Clinton News-Record, 1969-10-30, Page 9An Aberdeen-Angus beef bull, bred and owned by the Canada Department of Agriculture,
has smashed all Canadian performanee records for the breed. During a 140-day test
period, Showcase Eric Eagle, a product of, the:showcase herd at the Central Experimental
Farm in Ottawa, put on weight at the astonishing rate of 3.93 pounds a day. His weight
per day of age comes to 3.16 pounds per day. This gives him an adjusted yearly weight
gain of 1,154 pounds.
Bull smashes performance records
Elwood J. Perry of Raconville,
Sask., and purchased in 1966 by
the CDA's Livestock Division for
the showcase herd from C. E.
Glosman and Sons of Russell,
Man.
Eric Eagle established his
record under a performance test
program operated by the
Ontario Beef Cattle Performance
Association. Five other CDA
bulls, also sons of Glenmere
Jumbo Eric, were entered in the
same performance test and all
' produced above-average records.
Showcase Eric Eagle's
individual performance was 28
percent above the average of 107
Aberdeen-Angus bulls tested so
far this year in Ontario.
He started the test on
February 2 weighing 652 pounds
when he was 240 days old. He
finished the test on July 5
weighing 1,202 pounds.
The showcase herd at Ottawa
was purchased as a display
centre to show visitors, many of
them from other countries, the
quality and type of animals
available from Canadian farmers.
Aberdeen-Angus 'is only one of
many beef and dairy breeds on
display.
OFA members prepare
for '70 farm vacations
The purpose for continuing a
farm vacation program and plans
for the future were discussed ,
during the second annual
conference on farm vacations,
sponsored by the Ontario
Federation of Agriculture.
More than 60 people,
representing interested
individuals, ARDA, various
county organizations, and the
Ontario Government attended
the day-long aneeting at Victoria
square,Vdirth 51 Toronto.
It was revealed during the
meeting by Rae C. Cunningham,
OFA director of properties, that
vacation hosts participating in
last years' program realized
$24,371 in gross income. He also
noted that this year's brochure
of hosts and locations will go to
the printers by the end of
December.
John Holden, director of the
advertising branch, and Wilfred
Haddad, regional supervisor,
both from the Ontario
Department of Tourism and
Information, outlined
expectations of guests and
numerous tips on how to
respond to inquiries.
Rev. Bert Daynard, chairman
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While thousands are being
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being left dead on the ground.
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of facilities in Huron
A six-county tour of
co-operative facilities will be
made by the board of directors
of United Co-operatives of
Ontario as part of the November
meeting of the board. The tour
will include UCO facilities and
retail co-operative facilities in
Huron, Perth, Bruce, Grey,
Wellington and Dufferin
Comities.
The tour is scheduled for
Nov. 3,4, and 5, with the board
meeting itself to be held on Nov.
4 at the Canadiana Motel in
Hanover. A full agenda includes
a review by the board of the
operations for UCO's fiscal year
which ended on Sept. 30, plus
decisions on the distribution of
net earnings to local member
co-operatives and individual
members.
"The UCO directors have
followed this policy of visiting
with directors and staff at retail
co-operatives in Ontario during
regular board meeting dates for
several years," notes R. S.
McKercher of Dublin, UCO
president. "The purpose of the
visits are to keep them in touch
with the growing program of
services by co-operatives in
Ontario and to review with
elected people the challenges
facing co-operators in serving
members' needs," he said.
UCO's volume for the past
year will 'be well over
$100,000,000 in a wide range of
products and .services, to both
farm and home consumers. The
organization has been an
established service for 55 years,
essentially in feeds, crop
products and farm supplies, and
petroleum, and more recently in
a widening line of consumer
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-eef price report tabled.
The .foUowin; keel pri.e1ng
tqtetrient wq..ingcle by .Ontario
1.001Nre Minister Will A.
(ewqrt when he (Oki an
Food Cpuncil report in
he Le$4104re lost .weck. The
abling came several days after
urpn-,13ruce MFPMurray Gaunt
*mired about the study which
upplements an .earlier report
gag kg(' J une:
Mr. Speaker, a few days ago
in this Legislature, the honorable
member for littron-$rtice
inqpired *grit the study being
conducted into the pricing of
beef in Ontario, and I assured
him that the Council was
completing an updating of the
report they had prepared . in
June.
This report has now been
completed and it is. my pleasure
to table it at this time. •
The Ontario Food Council's:
June report provided clear
evidence that there is a very
close relationship between
supply and demand for beef in.
all of North America. I want to
reiterate that the Canadian
market is not isolated or unique, •
rather it is an integral part of the.
whole North American market,
and is affected by both supply
and . demand in. the' United
States. This relationship between
supply and demand is so close
that relatively small increases or
reductions in weekly marketings
of beef cattle can sharply affect -
the price structure, with all of
the attendant dislocation that it
creates.
Last spring, for example,.
weekly marketings . of finished
beef cattle in the United States.
dropped by 20,000 cattle • per
week, or slightly over 3 percent.
This resulted over a few weeks in
a $6 per cwt. increase in' live
cattle in the U.S.A., and
corresponding increases at' the
wholesale and retail price levels,.
The whole Northern '
American beef market has' been
experiencing, increased consumer
demand in recent years, Our
population has been increasing
steadily, , The relative affluence
Of North Alnerican coMurlierS
has created increased .demand
for beef, and Canadian" per
capita consumption has climbed
from 70.5 lbs. in 1961 to 86.8
lbs. in 1,668.
Normally one might expect
producers to respond to this
increased demand by increasing
their production sharply.
However, agricultural producers
are businessmen and, they are
motivated in the same way as all
other producers, by price
incentive. This incentive has
simply not materialized. With
*the exception of a brief price increase in April and May of this
year, beef prices have remained
relatively unchanged since 1952.
We have already seen the April
and May increases erased by
market declines.
In short, the sustained
incentive,, the motivation
necessary to increase production
of beef in Canada has simply not
manifested itself to the man
responsible for increasing the
beef-cow herd from whence
must cone future increased beef
supplies.
When beef, prices increased at
the procIncer, ,wholesale and
retail levels earlier'this year there
was a wave of consumer
resistance, some of it created by
price, some of it because of the
ill-considered • actions of
supposedly. responsible people
who advocated a boycott.
Eventually prices were forced
down again, and this is the
situation that we find today.
Once again beef producers find
themselves** faced with prices
comparable to those received in
the '50s and'-the early '60s while
the costs: of* the goods and
services 'they require continue
their steady escalation.
The consumer, very rightly
wants to know if she is
benefitting froni this price
reduction in. live finished cattle.
This report that I table today
indicates that since the peak of
beef prices in late May, the
average prite of 'choice steers on
.the Teronto market had.
,declined by more than $6 Mt,
as of Pliceptehlher,
represents a loss of 76 percept of
the price .gain. that had .twn
experienced in the spring, In the
comparable perieti, the.
wholeple price of Choice steer,
carcasses had declined by just
over SU cwt., this also
represents a loss of 76 percent of
the gain .experienced in April
And May.
Since .the middle of June,
when retail prices for beef
reached their peak, the average
retail price of a choice steer
carcass has .dropped 7.7 cents
per lb.. and this indicates a loss
of 57 percent of the earlier gain.
May I state these figures
another way for clarification.
While the producers and the
wholesalers of beef have
experienced an identical loss of
‘76 percent of the price increases
'of April and May, the retailers of
beef in Canada have reduced
their prices .by only 57 percent.
of that earlier increase. To put it
yet another way as indicated 'by
the report, during 1968 the
retailers of beef cuts operated on
an average margin of 17 cents
per pound above the wholesale
level. In the 10-week period
ending September 27, these
same retailers were operating -on
a margin of 19.4 cents per lb, •
When I tabled .the first report
of the Ontario Food Council in
June I stated that I was "not in
the least embarrassed by the
current prices paid to farmers
for their beef cattle." I want to
restate that position at this time,
and I would go further in this
regard by saying that, until beef
producers. in Canada are
provided with the • necessary
financial incentive in the market
place, consumers can expect to
experience further price
fluctuations.
When the consumers
boycotted beef in midsummer,
partly because of the price and
partly because of the
ill-considered actions of those
who urged a boycott, they
precipitated an unjustified price
reduction at the producer and
wholesale level, but one in which
they as consumers have not
completely shared.
I would sincerely hope that
Ontario consumers will
recognize this and they will also
accept the inevitable fact that
adequate supplies of high quality
beef. are dependent upon fair
return's for the producers. At the
sametime, we must .ensure that
consumers get both quality and
Value in a continuing supply- of
wholesome' beef in which there
has been no unjustified price
margins between the producer
and the consumer.
An Aberdeen-Angus beef
bull, bred and owned by the
Canada Department of
Agriculture, has smashed all
Canadian performance records
for the breed,
Showcase Eric Eagle, *a
product of the showcase herd at
the central experimental farm in
Ottawa, gained weight at a faster
clip than any other
Aberdeen-Angus bull in Canada
in any year.
During the 140-day test
period, he put on pounds at the
astonishing rate of 3.93 pounds
a day. His weight per day of age
conies to 3.16 pounds per day.
This gives him an adjusted yearly
weight gain of 1,154 pounds.
The previous records were a
gain of 3.67 pounds a day during
the test period, 1,057 pounds a
year and 2.90 pounds a day
from birth to the age of one
year.
Showcase Eric Eagle is
currently on loan to the CDA's
experimental farm at Nappan,
N.S., where he is being used in a
cross-breeding program.
Eric Eagle was sired by
Glenmere Jumbo Eric, a bull
that the CDA's Livestock
Division purchased from
Glenmere Farms at Red Deer,
Alta. Jumbo Eric was loaned to
the British Columbia Artificial
Insemination Centre at Milner,
B.C., under the CDA's sire loan
policy, and the 12-cow showcase
herd at Ottawa was bred to him
by artificial insemination."
Showcase Eric Eagle!s mother
is Ruby of Black Eagle: bred by
of the OFA community and
regional development
. committee, and Mrs. Dorothy
Houston and Mrs. Phyllis Durst,
members of the OFA
sub-committee on farm
vacations told of preparations
for a vacation listing and special
'host offerings. They also stressed
that 29 counties and districts are
represented by individuals
hoping to participate in the
continuing program.
Don'' Ford, director of
continuing education at the
Georgian College of Applied
Arts and Technology, informed
those at the conference of
training now available to
interested hosts.
Miss Ruth Macintosh, ARDA
Home Economist for Renfrew
County, listed equipment and
food preparations necessary for
larger groups, while Jack Steele,
associate director of ARDA
programs, related local
development of the farm
vacations program.
Thursday, .0cto.12.pr aQ, 1969
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Clerk's Notice -of First Posting
of Voters' List for 1969.
TOWN.SHIP. 'OF STANLEY,
• Coi,Mty of Huron
NOTICE is hereby -given. that I have complied with
section 9 of The Voters' Lists .Act, and that l have posted
up at my office at Brucefield on the 30th day. of October,
1868, the list .of all ,persons entitled to vote in tbe said
.Municipality at Municipal Electiens and that such list
remains there. for inspection,
And I hereby call upon all voters to take immediate
proceedings to, have any omissions or errors corrected,
" according to law, the last day of appeal being the 14th day
of November, 1969.
Dated this 30th day of October, 1969.
MEt...GRAHAm
Clerk of the Township of Stanley
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