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essay on their trip' so the Friends
of 4-H can see if it was
worthwhile, The 4-H mut> from
the U,S, had Ito pay $059,50 and
the rest of the $80 .fee was paid by
the U.S. Friends of 4-H,
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-----Crgiestoga-Zollege 'of Applied Arta and TeChrralogy.--
Andy Clow •
653-2511 Ext. 216
Conestoga College
of Applied Arts
and Technology
We've got a lotto Mare.
bringing a lower price in Canada.
It's also of interest to pote that
31c of the last 67c increase in
consumer price was due to an
increase in retail margin.
• tairSeason Underway
The fair season gets underway
in Perth this 'month -J with
exhibitions at St. Marys and
Listowel. The official opening
takes place at . St. Marys at 8 p.m.
on Friday,, July'. 14th and
continues on Saturday and
Sunday, July 15 and 16. Listowel
opens on• the evening of Friday,
July 21st and continues for
Saturday, July 22nd. Further
information is available from
Secretaries, Mrs. M.. McGiveron,
119 Water St., St. Marys or Elmer
Bean, 195 Wallace Ave., N.,
Listowel.
Classified' ds pay dividends.
-Build your own privacy fence
or boundary fence with
Wolmanized outdoor wood.
Specially treated to give
protection against rot. 16' only
Chaegex and Master Charge are accepted
•••
• ets notet difference4 inCanada and US
(by Debbie RenneY)
Connie Dahl found five pin
bor'fing a unique experience and
Marilyn Garrison thought Huron
County had neater roadsides than
her home county of Lafayette,
Wisconsin when the two girls
visited near Brussels on a 4-H
exchange.'
Both girls are from Darlington,'
Wisconsin, a city.of about 2,50
people. Connie stayed at the
home of Cathy Boneschansker of
R, R. #1, Ethel and Marilyn at'
the home of Darlene Raynard of
R. R. #2, Bluevile.
Huron and Oxford County got
together and with Lafayette and
Greene County, Wisconsin
organized a 4-H exchange.
Guests from the United States
stayed here from July 1 to July 6
and the Canadians will stay in
Wisconsin from August 1 to
August 8. About 41 U.S. 4-H'ers
were scattered around different
homes in the two counties. •
While in Huron County, the
4-11 guests from Wisconsin were
'treated to a picnic, a tour of the
court house in Goderich where
the warden of Huron County
Gerry Ginn, agricultural
representative Don Pullen and
clerk-administrator of Huron
County Bill Hanly spoke to them.
- They also had 'a tour of the Huron
County Pioneer' Museum,
• attended a picnic at Ball's Grove.
• _and were treated to a tour of
Centralia' College.
Cathy took Connie to play five
pin bowling-a new experience for
Connie who was used to 10 pin
bowling and a ball with finger
holes. She described it as more to
hit, with more to hit with: They
also played a game of tennis' in
Ethel.
If there •are differences in the,
fanning methods in Huron
County compared with where she
lives, Connie hasn't noticed
many. Connie lives in the city, but
she's still a 4-H member. Connie
once lived in a house on a dairy
farm; owned by someone else..,„
The only differences Connie
really noticed was that land in
Wisconsin was a bit more hilly,
and she thought the stooking of
hay was unusual.
As for other differences in The
Canadian way of life, Connie
thought the words running shoes
Were Unusual because in the
States they only call them tennis
shoes and she also thought the
way Canadians pronounced Mom'
Made it sound more like, Mum.
The Boneschansker farm is a
dairy farm with about 46 cows
which operates on a milking
parlor system and Cathy carried
on with her morning . chores of
milking cows or feeding calves
while her guest was there but
Connie herself hadn't checked the
barn out at the time. of the
•interview.
Different 4-H
There , are some noticeable
differences between 4-H here and
in the U.S. In the U.S. they can
join at the age of nine and can
take as many projects as they
want whereas Canadians can take
pre-4-H when they're 11 and, just
do one project, join 4-H when
they're 12 and can only take a
Maximum of six projects a year.
In Darlington Connie is taking
projects in home economics,
photography, •gardening home
furnishings and flowers and
plants. This is where there's
another difference. Where the
4-H'ers from the U.S. can oetne- •night-ehores--helping with -the
here just because they're in the
4-H,1 the 4-H'ers from Canada
have to be participating in an
agricultural project.
The girls also toured the'cheese
factory in Milverton and got some
samples of cheese and were
planning to go to Niagara Falls
later in the week.
The thing Cathy noticed about
her 4-H exchange guest was that
she didn't have an accent. On
previous exchanges she had been
in Ohio and Pennsylvania and
there they had an accent, she
said.
at the arena in Brussels. Marilyn
thought the arenas here' were
much bigger than theirs.
Marilyn is enrolled in eight
clubs, including •sewing, foods
and nutrition, home furnishings,
arts and crafts, child care)
conservation, animal science and
food preservation.. Darlene is in
the calf club which means she has
to train and 'show 'a calf at the
Brussels fall fair.
For, some Canadian souvenirs,
Marilyn bought a Toronto Blue
Jays T-shirt, some small
Canadians flags, pOsters,
stickers, postcards and other
things.
One thing Marilyn did notice
about Canada was the high price
of gasoline which she said could
be purchased in the States for
At its regular -meeting July 4,
1978 Hibbert counpil appointed E.
H. Uderstadt, Ontario Land
Surveyor, of Orangeville, to bring
in reports for repair and improve.,
ment (if necessary) of three
Municipal Drains, being "The
Murphy, The McGrath, and The
Melady" On site meetings to be
arranged. ...
The minutes of the Mitchell &
District Planning Board, The
Arena & Communities Centre
and The Mitchell &
Seaforth Fire Area were all
accepted by Council.
Blythe Lannin of Lot 11 Con. 3,
discussed with Council the
possibility of placing a catch basin
on the road allowance adjacent to
this lot, to assist in drainage.
Council agreed to supply .the
catchbasin if Mr. Lannin supplied
the backhoe. This was found
acceptable to both parties.
Council called for tenders for
supplying No, 1 Diesel Fuel,"
Regular Grade Gasoline and
Heating Oil fuel to the Township
bett;teen 60 and 70 cents a gallon.
Asked what she is looking
forward to about her reluni'trip to
the U.S. Darlene said', "think I'm
looking forward to the amuse-
ment park. From whit I've heard
about, it, it's pretty good. I'm
looking forward to the whole
trip."
This will be the first exchange
trip both of the Wisconsin girls
have ever been on. Marilyn said
her reason ,for wanting to come
was because of what she had
heard Canada waselike-all snow,
really really cold and Lille also
expected to see a lot of horses
(with mounties seated on top of
them).
Not Cold
She was surprised when she,
got up here to find that Canada
Garage-, date of tender to be 12
noon 28th July; 1978.
Following the promise' to
Clarence McDougall to consider a
donation to the Mitchell Lions
Pool, Council voted $500 to be
sent to the Mitchell Lions Pool
Fund care of Mr. McDougall.
It was agreed to take part in the
township's 125th Year Cele-
bration of. Perth County, with the
entry of horse drawn grader.
Howard Ross's team will, be used,
plus the TownShip Pickup Titielc:
Councillor Donald Johns is to
make the arrangments.
Road Vouchers in the sum of
$19001.87 and general accounts
for $3245824. were approved.. The
latter included Municipal Drain-
age allowanceS, and the former
chloride Spraying.
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DEPARTMENT
TORONTO
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Connie also noted that some
things were a lot more expensive
in Canada than in the States,
noticeably licence plates which
there only cost about $18.
The Boneschanskers gave
Connie a memorable gift
representing Canada-a 'plate
with the emblems of the
provinces around it and that
Canadian symbol in the middle--a
Royal Canadian Mounted Police-
man.
Half Dairy
Marilyn lives at R. R. #3,
DArlington, Wisconsin on a half
dairy and half beef cattle 150 acre
farm. They also have pigs as well.
' Her host Darlene lives on a beef
'farm with 200 acres of their own
and 100 acres of rented land.
They also grow corn and barley.
' Marilyn did notice some
definite differences from the
farmingin Huron County and the
farming at home. She said that
their corn crop was taller and that
they had already finished' with
their first crop of hay at the time
of the interview
"It's a lot hotter down there
than it is up here, too," she
added.
Canadians also have different
names for farm machinery than
they do. A harvester is called a
chopper, a cultivator is called a
chisel plow and a forage wagon is
called a chopper box.
Marilyn - does morning and
milking. Darlene on the other
• hand doesn't have much to do
right now because their cattle are
out on grass.
All Tours
Marilyn and Darlene. had been
on all the tours with the other
4-Hers and for their own
entertainment went swimming in
the Bluevale darn , went for a
drive around Wroxeter to see the
different • parks, went into
Listowel and toured the Campbell
Soup Factory, went to the park in
Listowel and at the time of the
interview they were roller skating
Hibbert council meets
' wasn't cold, It was really nice and
very much like Wisconsin.
Darlene wanted to participate
in the exchange:because the idea,
of going some place else instead
of staying home all summer
appealed to her anti also because
she likes meeting new people.
She also jokingly added, "I
think itgives Mom a rest."
When the Candians 1614 a
return visit to the U,S. they will
probably attend a polka dance,
visit the Great America--a big
amusement park and the House
on the Rock among other things.
The fl-H'ers from Canada will
be visiting their counterpart's in
the U.S. from August 1 to August
8. The payment system works
differently for the two countries.
The Canadians will be paying $30
of their own way and the Friends
of 4-H will pay $30. When they
come back they must write an
LL- WIACAU LAX LTD.
Perth County Farm news
Cattleman defends beef prices
By Alan W. Scott
Agricultural Representative
"Consumers have received a
subsidy of over one billion dollars
as a result of the low beef priceS
over the past four years. 70 per
cent of this one billion dollars
would have gone back to
producers." Thus it's little
wonder that operators have had to
increase borrowings , to stay in -
business. These comments come
from Charlie Gracey, Manager of
the Canadian Cattlemen's
Association, at a recent Beef
Outlook meeting at Exeter.
Gracey backed up his .
comments with figures. He
'pointed out that since 1971,
incomes have been rising as fast.
or faster than any other cost. Beef
price increases have been less
than income increases for 40 of
the last 44 months, Similarly,
beef prices have lagged behind
the consumerprice index for 33 of
the past 44 months.
The- Broodwater Livestock
letter supports Gracey's stand.
The publishers point out that the
average retail price of all• cuts of
beef was $1.55 per lb. in 1974 and
then decreased until the first 5
months of 1978 when it
rebounded to $1.60 and then to
$2.25 by June 1978. The
disposable income spent on beef
was 2.5 per cent in 1974 and
dropped to 1.8 per cent in 1977. In
1978 consumers will, once again,
spend 2.25 to 2.5 per cent of their
income on beef. An 8 per cent
inflation rate applied to the
average retail price of 1974 ($1.55
per pound) would result in a $2.09
price for the average retail cut in
1978. The index for disposable
income rose from 100 in 1971 to
211 in 1977. As of April 1978, the
food index had risen to. only 200
and the beef index to 177.
Beef Outlook
According to Gracey, the
outlook for beef is fundamentally
sound. Prices should stab ilize at
present levels and then improve
in 1978-79 and 80. The improved
price will be accompanied by a
drop in per capita consumption
Grn talbs. in 1978 fo-beloWTOIT-
lbs. in 1980.
The sell-off of female-stock has
already gone too far. If we drop
too much in the breeding herd,
we will create conditions that will
generate good prices, which in
turn, could bring an over supply,
and a disastrous market in 1984,
85, and 86. Gracey believes that
producers have a sincere desire to
tame the repetitive beef oycle by
keeping cattle numbers in line
with• consumer demand.
Prides went Up this spring
because consumers believed that
there was a greater shortage than
actually existed. The price has
now dropped Sack to a level which
more accurately reflects SOrply.
The U.S. action in increasing
imports also had an influence in
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