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Badminton
Champion
Bev (Sturgis, right, brought
WOSSA Senior —..................
minton singles
to -SiHDHS for
Saturday when he defeated
contenders from ,eight other
schools in the London tourna
ment. ’ The grade 12 student,
who also stars on -the high
school basketball team, was
-runner-u'jy last year. Above,
the champ shows, a stroke to
Marion -Creery and Judy Ross,
who won the “B" -girls doubles
consolation prize at the same
tourney. Others who competed
from iSouth Huron were Jane
-Farrow, Carol Fletcher, Bill
Lavender, Cecil Henderson and
Bob Clark; The tournament
was held in Thames Hall.
“B” Iboys bad-
championsliip
the first time
THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 19, 1954
Letter To The Editor
4-H Clubs Take Soil Tests,
For CornOffer7 $50 Award
'South Huron 4-H -clubs began ^■H^^their activities this week when
they held the first of their
series of monthly 'meetings.
Feature of -this year’s program
in field crop cl-uibs -is soil testing.
All -members- will submit soil
samipjes -at -the May meeting for
analysis.
z A
Announce Award
Highlight of the Exeter 4-H
Grain (Corn Club meeting was the
announcement that thq member
who/gets the best yield over 125
bushels to - the acre will receive
a $50 ,prize. The award is spon
sored by the cl-uib leaders.
Seek Members
More (members are needed for
the organization of the Exeter
' Kinsmen 4->H Poultry (Club, ac
cording to Assistant Ag Rep Art
Bolton.
“Only -six -members' have en
rolled so far and we need at
least 10 to miake it worthwhile,”
he said. The club was quite suc
cessful -in its f-irst program last
f
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year and iMr. Bolton felt there
should be a numibei’ of boys and
girls interested in joining again
this year.
Members are asked to pay
cash for ;the '50 or -more .birds
they must buy for their project
but they receive a lo-an of $20.00
each frd-m Hinsmen members to
finance feeding. The members
repay Kinsmen in either cash or
birds- at the end of the year an-d
each supplies a 'bird' for a joint
banquet with Kinsmen.
Andy Dougall, R.R. 1 Hensail,
is club leader. A reorganization
■meeting .will be held in SHDHS
April 24.
Beet
time
Elect Officers
- -South Huron 4-H Su-gar
Clu-b, formed for the- first
•this year, elected officers at its
first meeting -in iSHDHS Tuesday
night.
Keith Lovell is president, Jim
E-therington vice-president, Nor
man Hyde secretary --treasurer,
Keith Coates press -reporter and
Ray Cann, assistant reporter.
Club leaders, Bill Amos, Park-
ih-ill, and John 'Cass, iSarnia, -b'olth
representatives of the Canada
and Dominion -Sugar Beet Com
pany, -instructed members on
seed -bed preparation, fertiliza
tion and soil testing.
Distribute Seed
Garry oat seed was distributed
to members of -the Exeter 4-IH
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'Why Weep For Packers?'
R.R. No. 3,
Chesley,
April 3,
Ont.
1956
The Editor, -
Exeter Times-Advocato
Exeter, Ont.
Dear -Sir:
The Exeter Times-Advocate
has a reputation .and tradition
for consistently giving space io
editorial commentary. T-o be able
to say (this
paper is to
ment.
We wo-u-ld
-in keeping
-that your issue of February -23
contained approximately a half
pa-ge -of commentary by D. I.
Hoopei* on the marketing pro
gram and philosophy of the On
tario Hog Producers’ Association.
We were wondering now, hav
ing printed tins- -material, and
having had time to think about
it, if you honestly feel that your
columnist has -done a reasonably
scientific job of setting forth the
salient facts./and in arriving at
a logical conclusion.
In his article he draws these
conclusions; (1) -the hog pro
ducer marketing agency has an
tagonized the trade, which ife
something that they m-ust not do;
(2) agreement can only be
reached 'by h-aving a round-table
chat -between producers and pro
cessors; (3) because our market
ing agency has hurt -the feelings
of the trade some of our key
personnel in the ho-g organiza
tions may have to be dismissed;
(4) the processor of meats shows
low dividends an-d in some cases
net losses; (5) the -co-op market
ing program is -selfish, weak and
vulnerable; (6) there is evidence
of favouritism in -the marketing
-agency’s allotment of hogs to
processors. As our columnist at
tempts -to give this very com
plex problem further thought,
would he care to entertain these
facts:
Kept $900 From Farmers
At a testimonial dinner given
for V. 'S. Mi-liburn, General-
Manager of t-he Ontario Federa
tion of Agriculture, last week, I
listened to -a delightfully honest.
Irish farmer from Peterborough
pay tribute to 'Mr. Milburn, and
tell of the -many
he and Milburn
within- the Whole
ers’ Association of
In talking about
■Which -farmers constantly face,
including their own- lack of ag
gressiveness ;an-d salesmanship,
he related a -l-ittle tale from real
life. It seems that a processor
was found, through government
-audit tan d-the vigilance oif the
milk association, to have shaved
illegal l’y $900 off farmers
cheques. He -was ordered by the
government to pay (it * bac-lr*>to
-the .farmers.
A -meeting
afternoon
distribute
cessor at
managed
worthy farmers out for lunch
and for something
stronger than water.
At the meeting that -afternoon,
the processor told the farmers
if -they actually cashed -the
cheques they would break the
dairy. A€ that moment, the
farmer who had been out to
•lunch with the processor jumped
up and -moved -a motion to the
.effect -that -all the farmers should
endorse their cheques and hand
•them b-ack to the -processor—in
■other words -give back their
rightful money to the .processor.
The smallest cheque was- $36.00.
The farmers endorsed their
cheques and handed them hack.
That evening, one of the
-stronger-willed women, who ask
ed her husband w-hat had hap
pened to -the -cheques, fou-nd out
•and having found out “hit the
ceiling”. -She did not stop
she had informed the
milk association, of what
happened, and eventually
other set of -cheques -were issued
an-d this time delivered -to the
farmers.’
This d-s a real life story.
of an weekly news
pay a high comply
presume that it was
with this tradition
things which
did together
Milk Produc-
Peterborou-gh.
the problems
was called one
the processor to
cheques. The pro-
noon-time on that day
to take one of the
by
the
■a ilittle
until
local
had
an-
Grain Club Tuesday night. Boys
growing registered seed will sow
three bus-hels op -two acres and
those -growing certified seed will
use two bushels on one and one-
third acres. X
Assistant Ag Rep Art Bolton
gave -recommendations pertain
ing to the seeding of plots.
Hear Corn Expert
By GORDON STRANG
M. R. McCallum-, of Pfister Hy
brids, spoke to the members of
the 4-H Grain Corn Club -at their
first meeting Tuesday night.
He particularly mentioned pre
paration of the soil, planting and
cultivation afterwards.
Mr. Andrew iD-ixOn, on behalf
of the leaders, announced a prize
of $50 for -the grower who has
the highest yield over
bushels per acre.
President Hugh Rundle
-ducted the meeting, which
adjourned by -Robert Down
•Torn Triebner.
125
con-
w-as
and
Judge Dairy Cows
“The ability to know h-oW to
judge is of great importance, not
only on competitions but in cull
ing your own herd and in selec
tion of aw stock,” said Jim
fctliering-ton, as he explained the
nomenclature of the paints of the
dairy cow to members of the Ex
eter 4-4-1 Dairy Calf Club.
Jim Etherin gton and Marilyn
Marshall explained the -dairy cow
score card. Afterwards the club
members judged a class of two-
year-old Holstein heifers.
The meeting was held Monday,
April 16, -at -the farm of Ross
Marshall, Kirk-ton.
.Simple, honest and indisputable,
and happening in one of our
very progressive Ontario com
munities.
The question here is, should
these farmers have been apolo
getic to the processor because
they had dared antagonize him?
Obviously there is only one
answer. Also, should these farm
ers not have been much more
aggressive?
Suggests Interview
May I recommend to your
commentator that before he re
commend to Ontario farmers
that they dare not hurt the
feelings of -the trade, that he
interview the co-ordinating board
of -the Ontario Milk. Producers,
and take notes on the many
■histories of incidents which in
one way or another add up to
something like the little story
-told by the Irish farmer at Mr.
Millburn’s testimonial dinner.
Then I’d suggest that your
columnist arrange for an inter
view with the Peach Growers’
Association of Ontario and 'talk
to Jack Brod rick -about the de
pressing history of how Ontario
■peaches used to he -sold on a
“consignment -basis",
story,
which tells of the odious and
■tragic practices -of the trade and
where the farmer was regarded
as only incidental. In such an
interview he need only ask for the facts and judge for himself.
Investigate Publicity
After his interview with the
■peach growers, he might "drop
over -and have a’long chat with
the Ontario Rog Producers’
Marketing Board. If he wants
straight facts, names, dates, and
so forth which indicate that .the
farmer by his sheer indifference
to his marketing program has
been the victim of primitive and
bare-faced exploitation by -a great
variety of groups and individuals
—if he wants such facts .make
sure to have a chat with the
hog organization.
To -round off his fact-finding
and “very scientific” research
jaunt, why no-t have him inter-
. view
seen
have
year
and
terests of the farmer? Mr. .Mil
burn has a wealth of experience
from which to draw facts.
Then, if he wants to see -how
the moulding of public opinion
through the press -and radio -is
being waged by those who are
not farmers, let your columnist
discuss with the O.F.A. Informa
tion Department how such an
■article as “A Lesson in Market
ing” happens to appear almost
simultaneously in the “Rural
Scene”, the Glo-be and Mail, and
on radio stations. Let him also
talk -about -the writer of this
article, the Walter Dale -Script
Service o.f Winnipeg, which has
shown little real sympathy
understanding
tions.
Does your
that - (Charles
statement to the -annual meeting
of -the Ontario -Hog Producers’
Association, quotes directly from
minutes of a -meeting (-round
table chat) which the hog as
sociation first attempted -to have
with the processors before the
marketing agency was brought
into being. Mr. McInnis says -that
finally the processors -told -the
hog -association executive if they
once again brought up the
question of negotiating for prices,
■they would refuse -to meet the
executive again. It was the pro
cessors not the producers who
refused to negotiate prices.
-Hence, the hog association de
cided to put -some teeth into -the
techniques of dealing with the
trade, and so they got an -agency.
As- for -the other points of
yo-ui’ columnist about favourit
ism, an-d about the agency being
selfish, vulnerable and wea-k—
I’m -afraid that from the -point
of view of a scientific mind -these
conclusions could only be labelled
as “hearsay”. But, I’d strongly
urge your columnist to check
■these points -also when he makes
-h-is rounds with the -above sug
gested groups.
-Concerning -the dismissal of
ho-g organization personnel, may
I remind your columnist that in
-the -first years when the hog
association attempted to negoti
ate around -a table with the pro
cessors, the processors frequent
ly inSu-lted -the hog association
executive, but on no occasion,
beoau-se' o-f this, did the -ho-g as
sociation demand that
president or secretary
the packing companies
dismissed.
Profitable Gompany
Your -columnist’s assertion
low dividends and net losses for
packers, is not -acceptable unless
backed by figures from annual
reports of
which are
columnist
dealer if
Packers -is
company.
While oil the subject of the
earnings of farmers, does it not
seem ironical that no where in
your columnist’s analysis of the
•hog -producer .-situation does he
show any concern .about the fact
that tihe Ontario farmer and h-is
family sustained -an income loss
during -the 19-51-54 period of
■37.3%. Yet he gives consider
able -space 'in ihs article in show
ing -concern for the processor.
'Someone in
Agriculture
past years ___ __
spilled -too many tears worrying
ObO-ut -the processor and spilled
■too few tears worrying about
themselves.
Since we have been so sympa
thetic and concerned about the
*
Here is -a
if there ever was one,
Mr. V. S. iMilburn, who has
how “lobbying groups"
been working year after
to influence public opinion
politicians -against the in-
or
of farm organiza-
•packer in the past, and now that
the time has come that farmers
are suffering serious drops in
their income, are the packers
rushing to our farm organiza
tions and asking them how they,
•can assist the farmer in recover
ing his economic position
he offering to pay higher
for hogs?
In thiB day and age
competition is ruthless,
the ' struggle between economic
■groups is markedly intense, if
the farmer -should evei* agree
again to he meek, overly-gener-
ous, diffident, willing to be the
underdog, and fearful of hurting
people’s feelings, then he is lost.
Not only will he suffer the scorn
of his wife and .family, but the
scorn of the trade. He has no
choice but to organize and de
velop collective strength and .to
market his products with in
telligence.
The farmer’s choice today is to
either “randomly dump" or “col
lectively deliver" h-is products,
Yours -truly,
Jim Boynton
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