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Page THE II TON 1111 LMIOMFSTYI Salur a htobrri IfltO Food has historic roots Consumers enjoy flavors from the past TORONTO The agriculture and food business in to the century artificial in semination is standard on many Ontario farms biotechnology is providing farmers with more proved breeds of plants and com mala farm management practises a great deal easier While the and food business in Ontario is thoroughly modem some of the products it grows have which go back centuries before Europeans ever landed or started to bet tie the wilderness of this vast prov Perhaps the most important crop Europeans inherited from native Indians was corn or maize as it used to be known Records from the 1600s show tint the Huron Indians were growing nearly bushels of corn a enough to feed more than hungry mouths Corn was and is a versatile crop The Indians used it to make bread pudding soup and in the manner sometimes used today roasted The sweet com e eat now though would not have been planted by the Huron It appeared as a genetic mutation in the early lBOOs The market for sweet com has changed dramatically in the last six with the advent of the vineties These vanetitb are popular unlike ill torn do not convert sugar to starch have a sugar content of to per tent to nine to 16 per cent in regular corn the name that makes them sweet and gives crisp chanctenstics There ire of corn and because of their now make up about per cent of Ontario sweet corn production High on the list of contemporary delicacies with a long past is wild nee or as the Ojibwiv called it Wild net is not nee at alt but a grain and North America native grain The tall ribbon like grass grows in shallow waters and On is one of the biggest pro ducersof The time of the wild rice moon was an tanl social for the Indians The harvest method used then is still employed in areas Two people a glide among the plants one paddling the other beating the ripe of rice into the canoe Another harvest method involves Uit of speed heads which are trays supported on the canoe bow and driven through the nee beds by in outboard motor The stalks hit the edge the speed head and the grains fall inside While in past the rice was processed in a colorful ritual which involved dancing on the rice to remove the chaff wild rice to day is processed mechanically and thousands of pounds can be handled in a single day Cranberries art another food harvested in wet areis bogs to be precise Ontario s native peoples depended cranberries for a number things They used them for food in several ways raw dried or pounded into the legen pemmican The juice of cranberries made an exceptional dve for cloth and its acid qmlitv gave medicinal qualities as a poultice for wounds for example In Ontario cranberries still grow wild but they are also cultivated commercially several central While in days gone by cranberries were harvested by hand with a wooden scoop today thiy are picked mechanically In the wet harvest method the bog is flooded and a small machine knocks berries from tht vineb into the water The berries float to the surface and arc corralled to the shoreline with long booms Wild fruits nuts and berries add ed vanety flavour and color to the Indian staples of com beans and squash Acorns chestnuts and walnuts were eaten as they wen and were ground into flour Besides cranberries other favored berries included strawberries blackberries raspberries gooseberries and blueberries Some fruit such as crab apples was preserved in that wonderful syrup which is practically synonymous with Canada maple syrup The technique for collecting the sap and converting into liquid gold was learned from Canada nitivc people Current techniques art based on the same principle of removing water from sap but the equipment is different Histoncilly native people started the sap dripping by slashing the tree with an and using a cedar shaving to direct the drip into the birch bark containers or hollow logs They boiled the sap or heated stones over a fire then plunged them into the sap to reduce the water content Today collecting and evaporating equipment is made of steel or aluminum and ptasttc tub ing for collecting sap is also popular In some reverse osmosis machinery reduces the amount of time and energy spent boiling water out of the sap It takes gallons of sap to make one gallon of syrup The taste and high quality of On fine foods is now enjoyed world wide Little do contented consumers realize that as they relish the goods produced today they are also enjoying a bit of On tano past Statistics recognize economic change TOM I Communications Div Statistics Canada OTTAWA Flocks of Canadian snowbirds heading for Florida beaches February now there s a seasonal adjustment anyone who has lived through our winter can understand But seasonal adjustment and some of the other fine tuning that is done by statisticians car be somewhat less obvious The report from Statistics Canada on how manv people are employed or unemployed for example give the totals with the notation that are seasonally adjusted This means that certain big jumps or dips in these numbers which recur on a regular basis have been taken into account Adjustments have been made to smooth out those abrupt peaks or vallevs that would result if the raw numbers were plotted on a What sort of recur regularlv Its less true with to dav techniques than it used to be years ago but the construction in still goes full blast warm weather and eases off somewhat through the winter Any business act ml tied to tourism will have peak and Students swell the employment rolls and sometimes the ranks of the unempned each summer when they join the work force to earn hack toschoo monev Sim recurring factors which can lead to slat adjustment are work other economic areas For there that huge bulge in retail sales generated during the weeks leading up to Christmas Or the change in the number of trading from one month to the next Five Sundavs instead of the usual four can have quite an impact on many businesses What do these statistical ad justments achieve could be compared to eliminating interference from a TV signal With the static gone other factors having an impact on the statistics a quickening or a slackening in general economic livity for example will stand out and be identified Thev wont be camouflaged one of these regular seasonal variations Quick recognition of economic change is a must in s com plex business world Seasonal and other statistical adjustments help ensure fast identification of such change It becomes as easv to spot as that mass migration of winter wearv Canadians Working from the home WORKING r ROM a little into a home office to be proud of ROYAL CITY HALTON LTD IMPROVING TOUR ODDS AGAINST KILLER Weve Sliced Our Price BARGAIN HUNTERS OPEN HOUSE SUN OCT 7 2 35 Moore Park Cresc Georgetown CALL TODAY MORGAN ASSOCIATE BROKER Bus Tor Home 416 Canada TrustRealtor Canada Campany GRACIOUS CENTURY HOME IN MATURE ACTON JUST REDUCED Space 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