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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1957-07-04, Page 9s.� wy • Second Section EI�E'rEl , ONT;ARIO1 ilUlw'Y 4, 19S Emergent Sp rcent. PEA HARVEST—Despite rains., ' harvesting ' of peas:• fol' the local c.anning factory is proceeding close to schedule. Frank Lostell and; Ross Coates, above, operate the Company's' harvesting equipment in a 40 -acre field owned by the Ellerington 'Bros, year'sone of the _largest ever, as es t Canning -company �offictals described this "average. or.hetter" In both quality and quantity. crop, g—T-A'1'hota Ni... Sign. Of Army Worm' In Huron� Or Middlesex Although serious outbreaks have occoured in neighboring. counties, no army worm damage has been revealed in the South 3 Huron -North Middlesex areas as -late as Thursday afternoon. • Agricultural officials and farm supply firms said. they .had heard • , of firms said no farmers in the, district have complained yet. ' pf infestation. • Officials in Brant, Oxford,. El- gin and Kent however, say farms, in their arears have been hit. The army worn, a type of cutworm, can strip a field with= in a few hours, Assistant Ag Rep Art Bolton,, Huron, said army outbreaks ick , a 4, 401 could be disastrous at this par- ticular tine, There has been no sign oP them, however, he stated. Farmers in Brant county re- port seeing millions of the in- sects in fields and several owners are planning to bring in aircraft to dust fields. Last serious outbreak of army worm, the larval stage of the night flying moth, was in 1954 in Ontario and the counties of Perth and Waterloo were among the hardest hit: The greenish-brown worms, which feed in the late evening and rest during the. .day, usual- ly are found in small numbers each year and. as one agricul- • SEAWAY PROJECT CONTINUES ON SCHEDULE—Con- crete placing is now more than hall completed on the Robert H. Saunders generating station of, the St. Lawrence seaway and work is proceeding on the, installation of the embedded parts for the turbines. The Canadian power- house, seeti here in the foreground, and the United States' powerhouse, which will adjoin it, will have a total installed capacity of 1,640,000 kilowatts upon completion in 1960. The St. Lawrence Power• Development .will be placed in tural representative said, it is only once every several years normally about eight - that there is an army worisi out- break of any economic import- ance, The *tacks, whether large- or 'small, . . usuallylast several weeks after which the worms burrow underground to' form ,cocoons and develop into the night flying moth... Fair Society Fetes Couple Dr, and Mrs, E. S, Steiner were honored by Exeter Agri- culture S'oeiety Saturday night on the eve of their, departure to New York. Dr„ Steiner, a former prat" dent gf the society and a long- time director, received an award df merit from the Ontario Deo partment of Agriculture for his long sevice. in addition Dr. and Mrs Steiner were pre§ented with an °electric petcolator, Mayor R. E. Fooley, sdciety president;; Secretary -treasurer, Clark Fisher and ,Women's Di- rector Mrs.. Rufus Kestle made the presentations. '. .Speakers included - Sid Marlow, district director from St. Marys; Tom Pryde; Huron MLA, and' Harry Strang, immediate past president, Nearly 100 attended the Picnic which was held in Exeter arena.. Try Surge for faster, safer milking with increased produc- tion. ,1,I-l�,,,,,s. (adv't) Down To Earth By D. 1. HOOPER Stop Cannibalism a s don't' in- reef the over -crowding or what - vent everything. A Canadian scientist has prepared a com- pound to help hatcherymen".stop cannibalism in their chickens. As this is more or less a chicken - raising district I thought this in- formation would be of interest to many farmers, although I do not know if the anti -cannibalism com- pound is for sale" in Canada as yet, but anyone interested could easily find out from a competent veterinarian. • This •is an experiment that a Cornell University scientist began out of curiosity three years ago. and is paying off this summer. On sale 'at drug. and farm sup- ply stores this month in the U.S. is a new product that repels birds. You can. spray or paint it on chickens to stop cannibalism. And it may,provejust as valuable for keeping wild birds out of field crops. , • Its anti -cannibalism properties have already been thoroughly ' tested. In laboratory and farm tests on 200,000 birds, it has stopped picking for anywhere from two weeks to' two months. And its cost per application will be about like that of beak trim- ming. • As a sort of chemical scare- crow for keeping wild birds out of crops, the new product is still in the experimental step. No doubt about it—wild birds hate the taste of it. Penned pheasants' initial operation. iii 1958 take one peck at treated corn, Well, the. Ametic n Now A CARLOAD PRICES � !EJAMNTEED McCORMICK TWINE BUY AT 11115. SIGN A.•.Yr• Cb. INTERNATIONAL NARVESTIER • 34,x. FREE ACCOUNT BOOK. When you order your supply of McCormick Twins. Written Guarantee iievery SW Full length 1. Full sdrengtti . Full value The dealers below bought McCormick mode-htCanatfrci Twine 1iti.ci4f load quantity. at carload 'rice end ore passing the oto aavtNos 6n Co you. You get the worlds best twine at the best price—and a fibs Patin Account Book FRSE. it yell order note /tow V. L. Becker. F. WW Huxta • le *lit SONS, DASHWOODEXETER, ONTARIO Phone 60.V11 'Phone 153•W Shake their heads, wipe their beaks on the ground and walk ever caused the clicking. You treat chickens while they are on the roost• at night, being careful not to get it into • feeders'" or wat- erers, where it would stop birds from eating and drinking. The. stuff is harmless to the birds. Sprayed birds have an odor that persists, but which completely disappears when they are dressed. In small flocks, you can apply the repellent with a paint brush. One handy thing about it: Treat- ed birds glow like • a neon sign when you hold an ultraviolet light above them. This enables flock - owners to check coverage. Other uses for this repellent 'are: spraying ripening grains to stop bird 'losses; treating seed grain and seedlings; spraying rip- ening berries and: fruits (though this must await approval by the -Food and Drug Administration); spraying public buildings to keep off pigeons , and starlings. DID YOU KNOW? - Everything you can do to en- courage your strawberry bed this summer and fall will pay off in big, luscious berries next spring. For fall is when the strawberry plant sets its fruit'buds and builds up its vigor for next year's crop. As soon as possible after har- vest clip the old leaves (a lawn- mower. raised as high as it'll go to avoid, injuring crowns, is a good idea), rake them; up) and burn them. This gets rid of any disease spores that might over - winter on them. Next narrow away. each row with a hoe or garden e 8 to 10 inches The scientists don't know yet �,jde-it veo thebrow a d newly how it will work out in field tests, µcorked strips on either side a but they expect to before the good feeding of 5-10.5 fertilizer. summer is, over. Trials aimed mainly at blackbirds, crows and starlings are now under way from Florida and California, all the way up into Canada. First re- ports show what treated plots of ripening corn had 72 per cent less damage from birds than untreat- ed plots. The new repellent got its start at, Cornell University when a big 'red-headed scientist from Canada —Dr. Morley R. Kare—got into an argument over whether or not chickens can taste. He maintained they did, and to prove it, ran some experiments. He,found that. to some flavours, `they are much more sensitive than humans. They can detect—and avoid— some substances at no more than a single drop in a pail of water! He went on to test 200 flavours, 'recording how each one rated with chickens and pheasants. Among them he settled on nine so repugnant that they stop can-. nibalism even when the habit was firmly fixed; The produce just on the market is one of these nine. ' To date the experiment has been' so successful that it's un- believable. Hens with open bleed- ing wounds were painted with the repellent and turned back into the fleck. After an experimental ftlleusehlwere aonandthewounded After one agent 'treated his flock of 1,200 birds there Was a little left over, so he sprayed •a sparrow nest that he's torn down several times but which had been rebuilt each time. The spar- rows quickly threw out the sur- face material, apparently trying to get rid .of the offensive stuff. But then finding the Wood was also sprayed, they gave up in dis- gust. Dr. Karo is quick to point out that the repellent is no substitute for good 'fioc`k management, and that you can't spray it on the side of the henhouse and expect init.'. 'acle.s••It'needs to reach every bird in proper concentration, ]Flow long it will: last hadn't been. established, at least it will give you two Weeks or SO to cot. "How'd you, get along with your wife in that fight the other night?" "Aw, she carie 'crawling to me on her knees," "Yeah, What' did she say?" "Come on from under the bed, you coward,: t arm etus es essful' y 901177/ 111/QON and NORM M/pp4ESEX rr � r ll;.�•.�� Invite Huron Farm Girts. To Vie For Dairy Queen Two Concessions Vie In Contests The annual N -Jo -U -All pic- nic of the 2nd and 3r.d conces- sion of Stephen Township was held Tuesday in Riverview Park, Exeter wiith an average atten- dance, There was a candy scramble for children 6 and under. Win- ners in races for girls,' 6 to 8, Carol Shapton, Wendy Neil; boys, Wayne King; boys 8 to 10, Jim- my Neil, Wayne King; boys 10 to 12 years, Robert Shapton, Jimmy Neil; young men's race, Ray Wilson; married women, Mrs. Maillet, Mrs. Winston Shap - ton, married men, J, Maillet, Russell King, Straw hat race — Russell King's side; copper race, Reg Schroeder's side; balloon race, Asa P'enhale and Mrs. L. Rich- ard; find your partner, Mr. and Mrs. Russell King; paper race, Winston Shapton, Mrs. E. Shap - ton; couple with closest birth- day date, Cpl. and Mrs. J. Z. Mailett; oldest person present, Mrs. Makins; youngest child, Tony Mailett. Bruce Shapton was named president for 1958 and Art Ford, secretary -treasurer. • weren't invited last year, will See Tigers, Yanks� have a change to win the 1957 Ontario Dairy Queen title at the On 4-H Excursion Canadian National Exhibition this fall, Huron Cennty 411 members will see a major league ball game Arthur Bolton, Huron's ag rep, during their annual 'excursion this year on Thursday, July 18. Arthur Bolton, assistant ag rep, announced this week the mem- bers will go to Detroit where they will see the Tigers tackle the New York Yankees, current lead- ers in the American League. - Over 500 will travel by train to the motor city in the morning, They will be taken by bus to famous Greenfield Village. Club leaders will . be .-„selling trip on the tr p thi s weekend. said Wednesday county officials had been asked to pick.a pretty milkmaid to represent Huron in the contest which was started last year. A committee, composed of of- ficials of dairy commodity groups, the Federation, Junior Farinlers and Ag Rep Douglas Miles, will 0:Icicle Thursday night how the queen will be chosen. Fifty girls from Ontario were entered in last year's contest. Every evening for' the first 10 days of the exhibition, five girls compete in the main ring of the Coliseum. They represented each of the five dairy breed associa- tions and each milked a •cow of the breed she represents. Each evening winner -received a $25 prize and the queen received a sterling silver tray along with a large alp. The competition is sponsbred by the Ontario Milk Distributors As- sociation, the breed associations and the Toronto Telegram. Huron County Grad Prizes ;Crop Report j Haying, operations have been $500 Each delayesl due to heavy rains. G Winds and rain have knocked which will crake Less than a month remains for high school graduates to en- ter the $5,090 weekly newspaper contest prepare to re at Ryerson y Institute of Technology, in Tor- onto, for a • publishing career. Ten bursaries of $500 each arc being offered graduates to launch them on : a training program to prepare for a role in. the week- ly press. Contestants will write a 1,500 word essay,on The Week• ly Newspaper. Applications for the contest have been received froth . British Columbia to New- foundland. Students will register in Print- ing Management, a course de- signed to teach students the. management of the printing in- dustry. Former graduates have, become estimators, equipment salesmen, ink,, paper and supply salesmen, assistants to superin- tendents, production controllers, at starting salaries ranging from $65 to $75 a week. At the request of weekly news- paper publishers, Ryerson has agreed to enrich . this manage- ment course with such journal-, ism subjects as reporting and feature writing, cony editing and page layouts, editorial page work, press photography and news- paper law. With such prepara- tion, graduates 5hnuld fit into the future management of the weekly press. The bursary fund was estab- lished at Ryerson Institute of Technology 'by All Canada Insur- ance •Federation. Information on the contest may be obtained from this newspaper, or. E.U, Schra- �11NIInr1r111111111111111111r111111,111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111/111111111111111111111111111 1411 Fluery Bissel Farm Equipment All Kinds of Parts and Repairs NEW 26,PLATE DISC, NEW 30.PLATE DISC At GREATLY REDUCED PRICES .Pedlar Barn And Stable Equipment Installed If Necessary • Litter Carriers, Hay Carriers,•leotrie Fans for stables, Pedlar Steel Roofing all at ATTRACTIVt PRICES. 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Haying operations have been delayed by wet weather but the pasture will be more than ade- quate but they could stand high clipping to remove the hearts and prevent them from going to seed. der, director of Printing Manage- ment and Journalism, Ryerson Institute of Technology, 50 Gould Street, Toronto 2, Ontario.' 0,1111111111,11111111111111111111,111111111r11111/1111,11111111114 Fiel d man's Comments On Poultry By J. CARL HEMINGWAY A zone directors meeting of the. Poultry Producers was held in Toronto Friday, June 21, for the purpose of doing - something to improve the condition of the in- dustry. - It was generally agreed that large companies have taken the profit out of the individual pro- duction of broilers. This is the natural result since by cutting the profit the large company can have;the farmers produce for him Under contract. As soon as the private prOducers disappear the company will control pro- duction as well as feedand pro- cessing profits. As long as pro- ducers have no control over the feed they buy or the marketing of the product they will be at the mercy of the feed •mill and the processor which is usually the same organization. It seems that egg production is doomed to the same fate un- less something is done. First of all a method of financing will have to be devised. A levy could be collected by tlp • egg -grading stations but since 60% of our shell eggs are sold direct by pro- ducer to consumer it would be unfair to collect by this means. The second big problem is the threat of big corporations taking —Please Turn to Page 10 Agriculture officials, after .ex- amtning test corn dots wins pre -emergent sprays, describe the 44i experiments as Bo per' cent successful". Andrew Dixon, SHDHS Agri• culture teacher and one of the leaders of the Exeter 441 Coe Club, said results so far indi. gate that scuffling :cannot he eliminated entirely but the spray does kill "a terrific amount Of weeds." iadc.' r The experiment was un. k en by 12 second•year members of the .corn club who, sprayed two types of chemical solution, CMU and Simozin, on their plots immediately after- seeding. Leaders were apt able to eval- uate the success of some of the plots but did report on three where comparisons could be made. In the plots 'of Bob Galloway Crediton, the .area which had been sprayed yiblded 95 percent less weeds than non -treated ground, Walter Westlake's plot in Us. borne clearly showed where the nozzle of the spray had plugged momentarily and the spray had not been applied. Dennis Cann, also of Usborne, did not scuffle the outside edge of his corn plots which had been treated. The edge is a mass of'• weeds but the plot is fairly clean. - Mr, Dixon said that to spray land with these chemicals costs about $10 per acre, which is approximately the cost" of scuf- fling the land. If the spray 11 to prove itself equal to scuffling, it would have to eliminate any machine work, he explained. There is, however, one •other consideration. Some authorities say that the yield of corn is adversely affected by scuffling because the roots are injured. The leaders plan to see if there is any noticeable increase in yield in plots which have not been scuffled. Mr. Dixon explained that the spray destroyed all weed seeds on the surface after the corn. had been planted but it does not '.eliminate strong growing plants like bindweed and thistles. Assistant Ag Rep Art Bolton, who accompanied the leaders on their tour, said "it does look as if there are possibilities with this spray." "While we are not prepared to go out on a limb to say what. it will do, we are looking at it very closely to judge the results from every angle." The two other corn club lead- ers eaders are Carfrey Cann and Ken- neth Henn. Similar experiments in pie - emergent sprays are being con, ducted by Hensall Kinsmen 4-H White Bean Club. Hensall Sale Prices Prices at Hensall Community Sale June 27: Weanling pigs .... $ 12;75 $ 17.25 Chunks 18.00 22.50 Feeders 25.50 32.00 Sows 71.00 106,00 132.00 160.OQ 124.00 150.00 14.00 •19.00 21.90 38,00 pigs and 120 calves sold, Holstein Durham Holstein Durham There head of cows cows. calves ,. calves were 525 cattle and 41 41 , Make MORE Money From Your Combine e . ATTEND. DICK JERMYN'S FREE. COMBINE SERVICE SCHOOL Monday, July 22 Imommono .111 -11441 Afternoon 3 'p.m. . 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