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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1959-05-07, Page 11ARBOR DAY AT MORRISON DAM—David, Lois and Gordon. Chapel, SS 6 'Osborne, made tree planting a familyroject during the ARCA arbor day program. at'Morrison Dam Friday. Theywere amongthe 80 'Osborne children who planted 1,000 trees on the north s de othe reservoir.-sg—Jack Doerr e Farm News of 9 0771 NURON and /f/ORT N MIDDLESEXY..,r f r r Now believe believe hog vote i still some time away A new plebiscite among far- mers over Ontario's controver- i.ial bog marketing plan appears to be some time away. Apart from an imminent pro- vincial election the main argu- ment for postponing a vote seems to be negotiations between. meat packers and the hog co-operative to develop a mutually acceptable system of marketing. lit an interview last week, Agribpltur.e Minister Goodfellow said he can make no definite statement; of prospects for a vote despite an application for one now !before Chief Justice 3, C. McRuer of the Ontario S'h- prem.e Court. "The chief justice left it in More drains for Stephen Stephen township council dealt with two drains at its meeting Tuesday evening. The plan of James Howes, OLS, Listowel, for moving the course of the Walker drain was accepted and his report on the Mud Creek municipal drain was approved. Tenders for supply of 1,000 bags of cement or less for bridge construction was let to Tieman's Hardware, Dashwood, at an un- disclosed price. Truck insurance and Work- men's Compensation contracts were renewed. • Reeve Glenn Webb presided and all members were present. Form club Wednesday Organization meeting for, what is hoped to be a bigger and bet- ter South Huron .4-H white bean club has been. set for Wednes- day, May 13, Arthur S. Bolton, associate ag rep, announced this week. The meeting will be held in Hensel., town hall starting at 8:30 p.m. "Last year's club was very successful and we hope this year it willbe bigger and better than ever," said Mr. Bolton. "We will outline the year's project and have the necessary materials, including seed, ready for distribution to'th.d club Mem- bers at this meeting. We would. suggest; that; all those planning to join he present; and to bring any others who may be interest- ed." abeyance and. Indicated a vote should be calledbut there are some other things that should be straightened out," Mr. Goodfel- low :said, Study news system .He said he was referring to the negotiations between. the Meat Packers' Council of Canada and the Ontario Hog Producers' Mar- keting Board, Bell telephone Company had been working on a system of recorded teletype bj.ds that might go further even than setting differences between the two groups. "I think it would take away a lot of opposition .among produ- cers who aren't; satisfied with the plan as it is," said the agricul- ture minister. The packers and the hoard held their last meeting Monday but comment on progress :so far was declined by both board sec- retary H. K. Leckie. It was understood, however, that the packers still are seeking to get some auction features into the marketing scheme. A new plesbiscite could be spurred by dissident hog produ- cers who object to . regulations making shipment to the assem- bly yards compulsory. Their lawyer, B. J. Mackinnon of Tor- onto, says he is awaiting a de- finite statement from M.r. Good- fellow or. the Ontario Farm. Pro- ducts Marketing Board before pressing his application for a new vote, "I've written to them asking for a yes or no answer. As mat- ters stand they've just stalled for about three months." Mr. Mackinnon argues a vote is needed because of a letter written by Mr. Goodfellow to hog association president E l d r e d Aiken in 1957. It said a vote would be needed but the subse- quent plebiscite has since been tossed out. The hog board is confident no vote will be held in the imme- diate future, however. "M far as we know the gov- ernpient considers last July's vote was an indication the ma- jority of producers favored' the plan," says Mr. Boynton, Meanwhile, the hog board has postponed its plans to extend the marketing plan into Eastern On- tario and increase its assembly Alfred. Bernhard Nobel, found- er of the Nobel Prizes, was a rich bachelor who made his for- tune in oil and dynamite, says Encyclopaedia Britannica. The prizes, five in number, are open to all nationalities andcover physics and chemistry; medicine or physiology; literature; and Peace. • NNMNtttM40thttMMIMMW40WW0,10m.41 Amio MItitt",nttfitMttttM,ttttMt11M W M,MlttnliMlll MO, CYCO(OGYSEZ: 6tocA1•nA (MAFNS IM/ rhe_ reg. WELL m BRING, UP `FOUR CHILDREN 50' OTHERS WILL LIKE THEM BESIDES YOURSELF Chipman Weed Sprays Simazin for Weed Control In Corn GRAIN -FEED -SEED EIETERd''.'v 135•..WHALEN CORNERS so . KIR1lTON 35815 yards to 25. In March eight East- ern Ontario counties were dropped. by the board from its jurisdiction, At that time the board. said 30,000,000 pounds of surplus pork infreezers made it "very prob- able" that hog prices would "ap- proximate to the government floor for some time." Tuckersmith picks official Tuckersmith council, meeting Mond a y afternoon, appointed William Campbell tile drainage inspector. Adrian Timmermans .requested council to improve a drainage tuation adjoining his farm. Coun- cil promised to investigate the matter. Rudolph Etue requested council to repair a fence which he claimed was damaged as a re- sult of snow plowing operations. Council was of the opinion that no action could be taken. Bylaw providing for an in- crease in interest rates from 51/4 to 51/4 on borrowing at the bank was passed. - Council joined the Huron coun- ty municipal officers association. Membership fee of $20 was paid. The, spring meeting will be held in Varna on May 26. Reeve Ivan Forsyth presided and all members were present. Council adjourned to meet June 2 at 8 p.m. Second Section (5Meri (gimesabuocafe EXETER, ONTARIO, MAY 7, 1959 Pigs ElAwler� Thomas reports MP urges producers work out pooling plan BY W. H. A. THOMAS. Middlesex West MP The Agricultural Prices Stabi- lization Act has been in opera- tion for about a year, The time has come to review the results of its operation and to renew support prices where necessary. The act provides that the gov- ernment may stabilize the price of any farm commodity for a year ahead, In the case of the nine named commodities, which are: wheat, oats, barley, grown outside the prairie provinces, cattle, sheep, hogs, butter, cheese and eggs, the govern- ment must stabilize the price every year .at not less than 80`' of the average price for the last ten years. In addition to the nine named commodities in the act, the gov- ernment designated 12 other ag- ricultural products for price stabilization in 1958, These were: skim milk powder, wool, soya - beans, sugar beets, tomatoes, asparagus, raspberries, apricots, apples, honey, peaches, and tur- keys. The stabilized price on these producis ranged from 80% of the ten-year average up to 112%. The two highest were wool at 110% and canned tomatoes at 112"x, Those stabilized at the lowest level were steers, lambs, wheat, oats, barley and apricots. Fortunately, the prices of sev- eral of these products, notably cattle, remained well above the support price all through 1958. So far, the support prices for 1959 have been announced on four commodities: hogs, butter, cheese., and skim milk powder. The method of supporting hogs will be changed, As soon as ar- rangements can, be completed, deficiency payments will be made direct to producers and a limit will. be set on the number of hogs for which any producer may collect. This is intended to encourage the family=sizedfarm operation and discourage the, present trendto vertical inte- grationby feed companies and packing companies and chain stores. Dairy supports for 1959 are designed to provide approxi - also changed. The new plan is mately the same overall level of support to the dairy industry as was provided. in 1958. It is planned to stimulate butter pro- duction at the same level, to en- courage an increase in cheese production and to discourage the present trend„ to overproduction of skim milk powder. To graduate from WOAS Three youths from the Wood. - ham -Granton area and one from the Seaforth district are among the 45 who will graduate May 12 from Western Ontario Agri- cultural School at Ridgetown. r The district students include Fred Oelbridge, W o o d'h a m; Charles O'Shea and Gordon Hodg- ing, Granton, and Ken Coleman, Seaforth. Among the 41• graduates of the two-year diploma course at OAC, Guelph, are W. E. Hodgins, Parkhill, and T. G. Sawyer, Science Hill. new BALER that -Vi4LUfS' them all! McCO RM ICK No. 46 Your baler dollar never went so far! Here's capacity that cuts cost -per -bale down to size. Up to 13 tolls per hour according to jcrrmer.teports. She just bales and Gales! Cottle and see why—tee positive power flow; extra wide feed opening; short, full floating :auger; wide -sweep packer .finger's, Almost n miracle! Big hay season staring you in the face? You'll be fortified with a 46! Date us for a demonstration now. PHONE ON V, L. Becker b:. Sons D'ASHWOOD After the end of September, there will he no further support for the price of skim milk pow- der but a subsidy of 250 per hundred pounds will he paid for milk used for manufacturing. Between May 1 and. September 30, the support price on skim mit>n powder is reduced from 150" to 100 per. pound. The support price on cheese is lowered by 20 per pound, but a subsidy of 254 per hundred will be paid on milk used for cheese. One of the major contributing factors to the surplus milk prob- lem has been that the'produc- ers of milk for the bottled milk trade have been producing an unreasonable surplus above their quota. This surplus competes with the milk which is produced. for manufacturing by farmers who cannot have a quota in sup- plying the bottled milk trade. There is a feeling that the pro- ducers of milk for bottling, who enjoy a very favorable price, have been unfair about their sur- plus milk. The new support plan eliminates them from any sub- sidy payments. 1! , is sincerely v hoped by the members on the standing com- mittee on agriculture, and by others interested in the dairy industry, that the dairy produc- ers themselves willdevise some plan for pooling bottling milk andmilk for manufacture that willhave the effect of control- ling surplus milk andprevent it from depressing prices in the industry. Dam gets trees and tiroitt at arbor day program The Morrison dam in Usborne Township received 1,000 trees and 1,000 trout Friday during the Ausable Authority's annual arbor day program. The trout won't last long --- already 700 have been caught w-- but the trees should remain for' many, many years. Over 80 senior pupils from Heldman comments Will consumer binefit from price declines? By ,I. CARL HEMINGWAY Huron FA Fieldnian "Eggs are 800 a dozen." I didn't know this either until April 24 when returning from the Ontario Beef Producers meeting in Toronto I stopped at .a res- taurant es-taur.ant near Brampton for sup- per, While waiting for my order a man and. I presume his wife sat inat the next table. While they were talking I overheard the lady say "eggs are 80¢ a dozen." Were they turkey, duck or perhaps goose eggs? Certainly when. I was going back over my tax re- portbillsc egg for m y i it doesn't seem reasonable that she was talking about hen eggs. Yet I feel certain that this lady was speaking of hen eggs. Whenever I have questioned dealers onthe necessary mark- up on eggs they have always told me that 204 should take the eggs from the producer to the consumer and since that is almost two-thirds of what most New hormone implant interests beef feeders The introduction of a new hor- mone implant — an estradiol pro- gesterone combination — is stir- ring up a, lot of interest among Ontario Beef feeders. Chief talking point is the re- ported 21 percent increase in gains (from 2.33 to 2.82 pounds per day) obtained in Alberta when steers on pasture were treated with the $2.50 iinplant. "The results are similar to those we have obtained here in Ontario with stilbestrol (another hormone')," states Dr. T. D. Bur- gess animal husbandry resear- cher at OAC. "Our tests have s ho w n. that stilbestrol-treated steers outgain untreated steers by .20 to 30% and do it on ap- proximately 10' less feed. The cost of the stilbestrol was about 20c per animal." In a r eply to a questionif there was any major difference in effects between the two hor- mone treatments. Dr. Burgess explained: "So far, all we know is that they both give about 206 increase in gains on less feed." Dr. Burgess stressed there were as yet unfinished problems with stilbestrol. One of them was to find how long the hormone was active. "We plan to compare a single implant of .stilbes•trol. with re -implants at 100 days," says Dr. Burgess. "The test will be tried on 600 poundsteers over a 240 -day feeding period, and we expect to have initial results this fall," Another problem which will interest some farmers is that with stilbestrol, feeding grain on. pasture Wright not pay. "Our first experiment indicated that," explains Dr. Burgess. "When our 24 animal test comparing •stilbes- trol-implanted steers fed grain to steers fed. no grain is com- pleted, we can be more definite." Brucellosis petitions OK The brucellosis canvass con- ducted by the Huron County Federation of. Agriculture town- ship chairmen has been com- pleted andthe petiton forms have been received from the township clerks. According to information .re- ceivedfrom the clerks of the 16 townships 3,459 people signed for the test and slaughter program and 385 people either were op- posed or did not sign the peti- tion etstion forms for a percentage of 89.9. The petition forms have been W. G. THOMPSON • HENSALL and Sons Limited Phone 32 Let Us Fill Your. WHITE BEAN SEED Requirements With The Best There Is! e MICHELITE • CLIPPER i SANILAC • REGISTERED AND COMMERCIAL • EARLY PEA BEAN Soyabean Seed All popular varieties. Registered and Coinmerdial No, 1 .Blackhawks, Hardotne, Capital, Mandarin, Comet. SeedCorn Pfister, Punks, Warwick, Niagara Brand Spray MATERIALS "2.45D, Litniine, Ester, Preinerge, de. Cement And Fertilizer producers have been getting all winter it would seem to be plenty. From the remarks I have picked up here and there I believe some producers do get more than, others even for equal quality. However the highest 1. have heard of was a minimum (and probably this was also a maximum) of 380 for A large. On this basis the top price for eggs to the consumer should have been only 580 per dozen. Where thendoes the other 220 go? Or does it meanthat,. some producers are getting 60$ a dozen. is it the consumer that is be- ing gouged or is it the producer that is being squeezed? Or is it more probably both? I have recently received two articles publishedby the con- sumers' association complaining that government support prices are causing the consumer to pay too much for his food and there- fore the support price should be lowered but in this matter of eggs it doesn't seemto be the producer price that makes eggs dear. I think the consumer would do wellto consider Mr. Greer's. statement in reference to sup- port prices on dairy products. "Even thoughthe floor price goes down, the government has no assurance that the consumer price will drop," he said. Perhaps farm producers- have. been negligent of their respon- sibily to the consumer. in that they have taken no part in mar- keting to see to it that the con- sumer is paying only a fair price for the farmers' produce. Certainly there seems to be room for improvement in the marketing of eggs. forwarded to the livestock com- missioner for Ontario in ac- cordance with the brucellosis act. Under. the brucellosis control act it is necessary that two- thirds of the cattle owners of the county be in favor before the province can enter an agreement with. the Canada Department of Agriculture for the test and slaughter program. [Jsborne Township schools plant- ed white pine and white spruce ricer the river bank. And many of them caught fish, later the Same afternoon. The arbor day program began with the stocking of the 1,000 legal -sized trout in the river. They were trucked to the site int oxygen -supplied tanks by the Department of Lands and For- ests, and pupils watched the men unload the fish. They also saw a demonstration of a wood chipper machine which chops up branches and brush into small pieces. H. G. Hooke, ARCA field offs• cer, and Larry Scales, zone Forrester, Stratford, showed the children how to plant trees and how to look after farm woodlots. The boys and girls divided into pairs and each couple planted 25 trees. Judged best in the tree plant- ing work was SS 3, under Mrs. Jean Keith. Second and third prizes went to USS 12, Mrs. Olive Gowan, and SS 5, Mrs. Elizabeth Batten. Hon or a b 1 e mentionwas won by SS 2, under Mrs, Aline Mills. Prizes were presented br ARCA Chairman Freeman Hod n Fr ma H a o g ins, reforestation advisory board chairman Wellington Brock, Us - borne, and. John G. Goman, pub- lic school inspector. Other schools who participat- ed included SS 1, Mrs. Irene Haugh; SS 5, Mrs. Katharine Becker; SS 6, Mrs. JeanJolly; SS 7, Mrs. Marie Elson; SS 10, Mrs, Jean Mair. Each of the children received free treats and conservation litera ture. After the ceremony, children got out their fishing poles and headed for the pond where they hauled out many hungry trout. Even the girls had exceptional. luck. Members of the Ausable Authority, school officials, par- ents, C. S, MacNaughton, Huron MLA, and. Elston Cardiff, Huron MP, were present for the pro- gram. HENSALL SALE PRICES Prices at Hensall Community Sale. Thursday, April 30: Holstein calves „ $12,00 to $25.00 Durham calves .. 26.00 to 65.00 Weanling pigs ....... 10.50 to 12.50 Chunks 13,50 to 15.50 Feeders . , 16.50 to 23.50 Butcher steers sold up to $25.80; butcher heifers up to $23.40; butcher cows up to 204 per lb.; heifer cows up to $2L80 per cwt. and springer cows up to $230.00. Market was active. There were 530 pigs and 365 cattle sold. A co—OP 1WEED KILLER R FOR EVERY IUB Co-op 2,4 -D's Coop 2,40 Ester, 64 -or. Coop 2,4-1) Ester, I28 -or. Coop 2,4-1) Amine a• ti. Co-op 2,4-1) Esier Duet Co-op 2,4-1) Low Volatile inter Co-op MCP'e 7 Coop MCP Esier'ev Co-op MCP Amine Coop MCP Sodium Salt Coop MCP Ester Dust Comp T.C.A. Co-op Brash. Killer EXETER DISTRICT Phone 287 Collect Bead* CNR, Sfititi )