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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1959-07-23, Page 1Fieldman comments Farmers deserve help but where do we turn? ,.. By I. CARL blEMINQWAY i The professor's idea might be HFA Fielman 1 fine if other groups in the eco. The idea that price supports were willing to do likewise, but thif is not likely. Manufc- for farm products are all wrong and that farm prices should be turers would not sit idly by while set on the free market keeps, protective tariffs are removed,' cropping up from time to time. labour certainly would not agree to forgo its bargaining power. Last week -Dr. Cecil Haver. an The professions are unlikely to economist at McGill University.' d i s b a n 4 t h e 1 r associations said that Canada should aban- through which fees are regulated don the "planned economy" and and licenses are controlled, and return to free market-. The flight big business would not like inter - from the free market, he said, ference in its operations. may result in less freedom and As long as there are tariffs, PosSibly lower income for the: patents, labour unions, proles - farmer. Grnm oveent regulations,, sional associations and noonopo- support pricz,s and delivery quo-. listic businesses there can be no tas result in inefficient use of re- true free markets in this coun- sources, he is reported to have try. elated. ! Why then should .farmers be expected to operate under an en- tirely different set of rules than Huron County other Canadians? Or, for that matter, why should Canadian crop report of an unrestricted open market in farmers be placed at the mercy Saturday's e,eneral rain has competition w i t h farmers in aided in the growth of all crops. other countries who are produc1 - Most noticeable is corn and ing in protected mkets with al ar. beans. Pasture has improved the benefits of price supports and Since the heavy rain. production incentives? The above is an item from the Fall wheat cutting and comhin- Wheat Pool Budget. I can heart - ng is taking place rapidly and ily agree with it hut where do we some fields of early oats and bar- go from here? Do we contirme ley may also be cut this weekwith price supports of various Ikinds? These haven't proved to he the final answer. Do we turn Start pile seems to he causing grave con - to deficiency payments? These cern in United States as reported for humus by Secretary of Agriculture Ben- son . • Marketing agencies and co-ope- Gardeners who balk at the „,. ratives seem to be doing a good Scarcity - and the price - "`• job of getting farmers the. mar. commercial organic preparations ket price for certain products Might he interested in the "re-- but still farmers' net income is eipe" for humus, recommended' insufficient. by soil specialists with the On- The hog producers have con- tario Department of Agriculture. sidered the processing of their Artificial manures can he product. This could improve the Made on your own premises if. farmers returns. How about the you have an area that can be de- ' things we buy? Again, from the voted to it. Use weeds, straw, Wheat Pool Budget. I find that leaves. plant residues of all t a 12 ft. combine. cost 1983 be. of types - as long as they are or -I wheat in 1946 but in 1958 it cost ga nic. Here's how you make humus: from these residues: First, pile the scraps in layers! to twelve inches deep. and don't pack it too tightly, Put a shovel- ful of soil in the -pile here and; there. This will allow for large! quantities of soil decomposing organisms. Water the pile well and add fer- tilizer to each layer. A 10-10-10; mixture can be applied at the rate of one-half pound per ten pounds of residue. It would help if one -quarters pound of finel agriculture limestone per ten! pounds of material were also ap- plied. Sprinkle the fertilizer and; the limestone over the refuse! and mix as the pile is being built. to insure even treatment of the entire pile. Build the pile about four to! six feet high. When the. need! arises, dish the top to catch rain- fall and water the pile of the wea-; Cher is dry. Turn the pile over • Second Section .14r:i.fizainiesiAboocafe • .EXIETER,. ONTARIO, 4k).1. -Y 23 ,1959 Peg. hlins INSPECT EXPERIMENTAL PLOTS -Several hundred farmers from Huron County inspected variety and chemical tests being conducted by the Huron Soil and Crop Improvement Association at the ,county home Tuesday night. Results were seen of new varieties of grain and new weed control chemicals, along with the new nitrogen fertilizer, Urea. The program was arranged by Huron Ag Rep Douglas Miles, who brought in commercial and OAC experts to interpret the results. -T-A. Photo Ag experts say injection 5,593 bu. of wheat for a similar machine. • • To me the problem is not a matter of price suoports or ta. • riffs or deficiency payments but rather the problem of being able to purchase products on the same' basis as I, as a farmer, must sell my products. HENSALL SALE PRICES At Hensel' Sales, Thursday, July 16, market was steady. Butcher steers 25.50 to $26.00 Medium steers .. 24,50 25.00 Butcher heifers .. 24.50 25,00 Fat cows . 15.00 17,00 Good cows 18.00 19.00 Light cows 20.50 21.50 Babies ... 25,00 26,50 Veal calves . 25.00 28.00 Small calves 12.00 18.00 Good hull calves 22.00 38.00 Holstein heifer calves . . 25.00 Durham calves 46.00 Weanling pigs 8.50 Chunks 10 00 ; . one month after building it, and • Feeders .. .. 14.00 at one month intervals thereafter Sows 68.00 74.00 up to a period of four months, if , There were 535 pigs and 242 the weather is warm (no decom- ' cattle sold. position occurs during the win- ter). A humus heap made this sum- "1 et six eggs for breakfast." mer should be ready by next "No. you mean ate." spring. I "Mebby it was eight T Pl." est anemia treatment If you've got the time for wrestling with baby pigs 10 times! a month, feed iron by mouth; j otherwise, try the one-shot in- jection rnethod. That's the latest word on how to treat for baby pig anemia from livestock re - .searchers of the Ontario Depart- ment of Agriculture. For the last two years, (arni- ers in 1 province d in the. rest of the country have been subjected to conflicting reports; on the relative value of' oral ver-' sus injectable iron. Now research- ers are pretty well agreed that' regular feedings of reduced iron! as irori pastes and powders are no better or worse than a single injection of a 150 mg. iron solu- tion or a double shot of a 100! 42.00 mg. iron solution, And 'th.e choice 63.00 of which one to use now depends 9.50 mainly on how much worth you' 13,50 put on your tir.ne. 22.00 Take the cast of the swine herd' at the Ontario Agricultural Col-, lege. Approximately 80 sows far-' row an average of 10 pigs per: litter, twice a year, and abouti one. from. each litter die within a month, leaving an average litter size of nine. That adds up to over 1400 Young pigs that must be treated for anemia. Here's pwilcieturree.labour really enters the "We dose with reduced iron powder every third day or 10 times before the young p i g reaches a month's age and starts, to creep feed," calculates Gar- net Norrish, swine researcher at the OAC. "I figure it takes two men about half a minute to catch and stick the powder on their tongu.e and with 1400 young pigs treated 10 times this works out to a good 230 -man-hours treating pigs, A lot of work." "This spring we changed over to a one -shoot injectable. iron ,,,,,1111111111,1tifM,Iffir1111111/filltifil ..... imffittflot ..... ttttt 1101111/ tttttt Illitt111101t/10,11111.11 NOTICE RE Timothy Seed Farmers are urged to harvest timothy care- fully. Straight combining is not recommended unless the crop is thoroughly cured. Newly harvested timo- thy seed has a high moistute content and unless properly dried before processing will heat and be- come musty. 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The anemia -preventing abi- lity of the different treatments. vary too. For example, tests by the 'Gni-, versity of Alberta. showed a sin- gle shot of a 100 m.g iron-dex-! tran complex wasn't enough; the' hemoglobin content fell and suck- ling pigs treated this way: weighed 3 pounds less at weaning; than orally -treated pigs. Alberta i researchers believe that 2 shots; of the 100 mg. material is' needed. Garnet Norrish of the. OAC also. found that suckling pigs treated with a one-shot 100 mg. injec-i tion were low in hemoglobin though weaning weights weren't! Jow. Two shots at the 3 -day and 3 -week period with the 1.00 nig.1 injection kept the hemoglobin: count up. He found that a single shot: of the 150mk. iron -complex injection kept the hemoglobin! count as high as mouth treat- ments. 1 Norrish. believes that much of , the success you have with inject -1 able irons depends on the right! equipment, and the right system; and cleanliness. He suggests using a 1/2 to We inch, 20 gauge needle. This is long enough to push down to the hilt and light enough. that there1 won't be much leakage. "I prefer treating 4 -day-old pigs rather than 3 -day-old ones.' The 4 -day-old pigs have larger hams which make it easier to in- ject. Don't wait any longer than Twilight meeting attracts crowds New varieties, chemicak d at Huron farrn One . of the largest crowds of farmers to attend a Huron Soil and Crpp improvement Associa- Ilion twilight meeting saw a variety of experiments and heard the comments of a number of experts at, the county home Tues- day night. Over 200 farmers were divided into three groups to tour the test plots on the county .farm. They compared drill width and Ind row plats of oats anct barley, c lettuce weed. control tests, drainage Weds and results of Urea applications on corn and pasture. Later, on the terrace of the home, they joined their wives to see a film on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Likes new York barley Wes Snow, of the Western On- tario Agricultural School, Ridge - town, predicted the new )(ark' barley will replace Brant as the most popular spring variety, I "It's the best we have today." ; York grows well under :most con- ditions, he said, indicating it can stand. adversity. "It stands " well, looks and stools well, and! is stronger than Brant." In the rod row plots, some of the Brant variety was down but the York had not been affected.' "Parkland .hasn't gone over 1 as well as can' he expected. It! has a mildew problem and. won't yield as well as York." Herta, a Swedish :feed barley, is a paradox,. said Snow. "It looks good but it won't yield as! well as York or, Brant. • 1 In Middlesex, Essex and Kent, ! winter barley was growing in! favor because its yield, if it sur- vives the' 'winter, is hall as :much again as the spring varieties, 'However, in a bad year such', as the past one half of the crop can be destroyed over the win ter. this though; too much danger of Turning ooats, Snow said there wasn't much to choose from between Rodney and Garry , -both give about. the same yield. ! Vicar is a hulless oat favored as'a i ' .• specialty crop forpigs. The early variety, Shield, makes! an excellent nurse crop to small ! weeds but won't yield as well as the later varieties, l ! Ali xed resuIt s were obl, ai nec setbacks," he advises. Cleanliness? Norris has noticed pus pockets in some hams. He suggests boiling the hypodermic needles before you start. 31 mightn't be a bad idea either to wash the back part of the ham with an alcohol solution or iodine before you inject. Be advises washing out the hypodermic with clean water after injecting 10 pigs - the iron tends to thicken and clog the plunger. The iron solution is usually available in a •bottle, containing 25 to 50 c.c. Insert the. hypoder- mic needle through the rubber membrane in the top of the bot- tle and force 10 c.c. of air into the battle by depressing the plun- ger of the syringe. While the needle is still in. the bottle, with- draw the plunger. This will fill. the syringe. Remove air bubbles from - the syringe by pointing the needle up and pressing the plun- ger until liquid begins to flow from the point of the needle. Have your helper hold the pigs by the hind legs, head down, with the belly of the pig towards him. Make the injection in the back part of the ham where the flesh is the thickest.' Before injecting the solution, clean the ,area to be injected. Other anemia -preventing' ideas that Norrish has are: • 'Ave people can catch and treat orally in a third the time that one person can. But one man can do a fairly fast job when in- jecting. just grab the pig by his right leg, hold his 'head between your knees with his hack facing We're in The Market For All Kinds Of Wheat Barley ,and Oats WE ARE NOW TAKING IN Registered Genesee and Cornell Seed Wheat RIGHT FROM THE COMBINE HIGHEST PRICES PAID FOR ALL TYPES OF GRAIN We Have Ply* Unloading Pifs - PLUS - A Moist Semi -Trailers Any Size! For Unloading LiMifed HENSALL from the new herbicides, Embu- tox and Tropotox, on alfalfa ' stands, according to 13111 Hardy of May and Baker. These were not weed killers, he exPlathed, but were butyrics which mixed with chemicals of weeds to kill them. Eptam not good .enough t'lienew Eptam chemical for weed control in corn did not give adequate results and. ram - aged some of the crop, reported Carl Mumby of Chipman Cberni- cals Ltd. at the corn plots. This new chemical was applied and worked into the ground about two hours before the seed was planted. Test plots showed the applica- tion rate of three pounds per acre worked as well as the rate of six pounds but neither was good, although promising. "We don't think it's good enough to put on the .market -we need to do some work with it yet," said Mum by. Simazin had given -"reasonably good" control of weeds on the county plots. This pre -emergent spray was notsuccessful last • year .because of. weather -condi- tions but was :proving itself this year, he indicated. On' one strip of corn, Urea, the new nitrogen -fertilizer, had been applied and had given the crop a 'healthier color and stronger stand than 'Strips not treated, it. was noted. Blamed drainage conditions Soils experts Jack Murray_ OAC, blamed poor drainage for: spotty corn patches at the bot -1 tom of a slope in the field. He had dug holes in both the low ! and high sections to show how erosion had affected. the former. He e.mphasized the importance of. soil tests. H, E. Bellinan, agricultural i engineer, Walkerton, used the' same ground to demonstrate how drainage could improve the, land. He had prepared a plan showing the proposed location of drains' and a grassed waterway for the. field. Bellman said many farms in • this area were not taking advan- tage of the benefits of drainage, pointing out that increased yield would easily pay for the invest- ment Farmers could no longer say tttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt ttttttttt I ttttt I money wasn't available for sup.b. work because new provincial legislation made it passible lot them to borrow at thc low rats of four percent, over a 10 -year period, .4hrough their township The annual cost under the 1,11 drainage assistance act worked out to $12.33 per $100 borrowed, he stated, He noted the law ifl creases in yield needed to meat this cost; beans, two 'bushels: sugar beets, one ton; corn, 16 bushels; wheat, six to eight bushels; oats, 15 to 20; hay, half a Ion; pasture, one-half bead more per acre. "You can't say tile won't pay for itself in a field where it's needed." Urea profitable? An indication that the new nitrogen .fertilizer, Urea, 'Mar give profitable, returns was gives by Barry Volkers, of North Am? erican Cynamid. He revealed results on three four -acre plots of pasture, one treated at 240 pounds per acre, one at 160 pounds per acre and. the other not treated. The first :0 yielded les0 eldhead427 'sure days plus pasture da; • the second, 406 .; 70 hales; the third 379 de. plus 36 bales. In terms of value, the first plot yielded $700 worth of crop, thet second $625, the third $570, On the basis of these figure& the nitrogen. had returned $2.00 for every $1.00 spent, he stated, However, a three-year test war* par requiredjsddo provide a fair co*- - Retail cost of Ih•ea, not on thee market yet, is still to be deter- mined, he revealed. Chairmen for the sessions were William Clarke and Clar- ence Shaw, vice-presidents of the JIuron SCIA. President Delbert Geiger, Zur:- ich, conducted the joint program which included remarks by War- den William ,IPWiti.; V. L. Becker, Dashwood, chairman of the liure on county home committee; 'Ivan Forsyth, Tuckersmith, county agricultural chairman: and Mel - burn Greenwood, director of the Ontario SCIA, At the conclusion of the pro- gram, the dairy princess for the county was crowned. ttttt tttttt ttttttttttt eee 1 out, Then inject. • If yoursuckling pigs run outside on earth, they'll get much of their iron. from the soil. Watch the weather doesn't keep them in for more than 2 days; if it does, treat with mouth pow- ders. • Anemia signs to look for are rough hair coats and wrin- kled (Norrish calls them "Puffy" pigs). As the pig becomes ane- mic, its heart beat, and rate of. breathing increase. A little exer- cise leaves pigs semi -exhausted. They.stand trying to catch their breath. In advanced stages you may notice a thumping condition. due to pneumonia or fluid in thei lungs. • It's easier. to preventane- mia than control. it. Once a pig is anemic his response to treat- ment is very slow. 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