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Page EDUCATION WEEK Wednesday May 1 1991 Agriculture- students learn about agriculture Question What are the steps for growing tomatoes Answer Our results were first you find nice soil but if youre planting it at home get potting soil Then plant your seeds Next you have to take good care of it by watering it and use fertilizers and pesticides When you see that your plant is very tall put a tomato cage around it Then pick your tomatoes Marie Collins and Ashley McMahcon Question How do you make tofu Answer Grow the soybeans then you simmer the puree ground soybean curdle the curds then you have Tofu can be prepared in many different ways such as deep fried You can also have tofu with fruit and can be served as a desert There are many other recipes for tofu Tristan Yates Question How do different types of weather affect a farm Answer- Weather affects dif ferent ways like too much rain can flood crops out Too much snow can reck crops so fanners have no food left Too much hail can cut down crops Too much acid ram can harm animals and make them sick Angle Leslie Question- What crops are grown to feed farm animals Answer We found out that one kind of crops is a crop with corn and carrots Another was onion and turnip The last but not least was peas and oats I think our project Alison and Question What is add rain and how does it affect the crops Answer Our conclusion is acid rain is water polluted by chemicals from cars and fac tories which make the rain add Add rain will burn or sometimes kill the farmers crops Greg McCullough Krf Question How are farm animals used on a farm Answer Dogs cats and horses are used in many different ways Dogs are used to scare away rodents from the chicken pen Rodents such as small foxes and others The farmer takes dogs hunting for ducks Many kinds of dogs are used Cats are used to catch mice in the hay rafters They are not much help in the winter And all they do in the summer is lay around There are many kinds of cats that work on a farm The cats have good eye sight good sense of smell Horses are used to plow and to ride and they pull car riages too The farmer likes a strong horse There are lots of horses on a farm Some farmers cut their horses tails short so they wont drag in the mud or get caught in the harness Horses come in many colours Now 1 have told you about the horse cat dog By Adam Bowman and Alexis Seaman Question How does a worm farm operate Answer A worm farm operates like this The worm fanner raises the worms in a damp and dark area He feeds them lettuce leaves and potato peelings then he or she will sell the worms for money 8 cents each to other distributors and fishermen We made our worm farm out of a l gallon jar with sand dead leaves and potting soil on top We have 36 worms in the jar By Megan and Shaunna Fedora Question What are the work ings of the Dominion Seed House Answer Andrea and I found out that the workings of the Dominion Seed House are quite amazing They have all sorts of rooms They have a cold room where they keep some roses that the employees dig up They have a room where women package all the seeds They also have a machine that ships the boxes into cartons so they can send them to people that order them also have a gift shop so people can order from the magazine As you can see they have quite amazing workings and Andrea Question What is the use of fish products in agriculture Answer You can use fish oil feed and fish meal which is the leftover fish parts after the oil is squeezed out The fertilizer is very high in protein and vitamins Ryan Swim Question How do you make maple syrup Answer You go and tap a tree Sap will flow out of the tree You have to boll the sap Then you get syrup John Stapleton Question What are clubs and what do they have to do with agriculture A dub is a dub that sometimes deal with livestock and farm machinery and in the older days you could only be in 4H if you lived on a farm The 4Hs stand for head heart hands and health By Rebecca Osborne and Angela Question How does affect insects and animals Answer Pesticides are chemicals that kill insects like flies frogs snakes hawks and man and cows Pestiddes are very deadly Craig Anderson Question What is the of a bee What does a bee farmer do Answer A bee farmer collects and produces honey The bees life cycle is larvae then becomes a teen still in its cell then becomes an adult and eats its way through the cell made of wax Bees are not terrible For instance they make honey and they also help the flowers pollinate Filler Question- Will a bean plant develop better in sunlight fluorescent light or incandescent light Answer The answer to my con clusion is that a bean plant develops better in incandescent light as opposed to fluorescent light or sunlight I found this out by recording how much each plant grew and the bean plant under incandescent light grew cm high the bean plant under fluorescent light grew cm and the bean plant under sunlight Amanda Edwards Question My problem was how do different colours of light affect bean plant growth Answer My first experiment was not successful so I decided to do this one and it was suc cessful The was The yellow coloured light grew the plant the most at 2 cm Top her Baker Question What Insects harm and help plants How do we con trol them Answer Geoff and I found out that there are more insects that harm plants than control them Here are some that harm plants Grasshoppers we control them by spraying all over trees and grass Caterpillars are the worst insects They kill millions of dollars of trees every year We control them by insecticides Here are some good insects lady bugs or lady birds eat bugs that eat plants bees help pollinate the worlds trees and plants This is an insect that a lot of people pay no attention to the spider beetle it eats insects that eat plants Chris Hall and Geoff Bahr Question Do liferent soils ab sorb water at different rates Answer- Yes they do The gravel absorbed all the water in seconds The sand absorbed the water in minutes and 18 seconds The soil absorbed all the water in minutes and 5 seconds Farmers use soil because it nourishes the crops and the water wont drown the crops Eric Fletcher Question How do worms help the soil Answer Our answer is worms eat it then digest it out and by do ing that they purify the soil Matt McCarthy and Dave King BEDRoon wujbsy AJCkg gT3WT55 FLETCHERS Shoe fJri 9mWt Fop i1 Camp GohpsRut Hub -a-