_.dress...._ Their youngest child | Even at 250 shared the meazre accommoda- ee eee 15,000 to 18,000 of the small bags produce the best average results

had overriin her homeland in the She started before Christmas |

quarters... The Americans were

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* MR. AND MRS. Zempfir Costache | competition, rural beautification,

‘receive the. T.;.Eaton Company prize from D. B. Mackean, manager~ of”

for first lace in the | amall homes

lit they were married Maria n was married when she was - 17, 'Stanley, their other child, is twe

vears old

the peasants branch,

are top farmers Leghorns —

Mr. and Mrs. Zemfir Costache +m 1959. - his first job was at have a fine farm home in York | Clifford Chappell's in York. Mrs. | ork da tn fact they won first prize for Costache and young daughter, | W y Queens County in the Rural came over in 1950. fe. ° ' Beautification Society's compe- Mr. Costache had-$75 when he) KENTVILLE. NS — The av. tition in 1965. Their—victory-was—arrived-in-Canada,— Now the-fa- erage White Leghorn hen pro in Class B, small farm homes, mily-has 85 acres of land. a beau- |duces best on a 14-hour day fol The previous year the Costache tiful home, a barn and a mMa-ligwed by 10 hours of. darkness, people won first place in a flow- ‘chinery shed which houses the cays FG Proudfoot. & scientist er -garden competition. ___ farming equipment. Mr. _ Cos- lat the federal research station . This interesting couple were tache works with Lewis Broth- (here. : married in cap in. Munich, ers through much of . the. year, Germany shortly after the war. | though he and his wife look af \rive years of experiments with | ‘Tney shared space in one “arge | ter their own farm chores be- | tia 10.000 laving hens in| room. with’ three’ other cotiples, fore. he goes to. his. other em- | nich six day-lengths varving |

and several other people for a pe- Dc Sis clin aes fi from six to 2! hours were stud- | riod of. time. r. Costache also does his own jog

farm work in season. He works The tests showed that the 14

Pig married couples were Zi \with_his neighbors when he has pace in one ee 0 @ ithe time away from his own hour day, begun immediately Yocm. There were four corners +. 34, a neighbor told me. after hatching. was equal or su- so four married couples slept in lperior to other day-lengths in the room. The men who were PACKAGED POTATOES © terms of ege. production, feed single slept in fhexennite< of the One story interested me in jefficiency. and net income

He bases jhis—conclusion on

OO ~~particular__.For_several Years | she tday'-wasthe length otf

The Cosiacher _wete able to Mrs. Costache packed into 10 - ltime artificial licht-was on. The pin a blanket up to give them 2 bags all of the potatoes | lexperiments were carried out in | some measure of privacy be- they grew on the 10 to 12 acres | vi ndowtess buildings equipped |

hind which to. dress and un- they plant ay i the | With light trans at doors and facre and they would likely have | more than that, that-would mean| The constant 14-hour days did |

= $ ___|to be packed. She and her hus- |but the researcher notes that Mrs, Costache worked iM @ ihand weigh the bags in the eve- there was some variation among German butcher: shop in Munich - aid to wake eure the weight is lthe different strains of Leg

from 1943, _after the. Germans | eatil hor tested. .

Ukraine. og aes aah rag land it would be early May be “They started at four o'clock in : z = te morning or erly ater-( 2, Oe Coe ag Profits run wards and they worked far into ~ : _ : : a : Last year ‘she shared this | the night, sometimes until 10 oF «ack with her husband, I under- |

11 o'clock, she told this paper. : wie ee stand. } rhere was a man to slaughter The Costaches are happy in) much hig el the animals, but~the girls shar- i,j, new land, but they had | ; j Cea eee ee taken (ome trouble spots’ along the ww yORK (AP)—Protits of is fhe 26 when she was laken |way. Seteral vears ago, for ex- |r; ¢ “eorporations are averaging It Gar ate the Americans einple hey lostteir barn b y DB per cent higher than a year fire and with 14 fat cattle along ggasi this gain holds, the’ total

arrived that the couple were |: : married and they were able to with feed aod Oper etna: net Income after taxes for all live together in the- crowded | But the neighbors were aw- 196f would rise to more than

ifully—good, Mrs.. Costache told ¢42 on9.000.000 from last year's

good to us. she said, but they Me —Sore—gave—hem ber —sore 344-500, 1000, 0. couldn't help the crowding. &4ve Money, others helped with > The first 132 of the country’s ‘There was no--huilding accom--“ork and in other ways. larger corporations to report on modations to do any better. “Everybody helped us’, ob- first-quarter earnings show only When they learned from the served this new Island citizen J9 trailing a year ago. The total Canadian consulate there was with deep appreciation. for the 132. is $3,054,596.000,

a chance to’ go to Canada, her, Their oldest child, Gloria, was against $2.748.958:000 in the first husband applied _He came over born in Munich several years af- three months of 1965.

Island — Ferguson Dealers

\great deal of research is being spring months:

ipanies. If is the job of ‘extension

\information and puts it into use,

|wentilator openings. ees

wr i “ : bites e -. Ps e ‘

y aa if. ° : ‘ if

on crop recommendations, fer-

| (4). Preparation of pamphlets! Page 4-A The Guardian -The Evening Patriot

A 4 . e : Informat i |e Emme = a 10n Serv ces : = stilizer. recommendations and PEI. Department of Agricul-;° Gra Linkletter, Ag.. En

designed to aid farmers .

By DAVID W. ROGERS {r ving, however, all this infor- Director of Extension mation is of little use unless a - P.E.1. Dept. of Agriculture farmer who is actually growing One of the main purposes of this crop has the information to | the P.E. 1; Department of -Agri-- guide him culture is to provide information The Extension information ‘and recommendations to farm programs of the P.E.1. Depart- & people on various phases of crop ment. of Agriculture have been & and ‘livestock production and centered on the following activi- | © marketing. As is well known, a ties during the winter. and gi

d April 1 on Livestock Feed-

done at - Experimental Farms,

universities and by private com- (1): A. 18 minnte her week ‘tele:

vision program over CFCY from January 4 to April 19. The pur- pose of this series is to familiar- ize farm people with the per- sonnel and policies of the P.E.I. Department of Agriculture

personnel to take information from the scientist to the farmer.

Unless the farmer received this led at Souris, Cardigan, Vernon |upon request MacDonald, Fieldman

\Bridge and Kensington. Other, ‘he following list of personnel |

then research will not have} jtact this Department for further lidea of some of the resource peo- |

‘\other phases of production for. ture gineering Specialist; David ‘the coming crop year INDIVIDUAL CONTACT - .\\Smith, Field Crops Specialist “| (5) The Our Farm Business Most of the remainder of ex- Doug Kilpatrick, Horticult ure

TV Series of four, one hour |tension work is being done! Specialist; John Chandler, broadcasts on March 29,30, 31, through contact with individual | Specialist; David Ward, Farm farm operators through farm | Management Specialist; Wayne “ing and Forage Production, calls, letters, office calls, tours, Dickieson, Queen's County Ag from which scripts are available ete Representative: Andrew Hum ‘free of charge from this office. | This is a brief attempt to sum- phrey, Soils ‘Analyst, Experi The reason for our extended marize some of the work pres-| mental Farm; David Peacock, , use of mass media is to have a jently being carried out. At all! Director of Livestock; Earle greater ability to get information |times we would appreciate con-| Adams, Dairy Superintendent, to those people. who can make | structive criticism and requests! Gerald Johnstone, Poultry Field. us®’Of it. This is the. only way |for information. A large number man: Glen Cotton, Beef Field- that. a few people can reach a lot pamphlets published’ -by rey man; Reid Sangster, Marketing large number of farmers. Canada Department of Agricul- | Director and ARDA Coordinat. - GROUP WORK ture and the Ontario Depart- or,” Rudi Dallenbach, Rural De.

Four Farm Management Ac- ment of Agriculture are on hand | velopment Fieldman;’ Gordon ; counting courses. were conduct-jand available free of charge’ Ripley, Fieldman: and John

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h ou an, .For further information cor- ‘groups’ interested should - con-| and their titles will give: you ‘tact the P.E.I. Department of

jachieved its purpose. Fer exam-} (2) five minute per day ra- wh i ie , DAVID ROGERS _ : information. Groups are also op- ple-available in P.EXI. on differ- |Agriculture at 180: Richmond St.

iple, the “researcher and the ex- dio broadcast over CFCY and

velopment Program of the | Marketing: |

“CAN HELP

Hon. Andrew B. McRae

Minister of Agriculture

$: C. Wright

Deputy Minister of Agriculture

‘ADAMS_ REID SANGSTER DAVID PEACOCK JACK CHANDLER

DR. H. H. KELLY E.-W. inireniae at aeenorcdla Director of Veterinary. Services Dairy Superintendent Deraloping. & Marketing Director of Livestock 4-H Club Director '

ae cesses

“Gurdon Ripley John MacDonald Russell Matheson bat ‘ Graeme Resources i Resources Farm Improvement Wayne Dickieson Linkletter Development _ Development Services Queens County- Prince. County-

Your county representative is your direct-contact with the Department of

Attend Special Service School at Indianapolis

Sovak. Seftto- right Aliicon Green CLaylon—pereri itty 9" Pins Sothern (Sutherland Bros., Morell), Robert Bruce (Young's Ser:ice Station, East Bal- tic).

DAVID SMITH A. W. HUMPHREY Agriculture. He : close touch with the prevailing conditions in your own King’s County sol Analyst “ —-—-~ Focallity. His experience and knowledge can be of value to you as a farmer.

J. Frank Gaudet J. D. Kilpatrick G. K. Cotton

Proy. Foresters Horticulturalist Reef Fieldman

David Rogers a Ww Beer rn Ts : Director uae ee oe Gerald Johnstone = Richard Curley = J. L. MacKachern Allan Clow Scott Coffin J. W, Glennie of Extension Economist Dairy Fieldman Poultry Fieldman Dairy , Fieldman Dairy Fieldman Dairy Fieldman Dairy Fieldmas Dairy Fieldman 4H “Iubs and the Women’s Inatitdles form an in The fiellmen are well qualifigd and experience d-in the various aspects of agriculture, They

tegral part of the farming community. The directors ; ae of these groups stimulate the interest and guide the keep up-to-date on the latest farming methods and experiments. Their. job ts to make this

activities. of the nen of the organizations, information available to you.

. PHONE 894-8529 to arrange an appointment with the representative of your choice.

Dep ~ of A icultu re

CHARLOTTETOWN bony : 7 - PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND

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| tension person might knuow all /¢JRW from 11:55- 12:00 noon. Guardian and Journal- Pioneer erating under the Resources De-|ent subjects of Agriculture -and or Box 2,000, Charlottetown, there is to know about turnip! (3) A weekly column in The newspapers iP.E.I.

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