The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1956-06-28, Page 91
of the life-size
Dairy Cattle
the year 'round
CAUTION:
by J. W. Weber
Canada distribu-
packers have
along with ( the
but one or two
Secretary-treas-
of Mount
Holdout By Packers
Delays Beef Program
Failure of a few packers ' to [ proper feeding' and watering en
LIVES NEAR QUEEN'S ESTATE—Weqdy Spurgeon, the 18-year-old English girl who
is visiting Huron County this week, has an illustrious neighbour. Queen Elizabeth’s
Sandringham estate is only, foutr miles from her father’s farm. A guest of Labelle
Coward, R.R- 1 Woodham, Wendy is impressed with the large farms in Ontario'and
the hospitality of the people. But she’s not fussy about the cost of living—she’ says
it‘s much higH&f than, in England. ' T-A Photo
Wendy Spurgeon, the 18-year-
old English girl who is visiting
Huron County this week on an
exchange visit, is a part-time
neighbor of Her Majesty the
Queen.
Her home in Norfolk, England,
is only/four' miles ■ from Sand
ringham, one of the three ’coun
try estates of the queen.
“I see her quite often,” says
the young farmerette. “She at
tends almost all of the local
horse race meetings.”
Proximity of the queen’s es
tate inspires loyalty for Elizabeth
in the community surrounding
Sandringham. “No one dares to
speak a word against her,” says
Wendy.
The friendly U.K. girl arrived
•in^ Huron Tuesday1 Ho spend a
M^ek with Labelle Coward, South
■niron Junior Institute member,,
”'.R. 1 Woodham. She’s been in
Ontario since June 7 and she’s
already formed some definite im
pressions of the province.
“You’re country is very vast
compared to ours?’ she said in
an interview. “Everything here
is done 01 a much larger scale
than in England. The Average
size of, our farms is 50 acres.”
She finds Ontario farmers’ big
barns quite unusual. “In England,
we have a number of buildings
on each farm to house. our dif
ferent types;? of: livestock. We
wouldn’t* Hhiftfc-’’of putting them
all in one building for fear of
disease.” She notes that farm
buildings in England are kept
cleaner fian Canadian barns.
“I think your junior farmers
and 4-H members have an ad
vantage over us in that you re
ceive help from your agricultural
representatives and' home econ
omists in your activities. In En-
1 gland, we must plan our own
programs.”
She’s quite impressed with the
way she’s been treated in On
tario. “Everyone seems to be so
hospitable. I’m afraid we’re a
bit more formal in England.
Everywhere we’ve been, people
have'been pleased 'to- see us and
make us feel at home right
away."
Cost of living in Canada gave
the English juniors quite a start
when they first arrived. “Meals
at the Royal York Hotel in Tor
onto are double or treble oun
prices. Our cost of living is much
lower, but of course our wages are lower, too,” , 1
' Wendy, who likes, to ride
horses, lives on her father’s 150-
acre farm and helps him look
after his mixed farming opera
tion. Strong features of their pro
gram are sugar beets,r Jersey
and-beef cattle. ,
" During her stay in Ontario,,
she’ll visit, five counties and*
stay in two homes in each. She’ll
return to England around Aug
ust 15, ,
Since coming to Canada, she’s
toured the Toronto stockyards
and packers, attended 'juiiibr
farmer field day in Guelph and
visited Niagara Falls. She has
spent 10 days- in Wellington coun
ty.
Present
To Company Founder
A relief sculpture in wood of
the head of Dr. J. E. Salsbury,
founder of_Drfc Salsbury’s Labo
ratories, lava, was presented to
him last week
Ltd,, eastern7
tors.’
Presentation
portrait was the highlight of a
banquet which marked’ the end
of a four-day .short course taken
by Canadian -poultrymen at the
Iowa laboratories.- . ■ ■
S. T. Grieve, Milton, field sales
manager for J. W. Weber; Ltd.",
made the presentation on behalf
of Jack Weber, president of the
firm, who was unable to be
present.
The sculpture was fashioned
by John Rylko, Carling St., the
European artist who-moved to
Exeter several years ago.
Among the Canadians who took
the short course were Paul Dyke
man, Centralia, who is employed
by Cann’s Mill Ltd., Exeter, and
Barry Doak, Exeter, ‘
The bus trip taken by 39 Ontario and Quebec hatcherymen,
feed dealers, salesmen and nutri-
onists to Iowa was sponsored by
J. W- Weber Ltd.
The poultrymen received; prac
tical instructions on poultry, des-
eas.es and flock management
problems from professionally-
trainedj members of Dr- ■ Salsbury’S Laboratories, who are
’manufacturers' of poultry and
livestock pharmaceuticals.
The . lectures, clinical discus
sions and laboratories demon
strations dealt with such sub
jects as anatomy of poultry,
germs and parasites, methods of
disease prevention and control
and poultry service work.
Purpose of the course is to
give dealers practical instruc
tion which will be of value to-
them sin serving the poultry rais-.
ers of their communities. «
CFPL-TV - newsreel . camera
men were on hand to shoot pic
tures of the busload returning
to London last week. The film is
expected to be - shown on the
National Farm Show Thursday
night.
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Second Section *pf Hmmp
For Assembly Yard In County
The agriculture department of ’ houstyl and half in cages to
South Huron District High School ’......
is the only one in Ontario which
pays for its operating expenses
out of revenue from it? projects,
department head Andrew Dixon
told the Board Tuesday night.
Presenting his annual report,
Mr. Dixon said that for the past
four years the department has
financed itself exclusive of in
struction.
It has purchased with its own
funds equipment that cost $554.-
59; it has distributed dividends
to the students to the amount of
$917.60; and has a bank balance
Of-$675.24.
During that period the board
has received grants of approxi
mately $2,500 a year for the pro
gram. . ,“Thus by adding dividends,
equipment and bank balance,”
Mr. Dixon concluded, “we have
earned $2,147.43 in excess of our
expenses . and the board ha? re
ceived grants in excess of'$12,000
to pay for a $1,600 barn and a
$1,200 tractor and supervision
work during the summer
months.’”
The report said that during
the past six years the depart
ment has been in operation,- it
can take credit for creating a
lawn, orchard and gardens that,
create a favorable impression;
carrying bn a public relations
program that carries' the name
of the school far and wide;
carrying out a .course- of in
struction-.that is comprehensive
but practical—one- designed to.
.create a .respect for agriculture
and the scope of the knowledge
required for its successful exe
cution.
During the past term, the
school spent $1,654,78 on projects
and, earned .$1,895.90. Over $80
was' spent qn equipment and.
$217 was returned to students in
dividends.
Major projects included rais.-
ing hens, the chicken barbecue
and the registered sow program.
Students' looked after 90 Leghorn
layers which were half lOosely-
111!
compare results. Six hundred
broilers were raised for ,the chic
ken barbecue. A pedigreed sow
was purchased this spring and
has produced 11 pigs.
Other projects of the depart
ment include participation in
plowing matches, seed fair, and
fall fair competition, forcing
bulbs, beekeeping, insect collec
tions, hot bed, propagation
bench, grafting, orcharding, rod
row tost plots, vegetable garden,
registered beans.
In addition the students con
ducted a home project during
the summer.
Final findings of the hen ex
periment, in which loose and
cage housing were compared,
include the following:
A normal pen with no culling
will outproduce caged birds that
are not culled. „
Caged birds eat slightly less
and the feed cost" per day is
slightly less. , .
The feed cost of producing a
dozen eggs is slightly in favor
of the loose housed birds—26.71
cents as compared to 30.08 cents.
The liveability and health of
the confined birds is as good or
better than loose housed birds.
1 There are more cracked eggs
1 produced in caged pens.
j There are no litter problems
I in caged pens,
I There is np cannibalism or
i feather picking in caged pens.
The eggs are much cleaner in
1 caged pens.
’ The pupils all declared. a pre- jference for caring for the birds
I in the caged pens.
On Too Many Farms, The Only
Mineral The Dairy Herd Gets In
The Summer Is A Block Of Salt.
Most dairymen-recognize the importance of feeding cattle
mineral through the winter — either free-choice, or in a
balanced ratiori. ..But when the herd goes out.to pasture,
many dairymen not only stop feeding the balanced ration,
but they also’, forget’ about giving thgir cattle mineral — and
young and bld cattle alike have high mineral requirements.
WHY SUMMER FEEDING OF MINERAL?
• Because cattle en pasture have a high vitamin intake,
they can utilize 6 01* 7 times mere mineral and can
stere it for future needs. But pasture alone doesn’t
contain enough mineral to permit this storage.
• Cattle heed mineral in order to produce up to their
bred-in production.
• Mineral feeding helps keep a cow in the milking
line-up mbre lactatious, and gives you more profit
pounds of milk. ■
WHY CO-OP CATTLE MINERAL?
• Co-op Cattle Mineral has the lowest fluorine content
on the markets to help prevent Fluorsis.
• Co-d'p Cattle Mineral has the right balance of all the
minerals and trace elements necessary fbr proper
health and production.
Don’t judge a mineral by its price
tag. Co-op has one of the lowest
priced minerals on the market,
but you can’t buy a better mineral.
$4.95 Per Cwt*
Exeter
District
Phen* M7 Collect Beside CNR Statio/i
co-operate in the deduction pro
gram proposed by Ontario Beef
Producers’ Association has de
layed the St 'me, it was report
ed at the annual meeting in Tor
onto Monday.
Majority 0 f
agreed to go
promotion plan
are holding out,
urer Ted Bateman,
Brydges, reported. Those who
have been lined up do about 95
percent of the slaughtering in
the'province, ■
The deduction program, de
signed to provide funds to pro
mote use of more beef in. On
tario households, was approved
at last year’s annual meeting
and was supported again at this
year’s meeting. The executive
was given authority to institute
the program as soon as all
packers ’ ad agreed to it..
The plan is to deduct 10 cents
a head from cattle and five cents
from calves of'all cattle market
ed in Ontario Deduction is not
compulsory, nd farmers may ap
ply to the board to have their
fees returned if they don’t wish
to participate.
Concerned over the scheduling
and handling of cattle shipped
from the t west producers in*
structed’ directors to interview
railroads in an attempt to re
in edy the situation. Farmers
complained the cattle were be*
in £ hold , 1.00 long on the roads
Hay Yield Down,
Rains Aid Growth
Yield of hay has been cut as
much as 50 percent Hy the late
spring, agricultural representa
tive G. W. Mongomery said
Wednesday.
Although the crop has come
along fast in thet hot weather,
it isn’t near ' the’ quality and
farmers report it’s taking twice
as much acreage to fill silos.
A lot of hay has been cut in
the county but recent rains have
delayed operations in some
.parts.
Rainfall, however, has helped
grains, corn and beans. “Growth
of corn and spring grains has
been wonderful,” Mr. Mont
gomery said.
Too much rain has been re
ported by famers in the Grand
Bend area.
Down To
By D. I. HOOPER
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Huron Team
Wins Trophy
1 A Huron county team of three
• juniors won ■'he Shorthorn judg
ing trophy in inter-county com-
| petition at the Lambton-Middle-
I sex-Oxford Shorthorn Breeders’
field day at Watford on Saturday.
It was' the first time that a
team from Huron was entered
in the ^competition and the first
since the event vas started three
years ago that a team from On
tario has won the trophy. In
the previous competitions, teams
from the state of Michigan were
the winners.
The competition is open to
teams from Middlesex, Oxford,
Elgin, Lambton, Huron and
Michigan.
The Huron team members
were Bert Pepper,'R.R. 3 Sea
forth; Barry McQuillan, R.R. 1
Lucknow; and David Kirkland,
R.R. 3/Lucknow.
Contestants were required to
judge three classes, two of breed
ing shorthorns and a class of
market Shorthorns and to give
reasons on two of the classes.
The Huron County team in win
ning the trophy, which will be
kept permanently at the agri
cultural office, had a total score
of 669 points out of a possible
score of 750 points.,
Bert Pepper, was the high con
testant in the competition with
a score of 232 points out of a
possible total of 250 points and
was the winner of the Alec Mc
Gregor cash award of $5.00.
The Huron County Team was
entered and coached by Agricul
tural Representative, ' G. W.
Montgomery and assistant agri
cultural representative, A.
Bolton.
s.
We’re at the season when dol
lars and dollars are lost by bad
timing. We refer to the practice
of letting hay grow mature and
woody before it is harvested. It
is well known that the protein
content .of grass and legumes
will drop rapidly as they go to
seed. Both feed value and pala-
gest that sawdust can be as nut
ritious as over-ripe hay, and de
finitely straw is a comparable
feed.
Would Cows A^fee?
We wopder if most- of us know
good hay when we. sc 4 it. ”.7e
are reminded of some of- the
placings we see at seed fairs and
have Often wondered whether the
cow would agree with the judges’
decision. Sure it had eye appeal.
Nice and green, wasn’t it? But
to a cow that doesn’t, mean a
darn thing. She’s color blind!
Did you ever notice how cattle
seem to like early cut hay even
if it is badly weathered? Sure
it’s brown and bleached but it
is palatable. It is more easily
digested and is worth more than
twice as much as that green
coarse late cut hay. Not that we
believe in weathered hay —far
One Hundred At Picnic
One hundred attended the pic
nic in Seaforth Friday sponsored
by Huron County Federation of
Agriculture.
A ball game, contests and
sports events were enjoyed.
from it. But we do believe early
cut hay, weathered, is still bet
ter than green late hay and the
cattle will prove us right.
Leaf loss is a big item. Leaves
contain 90% of the feed value.
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FOR YOUR POULTRY
Sell To The
Riverside Poultry
Co., Ltd.
LONDON
route.
’ Full confidence in the future
of the beef industry was expres
sed by R. K. Rennet, chief of
livestock marketing at Canada
Department of Agriculture, who
spoke at the meeting. He said
surplus of beef would be taken
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CONVINCE YOURSELF!
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Calendar
(No charges are made for items
tn Ydur Farm Calendar, Deadline
for insertion is Tuesday hoori, of
each week.)
Tuesday/ July 3
POULTRY CONFERENCE-At
O.A.C. Guelph. Tuesday is poul
try breeder’s school; Wednesday,
egg production, broiler barbe
cue; Thursday, turkeys, broilers.
Details from agriculture office.
Tuesday, July 1/
HURON 4-H TOUR-Huron 4-H
club leaders and members will
take a train tb Niagara Falls.
Members may get tickets from
club leaders.
Thursday, July 1?
HOLSTEIN BREEDERS PIC*
NlC-Seaforth Park; Robert Mc-
Cubbin, speaker,
Friday, Joly 27
BUS TOUR-Sbuth Huron Farm
Management bus tour of KenL
Ask for a FREE trial of
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the facts on the most popular baler in the country today
—-New Holland’s brand-new Super 66!
Call OB today for a free demonitration
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EXETER 1
FARM EQUIPMENT
Poultry Club
Visits Farm
The June meeting of Exeter
4-H Kinsmen Poultry Club was
held Wednesday night, .June 20,
at the poultry farm of William
Mickle, Hensall,
The members met at the Geo. T, Mickle feed mill first where
the business part of the meeting
was conducted. Then th ey travel
led to Mickle’? new poultry barn
which houses '8,000 of his 10,000
layers. These were all Red Sus
sex hens.
Mr. Mickle explained his
method of feeding and managing
his hens. He showed the mem
bers through the building, which
featured a room for packing eggs
with the most modern equipment,
The members travelled by car
to Mickle’s broiler barns in Hen
sall. These barns housed 16,000
blotters between eight and nine
weeks old. Here the 4-Hers
toured the barns to view pens
with their mechanical feeders.
Hot idea for cool proifts—T-A‘
Want Ads.l
- Provisional committee appoint
ed by Huron County Hog Produc
ers to investigate the establish
ment of an assembly yard in
the county is calling for applica
tions for manager and offers of
suitable buildings for such a
.yard.
The call for tenders was mad*
this week by Chairman Albert
Bacon, Belgrave, and Secretary
Albert H. Warner. Bayfield.
According to the advertisement
inserted in county newspapers,
the committee is considering
Hensall, Blyth and Clinton as
sites for a yard.
The advertisement also calls
for applications for picking up
hogs at producers’ premises and
delivering them to the assembly
yards.
Applications must be in the
hands of the secretary by July
10,
Members of the committee ap
pointed by the county board in
clude W. R. Lobb, president;
Ross Love, Hensall; Edgar Rath-
well, Bayfield; and Simon Hal-
lahan, Be’grave,
The committee was appointed
after a series of three meetings
in different sections of the coun
ty at which producers heard fed
eration and co-op officials out
line the advantages of a yard.
Hog Producers Board
Gets Strong Backing
Better than 9 out of 10 Ontario
hog producers appear to favour
the marketing’ program of the
Ontario Hog Producers Market
ing Board.
This wau indicated in an inter
im report issued by Eldred Aiken,
chairman of the Ontario Hog
Producers Marketing Board. The
report was based on returns to date 'from 17 counties covering
the Ontario Hog Producers-re
cent, province-wide information
program. Of the 17 counties, six
filed complete reports. Yet to be
heard from are 24 counties.
The report covers contacts
made with 15,323 Ontario hog
producers of which 13,980 or 91.2
percent signed membership cards
in the Ontario Hog Producers
Co-operative and indicated their
support of the organization’s
marketing program.
Some 5,000 volunteer canvas
sers were involved in the hog
producers’ information program
and it was intended that every
hog producer in the province
would be contacted. The pro
gram’s main purpose was to ex-
>Iain to hog i -oducers, achieve
ments and future plans of the
Ontario Hog Producers Associa
tion, and whenever a producer
so wished it, he ’ could sign a
membership card in the Ontario
Hog Producers Co-operative.;
The six counties filing final
and completed reports and the
percentage c; hog producers sup
porting the marketing program
are as follows: Dufferin 91.2%,
Grey 92.6%, Halton 93.6%, Kent
94.3%, Waterloo 80.7% and Wel
lington 86.4%. In these six coun
ties 10,684 farmers were contact
ed and 9,661'or 90.4% favoured
the organization’s marketing
program.
Crop Report
Warm weather ' coupled with*
intermittent. showers has made
fop much ? -nproved/ growth . of
hay and pastures; corn, whit* beans, turnips and sugar beets
have also made excellent growth.
The making of grass silage is
the order of the day and a con
siderable acreage of hay ha«
also been cut in the. south end
of the County. Cut hay is quite
high in moisture and will take
a longer period for curing this
year.
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Filling Feed Bunks
Mixing Grain and sup
plements.
Filling Hog and^Poultry
Feeders.
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