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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1957-01-17, Page 11MIGHTY' .SAULT RAPIDS .SOON TO BE TAMED World famous, the Long Sault 'rapids of the St. Lawrence river at Cornwall, 'Cont., will soon disappear forever. Thousands of boulders, left, are being placed in the .channel and in a few month the mighty rapid will slow to a trickle as the water diverted and a 35-mile -pond. forms back of it; Two .engineers on the St. Lawrence project,' which will produce' 2,- 200,000 horsepower of electrical. energy, here are shown. 'taking advantage of the few days remaining for them to shoot the rapids ' in a small boat. —CPC farm e tu s Hof 901/71/ HURON land. NORTH 44/DDLESEX rrril I Says Producers'Interests 'Bartered, Bought, Scuttled' llllll 1111l MIUMMUMMUMMUMMUMMUM MUMMUMMUMMUMUM iiiii iiiii 1111111.1111, You DON'T Take Chances When YOU Use CO OP FEEDS Check Your Requirements Today 'CO.OP LAY MASH CO.OP PIG STARTER CO.OP HOG GROWER. CO-OP SOW RATION CO-OP 20% CALF STARTER...GROWER CO.OP .CALF MEAL Exeter to. COO P District Phone 2Iti Collect . 'Beside CNR Station has made a real contribution to fairs and has addecenthusiasin to fair boards. Adverse criticism of the fair oftefi turns out to be beneficial, the president stated. It puts people in a fighting mood and they put more effort into the exhibition. The speaker was introduced by Sid ' Harlow, St. Marys,. district director, and thanked by A. J. Sweitzer, . Tom Pryde, Huron MP, said Exeter fall fair has become a valuable institution in the coin- mimity and serves a useful pur- pose. He opposed the current movement towards amalgamat- ing small town fairs into a ma- jor county event. "It would be a severe loss to this community if we did not hold our annual fair. Let's keep it going, A. J, Sweitzer showed pictures taken at the local fair, Garnet Hicks was chairman for the business meeting. Arth- ur Bolton, assistant agricultural representative, reported 96 proj- ects were completed by district 4-H 'members. Four clubs are sponsored by the fair board. In outlining the program for 1957, the ass't a6 rep said a swine club may be organized if interest is sufficient. President Pooley said rain in- surance made it possible to end the year with a balange. The so- ciety has about $70. The executive, re-elected trord last year, includes Vice-Presi- dents Victor Jeffrey and William McKenzie a n d.' secretary G. Clark Fisher. Directors are Ralph Bailey, Donald Dearing, Harry Coates, Ed Brady, Douglas May, B. W. Tuckey, Mrs, C. Brintnell, Mrs. R. Kestic, Lloyd Cushman, Gar- net Hicks, Howard Pym, Wins- ton Shapton,. Dr. E. S. Steiner and A. J.. Sweitzer. • • Dr. Steiner introduced the head table. The Legion Auxiliary served the banquet. NOTICE TO Hog Producer's A meeting of Hog Producers of McGillivray and Stepheh townships • will be held in CORBETT SCHOOL Mon. Jan. 28 8:30 p.m. to discuss the possibility of setting up a Hog Producers' assembly point at' Corbett Sales Barns. Sponsored by Middlesex Hog Producers' Association . The !Elimville -Forum met at the homeof Mr. and Mrs. Ro- land Williams with 15 present. The members were unanimous in the 'opinion that producers marketing organization is the answer to-parity income for agri- culture. Down To Earth By D. I. HOOPER ARRIVED ' CARLOAD OF PEAT MOSS . FOR POULTRY LITTER LARGE or MEDIUM IF A t•TOR1PAL CAN'T BE NAPPY AT EASTER. TIME, HE Ne1101-41' A5 WELL. STOP TRYING • PURINA CHICK STARTENA is a must for best results. Available in meal' or crumbles. BABY CHICK EQUIPMENT Feeders, Waterers, Heat Lamps, Brooders, Etc. 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' a, 4 41 EXETER, ONTARIO,, JANUARY m 1957 Direct To Plants SocietyFair ' apposes Trade .5,11ow Proposal Clayton Frey of Sarnia, an ex- programs -designed to promote ecutive of the Ontario Hog Pro- open competition in the sale of ducers Association, said Friday bogs." "the, Ontario hog producer's The stand of Ontario Hog best interests are being barter- Producers Association -,th a t ed and bought, scuttled and sold hogs must be directed to the With 'his own money." open , market to ensure fair prices-was. reiterated by three officials, of the association. Mr,- Frey said the ()Mario 'Charles Mclnnis, president of Hog. Producers Association is 0HpA from Toronto, claimed carrying on, . an open-inarket • corporations engaged . in the campaign designed to establish packing 'business gained control of transporting hogs to market in an underhanded method at the end of December causing 'The hog producer official was the price to go from a' high of speaking to Middlesex farmers 33 cents a pound which it had at a meeting in Ilderton, reached, in the month to about He -said., hog producers had 21 cents, been' told they' receive all of "It is shocking' that while we Cause of a price increase in December was not due to supply and demand, Mr. Mclnnis said, but, was due to the fact that the percentage or hogs going. to ing in the wage war on rats cam- the open market increased from paign. - eight to about 21?., per cent. "true competition' in the sale of Ontario hogs, but was meet- ing, stiff opposition, the consumers' dollars left after retailing, wholesaling • and pro- cessing costs.., "a por- tion of these remaining dollars are being used to subvert the efforts of the' producers in their SH Juniors Maurice LoVe;: R.R, 3, Exeter, was elected president of South Huron Junior Farmers at'the club's annual meeting at ,South Huron District High School Wed- nesday night, January 9. Guitar-playing member of the Junior Farmer instrumental guar- tete, Maurice succeeds John Pym, also of R,R. 3, Exeter. Vice - presidents are Murray Dawson, who ' won the Huron County 4-H citizenship award in 1956, and Barry Jeffrey, an active 4-H 'member and accordionist.. Recording secretary is Ray- mond Cann; Hugh Rundle is treasurer. Directors include Lorne Bal- lantyne, Tom Easton, Bill Don- ! gall, Allan Rundle and Edward Herne The club is currently participat- This was largely due, he dis- closed, to the fact 'that Grey and Bruce counties were , suc- ceeding in putting 80 per cent' of. their hogs on the open mar. ket. . Mac Grey, Komoka, is the new - Directors in c l u d e: Donald Hughes, McGillivray; Harry Ken- nedy, Biddulph; Wilbert ThOmp- son, Caradoc; Hugh Roes, East Williams; John Little, Ekfrid; J. C. Robb, Lobo; Jack Adams, Lon- don; Doug MacLean, Metcalf; Norman Fletcher, Alma; Herb Shore, 'Westminster; Emerson• Crocker, North Dorchester; Jim McQuade, West Nissouri; Jack ing directly to packing plants, isfactory to productiop cost is elf- he maintained. It is almost,im. tarred there.. Wotild, "soon be,-,a possible to get hogs ,on the open surplus:' e; price of hogs market where they will bring was raised from 23e to 26c there higher prices; ' would be a greater margin of "It is shaking when these profit; more farmers would start corporations can undermine and raising. them ; and then there get control of means of trans- would be a surplus. portation by which' producers This, group thought the best way get their hogs to market," the to secure parity income for agri- leader said. • culture was . by strengthening Mr. McInnis alleged these cor- farm organization's and raising porations were behind a scheme floor prices just a little. "Nothing whereby , some producers were has been done along this line for getting, their hogs to the market the ,past 35 years," they reported. free of cost, the corporations They will meet next week at apparently subsidizing the cost the home of •Mr, and Mrs. • Wil- of shipping. - ham Schroeder. Start. Irf Stephen Canvass for the open market campaign is under way in Stephen Township following • a meeting of hog.producers last week. Directors of the Federation:of Agriculture -are conducting , the farm-to-farm drive. Producers are being asked to sign • direc- tives requesting truckers •to ship their pigs to co-op yards. Ed Hendrick, Stephen director of the county association, said he hoped the canvass, will. be com- pleted in two wee s. Mr. Hendrick said there• were "only a few dissenting Voices" at the- producers' meeting in Credi- ton. "Most of the 80 farmers in attendance- seemed pretty much in favor of the plan," he said. Ray Hergott, provincial field, man, explained the campaign and conducted a question period. Mr., Hendrick was chairman. fAU iiiiii M Exeter Agriculture Society has opposed the proposal .of a .spring trade fair here. At their annual meeting Fri- day night, directors Voted to re- quest the Community Centres Board to refuse rental of the arena and grounds for, the trade exhibition. ' The industrial' fair has' been proposed by A. H, Wilford, Stratford 'prompter, who re- ceived the blessing of town council at a meeting in Novem- ber. He approached the centres board at the same time, ex- plaining that he planned'to or- ganize four or -five similar fairs in Western Ontario. The agricultural society,: spon- sor of. the fall fair, opposed the project on the grounds it' would detract . from. their own trade fair which they started last •year. Held the 'evening before the first day of the two-day exhibition, the society's trade fair proved financially successful and was well received' by the public. eided the three chief weakness- es in the program were not enough prize money for fruits and vegetables, too much money spent on the beauty queen fea- ture, and insufficient entertain- ment at the night Show. Over 100 farmers, merchants and fair board officials attended the annual meeting, the first to I feature a banquet. It was held in Exeter Legion Hall- President R. E, Pooley led in tributes to the late William Coates, member pf the board for mpraensiydenyte,ars and an honourary In his welcome, the mayor said attendance of merchants and farmers was evidence of the co-operation which exists be- tween urban and rural elements. Guest speaker C, E. Charlton, president of Ontario Agricultur- al Societies Association, said good rural-urban 'relationships give visitors to a fair• a favour- able impression. Lack of ,this co-operation has meant failure to many fairs. Charlton advised keeping fair prizes within the society's abil- ity to pay. Interest in 4-H clubs The opinion of the members' of Parr Line Forum meeting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon I Love was that parity prices can be improved by marketing boards being set up and maintained for ten farm products: wheat, bar- ley, corn, cheese, butter, con- centrated milk products, bacon, hogs.and eggs. Government price supports should be maintained on all these products. The Bean Boards have proved to be a sta- bilizing factor in the price of beans, Winners in progressive euchre were Mrs. Gordon Coleman, Mrs. John Soldan, Wilfred Mousseau and Gordon Coleman. The meeting next week will be at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Soldan, II4r911 Junior Farmers' cam- paign against rats has already saved county farmers $10,000, itestlepitfrom tiewr!farti warfro indicate that:a have juniors assault, The casualty estimates were released this week by Arthur Bolton, assistant agrieultural re- presentative, Who's the general in charge of junior farmer for- ces. Bolton reports over 400 pounds i of rat poison have been purchas- ed by Huron County farmers since the campaign began. Death rate is five rats per pound, Since agriculture experts estid mate each rat inflicts $20 dam- I age on the farmer, the saving already mounts to $40,009, The final attack in the two- month campaign starts t his coming week when the juniors plan to phone • every farmer in the area to urge them to join! the war. There's still a big army of the i'o'ernse. my" at large, say the jun- A recent test at O. A. C, indi-; cated the average farm feeds 67 rats and mice. With some 6,000 farm's in Huron County, enemy forces total over 400,000. With 2,080 gone, the invaders number a formidable 380,000. This farm foe is a sly infigh- ter, according to the juniors. His camouflage • is so expert, farmers' 'don't realize he's around. Most farmers don't worry when they see one or two rats around their barns or buildings. They seem to 'think they're bachelor rats who live alone and like it. But rodentologists (people who make a study of rats and how they' live) claim there are few unmarried members in the ro- dent family. 'they've found Chances are Huron 'faring are just as badly infested as those 57 "average" farms tested' by O,A.C. If so, local farmers are losing about $1,000 a year and with farm prices the way they are,, that's a lot of ;hay! •Junior farmers say ,the' loss can be eliminated easily, quickly and safely by baiting the farm with warfarin , rat kill, Farm supply dealers are ' fekturing this weapon as part of the Hun. on campaign. The juniors say it will cost farmers about $3.00 to save over $100. That's a nice profit. BeSides saving themselves money, farmers are helping the juniors to sponsor community projects when they 'join the rat campaign. A pereentage of; each purchase of rat kill is given. to juniors by loci •dealers 'in go. operation with the manufactur• er. Charge! Opposition An. old rule of the thumb says that three pounds of silage is equal in dry matter to one pound of hay. Of course, hay may 'con- tain as, much as 10 to 15 per cent These .figures. Were haSed en grass Silage bu the Sante 'tables also apply .to MP silage after ae• counting for, the grain. in it. It may be' enlightening to Many feeders who have been misled by Some O'ver-enthtialastid speaker at a fart meeting. Alt rumen type livestock requite SO much dry matter in order to evert maintain NO weight. Cows with a larger Liwitioionimitimet,iiileomotifflooliofoolit000moonoioohooludomoioymoolioniiiwii,00 capacity seem id be able t6 Make To meet 'this minimum each calf would need to eat almost 50 pounds of 'silage. They will not do it. If the silage Were 30 per Cent dry matter, each calf would have to, eat 33 pound& Even this reduced amount would be a whale Of a. feeding. Besides criticizing the idea .of a spring' exhibition,• directors president of Middlesex producers. alSo delved into the shorteom- He was elected at a directors' ings of their -own fair. They de- meeting Wednesday night. at-large. . , .. Secretary is Jack Rosser, Ailsa important' ways of: securing par- These large buyers, the pres-' ity income for agriculture?". ident said, finding their stock- Craig. ' Fairfield Farm. Forum ' piles of cheaper pork depleted ' The Fairfield Forum met •at went about building them up the. home of, Mr. and Mrs. Rus- again in this "underhanded sell, King. The concenSus of the' way." 'Too many hogs are go- members Was that if 'a price sat-. ElimVille 'Forum On, Open Market water. Assuming hay to be 90 stocker Calves Tieing wintered for per cent dry matter, then silage pasture should gain three-quar- would haVe to be 30 per cent dry ters to 11/4 daily to be economical- matter before the rule of thumb would hold, Dry matter in silage varies quite considerably depending on condition of crop when ensiled! This applies not only' to grass silage 'but also to corn as well. This year corn was harvested for silage in the Majority of cases in a very Intinature stage and as' a consequence if dry matter 'tests were run the results would be rather• disappointing. At 20 'per cent, 41/2 pounds of silage would have the Same dry Matter as one pound of hay. Some farmers who have been. feeding grass silage to stocker calves have noticed the calves eating the bedding to satisfy their need for dry feed. These calves, according to figures available, need at least 10 pounds of dry matter daily or the .equivalent of 45 pounds of grass silage, per day, Feeding Dry Matter better use of silage both grass and corn-yearling heifers and steers also have a decided advan- tage' over stocker calves. The real experts tell us that Vote farMere switch 'to .8titge Milkers for a fatter (adv,t) ly sound. Silage is a cheap feed but it must give sufficient nour- ishment to meet these require, rnents and as •far as we can see this entails feeding of hay and enough grain to maintain a good thrifty condition. So except in ex- treme-circumstances, it is im- practical to winter livestock with silage as the only roughage. This is particularly, true, they say, if your silage is on the wet side. YOU KNOW? While meat consumers think they: know the difference between top prime and low commercial grades, tests indicate they. often are mistaken, even after they tat it. ' The information came from a study of 50 'persons who were permitted to bdy rib steaks or roasts from the University of NisSOUri and.,given free choice from a display case containing all . four Meat grades, prime, choke, good and edmthaercial. All Meats sold at the same price. Atnotig. the Steak buYers, only 7.77' percent' chose prime grade, 21.5 dunce; 47.7 good and 43.1 commercial, while in buying roasts 10.7 percent, Selected prime, 26.7 choice, 30, good and 31.9 commercial, Thtee.todtths 'of those who put. chased-commetchil roasts pre- stinted them to be either prime choice, while half these select- ing prune 'roast thought they had piireltaied.' good. Say Supports, Boards Needecl‘To Get Parity Term Forums program for last They will meet at the home of Monday night was the second Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Johns next • Nethercott, West Williams; Allan Pedden • Adelaide; Calvin' Elliot; discussion on % "Parity for • Agri- Monday night. boast of freedom of enterprise that such a situation could Kenzie ' Longfield, Paul Sinibert culture." The 'particular question . Parr Line Forum arise," Mr. •McInnis said, and Tom McCallum, all directors- to be discussed is "What Does Your Forum think are the most Soil, Crop Trip To Convention Huron County Soil and Crop Improvement Association is or- ganizing a bus trip to the On- tario soil and crop convention in. Toronto on Thursday, Jan- uary 31. Feature of the convention pro- gram for Thursday 'will be W. P. Watson's address on "The Agricultural Outlook for 1957." He is livestock commissioner of Ontario. Machinery exhibits will' be on display. G. W. Montgomery is in charge of the tour. Bus will leave Exe- ter at 6.00 a.m. .11111111111111111111111111111111111M UUMMUMMH lllll MMUMMUMMUMM lllll MU ll IMMMUUMMUUMI llll 0 there are a geed many rate around before you start seeing I them. They use the following ' rule of thumb to estimate the rat pOPOlation in a barn. I 1, If you see damage (but ma rats) there are aPProairnately 20 'rats present. 2. If you see one or tWo rats at night (but none in the day. time) there are .50 rats present. 3. There are over 100 rats present by the 'time t Yeti start seeing them in the daytime, And recent tests carried out by the Q. A, C. show ratsand mice are far more common 00 Ontario farms than most people like to believe. They checked 57 farms in Waterloo and Grey counties, and found rats or ROCS on every one of them. The total population on these farms 'was estimated to be 2,300 rats and 1,500 T h e total loss amounted to about $1,000,00 ;per f