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Clinton News-Record, 1971-05-20, Page 14NOTICE .."."+"•01.4"i"e".0"0"*.." HURON CENTRAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY ARE HOLDING A QUEEN OF THE FAIR COMPETITION Friday evening June 4, 1971 at the Recreation Centre, Clinton Any girl wishing to enter, may do so with or without a Sponsor. Any club, businessman or OrganizatiOn may sponsor a girt. Contestants must be from 16-24 years of age. Prizes will be awarded as follows: 1st'— $60.00 or value thereof 2nd — $25.00 oevalue thereof $5.00 to the remaining contestants Any girl wishing to enter please contact the secretary: Mr. Robert Gibbings Phone 482-7502 by May 31st, 1971 19, 20, 21b FINE TOP SOIL BLACK We are stock-piling topsoil from the best marshland in Huron County for special prices while this is in progress. Contact: DON HUNKING PHONE 482.9315 Bultdozino Gravel Haulage and Excavating 19, 20, 21, 22b titt\.*1 /4 jITIS ShplIES FIREWORKS Maj. F. A. Golding (left) Base Commander CFB Clinton is shown presenting Major G. Youmatoff with his retirement gift at the annual Spring Ball held in the Officers Mess on April 30. — CF Photo BEDDING PLANTS GERANIUMS - BEGONIAS BOX PLANTS — 12 Plants Per Box Steele-Briggs GARDEN SEED and GRASS SEEDS FREE DELIVERY K. C. COOKE FLORIST Clinton Phone 482-7012 18, 19, 20b /(1 Onllthr 'NY Monsanto No waiting for concrete to, cure, over 100 sizes' in stock. ME EASY WAY 10 BUY BETTER CONCRETE STEPS E nhance the beauty and value of your home with precast steel reinforced concrete Unit Steps, Our installation crews work quickly and cleanly, Frank Kling Ltd. Phan* 521-1320 Sooforth. 4A Clinton News-Record, Thursday, May 20, 1971, ti FARM NET INCOME DOWN IN 1970 Realized net income of farmers in 1970 amounted to $1,155.5 million in 1970, about 10.4 per cent below the revised figure of $1,289.1 million for 1969, This estimate is calculated by adding together cash receipts, income in kind, and supplementary payments and deducting operating expenses and depreciation charges. The D.B.S, reports the decrease in realized net income can be attributed to both lower farm cash receipts and higher operating expenses and depreciation charges. Cash receipts\ from farming last year totalled $4,108.1 million compared to $4,182.1 million a year earlier. Operating expenses and depreciation charges rose 3.1 per cent in 1970 to a level of $3,528,0 million due to increased expenditures for various items, especially feed and the operation of farm machinery. Total net income amounted to $1,198.4 million in 1970, down 24 per cent from the revised value of $1,575.0 million for 1969. Net income is estimated by adjusting realized net income to take into account the value of changes in farm-held inventories of livestock and field crops between the beginning and end of the year. The only provinces recording gains in net income were Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick and British Columbia. CATTLE SLAUGHTER UP SLIGHTLY Choice and good beef carcasses represented 63.2 per cent of the federally inspected beef slaughter during January-April compared to 64.1 per cent for the same period a year ago, Cattle slaughter for the period increased 0.6 per cent to 858,065 head. Small increases were recorded both East and West. VOTE ON EGG MARKETING SCHEDULED FOR JUNE The Farm Products Marketing Board has announced that approval has been given under The Farm Products Marketing Act to a request by the Egg and Fowl Producers' Marketing Board for an expression of producer opinion on proposed major amendments to the Egg and Fowl Producer's Marketing Plan. The proposed amendments include authority for the egg producers' board to control and regulate marketing of eggs in the province of Ontario through marketing quotas, price setting, and the pooling of returns for over-quota eggs. All egg producers are entitled to vote but must be registered with the Egg Board to establish their eligibility. Balloting will be by mail and is expected to take place the latter part of June. The proposed amendments will be discussed with egg producers at information meetings which will be held across, the province by the Egg and Fowl Producers' Marketing Board. Details of the proposed amendments and balloting procedures will be mailed by the Farm Products Marketing Board to all registered producers prior to balloting. Lists of producers who have registered with the Egg and Fowl Producers' Marketing Board will be prepared and all producers who have not yet registered are urged to do so in order to qualify for a ballot. WOOL PRODUCTION DOWN SLIGHTLY. Canadian wool production in 1970 is estimated at 3,458,000 pounds, down slightly from a year earlier. Alberta, the largest producing province, had an output of 1.1 million pounds followed by Ontario at 962,500 pounds and Saskatchewan 513,000 pounds. The average farm price declined to 19.9 cents per pound from 22.4 cents in 1969. A deficiency payment of 17.3 cents per pound was paid on qualifying grades of wool compared with 29 cents a year earlier. The farm value of wool, including deficiency payment, is estimated at $1,079,000. Imports of wool in 1970 totalled 42.7 million pounds, down 20 per cent from 1969. In 1970, exports declined 5.7 per cent to 2.4 million pounds. Domestic disappearance of wool last year dropped to 43.8 million pounds from 54.2 million a.year earlier. DOMESTIC DISAPPEARANCE OF MEAT In the first quarter of 1971 domestic disappearance of the four red meats totalled 724.4 million pounds, up seven per cent from the corresponding period a year ago. Disappearance of pork was up 21 per cent representing 43.8 per cent of total disappearance compared to 38.6 per cent during the January—March quarter in 1971. For the first three months of 1971 beef disappearance was the same as a year ago, During March, red meat disappearance totalled 274 million pounds, up from 256 million in 1971. Most of the increase came from pork, up about 18 million pounds from last year, and beef disappearano increased nearly five million pounds, totalling 145 million during March. CUSTOM APPLICATION ANHYDROUS AMMONIA ORDER YOUR PREPLANT APPLICATION NOW Contact: ALBERT ERB RR 2, Zurich, Phone 236-4884 AGRICO Brucefield, Phone 482-7241 AGRICO FERTILIZERS BRUCEFIELD 14, 10, 18, 20 matter of principle BY J. CARL HEMINGWAY Bill C176 is in a critical stage at present and this means that the future of Agriculture is also in a critical position. Most serious of all is the division among producers and the lack of information that farmers have on this piece of legislation. When I raised the question of who was going to control this National Marketing legislation at the last meeting of the County Federation I was told that there would be a Producer Board working under a Federal Farm products marketing board just as in the case of our Provincial Marketing Board. Apparently this is not definite as yet. In the last issue of the Hog Production Magazine April 1971 James Boyton makes the following statement on page 5 section Bill C176 "the Board does support the principle of national marketing legislation but is urging the government to provide positions for producers on the agencies nominated,by producer organizations in production areas." Surely Mr. Boyton must be well informed after all these years as Secretary of Ontario Hog Producers Marketing Board and we can believe him when he indicated that this participation of Producer elected members is not provided for in the present legislation. OFA President confirms this deficiency in Bill C176 in his editorial in the May 11 issue of the Farm and Country when he states in his last sentence "and a procedure will be found for producers to say who the officers should be." In the light of this information it seems strange that we have men in our county telling us that this is to be a producer operated and controlled National Marketing Board. Now let us look at the past. When our Ontario Hog Marketing Board operated in the earlier days the price was negotiated from day to day and price fluctuations were at a minimum and transportation of hogs was also cut to a minimum because the hogs were directed to the closest market. .However the-government saw fit to insist on auction marketing which the Producer Board fought for a long time but finally, submitted. Now we have wide fluctuations in price in a matter of hours and hogs seem to be transported all over the province with the added cost deducted from the farmer in lower prices according to the distance of the plant from Toronto. Is auction selling best? If so why is it that our Community sales advertise feeder cattle for "private sale" during the week but don't sell these western feeders through their own sales yard by auction? Do National Marketing Boards really work efficiently? A few years ago when wheat wasn't so plentiful our National Wheat Board didn't even have representation to sell wheat in eastern Asia. Will a National Marketing Board prevent inter-provincial free trade? If not, why couldn't I purchase barley last summer at $15 per ton from the farmer in northern Manitoba the same as the elevators in that area were doing? Oh yes there are weed control restrictions. Why? They spray their crops in the west and I certainly have to spray all my crop here. Finally isn't the policy of government fundamentally founded on an abundant supply of cheap food for the consumer? I was more or less ostracized when I suggested this some 10 or 15 years ago at the OFA but it seems to be an accepted fact now. Has Government policy changed so that they are now bringing in National Marketing legislation to reverse this situation? Times change! And it seems to me there will have to be basic changes in our attitudes. If we are going to support Marketing Legislation and supply management in order to obtain increased real income for farmers then Canadians in general and the Federal Government in particular will have to face theirigk of food scarcity because of weather conditions. Other groups don't hesitate at shutting off our power supply, our mail deliveries, our transportation facilities which cause real hardship and no doubt hunger to at least a few people. Government didn't hesitate to risk the creation of hardship and even hunger to a degree for the unemployed in order to fight inflation, Why should food producers be set apart in their struggle to improve the lot of the poor employed? Safety Hints Dead Elm removal Always wear a safety hat. Never cut trees alone. A second operator nearby will ensure help should an emergency arise. At the same time, make sure no one is in the vicinity of falling trees. Watch out for "window Makers" — dead limbs which may break off during cutting. If the limbs appear likely to break off, use a cable and tractor to shake them off, making sure the cable is longer than the height of the tree. Fasten the cable as high as possible on the tree. Use wedges as little as possible. The shock of driving them in could cause the dangerous top limbs to break off, Watch out for partially concealed staples or fence wire if the tree is in a fencerow. Diseased elm wood has lost its flexibility and strength. Be on, guard for trees that snap off prematurely diiring cutting. Horsemen's Association's Stake Race dates announced BY BUSY BEE The popular Ontario Harness Horsemen's Association's Stake Race dates have been announced. The first two races will be run in July at Dresden and Oshawa, with the third race run in Clinton, Sunday, August 8. Of the 143 eligible horses, five are from the Clinton area: Jamico — C. Bartliff/Frank MacDonald; Timely Marge — Mr, and Mrs. Jack Holmes; Topic Time — G. R. "Punch" McEwan; Crimson Babe — Bruce and Grant Volland and Sunicrest Irene — Mr. and Mrs. George Pullman, Seaforth. Purses on these races will be $2,000. * * The Federal Government Racing Commission has instructed the "B" tracks to meet certain standards or be dropped from the circuit. At first glance their standards seem to add unneeded expenses, but in the long run the race fans will benefit by the better facilities. Fortunately, last year the Kinsmen Raceway Committee followed the layout desired by Mr. Pratt and this year the required changes are minimal. Some of the changes racing fans will see will be the electric tote board and new fencing in front of the bleacher area, The flow of traffic around the mutual building will be helped this year with the removal of the fence which went along the paved area. Raceway Chairmen, Frank Cook and Al Finch, report that Jack Morrissey of Crediton will be the presiding judge for the 22 meets. Lorne Brown will again be the associate judge. The first qualifying race will be on Sunday, May 30, at 1 p.m. Qualifying races this year will be every Sunday at 12 o'clock. Claybrook Ricci, owned by Bruce Dupee, dashed the mile at 2:12 last Saturday in Hanover. There is hope for everyone in harness racing. Denny Jewitt brought home Yankee Bay in Hanover on Saturday night for the horse's first lifetime win. The payoff was $22.00 and set up a double of $278.00. In the 10th, Frankie MacDonald won with Miss Belle Bars. Service Station Franchise Operator Gulf Oil Canada has an outstanding profit opportunity for an individual with initiative, Gulf needs a man to lease and operate a Gulf service station, Willingness to make a capital investment in your own business, plus previous experience in the service station or related business are essential. A Class "A" licensed mechanic is preferred. 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