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The Huron Expositor, 1978-06-29, Page 15e foot in unfouPY0,4 ' Letters *re appr**Iated Dv Bob Trotter. Eldale Fld . Elmue, On Naarns. • Were they really older days? '61- Flurpri hosts 19 'Wisconsin Iimilfers Anne Alton, R.R.7, Lucknow; Joyce Dougherty, R.R.6, Goderich; Darlene Raynard, R.R.2, Bluevale; Cathy Bone- schansker, 12,11.1, Ethel; Catherine Gibson, R.R.1, Ford- wich; Kimberly Riley,' R.R.1, Seaforth; Carolyn Dinsmore, R,R. 1, Fordwich; Bonnie McKay, R.R.2, Brussels; Alice Nivins, R.R.3, Auburn; Jennifer Rock, R,R.3, Monkton; Kay Morrison, R.R.1, Lucknow; Elaine Coombs, R.R.2, Seaforth; Stephen Doney, 55 Elgin Avenue West. Goderich. Chaperones are Mr. and Mrs. Bob Hem, R.R.1, Woodham and Mr. and Mrs. Ken Gemmel!, R,R.2, Kippen. . _The_ Wisconsin-delegates are• ' planning to arrive by bus •on Saturday, July 1st, at 5:15 p.p. at the -Clinton Arena, where they will meet their Huron hoists. The Winsorisin delegates are com- mencing the first part of a 4-H Exchange With the Huron group who will be • visiting Lafayette County during the first part of August. During their stay in Huron County, the 4-H Youth 'Council have planned some activities for the Wisconsin delegates. On Sunday, July 2nd, the Council has planned a 4-H Picnic for the exchango at Ball's Grove near Auburn. Starting at 2:00 p.m.. the delegates and their hosts will participate ih games and swim- ming, followed by a Pot Luck Supper and a camp-fire singsong. On Tuesday, July 4th, the *group will participate in a tour of Huron County. Delegates will tour Centralia • College of Agricultural Technqlogy in the ' morning with lunch at the Campus. In the afternoon they will meet -with Huron County Warden Gerry Ginn at the Council Chambers in Goderich • and proceed on a tour of the Huron County Pioneer Museum. 4-H Exchanges have created much interest and enthusiasm among -the Huron 4-H club niembers and more 4-H ex- changes to other states in the' U.S.A, and other provinces within Canada _ate being planned -for - 1979. Huron County 4-H' club mem- bers will be hosting .nineteen (19) 4-H club members and their chaperones from Lafayette County, Wisconsin, on a' 4-H Exchange programme during the week of July 1st to July 6th, 1978. Hosts from this area include; Sharon • Colclough, R.R ,1, Clinton; Jean Siertsema, R.R.3, Blyth; Patricia C. Muegge, Box 494, Seaforth; Joanne Bock, R.R.3, Monkton; Doris Mary McClure. R.R.2, Seaforth; Janet Shap,on R.114 1. Exeter; Sharon • MOW AND CONDITION SWATH...OR WINDROW NEW IDEA MODEL 299 MOW/DITIONER... 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Walton . 527-.02.45 g HARM EPQSIT( R; JUN irt ism is T EXPOSITOR TROPHY — Larry, Parsons of Staffa,— this year's winner of the Huron Expositor trophy for first, prize, confirmation and type in the open 4-H beef calf competition was ptesentod with the award last Tuesday night in Hensall by Joe McLean of the Expositor Staff. (xpositor Photo) • By; Alan W. Scott Dr. Ted Rothmel There are several reasons for including 8 to 10 lbs.. of dry hay in the daily ration of the dairy cow.. A high level of fibre in the diet increases the am,ount of acetic acid in the rumen.. Acetic .acid is the forerunner of butterfat.: On • the other hand, a !Ow fibre diet produces as acid which ends up as fat on the cow's back. Thus a high fibre ration plays a major role in bringing .about a . high butterfat content in TOIL- Dry. hay helps to keep the rumen active. The rumen seems to work best when the contents have' a very slightly acid -condition. Feeding hay helps tb maintain this statc'as the result— ing saliva . buffets the rumen Contents and maintains active, rumination: • . The feeding of even a small amount of hay tendg to increase '''"" 'the amount of dry Matter con- sumed. Feed intake is: an important factor in provIding-the nutritional requirements of high :producers: Feeding dry hay will not cover a multitude of sins but 'it • should help to prevent certain problems. It's a practice that provides, some insurance against certain "meta- bolic'' conditions. At this rate of feeding. 3300 bales of dry hay would be' reqpired fora 40 cow • FEED PROCESSING GUIDELINES FOR • DAIRY COWS 'hat r N. .G001); BELS LATELY? A basic guide to the Who, What, Where, When and Why of Shopping Canadian. Why should you Shop Canadian? Every time you buy something made in Canada, you help keep a Canadian working. You help keep Canadian money inside Canada. You help to expand and strengthen Canada's economy. When you think about it, you help yourself. What is made in Canada? just about everything you need to help you live the life yosj want. As the saying goes, we have no bana- nas, but we do have Apples, Bandages, Cranes, Drills, Elevators, Furniture, Glassware, Holiday resorts, insulation, jewellery, Kitchen appliances, Lumber, Machinery, Newspapers, Office equip- ment, Potatoes, Quilts, Rope, Steel,Tires, Umbrellas, Vaccines, Wines, X-Ray equipment, Yarns, and Zippers. Everything, in other words, from A to Z. Government Gouvernement of Canada du Canada Industry, trade Industrie and CoMmerte et Commerce Jack Homer, Jack Homer Minister Ministre When shoUld you Shop Canadian? Whenever you're satisfied that the product br service you need is (A) made or grown in Canada and (B) of equal or better value and quality. That's not just good advice... it's good sense. Who should Shop Canadian? Every day, most of us have the choice. Whether we're buying groceries for the home or supplies for business, farm or industry. If each of us added only $10 a week to Canadian made purchases, Canada would be over 10 billion dollars better off in just one year. Who should Shop Canadian? You.should. Where does it say Made in Canada? Sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes a sign says "Produce of P.E.1." Or "B.C. Apples" or "Fabrique au Quebec" or "Made in Manitoba" or "New Brunswick Sardines" or "Grown by Saskatchewan Farmers" or "A product of Alberta" or "Freih from Newfoundland" or "Manufactured in Ontario" or "Nova Scotia Lobster." The point is, if you take the trouble to find out, you can usually tell. And, if it's made anywhere in the ten Province's or the Territories, it is made in Canada, This ad was made in Canada. Making this ad employed (for a period of time) a writer, an art director, an account executive, a media buyer, a media planner, a typesetter, an engraver, a platemaker, a traffic operator, several switchboard 'operators, various mailmen, shippers and secretartes„nublication reps, publication make-up people, not to mention all their various suppliers. Shop Canadian Everybrie of these people lives and works in 1111109asintin6 is cariadierrato Canada. Owners of smaller businesses The Federal Business Development Bank can provide you with : so Financial assistance el Management counselling (CASE) Management training firtRAz o information on government Bus/NESS programs for business PE VI LO1'11/11_N BANK NEXT VISIT July 6, 1978 (BranCh O(tibb Addrett) 'Pot prior Inform-Allot' call 271.5650 or write 1036 Ontario Street, Stratford. See our Representative RANDY BROWN THE QUEEN'S HOTEL, SEAFORTH . on: of each month The 1st Thursday. but bread-arid-0k. My father, grim-faced and determined, at the other end of the table said .that perhaps a few others in the country did not even have bread and milk.4 Today, I think tho.se "bones for.the dog' are called stew- ing beef and they, cost a dollar-or more a pound, by jove.• Ask for a few bones for your dog today and the supermarket Manager will point you to the dog-food shelves which hold more meat than I saw' as a child. . - Either that or kick you out of his store. Or kick both you and your dog out. I remember the candy, though. That Saturday cent was "spent" every day of the week. The candy counter in the corner grocery store was right at the frontdoor. That Scots- man knew his stuff. Kids like me would wander in the front door two or three times during the week and stand with our runny noses pressed against the glass making great deci- sions as to what we would spend our money on come Satur- day. Remember the hard-hats? Remember Old=Fashioneds? They were two for a cent and a hard-hat could last almost all day. Well, it seemed like all day. And -you could get eight •jelly beans fora penny. Heck, if you could scare up a nickel in those days, you could incur a mild form of sugar coma of an afternoon. Perhaps you would squander on an ice cream cone, the kind they charge 30 Or 40 cents for in the shopping malls_ today-Of-course, •they wrap it-in a--fancy- ' lace-like doily making you think you're_getting something special foryour money. _ Maybe I am getting old, Maybe it's time I quit talking to my daughter about Depression days. Certainly; she can buy little in stores today for a penny or a nickel. • Maybe I was lucky she only asked for a quarter and not a dollar. I must learn to be grateful for small mercies. This nostalgia craze is making an old man of me before my time. • • Our 11-year-old asked for a quarter the other day and it was all I could do to stop myself from giving her a lecture on the value of money. You know the script? It starts with: "Listen hear, young lady! When I was your age, I got .a Saturday cent and that is all I gotl," • This is followed by a long sigh from the young one, a bored look heavenward asking fora quick rescue and a remark to the effect, that she really doesn't care what it was like "in the olden days." Which makes me feel' s though I have lived through the Boer War yet still 25 years short of three-score-years-and-10. Were they really olden days? I can remember being, sent to the corner grocery store With 11 cents and a-milk bottle and coming home with a quart of milk, back when milk was sold in glass bottles,..before it • went to plastic jugs and now those cursed plastic bags. which ' often leak and refuse to pour straight for me. The same corner grocery store owner was a stout, kindly Scotsman who• actually gave things_away occasionally such as banes for our various dogs. We often got a handful of suet, too, at no cost, which was hung outside for the birds. As I recall it, the grocer was happy to give the bones and the suet awaybecauSete-got-grocery orders for a family I recall, too, my thrifty Yorkshire-horn mother saying that "7"..- 'the dog wouldn't mind :if the- bones were cooked in a soup first because she had little else in the house forra,growing family in the. Depression years. .7k scene' which will live with me forever is the sight of my mother crying because she had nothing else in the hoUse on , Wednesday, July 5th, will involVe several interestingcalls in Oxford county. The McKay dairy farm involves a cropping program of corn and direct seeded alfalfa as well as- the cooperatiYe use of 'machinery, John . Hart's farm features a grain drying system, erosion- study plots and : bean, wheat and 'corn crops. Hiliview Farms Ltd. has an interesting program of growing .alfalfa for dehydration. Manure aeration and a solar heated barn for feeder pigs are speeial:features of 'the' swine 'and beef farm of 'Richard Hiscocks. The buS leaves the Dominion Store parking lot across from the - Agricultural office at 8:20 • a.m. Return time should be 4:30 p.m. Participants are asked to bring their own noon hear lunch. A. seat can be reserved by immediately. phoning the Stratford Agri- cultural offitie. Arrangements are to be finalized: by June 30th. • JUNIOR AGRICULTURALIST • • PROGRAM Twenty-five students from urban • centres in Ontario 'will' spend their summer living and wtiriting on host farms in Perth qiinnty. ,The ' list of . host farms -includes eleven dairy, seven mixed, three beef, three swine and one poultry,' Over 300 Junior Agriculturalists are • working across the province in this sixth year of the program. The students_ began their nine week placement' on June 19th. ,Hay crop silage should be 'Prior to going to the farms, the young people spent two days at an 'orientation session at the University of Guelph. The intro- ductory session involved basic in formation on farm. terminology.. farm safety and basic livestock production as well as a tour , of Wellington -county farms. There was an excellent response from Perth farmers this .ar. In :fact. the response exceeded the nunfber of Jr. Agriculturalists , and it wasn't possible to place a student with every farmer who applied. BALED HAY PRESERVATIVE RE-RUN In our release of two weeks ago, we were trying to make some points which , may have been ' 'unclear itt the article. First of all, • 'we weren't strongly et dorsiog , 11 a . _harvested at more than 45 per cent-dry.matter and chopped no less than '/flinch. Corn silage should 'have a similar length of cut and 'a harvested moisture between 30 and 40 per cent dry matter. The/grain mix should be rolled or coarsely ground. ignoring .these guidelines can make the animal more susceptible to conditions such as di'splaced abomasum, butterfat, depression. and lowered feed intake after Fat cow syndrome is the end result of, "lumping" together ofi alc cows regaidless of the level Af • production. The result is exces- sive weight in some cows. especially those that arc dry, • • .$43IL AND CROP 1:WS TOUR ' The 1978 Soil and Crop tour of dry hay THIS 15 IT ! THAT'S WHAT YOU'LL MN WHEN YOU SEE THE 'BERG HYDRO-1111111 rnimuRE PUMP If forces the manure from the barn, through an underground pipe to the storage area. As the manure enters storage area from below, the outside surface forms a crust, which retains the important nitrogen and potassium inside the pile and also reduces the odor and fly problems. And the manure is ready for spreading, when you want it. 'For details call Keith Simeon Plumbing — Farm Equipment R.R.4, Walton, Ontario Phone 345-2734 -49C.,..-------- •(-111-0111 EVER YTHINCI 11111EITIEVI rofi miActeuts • ment only speeds baling ny 1 to 2 hours if one considers that hay loses moisture at a rate of 2 to 5 per cent per hour in good drying weather. Potential users should evaluate the concentration of any product which they are consider ing and also the rate of appli- cation that is necessary for it to be • effective. o ff ice m Mr. Murphy said the provincial". government. refused to , release the list of registry offices which may be - slated for cicising. The Grey County Law As-'' sociation, using the formula quoted by the government for " closing the Durham office, then found the same formula could be applied to 28 other registry offices in' the province. Other offices include the ones' in Goderich, Walkerton, St. Thomas and Woodstock. The provincial government an- ,vuncpd it would -be saving $35,000 by closing the -Durham office in Grey County and moving the records to the larger Owen Sound office. The Grey County Law ' As- •sociation is claiming that if all 28 offices afe closed, it will cost clients $5.8 million a' year in extra costs to pay for lawyeys travelling greater distances to do land title transfer business, SHIPPER to UNITED CO-OPERATIVES OF ONTARIO LIVESTOCK' DEPARTMENT TORONTO 5111E y4With MIKE. DOYLE Tuesday is Shipping Day From Dublin CALL DUBLIN '345-2656 ZURICH 236-4088 Perth farm news The value this practice. but rather outlining the factors to consider for anyone faced with the decision. Secondly, research has shown that it takes a 1 per cent rate of a highly concentrated product to be effect- ive. The cost becomes consider2 able as one goes to this rate of ,application, Thirdly, acid treat- Registry Seaforth residents may have to travel fnrther hr the flittere to do a land title search. At present,' local residents and area lawyers can do title searches at the Provincial Registry, Office • in Goderich. Now Dan Murphy, vice- president of the Huron County Law Association is concerned that the provincial government may be considering closing the Goderich office, using the same criterion which were given for closing the Durham registry office in Grey County. •