Roman former cost., Makes- you pause,
Catholic Schools only six out of a doesn , t it.
total of 155 teachers were not in On a London open line show
the classroom on Tuesday. Five of recently a woman complained
the teachers who stayed out were that she couldn't keep chickens in
from St. Aloysius in Stratford and her backyard. She would like, the
the" remaining one from St. bylaws of the City; of London
Michaels, Stratford. changed, *so she could have cheap
Gary Birmingham, principal of eggs. Well folks,
St. Aloysius, said that the absent as a farmer, would like nothing
teachers were protesting • the better than people finding opt for
provincial govern m en s themselves what ,it takes to grow
legislation, not the local school food.
board. With, half of the teaching I would like to, see pigs ;in.
staff of St. Aloysius absent, Mr. backyards with chickens and a
Birmingham said studentS great big steer. Those brave
without •• teachers watched enough to do this would soon find
educational TV and films in the out that their eggs would cost
gym. He added that enrollment of $1.50 instead of 90 cents and their
pupils dropped "considerably" in 'pork chops around $2. If I, as a
the afternoon. farmer, tried to butt into a trade I
• know nothing about, people
would laugh, but a housewife
• Talkative tourist to bus thinks she can do a better job than
driver: "How will I know when a professional food producer.
to get off at my street?" Well, let them try. ,
DriVer: "Just look for the It is possible to raise a pig
big smile on my face." though. A young lad in Florida
housetrained him (her), and
sleeps in the same bed. I assume
weight of ..350 pounds,
did just that. He raised a pig to a
the bed was re-inforced -
somewhat. He intends to keep it,
so he will soon have to look after
some 6-800 pounds of pork on the
hoof.
One reason for the increase in .
food cost is the increase in people': 1.
eating out. The increase in
expenses for eating in a
restaurant is 5.4 percent a year,
while- the cost- of groceries rises
by an .average of 3 percent. So
eating out costs a Canadian 1.5
percent more than eating at •-•',
home.
When you have your Chris‘rias
turkey, or ham next week it may
be a good idea 'to say a little
prayer for -them who grow the
food, that they may be able to
continue doing so. A Meriy
Christmas to all.
Nature needs
help to assist
farmers
e."
• There's strong evidence ;that
nature needs help if farmers are
to stay in business, according to
results of a study being made at
Kemptville College of Agricultur;
al. Technology.
"Our ,experiment shows that
corn crop yields drop off
drastically when no •agrimiltural
chemicals of any kind are used,"
reports J. S. Gardiner, an agrono-
mist at Kemptville.
A sandy loam field, in a gOod
,state of fertility, was selected for
the test.. „Five plots were sown
with corn of the same variety and
each plot was .tended in five
different ways.
One plot was grown without
fertilizer or weed control mater-
ials; a second plot was fertilized
only; a third plot had herbicide
applied exclusively; a fourth was
treated by a combinatfon of
fertilizer and herbicide While a
fifth was both fertilized and
cultivated. Where a'plot received
a treatment of some kind, the
specific treatment was repeated
four times during the growing.
season. - •
The results are dramatic. The,
ploein which nature received no
assistance (no fertilizer or weed
control material of any kind)
yielded 32 bushels per acre of
corn. The value of .this crop,
based on a corn price of $1.50 per
bushel, was $48. But the .cost of
producing the corn in this manner
was $46.80, leaving the producer
with a net gain of $1.20 per acre.
, Itt striking Contrast was the plot
treated With a combination. of
fertilizer and herbicide. It pro-
duced 113 bushels per acre for a
value of $169.50 for that acre of
corn. Production costs using this
method were $83.87, leaving the
producer with a net gain of $85.61*
per acre, the highest net gain of
the five production methods
featured in the experiment,
The "fertilizer only` plot`.
generated a net gain per acre of
$57.20, the plot both fertilized
and cultivated drew a net gain of
$59.75, and the one treated only
with a herbicide produced: $82.13.
"These results undersecite
what any good farnierS already
knows,'' concludes dardifien "If
he's to stay it business and
produce fetid at a reasonable' cost,
nature Can't go it alone.
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