Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1975-02-06, Page 12-aornipararaiamparapam'amailorammalarariataarauraiaataaramanimallimilmamalluriar4.• - Cusio"0, Petoe 1rom13111$ 'BEEF by QUARTER and OWE' Killing days:-- MONDAY foi CATTLE WEDNESDAY for PIGS . Darling's Abattoir, 81 F t t t Market EXETER 235-0420 p 0 soil'. sent by. the farmer, t samples :Must be taken carcf and sent immediately." Sa emphasis of a Northern Location. ' Adrian Vos chairman of HPPC Blyth, Ontario Members of Homo Power Plant. Huron Federation of Agriculture Nntional Farmers Union ,(DaSh- wood Local) National Farmers Union (North Huron Local) Huron County Milk Committee Huron County Pork Producers Association, Huron County Holstein Club Huron County Wheat Board, Huron County/ Development Committee - Ontario Bean Producers Marketing Board' Bruce-Huron Negotiating committee Huron Egg And Fowl Association Ontario Chicken Producers Marketing Board (District #2 Committee) Huron Soil and Crop Association Perth Huron Slprtliorn Club Huron C,ourhtf Junior Farmers Association 4-H Club Leaders Association Huron County Beef' mprovement Association Huron County Turkey Board CANTDU Huron County • Plowmen's Asso'ciation.• Pigeon ssoc. meets ANNUAL MEETING' McKILLOP MUTUAL FIRE INSURAKE COMPANY Established 1876 NOTICE is hereby given that the Annual Meeting of'the Policyholders of the Company will be held in the TOWN HALL, SEAFORTH FRIDAY; FEBRUARY 14.1975 at 1 ;30 p.m. -To receive and dispose of the Financial and Auditor's Reports, -To elect Directors, --To appoint Auditors, -To transact any other business that may property come befo the meeting. • The retiring Directors are Rdb?ort Archibald, Kenneth Carnochan and William .R.- Pepper, all of whom are eligible for re-election; also Donald McKercher, appointed by the Board following the death of John Moylan., who is eligible for election for a one-year term. Lavern Gbdkin has qualified and will stand for election for a one-year term, this b ' the unexpired portion of the term of . Alexander who retired from the Board as of December 31,. 1974. %. • ti BPNOTCH TOPNOTCH FIEDS LIMITED 111111111111.11111111.11111.11111111.11MINNI Wev have received a shipment of bagged UREA, and AMONIUK NITRATE Limited Quantities Are Availablet)n A First Come, First Served Basis "Don't forget -to feed the Birds" •' '11One 5274910 Seaforth ' 4,. . - • Quints impact on farimi4 -•-•••••••••••••••• MOWN xinpsyroia, 105 Agri-notes (By Adrian Vos). , • Bob Eaton, parliamentary assistant to Ontario's Ministry of A riculture and Foed; had some ,interesting remarks to make in a recent speech in Lindsay with regards- to the criticism of Marketing boards. At the same time that Professor . Forbes condemned marketing boards with quotai in the nalne of the Food Pikes ReView Boar d, these same karket'ing boards had reasonable and stable prices for their products. Overall prices went up 1'6%. The lowest • increases, however were in the very products Professor Forbes said that marketing boards were setting unduly high prices.' on. Homogenized milk went up 3%. Grade A turkeys had gone up I %, and' the eggs had gone up 5%. Those products that were sold without the'benefit of a marketing board with quotas, as fresh tomatoes, up 64%,, And these came from other countries.Red Brand strip loin. steak up 52%, potatoes up •27% and salmon up 21%, 'The overall price increase to the restaurant trade 'was .43%. The regulated products howe ver went up -least. The restaurant paid 12% mbrc for milk. 8% for grade A turkeys. 5% for chickeb and 17% for eggs. All well under the average 43% increase. The Tests can prove O atrazine -damage , three inches of soil, another from nd —fhe-third-frott7a-Similar-scrif without atririe resides. This sample is used as a check and sometimes has to be taken from a fence row or an adjacent field. • Residues are most likely to cause crop damage when atrazine has been used repeatedly on. torn . ground. Excessively high applications, dry, cool growing • sews unsuitable for atrazine ,eakdOwn, and postemergence rather than • pre-emergence application of atrazine also ntUst act now for, the results to be contribute to the possibility of obtained in timer "Because we residue damage to susceptible simulate field growing conditions crops. in our greenhouse and' plant the, possibly susceptible crop in he southwestern Ontario- are o' used to atrazine, residues are rarely a 'problem."' says r. Brown. "But the Ridgetown R.H.,Browp. biology. test is useful for farmers horticulture specialist at the unfamiliar with this herbicide or college. "It takes four to six uncertain about previous atrazine weeks after the soil samples have application on newly acquired or dried out 'to determine if the crop rented land." will develop normally in the soil Farmers who want to know the samples or be damaged by atrazine residue level of their soil,' atrazine residues." but are too fat,' fro in Ridgetown-to Three soil samples of four to six send soil samples. should contact quarts each should be sent. One should be taken frOni the top "Since most corn .•growerste w n News of , McKillop Correspondent , • Mrs. Ed Regele, Recent visitors with „Mr. and Mrs. Edward Regel. and Mrs. Joseph Thornton were Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd E. Regele and Darlene of Princeton, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Murray of St. Columban, and Mrs. Elaine •Foran and Robert and Mr. Robtit England of Creditors. GENERAL ACCOUNTING SERVICE INCOME TAX Returns prepared. Account ing Assi§tance for Small Businesses. J. R. -RIGHT '16 Market Street Rtur 642,. Seaforth PRONE 6274086 • real increase was in the unregulated product, as sugar up 118%, shortening up 81%, beef fat up 86%, potatoes 46%, Salmon 56%, coffee 28% and steak, up.44%. "It is interesting to note, " Mr.Eatoo said, "that over that same, period of time, producers under 'the marketing boards that • the Professor was condemning for unduly high' prices, gave indications that they had a Stable and real flask return on their products. orbes also blamed tariffs and xport quotas as causing artificially' high prices and referred again to milk, dairy products, eggs, broilers and turkeys, none of which had import. restrictions. Looking at these facts, he suggested that Prof,essor Forbes should be analyzed for, performance. Summing up, Mr. Eaton said: "Really what we are saying to Ourselves when we assess performance is how well you took un interest in sour board or the marketing of your product. How well you support your board, the type of people you elect to your board and the type of management they hire. Given some corn witment to these item's, marketing boards cart claim an increasingly important role in the development of a strong agricultural industry in Ontario. Through a test _available at 11-45101Wiruvroa -4,91WACkxwa--Rit ---Agrictutu raf"--TTechmzftogr---a-T- farmer can now find out if 'atrdzibe residues will damage a °crop he plans to grow this year' All he has to do is forward a description ofrthe crop, soil samples for testing and, if possible. a history of atrazine use in the field sampled, to the 'college of Ridgetown, Ontario. if the test indicates residue damage is likely, the farmer car change his plans. However, interested far ers a their County or district office, The Huron Power Plant Committee present a brief to the Ontario Cabinet at an open meeting in London on January 22, Adrian Vos, Chairman of the group, Was spokesman. The text of his remarks to the cabinet, follows: The Huron Power Plant Com- mine was formed in„ order to study the impact on HurOn County of a Generating Develop- ment on the scale proposed by. Ontario Hydro as now presented in their Long Range Plan. Thp Huron' Power Plant Committee is supported by eighteen farm commodity' groups and some . Civic groups, as 'will be liSted as an appendix to this brief, After studying the proposals and com- paring situations between •Huron and Bruce County, Where many of the results are already known, the HPPC found that it is not in the best interest of Huron County and hg residents to have a scheme as envisioned established in Huron ,iCounty. Indeed we found that it is not in the best intt3Yest of the majority of Ontario residents, as we will• presently point out.' Briefly' we will outline our arguments and give the reasons for our conclusions. Firstly we will agree that Huron County is for 90 per cent or more agricultural and it is a common principiethat all development in a giveti area must be supportive ,to the main industry in that area. Clearly, a Generating Develop- ment with its inherent trans- fattission corridors, its supportive industry and the additional buidling of service roads and highvo-ys is hot supportive to Huron's' Main industry. it has been argued in the past that the agricultural industry ihcreases its' use of -electricity tremen- dously iand therefore we need more generating stations. We may point out however that the farming industry uses only about 2 per cent of Ontario Hydro's output, while constituting 5 per cent of the population., We are not intending to argue the need of -electricity as projected by Ontario Hydro. What we are disputing is the ptdoposed location of the), Plants and particulary the Centra Huron Plant. By this time it is well known that air pollution causes damage to crops. This has been proven in studies done by Researchers of the Phytotoxo- cology Soetion of the Air Management _Brulph,, 0, _YCI,41. governments- lvfmistly .mfr Hie Environment, and at the Harrow Research Station and at Ridge- town College, whose studies established that oven-an exposure time of no more than half an hour to and ozone concentration of no more than 16 parts per hunkired million caused severe bronzing in white or pea beans. At half that rate it takes six hours to cause severe damage. Dr's. R.G. Pearson and S,N. Linzon of the Air Management Branch, with D.P. -Ormrod- and G. Hofstra of the University of Guelph in publication of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food AGDEX 200/691 state that "Ozone-sensi- tive plants include bean, corn, onion, potato, radish, spinach, tobacco and tomato." From the same fact sheet I quote: "Widespread pollutants are generally referred to as, 'oxidants'. They are produced in the atmosphere during a complex reaction involving nitrogen oxides and reactive hydro-carbons, THE MAIN' COMPONENTS OF AUTOMOBILE EXHAUSTS." u,uq.uote. From the aforementa- Po er Ontario Government will The annual meeting of the impede progress -and future Huron County 'Poultry, Pigeon generations in our country and and Pet Stock Associatkin was present generations in many held in the. 0.M.A.F. board room other *countries will pass judge- at Clinton on Tuesday evening, ment on you genfipmen and we January 28th. Officers elected ' predict that the judgement will be arer President - Clifford Pepper; severe. Vice-President - Ron'ald . Richey; Our committee recognizes that Secretary-Treasurer - Harvey electric energy will .be needed, Daniel; Assist. Secretary - Bert probably on the scale that Ontario MA. Directors (3( - Earl Becker, Hydro predicts, and we suggest Donald aring, Douglas Vincent. Bruce-Huron Negotiating—Com- and strongly urge . that future Auditors - Geo. Tiernan, Bert mittee "and by the Concerned Generatings„Stations be estab- Mills. Reporter -,Victor Daniel. Farmers of the United Town- lished in more Northern locations.. The' treasurer reported a ships." . 47- The North and East shores of the favourable balance and following The, detrinfental effect of the Georgian Bay is a more suitable his reportiPiogram was mapped plant construction on the avail- area because it will bring inter- out for 1975. ability of farm labour and on , ference with food production back A Dutch auction for a pair of labour fOr other industries and for 'to the very minimum. Itovill give White Wyandottes was held and municipalities has been shown in you as „our Government the the winner was. Wally Saville. the "Dillion Report" that was opporturlity to grant special rates The Wyandottes were donated by prepared for Ontario Hydro in the for energy to industry to locate in Clifford Pepper. Bruce area. Some farm land' is this area. This will- serve a . reporfed to be idle because two-fold purpose:, One: develop farmers Aandoned the farm in our largely unused Northland and order to work at the construction - Two: to siphon population away 'of the power plant. Other farmer from our agricultural areas. It -acre unable-to I ako-u13-the-slack• for.--has-1:3*en-argued-tli'a•t-peopleoart!!t•;• - lack of available farm labour. The be 'induced to go where govern- cost to the farmer,than increases ment wants them„to go, but the in nearly all areas. ' How much - mining towns like Sudbury • and this will affect the cost of food is Uranium City has proven this to Very difficult to calculate. That it . be false..--.If a Northern pipeline will affect food costs is Without a were to be .built and electricity doubt. The long range effects of., was made available at preferred the, plant are also difficult to , rates it would- be a iiracle if predict, but one doesn't need a development did not take place. -great .deal of study to soe that . after the peak employment period The cost of millions of dollars of the services provided for the extra needed: transmission line constructivork force will have to be paid fa. This will take the form of higher taxes for those,' remaining, in the area, or 'the attraction of industry to the area to take up the slack in employ- Mem. ' Needless to say that new industry will need more land to build on, hereby decreasing food production even more. We think that almost everyone agrees that tioned ' it follows that two' of the next generation, and 'passible Ontario Hydro's proposed plans the present' generation will need utilizing folsit fuels only, and one all the food that can be grown in plan using a combination of fossil this world. The fainter is an fuel and nuclear -fuel will do expert on soils. ' He pesn't severe damage to most crops and necessarily know the chemical most likely will wipe out bean composition of the soil, even if product* in Huron 'County, many' do, but he does know that nuclear fuel is used exclusively, we still have the problem of greatly increased traffic ' in the area, as has been shown in the Bruce Development area. This, as pointed out above, is the Main cause of the production of air pollutants harmful to plants. Publication 20 of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food: "Agricultural Statistics for Ontario", we find that in 1973 the value of white beans. rais,..d in' Huron County approached the 17 million dollar figure. We have not been able to .come up with accurate figures for the other crops susceptible to pollution damage but it must be a cmsiderable amount of money for the onion growers at Grand Bend and the vegetable growers scattered across the country. Potentially than, air pollution caused by the bitilding of a Generating Development in Central Huron has a potential affect on a conservatively esti- mated $50 million worth of/food production, not considering infla-', tion per year. A further detrimental effect on ,;:,,monster facilities in Huron food productiOn are the trans- mission corridors trecessaVy to transport the produced electricity to where it is needed. At some of the proposed alternatives this could run to corridors of twelve hundred feet wide. In Huron County there is no other way to go with those corridors •than over prime agricultural land. We will not ' o further into the effects on agriculteal production of power corridors. as this- has been exten- sively documented before by the .BEAVER tonnes - • ORDER YOUR `This year, Beaver homes are better than ever. If you are thinking of building a new home in '75, don't delay! To qualify for this time-limited Early Delivery Discount Offer and save -hundreds of dollars, mail boupon below! TO: BEAVER HOMES 570 Harrop Drive, Milton, Ont., L9T 2X9 BEAVER HOME NOW AND SAVE UP TO... 0 Please rush my copy of the new Beaver Homes catalogue. I understand it is free and that I am under no obligation. ADDRESS CITY TELEPHONE NAME own my ovttri lot El I will require financing, SHE/W2/F6 wirafi Immo errs mam root ON EARLY DELIVERY 0 DISCOUNTS 1,) PF1OV. has been quoted as unnecessary burden to the consumer, but we maintaitt, even if we cannot prov it, that the extra cost will be more than offset by the cost of food grown on land that otherwise would be buried under sd-called progress. In conclusion we urge you to direct Ontario Hydro to draw up a new Long Range Plans with the new soil cannot be made over- night. It takes thousands or even millions of years to produce a soil, that can bt, reasonably' used to grow crops. Too often he is' not listened to when he lets stated that a compacted soil grows less than a loose soil. Under transmission lines that were built 30 y Ts ago. often the stand of a crop 4 is noticeably' oorer. Yet this is often denie by the book experts who 'will, show other transmission lines where this is not the case, and whom do you listen to Honourable Members? When we, as farmers have opposed certai.x,developments in the past we have been accused of trying. to impede progress. but I ask you. what progress? Is it progress when land, that can feed thousands of • people year after year, is buried under highways and factories? W maintain that it is progress when we succeed in saving one acre of food producing land for that process, It is progress when we put more land in food production. By allowing Ontario Ityclro to establish their County in particular, and in Southern .Ontario in general the Phone 527-0443 4011c********** i*******************104*********************314:" * , MITtHELL 348-8433 IIENSALL 262-2527 =,•*******************************4!***4******h* ******40:***** NO. 1 „POTATOES, $3.50 75-lb. BAG THE FORGE. WE HAVE A GOOD SUPPLY MINCED• and SEED GRAINS SEED CLOVERS and GRASSES (free mixing) SiiklkORN-11 ited Asgrow, DeKalb4lorth- rup `King, Warwick & Super Crost bulk and in bags and we can deliver and or spread fertilize( for ou. .1111(011.• 41 • WE HAVE (20)' Twenty fertilizer spreaders available for your use It if 0 Al• We have 1975 contracts available for White Beani Also contracts available for growing *Li * # * ALSO COME and VISIT OUR BOOTH at the r STRATFORD AG. WEEK on FEB. 11, 12, 13 ant. 14th FERTILIZER For Best Prices, Quality and Service Shop at Id- For Farm Needs Seed. 0a4, & Malting Barley All Members nvited to be present MRS. MARGARET SHARP, Secretary-Treasurer N