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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1956-11-22, Page 9Second Section 4-H CORN KING —-Bob Galloway, R.R. 1 Crediton, may have set a record when he won ther Ontario 4-H grain corn championship at the Royal Winter Fair last week during his first year as a1 member of a tfarm club. The 16-year-old SHDHS student is a member of the Exeter grain corn club which was just organized this year. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Galloway. —T-A Photo Farm Nets Profit New Bookkeeping Reveals New ■ methods of bookkeeping charge them a higher premium put in effect at the Huron for their life insurance. County Home are showing, said T____1 __1.| JJl A. H, Erskine, that the county are $2,620 and housing for the farm, operated in conjunction1 governor; $2,620 for the chief with the Home, is probably go-■ turnkey; $2,520 for thd other , ing to have a small profit on its . turnkeys; and $1,620 for the jail 1956 operations. The new book-1 matron. All of these include the keeping methods were ’ intended I cost-of-living bonuses voted by to separate the business of the, County Council a few. years ago, farm from the business of the in lieut of salary increases. Home, to determine’ whether the I The turnkeys reckon that work farm was being run at a profit ing a 48-hour week, 49 wteeks a or at a loss. ----- ” ' ~ ' '* The farm account was. opened . this year, Mr. Erskine noted, with an advance of $1,000. At the present time there is $490 in the account, with 30 pigs nearly leady to go to market. The report was made at .coun cil meeting Monday..,, The Home itself also appears to be operating on an economical basis, the November financial statement showed. “It would now,appear,” said Mr. Erskine, “that by the end of the year the 'Huron County Home will not cost more than, last year, al though the number of residents ^j.is about one-third, more. A balanced budget, with a tiny .WJ^hargin on the credit side at the end of 1956, was' predicted for j Huron county, Monday, .by A.! H. Erskine, county clerk-trea-j surer. Reporting on the actual amounts received and spent in the first 10 months of the year, and estimating the figures for November and December, he predicted a margin of $143.29 for income oVer outgo, for the county’s' general account. To date this year, he mm county councillors at the open ing on Monday-of the November council s session, it has been necessary to bqrrow $230,000 from the bank to meet the general expenses of the county, • other than road expenses. This loan will be paid off when the county’s main chunk of income, $364,755.50 from the county tax levy, is , received next month from the municipalities in the county. Meanwhile, he noted, bank borrowing is this year like ly, to cost" the county about $14,000 in interest payments. Next year, Mr. Erskine warned, bank interest will cost more— both because the interest rate has gone' up, and because the county will have to start borrow ing much earlier in 1957 than it did in 1956. There _ have been three in creases in the bank interest rate in the past 12* months, Mr. 'Ers kine said. A year ago the county was paying four and a quarter per cent on its bank borrowings. Since then there have been two increase^ of .a quarter of ’ one per cent,* and one increase of half of one per cent, so that the rate is now five and a quarter.. Court House Paid For , The new court house, Mr. Ers kine repprted, • has now been paid for, except for a holdback of $500, which has not yet been paid to the contractor. The total cost, with all bills in, remains within the $700,000 estimate, he said. To retire the debentures sold to finance ’the new court house, the* county has yet to pay out $188,000, spread over the* next three years. The microfilm equipment, in stalled last year in the county registry office, seems likely to pay for itself within two years, iii reduced costs, the clerk treasurer reported. The equip ment cost $4,100 to buy, but, so far this year, the operating costs of the registry office are enough lower to gain back the $4,100 within a two-year period. /XA. salary increase of 25 per ’"jOrAis being sought by .the Z^T&rnor and turnkeys St Huron county jail, Huron County Coun cil learned when the November Session of Council opened on Monday.' Sherriff Nelson Hill re ported’ that the jail staff is re newing a request, made unsuc cessfully in June, for higher salaries. • The jail staff members qre not getting enough ^recognition, in their salaries, rfot the danger inherent in their work# it was argued in the written request subniitted by the jail staff. The clement of risk entailed in the guarding of prisoners, the turn keys say* i^ recognized by in- •urance companies, which for their life insurance. Present salaries at the jail partment workers for ’.contribu tions* from the county treasury toward health insurance prem iums. A request carrying three pages of signatures Of roads workers was tabled before County Council, Monday; in it the roads department employees ask for a 50 per cent .contribu tion from the county toward the cost of Blue Cross or similar plans of health insurance. ’ This request also was referred to committee, for report-later in the week. Also on the list of requests be fore Council at the final session for 1956 is one from the board of Clinton Public Hospital for a supplementary ‘grant of $6,000 toward the cost of remodelling and rebuilding project at the hospital.aPartly because of changes in. plan suggested by provincial authorities, the board reported, the Clinton hospital is $12,000 short of meeting the bills for its 1956 construction pro gram; it is asking the county to put up half of this amount. year, they are earning ■ at • the rate of 89' cents an hour. “This does not compare favorably,” they submit, “with a laborer’s wage in this county,” v. The request was put before Council with the backing of Sheriff Hill, who said:, “I strong ly recommend an increase for all members of the jail staff.” Council Monday referred the request' to committee, for report i later tipis week, j Fringe Benefits Also up for decision by County Council at this week’s ,session is I a request from county roads de- I Rats'Cost Too Much Say Junior Farmers Rat infestations ate commonly associated with poor housekeep ing—delapidated buildings, ref use piles, litter, debris, untidi ness even slovenliness. To some | extent, good farmers hesitate to he told! admit even to, themselves that they’ve seen one or two rats around their buildings. Most feel a rat infestation is something to be ashafned of. Recently tests were carried out by the O.A.C, to see how serious the rat problem is on Ontario farms. These tests showed that rats and mice are a far more ser ious problem than most farmers like to believe. They also showed the falseness of thinking that a rat infestation is always associ ated with slovenliness. These tests were carried out on 57 farms in Waterloo and Grey counties. Before the tests, many of the farmers thought they didn’t have any ratsvat all. Most of these farmers are good managers, their barns are in good condition, free from piles* of refuse, litter and debris. No rats—or only a very few—had been seen around the buildings, and very little rat damage has been seen. It seemed unlikely that rats or mice could be problem. ir-a to, be startling. Significant in festations were found on every one of the 57 farms! Even the “cleanest” showed good numbers of rats or mice present. The total rat population on these farms was estimated, to be 2,300 rats, 1,500 mice! If these tests can be taken as representative of the whole prov ince—and many people feel they can be—it is evident that rats are a problem in almost .every farm in the province—even the best. A rat infestation is not some thing to be ashamed of, but it is something to get rid of. There’s no denying that rats are one of the filthiest, costliest of pests afflicting civilization. They Spread disease and destruction, even one of . them in the barn will cost at least $20.00 a year. It is estimated that the farmers in Grey and- Waterloo lost an average of $1,000.00 each in one year. Join the Huron County Junior Farmers Rat and Mouse Control Campaign. - a The results, of the tests proved EXETER, ONTARIO, NOVEMBER 22, 1956 !T Seven ; ' • ' ' . . - irr . ,..I I..I, I, -r.-.ur-T-i- ' . ' Hum ' . J I nrrl-rTi-T--i n- 1^7-7-.th .i; I t-n, ,., Crediton Youth Ontario Champ In 4-H Grain Corn Competition Forums Back Levy For FA Monday night was review night for farm forums. A questionnaire was sent to each forum to be filled in after a discussion on a way of financing the Ontario Fed eration of Agriculture. When con sidering financing the Ontario Federation of Agriculture the reference is to financing town ship, county, zone, provincial, national and international or ganizations as well. Elimville Farm Forum The members of. Elimville Farm Forum, meeting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Johns, were agreed that Plan I was now may mill home of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis the best. This is the plan being used, The township levy any amount up to 1/2 on rural assessment, 2/5 mill is IJsborne Township levy, and is adequate. This method spreads the cost equally over all members and is relatively easy to collect. Mr. and Mrs. Will Elf ord, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Bray and Mr. and Mrs. Allen Johns were named from this forum to attend the an nual farm forum turkey supper at Blyth on November 26. The next meeting will be held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Johns Sr, Parr Line Forum The members of Parr Line Farm Forum, meeting at the home of Mr.' and Mrs. Gordon Coleman, thought that of the four plans suggested for financing the Ontario Federation of Agriculture the levy system was the best for their, township. The levy system is a combina tion of township'levy as in Plan I, and individual membership fee enabling every farmer to be a member of the federation by pay ing an individual membership fee. This method stimulates a feeling of belonging and promotes more active participation. Following the discussion, pro gressive euchre was played, with winners, Miss Margaret Mous-' seau, Mrs. Eldon Jarrott, Jack Soldan and Stewart Blackwell. The next meeting will be held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. El don Jarrott when the topic for discussion will be “The Soil Bank Idea.” Fairfield Forum * Fairfield Farm Forum will hold its first meeting of the season at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Gor don Wilson, on Monday nightj. November 26. • r Farm News SOUTH HURON and NORTH MfDDLESE)^^JJJ Local Juniois Cop Prizes In Queen's Guineas Class South Huron members scored well in the Queen’s Guineas competition at the Royal Winter Fair last week. Eleven members of the Exeter club, which had the largest rep resentation in Huron County’s I record 36-calf entry, all placed i in the money. Two of the local ■ calves were chosen for the first groups in their breeds and eight placed in second groups. Bill Etheringtop, R.R. 1 Hen sall, showed the top Hereford ifrom Huron. His was the only white-face from the county to make the first group. The Angus steer of Tom Trieb- ner, R.R. 1 Exeter, was judged among the first section in that breed. Three Shorthorns from the Ex eter club won second group honors. They were shown by Jim Hyde, R.R, 1 Hensall; Mur ray Dawson, R.R. 1 Hensall, and Lome Ballantyne, R.R. 3 Ex eter. In the second group of Here- fords were Gerald Wallis, R.R. 1 Gr.anton, champion showman of the county; Norman Hyde, By D. I. HOOPER I Down To A Better Understanding Hog Group Starts Drive Executive of the Huron County Hog. Producers’ Association niet Tuesday night to set up a per manent committee for the of*-* ganization of the open market campaign. Bert Lobb, president of the association, will head the hew committee.. Members include Ro'SS Love, R.R. 2 Hensall; Les Fortune, Turnberry township: Elmer Harding, Howick; and Albert Bacon, West Wawanosh. Township and school section committees will be formed to Speed up the program, Mr. Lobb announced Wednesday. When the producers have completed their organization, they will meet with truckers to outline the direction plan and seek thejr co-Opera- tion to get hogs on the open market* WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT? That you can produce a pound of broiler from 1.6 lbs. of feed. Poultrymen at University of Maryland have done it—with a special high calorie ration. These broilers hit 3 lbs. in 7 weeks and 3 days. Hay Passes School Loan Hay township council, meeting earlier this month, passed the final reading of the by-law to borrow $40,000 for construction of the two-room addition to Zur ich Public School. The bylaw was passed follow-* ing receipt of approval for the Ioan from the Ontario Municipal Board. Engineer C. P. Corbett’s re port on the. Wurm rtiunicipal drain was provisionally adopted. Court of revision date will be set at a later meeting. Clerk VH. W. Brokenshire was instructed to turn over to the Hay Township Federation of Ag riculture all the material from the Department of Agriculture regarding the Brucellosis Con trol Act. Hay is one of the three townships in Huron which did not pass the bylaw when a peti tion was distributed among cat tle owners. Since then, the prov ince of Ontario .has agreed to pay for vaccination costs. Maintenance fees of $125 were paid to Dashwood, Zurich and Hensall fire departments. ” Accounts included $9,727.68 and $6,622 to the South Huron Dist rict High School for debenture and maintenance cost. Reeve V. L. Becker t presided and all councillors were' present. Next meeting will be Tuesday, December 4. More -than 100 local farmers stopped, looked and listened, when a .very enlightening film on feeding Stilbosol to beef cattle was presented to them by Cann’s Mill Limited, in the' town hall on November 19. This meeting, sponsored by the local mill in conjunction with Purina Feeds, gave some thought-provoking facts as to whether or not the majority of farmers, could improve their net returns by taking advantage. of the latest research in beef cattle production for slaughter pur poses. Hog producers have long since been convinced that proper sup plements in conjunction with the correct use of antibiotics have given much better feed conver sion. Broiler operators and tur key raisers have also taken ad vantage of scientific research to lower feed conversion factor. While Stilbosol may not be the last answer to lower the feed conversion of beef cattle, ac cording to Carf Cann, it seems to be closer to it. Scientific re search in this field seems to have been lagging, and any fded supplement that will increase gains 22.6% and cuts cost 14.4% is definitely worthy of investiga tion, he believes. Will it work for you? The an swer appears to be “Yes”. As Al. Morgan, district manager of Purina Feeds stated, “Our 'aim is to suggest a feeding program that will help a feeder to ob tain greatest efficient use of the available roughage and grains s*1iliit>iiiiiiiiiiiiiliiiiiliiiiiiiiiiiiiii...itiiiiiiiiiitllinilliiliiiliitiiiiHilHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiifiiiiiiiiinnhiiiliiir^ are R.R. 1 Hensall; and Ray Cann, R.R. 3 Exeter. In the third group was Bruce Wallis, Gran ton. Allan and Hugh Rundle, R.R, 3 Exeter, placed in the second group of Angus, Edgar Wiilert, only representa tive from the Zurich club, fin ished in the second group of Herefords. Of the 36 who entered the competition from Huron, 33 sur vived the preliminary culling. None of the- three who were eliminated came from this area, Although it was an Angus calf which won the Guineas, Short horns copped the most prizes among the Huron entries. In ad dition to Barry McQuillan’s re serve Guineas champion, six Shorthorns placed in the first group, two of them in the top six. The Guineas competition drew a record entry of 217 competi tors this year and only 21 were culled in the first round. G. W. Montgomery and A. S. Bolton, of the agricultural office, Clin ton, were in charge of the ron contingent, largest of class. Sixteen-year-old Bob Galloway, Crediton, brought a second 4-H provincial championship to this area last week when his grain corn captured the red ribbon at the Royal Winter Fair. Although the award doesn’t carry any of the glamour or re ward of the Queen’s Guineas won by Don Pullen, it’s of the same stature since it represents the best in 4-H work in Ontario. The Crediton youth’s win prov ed to the corn-famous counties of Essex, Kent and Elgin that they’re not the only areas which can produce good ears. The fact that the laurels came to Huron County in the first year that it has had 4-H corn clubs might be considered an upset. Bob is a member of the Hu- the FARMERS! - Keep Healthy Pigs! Use IRON SPRAY with Bcpd, and B12 Treats Anaemia in Pigs We Stock Penicillin and Streptomycin for Shipping Fever. at Middletan's DRUG STORE on the farm or those that__ available at reasonable cost on the open market.” That to us ,is a sound state ment. .More and more feed com panies are becoming aware that it is necessary to have avail able trained men such as John Manning, district salesman for Purina Feeds, who can point out to farmers where’ they can improve the operations to give greater net returns. Not that the farmer is not qualified to do his own thinking but it is possible to be so close to the whole thing that one becomes pennywise and . pound- foolish. Often- it takes the man from the outside looking in to point out the pitfalls. , The research figures of the feed company must have brought many of the farmers up with- a jerk. One interesting thing we heard was Stan Hicks, Central ia, offering to place the heifer calf he won at the meeting on the Stilbosol feeding plan to keep complete records of the feed costs. This should be an interesting project, and for any one who can say “I still don’t think it pays” we Suggest that you go talk to Carf Cann and he will be able, to direct you to local farmers who have fed Stil bosol successfully. We’ve never fed it but feel that if all that- wp have heard and read about Stilbosol is only half true we have been denied our rightful profits too long. It was only made available in Can ada, legally, last spring, too late for most farmers to put any effective plans into operation in the stables. Loses Fingers In Corn Picker Malcolm Dougall, Hensall dis trict farmer, who resides on High way 4, south of Hensall, was ad mitted to St. Joseph’s Hospital, London, Friday afternoon after his left hand was mangled in a corn picker. London hospital authorities re ported the accident victim liad lost all four fingers of the left hand and the thumb to the first knuckle. Mr. Dougall was assist ing Dirk Van-»Wieren on the lat ter's farm, one-half mile south, of the village when the accident occurred. The hand was jammed into the machine and when Van-Wieren and Jack Faber, a neighbour who called, could not take the ma chine apart, Jim Bengough J if Jim’s Machine Shop, of Heiria l, and his assistant, Bill Smale, were called, and released the' bolts to release the hand. Dr. J/. C, Goddard, of Hensall, took the injured man to the hospital. ................ ......_ Exe ter corn club, organized this year for the first time. His corn placed second in the local com petition at Exeter fair but his wasn’t quite ripe then. A student at SHDHS, this is the youth’s second year jn corn competition. Although not a member of a 4-H club last year, he entered ears in -the Royal Winter Fair last year and placed nineteenth in the open class. Bob still hasn’t been officially informed of his victory nor does he know how much "his prize money amounts to but there’s no doubt he’s the winner. Visit ors at the Royal spotted the first prize ribbon on his display of ears. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Gal loway, Bob is in grade 11 at ‘ SHDHS. The family lives about a mile south of Crediton. His father grows about IT acres of coi-n a year to help feed his herd of 75 Holsteins. But Bob’s prize corn won’t go to the cows—he’s feeding it to 10 pigs he bought for himself this fall. The yield from Bob’s one-acre plot amounted to 84.2 bushels, third highest in the local*club. Yield was cut by the wet sum mer. The 10 ears from Bob’s acre age which won first prize at the Royal were entered by M. R. McCallum, representative of the Pfister Seed Company which as sisted the Exeter club this year. Variety was Pfister '44. Local club leaders are Andrew Dixon, Carfrey Cann and Ken neth Herii. Hensall Sale Prices Prices at Hensall Community Sales November 15; Weanling pigs .... Chunks ........... Feeders ........... Sows ................ Holstein cows .... Durham cows .... Holstein calves Durham calves .. 435 pigs and 90 head of and calves were sold. There was a keen demand for stackers. $ 8,35'to $ 12.00 13.60 to ----- 19.60 to 60.00 to 110.00 to 120.00 to 7.50 to 19.60 to 16.35 28.00 79.50 135.00 142.00 16.00 36.00 cattle WELCOME To A Purina ■ «* s You Are Invited To Inspect the Hottest Thing in the Cattle Feeding Business E LEGION HALL, HENSALL Lunch Will Be Served -S «3 a .fine cut with a DISTINCTIVE flavour QUALITY FINE CUT HENSALL | Come and see the latest facts and figures on hormone feeding of cattle. ic Cost of Grain w;ll be 11 Vif pound ★ Up to 4 pounds Daily Gain 16 trim. 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