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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1959-09-03, Page 94 4 ' " ONTARIO JUNIORS TOUR AREA—A group of 33 junior farmers, representing counties in the province, visited area .farms Tuesday during the annual Ontario Soil and Land Use tour, Above the group discusses with Harry Strang, RR 1 liensall, the management practices being used by the Usborne township clerk. Mr. Strang is the only elite seed grower in Huron county. —T -A Photo rrn • • ' •••• . etias of SWUM 1/1/4QON and NORTIl 44/DOLEM rtrrlltLL Junior farmer delegates Second Section C QFxeferZniessiAtwocafe EXETER, ONTARIO, SEPTEMBER 3, 19,59 Poll i Deficiency payment debate McInnis deplores 'giveaways' • RIM M . • Do farmers want gov't tand-! FieldMan comments outs' in the form of subsidies or deCharlie MPacYlninneisn,ts?Optario hog think they de, "They don't do any good," he sates. Bob Taylor, Huron OFII direc- tor. believes they do, "We're en- titled to them," he asserts. The argumept, much more in- volved than this, took place at, an information meeting for direc- tors of Huron hog producers as- sociation •at, Bohnesville 'United Church Tuesday night. Taylor, an invited guest, took on a number of the hog produ- cers' top brass in a verbal de- bate over deficiency payments which was sparked at times by touchy insinuations, charges and counter -charges, The 30 other persons present seemed to enjoy the exchange. After McInnis detailed at some length his board's objections to deficiency payments, he also out- lined some of the ill-effects brought subsidics and suggested gov't handouts of any kind were detrimental to farmers. "The only way we are going to get a reasonable price is by a self-help program." Taylor said he was "appalled" that any leader of a farm group should suggest that agriculture shouldn't be supported financial- ly by the gov't. "If I suggested that to my Farm Union members, they'd shoot me. Other groups sgheotuiredonweey ?f,riom the gov't, Why He fell; it was unfortunate that Mr, McInnis made his remarks while the press was present be- cause he didn't think it should be reported that the hog producers' president opposed gov't handouts. Replied Charlie: "E don't care who knows it. I don't. think :farm people should be given a hand- out by the gov't. I don't like it. New subsidy for egg. industry to he dependent upon c Agriculture is too important an the government." See eggs about 20c when new plan starts Sy J. CARL. HEMINGWAY 1 of August the quoted price has HFA Fieldsman been above the floor just as it 1 has been below, The government has released, The 4,000 dozen quota will the, details of its deficiency pay! cover the production of some- ment plan for eggs. thing less than 300 hens. This Deficiency payments will be, means that the farmer with 300 made on the first 4,000 dozen, eggs produced by any one nro hens will receive practically the' ducer. This applies only to .A -- --*1 same support as he is getting now. The large producer with large and A extra large grades, 10,000 or more hen e will he The deficiency payment will he the difference between the act- entirely dependent on the mar- ual market price to the producer ket price. and the producer price based on as severe egg gradi ke d 44e delivered in Montreal. station operators what they ex - This 44e price at Montreal ap_ pectect to be able to pay , October' Peeently returns to the pro- L when the government stops, ducer 33 n this area. To get buying eggs, About 20e was the some idea of the amount of de- 0 i answer I •received. If this is true, ficiency pay m ent' that would the large producer is going tp, 10 have been necessary from the have a bad time, :[ doubt that he; can stay. in business very long; first of January this. year let us inspi.. .o _ districtarms plook at the prices that were at this 'price and if he sells. his hens !will probablyon] hring 25t each, if fowl prices drop as! they are expected to. The other person interested is the consumer, Be apparently can, expect to buy eggs very cheap -1 ly for a time hut I wonder will he also have to look forward to paying a very high price some time in the future. Perhaps the high price will be controlled by imports from.the U.S., Ireland or Hungary as ha.s happened. in the past. I don't think the consumer will be too ihmapppoyris.with. the quality of the quoted locally by egg grading sta tions. From January 1 to March 9 it would have. required a deficiency payment of about 11/2e per dozen to bring returns up to the 33e. It would also have required about the same payment from about the middle of April to the end of June. Deficiency payments do not operate so simply. They will be based on the average price for the year. On this basis no de- ficiency payment 'would have been necessary since from the first of the year till the middle Thirty - three junior farmers from as many counties in Onta.e rio toured some of South Huron's! top farms Tuesday morning when' they embarked on the seventh an.' nuar Ontario Soil and Land Use Tour sponsored by the Ontariol Department of Education. The youths, each selected as an1 outstanding junior farmer in his; county, met at OAC, Guelph, Monday to inspect the new soils building, Their t 0 11 r began. Tuesday 'morning at the farm of Ross Marshall, RR 1 Kirkton, where, they saw a well balanced dairy and cash crop program. OAC ex- perte pointed out how the Mar- shall soil management, fertilizer and forage program resulted in high yields from purebred Hol- steins. At the farm of Edwin Miller, Themes Road, they inspected. a poultry setup for 4,000 'heavy birds, one of the few af Its kinds in the county. They also learned of the young farmer's plans to in- stall a loose housing beef opera- tion. Experiments conducted by the agricultural program department, Rabies at town's door,. kills purebred sh.eep Rabies has struck nn Exeter's doorstep, sounding another warn- ing that the disease continues to be a very real menace. Four purebred sheep on the farm of Preston Dearing and Son, which borders the town, died less than two weeks ago. Diagno- se& have since confirmed that rabies was the killer. A flock of 45 Dorset Horneds end 20 steers have been put under qua refine for three months, Gerald, son of Mr. and Mrs. Preston Dearing, is taking preventative treatments. Fortunately, Mr. Dearing's show flock, which has lobe reigned as Canadian champions of the breed, is not. affected. These animals have been housed In the family's other farm on the third concession of Stephen. Thir- teen of the championship -Clock are being shown at the CNE this weak. Owner Preston Dearing sail() Monday he hoped his loss would serve as a warning to others that precautions are still vital. "People seem to be taking •ra- bies too lightly — they're getting careless about it. It would be a different thing if a child died from it." lie's seen a number of stray dogs on his farm recently, some of whorn he recognized as belong- ing to town families. He felt town citizens should know rabies had been found close to town whcih meant that chil- dren's lives could be in danger. CROP REPORT White. bean harvest M the county has started with yields lower than usual due to the blight. Recent: wet weather has hamp- ered the completion of grain harvest and curing of second eitf hey in some parts of the county. Prospects for high yields of grain corn RrA %,ery good. For Sale Used IHC One Row Corn, Pickers V. 4. .Becker & Sons O14ONR 60-W 0A$HWOOD "We don't have any idea how rabies got into our .flock — 11 may have been a stray dog or something else. But the impor- tant thing is that if our sheep can get it, so can those dogs and, they could carry it right into Exeter." Mr. Dearing has shot several dogs found. on the farm. As a sheep rancher, he has the autho- rity to do so. "I'm going to shoot every dog 1 find — I can't take any risks and 1 don't think others should either." Three yearling ewes and a two-year-old ram were victims of the disease, confirmed by the laboratories in Hull after being examined at OAC. Guelph, Only one ewe got to the co.n4i- Lion where it started bunting other sheep. The others, he said, "just blatted around." "According to the regulations, the only thing we 'could. do was watch them suffer and die,. It's not a pleasant experience. "And every morning you get up wondering if any of the other stock has been affected," at SHDHS were explained by An- drew Dixon and Bruce Perry of the school staff, By noon, the juniors reached the farm of elite grower H.11, G. Strang, Hurondale, where. the Women's :Institute there served dinner in Mr. Strang's new seed barn, The, Usborne clerk. who chronicled his development in seed specialization, revealed he has grown. 100 acres of the new York barley this year. Features of his new bare, which include drying, were ex- plained, as well has his seed mar- keting procedures. A 400 -acre operation being con- ducted by Anson McKinley, near Zurich, was visited early in the afternoon. Mr. McKinley is one of a group of Huron farmers who is using a land use guide pre- pared by the OAC soils depart- ment. The turnip, waxing plant of Exeter Turnip Sales, Centralia. now leased. by A. & P, was in- spected by the group before it proceeded to Ailsa Craig to see the seed plant of Alex M. Stew- art Tuesday night the boys stayed at Huron College, UWO, Wednes- day they visited farms in Middle- sex and Oxford, staying in Brant- ford Wednesday night, Purpose of the tour, according to Art Bennett, secretary -treas- urer of Ontario Junior Farmers, is to demonstrate to young farm- ers proper programs in soil con- servation. land use, fertilizer uses, crop and livestock produc- tion, machinery utilization and all other phases of farm man- agement. Officials accompanying the tour included Prof. N. R. Richards, soils dep't, OAC; John Clarke. economics dep't; Dr. Stanley Young, field husbandry; Prof. Ted Needham, animal husban- dry. Huron Ag Rep Douglas Miles was host to the group during its tour of Huron. Producers' president, doesn't made on annual basis Egg price support to producers by means of deficiency payments under the Agricultural Stabilize. - tion Act will begin with the marketing year commencing October 1, 1959. Purchases of eggs by the board will be dis- continued on September 30. This, a spokesman said. im- plements the policy announced in the House of Commons on May 7 by Hon. Douglas S. Hark- ness, minister of agriculture. In his announcement at that tame the minister stated that he had directed. the board to develop a. procedure for providing price support for eggs by means of deficiency payments to produc- ers, to replace the present me- thod of providing supped through purchases of eggs by the. Board. The minister added that, a !Unita - bon would be placed on the amount of deficiency • payment. made to a producer in a given time. In keeping with this principle, payments to any one producer during a 12 -month period will be limited to 4,000 dozen Grade A Large size eggs, including Grade A Extra Large size. Each pro - The Bean People! and SontLi,mited • Ott See Us Before You Sell! Highest Prices Paid for WHITE BEANS • FAST UNLOADING FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE W. G. Thompson & Sons • PHONE 32 OR ,31 Limited NIGHTS 42 P. 194 HENSALL ducer marketing eggs through registered egg grading stations will be eligible,to participate in deficiency payments up to this maximum, regardless of the total 'volume of eggs marketed by him. A :national average price re- ceived by producers for Grade A. Large size eggs at registered egg grading stations !will be used to determine whether a de- ficiency payment is required and. if so, the rate of such payment per dozen eggs. The rate of pay- ment; willbe uniform to pro- ducers in all parts of Canada. regardless of the price received in the market. It is proposed that, should de- ficiency payments benecessary to support average prices at; the prescribed level, they will be made on an annual basis. Con- sideration will, how eye r, be given to making an interim pay- ment for the Odober-to-Deceme eeeeeeeeeeeee, ,e ber. 1959, period if the average producer -price falls substantially SAYS PAYMENTS JUSTIFIED —Please turn to page 13 Huron OFU director Bob Taylor Taylor said he was also "quite perturbed" that the hog produ- co-OP PIG WORMER to-oe is now producing the most effective and convenient nig wormer on the market . Xo need now to disrupt the feeding schedule. 00 -OP Pig Wormer ie incorporated in a complete feed to rive s Safe. Easy-to•Use One Day Treatment. Simply seibatitute the regular feed 'with O -OP Pig Wormer for one day only. Ask for CO-OP Pig Wermer today at 25 POUNDS $1.60 50 POUNDS $2.95 Need A Deep Freeze? It will pay you f� wait for our special sale the third week in September, Power Mower Special Co-op Clipper, 18", 2 h.p. recoil start, MS 4 -cycle engine, Reg. $61,50, SALE $53,50 EXETER DISTRICT Pfiette 267 Coktet Seel& CNIR Sfittioti 1' !producers, it would probably be high enough to restrict imports. This same situation •could apple/ to European countries, he ad* ded, Production of work would prots. able increase because if the gov't set the quota nn which pap ments would made at 20n hogs ' per year per farmer. as has been sreggested, this would encourage all farmers producing less than that amount to increase their pro. duction. And. it was pointed out. over half of the producers in, On• tario raise less than 100 leer year. The plan would also have the effect of increasing vertical inte- gration. Since farmers would be paid only once a year, the/ might have to resort to feed con- tracts to finance production. Since farmers may he forced te sell to processing plants to ree ceive their payments, local bute chers who provide effective price DEPLORES 'GIVEAWAYS' !competition to prncessors would be forced nut of the picture. . . . OHP's Charlie McInnis cera should oppose deficiency payments without investigating the proposal. "Let's look it over honestly before you put it in a poor light." McInnis replied the board had spent considerable time delving! into the possible effects of defi– ciency payments and had also' hired "the hest economists avail- able" to study the scheme. Many conflicting views were expressed ahout deficiency pay- ments andThoth sides charged the! other with jumping to conclusions! before knowing the facts. Actual- ly, details of the program have yet to he announced by the fede- ral gov't. McInnis cited the following ob-: jections: The plan would mean the loss of the U.S. market of one million! pounds a week. He said the U.S.,, under its trade agreements. had, no alternative but to place a coun– tervailing duty on Canadian pork and, with pressure from cThe plan rnight also put mor* ontrol into the hands of the three major processors if the price hit a rock bottom. The• l could hie' up a tremendous quart! tity for storage and thereby cs. ercise considerable control over the market. Perhaps the most tragic thing about the deficiency payment plan, McInnis suggested. wag that it could allow retail priceti to drop to an unrealistically love level . 11 consumers become ace customed to buying cheap pork, they would he reluctant. to Pal higher prices later when the market strengthened. Taylor scoffed at "all this eeee larging of gloom," He didn't think the U.S. market would be lost nor did he think that the plth k DON'T WAIT FOR YOUR 9-111:5 TO COME 11.1 — ROW OUT ro MEET,IT,/t increase pro uc ion. 8 agree that the cause of present overproduction is contract farm- ing. 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