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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1957-10-10, Page 94 t F, • 4 4 A KIRKTON HORSE SHOW—Three of the horsemen. who provided keen c9mpetition in the palomino classes .at Kirkton Fall Fair last Week ar'e shown here on their prize Mounts. Left to right are J. E. Currie, Atwood; Harold Clark, Woodham, and Fred Darling, Exeter, Darling, Clark and Currie placed in that order in the saddle horse event, —B-H Photo Feeder Club Members To Choose Own Calves South Huron junior farmers who join /lensed Feeder Calf Club this year will be able to pick their own beef steers, ac- * cording to a new policy laid down by South Huron Agnelli- tural Society. at a meeting this week. Boys and girls 'can•buy a steer between 400 •and 500 pounds of any of the tlu•ed beef breeds. In former yeas, white-faced cattle were shipped in from the west and distributed to the members on. a lottery*.basis.... Membeka' can. pak up to $110 for their calves 'and the purchase price will be providecl through a loan from the. society which A will be repaid • when the calves are auctioned at Hensall Spring Fair, Earl Dick, Cromarty, presi- dent of the society; said the new policy was adopted because some of the members. didn't like the calves they received in other years. The calves purchased. by mem- bers do net have to be registered, In fact, the society does not want them to .be registered. Basic idea behind the club is to teach young farmers how to feed stocker cattle, not to raise pure- breds, which is -the aim of 4-H clubs. Officials feel the raising of grade cattle is more practical More Drains For Stephen Drains continue to be the major item on the agenda of Stephen Township Courril. At its meeting October 1, coun- cil provisionally adopted' the re- port of the Isaac Extension Municipal Drain. Application was made for subsidy and tenders were called. The petition of Stephen and others for' a drain was sent to Engineer , ,Tames A, Howes, O.L.S., Listowel, for survey, plan, profile and estimates. Dates for tax collector ,Tames Alawhinney to be in the township office were .set for Monday, Tuesday, 'Thursday and Friday of each 'week until December 1, after which he will be there each day until Deceniber 15. Lorne Devine was paid a $2.00 tax bounty.. Hospitalization ex- penses amounted to $339. Reeve Jack Morrissey presid- ed arid all councillors were pres- ent. The next Meeting will be held Tuesday, November 5, at 1 p.m. trainingsince relatively few farmers .maintain registered herds. 'Society officials will visit the homes of all Members on No- vember 20 to pay, for the calves and to weight them with a mobile scale. Weight is recorded at the beginning of the feeding pro- gram , so that gains can be measured when the calves are brought in for show at the spring fair. President of the club is Lloyd Cooper, Kippen. Jim McGregor, R.R. 2, Kippen, is secretary - treasurer. Directors include Bob Poisons, Hibbert; Jack Kinsman, Tuckersmith; John Pym., Us - borne; Wally Becker, Stephen; Carl Witten,. Hay, and. John Moffat,• Stanley. • Membership is open to boys ,and girls between the ages of nine and 21 in the six townships surrounding Hensall. • Down To Earth By D. I. HOOPER Compulsory Direction So we are expendable! To compel the farmers of Hu - ion County along with 6 other On- tarjo counties to ship their hogs to a definite 'destination, namely assembly yards, or let's face it "stockyards where it costs the producer 500 per hog for yard- age," is, just getting rather out of line in a democratic country. We looked up the marketing agency's word "compulsory" in the dictionary and it read — "Exercising compulsion a n d compulsion" (from the same dic- tionary' means "FORCE" and force means — "efficacy"; but it also means "against one's Will." If the Ontario Rog Producers Association had, even one glim- mer of light penetrating into the area where the grey matter is supposed te be they should be wellaware of the facts. "This average farmer does not want his hogs dumped in assembly yards. The farmers have showh this by not using them. The 'yards were at their dispbsal for free and now if they compel these same farmers to use these yards the producers Association will be forced to deduct. not 24 cents' a hog,but rather .74 cents unless they secure a better yard- age rate. As for the efficacy of the hog Producers Association's agent, it is "NIL." We've seen, even in aur young life, the hog industry really in trouble but we have never seen a greater falling off of, prices than has occurred in • ttttt ttttt l lll IfIllit ll ttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt Boys! Girls 9 to 21 Years I Join Hensall . 1 Feeder Calf Club ri Open to any boy or girl between the ages of 9 and 21 living in the Six Townships suirounding Hensall. MEMBERS MUST BUY A STEER. CALF (400 to 500 f, ,..,E il15.) OF ANY OF PH THREE BEEF BREEDS. ON 1, i PRESENTATION OP RECEIPT THE CLUB WILL f PAY UP' TO $110 (No calf to exceed this amotta,) 1 1 .., ,, • 1 wt wnl pay for the calf and weigh it on November 20 i I by travelling Snales. . ‘ AdVance paymentS will be made to members requesting same., Contact any director or i • i I SECRETARY JAMES McGREGOR R.R. 2: Kippint Phons 03442. Netheill the past few weeks. In spite of all the fine talk (talk's cheap — it .takes money. to buy whiskey) of how, theY could control the hog price if they controlled, the destination of the hogs, let's face it again, ' The only buyers of live hogs for processing are the packers. And let dmit something else also, The marketing agency or commission firm selling the hogs couldn't care less whether the today's price is the same as yesterday's or three cents a pound lower. They are in a very secure position at the pre- sent time it will be much more secure with compulsory direc- tion. We, as well as every other farmer, we hope, business men, and if by investing 50 cents we could see a net profit of even two cents we wouldn't mind in- vesting this extra money, but at the present time there is no hope of getting any extra returns for an additional forthright increase of selling expenses. To any straight forward think- ingman who even has a single brain cell alive (be it in his fan- ny or his feet) this business -of assembly points is just paying one more middleman who.. wants 50 cents of the farmer's profits. It doesn't seem very Much per head but just think of the gravy train being made up throughout the hog industry. There is many a mail Who would like to be on it. Maybe we'd all better go and get a job driving hogs and tat- tooing them. Yeah! maybe we should go down mid try out. Charlie's swi- vel chair. Even the most stupid of us could say, "OK, you bought the bogs" and that appears to be all they are doing, - Dib YOU KNOW? Little Rock, Arkansas; Governor Orval Faubue has set himself up as God- with a noisy small minority of the U.S. population. Charlie McInnis has hopes that he can reach this pinnacle. The farmers are the negroes of Little Rock, Arkan- sas. They are cnilet, unassuming and just wish to be left alone. If someone wishes to help in their troublee, O.K. but please, no exploitation,. We are the pawns of a large ehOSS The middleman's take — almost half A million dollars. Ships Cattle To,Buffalo, 01).6 hundred and eighty-one grain -fed Herefords were shipped front Ileneall to Duffel() last week bw Alex Gardiner,' Crone - arty district cattleman. The shipment is believed to be the largest ever handled by the Hensall Station for an individual Owner. Eight care were required for. the shipitelit. The tattle Went direct to the Mid -State Packing Platt in Buf- falo. Mr, Gardiner said it was the first lot he has sold to New York sine 1951. The top-quality steers Were sold at *premium price. Mr, Gardiner, who owns 600 hetet Of grassland. has 100 head left which will be sold this winter. Second section EXETER, ONTARIO, OCTORER 19 ,19,57 0K Asset*" ly Yard For Huro Launch Action etas ,9007-11 1/1/120N and tvoRrll Young Usborne Plowman Picked For County Team Two junior farmers — Neil lore giving .the nod to McGavin. McGavin, Walton, and Lorne The • Walton youth .literally Ballantyne, Exeter — were plowed his way through mud and chosen Saturday to represent blood to • win the championship. Huron in the intereounty contest The mud was the ordinary kind, at the international. Plowing turned over stroke by stroke M Match in Simcoe aftei they placed one-two in the .champion- ship competition at the North Huron match near Bellmore, The young farmers, both con- sistent winners in Huron for a number Of years, staged a close After having been in bed for battle for the county title= J-udge four days with a doze of influ- Elmer Armstrong, R.R. 2, St, enza, and symptoms which in - Pouts, hesitated a long time be- eluded a recurring nosebleed, he got out of bed Saturday, it traveled 30 miles from his home in McKillop Township to the plowing site in the north end of Howick, plowed his stint, and went home again to bed,. where he was expected to remain an- other two or three days. The plowing he did, while shaking with chill and enduring occa- sional bleeding from the nose, ‘ovfasthjeuddgaeyd. the best plowed land Also chosen to go to the Inter- national match, on the strength of their showing as match plow- tario, but prices in everything men, . Saturday, are Robert but hogs have been lower. Fotheringham, Seaforth, and seems to me that there 'nest be Morris Hemingway, R.R. 3, Brus- improve the situation. Perhaps in the North Huron match; as a them won his class something that could be- done to ola-•Baoll of if we study the facts, we can team of two they will. represent arrive at a solution. Seaforth Collegiate„Institute in the course of plowing his land in the match. The blood was his own, left sprinkled on the steer- ing wheel and instrument panel of the tractor with which he did ,his competition plowing. Fieldman's • E Comments On Bad Year .1 J. CARL. HEmiNpwAy This seems Le be a bad year fin— farmers. Crops have been good, generally, in Southern On- eral years; Elmer Dennis, R.R. 1, Walton, and Lloyd Kraulter, Elmwood, plowed behind horses, with Dennis placing first. In recent years, tractors have dom- inated . mated the match, and horses have been absent altogether, or on the scene only for demonstra- tion of a disappearing art, Teams for the horse -plowing were provided by Bert Hubbard, who lent his white team to Elmer Dennis, and by Lloyd JacqueS, Establislunent ef an assembly Yard in Enron has been approved by the Ontario Hog Prodecers Marketing ,Corop, was an- nounced this .weele. Although. the site has not been determined 'permission has been - given by the board for the ope- ration of :a yard in Huron, the second largest hog .producing county the province. ' Bert ',ebb, president of the HurOn Hog Producers Associa- tion said- the decision was reached at a meeting of the provincial board on Friday. Board officials are expected to visit the ,county .this week - to make arrangements, for the yard. • Mr. Lobb .said the compulsory! direction program has been ope- rating smoothly in the county and that the co-op has received almost 100 percent co-operation from truckers and producers. Provincial officials, however, are preparing to test their strength an the compulsory pro- gram in a court action, now in the process of being launched. Charles McInnes provincial 0.. rect to processor ' vious to July o •-about 10 per c . 1' 1 hogs were beta ,on,. • 1 markets under ,orit'ario.'s • ding. aatt.--kpen` The sharpetitive, market deitY.P said, reflected la 0,PeN di Producers' lida, r. Ist,stoIlLonn rectional prog tefea P`11, - $ president, told the Times -Advo- cate that charges are being laid • launched Septeni 13.004 that date, all hogs b. c seven counties of Onla be delivered to and p from open marketS operat :the board's marketing /Igoe . New orders passed last week' and effective October 3.411,APPIY- ing to Middlesex, Lambton, Kent, Essex and Elgin will bring the open market deliveriee. of On- tario hogs into the neighborhood Of 54 to 55 per cent, Mr: MCIntlia Predicted. Mr. mannis said that alt -hogs marketed in Ontario from the counties under board orders had gone onto the open market and. processors in Ontario had ad-. hered to the board's directional orders. against the Bruce county trucker who provided -a well -matched who has been defying openly the pair of dark grays for Lloyd Kraulter. The Jacques team was judged the best plow team on the groundst regulations of the board. Mr, McInnis did not reveal the name of the trucker but it was indicated part of his opera- tion is in the north of Huron county, Mr. 141eInnis said that, except from this one offender, "we have had complete co-operation from shippers.' The percentage of Ontario hogs For the 31st. ,consecutive year, Elston Cardiff, Brussels, was secretary -manager of the match. Mr. Cardiff has been secretary - treasurer of the North Huron Plowmen's Association from the date of its formation in ism and has been on duty for every now being soldon open -markets match the organization has held. has j.umpedsharply, Charles During these 31 'years he has McInnis, president of the On - become successively reeve of tario Hog Producers' Association Morris, warden of Huron, MP revealed last week. for North Huron, MP for Huron Mr, McInnis said that prelim - and chief Conservative whip M the House of Commons. inary figures indicated that 40.9 per cent of Ontario hogs during Entries were fewer this year the week of September 23 to 27, , t.1 i • ian s nounal in North. Huron, were sold on open -markets For rancPlans Not Definite Officials of Canadian Canners Ltd., Hamilton; said Wednesday plans have not been completed for an addition to the local fac- tory. "We've been too busy with the; 1957 season to come to any defi• lute decision on our plans for. Exeter, "W. H. Powell told The; Times -Advocate Wednesday. - "We will be considering Our; 1958 program soon, however," Ile: continued. "It is possible that we will be able to release sorne' details on our plans for your; area before the first of the. year." and an important fraction of the seven months previous to Sep -1 HENSALL SALE PRICES: Prices at Heniall COrninunity sisted of students from the agri- Ontario hogs being sold on the tember 23, the percentage of total number of plowboys con - culture department of Seaforth open market had hovered be - I Was talking to a vegetable the intercollegiate class at Sim- . Collegiate Institute. They were I coached -by Richard Whiteleybeing delivered di , the balance tween 20 to 24 per cent, with ! .- grower near ` Leamington. He coe. told me that potatoes were only Competition in the walking- agriculture teacher at Seaforth. Worth 50o a bag, which wasn't 0 CROP REPORT covering the cost of digging and handling. One farmer with 20 By D. H. MILES acres was leaving the potatoes The bean harvest is practical - in the ground. ly completed. ag of Movement of sugar beets to Yesterday I bought a b the loaders has just potatoes at a local grdcery store started. Silo fillin is about two-thirds plow division returned to the match after an absence of sev- ne ofem, Ken Ryan, R.R. 1, Walton, went outside the age - limit classes to plow ine'the utility class, where the special requirement was that the land be plowed within a 90-roinute., time - 'limit, He was the only' one to finish his land in the hour and a half allowed and won a $15 cash prize. In the other classes on the program, plo(Vboys were allowed five hours plowing time, and paid $1.50 for a 75-111 bag. Surely the handlers don't de: completed and a fair amount of I serve twice as much as the fall plowing has been completed. More farmers switch to Surge potatoes. Some corn is still going to the Milkers for safer; faster milk - farmer gets for growing the 'Egg prices have been fair recently for A large, but with the amount oreggs in storage and a 4 per cent increase in current production, it is likely that eggs will be resting on the floor all winter. Since the laying• flocks are down in the U.S., there is a little hope that exports may be possible. It is, therefore, impor- tant that we keep the quality high. One egg -grader was telling me recently that egg quality has been down seriously. You farm- ers know the reason, not gather- ing often enough; not placing the eggs in a cool place; not keeping nests and floors clean. It is discouraging to be getting such low prices, but grade B is a lot lewer. .Also if we hope to export we can only do so by producing top quality. The same can be applied to hogs. The production is going up but again, for the best qual- ity, there is a considerable ex- port market. If we produce top quality, we qan have this badly needed market. Beef might be compared to the potatoes. The price to the farmer has ‚been low yet the reason doesn't seem clear. In recent weeks, the nuinber of cattle on the market has been smaller than last year and we have been exporting some 3,000 head of slaughter cattle to the U.S. each Week. Last year we were net importers of beef to the extent of 55,000 head. This year we will Jae net exporters of a large num- ber and with fewer cattle on the market the price has dropped •two or three dollars a cwt. The law of supply and demand doesn't seem to be in force. ' What is the answer? Market- ing agencies like hogs, peaches, While the average weekly wage or white beans? Government in Canadian manufacturing has support like eggs or butter? Con- incteased since 1949 bY nearly 60 trolled production like the per cent, because of inflation tobadco? Or shall we all Sit back the increase in terms of pttr- and, 'hope that George finds a -ehasing power has been less way? than 80 per cent. Call Tenders For Drain , • Weanling pigs .... $11.10 to 114./5 ' Chunks 15.00 to 18.00 20.00 to :25.10 Feeders Sows 73,00 le =78.50 Holstein cows ..,. 175.00't' 212,50 I Durham cows ..,. 125.00'to. 160.00 Holstein calves .... 10.00•tot 16.00 Durham calves ,22.00.to 29.50 1 There were 160 pigs and 150 cattle and calves sold. McGillivray council called for tenders for the construction of the Morley Robinson draM fol- lowing acceptance of the report at a meeting Jest week, Council decided to take no ac- tion' on the report of S. W. Ar- chibald, 0.L.S., on the Cameron - Gillies outlet drain. Payment of .$1,440 was autho- rized for William Laurence of his contract for the Carey Exe- tension Drain, William Patterson, township treasurer, was appointed tax .collector for 1957. Tile draM loans, amounting to $5,900, were approved. Three -dollar fox bounties were paid to Mel •IVfcGregor, William Allison, George Glendinning, Barry Reid, Thomas Dixon, Wal- ter Loomis and Ross • Heanian. Sheep damage of $25 was paid to William Lee. Payments on the Colwell- Cronyn-Isaac drain included: I3iddulph allowances, $85: Mc- Gillivray allowances, $2,920; Earl D i x o n, commissioner's fees, $15; Charles Dietrich, con- tract $1,422,50. Grader and road liability in- surance and workmen's compen- sation coverage was renewed with the Frank Cowan Insurace Agency. Reeve Fred Heaman presided and all councillers were present., Next, meeting will be held Oc- tober 26. ' Enrolls AtOAC Guelph W. E. 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