The Huron Expositor, 1999-04-21, Page 8II -THE HURON EXPOSITOR, April 21, 1999
(top, left) Students learn
how a cow is milked at
one of more than 25
different stations at last
week's A Slice of Huron
event in Seaforth. (top,
right) Jim Ginn of
Clinton shows a piece
of alfalfa found in a bale
of hay. Students from
across the county
visited stations
representing a range of
commodity groups and
aspects of agriculture
through the program
designed to teach
Grade 4 and 5 students
about where their food
comes from.
A
Slice
of
Huron
Students
suprised and
enlightened
about how
their food
is produced
Photos by Scgtt Hilgendorff,
Melissa Marion (right) of St. James School was a
little nervous at first letting a chicken, peck grain
from her hand with friend Krista Verberne. The two
were among students learning about poultry and
eggs,Iike the fact that brown chickens eat more
feed, leading to the higher pric&of brown eggs.
(bottom, Ieft)Wesley
Kessel of Brussels
Public School holds a
turkey poult (a recently
hatched turkey that, in a
matter of weeks, will be
Targe enough to be
processed for meat)
while fellow student
Pamela Patraskovic
watches. (bottom right)
Bob Thirwall of
Strathroy teaches Kayla
Little of Goderich and
other young students
about field crops grown
in Huron County and
the products into which
they are made.
Eric Toombs (centre) and Kayla Little, cringe as they watch a video of a cow being born. Both are students at St. Mary's
School in Goderich.
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