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Federation Directors
firing In Reports
The April meeting o£ the dire
ctors of the Huron Federation of
Agriculture was held in the agri
cultural office board rooms, Clin
ton, with Charles Coultes, Bel
grave, president, presiding.
Secretary Gordon M« Greig
was instructed to write to the
Health of Animal Branch for
clarification regarding condem
nation of section of animals
slaughtered under T.B. testing
plan, as no compensation is re
ceived for parts of animals sent
to the tank. Correspondence was
read relating to telegrams sent
to the Federal members of Parli-
ment asking that they make
every effort to have a satisfac
tory floor price for butter esta
blished. It was sugegsted that 62
I cents be a suitable price,
R. S. McKercher, R.R. 1, Dub
lin, reported on Producers As
sociation’s annual meeting held
in Toronto on April 13. Mr. Mc-
Kercher is now a membex* of the
executive representing the coun
ties of Grey, Bruce and Huron.
Harvey Taylor, Brucefield, re
ported on the annual meeting of
Farmers’ Insurance Information
Association in Toronto last month
stated that Auto Insurance Co.
ended the year in a good finan
cial position.
Bob McMillan, Seaforth, in re
porting the annual meeting of
the Ontario Beef Producers' in
Toronto,’ mentioned two import
ant items discussed at the meet
ing. One was the demonstration
pasture form system, now in
operation and the Bull Testing
Station, that had been set up at
O.A.C. Guelph, under the direc
tion of Professor Knox.
Harry Gowdy, Wr oxe t er,
speaking on the activities of the
cream producers of the past few
months, stated that they favour
ed a high flooi* price for butter,
to discourage speculation in the
butter market.
Past President Bert Lobb,
Clinton, thanked the federation
on behalf of the Goderich Town
ship farmers for assistance ren
dered in securing a satisfactory
settlement of the hydro dispute
in that township.
BY GORDON M- GREIG
Huron Federation of Agi’ICnlinre
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NEWS J
Dairy Groups Press For Butter Floor Price
Tpp Of $1,400 At
Holstein Dispersal
Top price at the dispersal sale
of the Shorelea Holstein herd of
Don
was
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☆ 1949 Mercury Coach, radio, overdrive .......$2,095.
ft 1949 Monarch Coach ........... 1,795.
☆ 1947 Ford Coach, very good ............... 1,350.
ft 1946 Chev Sedan .................................. 1,095.
ft 1941 Ford Coach ........................ 690.
ft 1941 Ford Coach .................................. 595.
ft 1940 Plymouth Coach .......................... 750.
ft 1938 Ford Coach, good motor and tires ..... 395.
ft 1937 Ford Coach, very good ....................... 350.
ft 1950 Janies Motorcycle ................................. 2'50. f
Special Cars
ft 1935 Chev Coach. Thursday’s price .............. 175.
ft 1933 Ford Coach. Thursday’s price .............. 130.
ft 1931 Chev Coupe. Thursday’s price ............ 80.
ft 1930 Chev Coach. Thursday’s price ..... 80.
These cars to he reduced $10 a day until sold.
TRUCKS
ft 1950 International Pickup, low mileage; ...... 1,395.
ft 1949 Ford .Pickup .......................................... 1,295.
ft 1949 Ford Pickup .................................... 1,050.
ft 1947 Dodge Pickup .......... 950.
ft 1947 Dodge 3-Ton Special ...... *....... 850.
ft 1946 Ford 3-Ton .......................................... 650.
Special Truck
ft 1945 Ford 3-Toil, 134” w.b., 8.25x20 tires,
good motor. To be reduced $10 a day until.
sold.Thursday's price ...............................470.
TRACTORS
ft 1947 Ford, stepup transmission, good motor 875.
ft 1941 International A ............................... .790.
ft 1942 Ford ................ ••......595.
M, M 1940 International A with scuffler ....... .595.
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challenged in
This would indicate that the cost
of production of margarine
should be lower. However, the
cost of this product has followed
the price of butter up as though
it were a part of the dairy in
dustry. In 1939 coconut oil could
be purchased in Canada at 6.1
cents per pound.
More revealing statements
were made regarding substitute
products. Kreamy Whip is now
used by sections of the baking
trade in place of whipping cream.
It has a vegetable oil base, skim
milk and powdered make up the
Shore, Glanworth, Ontario,
$1,400. This amount was
by Fred Bollard, Merlin,
for Reta DeKoi Segis, an
eight-year-old cow. Mr. Pollard
also bought her five-months-old
daughter at $875.
The entire offerln
of high
average
females
heifers
$4 JI, 5
5 bulls
the best sales of the year to
date.
Karl F. Decker, bought the
top open yearlings at $485 and
$460 and also paid $510 for a
bred heifer. Heifer calves
g of 43 head
class animals brought an
of $518. Sixteen milking-
averaged $671, 13 bred
$488, 4 open yearlings
heifer calves $434 and
$212. This was one of
rest. It is used in cream puffs. f)i'ed
topping for pies, cakes, etc. It well, — -—
The cost is Ponging $300- or over,
price of
contains no cream,
about half the
cream-
sold
all five offered for sale
i
of the nutri-
the Depart-
1-Iealth and
that "no
The dairy groups within the
county of Huron along with the
Federation of Agriculture sent
telegrams to our Federal mem
bers of Parliament asking that
they support the recommendation
of the Dairy Farmers of Canada
in asking for a 62 cents floor
price for butter for the coming
year. A reply has been received
from both our Federal members,
in which they state their willing
ness to support any recommenda
tion that is in the best interest
of our great Canadian dairy in
dustry.
A copy of Hansard was also
received from Mr. L. E. Cardiff,
that contained a speech made in
the House of Commons revelant
to the floor price on butter and
the position of the dairy industry
in general. There are so many
important statements made re
garding the dairy industry that
should be made know to our
farm and urban people alike,
that I am going to attempt to
summarize them in this article.
The speaker was the repre
sentative from Lanark County in
Eastern Ontario and his state
ments must have 'been authentic
for they were not
the house.
Dr. L. B. Pett
tional division of
meat of National
Welfare has stated
type of food is more important
to health and good nutrition
than milk products, Milk is re
garded as the perfect food. Dairy
products supply 81 per cent of
the calcium required for the
human body, 57 per cent of the
riboflavin,. 17 per cent of vita
min A and other equally import
ant vitamins. One pint of milk per
day will provide an adult with
93 per cent of the minimum re
quirements of calcium, 83 per
cent of riboflavin, and other ne
cessary vitamins. The housewife
spends 20 cents of every dollar
for milk and dairy products, but
in return she gets more than one
third of all nutrients she feeds
her family."
In linking the dairy industry
with conservation the speaker
had this to say. "The raising of
livestock provides the best and
cheapest method of putting back
into the soil most of the good
which the raising of crops has
taken from it. Good dairy farms
do not 'become worn out and
useless. There is no use'talking
conservation if we allow farmers
continually to crop off their
land, to cut down their woodlots
in an effort to make a living for
their families without restoring
and revitalizing the soil. Such a
policy is little short of national
suicide.”
In referring to cost of pro
duction, the Lanark County mem
ber remarks, "The Ontario De
partment of Agriculture survey
carried on by Dr. H. R. Patter
son from May 1, 1949, to April
30, 1950, in Lanark County,
showed that the average dairy
man
$14
The average cost of producing
100 pounds of milk was $2.83.”
Farm labour costs were fig
ured at 5 0 cents per hour. We
would all be employing farm
help if it could he secured at 50
cents per hour. Feed costs have
increased considerably since the
survey was made and so has the
price paid for milk. The loss
ratio will he substantially the
same in 19 51 as at the time of
this survey.
The speaker then spoke of
the unfair competition confront
ing the dairy industry of today.
“The vegetable oils _used in the
main products which are almost
entirely of foreign origin. The
water—and I learned that water
farms a substantial part of these
products—-and
adian.
Our Lanark
made a clear
the proposal that our Canadian
farmers could open up a new
source of income by producing
vegetable oils for substitute, pro
ducts. This cannot be clone be
cause the price of imported oils
is so low our farmers cannot
hope to compete with it. There
is no duty on vegetable oils
produced within the Empire. The
duty was reduced from 13 per
cent to nil about one year ago.
This places our farm population
in direct competition with people
in countries where starvation
wages are paid and the working
class are little better than slaves.
Since this change in Empire tar
iffs took place, coconut oil is
being used in place of cotton
seed oil and soya bean oil that
was imported from United States
and subject to some restrictions.
in Lanark County lost
on his milk production.
tlie salt, are Can-
County friend
cut case out of
natural
In the United States a product Gives Birth To Five Calves
is sold that is
fled with vegetable oils and is
sold as a replacement for milk.
By a similar process oils can be
used to replace the cream in ice
cream.
Farm cash income, from dairy
ing in 1950 was $62,500,000 less
than in the year 1948. This loss
relates chiefly to eight provinces
in the Dominion for Quebec and
Prince
permit the sale of margarine and
Newfoundland has
duced any sizable quantity of
dairy products.
The speaker then touched on
the reported high price of dairy
products. "High prices do exist
in other commodities, both food
and manufactured articles, and
they cause hardship; but dairy
products are expected by the
public to be sold at levels lower
than those of other commod
ities.”
It is apparent that unsatis
factory .prices in the dairy in
dustry has driven Canada from a
surplus producing nation to an
importing one. Butter, cheese
and even powdered milk have
been imported into Canada dur
ing the last year, This places us
in a vulnerable position if we
become involved in another world
war. Our supply of substitute
and imported products will be
cut off and our home production
will not be adequate to feed our
people. During the last war we
supplied large quantities of food
to our allies. What have we to
offer today in the line of food
supplies except wheat? We have
imported butter at 56J. cents per
pound while our own producers
were asked to produce at 53
cents per pound. We have im
ported cheese at 34 cents per
pound when our own producers
had their cheese requisitioned at
28 cents per pound.
We have members of parlia
ment who are willing to stand
up and defend our dairy industry
in the House of Parliament.
What are we doing to defend
ourselves? Not only are we per
mitting ourselves to be pushed
out
our
her
food
In
only
that
and
weather. A lot of things that are
essentials today will be useless
in a time of national disaster.
Continuing his
the dairy industry
tioix the speaker
cannot expect
farmer to practise
methods of farming,
be a healthy dairy
order to preserve the land. This
dairying industry should not be
made up of discouraged farmers.
It should be an industry which
will give an adequate return for
the investment, it should he an
industry that will stop soil ex
haustion and thereby aid soil
conservation. In the long term
view we can visualize abandoned
farms unless there is a future
for the dairying industry much
brighter than exists
The othei' grasses
in the mixture are
with the grass seed
skim milk forti-
Edward Island do not
never pro-
In Less Than A Year
A purebred Holstein cow own
ed by C. L. Lamb, Walkerton,
i Ont., has established an enviable
mark as a re-producer. She gave
birth to twins and then just six
weeks less than a year later pre
sented her surprised owner with
triplets. Mr. Lamb reports that
all five calves are in excellent
health as is the mother who is
know officially as Polly Rag Ap
ple Mercedes.
against the seed being either
blown away or washed out.
Mr, Fallis favours the culti-
packer for firming the soil, point
ing- out that the use of the roll
er on* heavy soils may cause
crusting if the soil is moist at
the time. However, if it does
crust, another trip over the field
with the roller will break and
pulverize the crust.
If neither of these implements
are available, the seed can be
covered with the drag chains on
the drill, and the field could be
harrowed. - However, when drag
harrows are used, they should be
light and the teeth short. New,
heavy harrows used for this pur
pose will bury the seed too deep
ly and tend to leave depressions
into which the seed will wash.
Mr. Fallis concludes, that since
the grass and clover crops
are seeded only periodically, yet
so much important feed for live
stock, taking precautions to get
the crops off to a good start will
pay well in the long run,
of business, we are placing
nation in danger hy letting
supply of home - produced
decline.
an area ravaged by war the
thing that really matters is
you have FOOD, clothing,
can find shelter from the
link between
and conserva-
stated;
a
"You
discouraged
the new
There must
industry in
now.”
and clovers
best sown I........... .. attachment
behind the drill. A depth of U
to inch is ideal.
Once the seed is in the ground,
Mr. Fallis likes to use the culti-
packer or roller. This assures
shallow coverage of surface sown
seeds, and leaves the soil in the
firm condition which it ideal for
rapid germination; He emphasiz
es that accurate control of the
depth of seeding can mean the
difference between success and
failure of the crop. Seed lightly
covered with 14 to % inch of soil
has a better contact with mois
ture and will germinate much
better than if it is exposed to the
air. At the same time this cover
ing provides some protection
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