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Basic Welding
Electric arc and oxy-acetylene welding, stressing welding safety and equipment
I operation. Learn how to run beads in all positions, brazing and more.
Fee includes safety glasses and textbook
Instructor: Herman Wulterkens, CCAT Lecturer.
6 Thursdays: March 2 -April 6 (7-10 p.m.) Ag. Engineering Building Fee: $50.
GARDENING
Lawn care
Easy management tips to improve lawn appearance and vigour, including
selecting seed, preparing soil, fertilizers, herbicides, cutting and trimming.
Instructor: Bruce Brolley, CCAT Lecturer
2 Tuesdays: March 7 and 14 (7:30-10 p.m.) Grey Hall Fee: $20.
Organic Vegetable Gardening
Information on mulching, preparing seed beds, cultivation practises,
alternatives to commercial fertilizers and herbicides. Learn to grow some
unusual species.
Instructor: Bruce Brolley, CCAT Lecturer
2 Mondays: March 13 and 20 (7:30-10:00 p.m.) Grey Hall Fee: $20.
Landscaping
Basic landscape design and identifying common shrubs and perennials. Bring
photograph of area to be landscaped. Time is allotted for an actual
landscaping project.
Instructor: Bruce Brolley, CCAT Lecturer
2 Wednesdays: April 5 and 12 (7:30-10:00 p.m.) Grey Hall Fee: $20.
COMPUTERS Farm Computer Seminar and Show
displays, demonstrations of computer programs for farm operations
and financial management. The latest in business and agricultural software
„Seminars'
- Co-ordinated by: Centralia College, OMAF extension staff (Stuart Spracklan,
CCAT representative)
1 Wednesday: March 8 (9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.) Middlesex Hall Fee: $10.
RURAL LIVING
Rural Roots
Tracing your family tree. Includes resources available, ways of printing your
• final product. Field trip to LDS Research Library or DB Weldon Library (UWO)
London, if sufficient interest.
Instructor: Alison Lobb, vice-president, Ontario Genealogical Society
4 Mondays: March 20 -April 10 (7:00-10:00 p.m.) Middlesex Hall Fee: $25.
LIVESTOCK
How to Shear Sheep
Hands-on practice in the New Zealand sheep shearing method plus fleece
preparation, sheep handling control, crutching prior to lambing.
Instructor: Gavin Wright, sheep shearer
1 Saturday March 25 (9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.) Ag. Engineering Building
Fee: $25.
Ministry of
Agriculture
and Food
ONTARIO
Jack Riddell, Minister
CENTRALIA
COLLEGE
Huron Park, Ontario NOM 1YO
(519) 228-6691
4 THE RURAL VOICE
FEEDBACK
On the Woods in Winter:
The Woods in Winter by Andy
Dixon (Rural Voice, January, 1989)
was read with much pleasure and
memories of days gone by. As a
young man I taught in a one -room
schoolhouse near Killarney, Manitoba,
and had the fun of going to the bush
and burning wood in the school.
The farm on which I lived had no
electricity and was heated with wood
exclusively. I can feel the aches and
pains Andy writes about as I think
back on Pete and Doll, the farmer's
team, and the hired man and I vying to
put up wood for the winter. The old
log splitter had an angled chunk of
iron on a wheel that flew around and
split whatever was in its way. No
safety screens were present. The
woodpile looked huge in December
but by June we wondered if we could
make it to bush -time in the fall.
Andy's article reminds me, too,
that there are still many woodlots
doing a good job of providing wood
and pleasure for their owners. We
have a number of "tree farmers" in our
association and enjoy the chance to
pass on news of equipment, taxes, and
management techniques. Some of
your readers may be interested.
Buy my main reason for writing is
to say I enjoyed the January issue of
The Rural Voice ... and especially the
Woods in Winter. My congratulations
to the author and to you for running
it.0
Jas. D. Coats, RPF
Executive Vice -President
Ontario Forestry Association
150 Consumers Road,
Willowdale, Ontario M2J 1P9
On Free Trade:
Big Canadian business goons and
others with little if any sentimental
Canadian roots to show who voted
recently in favor of the free trade
pact with the U.S.A. arc in for a rude
awakening when they finally discover
in about two more years the real
impact the lousy Mulroney scheme is
making on just about every low-
income Canadian.0
Charles E. Dyce
Holstein, Ontario