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Promoting
Agriculture
in the Classroom
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WED. APRIL 12
6:30 - 9:00 p.m. 1.
Seaforth Fairgrounds
& Arena
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- Admission: A donation
E of non perishable food
which will go to the Huron
County Food Bank
- For more information:
Deb Campbell 519-235-1609
- or Jane Muegge at the
OMAF office
519-482-3428 or
1-800-265-5170
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Elk
& Deer Farm
Consider Deer Farming as a
PROFITABLE ALTERNATIVE
Livestock Farre
Wayne & Marie Scott are
offering for sale, a selection of
ELK STOCK, & RED DEER
UPGRADES
{rale have one of the largest
Elk herds in Ont.
* Top Quality Velvet
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tr Single Sire Mating
Guarantees Bloodlines
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Brucellosis Test
Completed by Agriculture
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Antlers
Farm Raised Venison
For Sale
Farm Consultation Available
Member OFA/ODFA/OEBA
Viewing & Inquires welcome
Wayne & Marie Scott
R.R. 5 Goderich,Ont
N7A 3Y2
Phone or Fax (519)524-8087
No one likes having their equipment in for service, but why not
take it in before the problems occur, during your slow -time.
A Preventive Service inspection during your off-season
lets you be confident your equipment is ready for
action when the pressure's on.
Your incentive:
A 5°k cost savings through
PS Bucks, which can be
used for future purchases
of Genuine ACCO
Replacement Parts.
CaII today to schedule an appointment
Plus Dealer Discounts
HACKETT'S
Farm Equipment Limited
County Rd. #1
LUCKNOW 529-7914
AOCO
Carrots were
one of man's
early foods
One of man's very early foods,
this edible root is native to the part
of the world now known as Af-
ghanistan and according to some
historians was being cultivated --as
well as being harvested wild --before
the time of Christ.
From its place of origin, the car-
rot traveled many centuries ago to
China, France, Germany and
England, and ultimately to the New
World with the first English
colonists.
The carrots we eat today are
invariably cultivated carrots, but it
is still possible to see on a trip to
the countryside what happens when
carrots revert to type in the wild,
for this is precisely what the com-
mon wild plant Queen Anne's Lace
is.
In North America we tend to be
rigidly predictable on the subject of
carrots. Of their shape, we expect a
certain uniformity, and when it
comes to color, only bright orange
need apply.
But the truth is that carrots,
depending on their variety, can be
long, short, skinny, spherical, stub-
by or pointed, and in color, not
only orange but also red, yellow,
purple and white. Their sweetness
is exceptional --second only to beets
among vegetables --and makes them
popular with animals other than
humans too. (Foodland Ontario).
Check out these facts
More Than Meat!
Few people realize how much farm animals contribute to our way of
life. Cattle, pigs, poultry, sheep and goats provide meat, milk products
and eggs for our diet -- but also hundreds of products we use every day.
Virtually everything is utilized.
Edible By -Products
- oleo oil and stock (from fat): for margarine and shortening
- gelatine (from bones): for marshmallows, ice cream, jello
- oleo stereate: for chewing gum and candies
- natural sausage casings (from intestines)
- rennet (a stomach enzyme): used in cheese -making.
Inedible By -Products
- Leather shoes, bags, belts, footballs and other sports equipment
- Hair and bristles: artists brushes, felt insulation
- Feathers and down: for pillows, down -filled winter clothing
- Wool: for felt and wool clothing
- Bones, homs and hooves: buttons, bone china, piano keys, glues,
fertilizers
- Non -edible gelatine: photographic film, wallpaper, sandpaper,
toothbrushes, violin strings
- Tallow: glycerine (for lipstick, face and hand creams, toothpaste),
soaps, candles, tires, asphalt, adhesives, phonograph records, explosives,
inks and matches, etc. •
Pharmaceuticals
insulin: it requires the pancreases of 26 cows to supply one diabetic
with insulin for a year
- heparin (from lungs): to treat burns and frostbite, and to prevent blood
coagulation during operations,
- corticotropin (ACTH) (from pituitary glands): to treat allergies,
anemia, respiratory diseases and leukemia
- thrombin (from blood): promotes coagulation
- epinephrine (from adrenal glands): for hay fever, asthma
- parathyroid hormone: to treat parathyroid deficiency
- thyrotropin (TSH): stimulates the thyroid gland
In all, farm animals are walking storehouses for hundreds of life-
saving and life -improving drugs -- and thousands of other products we
use every day.
(Ontario Farm Animal Council).
As the snow begins to thaw, many 'misplaced' Items
discovered, such as this roH of wire. (Livingston photo)
are
Cabbage
figured in
Greek
mythology
Humble, perhaps, but venerable,
too, the cabbage has been with us -
in cultivated form -for thousands of
years. We know this in part because
the vegetable somewhat surprisingly
figures in Greek mythology: the
cabbage, it was said, sprang from
the fallen tears of a Thracian king
who had displeased Dionysus by
uprooting some favored grapevines
and was about to be killed by the
angry god.
If, in fact, this was not how cab-
bage came into king, then perhaps
it originated in cooler northern
Europe (a theory favored by less
romantic modern historians),
whence it eventually spread to the
south, the east, and ultimately west
to the New World.
It is interesting to note that in
Roman times cabbage was a
relatively expensive vegetable and
that a favored dish in that
civilization was what we now know
as corned beef and cabbage.
From then through the time of the
Middle Ages less is known about
the status of this enduring
vegetable. With the Renaissance,
however, came a renewed ap-
preciation of the cabbage, which by
then . was being successfully cul-
tivated in many parts of Europe.