HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1971-12-30, Page 8Clinton8 News-Record, Thursday, December 30, 1971 fi
A took at the deer hunt
across Southern Ontario
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BY J, CARL HEMINGWAY
Happy NEW YEAR!
1971 is now just a memory, It has been quite a year to start off a
new decade. We've had the "roaring twenties, the depression thirties,
the war forties, booming fifties, and the sixties." What will the
SEVENTIES bring?
Not many of us want a repetition of first "seventy winter." It will
be a conversation piece for many a year. After a very rough
beginning the weather man reformed and gave us, in this area at
least, an exceptionally good year. Seeding proceeded smoothly in
good time. There was some fear of a poor hay crop due to the dry
spring but rains came and except that haying was a little later than
usual, the crop was quite good, Grain yields were well above average
and corn the best ever. In fact the corn crop and the weather were so
good that handling facilities couldn't keep up with deliveries and
there were some frayed nerves as farmers sat idle at the elevators
waiting to get their trucks unloaded in the bright autumn sunshine.
However the good weather held and I suppose we could have been
combining corn till almost Christmas had there been any left
standing.
' Prices haven't been encouraging for the crop but cattle have
surprised most of us in the right direction and hogs are making some
improvement. With such a big supply of feed grains in both Canada
and the U.S. it seems very likely that we will be faced with serious
surplus production of livestock products before too long. However
grain sales seem to be improving and there seems to be a good
opportunity for expansion of our export of meat products to Japan
and probably to China if we take advantage of it.
We can expect National Marketing Legislation for farm products
shortly by all reports. I have some serious doubts about its benefits
to the farmer. It will depend entirely on how much control farmers
have over its operation. I find it very difficult to believe that our
governments will encourage the export of food products to the point
that it will create sufficient scarcity to increase prices to the farmers
that will give him parity of income such as we had in 1951. It seems
hard for me to understand why Government has this attitude since I
think it is generally agreed that 1950-51-52 were the most
prosperous years for the people of Canada. Certainly when farmers
are prosperous money really gets on the move.
In recent years we have had pitiful wars but there seem to be
powers developing that are able to limit these wars to comparatively
small areas which leads me to hope that wars may one day be
eliminated.
Could it just be possible that we could carry the "Christmas"
spirit forward into 1972 with enough force that the "SEVENTIES"
will become known as the beginning of the era of "Peace on earth,
Goodwill toward MEN.
All in a Day's Work
Dotting the day-to-day work records of Ontario Hydro's
eleven helicopter pilots are unusual incidents from
being shot at by hunters to helping combat forest fires.
Choppers have assisted in search-and-rescue operations
for downed military and civilian planes, and on.occasion
have rescued injured or lost hunters. Motorists stranded
with burning cars have profited from fire extinguishers
carried as standard safety equipment.
Hydro, with the first helicopter fleet in the Toronto
area, played a major role in the aftermath of hurricane
Hazel. Helping police direct traffic from the air was only
one involvement, Toronto's airhorn traffic watch is an
offshoot.
The thirteen-helicopter fleet saves Hydro over a million
dollars a year on line patrol alone. Whirlybirds work on
transmission line construction, surveying, ice flow studies,
transport of equipment — and new uses are constantly
being found.
Flight over the province isn't indiscriminate. Hydro
pilots have turkey farms marked on their maps. The birds
will stampede at the sound of a helicopter and in the crush
damage or death can result. Mink ranches are avoided
in spring when upset mothers will kill their young.
Penitentiaries and missile installations are on restricted
lists hut nudist camps are left to the pilots' discretion.
Ontario Hvdro Photo.
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AS PARENTS OF 1972is
FIRST ARRIVAL
Early reports of the Southern
Ontario deer hunt (Nov. 1 to
Nov. 13) which have been
coming in from department of
lands and forests district offices,
indicate that although fewer
sportsmen took part this year
success almost parallelled that of
1970. Rather favorable weather
also helped to make the hunt
more enjoyable. Deer numbers
varied greatly from area to area,
but despite the severe winter of
1970.71 the hunt was quite
good in most places.
Parry Sound Forest District
reported about 22 per cent
hunter success; slightly higher
than last year. Hunting was good
in the Haliburton region of
Lindsay Forest District but poor
in the Peterborough area. Tweed
Forest District reported a drop
in hunter success from 15.7 per
cent in 1970 to 12 per cent in
1971, as determined from
highway checking stations
operated during the first
weekend. Hunting success was
slightly better this year in
Pembroke Forest District and in
Lanark County of the
Kemptville District. Hunting
success was 10 to 15 per cent in
Grey and Bruce County of Lake
Huron Forest District. Most of
this area was not open to
hunting last year. Maple District
reported poorer hunting in the
Wood and Matchedash Township
area with only about 10 per cent
hunter success compared to
about 20 per cent last year.
Along the northern edge of
the deer range (Sudbury and
North Bay areas), deer have
declined considerably over the
last 10 years but for the last two
or three years deer hunting has
been holding its own with about
10 per cent hunter success.
All areas reported a
considerable decline in hunting
pressure from last year: This
Probably resulted from
predictions of a poor hunt as a
result of the last few years of
severe winters,
The age composition, or the
number of animals of ' various
ages, appeared to be quite
normal this year. After severe
winters, when starvation of deer
occurs, it is usually expected
that the number of ' yearlings
(deer that were fawns last
winter) will be fewer than
normal. Winter starvation hits
fawns the hardest, There also
may be fewer fawns born after a
severe winter because of the
poor physical condition of adult
does. This results in fewer fawns
and/or yearlings the next fall.
This did not appear to happen
on a large scale. This year's fawn
crop, , in fact, appeared to be
about average in most places
with yearlings making up about
30 per cent of animals taken.
The Peterborough area was the
exception, with fewer fawns and
yearlings than expected in the
harvest. There also appeared to
be a shortage of yearlings in the
immediate vicinity of Parry
Sound but not in other parts of
Parry Sound Forest District.
Weather conditions during
the hunt provided something for
everyone. Mild weather at the
start, rainy in the middle and
then, a good tracking snow was
present in many areas at the end
of the season.
In summary, it was a rather
enjoyable and successful hunt.
But participation appeared to be
less than last year. It is expected
that lands and forests' mail
surveys will indicate hunter
success at about the same level
or slightly higher than last year,
but the total harvest and number
of hunters will be somewhat
lower.
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