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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1949-03-03, Page 3THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 24, 1949 i 3 Student Gives Turnip Report| I, Betty Allison, aged £Uteenf a student of Exeter District High School, have the great op” portunity of doing a school pro­ ject, or the many interesting projects we had to choose from, jny choice was. '‘The Growing of Turnips.” I rented the land from my father for five .dollars a half acre. The teamwork cost me one • dollar an hour, which amounted to five dollars. The handwork cost fifty (.cents an hour, amount­ ing to about ten dollars. The lat’nd on which my tur­ nips were planted was located at the .very back of the farm, next to the bush, The land was of clay soil. The previous crop had been grain. It had been fall ploughed. On April 30 it was manured. It took about ten loads and 'being as it was in the back field it took a full .day to do it. The land was first cultivated on May 21. It took about one hour. Again on .May 25, it was harrowed. When this, was fin­ ished it was all cultivated once more. It was also worked a couple tof other times. The date of planting was May 26. The variety of the seed was Laurentian registered seed. It was sown one-half .pound of seed to one-half acre of land. The distance between each row was twenty-eight inches. The turnip seed was gown by means of a drill drawn by horses. Be­ fore sowing, the seed was mixed with fine gravel. To the one- half acre of land there was one hundred pounds of fertilizer used. The kind of fertilizer was 2-42-6. ■On June 8 the first turnips •were seen coming up <through the ground. You could tell in a few. days that the standing was quite good. The weather was quite dry the first week and then a show­ er of rain which brought .tliem along very quickly. There was no rain for about two weeks and then it rained off and on for ■over a week. The first two weeks in July were quite dry and then odd showers of rain. The month of September and the first few days of October were very dry and then quite a heavy rainfall. On June 15-the turnips were large enough to be hoed. The average height throughout the half acre was about the size of your little finger, It took two <>f us about one day to hoe them. Ou June 25, the average height was about four to five inches. They were scuffled three times altogether. Because of the dry weather they were not as large as usual, but were fairly even. The aphis were not bad, so not much harm was done by them. The main thing wrong with them was a slight touch of the water core. The date of*- harvesting was October 25. They were all top­ ped by the means of a hoe and were pulled by a bean-puller. The disposal was made with a truck to the Rutabaga Company, the turnip plant west of Exeter. In one-half acre there is four­ teen rows of turnips. In one row there is about twenty-four bush­ els of turnips. Altogether in my one-half acre I had three hund­ red and thirty-six bushels of turnips. On account of the water core and the turnips were not trimmed, they brought thirty cents for one bushel of turnips. This amounted to $100.08. In trucking there is about fifty pounds in a bushel, so the turnips weighed sixteen thou?* and, eight hundred pounds or ; eight and two-fifths tons. The trucker charged $1.25 a ton. It amounted to $10.50. Rent of land $5.‘00; Team­ work $5.00; handwork ,$10.00; fertilizer $1.75; seed '70; truck­ ing $10.50.;total costs $32.95; total returns $100.80; net profit $67.85. Thus I am very glad that I chose ‘'The growing of ,Turnips’* as my project It was very inter-j esting and there was a good pro­ fit. Students Back Agricultural Projects With Figures If you had visited Grade X IQ classroom in the Exeter District High School, any day during the last month, you would have heard the hoys and girls giving talks. As a visitor you would have been impressed by three things: the students were telling of their own experiences; they DESPERATE IN UTAH Tomayso, of the Navajo tribe, stands sixteen in the may so, lambs, of 110 head. Untold hardship was. suffered by the Indians and their stock who were cut off from food and fodder for many weeks during the heavy snows which blocked off the area. Fred ■> ■behind a frozen pile of dead lambs on his ranch Navajo reservation. To- shown holding two dead lost seventy of his herd STAFFA Mrs. Warden Miller Dies. The funeral of Mrs. Warden Miller took place Wednesday, of last week, at 2:30 pan. from her home on concession eight, .Hib­ bert, with Rev. G. M. Young officiating, Cromarty senior mix­ ed quartette sang two numbers. Pallbearers weret .Alf, Ross, Les Butson, Harold Coleman, Cecil Murray, Roy Kerslake, and Ivan Horsy th, Flower-bearers were: Bill Ballantyne, Reg Hodgert, Ross Hodgert, Rae McCurdy, Harry Waghorn, Ivan Bean, Art Smale and Jack Btttson. Inter­ ment was in Staffs cemetery. Mrs. Miller, who died oil Sunday after a short illness, was fifty- three. The former Pearl Stacey, daughter of the late >Mr« and Mrs. John Stacey, she spent all her life in the Cromarty-Statfa district. On June 18, 1924, she married. Warden Miller, who survives, With three sons, Alex, Frank and Gordon, and one daughter, Margaret, all at home. One sister, Mrs. William Wor­ den, died Several years ago. She was a m e m b e r of Cromarty Presbyterian Church and also- took an active part in the Staffa Women’s Institute and the Big Four Farm Fomm. Relatives and friends attend­ ed from Seaforth, Exeter, Lon­ don, St, Thomas and Auburn, were speaking with conviction, and making statements all back­ ed by figures; both the speak­ ers and the audience enthusiastic. The subject agriculture and the were the oral reports home projects. Before any student credit for his Agriculture, he fully complete “Home Project”. A Home Pro­ ject is a piece of work of a practical and educational nature undertaken with a definite ob­ jective i n view, A complete record of all phases of the work must be kept. During its pro­ gress it is inspected by the Agriculture teacher, and at its conclusion, a carefully written report, as well as an oral report, must be given by the pupil. The project is assigned in the spring term of the student’s first year. A long list p£ topics is given, but only as a guide/He may choose any subject he wishes, ■providing it is acceptable to the teacher and the parents, The project belongs to the pupil, and any profit realized from it belongs to 'him. To give you some idea of the topics chosen, we list some of the projects completed; seven students raised pigs; four raised chickens to laying jage; one crate fattened roosters; five grew one-quarter acre of wax beans; one grew an acre of I beans; one grew half ,an acre of g were was speeches of their is given Lower School must success- at least on e waxing turnips; record of seven plete yC&r; uuc jxopt, iwu uuivuico vx bees; two established strawberry beds; three made collections of forest leavs; four had vegetable gardens; one ,k&Pt the cost of making syrup; two raised heifer calves; two canned fruits and vegetables. In all fifty-six projects have been ^completed. From thirty- one of an investment nature, one kept a running a car for months; one kept a com- ?et of farm records for a one kept two colonies of the students turned out $2204.- 95 worth of produce, $917,92 of dhis being profit- .Some of the facts deduced from their experiences are very interesting- While we must make some allowance for the immaturity of the workers, the repetition of a single topic lends more weight to the findings. Conaidsr the results of five pig-feeding reports, In case you are interested in growing wax beans, the results of five students .are listed below. In all these projects the cost of the seed, fertilizer, team and tractor work, rent of the land hand labour ar® included in the costs. As the student's time is Included, the profits shown are the true profits. The variation in coats is largely due to time involved in picking, A tew students chosdn random from the reports give some idea of the variety of the findings, It costs $1.60 to raise a pullet to laying age. One half acre of turnips yielded $100,8i0' with .a profit pt $67.85, A 1936 ‘Chevrolet, car was run for 7 months at a .cost of 3.01 cents per mile, Syrup produced in 1948 cost $6.69 per gallon to produce. It takes $37,93 to the raise a heifer calf to the age of six months. * While these statements may not bear much weight with you, they do bear* weight with,,the students who made them. They i students ........... „ did the work, they kept the re-, cords, and they are convinced that In these instances things proved to be as they said. Hav­ ing d o n e so once, It is quite probable they will continue proving things to their own sat­ isfaction. This should result in the type of individual who will rely on his own experience and so will be a solid member of a democratic society. . CREDITON EAST Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Kenney and daughter, of Khiva, spent Sunday with Mr, and Mrs. Charles Glanville, Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Gackrl stetter and Gall Ann, of Kippen, and Mrs, William Horney, of Exeter, visited Thursday with Mr. and Mi’s, William Motz. Mr. and Mrs. Aloe Hamilton an son Bradley, of Grand Bend, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lewis. , Chart of Wax Sean Project Ca s e 1 Ac r e a g e No . Of Pi c k i n g s To t a l Yi e l d S n 45 3 Pr o f i t 1 %4 1,663 pounds • $ 74.84 $ 35.85 $ 38.99 2 %5 1,652 pounds $ 67.92- ,$ 51.3-4 $ 16.58 3 %3 4,065 pounds $182.93 ’ $132.00 $ 50.93 4 %3 $ 2,067 pounds $ 93.02 $ 52.14 $ 40.88 5,%4 394 poundsi'$ 15.76 $ 32.60 $- 15.84 *» •< g o aR « ©o nsan <u>5 fl) fcl) s ■» '■£<2 fl) co eS o 3 Ph I=i Ph I a w K O Ph 1 6 $80.00 Starter—18 % Grower—16 % Prot. Prot. 4.25 7^ mths.4A $304.79 2B 1 Heavy $14,23 per pig 2 2 $24.00 Milk 10c gal. 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