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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1963-01-10, Page 15Huron Cattle Breeders Elect Directors Huron members of the Waterloo Cattle Breeding Association elected three directors to represent them when they met in Clinton, Saturday. This marks a change in the constitution of the group, as the county was formerly repre- sented by one man, Members elected are shown above looking over the year's financial statement with Tom Consitt, supervisor in the Clinton area. The men include, back row, left 'to right: William Allen, RR 1, Woodham and S. C. "Clem" Galbraith, Blyth, Seated are Consitt, left, and Jim Bradley, RR 3, Goderich. 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He reported it was practic- ally impossible to reduce the cost of the operation and also pointed out that it was ques- tionable if the members would take kindly to an increase in fees "at a time when net re- turns on the farm are not great". "The best solution is to in- '11•1111MININIIMINNINLA seminate a greater percentage of the potential if possible," he said, but added that the group was an organization operated by the members and each one using its services should ex- pect to assume its share of cost of operation. Commenting on the aspect of increasing the percentage of potential breedings, he said they had asked the staff to more vigorously sell the pro- gram to those prospects who could use the services to ad- vantage. He commended information officer, Don Fortune, for his work, and asked the members to give encouragement to the effort when in conversation with potential users of the ser- vices. Cattle Population Down Snyder explained the main reason for the deficit was due mainly to a decrease in the number of inseminations which is brought about by a decrease in the number of female cattle in stock in the four counties mainly served by the Associa- tion. He said the number of dairy cattle had decreased by 11,995 in 1962 due mainly to the un- rest in the dairy industry as many farmers were dropping out of the, production of dairy products. While he pointed out there was an increase in the use of the Association's beef bulls, it was not Sufficient to overcome the decrease in the use of the dairy bulls. "There is no doubt that it is hard to increase volume of business when the potential is decreasing," he added, "but on the other hand we believe there is additional business and we must work hard at obtaining it." Floyd Becker, Waterloo County, president of the As- sociation, agreed with the chairman's ideas, but pointed ottt the increasing of fees would be no great hardship due to the fact the unit was pre- sently the only one which has less than a $5.00 rate. Also noting that two-thirds of the deficit was contained in the cash discounts for ad- vance payments, he said it was "only sound reasoning" to get back to $5.00 rate paid in ad- vance or a strictly cash basis. Many Improvements Snyder gave a brief report of the changes made chiring the past year, the most nootable being the approval for a new Breeders' Service Building and projects in methods of handling the continuation of research projects in methods of handling semen, selection and proving of sires, disease control and pro- cessing data. He reported the Association had made a sizeable investment in semen storage equipment which uses liquid nitrogen as the refrigerant. "This has been done with the belief that the result will be an increase in all around efficien- cy", he said, "and it does pro- vide a temperature of -320 de- grees which provides a greater sprdad between the storage temperature and the critical temperature of -110 degrees. The final development dis- cussed by the manager was the breeding of sows which had turned out much better than had been expected. "I believe it will become a substantial part of our pro- gram," he said, Dr, Clare Rennie, professor of animal husbandry at OAC, told members of the Huron branch of the Waterloo Cattle Breeders Association that they were presently on the thres- hold for new developments and opportunities that they should be prepared to take advantage Huron Has Three Directors, On Waterloo Assoc. Huron county members of the Waterloo Cattle Breeding Association now have three re- presentatives on the board of directors following their annual meeting in Clinton, Saturday. The increase was brought a- bout by a change in the con- stitution that now gives both Huron and Bruce three direct- ors. S. C. "Clem" Galbraith, Blyth, will represent the north- ern section comprised of Turn- berry, Howick, Grey and Mor- ris townships, while Jim Brad- ley, RR 3, Goderich, will rep- resent the townships of Ash- field, East and West Wawa.n- osh, Goderich, Hullett and Col- borne. , The final director is William Allen, RR 1, Woodham, rep- resenting the townships of Mc- Killop, Usborne, Hay, Stephen, Stanley and Tuckersmith. Each of the three was ap- pointed by acclamation a n d had been nominated by a rep- resentative of the Huron Hol- stein Breeders' Association. In an election to determine which would serve for the var- ious terms, Bradley was el- ected for three years; Allen for two and Galbraith for one. Bradley was the Huron mem- ber on the board of directors for the past year. Wally Knapp, Waterloo county, former assistant ag rep in Perth, conducted the elect- ions, while Bradley chaired the rest of the meeting, which was held in the board rooms at the new Department of Agriculture office. o , Doug Miles At OAC Conference Huron County, agricultural representative, Douglas Miles, was in Guelph on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of this week attending a course at OAC. The first day and a half was spent in studying methods and procedures of soil reports and the final session dealt with office management. All the Ontario agriculture representatives attended the latter course. Snyder stated that the only problem to date was for a for- mula for satisfactorily freez- ing semen. In closing, he said there was no doubt in his mind that the Association had contributed to the improvement of livestock and urged that the group should evaluate careftilly the extra returns the suggested programs would provide for members and how best they could be put into effect. of: Speaking in Clinton, Satur- day, Rennie, Who served in Huron county on extension Work about 10 years ago, re- ported on some of the new dev- elopments, He informed the farmers pre- sent that a new IBM system was being used to compute farm records and this would speed up the valuable service,1' He noted that six cards con- taining the information about any farm's business could be fed into the machine and 113 cards came out, containing vit- al information that would assist the farmer in determining which aspects of his operation he should alter to make it more profitable, The machine is capable of doing in five minutes what formerly took up to two days and it is now possible to pro- cess the information of up to 150 farms per week. The noted speaker, who is in charge of all animal breeding at Guelph, also reported that production testing of dairy herds would be done on a mon- thly basis and it would be pos- sible to get results of young bulls much faster than prev- iously. He noted this would be of particular benefit to the Wat- erloo Breeding Association, as tests of young bulls could be made six months earlier than in previous years. Sees Genetic Improvement Dr. Rennie stated that with artificial insemination, breed- ers had the biggest and best opportunity for g e n e tic im- provement; more so than in any other time in history. He urged that every dairy breeder should have his herd tested which would result in more profitable management. He backed this opinion up by pointing out that animals in a tested herd brought an av- erage of $100.00 more than an- imals in an untested herd and there was an $80.00 difference in the sale price of classified and unclassified animals. The OAC professor, speaking on a breeding program for pro, duction, told the members that cows that were 20 percent be- low the herd's production av- erage should be culled out as soon as their record had been made, and cows that were be- tween 20 percent below and the average should be given a sec- ond, record before culling. "Some may come along and do well,"' he said, "but 75 Per cent of them will keep on at their low rate." Dr. Rennie also informed the members that when they were purchasing a cow they should buy only one with a plus rec- ord 'in its present herd, regard- less of what her own record might be, "A minus cow in the herd will be a minus cow in another TOINI'S., AM, 1963--Clinton News-Record—Page in this scheme, o`You need proven bulls to correct these weaknesses," he noted, and added that the art- ificial insemination Program ideal hecause there was a great number to choose from. He concluded by presenting a chart on Al breeding and Showed that 75 percent of the cows in a herd should be bred to plus proven sires, while the other 25 percent should be bred\ to unproven sires, "This is the only way in which these young bulls can be proven," he noted, but added that the 25 percent should be f i r st heifer calls, while the proven sires should be used on the older selected cows in the herd. Clinton Memorial Shop T. PRYDE and SON CLINTON — EXETER SEAFORTH Open Every Afternoon PHONE HU 2-7712 At other times contact Local Representative—A. ,W. Steep—HU 2-6642 21tfb "wlinnoiNNW 14 herd," he noted. On the same theme, he re- ported, that a plus bull in one herd would be ,a plus bull in another, regardless of what part of Canada, it bad been tested. He stated this was important to consider due to the vast dif- ferenCe in records established by bulls in other sections of the country where conditions var- ied greatly from Ontario. 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