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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1959-12-03, Page 11Farrn school fax !igl.. Hay -Stanley speaker A joust annual Meeting pf the in order to keep prosperity ,for Ray and Stanley Federation of industry anti labor, abut is hesh- Asriculture units was held, In the ;tent in doing the same ,for• agri cultu•re, government, industry Babe Siebert Memorial Arena and 'about are all dependent on Wednesday evening with ap upon -.the farmer. proximately 300 partaking of :a Mr. :Roberts said fanners' are het turkey banquet, paying high school taxes. The ,faint chairmen ;for the eve- average termer on his land. •n .ig were Ross Love, president alone pays approximately $40 o. -the Hay unit and: Miner 'lay school tax tyhile the urban .dwet, tcr, president of the •Stanley er- ler peys about eight • dollars on gnization. Greetings were ex• his buildings and his land. This 'tended to the two Federations by certainly is unfair, he suggested reeves Golethhan of Stanley and ;.as children from both urban and Tooker of Hay. 'They urged the rural areas receive the same in. t ;o groups to carry .an the . s�thuction and often times the 1 -.Ark of the farm organlzations.ltu•ban child has the advantag. Carl ilemingway, secretary- I 1-Ierb Klepp thanked the 1 ..ldntan for Huron County, in. speaker. t"cGuced the guest speaker, W. Entertainment was supplied by 1 , Roberts, Tuo1 ersmith town- the "Four Gents" from London. ..0.!9 farmer, Cari Hemingway conducted. It is the self-sacrifice of many the Hay election. f�:m women that makes farm- President, Herb Klopp; vice - such an attractive occupa- presidents, George Grottier, Wil- Con for most farm men, said itne fred Mousseau. s ,eaker. He paid tribute to the Directors — Harold Campbell, 1 -dies on the farm for the as- Jack Faber, Wayne, McBride, sistance rendered to the farmer Murray Keys, 'Gordon Coleman, in carrying on farm work. Carl Willert, Joe Hoffman, Ste - Mr. Roberts said farmers are wart Thiel, Elgin Hendrick, Cie - suffering from the penalty of ment Regier, Jack McClinchey. abundance. Farm prices. have Winston Shapten conducted Wert sliding for the past nine the Stanley election. years. Net returns are down President, Elgin Porter; vice - 15% and it has already been president, Ted Dunn; secretary- Crophesiedpthat they will drop treasurer, George Reid. another 1()% in the next year. Directors — Noel Laporte, "It is time we take a good John Scotchmer, Les Arm- strong, John Robinson, Mel Gra- ham, Hugh Hendrick, Clarence Parke, John Taylor, BruceKeys, • lock at the problems facing us," ho said. "It is becoming neces• sary to seek political help. Gov eminent is subsidizing industry Chas. Reid, Ivan McClymont, Urges fair trial but . . • Retiring FA president skeptical of payments Winston Shapton, retiring pres-I after a lifetime of hard work,. ident of Huron Federation of sacrifice, initiative . and good Agriculture, has urged farmers management. Is Canada a coun- to give deficiency payments a try to discriminate the above "fair trial" although he views qualities in a man?" them with skepticism. Mr. Shapton pointed out the In his annual report, the Ex- inconsistency in gov't policy eter district farmer said he still which promotes efficient and believed the old Federat'..n larger production on one hand policy of non -incentive support and then provides supports for prices and a strong marketing limited production, on the other,. plan is, the hest plan for farm- He disagreed with - Charles Me- ers. "The trouble we have ex- Innis, hog producers' head, who perienced with hogs and eggs has advocated abolition of sup- hns been caused by too high a ports. "Morally and idealistic - support price." ally he is right, but our plight is IIe was critical of deficiency past that stage through very payment plan because he felt it little fault of our own, so why c'iscriminated against the large should we have more pride than family farm and would not pro- the coal industry, car manufac- vide consumers with the cheap Curers and many other groups food predicted by the govern- in the economy who receive mant. gov't aid?" "These are some of my skep- He questioned .the gov't pre- ticisms but let's give the plan diction that deficiency payments a fair trial and perhaps amend- will provide the consumer, with ments can be made from time cheaper food. "In most cases to time." • when the price goes down, the Mr. Shapton said deficiency middleman takes a little more payments will work well for a and the consumer pays the sante. product in short supply, such as If the retail price does come sugar beets. "Here farmers re- down will the consumer be will- ceive payment from the gov't ing to let it go 'back up when to bring the contract price of the supply slackens? I fear not." the company up to the gov't The local farmer also dis- prescribed price. Everyone re- agreed with Agriculture Minister ceives the same, with no limit Harkness' suggestion that a num- on the amount grown." ber of farmers should be re - "However, I will point out that moved from their mar g i na 1 in hogs and eggs you receive farms and found new positions. the market price, whatever it "This may be better for the in - may be, and if there is a de- dividual economically, but there ficiency payment paid, you are are many other things to be still not guaranteed the govern- considered, and many would merit prescribed price if by prefer to remain even with • a chance you have sold on a very low income. The thing is, should low market. agriculture be in such a bad "A more serious part of the position that the marginal farmer plan is that it discriminates be forced off his land, even if against the large family farm. he is willing tq take a low in - agree that commercial enter- come?" prises should be barred from re- "It thus appears that we ceiving payments, but not large should be more united and more bona fide farmers. Many of our organizational -minded than ever farmers have become large only before." Farm forums find: Need more education in field of marketing The Farm Forum topic Mon- day night on "Farmers in the 1liarketplace" is the first on marketing for this season and the general need expressed by forum members was for more education for both producer and consumer and greater research into marketing problems. Research in Marketing needed Parr line Forum meeting at. the home of Mr. 'and Mrs. El- don Jarrott in discussing the to= plc "Farmers in the. Market- place" expressed the opinion Oat more research is needed in marketing. A quote from the members' re- port reads: We feel that United Co-operatives of Ontario are do- ing a good job on education in so far as management training for co-ops and information on 'the use of feed, fertilizers and sprays. Credit assistance is gi- ven to local co-ops. Market de- velopment, merchandizing and distribution sales arc being car• ries' out in such items as dried milk, butter, cheese,' poultry and livestock. Other Co-ops such as the On, Ralph Weber heads Co-op Ralph Weber, RR 3 Dashwood, Was elected president of Exeter District Co-operative at a . re- cent meeting of the board of di- rectors.. Vice-presidents are Lloyd Mor- gan, RR 1 Centralia, and Theron Creery, RR 1 Woodham, Ray Morlock, RR 2 Crediton, remains secretary -treasurer. Directors include Wellington $Iaist, rut 2 Crediton; Allan 3ohns, RR 3 Exeter; Ray Jones, RR 1 Centralia, Walter Mei3ride, BIt i Centralia' Arnold Cann, 'tilt 3 Exeter and Allift Finkbei. SAC . 1. Credit:* tario Wheat Producers Market- ing Board and White Bean Mar- keting Board have not been ac- tive in producer and consumer education. Credit assistance does not come within their limits. A great deal of timd should be spent by co-ops in market de- velopment. "In order to enter merchandi-' sing and distribution sales co- ops would have to be more ac- tive in the processing fields as far as the farm crops are con. cerned." Euchre winners were: Mrs. J. Soldan, Mrs. S. Blackwell, Mr, J, Soldan, Mr, Ross Love; lone bands, Mrs. Jack Soldan. Next week the forum will meet at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ian McAllister. Broader education needed Fairfield Forum held the 'first meeting of the season at the home of Mr, and Mrs. Herman Powe, Exeter. Members felt that more educa- tion, market development and —Please turn to page 12; BREEDER LAUDED BY ASS'N—Whitney Coates, RR 1 Centralia, was lauded by Huron Hereford officials and County Warden Bill Jewitt Tuesday night at the breed association's annual banquet in Hensall. The Usborne breeder brought honors to the county recently when his three-year-old bull, Old Orchard Lord Vern, above, won the grand championship at the Royal Winter Fair, —Rose Photo HEREFORD BREEDERS CHOOSE OFFICERS Huron Hereford breeders elected a new executive at its annual meeting Tuesday night. Ernest Brown, seated left, suc- ceeds Percy Wright, beside hint, as president. Standing are, from left, Don Grieve, secretary -treasurer; Harry Hirtzel, second vice-president, and Whitney Coates, first vice -'resident. –1'-A Photo CFA's Carbert challenges ov't 'do-nothing' charge Bob ` Carbert, former CKNX farm broadcaster and now direc- tor of information for the CFA, Says he can't agree with people who say the federal government is doing nothing for farmers. Guest speaker at Huron Fed- eration's annual meeting at Lon- desboro. Thursday, Mr. Carbert took exception to opinions ex- pressed at the Hay -Stanley Fed- eration annual Wednesday night by W. P. Roberts, Tuckersmith official. "The .-gov't has made mis- takes, and has had shortcomings but generally it's done a pretty *fair job. To say the gov't has let farmers down is something I Can't buy." As evidence, he pointed to the new credit administration pro- gram, the crop insurance act, compensation for rabies losses and forthcoming legislation on land use and redevelopment. He also predicted the gov't would provide unemployment insurance for farm labor in the " near future. Speaking on deficiency pay- ments, Mr, Carbert warned farmers to expect '15 -cents hogs when the program comes into effect on January 11, He also predicted the price would go up at the end of the deficiency pay- ment. ayment. year which could mean that the payment based on the average price ttor the year, might not be very high. While the Federation did not support the deficiency payment plan on hogs and eggs, it was not opposed to this program on all products, Mr. Carbert said. "The CFA has advocated. defic- iency payments on several com- modities for a number of rea- sons, Big Savings for EARLY .TRADERS WE'LL PAY • more for your trade-in! a bonus at the rate of 6% en Vette trade- in and/or down payment! . Doal Now... Get a Double Bonus Coats -D L. Becker & Sons PHONE 60.W bASHWOOD Outlining the CFA's organza-" tion, Carbert refuted the claim' that farm policy was set by its employees in Ottawa rather than l by farmers themselves. "Our policy is based on the resolu-, tions passed by the provincial federations and other affiliated bodies." He also defended the position of Dr. H. H. Hannam, who is both president and managing director of CFA. "This gives Dr. Hannam the highest prestige of office, which is necessary when you are dealing with Ottawa." Carbert said that Dr. Han- nam's ability was recognized by the gov't which had appointed — Please turn to page 12 DOOM DUST For Lice and Ticks 2 Ibs. 65c TRY HOWARD'S Cowpest and • Stokpest Powder or Spray It fixes them! Anti -Freeze BULK $2.50 GAC. EXETER DISTRICT PHONE 287 COLLECT , 1 ,+...:..the new: Took for. �dbel :.. green •7 A •. DEADLY 70 RATS AND MICE but safe to use because its relatively harmless to humans, all livestock, pets and poultry. HOWARD WAR. FARIN RAT KILL is ready to use -1n meal or pellet form. PRODUCTS ARE SOLD BY BOWA AO RESIDE CNR STATION `a(te exeierZimesaitivocafe Pag1e EIRv,n EXETER/ ONTARIO/ DECEMEER ,k. 1959 Second: Sicti011 Honor champion breeder at Herford ass'n fete Whitney Coates' triumph at ,vtie. Royal Winter Fair this year was recognized Tuesday night at Huron Hereford Breeders' Ass'n annual banquet in 1-1ensali. breeder, h bullThe won Usborne grand championshwipose honors, was lauded for enhancing the reputation of Huron county and its Herefords by President Percy Wright, RR 1 Cromarty, and other speakers including Warden Bill Jewitt, Also .recognized was Rodger Meyer, Wingham, who showed the champion Hereford in Ina Queen's Guineas class, and Bud Yeo, whose Hereford steer won reserve championship in the open class. Hensall arena auditorium was filled to capacity fes the event, It was one of the largest lrrowds' ever to attend the Hereford an- nual. .Urges cows: culling Culling the poor .cow is good advice not on1Y for •Uhe dairy- man but for the beef breeder es well, indicated W. T. Abraham, Lamb;on ag rep, whop was guest speaker. He is a native of Buron,.1 He revealed that a recent study in Wisconsin indicated that' proper selection of cows can snake 400 to 500 pounds differ- I ence in the raising of feeder. cattle. "At the • present price of 1 25 cents a pound, that represents an extra $25 profit for each calf," he stated. Fieldman comments Require more funds for Federation work By .1. CARL HEMINGWAY 1 culture before you so that your HFA Fieldman ! opinions can be discovered and a goad decision arrived at. Huron County Federation of Ag Rep Doug Miles expressed Agriculture held its annual meet- appreciation for the assistance ing Thursday, Nov. 27, in Lon - in the desboro Hall with about 200 pre- given ucellosis�ec a ass am and Mss sent. We could have accomodat- Bette Tillman, county home ed another 50 and while there economist, told of the fine sup was a fair representation from port given by the federation to the ladies section they could the 4-H projects in Huron. very well have made up the. extra numbers, Bob Carbert, formerly of- Officers fOfficers elected from the floor CKNX and now director of infor were Warren Zurbrigg, Clifford,' to tion and assistant secretary president; Gordon Greig, Wrox- eter, first vice-president, and He explained how the farmer is Frank Yeo, Clinton, second vice represented in this body. There president. Os no direct voting power for the individual any more than President WinstGn Shapton re-' there is in the House of Com - viewed the activities of the or- I mons in Ottawa., Rather you are ganization over the past year represented by the delegates and noted that there is need for! that you elect by voting through improvement in the financial po-: your various organizations, just sition. This is caused not by a as you are represented by your reduction in the income but local member of parliament. rather by the ever-increasing This is the only way by which call for assistance in solving all farmers can be fairly repre- farm problems that is being scnted since direct membership made to the county organization. voting would mean that the na- Interest is running high among tional organization could very farmers and while only some 200 easily be dominated by the attended the county annual, well farmers in proximity to the over 100 have been attending the place of annual meeting. Last township annuals and over the — Please turn to page 12 year well over 2,000 farmers! will be out to meetings to hear what is being done on their be- half and to offer their suggest- ions. Mrs. Vera Greig, chairman of r Ontario Farm Forum, spoke t briefly on the need for the re- sults of these groups. This pro - grain is put on for the purpose of placing the problems of agri- OAT GROWERS We need a limited quantity of Garry and Rodney Oats to clean soon for commercial seed. We will pay the highest price. Will buy on sample, or uncleaned or cleaned basis. Alex M. Stewart & SON LTD. Ailsa Craig 10. Abraham painted; out that proper progeny testing in dairy cattle had raised annual o duction per cow from 7,500 prro7 -9,500 pounds per year. A similar expernnent in beef cattle In Wis, consin revealed that there was an .85 percent :chance that the cow whose calf was light .at prod weaniuce ng time cattlewould continue to light , "There 15 a real future in .On, terio for the .beef cattle industry. It's true we are worried about the price in 1960 but .on the long pull it is still a worthwhile chat- lenge to. .any beef breeders' group to strive for ' increased production." Huron, he pointed out, was, in the heart of the beef, consuming population of Canada. "It isn't going to be the big things that will improve our 'pro, gram from now on—I think it will be the little things in our overall program which will make the difference, Are we getting rid of our border cows? Are we taking - advantage of gov't poli, cies to improve our herds? Are we doing the proper type of pro- motion to meet the needs of the cattle raiser?" Celebrate centennial Jim Coultes, Belgrave, a diree, for of the Ontario Hereford As- sociation, outlined extensive plans for the celebration of the centennial anniversary of the in, troduction of Herefords to Can, ada. The major celebration will take place at the CNE next year. Mr. Coultes also revealed that he is compiling a history of Herefords in Huron county which will form part of a historical pamphlet being prepared by the provincial group. - Ernest Brown was elected president of the association. Vice-presidents are Whitney Coates and Harry Hirtzel. Directors include Sam McClure and Thornton Eedy, third year; Ephriam Haas and Jim Coultes, second year; Bill Clark and Robin. Thompson, first year. Auditors are Bev Thompson and MilArt Bolton. The election was con- ducted by Ag Rep Douglas es, Secretary -treasurer of the as- sociantationagrep. is Don Grieve, assist- Ektntertainment was provided by the Paul ,Bros. and Shirley, Kiron. s Live Poultry Wanted! 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