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Chickens in a high rise ?
Thirty-three thousand hens live off the ground in climate -controlled
comfort in the first Canadian operation of its kind near Grimsby,
Ontario.
The hens are housed in a single layer of cages suspended seven feet
above the ground. Moisture is removed from the waste that accumu-
lates beneath the cages by fans and vents that form part of the cli-
mate control system. This renders the operation virtually odor -
free.
ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS
THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1971
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The latest in automated equipment places feed and water in troughs
running the length of the building. Canvas belts carry the eggs into an
adjacent building where they are packed with a minimum of labor.
From there the eggs are sent to a central plant where they are
washed, graded, packaged and shipped, ready for the supermarket
shelf within a day.
A farm manager and two part-time employees run an operation that
produces 26,000 eggs per clay. (Photographs by the Ontario Depart-
ment of Agriculture and Food.)
Plan Program
For Grade 8's
South Huron District High
School principal J, L. Wooden
has announced plans for an or-
ientation program in January
for district grade eight students.
Thursday, January11, princip-
als and grade eight teachers
will meet with SHDHS staff
members.
The following week each
grade eight class of area public
and separate schools will visit
the local secondary school for
a half day and will visit actual
grade nine classes.
This is the first time that
students will actually visit and
see all the facilities. 1111970
some classes visited the tech-
nical rooms at South Huron.
In completing the visiting
program, parents of prospective
grade nine students for the fall
term will meet at the school
January 25 with staff members
at 8 p. m.
Subject selection forms for
the 1971-72 high school term
are to be handed in by the grade
eight students by January 29.
At the same time Wooden
said a university information
program for Huron County grade
12 and 13 students and parents
would be held in Clinton January
27. Arrangements are being
made by Ken Lawton of SHDHS
and guidance heads of other
schools in Huron.
Ghana has been home for years
It's a long way from Huron
County to Ghana, but for on&
former Huron resident, Ghana is,
about the closest thing she has
had to a home in recent years.
Jean Steckle, who was based
in Clinton from 1951 to 1954 as
Huron County Home Economist
for the Ontario Department of''
Agriculture and Food, has been,
dividing her time between Ghana
and England in the last few years
in her work for the United
Nations' Food and Agriculture,
Organization. She has been ons
leave of absence from her Rome'
office to do research.
And over the holiday period,
she returned to Canada where
she visited her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. John Steckle of Kitchener
and an aunt in Ottawa. While in
Ottawa she was featured in the,
following story reprinted from
the Ottawa Citizen.
Jean Steckle came home to,
Canada looking forward to
Maritime -style baked beans and
scalloped potatoes and not
looking forward to our bread —;
"the worst there is."
Miss Steckle, in the nutrition
division of the United Nations'
Food and Agriculture
Organization, works in Rome
but recently has divided her time
between England and Ghana.
For the past two years she
has been on a leave of absence
from her Rome post to devote'
time to research into the effects
of change upon family living,
such as during times of
employment opportunity.
The academic side of the
project is at England's University
of Reading, in whose library she
bones up on comparable studies
done in other countries.
The field work is in the Volta
region of Ghana, a depressed
area where 280 households in 14
communities are being
thoroughly studied by Miss
Steckle, two research assistants
and 27 enumerators. Financial
assistance comes from the
University of Ghana where she
taught for a while.
The home economist is from
Kitchener, and is a graduate of
the Macdonald Institute,
Guelph, and of Cornell
University.
Her current study focuses on
what happens to personal living
style — particularly eating —
when people change
employment. Subjects are
followed through for four
seasons.
Such questions as the kind of
food, its quantity and the length,,
of time taken in its preparation
in each household are studied.
Though not yet at the
conclusive stage — the work
should be finished sometime in
1971 — Miss Steckle has
nevertheless sorted out a few
patterns. One is that nutritional
value of intake does not
necessarily go hand-in-hand with
increase in prosperity.
Higher income groups, she is
finding, drink more tea, and
with it increase the sugar
consumption too much.
There is evidence of a
tendency, particularly among
factory and shift workers, to
resort to precooked convenience
foods, not all outstanding for
their nutritional value. A
Western innovation that occurs
in the homes of Ghanaians on
the way up is bread.
Miss Steckle considers Ghana
to have the greatest potential of
any developing country in Africa
at the moment and finds it an
exciting place to work.
Stretches of time living
within communities have taught
her that "it's very important to
follow the rules and customs"
such as the process of gaining
permission to carry out survey
work in the first place. Lengthy
procedures have led her through
a maze of authorities — from
regional executives and district
officers through to local chiefs
and elders of the community —
explaining to each of them the
purposes and methods of the
sampling.
After the Christmas holidays,
her first , in Canada since 1963,
Miss Steckle will resume work in
Rome before returning at Easter
to Ghana.
Her FAO duties centre on
welfare programs in developing
countries, with an eye to raising'
the standards of women through
adult education, community
development, agricultural
extension, trade unions, and
public health programs.
Rome is a great headquarters
in which to be located,
according to this Canadian. To
her it truly is an "eternal city,"
artistically and culturally superb.
Gastronomically too it's a
four star town and one of the
things that keeps the home
economist busy is trying to
avoid the delectable variety of
calorie -packed pastas Rome has
to offer.
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George M. Henderson is general
secretary of Imperial Oil Ltd. In
his spare time he is also president
of the Rehabilitation Foundation
for the Disabled whose campaign
each January, called The Ability
Fund (formerly the March of
Dimes), helps physically handi-
capped adults to find the independ-
ence they need to be and to feel
useful. Your contribution to The
Ability Fund will help Mr. Hender-
son and thousands of other volun-
teers to help the disabled of On-
tario to help themselves.
Steer
This
Way
BY
LARRY
SNIDER
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