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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1958-07-10, Page 9• • !!4•.:' • ""r"`"y-'/•••••••:Y,,.4r,.:-..,,,,,, L g„. AREA'S. BIGGEST SILO—This poured concrete silo, the first. of its kind in the area, is also believed to be the largest. Built on the liVilliarns-Weber farm, Usborne, it is 20 feet in diameter and 48 feet high. Picture shows method of construction. Man at top is moving bottom -unloading bucket around tracks of circular forms. Hoist used to lift cement is shown in operation on the right side. Chute at left is part of automatic feeding service installed in the structure. —T -A Photo F!':"..!-7..r.•.!7!!!!7!!!!"..!•!!!':'7.7.7"7"7".'77•77.7.:.7.7.7.•Fr,!nmr.,7».7.r • , •••• • ftv CIRCULAR MANGER FOR 100 -HEAD HERD—R. B. Williams, and his son-in-law, Ralph Weber, show the circular manger which will be used to automatically feed 100 head of cattle from the poured concrete silo which has been erected on their farm. An automatic unloader, placed on top of the silage, will throw corn down the cement chute where it will be distributed around the silo by a revolving track. Owners say the silo will allow them to raise an extra 30 head of cattle without increasing their pasture land. —T -A Photo e exdeaingsabuocide: Second Section EXETER .41,41,Y 10, 19$8 ?pp* Nine' Largest Silo In District Equivalent To 50 Acres Construction of the largest; silo in this district has been com- pleted on the Williams -Weber farm, concession 7, Usborne township. The poured concrete silo, meas- uring 20 feet in diameter and 48 feet in height, is believed to be the first of this kind in this area, Closest known structures of similar nature are at Inger- soll. and Chatham. R. W. `Roly' Williams, the father,and-son parthership enter- prise, says the silo will hold ap- proximately 380 tons of corn and will feed, automatically, 100 bead of cattle the year around. "We figure this silo Will be equal to purchasing another 50 acres of land for pasture," Mr. Williams says. The partners, who farm 150 Acres oh concession 7 and an- other 50 on cOndession' 6, plan to increase their beef herd from 70 to 100 and feed them in a 705;100' enclosure around the silo. The herd won't be put out on pasture in the summer. "We think we'll save enough in fencing alone to pay for the silo in five years," Mr, Williams says. The partners have sown 35 acres of corn this spring to fill the silo .for winter feed. They plan to turn some of their pas- tures into grain fields next year. The silo has a concrete chute an one side, leading to a revol- Fieldman Resigns Sugar Beet Post Bill Amos, R.R. 8, Parkhill, announced this week that Jack Ross, Thedford, will gucceed him as field man for the Canada and Dominion Sugar Co, at the end of this month. Mr. Amos, clerk of vray Township, said he has resigned because of the "pressure of other work," He will continue as township . clerk and develop the insurance business estab- lished by his late father. Mr. Amos has been sugar beet fieldinan in this area for seven years. The appointment of Mr. Ross will be effective until the end of this year, vmmummommomm t m ll tt mimmmummimmummummtm ttttt tttt t tt mmmimmommemou WATERLOO CATTLE BREEDING ASSOCIATION 'Where Better Bulls Are Used" R EM EM E R OUR ANNUM. 'BULL NIGHT • Tues, July 15 7:30 p.nt: Everyone Is Welcome 13ring The Whole: Petrillo Our number of services continues to increase. During I our 01•40tittlt fiscal year from December 1/57 to June 30/Sat 43,645 cows have been inseminated or 7,90 more then during the same period the previous yeer. This is a greeter increase than hes .04,0er been exper- ienced in a full year except in 1052 when the territory And number of breeds served *o'r' Vanded. • 1: 'The result for more people he BETTER dAttLE FOR BETTER LIVING For service or mere Iliferniatiert phone aelledt CLINtON HU 1.340 . tilfw06111 1flitn4 906 cnt. fIIIIIIII,Initatmovotimotiotrimitifiromitintitm.miumottirommifonomffi (OM t Hog'PlonDeendsOn..41:41-* Jud:gei.n Won't Affect Istue... gled in legal tape, its existence •1 appears to he .contingent more • upon the outcome of the July 25 vote than any, other factor. Recent court Judgement .de• Glaring the scheme invalid, won't apply if producers approve it .10 • the necessary two-thirds major. Uy in this month's ballot, gov- ernment officials have indicated. The decision was based %VA • ,:' the fact that the scheme had. •never been voted upon; after ,July 25 that objection weal :ap• 1 Even so, however, it appears that both the department and the• hogco-op don't agree with •!the recent Judgement, handed . I.down by Mr. Justice R. I. Fergu- , !son in connection with. the i Knights case at Blenheim. The hog board has already announced lit will appeal 'the ruling. .According to officials of A.gri• culture, to whom The Times -Ad• vocate talked Tuesday, the im. portant point is the entire con- troversy in the .approaching vote. If it's approved, the plan —or whatever scheme hog pro,. ducers through their organiza,. tion wish to implement — will be effective. If it is defeated, producers will revert to their old system of marketing hogs individually, without a sales re, presentative. "The Ontario hog producers marketing plan is continuing to operate as usual without any in- teruption or change," stated Charles W. McInnis, president of the OntarioHog Producers'. Co-operative in a ..staternent is- sued Monday after a special. ses- sion of'th.e board of directors of the co-operative. According to Mr. McInnis, the Eight 4-H clubs in South recent decision of Mr. Justice Huron will take a bus tour to Ferguson which. suggested the Wallaceburg and :Ridgetown on plan was, not valid, will have no Wednesday, July )6. effect on the holding of the ple- This tri.p is the annual 4-}f bi.scite of hog producers planned for July 25. "This rl,ecision . Justice' PROTECTION FOR POULTRY—With the develop- Ferguson statedof MMrr. McInnis, ment of live virus vaccines for treatment of infectious "was made under provisions in bronchitis and Newcastle disease in poultry. J. W. Weber I the Farm Products Marketing f Ltd., Exeter, recently installed a walk-in refrigeration unit Act oOntario which was in effect in 1957. in its new plant on Highway 83 which will stock sufficient ..However. these provisions quantities to treat 80 million birds. The vaccines will be were amended by the Ontario available to poultry producers throughout eastern Canada legislature at its last session and amendmnts became law this I on overnight service. Above, Alexia Lostell and Warren 1the spring on. March '27, 1958. The Sanders, two employees of the firm, prepare a shipment. I defects in the Ontario hog pro- ducers marketing plan found in the decision of Mr. Justice. Fer- guson can readily be corrected under the recent amendments to ,t4hc,, et.Farm Products Marketing According to Mr. McInnis charges now pending against Clarence Knights are definitely not being dropped as a result of tate decision and instructions to appeal have been given to the co-op's solicitor. Letter To The Editor Claims Hog Producers Should Refund Money ment to producers. To this I To The Editor; 1 If Devon Smith of the Telegram !will state that under the old sys- la an authority on by economics, lie1 tem, I received my payment i certainly didn't show it. his 1 half the time, in all cases. 'Facts , comments on the hog ,le\ntha?t are Had he looked just a wee bit I A ah market- yaoreu facts, Mr. debt co-op also claimed .that Atolr.doEdvii,tiothr. ing situation in The Times -Advo- : cake last week. 1, The President of the voided and could have found, beside that 1 he 'What are now payable at, par. , sional cost accounting shows closer under that bushel, nonsense! A little proles - light, that the hog board was ope- I that the hog raiser stili pays as rating illegally, as did the On usual for this service. tario Supreme Court last Fri -1 'rhe statement at Markdale day. I that marketing places (yards) Mr, Smith complains that l'a! assured the buyer of delivery is lot of strange characters have; pure nonsense again. I have used the farmers' problems as , never yet heard of the farmers' personal stepping stones to fame !hogs being delivered to any other and fortune." He can mean only I place but the packers who bought that gang who cooked up the I them, Any farmer has access to present invalidated scheme, as, a number of reliable and trust - they have reaped a tidy for- i worthy truckers in every coni - tune each year—a mere 5700,000 munity, last year. As to the fame they ; if the farmer is really inte- acquired, a more accurate word 'rested in bettering his position, then he had better wake up to the simple facts of life and vote accordingly on July 25. Leonard Grebb, Hay Township. would be infamy. Apparently Mr. Smith is not an expert voca- bulist. Much as I would like to point. out the hopeless inanity of Mr. Smith's further remarks, time' and space prohibits, amount (this is a quick guess). I,y t Clubs Getting back to that $700,000 Since the sum was collected under compulsion by an illegal scheme, V. • S it WOAS then every hog producer so in- volved should have recourse at law to recover tach monies taken from him. The only joker to this is that the hog co-op went about 530,000 in the hole last year. Any person is only allowed. one guess tour which in the past bas been as to where a large part of this taken by all the 4-H clubs in three quarters of a million dol - the county, This year, however, lars went, 1 each club is responsiblefor its And just what did the farmer own tour, and the eight in South receive in return for this huge sum? Nothing or rather less than Huron decided to co-operate on nothing since extra shrinkage, due to assembly yard system, plus extra trucking away from yards, would amount to another tidy amount and it alt conies out of the farmer's share of the hog, since there is no other source from which these addi- tional costs can come, in our present economy. I would at this point like to reveal another fact which. any top executive of the trade will vouch for, and it's that in many cases of hogs delivered to pack- ing house from assembly yards, the tattoo mark is unreadable due to excessive rubbing and scuffing. Thus many a farmer has been paid for another man's hog. Recently, Mr. McInnis bragged that he is going to do something about the pigs being bootlegged into Quebec. It would be inter- esting to know how he is going to do anything, being ultra vires never were any hogs bootlegged into Quebec. We farmers who do Ship to Quebec (and thereby ob- tain a higher return per hog) do so in broad daylight as free men engaged -in a free trade as befits a free nation under our B.N.A. Act; of 1867. At Markdale two weeks ago. in opening the campaign to keep himself and his gang in the gravy after the July 25 vote, Mr. McInnis used a steady stream of bog -wash in addressing what he hoped was a crowd of gullible farmers. He claimed that there was now prompt pay- ving manger which circles the silo at the bottom. An automatic unloader will through the corn into the chute and a revolving track will. distribute it around the circular manger, • which is the equivalent of 80 -foot of straight manger. Construction itself is a novel feature of the silo. Built by bro- thers Eric and George Scott, Hawkestone, it was poured in eight days, one six-foot section at a time. , The circular scaffolding, with the attached "U" tor the chute, was supported on the inside only by one :four -inch steel pole in 1.0 -foot sections, Cement was poured by means of a bottom - unloading bucket which travels on tracks at the top of the forms. A gasoline motor operated the hoist which carries the ce- ment to the top of the silo, Nearly a ton of reinforcing steel was used in construction, Middlesex Soil and Crop I provement A ssoci a ti on Twilight Crop Tour Mon4ay, July 14 Tour Schedulot * 6:0 p.m. Cuddyi$ Turkey Fern:, Highway 81 * 7:15 Brent PeSture Perm, Highway 21 * 7.54 p.m. S. 'N. Nothorcoft 8. Sons, north of Keysers * 8,45 p.m. Alex M. 5tewart & Sons, Aliso: Creltg SPEAKERS, DISUCUSSIONS AND FREE LUNCH Evcoyonii Woltons a combined till). The bus will leave Exeter about 7 a.m., end proceed to Wallaceburg for an hour's tour of the Dominion Glass Co. fac- tory there. The group will then proceed. to the Western Ontario Agricultural School at Ridge - town where members will see the tests and experiments which are •being conducted. Six clubs in Central Huron are planning a tour of. Bruce County on Tuesday, July 15. Middlesex Urge Vote "Local farers have a lot at The clerks throughout Huron stake when voting takes place County seem to have done a July 25 on the hog marketing very good job of preparing the plan," says Mac Gray, president voters' lists for July 25. ln most; of the Middlesex Hog Producers cases, the farm organizations I ' / • Association. did some revising and a small of the law. Moreover, there , i . • number of farmers had their „-og production•, /!' s p na mes removed. ( '/ to local farmers, as the county is consistently in the top ten If your name was removed you hog producing counties in the will receive a !letter from the clerk informing you of this. If province," Mr. Gray feels that the Ontario you feel your name .should be on the list, you can appeal by letter to the Farm Products Board, Parliament Buildings. Toronto. The hearing is set for July 14, 15 and 16. If you are to have a vote, you plan has been in opereion. : Mr. Gray says the biggest Job i regsutine reilneent mu tso:ne of the follovving is to be sure that producers are . of the First, you may he the owner facing the local committee now 1 pr informed as to what is at stake 1 hogs are porpoedrttre ed;on which the ' — Please Turn To Page 14 1 — Please Turn To Page 14 Fieldman Comments Hog Producer Appeal Set For July 14-16 Hog Producers Association and its selling agency, the Ontario Hog Producers Co-operative, have accomplished a great deal in ,the short time the markeing ----ATTENTION 1 1 HOG PRODUCERS A vote on the continuance of the Ontario Hog Producers' Marketing plan will be held on Friday, July 25th. Polls will be open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., local tiMe. 1 A list of voters is being prepared by your Municipal Clerk. If you are a hog producer /take sure your name is listed. Remember you must vote in the Township in which you reside. 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