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ATTEND FIRST SEED PROCESSORS COURSE IN ONTARIO -Western Ontario
mem-
bers, m-
bers attendingthe first Seed Processors Course in Ontario,examine seed in the
Seed Research Laboratory at the Ontario Agricultural College, Left • to right are
Lorne Quenttner, Lucan; Allan Scott, Lucan; John Thompson, Hensall; Alex Bowman,,
_Blenheim; Mason Brown, Arkona; Don Perham, Arkona; and Bruce Roane, Wyoming
Cpridenced Milk Producers
Receive 20 -Cent Increase
Ontario producers of milk for
the condensed and evaporated
milk industry have been award-
ed an additional 20 cents per
hundred for their product.
The award, made by a nego-
tiating board appointed by the
Ontario Milk Products Board,
r%as. W=ade effective June 1.
Negotrating •`board members,
bo :received -briefs from pro-
Lucers• • and.. processors, were:
S. G. Lowry, representing the
producers; T. E. Land, appoint-
ed by the processors; and Judge
Eric W. Cross, of Woodstock.
Hear Briefs
Briefs were presented by Wil-
liam Tilden onbehalf of the On-
tario Concentrated Milk Produc-
ers' Association and Mills Marra
on behalf of the Ontario Concen-
- trated Evaporated Milk Proces-
sors. By an award of September
20 the minimum prices to be
paid' ''#or 3.-5 =milk fat content
delivered to the plant was set
at $2.90 for domestic and $2.70
for other than. domestic case.
The board suggestion that the
parties confer in an effort to
Sc&oard
Percentage of Ontario hogs
delivered to the open market:
Week Of Week Of
County May 13.17 Apr 15-18
Brant 7.1 3,4 -
Dufferin • 28.5 31.8
Durham , , 49.4 42.9
Elgin • : 7.5 1.3
Essex 28.4 23.9
Grey -Bruce " 69.4 69.2
Halton - 10.2 25.3
Hastings 2.9 1.2
Huron , 13.2 12.4
Kent 21.4 20.1
Lambton 17.4 15.7
Middlesex 26.7 21.9
Northu=mberland 2.9 .8
Ontario 31.4 33.8
Okford , ' 3.8 2:3
Peel 25.8 32,9
Perth 16.3 15.2
Peterborough 20,2 1,5
Simcoe 14.4 11,7
Victoria 87.8 83.6
Waterloo ,6.1 8.1
Welland 0..0 40.7
Wellington 9.8 12.8
York,. 31.9. 36.2
Prbv. of Ontario 22.21 23.68
Huron County
Crop Report
BY D. H. MILES
A . large percentage . of the
corn and beans has been planted
this week and there is still a
considerable acreage to be
planted.
There is the odd field of hay
that • has been cut and baled,
although hay ishardly mature
enough yet,
Swine prices continue strong
with demand for young pigs.
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reach agreement failed, with the
result that the Milk Products
Board made the award,
The producers' brief submit-
ted that the cost of , producing
100 pounds .of milk as reckoned
last September at'$3,45 was' not
disputed by the manufacturers,
according to the board state-
ment. It was contended that his
cost has risen during the past
nine months.
According to the company
brief some 371 per cent of the
total evaporated milk manufac-
tured in Canada is now manu-
factured in Ontario and, this has
declined since 1952 from 501 per
cent. "It is obvious from these
figures that Ontario does not
control the market for other
provinces and that a price es-
tablished in Ontario must pay
respect to the. marketing con-
ditions set. by production out-
side the province. At the same
time however by far the largest
single unit of production is with-
in Ontario and by far the larg-
est market," said the statement.
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Earth
By D. 1. HOOPER
Nov What?
Now that it's planted (corn,
beans, beets, etc.) what next?
Well• some chaps are fortunate
enough not to be able to grow
Weeds. We don't know any of
our acquaintances so lucky; so
we, like them, must carry out
a reasonably sound weed control
plan.
A stroke with the harrows just
to stir the surface is generally
accepted as a good idea in 'beans
and corn and if you plan to do
it twice it has been suggested
to draw a land roller at the
same time. Many farmers do
this several times while the seed
is germinating and others find
they can continue to 'use the har-
rows even after the plants are
up. They plant a little , thicker
and drive slow.
Almost every farmer uses a
tractor for cultivating row crops
today • and depending on the
type of soil and crop, different
types of attachments are piled
on to eradicate and smother the
weeds. pifferent , weeds require
special attention.
Today, with the advent of
chemical sprays and boom -type
sprayers, we have no reason to
absorb heavy losses in corn
yields due to weeds. Figures
show that a ragweed plant uses
more• than five times as much
moisture and plant food than a
stalk of corn. With this in mind
it is sound business to spend a
dollar or so per acre to hire a
competent custom operator to
control weeds that are suscept-
ible to chemicals.
Fre-emergant sprays are ex-
tolled as an excellent control of
weeds in beans, beets, etc. We
have never used them but per-
haps you might know someone
who has and is 'very well satis-
fied with the results. Their chief
disadvantages are
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any' great extent to control
weeds not susceptible to the
chemical.
Cultivation is also necessary
to control moisture and crust-
ing etc, It can also, waste mois-
ture. One report stated that cul-
tivation can lose more 'than one-
half dry
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half inch of rainfall 4
year. Guess we will just have
to use our own judgment and
choose the lesser of the two.
evils.
No matter what you plan to
use to control weeds, cultiva-
tion or chemicals, or .a well.
planned combination of . them, it
is good business to' do a good
job. In extreme conditions weeds
can lower yields more than 40%
and figured as net profit. a few
dollars - invested in weed control
can perhaps increase it as much
as 100%. You planted the crop
to make a dollar, why not get
as many dollars as possible in
your pocket.
DID YOU KNOW?
Two loads of forage cut for
silage at the same field can be
as different as Mutt and Jeff in
the feed bunk. And the difference
shows up in the milk can, says
Purdue scientists.:
They found that cows ate 14
pounds more grass silage per
day when the silage had a pre-
servative added. The comparison
was with untreated silage hand-
led the same way in the same
kind of upright silo.
The 14 pounds of additional
silage provides enough energy
for about six pounds of milk.
At this rate, it wouldn't take
long to Pay for the dab sof
sodium metabisulfite they used
-8 pounds per ton of silage
when they filled the silo.
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EXETER, ONTARIO, JUNE 13, 1957
New MP For West Middlesex
To Press Egg rketing Plan.
arm
of SOOTY .Ill/QON and N4aTi,/ M/DOL., S'E tr. r PII ,
CaII Emergency Meetin
To SOn Hog Polic
Breeders Hear
Dairy Director
Annual twilight meeting of
Huron County Holstein breeders
is scheduled for Thursday, June
13, at the farm of Peter Simp-
son, R,R. 2, Seaforth,
David Stephens, St. Marys, a
national director, . will conduct
demonstrations of type and hoof
trimming, There will also be a
judging competition.
Guest speaker will be Rev.
Dr. James Semple, of Egmond-
ville United Church,
Plan Bridge
In
Stephen
n
Stephen township is calling for
tenders for construction of a
concrete bridge on concession
19.
The span will be erected op-
posite Lyle Steeper's farm.
Drains continue to be the ma-
jor item on the township coun-
cil's agenda.
A request from Lorne Dietrich
and others for repair and exten-
sion of the Khivadrain was ac-
cepted -for report, plan and esti-
mates by James A. Howes,
0.L:S., .Listowel.
The' John F. Smith municipal
dran was provisionally add ted..
Courts•. of revision for the fifth
concession dra]n, the Siitith
drain, Pfaff drain, and Carroll
drain werh set for July 2 at 9
m
p Topping the list of hunters who
claimed fox bounties was Louis
Dietrich, who received $12 for
six kills. Others were Orval Mel -
lin and Carl Turnbull, $8.00 each;
Stuart Ellis, $4.00; Gary Eagle-
son, Lorne Dundas and David
Gaiser, $2.00.
Next meeting is set for July
2 at 7 p.m. •
A
Appoint Firm
For Defence
Hay council, one of the mun-
icipalities involved in the Hag-
meier vs. McGillivray drainage
action, appointed Bell and Laugh-
ton, Exeter, to defend the town-
ship's interests. •
The case, in which Hagmeier
is suing Ausable municipalities
upstream for damages caused by
floods, will be held in, Goderich,
July 8, before the Ontario Mun-
icippl Board.
Contract for the construction
of the Wurm Municipal Drain
was let to L. H. Turnbull and
Sons, Grand Bend, for $168.
After .receiving a letter from
Fred Regier, Charles Thiel and
Earl Thiel requesting a repair
on the Zurich drain south, coun-
cil appointed C. 0. Corbett, 0,
L.S,, Lucan, to bring in an en•
gineer's report on the drain..
Reeve V. L. Becker presided.
Next meeting will be held Tues-
day, July 2,
A number of major policy de-
cisions are expected to be }Wade
at an emergency meeting of
t
some 150 top county and pro-
vincial executives and officers
of the Ontario Hog Producers'
Association, called for June 18
in Toronto, Charles Mclnnis,
president of the association, an-
nounced this week.
"The meeting will be asked
to examine our, new regulations
under the amended Ontario
Farm Products Marketing Act,"
Mr. McInnis stated. "It will be
asked to consider the establish-
ment of additional new assem-
bly yards across Ontario; and,
most important of all, the meet-
ing will discuss ways and means
of developing a master trans-
portation and assembly plan to
assure the sale of, all hpgs on
the open -market."
"This master transportation
and assembly plan backed by
our regulations," Mr. McInnis
said, "will enable hog produc-
ers to control fully the distribu-
tion of their product with a
minimum of costs until sold."
"Although we have had a hog
marketing agency for four
years, and have gradually
gained ground until we now have
an average of 23 per cent of
Ontario hogs onthe open -market,
there is still a big job ahead of
us," Mr. McInnis said. "This is
most obvious when we consider
that the annual sale of two
million Ontario hogs earns trans-
porters $4 million, of which
amount 50 per cent in the form
of under-the-table payments per-
mits processors to fix producer -
prices."
Thomas Wins!
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AILSA CRAIG
la 157 9 102
Total, , 157 9 102
BIDDULPIC
1
2
3
4
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McGILLIVRAY
100 2 78
60 8 78
31 3 29
95 0 43
108 14 161
394 27 385
1 56 6 73
2 86 2 49
3 l 55 3 82
4 47 2 .43
5 74 4 73
6 66 1 48
7 35 0 100
Total 419 18 468
PARKHILL
1 117
2 79
3 81
4 71
Total
LUCAN
1
11 67
5 72
2 71
2 38
348 20 248
77 8 121
2 102 12 110
179 20 231
Total
Donald Taylor
iPoultry
Studies Po u y
Donald. S. Taylor, 'who is with
J. W. Weber, Ltd., Exeter, On-
tario, i Dr Salsburydistributor,
o
is among 21 students ..ttending
a four-day short course in
chicken diseases and manage-
ment. This course is being held
at Dr. Salsbury's Laboratories,
Charles City, Iowa. He will .re-
ceive a certificate at the con-
clusion of the course signifying
his satisfactory completion of
the chicken short course,
Practical instruction is being
received by Mr. Taylor and the
otherstudents on chicken dis-
eases and flock management
problems from professionally
trained staff members of Dr.
Salsbury's Laboratories, who.
are manufacturers of chicken
and livestock pharmaceutics
and vaccines.
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Fieldrnan, s
Comments
Hen Or Egg?
By J. CARL HEMINGWAY
By the time this appears in
print the election will be over
which is a good thing lest what
I have to say might be, accused
of being political and such is
certainly,not my intention,
On April 15, the Government
anounced that the floor price for
live fowl, five pounds and over,
delivered in Toronto, would be
23 cents per pound, effective
August 1 to November 30, I have
been expecting some very point-
ed re=marks from poultry pro-
ducers but as far as I know
nothing has been said, Why?
Are poultry producers so dis-
interested that they never thought
about how this government ac-
tion is affecting. them?
was talking to a poultry pro-
cessor this morning and he told
rite that there was definitely a
smaller number of fowl coming
to his plant during the past
month. Isn't it quite evident that
anyone who has a flock of hens
laying well enough to pay for
their feed can provide good
wages if he holds them for the
extra five or six cents a pound
he is going to get when he sells
the hens?
Usually prices of eggs are a
little stronger in the spring but
egg -graders tell me that the flow
of eggs is continuing very strong
with no increase in price ex-
pected. Certainly hens can be
retained profitably if you can
see 25 cents a bird more when
you sell out. Doesn't this ac-
count for the continued strong
production?
This order -in -council which
was supposed to be a benefit to
the farmer is in reality the very
opposite. This announcement pre-
vented any hope that production
might fall off thereby forcing
the price up a cent or two at
the present and it also means
that about two months extra
production will be stored. This
in turn will prevent any expecte-
ed rise in price for just that
New PC member of parliament
in West Middlesex -the .man who
upset popular Bob McCubbin-
pians tostart working for better
farm prices immediately'..
Bill. Thomas, Strathroy, told The
Times -Advocate Tuesday he's not
waiting for parliament to be
called; he's going to campaign
for an egg marketing plan right
away.
"I want to .see the president of
the poultry producers' association
immediately to see if we can't
get some action."
"The sorest point we ran into
during our campaign, be said,
"was the price of eggs, It's hit-
ting farmers hard because so
eggs of them depend on to
take care of their grocery bills."
"The woman of the house, who
usually looks after the egg money,
finds she hasn't anything left
after she has paid for the feed.
Sshe'situationnot very happy with that
"
Mr. Thomas, who moved back
to his native Middlesex from the
west in 1947, says the problem of
farm prices will be his most im-
mediate concern when he takes
his seat in. parliament. And he
has definite ideas of how the prob-
lem should be solved.
"My feeling is that subsidies
are not the answer, " he told The
T -A. "The best solution is through
the formation of marketing boards
and through the organizing of
farmers themselves,"
"It is also important," he said,
"to have a sympathetic attitude
from the government so that pro-
tection against imports can be
provided when necessary."
Mr. Thomas, who has been ac-
tive in politics since 1921, bought
500 acres of land in Metcalfe
township in 1947. He has, since
sold 300 acres and moved to
Strathroy because of illness in his
family. He has one son, one
daughter and four grandchildren.
Asked heir he upset Bob Mc-
much longer in the fall.
The net result is that the gov-
ernment is going to spend a
large sum of money tosupport
the price for old hens for the
poultry producer which money
the egg producer 'will promptly
lose due to the production of
those same old hens, If the farm-
er was ho be helped by this sup-
port price the floor should have
been effective immediately.
Once again the Government
isn't `spending money to benefit
the farmer but rather they are
spending money to subsidize
cheap food to the consumer.
Cubbin, who has always had gr
personal popularity ,among-
iariners, IV. -'Phomas said he
not defeat the candidate
rather .tile party he represented
"The voters have n o t h i as
against Bob Mccubbin," he sa-tb
"tie is .stilt a very popular ma
in Middlesex.,'
"They voted for a change
government. 'They, resented. •.t
handling of the pipeline legisl
tion insofar as closure was a
plied before debate took place,
Mr. Thomas polled a 1,200 vo
majority over McCubbin, pari=,
inentary assistant to Agricultu
Minister James G. Gardiner, NI.
Gardiner himself survived t.
PCee bya narrow margin.
McGill vra'm
and Lucan bo
gave small majorities to McCu;
bin, but Biddulph, Ailsa Cra
and Parkhill, of the northern m
nicipalities, went to Thomas, -
Mr. Thomas managed two .ca
fo
paignsidle est be
in Middlesex- d Sex W
he became a candidate. The fir
campaign' he- managed was f
James Little in 1949 and th
same James Little was M
Thomas'.campaign er
manager
1957.
The newly -elected member w
returning officer in the prow
tial election of 1951.
In the west, be was. active
the United- Farmers of Alber
movement in the 20's. In 1935
was a candidate for the Conserv:
tives in the provincial election
Alberta. and he .served as th
province's .representative on t.
national executive of the party f
two years, • -- •
Of his workers in West Midi
sex he said; "We have a wonde
ful team."
Celt Club Picks Officers
Richard Erb was elected pre
dent of the Zurich 4%II Calf Cl
at a recent meeting.
Vice-president is Edgar Wille
secretary, Mary Geiger and pre
reporter, John Erb.
HENSALL SALE PRICES
Prices at Hensall Column
Sale Thursday, June 6 were
follows: .
Weanling pigs $13.50 to .$17
Chunks 18,10 to 23
Feeders 24:50 to 30
Sows 92.00. to 111
Holstein cows .... 135.00. to 152
Durham . ciws .. 140.00 to 157
Holstein calves ,. ,12:00 to 18
Durham calves- .7.50
1.- to 30
Fat cows sold up to 14. ce
a pound There were 400 pigs a
110 head of cattle and cal
sold.
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NOTICE
CATTLE PRODUCERS
Public Hearings will be held at the following times and places
JUNE 18, EXETER HIGH SCHOOL, 8 P.M.(LOCAL TIME)
COMMUNITY HALL,TIME)
JUNE 18, FORMOSA 2 P.M. (LOCAL
Por the purpose of considering and discussing a proposal; by the Products Marketing Board. A representative of the Ontario Beef
Ontario Beef Producers' Association to levy a license fee at the rate Producers' Association be present to outline the pian.
of 10 cents per head on all cattle and 5 cents per head on calves for
each head slaughtered for the purpose of defraying the expenses of
the Association in, carrying out its objects of stimulating, increasing,
'and improving the marketing of Ontario cattle for slaughter through
advertising, education and research or other means. ' All, cattle producers are urged to attend and express their viewer
The meeting will be chaired by an officer of the Ontario Farm on the proposed plan.
Before the Parm Products Marketing Board may approve the
proposed plan by order, it must be satisfied that 60 per Bent of the
producers are in favor of the p proposal.
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ONTARIO FARM PRODUCTS MARKETING BOARD :
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