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Need Careful Farm Management: Ag Rep COUTTS CHRISTMAS CARDS
Closer attention to farm busi
ness management is going to be
required of farmers who hope to
stay in business and farm at a
profit, said G. W. Alontgomery,
agricultural representative for
Huron, when he made his Novem
ber report to Huron County Coun
cil here on Tuesday.
“This year 1954 hasn’t -been
the best year for the farmers in
the county,’’ said Mr. Montgom
ery. “The cash income return, at
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the end of the year, is going to
be down considerably. Some pf
the young men Who Started farm
ing in 1953 or 1954 are going tp
lose their shirts, because they
were unlucky enough to be start
ing at a time when conditions
are not favorable.”
“I think you’re going to see,”
said Air. Montgomery, “that peo-
pie who stay in farming and make
a success in the future, are going
to have to pay a lot more atten-
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tion to farm business manage
ment.’’
One of the rules of thumb
worked put fpr testing a farm
business, said Mr. Alontgomery, is
to compare the gross income on
a farm With the capital invest
ment. The general rule seems to
be, he said, that gross income
should equal capital investment
in a period of 30 to 36 months.
If income, in less than two and a
half years, equals investment, the
farm is probably in a strong posi
tion, financially; if it takes more
than three years for gross income
to add up to investment, the farm
is probably a weak business,
From studies made by agricul-
tural economists, said Mr. Mont
gomery, it appears likely that any
farm enterprise that does not
contribute at least 20 per cent of
the farm income, should prob
ably be dropped as unprofitable.
County council members were
invited to attend the 4-H club
achievement night program, which
is to be held December 3 at Ex
eter. Thanks were extended by
Mr. Alontgomery to the county
council’s agriculture committee
which is headed by Earl Camp
bell, reeve of Hay Township.
90 Per Cent Conipelted
The 4-H farm club program in
Huron, which is supported, finan
cially by the county, has had a
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By popular demand this week
this column is reprinting a pre
vious article, “Blackstrap or
Feeding Alolasses”. Many farmers
who visit our farm are amazed
at the feeding system we use. It
is not our policy to try and ad
vertise a type of feed but rather
to state the facts as we find
them. So far the results are ex
cellent if they are not phenomen
al.
Blackstrap
“Slow as molasses in January!’’
No need for it. Buy yourself a
length of the new electric heat
ing cable and wrap it around the
barrel. After you are finished
with it, use it to thaw some water
pipes. They tell me its wonderful
and very enconomical.
With the advent of grass sil
age and hybrid corn silage more
and more dairymen have run into
the disease called Ketosis or su
gar deficiency. The first thing
the vet does when you call him
now is take a urine test. That
shows how common the disease
is. His advice if he finds a lack
of sfigar—“Feed some molasses”.
Our local feed dealer reports
that he has never sold as much
molasses as he has this year.
Not only to the dairymen, but the
beef and feeder men, too. The
feeder cattlemen are maybe us
ing more than the dairymen. The
experts tell us that molasses
equals the feed value of corn if
not used to excess. Alany farmers
have no use for the stuff—the
barrels are heavy, it’s messy, etc.
All this is true. Alolasses like any
other feed must be given some
thought.
Why not self-feed it? Will the
cattle balance their own ration?
T,he inexperienced and the timid
immediately turn thumbs down.
Can't be done. No matter, we and
many others are doing it, and
successfully. Sure, the cattle eat
a lot of it, or rather they did.
Seems the grass cattle are slight
ly low in sugar when they come
in, whether
Stockers.
How much
where up to
O.K. That’s not much when you
figure that is only one-half of
grain fed and constitutes
than 10%
which is
research
price of
the feed
and then
them both singly and together,
we must
team for
gains.
Could
too? We
lieve so, although we would sug
gest that the cows be conditioned
to it by hand feeding first. An old
cow tends to be hoggish, like a
kid with candy.
Why is molasses used as a base
of many cattle feeds? To list but
a few of its advantages:
1. It is practically 100% -di
gestible.
2. Rich in
3. A good i
B. and E.
4. Protein
sugar content
55%.
5. Contains
so vitally essential to growth of
organisms in the rumen.
All in all as far as we can
ascertain the advice given to us
by a local vet, Doc Steiner
pays to feed blackstrap,
good business.
DID YOU KNOW?
Whenever six gallons of
lciSS63 costs loss tlitill a lyusliol of
corn it pays to feed molasses as a
substitute for grain.—-The Farm.
THIS WEEK
Hockey Time '
4H, Achievement Night
Check that Feed Ration
Still time to Winterize that
Tractor—what price a freeze-up?
Slow down, acknowledge Pub*
local or western
less
of complete ration
the limit according to
results. Comparing the
corn with molasses and
value of the two feeds
comparing the results of
admit they are a good
making fast economical
a dairyman self-feed
have been led to be-
carbohydrates,
source of Vitamins
is negligible but
runs from 48 to
seven amino acids
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Crop Report
Flowing is practically finished
and oil most farms fall work is al
most completed.
A larger than average number
af feeder cattle have been brought
ihto the county this fall.
Annual meetings and banquets
ire the order of the day and at
tendance has been good.
Petitioning of cattle owners
salfhood vaccination is now
progress in three or more town-
90 per cent record of project com
petitions this year, county council
was told Tuesday by Harold
Baker, assistant agricultural rep
resentative for Huron, who is in
charge of junior extension work
in Huron for the Ontario Depart
ment of Agriculture. In the 24
clubs which were active this year,
he reported, 389 boys and girls
began club projects, and 349 of
them carried through to comple
tion by showing at an agricultural
fair.
Special educational projects un
dertaken this year, Air, Baker
noted, included a bus tour which
took 800 farm young people to
the Ontario Agricultural College
at Guelph, and another bus tour
which took 75 to the Royal Win
ter Fair.
Air. Montgomery
cil’s attention to
which exists for a
mist in Huron. The
for girls, organized
Aliss Jean Steckle, enlisted 390
girjs this year, said Mr. Montgom
ery, but no appointment has been
made since Miss Steckle’s resigna
tion in September.
"We need to have that position
filled,” said Air. Alontgomery, "if
the girls’ club work is to be kept
up to the high standard that was
attained this year.”
The junior farm club work was
commended by Warden William
Dale, reeve of Hullett. "I think
the money we spend in the junior
extension fund is some of the
best money we spend in a year,”
said the warden.
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