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McDonalds and Burger Kings here than in,
Scotland.
She also commented on the hugeness of
Canada which is a marked contrast to living
in Scotland,
"ilt's really a vast country. Everything is
so close together back home. It only takes
seven hours to drive to London, England
from where I live," she sand.
Culturally, Elizabeth said the attitudes
in Scotland tend to be more liberal,
especially liquor laws which allow drinking
in cars and in public places. In terms of the
weather, she said the weather tends to be
more uniform in Scotland, where here it
tends to be either very hot or very cold.
Also, the Scots aren't bothered by some of
Canada's so-called "pests",
No mosquitos
"There's no mosquitos in Scotland - not
like here. In Leeds County we get eaten
alive. We don't have skunks or groundhogs
and there is no rabies in Scotland. We
don't have all your pests," she " said.
Agriculturally, she said the farming
practices in. Scotland is much more
intensive than in Canada as there is very
little waste of the land,
"Eecause it's a smaller country, the land,
is so precious that we have to get .every-
thing out of the land. While I was in Leeds
County, l saw a bush which had been
allowed to grow back in where a field had
been before. That would never be allowed
to happen back home," she said.
The family farm has 180 acres of rollitng
hills which she calls an "average sized
farm" in comparison to other farms. in
Scotland. It's a combination dairy -beef
operation with 50 dairy cows, 50 cow -calfs
and 100 stockers with Ayrshires and British
Dairy farms, bigger
in Scotland
Fresains being the popular breeds. She
says the dairy operations in Canada tend to
be smaller than in Scotland as an average
milking operation there would have 60 to
70 milking cows.
No corn
She says the predominant, crop grown
back home is barley which is used for cattle
feed and for making whiskey. Corn, which
is grown in abundance here, isn't grown in
Scotland because of the wet climate. The
land is used year-round with sheep put in
the pasture during the winter months.
Scotland, lake Canada, is not immune to
the depressed state of farming felt the
world over, However, Elizabeth said the
Scottish government has eugalization pro-
grams to compensate farmers when prices
fall. She also said an abnormally high
amount of rain last year in Sc a tfland
resulted in poor crops which financially
hurt a lot of farmers,
"If it rained this year like it rained last
year, a lot of farmers would be going out of
business, I'm sure of that," she said.
Elizabeth said after leaving Bruce
County she will visit Essex County as well
as attending several Junior Farmers'
functions. For the final leg of the
exchange, the nine UK delegates will fly to
Calgary and drive through the mountains
to Vancouver for a three-day visit to Expo
'86 before returning home on August 23.
Upon returning to Scotland, she is
expected to give slide shows and tell the
places she's been and the things she's seen
on her visit to Canada. She says she's
going to have some fun doing this,
especially with explaining about the
"beehive -like" equipment sheds' in Ont. ,
ado. -
l'mn going to say that -they have giant
bees in Canada and shoer✓ them one of the
pictures," she said with a laugh,
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known.
He said the samples which will be
collected everyday through this week, will
be taken to the provincial lab in Palmer-
ston. It takes approximately 24 hdtirs for
the samples to be assessed.
Acting clerk Linda Stanley said the boil
water order was given in the late afternoon
on " Friday, July 25. The village was
instructed to give as many people notice of
the order with the local radio station
contacted as well as 80 hand bills delivered
to residences and businesseson the main
street.
OPP boats
on alert
over weekend
The Ontario Provincial, Police . Marine
Unit's 250 officers, with 105 vessels at their
disposal will be on alert for impaired
boaters and unsafe- vessels during the
coming August 4 Civic Itoliday weekend.
Since the start of the 1986 boating
season, the OPP have laid more than .300.
alcohol-related charges, and another 500
charges stemming froth violations covering
safety equipment, overloading, licencing
and registration, water speed limits, water
skiingin prohibited areas and improper
operation of vessels.
So far this year, 15 people have died as a
result of 13 fatal boating accidents on lakes
and rivers patrolled by the OPP. Statistics
continue to show approximately`42 per cent
of the victims of fatal boating accidents had
been drinking, while 74 per cent of those
were legally impaired,
Amendments made to the.Criminal Code
of Canada in 1985 gave police the authority
to demand breath samples of suspected
impaired boaters.'As a result, the number
of people charged with alcohol-related
offences has nearly doubled this year (in
the OPP patrol areas) in comparison with
last year's boating season.
In all, OPP marine officers have checked
more than 9,000 vessels this year and
administered alcohol breath tests to more
than 150 boaters.
Corn and grain .
interim payments
"in the retail"
Agriculture Minister John Wise announ-
ced recently 'ttat the 1985 grain corn and
soybean crop interim payments to Ontario
producers should be in the mail before the
end of July.
Soybean producers will receive nine
dollars per tonne and corn producers five
dollars per tonne, on sales of March 31,
1986. Producers who receive the interim
payment will have it deducted from the
final payment.
Ontario farmers produce virtually all of
Canada's soybeans and 70 per cent of the
nations grain corn,
"The combination of high yields,
surpluses and low prices will < obviously
trigger a payment this fall. The interim
payments, totalling about $5.7 million for
soybeans and $11 million for corn, will help
producers who are facing serious income
losses," Mr. Wise said.
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