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Edith Nkholise, left; leamed how to use a milking machine from Dashwood dairy farmer Bill
Weber.
African students learn
about herd management
By Fred Groves
T -A staff
DASHWOOD - Edith Nkholise
and her three friends were chatting
away like they would while work-
ing in their homeland of Lesotho.
But Monday afternoon, they
were not in their tiny African coun-
try but on the Dashwood farm of
Bill and Ginger Weber.
Through a special government
program called Canadian Interna-
tional Development Agency and
another organization called SE -
MAX, the four students are in Can-
ada for nine weeks to learn about
dairy herd management.
In just two weeks they will re -
tum to Lesotho with a wealth of in-
formation they hope to share with
their fellow farmers.
"We are here to get some knowl-
edge on how to manage dairy
cows," said Nkholise, the lone fe-
male of the touring group.
The others are Letsie Nonyaka
Daniel, Tamolo LeKota and Le -
photo Sofeng. They all speak Eng-
lish so they did not need an inter-
preter.
That's a big change for Weber
and his family who had six non-
English speaking Brazilian veteri-
narians tour their farm last sum-
mer. •
Weber and his family have about
30 Holstein cows they milk twice a
day while in Lesotho, they have
Friesian which is a somewhat
smaller cow and most herds are
only four of five cows. •
"They don't have as many," said
Nkholise of the size of herds in her
country. Lesotho has about two
million people and the country is
landlocked in the middle of South
Africa. "We don't use machines,
we use hand milking," she said.
On the Weber farm, it takes only
about an hour to milk the 30 cows
which give about 29 kilograms of
milk per day. Through an automat-
ic milking system they do four
cows at a time.
In Lesotho, all the milking is
done by hand and the four students
doubt very much they will be ever
getting automatic milkers in their
own country.
"In the future they can say how
well they work. It's a great oppor-
tunity for them to see how it's
done." said Bill Weber.
Learning new techniques on how
to milk cows was just part of the
new knowledge the four students
will take back to Lesotho with
them.
We are here
to get some
knowledge ...
Since they have been in the Hu-
ron -Perth counties area, they have
travelled to many farms and
learned different things about man-
aging a large group of cows.
The trip to the Weber farm on
Monday was the third one for the
students so when they arrived they
knew what to do and each one
manned one of the -four milking
stations.
"They don't ask a lot of questions
but they want to know how much
(milk) they•give," said Weber.
Janet Kleinschmidt is the lead in-
structor for the students when they
are in Canada and she has worked
with other groups from other coun-
tries.
She said the students from Leso-
tho have been working with local
veterenarians, farmers and those
skilled in dairy genetics.
"They will be able to go out to
farms in their home country and
work with them," said Kleinsch-
midt.
She noted that while the students
arc in Canada they would be kept
very busy but she made sure to set
aside recreation time.
PLANNING ACT
NOTICE OF PASSING OF A ZONING BY-
LAW AMENDMENT BY THE CORPORATION
OF THE VILLAGE OF GRAND BEND
TAKE NOTICE that the Council of the Corporation of the Vil-
lage of Grand Bend passed By-law 5069 of 1992 on the 7th
day of September of 1992 under Section 34 of the Planning
Act, Chap. P. 13, R.S.O. 1990.
AND TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that any person or agency may
appeal to the Ontario Municipal Board in respect of the by4aw
by filing with the Clerk of the Corporation of the Village of
Grand Bend, P.O. Box 340, Grand Bend, Ontario NOM 1TO,
not later than the 6th day of October, 1992, a notice of ap-
peal setting out the objection to the by-law and the reasons
in support of the objection.
An explanation on the purpose and effect of the by4aw, de-
scribing the lands to which the bylaw applies and a Key Map
showing the location of the lands is attached. The complete
by4aw is available for inspection in my office during regular
office hours.
DATED AT THE VILLAGE OF GRAND BEND THIS 11TH DAY OF
SEPTEMBER, 1992.
Paul Turnbull
Clerk Treasurer
P.O. Box 340'
Grand Bend, Olit.
NOM 1TO
"We try and show them a little
bit of Canada. They don't have
much time."
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Sept. 22, Senior Cards,
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Legion Week. Sept. 21- 26.1992
mandakzeidaja - Open House to Community
Tuesday. Seat. 22nd - 7 p.m. Seniors Euchure - evening
upstairs hall, lunch and prizes
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