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CENTRALIA COLLEGE
CONTINUING EDU.CATION SPRING COURSES '93
ENVIRONMENTAL
"Greening!' Your Home April 15 (7:31)-1(1 p.m.) Fee: $16.05
A course which titters suggestions of things you can do in your home ,to help the environment. "Recipes" for
cleaning products and other tips -for "greening". Everyone takes home samples.
' ('omprrsting for Your Garden' April 21) (7-111 p.m.) Fee: $16.115
Learn various composting methods and when to use your composted material. Commercial and alternative
ferliliicrs and herbicides will he discussed. •
FINANCIAL
understanding Your Farm Income Tax March 24 (9:110 a.m.-4:00 p.m.) Fee:'$21 .4l)
Intended tor those connected with a farm business (operated as a proprietorship or partnership. Nol a
corporation) w.ho ma)'have their returns prepared by a professional hut want to he able to read and understand
'them.
FOODS -
•(•ooking with Herbs March 25 (7:30-1(1 p.m.) Fee: $16.05
Put down the salt •shaker - there are some wonderful flavours .out there! Participants learn to grove their iiwii
herbs booth indoors and outdoors. Foods -flavoured with lierhs are prepared for tasting...
GARDENING
' Adyanccd Home Landscaping: March 23. 30 (7-10 r.ni.) + April 3 (12-5 p.m.) • Fee: $42.80
Designed For those vhowish to look at different types and•styles of gardens. Features will he: -location -low
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maintenance landscapes •cottage gardens •xeriscaping •contai er gardening •,watcr gardens •rock gardens and
formal gardens.
.Basic Home Gardening . April h, 13 (7-10 p.m.) Fee: $21.40.
for beginners and experienced home gardeners. Features include: 7•mulchin.g •prepari.ng the•seed bed
•cultivation practices -growing transplants from seed •cultur,al practices for unusual vegetable species
Pruning Ornamentals . April 10(12-4 p.rn.) .. Fee: $16.05
A workshop.'on correct pruning methods.: Includes how to prune perennials. shrubs, trees and roses, tool
identification, dire. and maintenirre of pruning tools and types of pruning cuts. Participants should bring their
'own 'pruning shears ...or bands -on work, •
Growing Flowering.PerennialsAp•
ril 19; 26 (7-10 'p.m..) or .
Apri I. 17 (9 a.m.-4 p.m.) . 'Fee:. $32.10
.n short course ramirl
looking at •~election of easy to.•grow perens •how. to select and prepare a site for the
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perennial horde.r'•how to obtain and plan the perennials'
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PerennialsPlus - '• : May3 (7-10 p.m.)- • . Fee: $21.40.
A continuation of Growing Flciwering.Perennials and expands on the selection Of perennials along with
propagation, especiallystarting perennials from seed to obtain rare plants. "
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Bulbs, Corms and Rhizomes April 22 (7-10 p.m.) Fee: $21.40'
This one -evening course will discuss the different types of spring, summer and fall bulbs, how they multiply,
how to select a site for hest growth and how to plant Lind care for them.. - - .
Landscaping With Ornamental Grasses May 6,(7-10 p.m.) Fee: $21:40
Honie owners looking for a novel way.to landscape their home will enjoy this ecwrse. Learn. about the various
grasses you,can grow,thaf wilI.add a new look to•yourgarden_ Topics. include: •identify,ing grasses ',planting .
and 'maintenance. how-to's. "
Gardens - Putting It All Together ,May• I0 (7-I0 p.m.) • Fee: $21.40
Learn how to select .and plant an -easy maintenance border using flowering shrubs, perennials, ornamental
grasses; bulbs and ground covers. This course concentrates on plant material selection not soil preparation..
All course costs include GST •
•To register or for more information. phone
• Centralia College
(5 19) 228-6691, Ext. 285
Ontario
Ministry of
Agriculture
and Food
CENTRALIA
COLLEGE
HURON PARK, ONT. NOM 1170
(519) 228-6691
Low-fat diets will affect
provincial dairy producers
by Andy Bader
The "phenomena" of low-fat diets
will have a dramatic effect on prov-
incial<dairy producers in the future.
That was the message given by
Eric McLeod, Perth, Huron and
Waterloo Field Services Representa-
tive of the Ontario Milk Marketing
Board during a one-hour presenta-
tion at the Perth County Farm Show
in Stratford last month.
McLeod, a 15 -year representative
of the marketing board, explained
that for generations dairy farmers
bred their cows to produce high
levels of fat since it was more
profitable to do so. Over the last
decade, though, consumers are
being more fat conscious in their
diet, and are staying away from
butter and products with high fat
content.
In order to successfully change
with the times and remain profitable
in the dairy industry, farmers
should find ways to lower the fat
component in their milk quota..
McLeod said discovering better
uses for theprotein component, or
the solid not fat (SNF) element, is
the wave of the future.
"Fortunately, the higher the fat
component the higher the protein,"
he said. "They're positively corre-
lated."
One difficulty might be the exact
opposite, however, since lowering
the fat element might decrease. the
protein or SNF element.
"Feed companies are working on
that now," he said.
Since February of 1990, there has
been a 14.3 per cent decrease in
market share quota (MSQ) for
butter fat, which is a "significant"
decrease, and obviously a reduction
in the producer's income.
To prepare for the changeover in
thinking, McLeod said the Milk
Marketing Board is heavily
involved in a varying degree of
proposals, one of which is a one
payment, two -quota system, one for
fat products and the other for SNF
or the protein element.
Aug. 1, 1994 is the goal for
implementation of such a system.
Alternative uses for butter fat will
become priority, McLeod said.
"If there's a problem in the
future, look for alternatives to
maximize the size of the industry,"
he said, adding that exporting of the
product on the world market, even
though it has never been done
before, ,could transpire, replacing
the less profitable skim milk pow-
der.
The provincial number of pro-
ducers has declined by 375 ,in a
year as well, McLeod noted, due
mainly to the reeession. Quota
prices are also up, having .grown 15
per cent in three yearsas farmers
become increasingly fed up with
both the slow-moving GATT (Gen-
•eral Agreement of Tariff & Trade)
talks and the economy.
Dairy farmers from across the province will have to change their
thinking when milking their cows every day since consumers are
watching their diets,' and reducing •their butter fat intake. Logan
Township dairy farmer Pete Luyten Is one of, those farmers who will
soon have to breed their cows differently to reduce the amount of
butter fat In their milk production. (Andy Bader photo)