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Beef Producers Name Officials For Huron
About 50 beef prodUcers met in the agriculture
office in Clinton, Monday, to elect officials for the
Huron. County Beef Improvement Association,
which is starting its second year of operation. Bob
McGregor, RR 2, Kippers, seated left, was re-named
president and beside him are Elmer Robertson, RR
5, Goderich, vice-president; Jack Armstrong, Lon-
desboro, zone director. Two of the new directors
in this area are shown standing and from the left
are: Russell Faber, Kippen, and Harry Montgomery,
RR 2, Goderich (News-Record Photo)
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Bob McGregor, RR 2, Kip-
pen, was returned for another
term as president of the Huron
County Beef Iriiprovement As-
sociation at th4 group's annual
meeting held in Clinton, Mon-
day.
Elmer Robertson, RR 5, Code-
rich, was returned as vice-pre-
sident 'and Huron County agri-
culture representative, D. H.
Miles, is secretary-treasurer.
The directors also re-named
Jack Armstrong 'as their dis-
trict director, 'to sit on the
board at Toronto.
Over 50 beef men were pre-
sent at the 'meeting.
-McGregor again gave his
opinion that - the beef men
should not be controlled by gov-
ernment, ,but should have a
compulsory levy on members to
use in promoting their product.
"A large industry such as
Belgrave Youth
Named President
Of Sheep Club
Kenneth Black was elected
president of Huron County's
first 4-H sheep club at an or-
ganizational meeting Saturday
in Belgrave.
Each member of the club will
keep a record on five lambs
during 'the club year and ex-
hibit them at a fall fair.
Other officers are; Vice-presi-
dent, Joseph Jeffrey, AR 2,
Wingham; secretary, Miss Mar-
jorie Smith, Belgrave; press re-
porter, Miss Lila slack, Bel-
grave. Club leaders are Rich-
ard Etheringtore Exeter, anti
Donald. Block, Clinton.
Don Pullen, Clinton, county
assistant agricultural repre-
sentative, was chairman of the
meeting.
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Huron CoUnty Beef Improve—out to market.
meat Association, members.
Were teld at their Annual meet,
log, Monday, that nearly every-
one engaged in the owning and
feeding of livestock seems to
have such •a fondness for live-
stock that they sometimes
overlook some very important
figures of cost, that must be
charged back to their partic-
ular operation.
This opinion was expressed
by George Higgs, Dresden, 'a
futuristic farmer in • Kent
County.
To back up his point of view,
Higgs gave some figures on a
test •carried out oni 25 steers on
his farm, which resulted in him
realizing he was actually losing
Money on _the operation, .al,
'though ,many farmers without
the figures would assume they
were making a profit.
The steers were picked out
of several and put on test by
themselves. The feed was
weighed, and on a corn with cob
ration and supplement, the
Dresden farmer found :hi's costs
per .pound of meat to be 19
cents.
"A. quick look at this and
one would •say we are • doing
all right," he explained, "but
the rest of the costs that are
quite often overlooked showed
otherwise,"
Among the figures which he
had included 'as costs on the
operation — and which many
farmers overlook—were: shrink
on the incoming steers after
they, were- purchased, labour
cost, .depreciation, taxes, insur-
ance and maintenance, death
losses, veterinary expenses, in-
terest on the money invested,
trucking expenses and shrink
when the cattle were shipped one part of ari openation, you
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WARBLE FLY CAMPAIGN
Township of Goderich
Tenders are hereby called for the 'following
Warble Fly Powder:
200 lbs, in 1 lb. bags
600 lbs. in 15 lb. bags
Powder to be delivered. Tenders to be in the
Clerk's hands by February, 29 1964. Lowest or
any tender not necessarily accepted.
Appliciations are hereby called for the position
of Warble Fly Inspector for the Township of
Goderich. Salary is $1.25 per hr. and a car
allowance of 10c per mile.
All applications are to be in the clerk's hands
by February, 29 1964.
R. E. Thompson
Clerk
Township of Goderich
He listed figures showing
costs of 6288,05 for each steer,
while the sale price was only
S-27400 — or a loss of $.14,55
each,
Dispels Doubts
While he noted 'same would
have questions as to some of
the costs, he said he had check-
ed his costs with a large feed
lot close to his and 'a • number
Of them were under their costs,
with none over.
He stated also that some
farmers may be able to show
George Riggs
gain for less than 19 cents per
pound, and in Teat he noted
that some could put on gain for
Only nine cents per pound' while
on grass,
"The point I want to em-
phasize is ,.that, if in order to
reduce costs of production on
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have to 'take it from another,
then why engage in the One
that is losing money?"
The remainder of Mr. Higgs'
speech was as follows:
Why not just grass your cat,
tie and sell them from the grass
Where YOU have a nice profit?
Now this creates a prOblern,
Bveryone cannot ,grass cattle,
nor can everyone just finish
cattle,
I do not want to sound boast-
ful, but we have in Kent
County, hundreds of feeders
which could, as you have,
double their capacity with
too much effort. The advan-
tage of a Kent County produc-
er—he is in the heart of the
corn belt, which 'is 'the most de-
sirable basis of good, finished
beef.
I am by no means suggest-
ing you should not be finishing
cattle, I would suggest though,
if you are thinking of enlarg-
ing your finishing feed lot, you
should first have good solid fin-
anch*,. Second; A uniform
source of food supply and with
a ration that can be grown in
YOUr area and utilize all of it,
I am -thinking of a silage ra-
tion.
I would like to point out that
even in Kent County where we
seem to have no problem of
finishing grain corn, the trend
is for more ,and more silage.
It seems too bad to produce
a crop of corn and just waste
the fodder by picking off the
ear of corn. Now some will say
you cannot finish cattle on
silage ration. I am here today
to tell,,you it can and is being
done and if the present pricing
formula for finished beef con-
tinues in Canada, strictly grain-
fed cattle will be a thing of
the past.
Although most packers fav-
our this grain fed carcass, they
are reluctant to have more
than one price for each grade.
In the large 'outlets of finish-
ed meats in the USA they
have a spread of 70 cents a
pound , on T-bone steaks, 30
cents a pound on arm roasts,
etc. This simply means that
there is in the USA, an. incen-
tive for farmers to produce
grain fed cattle.
Some farmers think , that
when they sell a load of cattle
they should replace it, and by
so doing. are 'protecting them,
selves against loss. In our. opin-
ion this is not the 'answer.
Today fat cattle on the West-
ern markets are 23, cents;
stackers are 24 cents,
We think the only answer
to putting beef feeding on a
profitable basis is 'to 'be able
to buy the feeder,at less money
than the finished carcass 'espec-
ially when steers are selling
below the 25 cent range.
Now how do we get a calf
into the feed lot at a price
which we think will correspond
with the finished product, so
as to give the feed lot a profit
and also the cow-calf operation
a profit?
I would like to tell'you some
of the problems we have run
into and mistakes we have
made. First of all, we have
found out through 'the years,
the most important part is rec-
ords of cows. If cow- is a.
poor milker or continuously
has trouble calving, plus the
calves' inability to show good
gains, she should be cut from
the herd. She is only a star
boarder.
In 1947 we started a basic
herd from 30 heifers that we
purchased in, Kansas. Of these
30 head, our herd today is
based on but eight cows. Every-
thing else went to the block.
It costs no more to feed a cow
that will give you a 500 pound
calf in a nursing period than
one that will give yOu a 350
pound calf in the same period.
We also Made the mistake
of feeding our cows too well
during the winter, At the be-
ginning, we were concentrating
too much on a good looking
herd with everything in top
shape than we were on the
costs. '*
We found out that through
'the years, by cutting 'our costs
in the wintering of cows we
were riot only cheapening the
Coif, but were running into less
trouble. With cows'' calving, dist.
Vehicle Owner
Has No *Trouble
Calling Firemen
HENSALL — When. Byron
Kyle discovered the front
seat of his ear on fire Saturday
he had no trouble remember-
ing the fire department's eum-
ber—after all he was the fire
chief hero for 10 years.
Mr Kyle, wile retired from
1953, stood by as a spectator
the position at the end of
While fireinen extinguished the
burning seat. Damage was
slight,
Beef Men Re-name Bob McGregor,
Fail To Reach Decision On Project
beef should stand on its own
feet, and pay its own way," he
stated.
He said it was wrong that
the beef producers should have
to depend on the government to
find markets, adding that this
was the duty of the producers.
"After all, that is only busi-
ness," he told the' members
present.
Members discussed s o m e
ideas for projects they could
undertake to take advantage of
the $300 government grant, but
no definite plans were estab-
lished.
Township directors named
were as follows;
Winston Shapton, Stephen;
Harry nougat', Usborne; Bob
McGregor, Tuckersmith; Rus-
sel Faber, Stanley; Jack Arm-
strong, Hullett; Bob Campbell,
MeKillop; Ross Knight, Grey;
William. Connell, Howick.
Jack Willett, Turnberry; Nor-
man Couites, East Wawanosh;
Wallace Wilson, West Wawa-
nosh; Ivan Rivett, Ashfieid;
Jack Bryan's, Morris; Herb
Klapp, Hay; Elmer Robertson,
Colborne; Harry Montgomery,
Goderich Township.
ease, etc.
We do feel, however, that if
your costs on the cow run
.
can
3% ter 1-.)31''oC'ficteatIsY :ntieC14. 'tY117-
calf .operation, Illustratioriz SO
cents times 665 clays Will give
cost of your calf alone of •6109,
I 'must mention one of our
operators in Kent County, who
is doing an -excellent job on
both fat cattle and a cow-calf
operation, He has been on 'the
same program for years and it
is working very satisfactorily.
It is a program that you can
work with ten steers and ten
cows or 100 steers and 1,00
cows.
His yards are divided inex,
pensively to separate the cows
from the steers, He feeds his
steers well matured corn insll-
age, They are given •suffielent
time to eat what they want.
They naturally will pick
through the silage and take
most , of the 'kernel corn.
They are then turned into
another yard .and his cows are
turned into the feed lot 'to clean
the manger up. The only other
thing the cows are getting extra
is a little 'roughage and hay.
This program 'one cannot over-
look; He is utilizing every 'bit
of crop he is growing and he is
spreading his risks around,
In summing the beef industry
up, I think it would •be falacy
on my,part to gay you should
buy small cattle or big cattle
for your operation, I do not
think this is the problem.
think though, that it 'is very
important you try and utilize
as much of your own feed as
possible.
We of Kent are a" little con-
cerned with the future poten-
tial source of stocker—cattle.
With the Canadian West's huge
grain sales and their potential
grain sales, a percentage of
cattlemen could turn to grain
and with the USA being so
close to the Canadian West, it
could have a great effee on
our-future feeder cattle.. We all
know what a short supply does
to any product.
United States is now eating
170 pounds of meat per capita,
with 102 pounds of this beef.
Canadians are now eating 140
pounds of meat, with 85 pounds
of this beef. If the same trend
continues, Canada will need in
15 years, four and a half billion'
pounds of meat to feed her
people. That -is almost double
from the two and a half billion
we are eating now.
Mr. Higgs was introduced by
Leonard Lovell and thanked by •
Elmer Robertson.
0 •
Goderich Twp. South-
Best wishes for an early re-
covery to Mr, William Middle-
Htoons,pattaplatient in Clinton Public
Mrs. Eleanor Picot has been
with Mrs, 'Lloyd Picot and fam-
ily of Goderich for the past
week.
Friends of Mrs, Reg Sturdy
are happy that she was dis-
charged from Goderich Hospital.
some days ago and convalescing.
at her home, The same applies
'to Elmer Potter of the Mait-
land Concession who was a
surgery patient at, Clinton Pub-
lic Hospital and now home and
making -good progress,
Word has come from I3,C.,
that David Liscombe, who will
`be remembered as a little boy,
but now a young man, has
joined the RCAF' Cadet Band
Comox, B.C, •
From the Scottish Highlands
comes word that the primroses
are blooming in the . gardens
and former residents of the
Green Isle will recall that it
is time fox the Shamrock to
make its appearance,