The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1958-06-26, Page 11n4
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TELETYPE COMMUNICATIONS WITH 16 MARKET YARDS A staff member at
the Toronto head office of the Ontario Hog Producers' Co-operative, shows one of the
new teletype machines to S. P. Hallahan, Belgrave; Leslie Fortune, Wingham, and Carl
Hemingway, Brussels, Huron Federation of Agriculture fieldman, during a tour of the
co-operative. The teletype machine keeps office in close contact with 16 market yards.
HURON PRODUCERS VISIT HOG CO-OP -Huron hog producer officials were shown
the large blackboard on which daily sales are recorded at the head. office of the Ontario
Co-operative in Toronto during a recent tour. R. E. Grey, a salesman for the co-op,
explains the operation to Elmer Ireland, Wingham.
Turnip Return Survey
Shows Range In Profits
Net returns from turnip crops
ranged from •a profit of $4,100
to a loss of $540 in a season, an
Ontario agriculeurat department
survey of production costs re-
veals. '
Excerpts and charts from the
summary follow:
. Turnip costs are about four
times those for spring grain due
largely td high machinery use
in land preparation and high
lebour use in summer work and
harvesting. Cash outlays are not,
high,
No two growers used exactly
the same production and market.
ing methods and financial suc-
cess varied greatly from farm to
farm. In one year the most sue.
cessful grower obtained net re.
turns of $4,100 from •his crop,
whereas another grower sus-
tained a net Joss of $540 for the
season.
Profitable production is based
en _marketing a substantial part
of the crop, Sect salvaging the
remainder as livestock feed, Few
growers were Ate to keep their
costs below the feeding value of
18e per bushel.
Net returns from turnip grow-
ing imprinted as:
1. Acreage per farm increased.
2. Sales per acre increased.
3. Labour requiremeMs de.
&eased,
4, Crop value per dollar invest-
ed improved.
, While strength in each of these
Meters teedricim to IMPeOed tare.
irige, weakness M any one was
StriOUS. "Average" ia not a IOW,
atandard, but each 'extra fatter'
blow average cut iitretures
th half. Mote than IVO tatters
below average restated in net
bases.
Production advantages appear- Labour 'requirements of 91
ed when:
(a) Turnips followed cereal
crops in the, rotation.
(b) Proper land preparation
was accomplished by less than
13 times over,
(c) Summer work was accom-
plished in less than four times
over.
(d) Small applications of man-
ure and liberal amounts of fer-
tilizer were used.
(c). Turnips were grown on
naturally well -drained soil tsgies
'of medium texture in zones of
little moisture deficiency.
Average Costs Per Acre
Per
item Value Cent
Labour $ 75 54
Power and Machines 32 23
Materials:
(Manure, fertilizer,
spray, seed) 22 16
Land (Taxes,
interest, rent) 5 4
Storage, (Interest
depreciation, repairs 4 3
Total
$138 100
hours per acre (9.1 man work
units) are about the same as
for potatoes, and about 10 times
that of cereal crops.
Average Labour Requirements
Per Acre
Item "Value
Seed -bed Preparation 11
Planting 1
Sum m er Work 14
Harvesting 45
Storage & Marketing 10
Per
Cent.
12
1
26
50
11
Total 91
100
The average margin of 29 per
cent over measurable, costs is
sufficient to justify the crop as
a major farm enterprise in areas
of suitable soil, climate, and
marketing facilities. ,
Where the crop can be handled
with the regular farm labour
and equipment, the gross re-
turns per Acle are sufficient to.
make the crop a satisfactory
seeondary enterprise even, on
small acreages.
SIGNIFICANT DATAPROM TURNIP STUDY
Number Of Records
BuSinen Factors
Acres Turnips per rarirt
Total Yield per Acre
Saks per Acre
Pre Harvest Labour
(Hours per acre)
Capital Turtiever
(G1.688 Returns per
Sten Land Value)
Returns
Per Acre: Crop Value
Total Costs
Net Ileturns
Net per ttishel
Net per Patin
Per flour ef Labour
(bus.)
(bus,)
1951 1032
34;73
•
4.1 3.8
566 480
402-
33 38
Three.
Year
1053 4 Period
61 103
3.8
56't
ast
aa
$ 432 231 281
t 235
1b0'
$ 134 136
5 121 23
e 21 5
$• 404 86
$ 2.13 1.01
•• 181
142
7
109
1.13
3.0
531
289
36
316
194
137
5'7
11
1.81
220
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Cattle 'ExporU Set R.cipid Pace
Manitoba Juniors
Guest In Huron
- - -
Two junior farmers from 41 n -
'Reba visit, in Huron County
Jest week. They were guests of
North Huron Junior Farmers.
Ivan Jeffries, Glenboro, Mae.,
and Reinhold Holinski, Darling -
ford, Man., inspected a num-
ber of farms in the county and
appeared on a CKNX-TV show
during their stay in the county.
They have moved to Haldimond
county. •
Two years ago, two jtinior far-
mers from Huron were enter-
tained on a shriller visit to Man-
itoba. .
Soil, Crop
Tour Area
Farms of H. H. G. Strang, R,R.
1 Hensall; Ross Marshall, R.R.
1 Kirkton, SHDHS experimental
plots and the Kiondyke Gardens
were among the points of inter-
est visited by 30 members of
Huron County Soil and Crop
Improvement Association last
week.
At the farm of Mr. Strang,
they viewed the new pole barn
which has replaced the building
which was burned last year, ,An
elite seed grower, Mr. Stranggle-
signed the barn for seed clean-
ing and storage.
At kirkton, the group saw the
results of the line breeding ef-
forts of Ross Marshall, who is
milking 25 Holsteins at present
and has a Toronto market. His
yearly output is 325,000 pounds.
Experimental projects being
carried out by the agricultural
department of SHDHS were ex-
plained by teacher Andrew Di-
xon. Mr. Dixon said tests in'
transplanting of sugar beets had
proven partly $uccessful in that
transplants were more than twice
the size of plants which had not
been transplanted. He spoke of
the possibility of using machi-
nery for this job, such as the
transplanters used by tobacco
growers.
The group was also shown the
landscaping done by the stu-
dents, the school barn, perennial
bed, school garden and eXperi-
mental plots.
At Grand Bend, the farmers
visited the lelo d ke G
SEED GROWEIZS' BARBECUE - Oven 200 members of the Canadian Seed Growers'
Association gathered at the Ontario Agricultural College recently for the annual meet.
Mg. Canada's leading seed growers heard addresses by the top men in the seed industry
in a busy round of events, but are shown here as they took off for a chicken barbecue
dinner on the beautiful O.A.C. campus. At right are Mr. and Mrs. Harry Strang,
Hensall, with. Mr. and Mrs. John R. Hargreaves, Beachville.
Fieldman Comments
Inspect Hog Operation
By CARL HEMINGWAY :United Co -Operatives have in -
A busload of Huron County 000 in 1958,
I creased. their volume by $5,000,-i
farmers took a trip to the; There has been a story going
Ontario hog producers' offices , the rounds that this coming hog
and the United. Co -Operative's. vote is on the matter of market -
plant in Toronto, June 19, ,ing yards. .This story is ap-
parently being circulated to con-
fuse the farmer who hasn't time
but wasn't quite filled as farmers . to get the right information.
should know more about the size We have been told by the
and accomplishments of their I chairman of the Farm P'roducts
• Marketing, Board that the ques-
organizations.
These farmers now have a don on the ballot will he "Are
much better understanding a I you in favour of the present On -
the problem of selling snm-e- 1 ntaiarinorpog Producers' marketing
35,000 hogs a week and the work 1 '
1 The present marketing plan
necessary to keep the daily
record of sales to the different:bg3irves the details of organization
packers. which there can be direct
roducer - controlled marketing
n y al ens, p •
and the 'vegetable storage plaht At the U.C.O. offices, we again
As far as the marketing yards
there. They were told that the saw the efficient manner in
are concerned that is only one
land had risen in value from which farmers can conduct their method under the plan and if
$1.00 an acre to $350 an acre business. While most businesses you do not approve you can in -
since the project was begun. are thinking of a recession, dicate the change in method at
A tour of Stacey Bros, cream- the next annual meeting of your
ery at IVIitchell showed the menu- . .
facture of butter and powdered
milk. This firm has 1,000 milk
patrons and 350 cream patrons
and handles a total of 350,000
pounds daily.
A continuous process butter -
making machine, invented and
manufactured in •:Europe, was
seen in Mieration. The cream,
coloring and salt are put in one
vat and the machine takes .over,
producing butter in a single ope.
ration. The finished product
leaves this section in 8 -inch
squares and is then autoinati-
,Date for the vote is July 25.
catty cut into one pound prints
Township clerks will be return-
touchedand wrapped without .being
ing officers and poll clerks. It
by human hands.
. ' • is up to producers to make sure
See 74. 000
0
organization.
If you vote "NO" an July 25,
you are really saying that you
• do not want to have any part
n Hog Lists in controlline the sale ok your
According to information re-
leased., by the Farm Products
Marketing Board, there are
74,000 people eligible to vote on
product. You are saying that
farmers 'haven't the ability and
shouldn't have the right to mar-
ket the results of their labour.
If you vote "YES" you are
whether or not to keep the, hog saying that producers have the
marketing scheme now in ef. ability and, should have the right
feet in Ontario. Voters lists have to sell their product in whatever
been compiled, in more than 400
of the 420 townships involved. Rodger Schwass
The group ate at the home of
Mrs. Arthur 'Rundle, and Huron- their names are on the lists when
dale W.I. catered. they are posted in post offices
on. June 28. Those not included
should appear before revising of -
PRICES ricers for their own townships
512.70 to 515.50 on July 4, and have their name
16.85 22.90 added.
24.00 30.00 The Hon. W. A. Goodfellow,
79.00 114.00 minister of agriculture has
155.00 185.00 stated that "it is particularly
175 00 200.00 desirable by the board and my -
33.00 self that the lists should be as
58.00 accurate as humanly possible."
HENSALL SALE
Weanling pigs
Chunks
Feeders
Sows
Holsein cows
Durham cows
Holstein calves 21,00
Durham calves .. 32.00
Explain Co-op Sales
To Provincial Press
(The Globe & Mail)
Charlie McInni,s, president of
the Ontario Hog ProducersCo-
operative, arid Jake Kohler,
general manager,took Hine out
Tuesday to explain some of the
fine points of the marketing
program for hogs before getting
back to their campaign duties in
preparation for the plebiscite on
the plan to be held July 25.
At a press conference in On-
tario Federation of Agriculture
headquarters at Toronto the two
explained that the program
should. be maintained for two
simple reasons; to maintain
competition in hog sales and get
the farmer the best possible
prices for his product, and also
to keep eontrol of the product in
the predueers' hands.
Mr. McInnie and Mr. Kohler,
neither of whom couid he ac,
eused of being hesitant when it
comes to defending their favor-
ite method of selling hogs, didn't
launeh any tirades AgAinst their
opporients, considered by these
men 16 be some drovers and
shippers and about fottr of the
larger packing IMuses, but mere-
ly laimed that less of theslh
ing system would dig rather
deeply into the fareier's Vieket.
book. At the sante hitt, they
said, they didn't feel it would
help the tensunier,
Mr. Meleilie said he fell a
Woke at a-ta cements of packers'
profile At The end of the year
would ilidieate the extent
1 their concern for the coesumer.
He Also had a few words to
!say about Dutch Clock auctions,
a system which, it has been in -
(fleeted, would find favor with
proccssors.
(At present the marketing me
gatization, alter study of whole-
sale and retail prices and hog
movements, sets an asking price
and then bargains with buyers.
")3ids are kept secret, and buyers
do not know what other buyers
have offered.)
t
'Editor Of Forum
Rodger Schwass. for three
years associate farm director at
CKNX radio and television,
Wingham, has been appointed
editor in the national office of
farm forums.
The newly -created position
will include the editing of the
Farm Forum Guide and the
preparation of news releases and
summaries. The new editor will
work closely with the television
committee and the CBC in the
preparation of farm forum broad-
casts and in the production of
related telecasts.
A Bruce County farmer, Mr.
Schwass has assisted with the ' s
production of programs for re- i
dio.TV farm broadcasts at
CKNX. s
1
manner a large majority choose.
The farmers who went to Toronto
June 19 certainly know that their
orgainzations have the ability
and areieeing a remarkably good
job of marketing.
Only one young lady has in-
dicated that she would like to be
a dairy princess and have the
opportunity of competing for a
trip to Britain. Entries must be
in by July 10. Contest will be
held in conjunction with the Soil
and Crop Improvement twi-
light meeting(
Did you know Quebec tobacco
growers voted 95e's in favour of
a marketing plan like the one
in Ontario?
Hog Charges
Set July 15
Charges against Howard Smale,
Hensall, and Joseph Corey, Op -
ton, over death and. injury to
pigs sold through the hog co-op
assembly yard will be heard in
Clinton on Tuesday, July , i
was revealed this week by In-
spector A. E. Jennings, of the
Ontario Society for Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals, Carlow.
Ai. Jennings declthed Lo state
the nature of the charges.
He did not verify a press re-
port last week which stated that
four pigs were found dead in a
truck driven by Mr. Smale for
the co-operative, which was bear-
ing about 12 to 15 hogs more
than is permitted under regula-
tions.
The charges were laid as a
result. of an investigation carried
nut on June f7 at the Clinton
assembly yards.
Inspector Jennings stated that
methods and practices used in
transporting live stock are not
good in some cases. Warnings
have been issued and in most
cases, drivers and companies
have co-operated.
Exeter Beef Club
Views Shorthorns
Exeter 4-H Beef Calf Club
judged Shorthoen cattle on the
farm of Jack Peck. Kippen, dur.
ing a recent meeting.
Members also answered a
quiz.
Among those taking part in
the program were Dort Hen-
drick, Doris Cornish and John
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A substantial increase in the
number of hogs marketed across
the country over the same per-
iod a year ago is shown
Canada Department of Agricul-
ture figures.
Gradings for the past seven
weeks have averaged a little
over 114,000, about 10,000 more
per week than for the same time
in 1957, Ralph K. Bennett, head
of merchandising section, live-
stock products, Marketing Ser.!
vice, pointed out.
This is an increase of about
11 per cent.
At the same time prices have
been higher, averaging about 33
cents at Toronto for the seven
weeks, competed to about 301/2
cents a year ago.
At the present time, Mr. Bet -
nett said, hog prices are largely
determined by the balance be-
tween the runs and the domestic
demand because price levels in
this country are above the
equivalent of the United States
price,
Cattle Exports Up
Canada's cattle exports have
been setting a rapid pace so far
this year, in direct contrast to
the same period in. 1957, Ralph
K. Bennett, head of merchandis-
ing section, livestock products
division, Marketing Service, Ca-
nada Department of Agriculture,
indicated today.
He pointed out exports have
been the equivalent of about
8,600 cattle a week, or nearly 20
per cent of marketings.
This total of 190,000 cattle has
been made up of the weekly
averages of 1,500 slaughter cat -
Ile, 5,200 .feeders and 1,900 in
the form of dressed beef.
This, he said, is compared with
very little export for the first
five months last year.
Exports of slaughter cattle
have been fairly steady right
through this year, said Mr.
Bennett.
However, since the middle of
April, the movement of feeder
cattle south has dropped off
sharply. More export demand
was reported during the past
week.
Achievement Day
Set For Seaforth
According to Miss Shirley Pat-
terson, home economist for
Huron Cotmty, 24 homemaking
clubs in the c,..unty will hold
Achievement Days t h e first
week in July.
The South Huron group com-
prising nine clubs will meet at
Seaforth District High School on
Thursday, July 3. The project of
the clubs has been "The Club
Girl Stands on Guard."
During the morning sessions
commencing at 9 o'clock with
registration the girls will judge
four family menus giving reasons
and will identify safety hazards'
Stating a safety rule in connec.
tion with each.
In the afternoon sessions eack
club will be given the opportunity
to present a ten minute exhibit
or give a demonstration or skit.
Leaders in South Huron are: '
Crediton, Mrs. Ed. Lampert,
Mrs. Lorne Hodge; Dashwood,
Mrs. M. J. Tiernan, Mrs. H. ,
Hoffman; Elimville, Mrs. Nor.
man Jaques, Miss Ruth Skinner;
Grand Bend, Mrs. Ed. GUI, Mrs, i
Don Hendrick; Huronciale, Mrs.
Alvin Moir, Mrs. Hugh Love;
Seafortli District, Mrs. W. L. I
Whyte, Mrs. 3. Broadfoot; Seas !
forth, Mrs. Dale Nixon, Mrs. G. •
McKenzie.
All parents, friends and meine ".
bers of Womert's Institutes are
urged to attend Achievement
Day.
The project chosen for the 1 all
of 1958 is The Cereal Shelf."
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