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Practical learning experience also helps farmers
Youth who like
TVs year the Ontario
Mini try of Agriculture & Food
will once again be sponsoring
the Junior Agriculturalist
Program during the" summer of
1975.
The , program is designed to
provide Ma practical learning
experience for young people
from non farnn homes who.have-.
a serious interest in
.agriculture, and who have had
no experience working on a
farm.
As a Junior Agriculturalist, a
person will be placed on. a
selected .commercial farm,
where he -she will perform
regular activities relative to
that farm operation. In . ad-
dition, a Junior Agriculturalist
will have an opportunity to
develop ,an., appreciation of
rural life through living with a
farm family, and through
.participating in the local 4-H
and Junior Farmer programs
and in other rural activities.
The prospective Junior
Agriculturalist will be either
boys or girls 16 and 17 years of
age and must be in good
physical and mental condition
in order to withstand the
vigorous physical effort.
Selection will be based in part
of their reasons for being in-
terested in agriculture and
their plans ,for further
education and a career.
All Junior Agriculturalists
will be required to participate
in an orientation program to
help prepare them for their
farm stay. This. program will
be held about mid June and on-
farm-.assignmentr--willbe for..a
'nine week 1period; commencing
•on June 23rd and terminating
ori August 23, 1975.
. A Junior Agriculturalist will
be assigned, wherever possible,.
to ,a farm with the.: type of en-
terprise(s) in which she -he is
most interested. The duties
involved will vary considerably
depending on the individual
, farm operation, the demon-
strated ability of the Junior
Ministry..
approves
metric
grants
The. Ministry of Education
will make $1.-5 million in grants
available to school boards this
year to assist them in con-
verting learning .materials to
the metric system, Education,,
Minister Thomas. Wells an-
nounced last week.
In a policy statement to
school boards, Mr. Wells urged
boards to give increasing
priority to the metric con-
version program so that the
goal of conversion to the metric
system may 'be achieved in
Ontario's schools by, 1978.
Metrication will apply to all
areas of the curriculum. The
system to be used will be the
International System of Units,
commonly known as SI.,
To assist the program, the
Council of 'Ministers of
Education, Canada, will
produce' a' Metric Style Guide
which will ,be available to
Ontario teachers later this
year.
The Minister " said the
publication is a reference book
on modern metric terminology'
and symbolism, and does not
involve teaching techniques.
The imperial,system will not
be phased out in a single
magical Metric M Day. The
quart of milk and the pound of
butter will be with us for
sometime to come. As teachers
introduce metric conversion,
they are not expected to
abandon all reference to, •im-
petial units.
"In spite of ingenious
modifications and' creative
.thinking, metrication will
inevitably create some expense
and frustration. The answers to
many, questions cannot yet be
given. However, the Ministry
expects school boards to plan
carefully " and to gradually
phase out imperial usage,
:keeping in mind that many low-
cost changes can be made over
a period of several years," Mr.
Wells said.
MAN AND TREES
MEAN SO MUCH
TO EACH DINER
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Agriculturalist, and the kind of
enterprises found on the farm.
The interested host farmers
are to be commercial farms.,
with the operator engaged in
farming full time. They must
be interested in helping inex-
1
ance
1, •neir l e
arm - . get - _
p,erienced young people
develop the skills required on a
farm and are expected to have,
the ability to work well with
and supervise young people.
Host farmers must also provide
suitable accommodation,for the
A
Junior Agriculturalist during
his -her stay on the farm.
Each Junior Agriculturalist
will, receive a training
allowance of $16.00 per day,
based on a six day week: $8.00
of this will be provided by the
'Ontario Ministry of Agriculture
& Food; the host farmer will
provide $3.00 „per day in cash,
as well as supplying room and
board worth $5.00 per day. •
Persons interested, in par-
ticipating in this program as
either a host farmer or Junior
Agriculturalist should contact
Len MacGregor at 482-3428 or
long distance Zepith 7-2800 or
write to the Ontario Ministry of
Agriculture & Food, Box 159,
Clinton. ,
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