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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1974-09-04, Page 7WHITE BEAN GROWERS Additional capacity is now available at our new modern plant at Seaforth which provides even more convenience for area bean growers YOU CAN BE ASSURED OF *Fair prices * Honest weights * Reliable grading * Patronage return on profits * Courteous service Make The Farmers' Elevator Work For You! ONTARIO BEAN GROWERS yir COOPERATIVE Twocolts( n s 1.0iN DO N 3 E.- AFO RT BitieS4KCS Pkf T sigkritivatEs 31614-7 1111111111 [AL lerich CAN WE PLAY WITH YOU? First day in school was Just a little strange for some of the 22 new kindergarten pupils at the Brussels Public School this year. These two girls looK interested in 'pining The two boys on the floor playing with blocks. rhere are three more children in kindergarten this year than last at BPS. (Photo by Pat Langitsis) Going away ?... Don't forget to be a 0 Blood Donor before you go round fences to prevent eaths Livestock on pastures should be rotected from lightning by roperly grounded fences, says n agricultural engineer at the tario Agricultural College in uelph. "Many cattle have been killed y an electrical charge when ghtning struck one part of an ngrounded or improperly rounded fence," states , K.Bilanski, of the School of gineering. He recommends that the ounding electrodes be either a tandard galvanized steel post or 3 /4 inch galvanized steel pipe. o be effective, there must be iven into the ground to a minimum of three feet. He recommends that the minding electrodes be either a andard galvanized steel post or 3/4 inch galvanized steel pipe. o be effective, these must be riven into the ground to a nimum of three feet. Spacing is also important, since tghtning can travel a nsiderable distance through nee wire. According to the ndards of the American nety of Agricultural Engineers, I fence wires should be securely stened with galvanized wire ties the grounding electrodes. the istance between each electrode hould not be more than 150 feet normally dry, rocky soils and 01 more than 300 feet for °Malty moist or damp soils. 4n advantage of fences built tit metal posts set in the ground that they are \ as safe from ginning as it is practical to Make 'ices, Provided the continuity is Token," the engineer says: Breaking the continuity Vents the electrical current om traveling through long .coons of fencing. He suggests t farmers insert a wooden wooden panel sections or her Material with titiiilar sulatifig and mechanical agth properties into the fence n eat maximum intervals of 1,00 t.