HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1956-03-15, Page 5THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH J 5, 1956
4-H Members
Meet Tonight
Organization of the expanded
4-H program ip this area will
take place at •South Huron Dis
trict High School Thursday night,
March 1,5. -
At least eight, and possibly
nine, clubs will be formed by
farm boys and girls in South
Huron. Three of these will be
new to the area.
Glub leaders expect the enrol
ment to be highest in history.
The 4-H program throughout the
coiinty is expected to set a new
record.
iClUbs definitely slated for or
ganization are Exeter 4-H Beef
Calf ’’Club, Exeter ’4-H Dairy Calf
Clpb, Exeter 4-H Grain Club,
Exeter Kinsmen 4-H Poultry
Club, 'Efxeter 4-jH Sugar Beet
Club, 'Exeter 4-H Grain Corn
Club, Zurich 4-H Calf Club, Hen
sall 4-H White Bean Club,
If enough members are inter
ested, a swine club will be form
ed. Since Huron County is the
top hog’prQducer in the province,
officials 'are attempting to ex
pand the swine program.
The" farm youth program is
underz the direction of Agricul
tural Representative G. W. Mont
gomery and his assistant, Art
Bolton, of Clinton.
The organization meeting will
start at 8.15 'p.m.
4-H Poultry
(Canadian production of print
ing inks rose to an all-time peak
total of 2'5,73'5,071 pounds in
1953. .
Gurdon Greig, secretary-field-
man for 'Huron County Federa
tion of Agriculture, recently de
fended the democratic system o(
election of directors to the Ont
ario Hog producers Association,
in a letter to a county .newspaper.
■Mr. 'Greig’s defence was in re
ply ito a charge from a farmers’
Union supporter in the Goderich
area who claimed that 'the method
of electing officers at the Huron
county annual meeting was “un
democratic.”
Mr, Greig’s letter, which ap
peared in The Signal-iStar, read:
Mr. McInnis, president of the
Ontario Hog Producers, was right
when he said that the marketing
agency was democratically con
trolled 'by Ontario Hog Produ
cers,
It has been democratically con
trolled since its inception back in
194i5. Under the marketing
scheme the 'Province of Ontario
was divided into-zones with each
zope having one member on the
Marketing Board, The zones were
the same number of producers.
In Western Ontario, where we
have large counties and heavy
production of hogs, we find three
counties'comprise one zone while
in Southern Ontario you will find
seven or eight counties in a zone.
Mn the counties you have one
voting delegate for every so many
hogs marketed. Huron 'County,
has .varied from a low of 14 dele-
gates itp a high of 2'0' delegates,
depending on the number of ihogs
marketed during a year,
Federation Committee
Up until 'about five years ago
the Huron. County Hag Producers
was a cpmmittee of the Federa
tion, At that time I .suggested,
that as they had their own finan
ces, elected their .own county exe
cutive and hired their own secre
tary-treasurer, they should then
be a separate organization. They
affiliate with the Huron County
Federation of Agriculture at the
usual $.5 affiliation fee and no
other financial aid is received by
the Huron County Federation of
Agriculture from the Hog Pro
ducers 'Organization.
In ithe (townships where the 16
directors are selected, we have
the township hog producers di
rector either appointed or elected
at the Township Federation an
nual meeting. This has been the
Bystem used since the start of
the organization. <
The early organizational ex
pense of the hog producers in
•Huron County was met from ithe
finances of the Huron (County
Federation of Agriculture. In the
early days of the organization
they did not have funds at Prov
incial level to pay for county
delegates attending 'Provincial
Hog Producers meetings, These
expenses were paid by our county
Federation of Agriculture.
The Township Hog Producers
delegates attending Provincial
annual meetings receive some of
their expense mopey from Town
ship Federation funds.
No Concrete Results
The Farmers Union movement
has been .known ■in (the three
western Provinces of Manitoba,
Saskatchewan and Alberta and in
these prpvinces they claim to
have great strength Of member
ship. There is not a Hog Pro
ducers' -Sales Agency operating
in any of these provinces, nor
have they secured marketing 'le
gislation that would permit them
to operate one.
■If the Union wants ito prove
their support for a Producer
Marketing Board let them pro
duce some concrete results in the
provinces where they
have
ship.
To
gates
of a ... .
satisfactory to some people, 'but
let us take a close look at it.
Generally1 ithe meetings are held
at Clinton because it is a central
location in the county. It is easy
for a farmer from the Townships
of Goderich, Hullett, Stanley or
Tuckersmith to get to such a
meeting, but what about , the
farmer from Ho wick, Ashfield,
Stephen or Usborne? Some of
these farmers are over forty
miles from Clinton.
Could Pack Meeting
If all delegates were elected
at a county meeting as suggested
by the Union, one township could
pack the meeting and elect all 16
delegates. This is not fiction, as
■it ihas been done at other meet
ings.
It has been suggested that a
Hog Producers’ 'Organization be
set up in each township and have
this organization elect the town
ship delegates. Jt will work .while
the enthusiasm for organization
is on, but when prices return to
normal and money is more plenti
ful on the farm, your township
Hog Producers' (Organization will
be a dead issue.
Regarding the final quotation
in the letter about fooling the
people, I wonder just who is be-,
ing fooled. I will reply to it by
saying, “A bird in the hand Is
worth two in the bush.” You
sknow what you have in the Fed
eration of Agriculture while the
Farmers Union is still a -big ques
tion mark.
great strength of claim to
member-
16 dele-
the floor
■suggest that the
•be elected from
county meeting may sound
forty
Zurich Farmers' Union
Backs Parity Demand
A meeting of the Zurich Local
of the Ontario Farmers’ Union
was held at Zurich Township
Hall on March 7 at 2 p.m. with
about 60 farmers present.
Alvin Regier presided as chair
man. Mr, Allan Campbel'l, an O.F.U. representative from Wood-
stock, introduced the guest
speaker, iMr. Rudolph Usick, di
rector of district three and a
membei’ of the executive and
provincial board of the Manitoba
'Farmers’ Union,
Mr. Usick covered a wide range
of topics from the present grain
congestion in the west to the
reasons wihy our livestock prices
are so low.
On an invitation from the
O.F.U. he said he was happy to
accept a three-week series of
meetings. Two years ago, in
1954, he had accepted a similar
invitation from the O.F.U. and
had held 56 meetings in a six-
week series of meetings which
covered the Owen Sound to
'Peterborough area. At that time
'he stated there were only 41
locals when 'he arrived and 82
locals when he left, “When I
arrived in Ontario this time
your president, Mr. A. V, Cor
mack, from Arthur, told me you
have over 225 locals at present
■and that you were growing every
day. The optimism of the O.F.U.
officials h'as nevei’ been better.”
“Why lis the Ontario Farmers’
Union succeeding land growing in
over 225 Ontario communities?”,
Mr. Usick asked. “Because this
is a democratic, farm-family or
ganization, set up on a direct
dues-paying membership that is
willing to go out and teli the
fanners the truth as to why we
are at the bottom of the econo
mic ladder in Canada today.”
“Nowhere 'can you find any
one who will criticize the O.F.U.,
because of its democratic set-up.
iht is built on a sound foundation
with all leadership being actual
producing farmers. Keep it that
iway,” he said.
Income Down
In 1951
made a net income of $2,100
millions but in 1954 that had
dropped to $1,100 millions and
a further decline is expected
when 1955 figures are released.
This was ia 47 % drop in three
years—no other group in Canada
has lost so much so fast.
“And what is the farmer doing
when cattle prices have dropped
to less than half of what they
were in 1951, when liog prices
■are at or near the floor price,
when egg prices are at the floor
price? He is doing the only /thing
he knows best. The farmer is a
producer and when his income x
declines he works harder and fae
work®,
works harder and longer he pro
duces
which
prices which forces the farmer to
work harder and longer, causing
more surpluses and lowering
prices. How long will it go on
and where will it stop?”This is why, the speaker said,
the Farmers’. Union is advocat
ing parity prices for all because
parity means quality and is
therefore a form of economic
justice. Parity means to get us
much for the things that the
farmer sells as be has to pay
for the things 'that he has to
buy. It is a .price in fair relation
ship to cost of production.
“Yet we have one of our own
farm organizations, the Canadian
Federation of Agriculture, asking
for a range of 65 to 85% of
parity—a request that actually
means lower prices than what
the farmer is receiving today,”
Surplus In West
Mr, Usick dealt at length with
the grain surplus position in the
west where most farmers are at
no more thian a two-bushel quota
per specified grain acre and
some have been able to sell little
or no grain because of the
gested elevator system.
Western Farm Unions have
requesting cash advances
grain stored on the farm
today have won over the support
of almost every group or organ
ization in the west,
The Farm Unions were also
able to receive assistance in pay
ing the huge storage bill and
the (federal government will now
pay 'about $32 million dollars
annually until the carryover of
wheat goes below 17'8 million
bushels.
“Screenings which are given
away by the western farmer are
shipped to the east and you are
charged $40.00 a ton or more,”
he said. “The O.F.U. made a
name for themselves a little over
a year ago when the president,
Mr. Cormack, presented a brief
at the Tariff Hearing of Board
of 'Grain '.Commissioners in Win
nipeg. This was the first time an
eastern farm organization was
present and an achievement, re
sulted. The Canada Grain Act
was amended and No. 1 screen
ings must contain 35% cracked
grain now whereas it -could con
tain as little as 1 % other .grains
in it before.”
First Meeting In
He mentioned
Unions in 1951
agriculture committee
House of Commons in Ottawa
—Please turn to Page 10
longer and because he
•more, causing surpluses
are an excuse to lower
con-
The
been
for
and
Ml
THERE'S
MONEY
FOR
The purchase of fertilizer is sometime* •
headache. Because the need for it usually
comes at a time when there are a lot of
expense^ and little income.
Avoid that headache (hi? year. See your
B of M manager about a loan. Repayment
term? are easy—spited to a farmer’s require-
meats. Drop in at your nearest JBofM
branch today, or as soon as convenient;
Bank of Montreal
Exeter Branch: G E. SHAW, Manager
Centralia (Sub-Agency): Open Mop., Wed, & Fri.
Grand Bend (Sub-Agency): Open Tuesday and Thursday
Crediton Branch: RAYMOND KING, Manager
(Open Tuesday, Thursday and on Friday 4,30 - 6 p.m.)
Dashwood (Sub-Agency): Open Mon,, Wed. & Fri,
Hensall Branch; KENNETH CHRISTIAN, Manager
Lucan Branch: WESLEY PARKINSON, Manager
HY BANK* E mana£er about » loan* Repayment
(Op
WORKING WITH CANADIANS IN EVERY WALK QF LIFE SINCE W
and no wonder!
BIG NEWS IN ENGINEERING!
Exclusive Pyramid Design gives
Studebaker the lowest road-hugging
center of gravity.
21 Years
'how the Farm
met with the
of the
•Canadian fanners
BIG NEWS IN BRAKES! Safety
action brakes, husky enough’ for a
car almost twice its size!
BIG NEWS FORWARD I'It’s the new longer^
bigger look. That’s craftsmanship with a flair!
Comments About
Crediton
By MRS. J. WOODALL
-j.
EXETER
Waterloo Cattle
Breeding Association
"Where Better Bulls Are Used"
Get on the bandwagon and breed your cows
artificially to the bulls we have in service as nearly
6,000 farmers did during 1955.
During the three months since the end of our
fiscal year, November 30, 1955, 297 new members joined
our Organization. This is 13 more than during the same
period the previous year.
Since the end of our fiscal year, we have insemin
ated 1,583 more cows than in the same period of 1955
when we bred 1,165 more cows in the same period of
1954 or 418 more increase than we had during 1955.
Our volume of business is increasing faster than
it has for several years.
The cost is low and. the quality of calves you will
get is high.
Better Cattle For Better Living.
For service orz more information, phone collect to
the Waterloo Cattle Breeding Association
Clinton — Hu 2-3441
Between—7:30 and 10:00 A.M. week days.
7:30 and 9:30 A.M. Sundays and holidays.
Cows noticed in heat later should be bred the
following day.
BaaaaaaBaaaaaaaaaalBaIaBHaHaaaBBHaaBaBHaBaBaaaBaBaaaMaMaaaaMHaHaaBaMHBMBMaHMMBBaBMMaMBBI
3
fry;
X- j
J<lv.
United W.M.S. And W.A.
■Mrs. Robert Reid presided for
the devotional period at the
meeting of the Women’s Associa
tion and W.M.G. of the United
Churteh held on Wednesday in
the church rooms.
Chapter in the Study Book, on
Indian Education was ably pre
sented by Mrs. Ed Lamport, who,
•during her sojourn in Western
Canada, attended the opening of
the 'school referred to. Mrs. G.
Hill presided for W.M.'S. busi
ness.
•Mrs. R. 'Motz was in charge of
W. A. business when plans were
made foi’ catering to a turkey
dinner in the near future. A com
mittee was named to oversee re
finishing of' church basement
floors. Afternoon hostesses were
Mrs. Russell Finkbeiner, Mrs. J.
Galloway and Mrs. H. Lightfoot.
Personal Items
<Mr. and Mrs. Albert Ry all, of
London, spent the weekend at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Roy
Swiartz.
Mr. and iMrs. William Gil
martin and son,• Danny, of Lam
beth, visited 'Saturday with Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Woodall.
Little Miss iSusan Fa'hner, of
London, is visiting with her
grandparents, Mr.' and Mrs. E.
K. Fa'hner.
Mrs. A. 'M. ’Berry spent a few
days last (week with relatives in
London.
Mr. Calvin Fahner, Toronto
spent the weekend with hi;
parents and, accompanied by his
mother and Mrs. Alvin Fink-
beiner and son, visited Saturday
with Mr. and Mrs. F. (McKay in
Sarnia. Mrs. McKay is a sister of
Mrs. Finkibeiner.
Mr. William Oestricher spent
a few days last week ip Toronto.
Neighbours and friends gather
ed at the 'home of Mr. and Mrs.
Frederick Haist on Friday eve
ning 'and enjoyed a social time
with them, prior to their depart
ure for their home in London.
Gifts were presented.
The death of Mr. Garnet Rau
occurred in the County Home at
Bad Axe, Mich. A son Of the late
Mr. and (Mrs. Chris Rau, his
„eariy years were spent here.
Shifting tide of romance. Until
1952 June was the favored month
for Canadian Weddings. July took
over that year, held the place
through 1953. Last year the big
mont was September with 15,272
marriage registrations.
HELP
CRIPPLED
CHILDREN
IG NEW STUDEBAKER
*
I
Come in
BIG NEWS IN INTERIORS I Handsome new Flightstylo
control panel, with magnifying Safety-Eye Speedometer*
1^ ■* THE BIG NEW CHOICE
I (JI wJI WSr MCI IVw I IN.THE LOW PRICE FIELD!
Studebaker-Packard of Canada, Limited-WHERE PRIDE OF WORKMANSHIP STILL COMES FIRSTI
PRESIDENT CLASSIC, 210 hp., 120J4" wheelbase.
BIG NEWS AFT! Twin exhausts out
lets are among many fine car touches
you’ll find on new Studebakers.
BIG NEWS IN “HUSTLE”I Take-’
off Torque, in 4 new engines—heirs
to the Mobilgas Economy crown.
BIG NEWS IN PROTECTION!
Studebaker leads With Safe-lock door
latches, shatterproof, mirror, rein
forced frames, optional seat belts.
Motors
1