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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1959-05-14, Page 11• H +���� deficiency payments. i.•. re leve egg p The government plans to make: the. difference in the estimate deficiency payments to .egg pro -!.cost of production. It ''arses fro dueers to prevent large-scale 44c per dozen in the Montrea ctmmereial producers from reap- area to 40e per dozen in Saskat big the benefit of egg price sup- chewan and Alberta. Our are Wats which are being continued in south western Ontario is gua for another 12 •months, rantecd 42c per dozen,. ' Agriculture Minister Harkness These prices are 11 grad roblerns d rantee to buy up an unrestricted m eveT-increasmg surplus of pro duction fors which there is no market outlet. Kind hearted idealists say ... give our surplus food to the star- ving nations of the world. The United States started cot on a program of.this kind with wheat,. and Canada raised a holler to high heaven over the injustice of it because it tended to ruin our market for wheat. Canada tried to give away .dried milk and we immediately got a similar blast from Australia and New Zealand because we were destroying their markets for dairy products. These give-away programs just don't work. Before the days of price sup- ports, production was controlled ' by price. When a surplus of any commodity was created, the price dropped until production. was '"discontinued. This caused wide price fluctuations that were cruel on the fanners. Therefore, we have devised price stabiliza- tion to eliminate the harshness of production control -by price. Now, what is going to happen Lo production? We can't forever disregard the law of supply and demand. If we control prices, we will be compelled to control pro- duction. This is a job best done by the producers themselves. The tobacco people are doing it, and other commodity groups should be doing it. If the other commodity groups can't do it, or won't do it, and if the governments, provincial and federal, do not wish to take on the responsibility for production S control, I' see little in the•way of future usefulness for our Agri- cultural Prices Stabilization Act, It may serve to cushion price fluctuations but it will never serve to raise the status of agri- culture in our national economy. a a_. on ra e announced to the Commons A large eggs. There is no sup- . Thursday that the support price port prices on other grades of of 44 cents a de= for Grade A eggs, The margin considered ne• large eggs at- Montreal will be pessary by dealers in this part continued until May 5, 1960. of the country is about 100 per The continued expansion in egg .dozen so the rice of rade A *eduction can be largely attn.- large eggs to.the producer .hpuld bused to the growth in numbers be,about 32c per dozen. s o ... and size of large commercial The trend in egg production. is prcdueers, the said. The present upwards. The increase is a i- aupport program was providing mated toat air incentive to commercial °Per- he be about hi over sta.- ?tors to increase production. Dis- year.Th quantity which b the sw- pdsal of the surplus accumulated bihzation board has to buy, how- by the government was creating "an extremely serious problem. have therefore directed the stabilization hoard to develop as soon as possible a Method of pro- viding price .Support for shell eggs by means of a payment to producers=commonly desgribed as" a deficiency payment -rather than to continue the present Method of offer to purchase, Pearson criticizes His deficiency payment; re - ]narks niet with immediate crit- icism from Opposition Leader Pearson who charged the govern- ment in "adopting the principle of deficiency payments in respect of one agricultural commodity yet it refuses even til consider it Spring seeding operations are in " respect of wheat and other practically completed in the grain products." • p The minister said the payment county, A few farmers in the northern end have still to finish. Spring sown grains, as well a. hay and pasture are making excellent progress, Some corn has been sown, as well as turnips and sugar beets. There is flea beetle damage on early turnips. ever, in order to keep the mar ket cleared is nearly doubled over last year. ' The difficulty in stabilizing farm prices is becoming ever more evident, If a half decent price is guaranteed, production gets out of hand. It has happened with hogs, with dairy products, and now with eggs. It is impos- sible for the government to gua- Huron County CropReport By D. J. ROSE Huron Summer Ass't to egg producers "would• be cal- culated on_ the difference be- tween the actual market price for shell eggs for the 'period con- cerned and the prescribed sup- port .price." • "This- method, as in the case of the arrangement proposed with respect to hogs, would make it possible to withold payments from commercial organizations operating under the so-called vertical integration plan, or to restrict payments to a specific volume of eggs delivered by any one producer in a given period," Mr. Harkness said that from January to June last year the agricultural prices stabilization board purchased 354,412 cases of eggs. at the floor price, but from Jan 1 to April 27 this year it had taken 503,073 cases. Thomas explains support on eggs By W. H. A. THOMAS Egg prices are stabilized by the purchase method. The gov- ernment guarantees to buy Grade A large eggs from the dealers at a stated price. Because the deal- ers • are guaranteed a market, they are expected to pay a fair price to the farmers. The gua- ranteed government 'price' varies for different 1•egipns, because of Testing corn for hog feed More and more Ontario far- mers are feeding corn to, pigs. They like it as a source of cheap, easily digestible energy. But cornhas one big shortcoming: when overfed, it produces a fat- ty carcass. Farmers who self -feed corn and concentrate ' run `into this problem constantly. -A ;pig slows down in growth after reaching 110. pounds, and .tends to put ex- tra energy into fat instead of meat. Animal husbandry experts at OAC ate working on this prob- lem, They are carrying out tests to find out what levels of corn should. be fed at the different hog weights. The researchers also are trying to find out how much protein should be fed with corn And what level ]ow -energy oats is • needed to cut down the "strength" of corn. In one experiment, two ratios of corn to oats were fed to grow- ing pigs, and three ratios of cornto oats were fed to hogs from 125 pounds to market weight. Pigs were also divided into two groups according to their level of protein. The higher protein level was 17% protein to pigs up to 75 pounds; 15%••pro• teen from 75 to 125 pounds; and 13% protein to hogs between 125 and 200 pounds. The lower pro- tein level was 14% to 75 pounds; 12% from 75 to 125 pounds; and 10% from 125 to 200 pounds, Here are the results: Pigs on high protein gained 1/10 pound faster - 1.62 pounds per day compared to 1.52 •pounds per day ...then pigs on low pro- tein. The high -protein pigs also cost less to feed and produced better carcasses than pigs• on low protein feeding. The. corn: , oat ratio studies showed "there was some benefit from including high levels of corn in the rations of pigs up to 125 pounds." The experiments are continuing. WOOL Any Government Deficiency Payment will apply only on properly gt'aded woole. 5er•.ure the utmost by pafrtinizing the orga.iilzation that made this possible. SHIP ,COLLECT TO Our Regtatered Warehouse No, 1 •, Weston,. Ontario obtain seeks and twine w1thout charge front EXETER DISTRICT GOA tort 7f, Exeter er by shills); to' CANADIAM CO.OPERATIVE WOOL GROWERS LIMITED 11r' 'tsiiy street, ter.n"tb, Caiadd • 1•..:�.i_:u�,w.:.:.�.�::�..r.L_:6:� , , an pep up pastures with nitrogen: OAC • e Should you plow down hay- Thomas. "This will make three fields and pastures when the good flushes of growth through - legume count drops way down; out the year instead of one, as or will it pay to try and pep up is the case when you put on all old fields so they'll be good for your nitrogen in the spring. a few more years, thereby sav- ing breaking and seeding costs? "Try three applications of nitrogen fertilizer per year on any long-term, pasture and hay- field with 'less than. 25% leg- umes," suggest soil extension expert, Prof, Norman Thomas of OAC. His reason: the nitrogen will boost grass yields enough that with early grazing or cut- ting, the field will produce like new again, The plan works best on hard - to -work fields and those that are too far from the home farm (usually beef pastures) to merit constant reseeding. In two years of testing on five different farms in Haldimand County, Thomas found that hay yields jumped an average of 7/10 of a ton per acre with an application of 100 pounds of am• monium nitrate and 1.2 tons per acre when 150 pounds of am- monium nitrate was applied. The 100 -pound rate netted an aver- age of $6.07 more per acre than the non -fertilized field (2i tons per acre) and the 150 pound am- monium nitrate netted $12.35 more per acre than the no -fer- tilized feld: "Put the rjtrogen on in early May, June and September," adds FORM SHEEP COUNCIL Formation of a National Sheep Council to promote lamb and other sheep products has been calledfor in a resolution at the annual meeting of the British Columbia Breeders' Co-op As- sociation. Operations would be financed by an annual deduc- tion of one or two cents per pound from wool deficiency pay- ments. What about phosphates and potash to hold the remaining legumes? "It probably won't do much good if.. there's less . than 25% legumes, but you cantry a 0-20-10 or 0-20-20," answers Thomas. "It's best to concen- trate do the grasses, feed them lots of nitrogen and aim for high yields of grass alone, With early cutting, you will still get a high protein in hay," Yukon cleric s speaks here Archdeacon Carman J. Queen, diocesan commissioner for the Diocese of Huron, announces the forthcoming visit of the Right Reverend Tom Greenwood, Bish• op of Yukon; to the Diocese of Huron. Bishop Greenwood will give an illustrated address on the work of the Anglican church in the Diocese of Yukon to the clergy chapter and to the Woman's Auxiliary of the • Deanery of Huron on Thursday, May 21 at Trivittt Memorial Church, Exe- ter. LARGE LOAFING BARN A large pole loafing barn tised to winter the .beef herd at the Nappan Experimental Farm was used as a confinement shelter for chickens during the summer months. 11 provided excellent rearing facilities and extended the usefulness of a building which normally lies idle during the summer, :Second Section, is-�bvoca� EXETER, ONTARIO, MAY 14, 1959 Page Elevss WINS $1,000 JACKPOT -Kenneth Scott, Brucefield, won the $1,000 cash draw which featured Exeter Kinsmen's spring stag at the arena Friday nf'ght. Above, he gets the cash from President-elect George Rether and President Gord Baynham. --T-A. Photo OFA raps payments charges price-fixing n J The 85 member organizations of the Ontario Federation of Ag- riculture, at a meeting Thurs- day in Toronto, accused the fed- eral government of "price fix- ing activities," through its new policy of deficiency payments and consumer subsidies for major farm products, The resolution, which strongly protested the "indiscriminate use of deficiency payments and consumer subsidies for farm products," was passed after lengthy and stormy discussion by the producer representatives. The The milk producers, hog pro- ducers and others affected by the federalgovernment's re- placement of last year's stabiliza- tion program in favor of the new policy, argued that their mem- bers' industry would be crippled by the move. Producers of milk for manu- facturing said that their market- ing program had already been Champion horse goes to Quebec "Stonewall Pot 0' Gold," grand champion saddlebred Palomino stallion, owned by Mrs. Alton Wallis, Whalen, has been sold to a Montreal .surgeon. A feature attraction at local and provincial fairs for a num- ber of years, the .horse loft Mon- day morning to join the Palomino stable of Dr. Paul E. Chicoine in Montreal, where he will do a limited amount of showing and will stand for service 'to regis- tered saddlebred mares, "Stonewall, Pot 0' Gold" won the Palomino grand champion- ship for Ontario in 1958. MacDonald visits rutabaga buyers Doug MacDonald, local mana- ger for Canada Packers, returned this ]week from a two-week trip to Florida where he niet a num- ber of buyers who distribute area -grown rutabagas in the south. "We talk to these Hien on the phone frequently but had never met them,,' Mr. MacDonald said, ""It was interesting to talk to them about our product," Temperatures in the south were well over the 90 -degree mark, Mr. MacDonald reports, . Attention FARMERS! Don't Miss Our Service School Thur., May 21 - 2:0013' E 7;30 p.m. Machines being discussed include Hay Balers, Mowers, Hay Conditioners and the New Revolutionary No. 91 Self -Propelled Combine, International Harvester Company be conducting thee service school on our premises, Two schools will be held with the first at 2:00 p.m. in' the afternoon and the second at 7:30 p.m, in the evening. This is your chance to fire questions at the top brass. Make sure you get the inside track on all International Harvester machines by attending at least one of the sittings. See Them - Hear About Them Dora. Miss 1n F. W. Iiux table VOW' Local Interrtafion-Hat'vester Dealer" I severely damaged by the reduc- i tion in supports and the intro - :duction duction of a direct subsidy to producers, Members dealt withother res- olutions covering freight subsi- dies, legislation on feed purchas- ing by farmers, increased tariffs for eviscerated chicken and tur- key hatching eggs imported from the U.S.A. and policy state- ments concerning farm credit. Two organizations, the Ontario Turkey Growers' Association and the United Dairy and Poultry Co-operative Inc., were accepted as members of the OFA by un- animous vote of the full mem- bership. HENSALL SALE PRICES Prices at Hensall Community Sale Thursday, May 7: Holstein calves .. $12.00 to $30,00 Durham calves .... 28,00 to 76.00 Weanling pigs 9.50 to 11,50 Chunks . 12.50 to 15.50 Feeders ..,. 16.50 to 26.00 Sows .. ..._ .. up to 80.00 Butcher steers sold up to $25.30 per cwt.; butcher heifers up to $23.40 per cwt.; butcher cows up to 200 per lb.; heifer cows up to 210 per lb. and spring cows, $240.00. There were 500 pigs and 345 cattle sold. Area heifer tops at sale Top priced heifer at the tenth annual spring sale of the Huron Hereford Association was sold by Hirtzel Bros. Crediton, to a Nova Scotian breeder for $550 Tuesday afternoon. The heifer was purchased by H. Armstrong and. Sons, Burlin- gon, King's County. Seven tested bulls averaged $526 and eight approved bulls averaged $421. Top bull was a polled one consigned by Ernest Brown, Clinton, and bought by A, J. Campbell, Thorndale. Ten bred heifers average $331.50 and seven open heifers averaged $182 each and three cows with calves at side, $335. For 35 lots, the sale averaged $362,30. Call tenders for briclgesfr let contractsin Usborne Usborne township council will call for tenders soon on the two bridges it plans Le construct this year. As soon as plans are available, tenders will he sought for con- struction of the Rodd and Quin- ton bridges as well as for sup- ply of cement and steel. Contract for roadside spray - Set cattle, lamb props ing was let to Fred Harburn, Cromarty, at his tender price of $1.50 per mile one side of road. Only other bid came from L. V, Uogarth, Exeter, at the same price. Exeter District Co-op will sup- ply 125 gallons of 80 -oz, 2-4P amine weed spray material at the tender price of $3,96 per gal- lon. Other bids ranged. to $5.38. County weed inspector W. R. Dougall attended the meeting to advise council onthe roadside weed control problem. Warble fly inspectors Lloyd Parsons and.Hubert Hunter re - The base prices and mandatory • support levels for cattle and Judge livestock lambs, effective from April 1, 1959, were announced Friday by theboard. agricultural stabilization The board's basis of support for cattle is on good quality steers and the ten-year average, or base price, for good steer;,, live, Toronto market, is $22.28 per cwt. The mandatory support of 80 per cent is calculated as $17.80 per cwt. In 1958 good steers averaged $22.90 per cwt., Toronto market, and the effect of this high price on the ten-year aver- age has been to increase the support by 30 cents per cwt. over last year. The base price for good Iambs, live, Toronto market is $24.43 per cwt. The mandatory support level of 80 per cent is $19.55 per cwt. - the same as last year. Good lambs at Toronto averaged $22.35 per cwt, during 1958. These grades of both steers and lambs are now selling at around $2.5 on the Toronto market, next Saturday Second of two Huron County junior judging competitions which decide winners of trips to United Nations and Eastern Ontario will be held Saturday May 23, at Seafortli. Three classes of dairy cattle, beef cattle and swine and one of sheep will be judged by junior farmers and 4-H members fiorn Huron. Competitors will be di- vided into four classes, novice, junior, intermediate and senior, The competition will start at 9 a.m. DST. The Canadian National Rail- ways are experimenting with heated box cars for carrying perishable produce under winter traffic conditions. The new heat - produce than refrigerator cars and have a much greater cepa- ed cars are much cheaper to city. Calls payment plan consumer subsidy' • By CARL HEMINGWAY trade would find it advantageous HFA Fieldman to divert milk into other prod - During the past week there ! ucts. If the price of milk to the has been some disturbing events in the dairy industry due to the announcement of Agriculture Minister Harkness to the effect that the support price of skim milk powder would be lowered from 154 to 100 and the support price on cheese would be lower- ed from 340 to 320, both with deficiency payments. This announcement has had two unfortunate results. First, the attitude of the con- sumer is that the taxpayer is being asked to give a handout to the farmer. In his first remarks, Mr. Hark- ness made it clear that the sup- ports were being reduced to re- duce the cost to the consumer. The deficiency payment is given to the farmer in order that the farmer may be able to continue to produce this product for the consumer. Who then gets the, benefit? This isn't a deficiency payment to the farmer but rather, by the words of the min- ister, a direct consumer subsidy. Let's call it by its right name. Second, the concentrated milk processors have immediately de- .manded that the price to the producer must drop to the floor. If this happens the government has failed in its purpose. The government lowered the floor price in order that the BABY YOUR HAY WITH A NEW_ HOLLAND ROLABARH Ask for a dem- onstration! 10 See It work an lea,#s avev your farm! .Just match this New Holland against your •present equipment! From the momentt you hitch upto a S"Rolabar Rake, your rakinggoes faster and easier, Hook-up takes seconds: no PTO to engage! You'll hum quietly along at speeds, up to 8 niph moving your hay into fluffy quick -drying windrows. Gentle, leaf -saving Rolabar action delivers hay from swath to windrow in half the distance ... treats hay like a baby, cuts your raking time hi half! PHONE 153.* EXETER Exeter Farm Equipment R., D Jermyr, Prop. PHONE $08.W EXETER producer drops in accordance with the price of powder the trade will have exactly the same margin of profit that was attrac- tive enough during the past year to persuade some 17 plants to put in powder manufacturing equipment. We need to realize that the support price isn't necessarily the market price. Beef as present has a support price of 170 yet cattle of this quality have been selling for from 240 to 270 for the past year. The support on cheese is lowered 'but cheese has been selling above the prev- ious support so there is no change in the price for milk go- ing for cheese, „ u,n,n„b,,u,,, nun,,,,,,u,,,,,,,,,,,BU,unu,,,,un,u, C9 Eit4563! `St EZ: 4 LOCAL /1-411414ARIL Inc. SOME WIVES ARE CLUB WOMEN AND OTHERS THROW DISHES AT THEIR HUSBANDS ported completion of the program with 7,111 cattle treated in the. first spray and 5,977 in the sect and spray. Under amendments to the pub* lic schools act at the last session of legislature, council decided to discontinue paying the former statutory grant to teach public school and that the secretaries be advised to include these amounts in their requisitions. 11 was reported that Engineer J. A. Howes has been consulted about the Prance Drain and that he had sent in partial coin- pietioncertificates on the Davis and Glenn -Sommerville drains, Tax collector. William Johns reported no further collections of 1958 taxes and council in, structed him to turn over the roll to the treasurer before the end of the month and send the uncollected 1958 taxes to the county treasurer for. collection. Councillor Harold Hunter was delegated to investigate equip. ment in connection with a Ceti• tralia village trustee's proposal regarding fire protection. Because of county council date for the next meeting 'will be changed to Monday after- noon, June 15, OAC plans 4-H week In order to recognize the achievements of an outstanding 4-H member in each county and district in Ontario, a 4-H Club Leadership Week will be held during the week of July 27 at the Ontario Agricultural College, the Ontario Department of Agri-, culture announces. . This year each. county and district may select one .4-H Club. boy who is presently active as a 4-H member and will be .16 years of age by November 1. The basis of selection will in• elude total participation. in 4-H,, a record of 4-H Inter -Club Com- petitions, and participation in community activities. The selec- tion will be made by Depart- ment extension personnel in each county and district. The group will be under the se ervision of counsellor s throughout the week, The pro- gram will include instruction, discussions, and tours in such subjects as soils, field crops, livestock, horticulture, farm safe.: ty, farm machinery and farut. business, . Programs for recreation and fellowship will round out a week designed to develop qualities of leadership important not only to the 4-H Club members but also to the communities they repre-' sent. unn,umun,II/unIDunnuuuunnunaunnn,tlNa,b0 Farm Grass Killer Dowpon and Amino Triazole Especially effective for control of Twitch Grass. FOR THE BEST CONTROL AND LATEST RECOMENDATION ON KILLING WEEDS ASK FOR Chipman Chemicals 2.4.D Amine 80 2.4-D Ester 64 2.4-D Ester 80 MCP Amine 64 MCP Sodium 48 Simazine SOW Brush Killers Seed Corn PFISTER WARWICK DEKALR BELLE RIVER $2.33b. $1.25 lb. TURNIP SEED (Sized) TURNIP SEED (Unsized) MANGEL SEED ....., .?S Ib. 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