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Second Section NOVEMI1ER 14, 1957
es Brighter Future For Bee
But Urges Efficiency In-Feedin
REMEMBRANCE DAY—This scene was repeated throughout Canada Monday as corn-
*munities'paid tribute to those who have fallen in defence of the country, Here, the
flags are being lowered during the sounding of "Last Post!' at the Exeter cenotaph.
The local branchof the Legion and its auxiliary was joined in the .service by an RCAF
squadron frcm Centralia,' Boy Scout And, Girl Guide groups. —T -A Photo
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Enthusiastjc Convention
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First Vic..President,
• Huron F..of A. .
Ontario Federation Of Agrica-
ture's 21st annual convention,
held, in Toronko .last week, at-
tracted a ,larger attendance and
more discussion than ever before.
It showed the. increased inter-
est being. takenjat our organiza-
Lien, probably ' due to the
economic position farmers are
In today. -
So much discussion took place
that half of 60 some 'resolutions
had to.be.teld over to a mem-
bets' meeting to he held later
this month The resolutions have
to be dealt .with before Decem-
ber in order to incorporate them
into the brief to be presented to
the 'Ontario government.
The president's address: was
partially covered in last week's
paper so I shall only add an
incidental point or two, Many, I
• think, will be 'surprised to learn
OFA bushiess--required 229 days
of the president's time last year,
many of which were.• much
longer than the standard. eight-
hour work day., -
Pressure Groups Increase
President Lloyd Jasper, who
comes.from Mildmi„, just north
of Huron, mentioned that while
working at top ,level and nieet-
big other segmerits of the cairn:
try, he found our economy is
increasingly'becoming. a cluster
of -power .groups. Farmers asin-
dividuals simply cannot cope
with immealurgable steam roller
pressures -which -theta ' groups
..succeisfugy s create.. Yet there
are individealists, Who scream, of
losing their freedom. Bow Can
we lose our freedom.*hen we
really never had -it?
Herb Arbuekle, general secre
tary, reported on the activities
of OFA for". the past year, of
whielpl'will mention a few.
After the supreirte court hand-
ed down its 'decision on the On.
taxi° Farm Products Marketing
Act; there had to' be amendments
to plug the loophole's which re -
suited from the court decision..
OFA , supported the poultry
producers to obtain a floor. price
uppor
on fOwl and turkey, as well as injection here, I would like to'
import' controls en ' these prod- say that I am requested to pay
ucts; supported the dairy pro- ; $2.89 toward the Federation from
ducers in seeuring a floor price ' a total tax on 100 acres of $312.
on powdered milk as well as It is difficult to understand why
I any farmer would not invest
import controls..
,OFA was successful in persnad- sixth a small amount for his wel-
ing the Ontario government'to fare which surely repays him
assume the.full cost of brucel- many times. over. I believe this
losis' control in Ontario. small amount would make a
OFA worked with °the Cana- labor union member's Mouth
dian Federation of Agriculture in water.
trying lb get deficiency payments The fieldinan's report was
for western farmers..given by Ray Hergott, director
OFA worked with tobacco of field services. He reported on
growers assisting.- them with continued assistance to farm
their vote., . 0 ' , forum, CIA, commodity groups.
OFA also :worked with the The tobacco marketing plan took
One pi Canada's top livestock
rm Fight Imminent
marketing experts told ZOO
Huron County 4)eei producers
Friday night that cattle prices
5vill get stronger during the next.
few years, but he 'warned that
ay' sOFA resident
on effieiency in feeding to corn -
they would bave to toncentrate
An 4 unparalleled struggle be-
tween Ontario primary agricu1.
tural producers and outside
groups who have vested inter-
ests in agriculture is in pros-
pect for the next 12 months,
Gordon Greer, newly -elected
president of the Ontario Fede-
ration of Agriculture predicted
this week.
Mr. Greer was commenting
on recent press reports that the
Ontario Federation, of Agricul-
ture was dominated by sociel-
ists and that the policies of the
•
organization were dictated or in- equire
Agriculture has no political af-
filiations or creeds," president
Greer\ said. "The best evidence
of this was that both the On-
tario and federal parliaments
unanimously passed*amendments
to our marketing legislation this
spring. Furthermore, the O.F.A.
as was evidenced at 'our annual
meeting last week is controlled
by fully accredited delegates
from 83 farm', organizations.
"Collective action through co-
' operatives, marketing boards,
and the Ontario Federation of
Agriculture is bringing fartners7'
bargaining powers which labour
groups have enjoyed without
stigma for years," Mr. Greer
said. "The Ontario Federation
of Agriculture is determined to,
see that farmers secure and re-
tain these bargaining rights, re-
gardless of counter efforts to
j keep farmers in a ,state of peas -
entry."
Gov t re it bred Holstein cattle shipped
from Ontario to the state o
Hidalgo in Mexico.
The Marshall .heifer, hIeri
Acres Candy, was reserve pallor
champion female at, 'the Huron
County black and white day this
year.
David R. Stevens and Herbert
Sperling, both of St. Marys, also
contributed to the shipment,
The cattle are going to four
different Mexican owners to
serve as foundation animals for
improvement of their herds,
pete• with weatern farmers.
Ralpb L. Bennett, chief of the
livesteek marketing branch• of
Canada' Department of Agricul-
ture, ,admitted the, 'cattle busi-
ness tough seine today,
but be predicted rosier future.
"Things are going to. set better
Marshall Heifer
Goes To Mexico
A bred heifer from, the herd
of Ross Marshall, Kirkton, was
among the 65 -high class pure-
fluenced by a small corps of
paid professionals,
"S u c h ridiculous statements
only confirm for me," Mr. Greer
said, "the urgency for farmers
and farm. organizations to work
through a strong provincial
federation, Reports coming in
from all over Ontario indicate
that vested interests who do not
wart to lose 'their' grip on agri.
culture- are working together to.
discredit and split farm organ-
izations„arid are active in
behind -the -scene 'work promoting
protective committees to fight
our marketing groups,"
"The Ontario Federation of
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Farm Forums Agree
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Farm Forums on Monday nidge, Lucan, were host and
evening discussed Farin. Credit. hostess for the Hillcrest Forum,
A number of questions were sub- Millions of dollars have been
nutted for discussien, including: poured into farm machinery by
j What is the minim -um -amount of Canadian farmers since the end
capital needed to farm in your of the Second World War to com-
bat the scarcity and high. cost of
area?
capital should you be able to ob-
tain in the form of credit? Do
you think that the use of local
,'dealer credit in your community
is a satisfactory way of. doing
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'business? Is t economical? W a
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credit which would be granted
subject to supervision of the
farming operation by the lending
agency?
In answer to the first question,
the lowest estimate was given
by Hillcrest Forum, whith sug-
gested $15,000 as the minimum,
but, if the farmer wanted up-to-
date machinery, he would need
twice that capital. Elimville
group estimated $16,000 to $20,000
as the minimum, and Parr Line
Forum claimed a farmer would
need $25,000 for farm stock and
implements.
Parr Line estimated the farm-
er should be able to obtain 60
per cent credit; Elimville, 75
per cent, and Hillcrest suggested
the only way he couldstart
wopld be to buy from a. farmer
who was willing to leave his
money in the farm.
Credit Not , Economical
All forum members were
agreed that it was not economi-
cal to use local dealer credit
because the rates of interest -are
too high. Parr Line members
added that sometimes it is
necessary but should be used
with discretion. •
Both Elimville -and Parr Line
forums thought a limited govern-
ment supervision would be satis-
factory if run on the same prin-
ciple as the .V.L.A, Hillcrest
Forum members were agreed
that government credit was the
best way to operate farming at
the present time.
Parr Line Forum met at the
home of Mr. and Mrs, Gordon
Coleman and next week will con-
vene at the home of Mr..and
Mrs. Howard Adkins.
Eliraville Forum gathered at
'the home of Mr. and Mrs, Ro-
land Williams with.14 present,
Banrday,meet next Monday at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Donald
Mr.- and Mrs, Newton Was-
Fieldman's
Comments
On Cream, Eggs
United Co-operatives of Ontario much of their time and perhaps By J. CARL HEMINGWAY,
in assuring adequate supply of some of you will remember Hay
western grain being shipped to when he was in Huron County Farm producers are facing
Ontario posts before. the naviga- last winter assisting with the votes on many questions. They
tion season closed, which meant hog producers information and had the federal voting last June,
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fe: open market capaign meetinthe wheat vote comes Dec ,
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-'ok producers. There were other reunici al votin soon torts from duc vote in *late ' ho March or I
• OFA is, working with Work- farm forum, CIA, publicity As -veers
early April, peach growers some
obtain a more workable policy etc., but there were several ruinor a provincial election in
for farmers to provide thein with.
accident insurance. • .
Belyea, OFA economist,
dealt with his work on pipelines
men's Compensation to try to pertinent, women's committee, time, this winter and the latest
guest speakers which I would
like •to,,,cover.- and, to „include „all
the reports would make this
article too long.
New Support- Permute .• „
David Kirk, secretary -of CFA,
spoke of CFA policy on develop-
ing price supports; .supervising
long-teryn, credit, attacking the
problem of sub -marginal land responsibility in directing good
'government in our dominion, in
our province and in our muni-
cipality.
Farmers have taken this re-
sponsibility seriously and have
always had a good voting per-
centage.. Their responsibility is
even greater in the coming pro -
&leer group vote. Regardless of
the wording of the ballot, in the
The highlight of the meeting various producer organization
that 'Huron County contributed was 'Vr
the address 'by the Ontario plans, there is only one question
for the producer to answer.
$3 m
,651 and is being asked. for theminister of agriculture, Hon...
saine• next year. A. Goodfellow. He opened his Should producer groups have
OFA' worked on a budget. of remarks by commenting on such the right to market their prod -
land acquisition by pipeline,
hydro, highways, etc. His work
involves delving into production
reports, farm income, 'price
spread and 'so forth.
Can't Meet Demands
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1 thin 'This has changed ft=
privilege to a serious respon-
sibility. We appreciate the oppor-
tunity Of 'Making our opinion
known and controlling our gov-
ernment by the will of the ma-
jority; Most' of -'s realize' the
The treasurer's report had a use, import' resolutions, freight
familiar ring to it in' that there rates, tariffs, etc. He explained,
is always too little money to different methods of making de
carry on the demand.li
s that fall ciency. payments to the western
on the ,-OPA. They were, how- farmers. He said' the 'federal
ever, , able to break even this government is coming up with a
year due, to a nine per ,cent
crease of receipts from the coun-
ties and per, cent' increase
from the commodity groups.
You may be interested te OW
new support formula and ' he be-
lieves this formula will be' verY
similar to the CFA support,
formula.
$117,926. This may seem a large a large attendance and he hoped uce by whatever means they
amount , in terms which we as ,that maybe one end of the room
farmers are accustomed to think might be -filled with farm union
of, but in comparison to what members, for he said there was
other groups have to work with need for only one ,strong farm
and considering theOmportance organization: Hewarned that if
of agriculture, this Suni is very the OFA should slip- back now
shameful. '" - ‚ they will be lost because other
If you will excuse a personal people are organized. ,.
Mr. Goodfellow complimented
Waterloo Cattle
Breeding Afsociation
"Where Better Bulls Are Used"
An Example of 'a Dam of one of our -Jersey Bulls
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EDGELEY STANDARD PRINCESS 4TH., V.G.
2 yrs. 9051 Milk 553 fat 4.11% 305. d. Silver Medal
3 yrs, 10604 milk 607 fat 5,72% 305 d. Silver Medal
„. 4 yrs, 10525 Milk 625 fat 5.92% 305d. Gold and Silver Medal
S yrs. 10457 mille 602 fat 5.75% 365 d. 2X
t yrs. 12513 milk 773 fat 6.1% 36$ d. 2X
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THIS IS PROFITABLE PRODUCTION. This is what
5 we era frying fo breed Into the next eshorefien of tattle,
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Prince Basil, ibt and AAA, new dead but leaving Many top
Morino in, our. Jersey br'eschirs' Moth, 4 '
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have' to breed. 0
dhoti( thin. qualities in ciUP members' herds, Yeu
will find AO if glinkn equal apPOrtiMit9 OftsPritie of Inn,
built Will win their share Of heritniil for -production, type
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OFA on their self-help program
which is still the most effective.
Don't depend on the government
along, he said, because it's not,
always dependable.
Control acreage hasn't worked
for U.S.-farmers. Farmers want
to produce all they can, that is
only human nature. The Federa-
tion has never had a lot of•
aggressive policies such as acre-
age control to get farmers and
government into a lot of trouble.
Must Sell Hog Scheme
in referring to the hog market -
I ing 14We,, he said he has no
sympathy for those who live off
the fat of the industry nor is he
interested in any person or
group which opposes these plans
just to further their Own linen
tial interests. But he is interest-
ed -in .,whether the producers are
beind the plan, and he warned
again that if the producers didn't
get' out and Sell the plan, be
feared for the future of the hog
industry for fanners.
I would like to mention a few
points about the discussion from
the floor before closing. Although
the Federation (hies not direct
the hog produters, it did pledge
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collectively decide?
This is no time for quibbling
about whether it will be a mar-
keting agency, or marketing
board or negotiating board or
public auction or any other plan.
These details should be decided
at your local annual meetings
through the elections of the of-
ficers. Hereyou can give the
kind of advice that the director-
ate te'eds and can receive from
the local membership. This ad-
vice will then come from the
people who are interested enough
to 'attend and are willing to give
some thought to the welfare of
the producer.
If coming votes are held on
the same basis as the tobacco
vote the answer may be giver
by those who are too indifferent -
to cast a vote. To vote in favour
you must go to the polling booth
and vote but you can vote against
by just sitting at home.
This is true since a clause in
the regulations states that there
must be 51%, vote in favour of
the plan. This stipulation is not
applied to government elec-
tions. •
Let me say again that this is
no longer a privilege but rather
a responsibility. Remember, the
"shirkers" can defeat the plan
by simply doing nothing.
P.S.J-4 hope you will read the
article appearing under my
name in the Rural Co -Operator.
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farm labqr. Last year farmers
spent 150, \million dollars on the
purchase of new farm machinery.
Is machinery 'properly de-
signed for Canadian;' farms?
Should it be more versatile'? Is
it adaptable for both large and
small farms and is it, easily serv-
iced? These questions and. -many
others will be discussed on the
1program "A New Look in Farm
Machinery" which will -be heard
Monday evening, November 18,
over the CBC Trans Canada net-
work. . -
The broadcast will' include
interviews with farmers from
gineers, and representatives of
machinery manufacturers.
every province,:- agricultural 'en -
Huron County
Crop Report
• D. H. MILES
Fall work is' progressing sa-
tisfactorily with many new jobs
being completed in the line of re-
pairs and rebuilding.
Some cattle moved to market
this week but there still is many
to go, Farmers have been slow
to purchase replacement cattle.
Turnips are being moved to
storage very rapidly.
Award Drain Contract
In. 'Stephen .Township
Contract for the Isaac exten- changed .from USS .1(16(17 to 'SS
sion drain, was • let to
Lawrence, Zurich, for $999 by
Stephen township council at its
meeting last week.
The appeal of Verne Sharpe
on the assessment -for the drain
was dismissed.
William Stanlake and Chester
Dunn' were each allowed $50 for
loss of water caused by the dig -
ding of the fifth coricession.
municipal drain.
Nomination date was set for
Monday, November 25, and the
election, if necessary, will be
held December 2.
'
During court" .of revision on
the 1958 assessment roll; the
following changes were made:
A new tax notice to be sent
to Leonard Ravelle with $40.76
removed.
Location assessment on Em-
mersbn Desjardine's drive-in
theatre -Was increased to 20 per-
cent, thereby lowering assess-
ment to read $68.50 on building,
$20,50 Oh businegs, with-land-ret-
inaining The same, --
Lorne Dietrich's assessment
of .11i 8 and 9, con.- 18, was
No. , •
John Arts' requestto change'
school 'tax from Crediton to
Mount Carmel was to be check-
ed to see if the property was in
the three mile limit.
Bernard Remmer's lots, 170-3,
Centralia, were changed to SSS
No. 1 McGillivray.
A rebate granted to iay Des-
jardine for dog tax of $2.00
Willis Hotson's assessment to
be reduced by $700 on part of
seven on L.R.E.
• The Department 'of Highways
to be sent a tax notice and as-
sessment notice on part of seven,
L.R.E.
The assessment was struck
off Roy Lamport's 'farm on con.
six and that property will be
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- you can't fall out of bed whoa
you're lying on the itoor,"'
Addressing a proditeere ban-
quet Londesboro, Mr. Bennett
said the attitude of buyers in 0141 -
U.S. WAS optimistic. This is till
first time since 1951 they have
set the. price for feeders li
Canada.''
"They are optimistic of better
prices. For ..one , reason, the
drought has broken in the south
and ranchers are holding up
sales to build up their herds,
They've Wien 90,000 feeders out
of Canada. As a result there is
about 40,000 less cattle on feed in
Ontario.
Speaking with caution, Mr.
Bennett nevertheless indicated
that the upswing In what he
called the seven-year cycle in
-beef prices was on its WAY again
and suggested that highest prices
will come in 1959.
One reason for greeter de-
mand, Mr. Bennett said,. was
increasing population. "When.
you combine the baby bonus With
the old biological urge, the stork
is doing Jet to solve your prob-
lems," he said.
Mr. Bennett urged greater
efficiency by' beef produters,
"You are competing with the
broiler business, too. The time
is gone when by getting up. at•S
4,111. and bulling all day long
you are guaranteed a living. You
need courage and determination,
too, but your common problems
bind you together as neighbors."
"Better times can only be won
by group action," Mr. Bennett
said. He made no comment,
however, about the current agi-
tation for a marketing program
for Ontario producers.
"Human beings generally
ad-
.Iust to problems rather than try-
ing to solve them,!' he said. "This
as not true here. You come to-
gether to share your experiences„'
discuss your problems -and do
something about • them. This
farming business is the 'modern
means of snaking our faith live
both in the present and future.
In the progress of licking our
many problems we make the
kind- of an agriculture world
We live in. We have to agree on
the kind of a world -we want."
. "I am confident," 'he. said,
"that you will do better in mak-
ing the world of tomorrow.
have a tremendous.,,reSpect for
the Ontario farmers and a great ,
faith ,in the farmers', ability. I
am convinced that if you can get
a broad picture of - the 'facts and
information • about the J• factors
that are involved in the. cattle
business that you will Work
things out."
Other speakers included Andy
McTavish, Paisley, first vice-
president of truce County beet
producers; George Gear, agricul-
tural representative front Bruce;
and „Doug Xiles, Huron ag rep.
The speakers formed a panel
which answered questions from
the audience.
Bob McGregor, Kippen,
dent of Huron County .beef pro-
ducers, conducted the meeting.
•Garl-Hemingway, Iiiiron-Federa-
ton fieldman, showed films dur-
ing the meal, and Carl Johnston,
CKNX, eatertainod.
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