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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1958-02-13, Page 11Choose • Victor Jeffery Falr. Board: .President VielorY jeffory. Exe- ter, who for many .Years has -ope- rated the sehool—seetion Of Exe- ter Fair, was elected president of the Exeter Agrieuit;.re SoeietY at its annual Meeting last week. Mr. Jefiery succeeds Mayor E. Poky who has :finished a two-year term as head ,of the century -old society. New vice-presieents .are Exe- ter reeve, William Me Kenzie, and •Gerald Dearing, R.R: 1. F,xe- ter, son of Preston Dearing, a former president and one of the :nation's top sheep 'breeders. G. Clark Fisher remains see- retary-treasurm Guest sneaker at the ,meeting Was Sid Harlow,'St. .Marys, who encouraged the smaller fairs to carry o'l despite the inere.ased competition Irom the larger ex), hibitiens. The smaller fairs, he pointed •out, gave an opportunity to hundreds of local exhibitors to compete for :prizes. Many of themwould not be able to dis- , play their work in the larger Shows. , Delegates named to attend •the second .soctien o-1 - . later ;.40 mee ni„; orunio• this Month were 'Victor Jeffery„ Mrs. Delmer Skinner and Mrs. 1'. Dearing-. 1 Many of the former directors were re-elected. They include Priton Finkbeiner, liarry Coates,. Winston Shapton, Lloyd Cush- man, Ralph Dailey, Bob J.efferYi ,John Goniall, A. J. Switzer,R.. 13. Pooley, 'Reward Pym, R. W. TnekeY, A. G. Nicks, Mrs. Ru- fus Kestle, Mrs.Cliff Rrintnell i and Mrs. Delmar Skinner. Former presidents. of the so.- •tetetY were named honorary pre- • sidents. They are William Ocst- ; richer, E. S. Steiner, P. E. Dear- ing, A. G. Hicks,. A. ,T, S‘veit%er, Harry Strang and Mr, Foley. Fonorary members are W. H.. Gelding, and Elston Cardiff. Auditors are W. H. Hodgson and Eugene BeaVer, Dr. R. F. Roclofson, Exeter, was named grounds veterinarian. .Move Federation Office TO .0 red it Union Ho.me, By CARL HEMINGWAY 1 responsibility for any log, that Some eight or nine years ago might develop in the enterprise, Huron County Federation of i When a farmer signs a broiler Agriculture took a major step or hog contract he should realize that many parts of the industry, In •Provicang •service to their members, , both 'township and will make a profit, including the county, At this time an office farmer, But, if the .price .drops was rented fpr use of the drastically one alone suffers the secretary-fieldman and' for the loss, namely, the farmer. holding of small meetings. By dealing through your local At the recent meeting of the • Co -Op you, increase your chance office committee it was. decided 01 profit because through your e xefer .1; EXETER, OfeARIO, FEBRUARY 1L 1958 Pac g E MANAGEMENT 'GROUPS MEET—Reprdsentatives t.of farm management associations from 11' counties met'recently at the OAC Guelph, to review and assess their pro- grams. Sponsored by the farm economies branch of the Ontario Department of Agri - Culture and the agricultural economics department at the OAC, the farm management association seek to introduce •better business management practises, and thus raise the farm net income by ,the 'farmers own effDrts. }Limn County delegation, seen in the photo, includes, left to right, Howard Pyin, Centralia; Fred Crawford, Goderich; Ross Marshall, Kirkton; Norman .Hunt, fieldman, farm economics branch, Ontario De- partment of Agriculture; Jim Scott, Blyth; and Doug Miles, Clinton, Agricultural Rep - re ent ti forHuron County. —OAC Photo to make another move. This patronage dividend you , will • , time office space has been share in the profit in the feed . . . Federation has been closely to it that you have control of Backs. ? Farm Body . taken in the new Clinton Com. business. •. a munity Credit Building. The In considering a contract see , associated with the Credit Union the quality of the pig and the since it opened in the Fedora- quality of the feed, On these • , tion office some five years ago, two points some farmers have 'Exeter Reeve 'Director Both are working for the bet- suffered losses on contract feed - lenient of the community and ing• it seems only right that they It: has been announced that a should remain in close contact. pipe line is going to be installed The Credit Union here is an from Stratford to Goderich amazing "success story" and we shortly. To the farmers, who hope it will continue to prosper will be affected, I urge you to in its fine new home. read the easement contract com- Recently we have been hear. Ing a good deal about contract - farming, As a result I have peen looking over some broiler and hog contracts. 1 think we need to realize that the companies are really only interested in selling feed at a profit. Secondly every contract I have seen ensures a profitable busi- ness in feed sales hut takes no • Jim Carscadden Contest Winner Jim Carscadden won the award in the verse speaking contest for Grade ,6 pupils at the Horne and School Association Tobacco Action meeting on Tuesday evening. Jim chose to give as his selec- Aids Marketing • Lion "Casey at the Bat." ietely and be sure you know you are satisfied before you sign. If in doubt, don't si'gn. Take, time to get all the information you want. Secondly in the case of the one pipe line now in the county I have yet to find• a farmer with easement or damage con - track, of any kind. Two have shown Inc a paper which they thought was a contract but this paper, I'm sure, is of no value to the farmer. Your Federation of Agricul- ture can give some -guidance in this matter if you contact the secretary-fieldman. The other contestants were Susan Dinney, Kathie Smith, Donald Wright, Larry idle and Marion Walker. Mrs. John Mahon is their teacher. The judges were Mrs. H. J. Snell, Mrs. Jack Pryde and Mrs. Hil- ton Laing. The verse seaking was inter- spersed with selections from the Junior Band under the leader- ship of Mr. James Ford, • of London. Mr. Cecil Wilson spoke of the progress of the band and announced that' there would be a new class in band music start- ing soon. President Airs. Hunt- ley chaired.% the meeting and announced that owing to the Easter holidays the, next meet- ing would be held one week earlier on April 1. Mrs. Clifford jory's room won the parent attendance award. ' Ralph W.Batten Veteran Of War Ralph Wellington Batten, 64, a veteran of Wtirld War I, died unexpectedly last Tuesday morn- ing when he 'was driving with Mrs. Battee in Usborne ToWn- ship. He was born in Usborne Town- ship and as a young man was a barber in Detroit. Following his marriage to E zabet 11 Whaley, St. Marys, the y farmed in 'Osborne, They came to Ex- eter 15 years ago where, for a time, lie managed the Exeter arena. He IS survived by his wife, two sons, John, Elimville. and William, at home; two daughters, (Kathryn) Mrs. Emerson Pen - hale, Winchelsea, and Joan, at home; one brother, Wilbert, of Sarnia: three sisters, Mrs. Free -1 "Preservation of the 'bale -auc- tion -system' of selling tobacco now seems assured and this rep- resents, an important milestone in the gradual. development of producer - controlled marketing systems in Ontario" Gordon Greer, president of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture stated this week. "Farmers have reason to feel particularly reassured by a statement from Premier Frost at the conclusion of discussions, between buyers and the Ontarld Flue -Cured 'Tobacco Growers Marketing Board, to the effect that he was Standing firmly be- hind the province's marketing legislation and behind' the bale - auction method of selling:', Mr. G said "Premier Frost is to be Com- mended for his, sympathetic understanding of, and trust in, producer -marketing programs. "With a number of important mechanical details modified and agreed upon. yesterday between buyers and the Tobacco Board, regarding the operating methods of the three 'tobacco auction ex- changes here In Ontario, we know that this producer -mar- keting sYStem will prove itself as gdod thing for tobacco pro- ducers, and will confirm •pnce again that farmers and bnyers are moving in the right direc- tion", Mr. Greer said. "Farmers have long been, searching for some method that will permit them to sell their product under ,.conditions pro- viding those benefits of sound salesmanship 'already enioyed -by industry, and which does not ask governments for undue sun - port", the 0,F.A, president said, In Siam homes are cOnslruct- ed with odd numbers of floors and steps to inure good luek. illeeve Bill McKenzie, 'Exeter, Was elected zone director of the Ontario Agricultural Council at a convention in Toronto Thurs- day. The town official, who is chairman of county council's Agricultural committee, will represent Huron, Lambton, Mid- dlesex, Essex and Kent counties on the executive of the council, which is made up of county council representatives through- out the province. Deputy Reeve Charles Long, Shannonville, was elected presi- dent of the council. Among the resolutions pasibd by the council was one which supported a Federation 'of Agri- culture :request for ' a change in 'the voting requirethents, ' to establish farm product •markel- ing. boards. • ' ^The council • asked for - an amendment which would set, majorities necessary for adop- tion of marketing plans at a 1 uniform '60 percent, based on the number of votes cast rather than the, number of• farmers eligible to vote, The resolution' was similiar to one passed in December by the 11 iiiii 11111111111111.11111111111o1.11111111 iiiii 11111111 iiiiiiii 1 iiiii 1 iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii 1111.11111111111111,1111111111111111111111111111111 Down To • Earth By D. I. HOOPER • Still Out Of Control What 'with the "ExPlorers," °Sputniks," "Mtittniks," the modern man- is -beginning to feel rather "cocky:" • We have suc.' ceeded in penetrating into that hitherto unknown "Outer Space.": To the scientist.and engineer this exploration has been on the drawing -board for years and space travel has been conceived in their minds and dreams. What does the future hold for the next generation? In spite of this bold thinking we still have many things on this Universe that many .have been unable to control. Number One — The Weather. Many men — scientists, en- gineers, technicians and laymen have studied this phenomena for centuries. This study today is known as meteorology, and is acknowledged as one of the most ,complex as well as the most fascinating of all sciences. Just when someone thinks they have licked Mother Na- ture into control, she simply reaches down into that little old bag of tricks and comes up with a new one, Weather Observation, and that is almost precisely as far as any sane gambling man will go in forecasting weather conditions for any period more' than 12 hours, is strictly from the out- side. Long range weather fore- casting is made up from long time averages and these along with cosmic and data obtained from multi sources are Com - billed to give reasonably aceur- ate general periods of fair and foul weather. Many ideas have been offered iii i 11 ii iii ii ll llll ll ll l man Perkins and Mrs, Wesley • • Archer, London, and Mr. Gar- net Miners, Winchelsea, and five grandchildren. The body is testieg at the Hopper - Hockey funeral home where funeral service will be held today (Thursday) at 2 p.m„ conducted by ReV, J. Snell, Intern -lent will be in Zion ceine- tery. AOTS Discussion On Stewardship Monday night .was guest night for the A.O.T.S. Men's club of , Jolliet St, United Church when they invited friends to a sup per meeting and program. The highlight of the prograni ' was a 'panel discussion on Chris. tian. Stewardship with Gerald Godhott as moderator and br. It H. Cowen, Messrs. Lloyd; Henderson, Lloyd Taylor anti Dick Taylor as panel trieMbers.1 The first tnteatitift, "What is • Chriition Stewardship?"' dreated lively and enthusiastic discussion which Was maintained through. out. Pretident 1lerVYri PreSideil. Correction 1(-1 37 KirnberchikS Tit the ad inserted by Cann's Mill Ltd, last week describing this new strain of chicks, the mortality loss at three weeks of age was incorrectly. stated as 18%. The ad should have rad "Our losses at three weeks of age have been only • ONE : PERCENT" • The Thhes.Advecafe .rtetteits This Millosdhig Veer • as to the behaviour of our weath- er but so- .far no efforts have been effective. Many , meteor- ologists hopes. have been raised that our weather observations will- ye.acli .much , further but even in their wildest. dreams they only hope to A -each the ultimate — to positively control our weather. . . Think what it would mean to our civilization the great arid deserts—once the bread baskets of the world — once again could he made productive. Controlled rain fall not too much nor too little, just enough. Raise the humidity for the growing season —Please Turn to Page 12 Ontario Fedora Lure. The council an amendment area of shipper tion of Agrieul- also asked for including time, as the basis for pooling farm products for price payments by Marketing boards. This • now is restricted to amount, size, class, variety or grade. Other resolutions asked the Agriculture Department to en- force minimum standards for farm drainage tile and to con- tinue free vaccination of calves against Brucellosis The Highways Department was asked to make half -yearly licensing of trucks from July 1 instead of Sept. 1. The Depart• ment Lands and Forests was asked to return to townships the authority to regulate and issue township hunting licenses. Deputy Reeve Charles Long, of Shannonville, was elected president of the council, made up of representatives from county councils throughout the province. Crop Report ' By D. H. MILES A nice covering of snow Is protecting the winter crops, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. high as $20.00 Weanling pigs prices are as , Earl Neil. Interest is starting in -the seed grain trade. McGillivray To Proceed With Re xi irs To Ausa le • • McGillivray township has ta1cen1 Connell is considering en in- action to implement the repair grease in read .expenditUres. work on -the Ptsebe Creek and ,!passed a road expropriation by.. Ausable river which was order-ilaw for $49,000:for 1936, enmpar• cd by the Ontario Municipal ,.ed. to $45,000 last year. Board following the hearing on A donation of $70 10 the Wo the 'foamier flood damage snit men's Institute was approved to Goderich in November. 1 be used toward purchase of council, at .its meeting last - tables for the township hall, week, instructed S. W. Arehi- joTeilpeti vdratirniasgtee waapsplaicccaetipotned.of bald, London engineer, to pre- rPeaprocrtsplaonns, thesPedlafliCnaatgwellsrepaanicIr I r" .bounty was set at $2,50 as indicated by the Municipal board.Cnunell received petitions from the New Venice Cord, Ltd, and L. G. Hagmeier to proceed with the wprk. Following the hearing. of the damage suit in Goderich last fall, the municipal board dis- missed the Hagmeier claims for $375,000 in damage. In its writ- ten report, however, the board said: "Since the non -repair of the drain is admitted the board will order that the draM from a point 3,000 feet north of the Devil's Elbow to a point '1,000 feet south of the Devil's Elbow be repaired in such a manner as to provide a capacity equal to the capacity as contained in the McCubbin report." This report covered the drainage work done by McGillivray in 1929 following a court order to provide suffic- ient outlet. Tenders have been' called for construction of the Bice bridge which collapsed when struck by a truck in a fatal accident last year. Plans have been drawn up by M. M. Dillon and Co. Ltd. for the new span. Tenders are to he submitted to council by Febru- ary 21. S. W. Archibald. O.L.S., and Jack McKay, O.L.S,, London, were appointed to prepare plans and specifications on the peti- tion of Frank Dickens and others. These engineers were also appointed to prepare pians in regard to the petition of Henry Jansen and others and include it in the report of the McLean drain, Storms Cancel Farm Forums Owing to heavy road conditions and storms many of the Farm Forum meetings were canceled on Monday night, Faidield forum met at the • home of , Mr. and Mrs, Melvin King with 13 members present. The topic for discussion was cur- rent issues in the farm field. The members expressed them- selves as feeling that farm organ- izations and marketing boards are trying their best but it is dif- ficult to know just what has been accomplished. The next meeting will be held 'HENSALL SALE PRICES Prices Hensall Community Sale Thursday, February 6: Wealing Pigs .. $ 15.50 to $ 17.35 Chunks ........ lll . ll 18,90 21,75 Feeders 25.75 31.60 Sows 90.00 136.00 Holstein Cows 152.00 175.00 Durham Cows 160.00 180.00 Holstein Calves . 10.00 16.00 Durham Calves 25.00 31.00 ALWAYS GET OFF TO A FLYING START WHEN FED ON CO-OP 20% CHICK STARTER FORTIFIED W -H A. I PE. REQUIRED VITAMIW, AND MINERALS AVAILABLE N MASH op( ECANA Medicated Districteter tO•OP HoNe 187 COLLECT OP. EN ALL WEEK $4;00 per cwt. 4 Lots of people have great aims in life, but never pull the trigger. this year, 50 cents less, than last. Those who claimed boun- ties included Jack Hearn ant. Donald Ryan, three each; Erwin Thompson, Arthur Cunningham, . Earl Lewis, Donali. r inkheiner, Cecil Hartle and W. J. Treys" thick. The relief account ,amounted to 41.08.35 and $316.50 was paid tothe county for indigent ',pa- tients. Payments towards assial.ancia on the Burley drain ineituleel; Oscar Crawford, $31; Havey Dtinnell, $7; :William Atmore, $8; Thos. E. Hall, $61; the Mc,. Lean drain, William • Luther, Harvey Ross and Henry Jansen,. $7 each; Frank Dicke)* $2, Ntxt meeting will be held .04 February 22 at 10 a,m. MP Reports • Lobsters For Monkeys In International Trade There are three items in this week's report which. we hope you will find interesting and in- formative, The first concerns trade: the second. deals with a piece of unsigned correspondence and the last item has -to do with education, ln a recent Parliamentary de- bate, the Member for Charlotte, N.B„ Mr, Stuart, was describing the efforts of the lobster fisher- men to expand their export mar- kets. Lobsters deteriorate rapidly when taken from the water and must either be processed at once or frozen. An order for lobsters was obtained from Belgium and in order to get the lobsters to their destination in good condi- tion, they were sent by air in two, plane loads. The return -loads from Bel- gium, in this case, were mon- keys — inonkeys to be used in the process of manufacturing Salk vaccine. I don't know how the monkeys are used in this process hut I thought that this Was an interesting item in our foreign trade — lobsters for monkeys. Last week 1 received an un- signed letter from Glencoe, sug- gesting the hope that the new Farm Prices Stabilization Act could be of use for improving the price of corn. Corn growers may be interested to know that the Corn Producers Association recently requested that arrange- ments be made for a delegation from their Association to meet the Minister of Agriculture and other members of the Govern- ment. The Minister has expressed his willingness to meet such a delegation and so has the Agri- cultural Caucus Committee of Government members. It is hoped that a satisfactory price can be set up under the new legislation. An interesting debate concern- ing federal aid to education took place recently. The debate produced several excellent speeches, including one by the Honourable Dr. Sidney E. Smith, Minister for External Affairs. The discussion centered around the need for more trained scien- tists to keep our western scien- tific development in line with what has been accomplished by Russia. The successful launching of Sputnik and Illutnik has resulted in a thorough re -appraisal of our whole educational system and some startling facts are coming to light. For example, it is re- ported in the January issue of the Atlantic Monthly Magazine that five times as much money is being spent for chewing gum alone as is being spent on pure scientific research. The Educational, Conference at St. Andrews, N.B., in Septem- ber 1956, estimated that -within the next ten or twelve years, we will need to turn out froni three to four times as many engineers and scientists as we now turn out. as well as ten times as many technicians if we are to main- tain our industry in Canada. Dr. Smith pleaded for a well- rounded education. He warned against overstressing scientiiie training for material purposes as constituting a danger to our society. He stated that about ten percent of our young people are now getting a college educa- tion. Some authorities estimate that as many as 25% of our young people are capable of tak- ing university training but Dr. Smith thinks that this figure may be too high. He agrees with other authert- ties that it is uneconomical to waste time and expense on stip , dents who are not mentally or I spiritually equipped for advanced training. He pointed out that salaries and other inducement for scientific training should be increased because we are con- tinuing to lose many of our best minds to the United States. It is interesting to talk about federal aid to education but un- til sorne satisfactory solution to the problem of interfering with Provincial rights in this field is found, not too much is likely to be done about it. "uper" is the word for new Shur -Gain Super Chick Starter This Year, You Can.Get lo% MORE GROWTH ON LESS FEED NOW with a high level of stabilized animal fat SHUR-GAIN Super Chick Starter has a new high energy level that means even faster growth and greater feeding efficiency than ever before. Stabilized animal fat, providing two and a half times the energy of the highest energy grains, has been added at new high level to SHUR. GAIN Super Chick Starter making possible 10% more growth on 10% less fced per pound of growth. Drop in to the mill soon and let's discuss this new feed and what it can mean to the success of your poultry operation. • • FAST UNIFORM CROWN! • 000D RATNER/NC! • LOW NORTAL/TY! What mote could you ask of a chick starter artn's Mill :Ltd. EXETER ....ONTARIO