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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1960-11-24, Page 9• • SUGGEST EGG MARKETING PLAN WILL SERVE ONTARIO PRODUCERS Ontario's complex, confusing and highly speculative egg marketing Industry is in for a m40h needed revamping, if current plans of some segments of the industry are jrought into effect in the future. And consumers, producers, egg $raders, and others in the mar - feting eting chain should benefit from he change, according to Tom #tobson, Leamington, chairman of the Ontario Poultry Producers' As- sociation. , In a special meeting with mem- bers of the press, radio and tele- vision at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, Mr. Robson unveiled a suggested egg marketing plan which was developed over the. Last eight months by a special com- mittee appointed by the provincial government at the request of the producer association; Mr. Robson Is also chairman of this commit- tee. Egg pricing in Ontario is so con- fusing at the present time that even those engaged in egg mar- keting have difficulty in following the pattern. There is no logical method, said Robson, and this, couplewith the speculation which is rampant in all segments of the egg industry, means severe price fluctuations to consumers and producers alike. Speculation in the market place usually leads to un- economical handling problems, and can lead to lowered egg quality if the eggs are held in storage in order to force the best possible price. It also means that natural supply and demand has little bear- ing on prices. The proposed plan, which will come under the Ontario Farm Pro- ducts Marketing Act, if producers want it, has several important aims. A. primary objective is to provide producers with as large a share as possible of, the ietail ALL KINDS of INSURANCE W. E. 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Other aims of the plan are: to provide more price competition at retail levels rather than at the egg producer level as in the pres- ent egg marketing system; to pro- vide consumers with good quality eggs; to help prevent very large integrated units; and to provide Ontario egg producers with ac- curate and timely information on production and marketing. Mr. Robson and his committee sug- gest that the plan should be ap- plied with little regimentation and with no undue interference with normal egg marketing channels. The plan will be administered by the local board and financed by a deduction from each dozen eggs produced in Ontario. A special levy is proposed to build a stabil- ization fund for the agency to use to stabilize •the Ontario market when some market condition, such as surplus eggs, occurs. Egg producers in Ontario will be invited to attend a special meet- ing on December 14 in Toronto to discuss the suggested plan. I£ 15 per cent of Ontario egg producers petition for a plebiscite on the plan, it will be voted on by egg producers in Ontario Some time in the near future. If the plan works as the com- mittee expects, consumers will benefit from price drops clue to supply and demand factors, but for the most part will have fairly steady prices and good egg qual- ity. Egg grading station operators and other handlers will have prices guaranteed for a- seven-day per- iod, so will not lose because of speculation on egg markets. Their operations can be made more eco- nomical. Producers will have,rel- atively stable markets,• should get a fairer share of the retail price, and can count on prices being established through supply and de- mand. Seaforth Clears October Accounts Accounts approved for payment at the meeting of Seaforth council last Monday evening included the following: A. Miller, salary, $135; A. Horne, salary, $35.20; P. Bannon, acct., $14; H. Bolton, acct., $6; E. L. Christensen, acct., $800; Seaforth Public -School, advance, $3,000; E. Scott, acct., $42; H. Glew, acct., $30; D. H. Wilson, salary, $258.33; E. Hutchinson, salary, $333.33; S. Bates, salary, $275; A. J. Calder, salary, $237.50; H. Maloney, sal- ary, $243.32; A. Price, salary, $208.82; The Franklin Press, acct., $179.82; W. E. Southgate, insur- ance, $238.24. A. Horne, acct., $34.10 ; Seaforth News, acct., $112.64; Canadian, Legion, Seaforth Branch, acct., $14.25; relief, $15; Town of Clinton, acct., $35.31; Town of Seaforth, sundries, $8.08; Re- ceiver General of Canada, income tax, $135.95; Receiver General of Canada, unemployment insurance, $53.22. Heater Power Equipment, acct., $15; George F. Elliott, acct., $85; Willis Dundas, acct„ $1,241.45; G. A. Sills & Sons, acct.,. $54.16; Sea - forth Lumber Ltd., "acct., $2.04; Seaforth Machine Shop, acct., $117.45; Public Utility Commission, acct., $33.03; A. Miller, wages, $97; Gus Johnston, acct., $7.50; Centre- ville Garage, acct., $12"15; John Bach, acct., $199.45; Topnotch Feeds Ltd., acct., $19.90; Boyes Farm Supply, acct., $8.30; Lavis Contracting Co. Ltd., acct., $139.92; Gar Baker, acct., $14; Langdon Mfg. Co,, acct., $6.75; Jim Brock, acct., $35.91; C. and C. Paving Co., acct., $34,80; Scott's White Rose Service, acct„ $10.87; Helen Glew, acct., $20; Bell Telephone Co., acct., $82.50; Canadian Tire Cor- poration, acct., $17.89; Helen Bol- ton, acct., $4; Carl Cantelon, acct., $60.35; Cleave's Service, acct., $10.42; C. E. Hickey & Sons -Ltd., acct., $65.35; Gordon Nobel, acct., $12; Alex Boyes, acct., $67; Frank Kling, acct., $458. SALESMAN WANTED 1. Steady Employment 2. Good Salary and Commissions 3. Training Period (full salary) 4. Hospitalization Plan Retirement Plan TRANSPORTATION (if necessary) Apply: SINGER SEWING MACHINE CO. Goderich, Ont. ALPHONSE OUIMET, CBC President, left, presents silver- plated microphone to W. 0. Twaits, president of Imperial Oil Ltd., .right, commemorating the 25th year of National Hockey League broadcasts sponsored by Imperial Oil. Veteran hockey sportscaster Foster Hewitt is seen in centre. The presentation was made during the hockey game on Saturday, November 5. HURON COUNTY FEDERATION NEWS By CARL HEMINGWAY Ontario Cream Producers held their annual meeting in the Royal York, Toronto, Tuesday, Nov. 15. This meeting seemed to make ev- en clearer the difficult problems facing farmers. Cream producers are becoming fewer and fewer as more dairy men turn to the sale of whole milk. This does not mean any reduc- tion in the production of butter, but simply means that the milk is separated by a processor for but- ter manufacture. However, it does mean a definite loss of support for those who are most interested in the sale of butter, and does limit the effectiveness of, their organ- ization. - An even bigger problem of these people seems to , be the difficulty In pronducing enough butter with- out producing a surplus. Actually, the yearly surplus is barely'asafe guarantee of having enough', but this has accumulated over a suc- cession of favorable production years to the point where it is em- barrassing. A resolution recommending that the price remain as it is to pro- ducers but allowing the retail price to fluctuate down to 54 cents, with the difference to be made up by Government, was . defeated. The, main argument against this was the reluctance to have any more than the simplest of Government participation. As an alternative, a seasonal sale of butter was proposed. By this means, perhaps for a month each year when it was assured that there would be a surplus, re- tail outlets would give three pounds for the price of two; with the third pound paid for by the Govern- ment. Difficulties are quite ap- parent. in this method and if in- surmountable, the Board will then reconsider the resolution. A second -resolution of particu- lar interest requested that all veg- etable oil products (other than soap) be grouped with lard in Government production figures listed in the press. As it is now, butter substitutes are listed separately from lard and shortening. Thus it would appear that when sales of butter substi- WANTED LIVE POULTRY Top Prices Paid! DUBLIN CREAMERY & Poultry Packers Phone 68 -- Dublin • • Choose From the BIGGEST most BEAUTIFUL and VARIED display of Christmas Cards we have shown in many a year. ,o#6. tutes increase it means that it is at the expense of butter. However, butter substitutes go on sale at 4 pounds for $1.00, while shorten- ing stays at 36c. Since these pro- ducts are virtually the same, many housewives buy butter substitutes in place of shortening, rather than in place of butter. After hearing, on several occa- sions, the Hog Producers berated by those in authority at Queen's Park for their accusations against the packers, I was surprised to hear Everett Biggs attack the Milk Distributors. According to Mr. Biggs, these processors sent out letters to their fluid milk produc- ers urging them to oppose giving a donation•to the cheese producers for the export of cheese to relieve our surplus of dairy products. Just whose side is the Government on? FUNERALS .. ALBERT; JOHN ALLEN The following obituary, taken from The Roblin Review, .Man., refers to a brother of the late Sylvester Allen, of Seaforth. Mr. CREAM PRODUCERS CONCERNED AS . BUTTER SURPLUS MOUNTS Ontario cream producers were on the verge of asking the gov- ernment to set a minimum con- sumer price of 54 cents per pound of butter, and a producer floor price of 64 cents a pound for but- terfat, but a resolution to this ef- fect was eventually lost at the an- nual meeting of the Ontario Cream Producers' Marketing Board in Toronto, on November 15. The res- olution was based on the belief that lower butter prices would tend to increase consumption. The 200 delegates attending the Toronto meeting asked their or- ganization to request the govern- ment to continue its present sup- port price and offer -to -purchase plan of stabilization for the 1861- 62 dairy year. But delegates also asked for an additional subsidy of seven cents per pound butterfat on all farm separated cream, com- Reid Allen, of town, is a nephew: "Funeral services were held in the Knox United Church, Roblin, Man., on Wednesday, November 2, at 2:00 p.m., for Albert John Al- len, of Deepdale, Man., who pass- ed away at Winnipeg, Man., on Saturday, October 29, 1960, follow- ing a short illness. He was 71 years of age. "Rev. R. Williams conducted the service, assisted by Rev. K. W. Burton. The Sneath Funeral Ser- vice was in charge of arrange- ments, and interment was made in the Roblin District Cemetery. "Pallbearers were Sig Olsen, Alec Smigelsky, James Stewart, Lloyd Elder, Wellings Charboneau and Cliff Ayers. Albert John Allen was born and educated in Seaforth, Ont., where he lived for 17 years, and in 1906 he moved to the Roblin district where he took up his homestead. He lived there all his life. "Mr. Allen was united in mar- riage to Mary Herana Smith on January 24, 1912, at Roblin, Man. He -was •a• member •of the Knox United Church, Roblin. "Surviving are his wife Mary, two sons, David, Waterways, Alta., and John, Roblin, Man.; and one daughter, Mrs. Lavere (Annie) Ray Fester, Haney, B.C.; and two sisters, Mrs. Mary Mailey, Deep - dale, Man., and Mrs. J. S. L. (Jeun) Cummings, Clinton, Ont.; one sister-in-law, Miss Ella Smith, Vancouver, B.C.; five grandchil- dren and five great-grandchildren." WANT ADS BRING. QUICK RESULTS — Phone 141 sir.• SEAFORTH MONUMENT ' WORKS Exeter 41 OPEN DAILY " T. Pryde & Son ALL TYPES OF CEMETERY MEMORIALS Inquiries are invited. Telephone Numbers: Clinton 1620 Seaforth 573 BUSINESS DIRECTORY I M. W. STAPLETON A. W. SILLERY Physician and Surgeon Phone 90 Seaforth If no answer, call 317 • JOHN A. GORL, BA., M.D. Physician a d Surgeon Phones: Office '5-W Res, 54 Seaforth SEAFORTH CLINIC Telephone 26 P. L. BRADY, M.D. Surgeon Telephone 750 W 1 DR. E. MALKUS Telephone 15 EVENINGS: Tuesday and Thurs- day only, 7-9 p.m. Appointments may be made. D. H. McINNES Chiropractic • Foot Correction COMMERCIAL HOTEL.. Monday, Thursday — 1 to 8 p,ni A. M. HARPER & COMPANY T- Chartered Accountants 55 South St. Telephone Goderich JA 4-7562 Licensed Municipal Auditor, G. A. WEBB, D.C.* *Doctor of Chiropractic 438 Main Street • Exeter X -Ray and Laboratory Facilities Open Each Weekday Except , Wednesday. Tues. and Thurs. Evenings 7-9 For Appointment - , Phone 606 SEAFORTH VETERINARY CLINIC J. 0. Turnbull, D.V.M., V.S. W. R. Bryans, D.V.M., V.S. W. G. Drennan, D.V.M., V.S. S. D. MeeuVvisse •Phone 105 •Seaforth Barrister, Solicitor, Etc. Phones: Office 173, Residence 781 SEAFORTH ONTARIO McCONNELL & STEWART Barristers, Solicitors, Etc. P. 11 McCONNELL, Q,C. D. I. STEWART Seaforth, Ont. Phone 550 JOHN E. LONGSTAFF Optometrist Phone 791, Seaforth Eyes Examined _ Glasses Fitted MAIN... OFFICE, SEAFORTH Goderich St. West, adjacent to Seaforth Clinic. Office Hours: Seaforth daily except Monday, 9 a.m,-5:30 p.m.; Wednesday, 9:00 a.m -12:30 p.m.; Thursday evenings by appointment only. Clinton: Monday, 9 a.m.-5:30 p,m. (Above Hawkins' Hardware.) THE McKILLOP MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE CO. HEAD OFFICE—SEAFORTH, Ont OFFICERS: President—J. L. Malone, Seaforth Vice -President John H. McEwing Blyth. Secretary-Treasurer—W. E. South gate, Seaforth. DIRECTORS: J. L, Malone, Seaforth; Chris Leonhardt, Bornholm ; Robert Archibald, Seaforth; John H. Mc - Ewing, Blyth; William S. Alexan- der, Walton; Harvey Fuller, Gode rich;, J. E. Pepper, Brucefield; Allister Broadfdot, Seaforth; N Trewartha, Clinton. AGENTS: Vincent Lane, R.R. 5, Seaforth; William Leiper, Jr., Londesboro; Selwyn Baker, Brussels; James Keys, R.R. 1, Seaforth; Harold Squires, R.R. 3, Clinton. 0000°000000000❑ O 0 0 W. J. CLEARY ° O Seaforth, Ont. o O LICENSED EMBALMER o d and FUNERAL DIRECTOR o O Night or Day Calls — 335 0 0x•0090000000.0 0000000000000❑ O 0 o BOX Funeral Service ° R. S. BOX 0 '4' Licensed Embalmer 0 4: Prompt and careful attention o O Hospital Bed 0 4 FLOWERS FOR ALL 0 0 OCCASIONS o o Phones: 0 O Res. 595-W Store 43 0 .0 0• 0o04>0000000®•p ❑0000000000000c o J. A. BURKE c o Funeral Director C O and Ambulance Service C O DUBLIN : ONT. c 4 Night or Day Calls: C O . Phone 43 r 10 4 O c' ❑ 00000000000000 O 0000000000000❑ o c o G. A. WHITNEY € o Funeral Home 4' O Goderich St. W., Seaforth o AMBULANCE SERVICE 4 o Adjustable hospital beds C o for rent. C O FLOWERS FOR EVERY 4 O OCCASION ° ® 0 140004>000000000 parable to the current g5 cents per cwt. subsidy paid to prodt}cers of milk sold to manufacturing plants. Surpluses continue to plague the butter and cream producing indus- try and a number of resolutions were aimed at disposing of these butter stocks through increased ad- vertising, improved packaging and more publicity on butter. One resolution gave support to a study of an industry -wide milk and cream marketing plan, a topic that has been of more than pass- ing interest to dairy farmers in Ontario during the past year. Cream producers have as much to gain from such a plan as other milk producer groups, for at pres- ent their markets are affected by surplus milk from the fluid trade, as well as increasing amounts of milk sold to manufacturing plants. The butterfat from this increased production is an important factor in the surplus butter situation. A case in point is the marketing of 2 per cent milk. The butterfat skimmed from high testing milk, in order to bottle 2 per cent milk for the consumer, is turned into butter. As this butterfat has been bought from the farmer on the basis of 3.5 cents per 1/10 per cent over the standard of 3.4 per cent or what amounts to 35 cents per pound of butterfat, it means that the processors can obtain butter- fat at slightly more than half the price paidto cream producers. Consequently the delegates to the Cream Producers' annual meeting last week asked to have to but- terfat differential now paid to whole milk producers, raised to a more realistic price bearing a re- lationship to the price of butter- fat to producers of farm -separated cream. is uRQN E 'OSTTQ , SPOQl1'.t`K, :N #:Vt Zi r1.0404 TURKEY BINGO 11713Ll Parish .Usa TUESDAY, NOY. pts. • 17 TURKEYS 3 CASH PRIZES AT $8,0Q MPH: 5 DOOR . PRIZES AT $2.00 EACH • Admission $1.00 — Extra Card 25c, 5 for $1.00 SPONSORED BY DUBLIN C.W.L, Attention, Cream Producers ! MORE DOLLARS FOR YOUR CREAM We are paying 700 for your Cream DELIVERED, effective Monday, November 14 CANADA PACKERS CLINTON PERSONALIZED COASTERS - GIFT IDEAS - SERVIETTES THE HURON EXPOSITOR ***************************************************** :