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HURON. FE E.RATIC N NEW$
Y CARL R Ei4IINGWAY
On March 26 a large group pupil cost was. $95,00; high
- of Federation of Agriculture school per, pupil, $20¢.50;. in
Members and
54,00, an
lors, alongwith township
ahlfewo from in5$959, $2 8,00 a $242.00 andnd2$590.00. d
Clinton, met in We ,Collegiate I wonder if our students re-.
auditorium to discuss "Taxation alize how much is being spent
For Education." in order that they may receive
an education?
r Aside from the meeting
there have been many coin
meats from time to time to
the effect that we are wasting
large sums on pupils who
haven't the,
abilitx ,to master,
high schoolsubjects.
In this I find educationists
somewhat inconsistent. We 'are
told that we only use a small -
percentage of our mental ca-
pacity. Speaking from a some-
what limited background of ex-
perience, I agree with the state-
ment. Can we''' then' saly.. that"'
our present high school stu-
dents haven't the ability to gra-
duate from Grade 13?
I am more inclined to think
we have failed to provide an
educational system that cre-
ates the desire and environ-
ment to cause the student to
use the necessary percentage
of his mental ability to succeed
at school.
It was interesting to see at
the meeting such a sincere de-
sire to improve what seems to
be an outmoded method of taxa-
tion, and while the cost of edu
cation is high, there was no
complaints made. However, I
do feel that there is some ques-
tion on•the value per'dollar we
are getting.
Perhaps while some are busy
on the method of taxation of
education, the rest of us might
concentrate on ways and means
of a little more mileage out of
available brain power.
The general opinion of the
meeting after hearing Don Mid-
dleton, head of Properties De-
partment ,of the OFA discuss
the problem, seemed to be that
people, rather than property,
Should be responsible for the
costs of education.
Costs have increased greatly
and it seems that local munici-
palities are bearing an ever -
in easing share.
future appears even
more expensive. It is forecast
that in the next 10 years new
class rooms, equal to the pres-
ent number, will have to be
built. Some of this will be due
to increased population, and the
balance to replace wornout
buildings.
In 1946, public school per
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1936 to 1946, will be seen in Canada at War, each Tuesday on the CBC -TV network. The
half,hour programs portray developments on the home front in .addition to the role played
by the armed forces in battle. Canada's distinguished record on the war fronts is recorded
in films covering the Spitzbergen raid, Dieppe, Sicily, Italy, Normandy, Holland Germany.
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Build Your Own Soil
Just because the soil around
your house is heavy clay or
just the opposite is no excuse
for not having a garden. No
matter how hard or loose it
.may be, with a bit of handling
any soil can be made to pro-
duce flowers or vegetables and
in time it will work up'like the
finest market garden land. The
remedy for both stiff -clay and
blow sand is much the same;
-rhe main thing is to get lots
of 'humus worked in.
Humus is an old gardener's
term for vegetable material,
stuff like grass clippings, man-
ure, leaves, straw, clean vege-
table garbage or,anythiag that
will decompose when worked
with soil. Dug into clay this
will separate the fine particles,
open up the soil, make it crum-
• ,bly rather than bake, let in air
and moisture. To hasten the
job it is an excellent plan to
sow part of the garden with
oats, fall rye, peas, buckwheat
or any quick growing crop and
when this is a foot or so high,
dig or have it plowed under.
For loose, sandy soil the reme-
dy is the same. By digging in
vegetable material we build up
the humus, 'and make the soil
more retentive of moisture and
air. In extreme cases • and -
where the plot is small, one cal
dig sand intoheavy clay and
peat moss into either 'clay or
light sand, . Even cultivation
alone will help loosen up poor
soil and make it more porous
and suitable for plants. After a
few years, of cultivation and
chre• it is amazing how• it will
be improved.
Fragrance
Near the house, and especial
ly around verandahs, living
room and bedroom windows is
the ideal place for a few of
those flowers which are es-
pecially noted for their beauti-
ful fragrance. In such positions
we can enjoy them even in the
dark. In many seed 'catalogues
such flowers are specially list -
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ed. Stocks 'are in this category
and so are verbena, Sweet Wil-
liam, nicotine, most of the lilies,
peonies and a score or more of
others. Some of them may not
be especially beautiful- as
flowers, _but .they are well 'worth
growing for their scent alone.
New and Better
Many people who wouldn't be
found dead in last year's styles,
•let alone those of a decade or
so back, still go into the seed
store and try to buy 'varieties
that were popular in their
grandfather's time. They seem
to think that there has been no
improvement in quality, flavor,
disease resistance or earliness.
But there has been vast im-
provement. The best vegetables
today ,like the best flowers, are
about as different from the best
of say 1922, as today's radios
or cars differ from those of 40
years ago. The modern flowers
are bigger, richer and more va-
ried in coloring and the vege-
tables 'grow faster, are crisper
and far more disease resistant.
Moreover, if these vegetables
are taken right out of your own
garden there will be no com-
parison in flavor and texture.
,Corn and peas are sweeter, cel-
ery, carrots and beans are cris-
per, tomatoes, cucumbers and
melons are ..meatier.
Will They Like Canada?
Anyone who lived in Canada
last winter knows that we have
our own brand of climate. Ac-
tually we have several climates.
For that reason the flower and
vegetable seeds that we sow,
the shrubs and vines we plant
and even our trees must be
selected especially to grow well
under Canadian conditions.
. Generally, we must have vege-
tables and flowers that grow
quickly, come into bloom or
table size away ahead of the
early ' frost. And in nursery
stock( too, we can't afford to
plant namby-pamby stuff that
fears a bit of cold. But there
are compensations. Nowhere in
the world is the sun warmer or
stronger than in Canada dur-
ing the summer and as a result'
in the long hours of daylight
in June and July, growth is far
more rapid , in Northern Can-
ada Chan -it is in tropical Mexi-
co. But it is important that we
plant things that are .especially
designed for the Canadian
climate. When one selects seeds
from a Canadian seed catalogue
one can be sure that that seed
is suited to Canada, that it has
been tested under actual Cana-
dian conditions.
FURROW AND
FALLOW
By FAIRBAIRN
The provisional producer
marketing board for milk has
finally been formed and has
been meeting and apparently
making decisions despite the
current confusion in the. dairy
business because of the recent
dairy policy announced by the
federal government. There are
three members from each of
the four producer groups—
cream, cheese, concentrated and
fluid—and one representative
from the breed associations.
George McCague, chairman of
the Farm--- Products lVfarketing
Board has been asked.to aet as
chairman in the formative stag-
es in order to avoid any sug-
gestion of bias if one producer
group representative was chair-
man and just as important to
take advantage of his broad ex-
perience with producer market-
ing groups. , Actually he has
been sitting in on most plan-
ning meetings even though any
marketing scheme developed
will come under the Milk In-
dustry Act and not the OFPMA.
Milk distributors and proces-
sors are again represented on
the Milk Industry Board with
the appointment last week of
Mr. H. A. Thurston, from the
Ottawa Valley. Processors and
distributors have .been advised
of progress to date on an over-
all milk marketing plan by
means of a meeting of the Milk
Industry Advisory Committee—
six processors, six producers
and one dairy co-op representa-
tive.
We hear some suggestion
that the provisional board is
going to replace the Ontario
Milk Producers Co-ordinating
Board which seems reasonable
since there won't be much value
in a co-ordinating board if there
is an overall milk marketing
plan. Harold Martin, secretary
of the Co-ordinating Board, is
acting secretary of the provi-
sional board, While we• believe
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TO:
1. Scare your wife, children an neighbors.
2. Spread Vibriosis and Trichoniasis.
3. Cost over $200 to raise.
4. Kill you or the hired' man.
5. Take the stall space of a cow that makes a profit.
6. Leave a barn full of miserable offspring and set your
breeding program years behind.
7. Knock off the water cup and flood the barn.
8. Break stanchions and pens with regularity.
9. Eat a nail or wire and die on the way to the stockyards.
10. Beller when your favorite program is on the radio in the
barn.
OR DO YOU NEED THE
WATERLOO CATTLE BREEDING ASSOCIATION?
For local service phone weekdays 7:30-9:30 a.m.
Saturday Evenings 6-8 p.m., to:
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F of A Names.
Euchre Winners.
On �.'huraday evening the Hui.
ett 'Federation oi' Agriculture
held a progressive euchre in
the Community Ball. Prize win-
°ners were; most games, Mrs.
Tames fiowatt and Jack Riley;
lone hands, Jack B:i1ey; consols.
tion, Betty Jean McGreger and
Kenneth • Gaunt. The special
prize was won by Mrs. Gordon
McGregor.
there is general agreement on
the make-up of this provisional
board, some thorny questions
that must be answered before
a plan can be presented to prop
ducers are how members of
the final board will be elected,
• whether all members will be
producers, the composition of a
policy committee. and what
happens to the present milk
producer groups under an ov-
eral plan.
Previous discussipns on the
last item would indicate that
the four groups will continue
to function as they are in close
liaison with the ' provisional
board until a permanent board
can gradually assume their
functions. This will take some
time and the necessity of close
liaison is apparent when one-
considers the magnitude of the
dairy industry in Ontario. Ev-
eryone recognizes the import-
ance of complete continuity
during the transition period
from the present set-up to an
overall marketing board.
Hon. W. A. Stewart, Ontario's
Minister of Agriculture, receiv-
ed a report last week on the
first six months of a study be-
ing made on the composition of
milk by various departments at
the OAC and OVC and the ODA.
This was started to try and find
some other basis for assessing
quality and basing price than
on the fat content of milk. The
butterfat basis has worked in
the past but with people now
highly conscious of low fat
foods—and many avoiding them
-a new basis is necessary. In
fact, milk and milk products
provide the best balanced and
least expensive protein of any
of the major food items, but
not too many consumers con-
sider this •when buying.
After six monthof study
and 21,000 tests those working
on this milk composition study
have no significant trends to
announce. However, they have
developed two new methods of
testing milk which might . re-
place the batterfat test even-
tually. One is a. modification of
a test. for protein used in Hol-
land and the other an extreme-
ly accurate modification of test-
ing for total solids. The study
is also trying to determine the
effects of such factors as breed,
individuality and line breeding
on the composition of milk.
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