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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1960-11-17, Page 9FARMERS WO are shipping cattle every Monday for United Ce-operatiee of. Ontario and solicit yeur, eatrenage• We will pick them up at your farm. pleaee PHONE COLLECT -not later than Saturday nights. Seaforth Farmers Co-operative H. S. Hunt Shipper Phone 773 Shop now pay later! This year, buy better with en IITC Shopper's Loan. Shop at any store you wish, and buy exactly the right gifts for everyone on your list. You'll like doing business with HFC, the instalment loan com- pany backed by 82 years experience. Drop in or phone. Arrange an HFC Shopper's Loan up to *MOO and take up to 36 months to repay. you get more than money from HFC HOUSEHOLD FINANCE M. R. Jenkins, Manager 35A West Street Telephone JA 4-7383 GODERICH AMOUNT OF LOAN MONTHLY 12 maths months PAYMENT 30 months PLANS 36 west& $100 $ 9.46 $ 6.12 $..... $..... 500 46.73 30.01 • .... ..... 750 69.21 44.13 31.65 ..... 1000 91.56 58.11 41.45 ..... 1600 146.52 94.11 68.81 ..... 2200 201.46 129,41 94.62 83.71 2500 228.93 147.05 107.52 95.12 Above p ymeata Include principal and Interest, bed are based on prompt repayment, WOW) Dot Dot Include die coat at We insurance. Thurs., Nov. 17,, 1900—Clinton Nears-Record,Page 9 FUEL OIL For a treat in Modern Heating Dial HU 2- 9411 and have your tank filled with clean burning "CHAMPION FUEL OIL". Enjoy carefree heating because "CHAMPION FUEL OIL" is insured against explosion (and is never carried in a truck hauling other high explosive products. A. G. GRIGG and SON Phone HU 2-9411 Clinton "We Specialize in Fuel Oil" 38tfb You have to drive it to believe it! 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COMPACT FOR. DRIVING EASE— You'll find the '61 Lark easier to park and manoeuvre—as you'd expect— HARDTOP 1/41 The ear of the year-and of the years to collie STUDEBAKER for '01 You have to drive it to believe it! 12000 MILES OR 12 MONTHS WARRANTY WHICHEVER COMES FIRST W. Hi Dairymple and Son Brucefield Dial Clinton HU 2-9211 .711011Wrre 6ok iio eameeine but its masterful "Big Car Feel" will really amaze you. You have to Drive it to Believe it 1 eteeik SEDAN 6 -T5111.11111Irit. CONVERTIBLE 6 OR V.8 40005 WAGON 6 OR V4 rall111.1.11r, Itepe.1"- 20005 WAGON 0 4:airless, 411111111111111111.1111eal • Clinton Feed Mill Phone HU 2-3815 28 Huron Street MAKE MORE PROFIT If SHUR-GAIN Concentrates are added ( as per recom- mendations) to home grown grains users reap the benefits of more meat ... more milk ... more eggs. Then, foo t stock is maintained in a healthier, thriftier condition. 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Agents for: Wonder Feed Mixer, Feed Carts, Por- table Feed and Grain Bins, Auger Elevators, etc. JOHN ALDINGTON Varna Ont. — Phone Clinton HU 2-3380 "White Rose" Gas and Oil Hardware and Farm Supplies 4613 11110111111.1•1111MINOMM... •w• CAREFREE COMFORT thanks to ESSO 01 L H EAT Esso Oil Heat is safe and dependable. And your Imperial Esso Agent offers the best service in the land. Call hint today: he'll introduce yen to a wonderful world of warmth. Whether you use a space heater, floor furnace or atitorilatie furnace, there's an Esso heating fuel that's exactly right for the job.`Use Esso Oil Heat and you'll sloop easy in the winter to Como. ALWAYS LOOK TO IMPERIAL FOR THE BEST HAROLD M. BLACK HU 2-3813 CLINTON MODEL 400 $1 5 9so , $2127 16" attachments MODEL 600 "We have to be the smart- eat farmers in the world," Her- on Holstein Club members were told at their annual meet- ing here last week by George R, Gear, agricultural reprea- entative for Bruce, "Yoe are both management and labor, and it is up to you to manage to get the highest rate of pay per hour for the hears you are willing to work. "You have heard the expres- sion from packing companies that they work 'with a sharp pencil'--competition is so keen. The farmer has to work with a sharp pencil, because he is in very stiff competition with all the other dairy farmers on this continent and probably in the world, We have to produce feed and food in competition with farmers who are heavily subsi- dized. "We are on the stretch for better prices. It is not going to be sudden, but a long strug- gle, but it is something bright for the future, If there is any prosperity in my talk today, that is it." Mr. Gear, reporting on a re- cent tour of New York state, ex- pressed the opinion that dairy RECEPTION for Mr. and Mrs. Mervyn • Durnin .LONDESBORO COMMUNITY HALL Friday, November 18 Music by NORRIS' ORCHESTRA Lunch Counter 45-6p farmers there are possibly go- ing tee far in mechanization and expensive equipment. They are feeding a lot of grain to get high production quotas, but "a lot of those fellows, if taken up here, would starve to death," The club moved up first vice- president William Boyd, Wal- ton, to succeed president Alvin Betties, Hayfield, Accepting the report of a nominating commit- teeeePeter Simpson, William Hough, Ed Bell, S. Hallahan and. Wm. Gann—the meeting elected other officers as follows: first vice - president, Howard Feagan, Goderieh; second vice- president, Wellington Brock, Granton; secretary - treasurer (re-elected/ W. Hume Clutton, Goclerich. Hardy Shore, Glanworth, well known breeder and a national director of the Holstein-Fries- ian Association, brought up the matter of butterfat differential as "the most serious thing you have to contend with today." He said also that Guernsey cattle are coming in from the United States in tremendous number. Introduced by Glen. Walden, Lucknow, Mr, Gear warned that his message would be on the pessimistic side. "The only man in a secure position," he said, "is the man in the whole milk market, and they go to no end of trouble to explain how much more they have to do; but even with a bunch of cows there ought to be at least $50 more a year clear, and maybe that is the way we have to figure profits nowadays. "In Bruce it has taken them a long time to get away from the attitude •acquired in good years up to '52. They got in the habit of figuring profits in thousands of dollars, and a man did not have to be very efficient, and the bigger. his business, with a reasonable amount of effic- iency, the more money be made. "Since then, it has changed right around. It has taken quite a while for farmers to realize that they have to make money in smaller chunks and to make reasonably sure they get it, ra- ther than extend themselves too far and possibly be losing that amount." "Dairying in New York state," he reported, "is so profitable compared to other things that it is about all they had. They seldom bother with hogs, and beef cattle are practically un- heard of. They get $4.50 for Grade A milk testing 3.7, and We figure they would compare with our whole milk men, but I don't think they could, pro- duce Grade A with the quota you fellows have to put up with, They had excellent cows, herd averages of 14.000, some up to 16,000, but they didn't drive as good cars as farmers from Bruce or Grey, their hous- es were not fixed up as well as yours, and they did not have any general sense of prosperity. Would Starve "These fellows buy rattle from us; they are always buying cows, and I remembered that if you put up a steer on grass and feed him quite a bit of grain he is going DO eat that much less grass. These people in New York are feeding a lot of grain to get high production quotas, and everything was pointed to that higher price, and I began to figure maybe price is not everything, maybe it gets down to cost of production. Dairy farmers of Bruce and Grey would become more prosperous, and a lot of these fellows, if taken up here, would starve to death, "Depressions go through cer- tain patterns, When farm pric- es went down before, farmers increased production, the same as now. After a while a few farmers went broke or quit, and after a while that production increase began to level out; and there is indication now that the increase caused by that way of doing is leveling out and will continue as farmers realize there are other ways than in- creasing production. "Sure, a person who keeps the larger number of cows mak- es more money. There seems to be •an increase in intake or re- turns from maybe up to 50 cows, and maybe after there is no increase proportionately. A person can be too big. "There is a right size for every man's business, depending on where he lives, type and cost of land, his ability and resourc- es and inclinations. This idea of size, size, size, size can plow' you under much quicker than if you happen to be small. There is a size for you, and size alone isn't any indication. Those people in New York were big. I think the idea was, 'There is a good price for dairy products, and the more I produce the more I make.' "In this recession we have heard for many years that pop- ulation increase is coming along so fast it is going to take up our surplus, We have bad a tremendous surplus in agricul- tural production, and a certain amount of surplus is being tak- en up, but there is always enough to keep the prices down. "After our 'trip to the States I am convinced money is not our main thing. I think we should look at how cheaply we can produce milk, commensurate with keeping cows in good shape, These cows have a cer- tai;rucap ce has acity, gone dairy at a tremendous rate, and a lot of these people are new and have bought cows others do not want. We are very happy that we have been able to team up with Gordon Bell, and I wonder that has not been used more. "Generally, as time goes on, with artificial insemination we can just about count on the in- herent ability of these cows to produce, and if you cannot make them produce at an economical level you cannot blame it on breeding, but management. I don't think this 14,000 and 16,- 000 is necessary. "A man in our country, par- ticularly on manufactured milk, if he has a herd average of nine or ten thousand he is doing pretty well, so long as it does not cost too much to feed them. "In Bruce, and I know in Huron, they have this pasture competition, but it has not been taken hold of as it should, so that people can study the dol- lars and cents they get out of this pasture. I wonder why far- mers do not take more advan- tage of it, I am wondering if farmers generally are thinking that way and saying, `Aw hecke there is no money in agriculture anyway; you can just make a living.' I think now is the time when they should be readjusting and putting forth their best brains to pull through this thing and make the most they can out of what they have got. "You can't afford to fill a cow with roughage that has no nu- trients she can make milk out of. It comes back to pasture and early cut hay. Some farm- ers think that is something the department dreamed up. "It is not a cheap feed, just cheaper than grain. If you make $20 or $25 more per cow, that is something to go after. Cows that eat two and a half ,pounds of early cut hay, will eat only a pound and a half of hay cut a month later. As far as pro- ducing milk is concerned, early- cut would be worth about twice as much, "It used to be that pasture was just something that grew, and we turned the critters on there in spring, and that was that. Animals eat the maximum amount of roughage for only a few weeks in summer, To make money in beef a man has to be as particular about his pasture as the dairy farmer. "To increase production you have to go right back to the soil, to pasture management, hay and fodder. I don't think you can produce corn much cheaper, but you can grow ab- out twice as much feed with corn on the same acreage, and it is about the same as buying more land. Farmers generally make better corn silage than hay. "Farmers should make their plans; they should budget. The way you do with that is, after you have all the lenoWn facts ebb* your farm last year you see what is the least you can live on. You cannot always hit it, but itgives you a point to work from." Doug Miles, Huron agricultur- al representative, presented honor certificates to ROP lea- ders selected from more than 80 records sent in. "It is an excellent idea," he said, "to give honor to men who have done an exceptional job with their cat- tle." Cows owned by Ross Marsh- all, leirkton, were first, third and fourth; second was a high producer in the herd of Vern- on Hunter, Lucknow; in fifth place was Allister Broadfoot, Seaforth, and sixth B. J. Vos, Exeter. President Betties reviewed the many activities of the directors and officers during the past year, and the meetings, sales and shows were set forth in the report of secretary Hume Out- ten. At Western Fair, Huron was represented by the best group of cattle so far shown. The county herd was placed sixth, the highest placing up to the present, and a number of individual animals were close to the top. The financial statement show- ed receipts of $2,886.83 and ex- penses of $1,596.68. The bank balance rose feoni $943.06 to $1,290.20. 24 New Members Gordon Bell, field man, mem-, tioned the addition of 24 new members to the Club, 250 in Western Ontario who joined the national association. There are in Western Ontario, he said, ab- out 3,000 members or about one- quarter Of the national Member- ship The number of exhibitors and of cattle shown was up. Hardy Shore, Goderieh, warn- ed: "This eaunty. has to pay particular attention to type, You came sixth at Western Fair with county herd, but you have a long way to go on type. You ate behind the rest of Western Ontario on type, arid you must look after that if you are go- ing to have the kind of cattle you need in your own herds. "We are developing a great deal on export trade and if we have a lot of cows up With red calves after they ate sold, that is going to give us a black eye, Bulls that carry a red factor are all identified, and utilesS you are interested in grade cows and milk only, I would give that a lot of thought," Directors named included El- gin Bradley, Goderich, and Leo Ration, Gored.% (North Huron), Verne Hunter and Harold Gaunt, both of Lucknow (North Heron Central), Rose Trewar- the, Clinton, and games Hogg, Seaforth (South Huron Central) 'Phonies Hem and Thomas Brock, both of Itirkton (South Huron), Heevee JOhnSten, Clan.' ton, Was elected director-at- Bruce Agr. Rep, Addresses Huron Holsteiti Club annual More Canadians put their faith in the quality and reliability of PIONEER CHAIN SAWS. Pioneer • outsells all competitive makes in Canada. MR. FARMER I