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Clinton News-Record, 1971-08-12, Page 5just wait until then," Gaunt said. The ultimate answer to the threat was supply management, he said. He said if the egg vote was held soon, while the price of eggs was still low, he had little doubt farmers would vote for a marketing board. He said he was worried that the vote would be delayed until the situation looked better and the board might be in danger of not being approved. At present, a struggle is being waged between the Ontario Federation of Agriculture which supports the plan, and the National Farmers Union which is against marketing plans. Phil Durand of Zurich spoke in the question period. He said he was glad to hear Gaunt's statements on the egg proposal Special photography helps spot virus in crops The speckled areas in this photograph taken near Hensel', Ontario, show bacterial blight in beans. Using aerial photographs like this one, scientists at the Canada Agriculture Research Station at Fredericton, N.B., were able to spot barley yellow dwarf virus disease in wheat, oat and barley crops last year. EXCITING GYM KHANA RODEO and HORSE SHOW Sunday, August 15 1:00 o'clock sharp DUNGANNON FAIR GROUND Sponsored by HURON TRAIL RIDERS SADDLE CLUB Adults $1.00 Students $0c Children under 12 free 01)ktotierfeta tour 1971 featuring AUSTRIA — GERMANY —SWITZERLAND 15 DAYS OF FUN FOR ONLY $499.— FROM TOHONTO includes Air Fare, Travel on Tour, Hoteis, Oar Rental s, etc. Sept. 16 to Sept. 30 Sept. 20 to Oct. 4 ALSO AVAILABLE: 10 DAY TOUR OF SOUTHERN IRELAND ONLY $160. (air fare not included in this price) FOR FURTHER INFORMATiON CONTACT` ILUMATE1 TIAVit 16,15116 Zurich, Oillarie. Cir..441 PHONE 236 4672 or 236 4351 lokiAtear CAR CLEARANCE 1970 DODGE 2-door hardtop, V-8, automatic power steering. Lic. K43338. $2495 1968 BELAIR CHEVROLET 9695 1966 CHEVROLET IMPALA 2-door hardtop, radio, automatic, V-8. Lic. K42660. $995 1968 FORD 1/2 TON 1/2 ton pick-up, radio, styleside, 'long box, low mileage. Lie, 209808. $1795 8, T MURPHY CHRYSLER - PLYMOUTH DEALER 64 Huron Rd. Clinton 40-9476 4-door, sedan, 6 cylinder, automatic, radio. Lic. K42064. photography worked well to spot the disease last year, further research is required to perfect this technique of surveying for the disease. "We have to be able to distinguish this virus from other diseases which may be attacking crops, we should find out what stage of plant growth is best for using the aerial photography technique and we must develop methods to distinguish disease attacks from problems of poor growth caused by poor drainage, stony ground and possibly poor nutrition," says Dr. Gill. The aerial photographs show when a plant is diseased, but not necessarily causing the disease. Various causes can be distinguished by factors such as the shape of the area in a field where there are diseased plants. These studies indicate that barley yellow dwarf virus can be of economic importance on cereals in eastern Canada. This virus is also of concern in the west, Dr. Gill reported losses estimated at 1,380,860 bushels of barley in Manitoba in 1969. The virus is spread by aphids. Microwave radiation processes food and feed For most of us microwave is a system which transmits telephone and television across the nation. But another kind of microwave radiation has far-reaching applications in the food processing industry. Dr. .1. C. Alexander, Department of Nutrition, University of Guelph, says microwave radiation as a processing tool has been of great interest to the food industry since 1964, when high power generating tubeS for continuous microWave Ovens became available. Some of the applications of the process include deStruction of bread molds, drying, blanching, and the preheating, as well as cooking of fciods. There has been a very successful applicatioti in the final drying of potato chips, says Dr. Alexander, He predicts the conventional catering technique of keeping food warm over hot plates will be replaced by instantaneous heating of precooked foods by microwave. The limited research information available indicates t hat foods prepared by microwave will be of greater nutritional value. It avoids the inevitable loss of nutrients in hot plate preparation, says Dr. Alexander. Another application Of microwave radiation is in heat processing of soybeans. The nutritive value of soybean oil meal is increased by heat processing. Research is under way to assess the nutritive value of the meal after short exposure to microwave heat, The result could be quicker and less expensive processing Methods for this type of feed material. and his approval of the National Marketing Act. He asked taunt's opinion of the .McRuer report on civil rights which questioned marketing legislation. Gaunt said the report had been caustic in its comments on marketing legislation but agreed with the evaluation of Agricultural Minister Bill Stewart who said the former judge who authored the report didn't know much about farming and was looking at the legislation from the point of view of a lawyer. He said he didn't think the remarks of the judge would be taken too seriously. "I and my party support the concept of marketing boards," Gaunt said, He was asked about milk subsidy cheques from the Canadian Dairy Commission and referred the question to Ross Whicher, M.P. from Bruce (also present at the meeting) who said he had been talking to the head of the CDC that morning and had been told the milk cheques were being mailed that day. Doug Fortune asked Mr. Gaunt if he knew how much quota was being held by the OMMB. Fortune said the OMMB held back 25 per cent of all quotas sold. Gaunt said he did not know, but would find out. A molter of principle BY J. CARL HEMINGWAY Clinton News-Record, Thursday, August 12, 1971' Gaunt calls for less rigidity in administration of milk quotas Murray Gaunt, M.P.P. for Huron-Bruce told the Huron Federation of Agriculture Thursday night that the current feud between cheese factories and the Ontario Milk Marketing Board was an example of marketing legislation being applied too rigidly. Mr. Gaunt said he was in favour of marketing plans but said the OMMB is too rigid in its dealings with small cheddar cheese factories throughout the province and is going to drive them out of business unless it takes a more flexible approach. He warned that such local cheese factories as the Pine River Cheese Factory near Ripley and the Moleworth Cheese Factory near Listowel will be doomed if the present trend continues. He said the problem was caused because milk for cheese factories was classed as Class 5 milk, the lowest priced milk and therefore, in order that the farmers would get as much money as possible for their product, the OMMB had limited the amount of milk in the class thus drastically cutting the available supply to the factories. He said the OMMB had been before the Agricultural Committee of the Legislature and under pressure had agreed to a milk price increase for milk for the cheese plants. But he warned that there would still have to be an adjustment in the supply quotas for the factories. He cited the Plum Hollow factory as an example, a factory operated by a co-operative which was making money but which may have to close because its milk quotas have been slashed by the OMMB. Gaunt said the OMMB should throw out its penalties for overproduction and raise quotas, even by 10 per cent. This, he said, would encourage farmers to produce the milk needed by the cheddar cheese industry. Gaunt said the board claimed small plants were uneconomical but he said they produce a good product and make money and shouldn't have someone in Toronto making their, decisions for them. "In the next few years, given the present circumstances there aren't going to be many cheese factories," he warned. "Two or three big producers will corner the market." Supply management, in order to work, must be flexible, he said. The rigidity of the OMMB showed the great danger of supply management. Gaunt also said he was in favour of the formation of an egg marketing board and said he hoped there would be a vote soon on the question. He said the present farm situation was depressing, especially in the egg and hog operations. He said he had spoken with one farmer who had 11,000 hens and had lost $22,000, He warned that if farmers can't weather the storm of low prices and high costs which presently affect the egg and hog industries, their expensive buildings will fall into the hands of feed and other big companies. This he said would be a disaster because no one can produce food more cheaply than the family farm. He said once big co mpanies controlled production they could set prices. "If you think there are squeals about food prices now, Using aerial photography, scientists at the Canada Agriculture Research Station at Fredericton, N.B., were able to spot barley yellow dwarf virus disease in wheat, oats and barley crops last year. The disease proved to be significant in many fields last year, says Dr. C.C. Gill, a plant pathologist at the Winnipeg Research Station. The worst outbreaks were in fields that were seeded late. Yields of dry matter were cut by as much as 28 per cent in some of these fields, and by as much as 68 per cent in the patches where the disease was most active. The virus showed up as dish-shaped areas. Healthy plants show as a deep red color on the infrared pictures and diseased patches as grey-blue areas. Some of these areas could be picked out by the pled eye. Others showed up well with the use of a stereoscopic lens system. Symptoms of the disease were first noted in patches of Herta barley and a Strain of forage oats being tested at the Fredericton Research Station. These fields were planted during the last few days of May and the disease showed up about mid-July. Dr. Gill says that although the color infrared aerial FEDERATION TO EXAMINE TELEPHONE PROBLEM The Huron Federation of Agriculture has set up a committee of members from the north end of the county to examine the problem of inadequate telephone service. The committee's formation came after complaints from members living in the Auburn, Belgrave, Blyth and Brussells areas about the lack of a large tolnfree calling area, While telephone customers in Clinton can call toll-free to four other exchanges, people in Blyth can call only two, and Vice-President Mason Bailey said some in Belgrave can not even call their neighbours just down the street veittiot6 having to pay a toll. The question was brought up by Harry J. Bakker of Londesbona who said he thought a petition might speed up implementation of toll-free service over a bigger area. EGG VOTE SUPPORTED BY FEDERATION Mason Bailey, vice-president of the Huron Federation of Agriculture said Thursday night that the Federation is officially behind the movement for a yes vote for the egg marketing board, He said a no vote would be considered a major catastrophy. He said he had heard rumors that some farmers were buying a few hens so they would be classed as producers and could have a vote. Action was being taken, he said, to ensure that only bonafide producers were allowed to vote. HEAVY HOG RUNS FORECAST Canadian hog marketings for the current quarter are estimated at 189,000 head per week, up 17 per cent from the corresponding period a year earlier, according to the latest quarterly forecast by the Canada Department of Agriculture. Western Canada output during July-September is expected to average 88,400 head per week or 32 per cent above the summer months of 1970. A more modest increase of 6 per cent is expected in Eastern Canada production. For the fourth quarter, October-December, marketings are expected to run 5 per cent above a year ago, averaging 191,700 head per week compared to 183,100 head during the fall months of 1970. In the West, a 12 per cent gain is forecast, while in the East production is expected to drop 1 per cent under the year previous. Looking further ahead, the C.D.A. forecasts that Canadian production will fall 6 per cent under a year earlier during the six months, January to June 1972. With hog runs during this period expected to average 190,100 head per week they can still be considered sizeable when compared to marketings during the last few years, In the East, marketings are expected to drop 5 per cent, with the West 6 per cent below a year earlier. RECRUITERS TO BE PAID Top salesmen of memberships in the Ontario Federation of Agriculture in Huron County will be able to make money for their sales in the future after a motion passed by the Huron Federation executive meeting held in Hensel' Thursday night. From now on any member who sells 15 memberships will receive $5 for each subsequent membership with a renewal, $3 for a membership without a renewal and $2 for a renewal. Mason Bailey, vice-president of the Huron Federation said he was worried about the slow growth of membership, even though Huron had more members than any other county in Ontario. He said it cost less for a year's membership to the Federation than to the Lion's Club and besides the Lion's got monthly dues. In many ways the federation helped its own members while service clubs helped others. This, he said, made it hard to understand why there farmers didn't join the Federation. GROWING WORLD DEMAND FOR MEAT World demand for meat will continue to outpace supplies during the next 10 years. This prediction was made in a study presented to a newly created international Study Group on Meat at a meeting in June at F.A.O. headquarters in Rome. Fifty-nine meat producing and consuming countries were represented at the meeting. The F.A.O. report said, assuming constant prices, "the rising living standards and the expected population increases would raise world demand in 1980 for the four major categories of meat by about 35 million tons, or about 40 per cent above the estimated 1970 actual comsumption levels", Most of the demand in the world is for beef and veal, 40 per cent of the total, followed by pork and poultry, each accounting for about 30 per cent. Nearly 70 per cent of the meat eaten in the developing countries comes from cattle and sheep, compared with less than 50 per cent in the developed, industrial countries and somewhat over 33 per cent of the centrally planned countries of Eastern Europe and the U.S.S.R. ECKERT DELTA (NEXT WE'VE 170 MOVED MECHANICAL SERVICE (formerly) GRILL & FINA STATION are clearing bur stock from our home at VICTORIA ST., CLINTON TO THE PENTECOSTAL CHURCH) 8 TRACK STEREO TAPES These are no inferior quality, but genitine R.C.A., Capitol and Columbia recordings, featurirg tbp recording artists Reg. $7.95 CLEARING FOR 6.50 FISHING TACKLE Rods, reels, tackle boxes, lures, lines, landing nets, etc, CAMPING SUPPLIES 20040 to 25% OFF GARDENING EQUIPMENT CLEARANCE DAVIS POWER MOWERS AS LOW AS 9.95 1,tseclourited WE SERVICE WHAT WE SELL ECKERT MERVICE ECHANICAL S 170 VICTOR IA ST./ CLINTON I heard a farm sale advertisement on the radio to-day. A herd of dairy cows and a milk quota were being offered for sale — machinery and farm were conspicious by their absence. The owner was quitting the dairy farm business. I wonder why? This man apparently is going to continue farming. Beef is fair I guess. If he goes into a cow-calf operation and finishes the calves for market, he will need a lot of capital and a good deal more land than for the dairy operation. Expenses are lower and the work not quite so demanding, but it seems to me he will have to be satisfied with a lower income. If he goes to feed-lot and finishing cattle, he can do with less land, but must be prepared for bad years when he will have little or no profit and he will have to make the most of the good years. If it should happen that he is forced to give up farming during a bad period, he could suffer serious financial loss. Hogs, I suppose, would be next. Here he has the choice of a sow-little pig operation or a feeder hog project or a combination of both. If he goes into either the first or last, he will find it just about as demanding as the dairy farm. The profits in the hog business vary considerably, but a great many feel that over the years it gives better returns than cattle, but not as high as dairying. Then we could think of broilers. Here we have a farm group that has a marketing board and quota production in Ontario which will probably spread to the other provinces and end up with some type of Canada-wide organization. In a recent conversation with a broiler grower he informed me that there is a good steady income to be made in the broiler growing business — if you can get into it. I don't know what the regulations are in this respect. Then there are eggs. Not a very bright prospect at present, but it might change. Our provincial Minister of Agriculture pointed out that the surplus production of eggs in Canada is only about 7 112 percent. It would take very little to reduce the production that much. On a T.V. show on Sunday, I suppose it was "Country Canada" though I didn't see much of the program, apparently members of the egg producers organization were discussing producer-subsidized exports. This is not a new idea. The Ontario wheat producers and white bean growers have been doing this for many years and it has proven to be of value. If quota production were introduced, it could be comparable to the broiler-grower organization. There is a real problem to be solved, if we are to follow through on this quota production idea. Let's suppose egg producers go to quota, then hog producers, beef producers, and so on. Where does it end? It must end with quota production of grain, corn, sileage and hay. Producers, if they subsidize the export of surplus, are going to make that surplus as small as possible. In the production of eggs, milk, beef, pork and chickens, farmers can curtail production quite accurately provided they are assured a constant feed supply. How do we control the weather? If we could produce just the right amount of feed-stuffs constantly, we wouldn't need much in the way of other product quotas. Isn't it about time the people of Canada made it clear to our government that they are willing to pay for an abundant supply of good food? The alternative is to face dependance on imported food periodically. Farmers can't continue to bear the burden of guaranteeing an abundance of cheap food much longer.