The Wingham Advance-Times, 1974-01-24, Page 19Canada's No l Cashmakin
AIUFALF
Farmers fromcoast to coast have been convinced
that 919 Brand is the best for them and today 919
Brand is the largest selling brand of alfalfa in Canada.
It's been proven 'on 70.000 Canadian acres. Growers
such as Don Alberts of Brooks. Alberta; Fred
Kernan of Saskatoon, Sask.;'Marvin Shewchuk of '
Sandy Lake, Manitoba and Bill Puffer of
Campbellford, Ontario, have stated that for them, 919
is the best on the market.
919 Brand Alfalfa is a blend of certified, Canadian
recommended varieties.. No single variety can do all
things well. especially under variable soil and
weather conditions: 919 Brand is area blended to
give you the best from the varying soil and moisture
conditions of your farm..
See your National -NK Dealertoday and find out
why 919 Brand alfalfa is best for you.
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Over in Denmark, in the city of
Aarhus, they have a wonderful
statue of a Landrace sow and a
rollicking Litter or piglets. It is in
one of the public parks and every
year several thousand tourists
stop to look At itx
It's the only, statue of a pig that
I've ever heard of, We have sta-
tues of horses all over the world,
of course, and once in a while we
even manage a statue of a cow.
There is for instance, the big
Hereford''statue in Kansas City;
and our own Ontario city of
Woodstock has one of a Holstein
cow. But I'7m almost certain that
there isn't a pig statue anywhere
on this continent and somehow or
other, I take that as a personal in-
sult. I like pigs.
Just look at the mathematics of
pigology first. Here's a newborn
piglet,, and you wipe her off and
take the black teeth out of her and
she just can't wait until she wrig-
gles out of your hands and gets
down to the business of eating
and of manufacturing meat. And
by the time she's six months old
she's ready for love and for
beginning a family of 'her own.
She'll have that family before
she's 'a year old if you give her
her own way. And with a little bit
of luck she may .raise -you a
family of ten. Six months later, if
that bit of luck still bolds, those
ten pigs will weigh a ton. Think of
it! From a single three pound
piglet to a ton of meat in less than
eighteen months!
But there's much more than
mathematics and dollars to make
you marvel at a pig. Give them a
chance and your pigs will be as
dean and as intelligentand as
likeable as any pet you could
hope to own. As an old English
saying goes: "Dogs look up to
you: cats, look down on you: but
pigs is equal!" •
But it is production rather than
personality which makes the pig
so important in today's agri-
culture, and it goes without
saying that in order to produce in
such a phenomenal fashion, the
pig must surely have a marvel-
lous digestive tract. And I can
never think of that aspect of it
without • remembering the first
two Landrace sows I ever owned.
Landrace werie new `then and
worth an awful lot of money. And
;.d
I fed these sows the best T could
buy and mixed their feed fOr
theme night and morning in warm
water. And one ,winter night.asI'
got my pail of warm water ready
to carry out to the'barn, I reliada n
bered that I needed a razor blade
to help me open. feed bags.
Well, Iliad my,bands full and a
razor blade is a tricky thing to
carry. at anytime so 1 simply
dropped it into the pall of water.
You guessed it. I threw the dry
feed• into the trough, poured the
waren water over it and com-
pletely forgot the blade. I. just
mixed it in with the feed, 1 511P -
pose. It wasn't until a few
minutes later, when I was seeing
the chickens to bed, that I sud-
denly realized what I must have
done.
I rushed back to the trough,
looked everywhere. I felt along
the bottom of the trough but there
was nothing there but bare
bottom. I was sick, and I was sure
that before morning, one of those
beautiful imported sows would be
sick too. Needless to say I didn't
sleep very well that night and
bright and early next morning I
sorrowfully went out•to see which
of my precious sows had died.
Well, one was just as healthy as
the other, and just as hungry.
They were both still healthy a
year from then. I never did find
the blade.
WELLINGTON OFFICER—Robert Kidd, Wellington
County Board of Education's transportation officer, points
out an area where he hopes to have more neW buses with
additional safety features. Mr. Kidd is not in favor of seat
belts for children on buses, saying, "How can you tell when
every child in the bus has his seat belt on? How can you wait
for every child to put it on?"
Are our school. buses safe?
•(Continued from page 1) grant calculations. which I am
every child in the bus. "Seat belts working on right now.
for children in school buses are "How can you tell when every
child in the bus has hilt
impractical and I have to say that
on? How can you waits
forat every
lam against them." As transpor- child to put it on? Every seat belt
nation officer for the Wellington has to be adjusted to the size of
County schools, Mr. Kidd con- the person or it is totally ineffec-
trols the board's 36 operators. He tive. I just don't see them as
is assisted by Milton McIntosh, being practical. I would rather
who, aside from looking after the see a nice foam spat in front of
board's fleet, is himself a school
bus driver. them which would control them
SAFETY' FIRST safely in the event of a sudden
"Safety, I .think, is our first re- stop," said Mr. Kidd.
sponsibility," says Mr. Kidd, Seat belts for school bus
""followed by neeotiations -with drivers have been installed On the
the operators and our
drivers, group planning
group safety. Then there
own new buses, however, because as
and Constable Tighe says, "If in -
aa vestigations were trade of all
., school bus accidents I think it
would be foundythat most1:drivers
landed down in the stair well."
Con table Tighe is not in favor
of seabelts for children, how-
ever, stating basically the same
reasons as Mr.. Kidd. "Who is
going to check if the kids are
wearing the belts?" he asks,
"Patrollers' would be endlessly
�. walking the aisles to check."
He suggests that if wearing_
seat belts became mandatory
"this would be great because
then parents would become a
good example to their children."
As it stands now, he says,
children "neglect wearing the
belts because they don't see their
parents doing it."
"Parents should take a more
active part," he said, "in
instructingtheir children on
safety methods when riding and
entering and leaving buses as
well as other transportation -ori-
ented safety procedures."
Constable Tighe said that ele-
mentary school children have
come to him and asked when they
will be able to forget about safety
rules like grown-ups do. "They
see high school students and
grown-ups throwing aside safety
in things like crossing the street
and the children automatically
think that they are being taught
safety measures only because
they are children and they can
forget them when they grow up."
"The system should work if
parents wouldonly co-operate .
with school bus drivers and
school principals when they are
warned that their child is causing
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some serious mischief or exces-
sive noise on the bus," points out
Mr. Kidd.
"If they can ,only face it that
maybe their little Johnny is being
a little terror on the bus, it would
solve problems. I think that one
of the biggest problems is getting
them to face that when it
happens, and take action with
their child."
STUDENT PATROLLERS
Would the presence of another
person on the bus, beside the stu-
dent patroller, aid in the mainte-
nance of concentration needed by
the driver and eliminate rowdi-
ness?
"That suggestion has been put
h �.(/� ' v t�. . •t(' $ 'yin t 1 f' �D V 1
W ^to th&iii �! b'lRr T f .,1{. �.
answers Mr. `kidd, "ani our
stand has been that first of all it
would be extremely expensive
and secondly, we have safety pa-
trollers on the buses and in a
great many cases the safety
patroller, along with the driver,
make a terrific team and there is
not that much problem."
"The patrollers really are a
help," says Mr. McIntosh. "I
wouldn't want to be without
them."
Constable Tighe - said great
response has come from the
two-day seminar for patrollers
held last year in Owen Sound.
Four hundred and fifty children
turned out for the patroller semi-
nar which featured information
from St. John Ambulance work-
ers, the OPP and firemen.
Constable Tighe said, "The Grey
County Board of Education has
given us $640 tomake sure we
have the seminar again this
year.
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or library table, especIsliylftbey
are fashioned :of some nicely
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gives the appearance of piercing
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and uprights, and ,ehamfewr the
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for the bases are 3 by 4 by 1/2
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when spotting your holes for the
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1/4.inch in diameter and 1/4-
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He said he has also approached
the Wellington -County Firemen's
Association with a request • to
supply money to school boards to
refill the fire extinguishers on
buses and help in the training of
patrollers in firefighting.
When asked if he thought the
fire extinguishers now being used
on school buses were large
enough, he answered, "No, but
for the number of times they are
;used and considering the size of
the fire they are made' for, they "
are quite adequate."
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