Halton Hills Newspapers

Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), July 13, 1988, p. 36

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SELF SUFFICIENT Ontario Naturalists in not morning spring bird song is largely over now Birds have settled down to sobering job raising families As In human families until the young arc more or loss able to look utter thorn Ives this is a time heavy stress lor parents Some young birds spring immediately the terrible twos young water fowl and tor instance down eyes wide open like gruasod lightning almost as soon as they hatch Those birds which can feed themselves at once are called appropriately young songbirds like the Oriole and Robin arc They are born naked and with closed unable to stand and only initially is the beak gaping lood young hatched and growing last people often gel involved with what they behove is an abandoned nestling That young Dove huddled and has probably not boon abandoned Slay well away and watch parent will likely soon with an otter ing No nest can accommodate in definitely several rapidly growing young birds Sooner or lator nestlings will bo forced out of the nest However parents will continue to care for young even out the nest In the case very young birds ailing out of nest as a result of some disaster you may bo able to replace thorn In the nest It is not thai parent will the youngstor if it has boon handled bird whoso are Often tho victims con cern is the Tho nosls on the ground Any hollow in a liold or gravel will do Its young are mini atures of the adul Is except that they only black band across chest Ihoso tiny balls mobile Hull are within an hour of hutching To survive infancy they will on their ability lo blend into ground by freezing hoar the adults alarm call Tho adult will attempt to lead interlopers away with the old broken wing act you there are probably very close to your loot Novor pick up thinking that it has been abandoned Us been learning the art survival since i was an hour old No matter how cute are loavo them alone for and it is quite difficult gol them to eat If you are forced to play foster parents to young birds which long observation has convinced you ore you should consider difficulties and Iho responsibility before taking on of raising them you roally up to It Young birds need about every IS and also to bo kepi worm II Ihe bird is not you will need to pro vide a of warmth An old shoo box lined with tissue will pro vide a homo and a light bulb sus pended over this nest heat Young birds need a temperature around degrees Tho parents spend a good deal when the young first hatch brooding them lo temperature This week a downtown Toronto has bten pro looting her newly hatched young from broiling sun determinedly ignoring cable work going on very carefully a few iwny Can you provide this sort You will also bo in charge of pro viding as nourishing a diet as par ents provide by a high ly nutritious Insects You won bo ox clod to do this and a suggested alternative formula con sists of mixture of water milk yolks pablum and intant vitamin Why have a home computer Our children live in a computer world Thoy are exposed to com puters as soon as I hey got to school and most will use them in years to in obs Why one at homo as well A few years ago rationale computer makers us was to bata com p our recipe and accomplish other simple homo tasks This son thlno has not because It Is misuse of com puter Such tasks require an extra ordinary amount of work on com puter easily without A computer should bo used in just opposite situation whero machine is proforrcd tool the only sigm itmg for your Id Instrument a typewriter The ability to make instai rections and alterations is whelming on advantage worth having for ilsolt makes boiler writers ol computer As subsidiary reason I hero is ability to use spreadsheets in complex projects lhal students got in grades and 13 and at How about games as there get carried away Tho distinction bo lhat mako you think shoot em up typos he litter require a joystick choose either Ihe MS DOS lypo that follows the Inlornalional Business no Corp pattern or Macintosh These are the machines you at woik as a bonus you can use the homo computer because they become the Industry standards All other kinds aro not proven in the marketplace or are outdated Tho Apple and Com modore machines still commonly used in the classroom in latlor Only low computer nuts among us want use a computer tor its own sake The rest us want to it a working tool lhat s why you considering a homo computer your reason is valid Any other is not For CA s advice on TV sec Your Wealth broadcast chan nels in Ontario and on satellite Is general financial accountants Don Shaughnossy Great Wed Lift Assurance Company drops Steam egg yolks gontly with a littler water and milk to make a kind of cuslard then thicken with a lilllo Keep your mixture thin enough to pass through an drop- lives without really under standing much about thorn A little observation and read about habits birds would Ihe raising nestlings Raising young rds is a demanding and business which is only when you suc ceeded in returning them to the yourhand at roaring on orphan and you you might and western Erie Rescue at 519 3578 Red Caviar by Vladimir Sato no and Gennadi Vedemfkov Pacific Research Institute of Fishing and Oceanography NCHed caviar is on internation ally known and delicacy In some ports the Soviet Union the population can afford to it daily fall They live on banks Amur and smaller rivers in Soviet For East perhaps biggest producer red caviar and salmon in the world Salmon is main treasure hero envied by people from other parts tho country In early September gigantic schools salmon sot out many thousandkilomelre route from the Pacific lo tho spawn ing grounds in the upper reaches of Far Eastern rivers The 13 fishing cooperatives ore up to Ihoir cars in work and fish and badly In need help which they do get from Industries Seasonal fish ing is according to strict rules Most fishing licenses are sold to amateurs during salmon season Both caviar and Amur salmon iiseil delicious The salmon is baked fried salted smoked and bailed about 10 tons over different salmon dishes arc sold daily in Khabarovsk amaiorcityon tho Amur Boiled potatoes with salmon is a daily dish of Ihe local folk Raw salmon wilh sliced onions in vinegar is nalional dish of ethnic minonlios in Amur Region Live the best of all worlds Host a foreign student The experience a awaits all families In Ontario who apply to host a studont through Interculluro Canada the country s loading international ex change organization This governmental not-for- organization will soon bo con cluding its familyfinding campaign tor students around the world who aro scheduled in August lor lull school year to gol word out says Kirk Applelord an volunteer wilh Ihe organization These kids need a for year a place whom can tool at home and learn what Canada is all about Mr cites a examples where local families opened their hearts and homes students as far as Franco or Thailand In ust about all cases ho notos the year has a vory deop effect on family Oiler a Canada hosting program is open to all family typos two parents with children singleparent young older or childless couples students who must attend a local high school carefully selected a large pool appli cants and placed with compatible interests What emerges concludes Mr Applotord is a ralhor wonderful end result where families and not only discover their similar ities but also grow their dif Families are not expected to absorb any outstanding student than housing and expenses and ensures the As a Inlorcullural Programs Interculluro Canada is part of tho worlds largest network of high school exchange programs operating in countries Families interested in obtaining more information about hosting a studont asked to call Kirk at 116 or toll 1 eWorld News Unfortunately today nature noi even local gastronomies because of mans abuses At the start the century Amur yielded over tons salmon annually and caviar was produced in thousands barrels Then the camo when urgent action was needed to restore the salmon population In the early years Soviet power the 1920 and a scientists Insisted on cutting the catches Spawning grounds were put under protection and economic activities In the areas banned In those hard times fun da were ear marked to build first Amur and pink salmon hatcheries Tho Amur basin occupies close million km On territory tho inspection agency supervises the industrial purification facilities and helped volunteers combats among mosl coveted objects of poaching and speculation During spawning season the rivers are patrolled on a roundtheclock basis by launches sighting dov cos radio stations and locators Hundreds inspectors other parts of country come hero to assist and helicopters inspection agency is especially uncompromis ing during spawning season when salmon returns its native places for reproduction Bui still much the salmon arc produced by Ihe lour where favourable condit ions are created for incubation and growing try Over million fry released in Amur annu ally More hatcheries will bo built to bring number to 350 million to an additional annual catch of 500 tons lo reproduce salmon in the Pacific gaining 1 to 7 kg in weight Unfortunately only tenth a per cent or one fish In I 000 survives Tho rest fall prey to carnivorous birds and fish wealher and pollution mostly on Ihe way hatcheries and spawning Special tankers have provided a solution Alter incubation and their growing period will bo taken to the ocean In tanks 1 hey will stay in water and bo fed and cared lor by crow The first such ships will bo tested in Added to im proved incubation and protection in the environment this moo sure is to boost the rate times over or up to per Then the situation will bo as it existed in century

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