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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1962-03-15, Page 11THREE HURON PRIZEWINNERS—Tan McAllister, RR 1 Zurich, who won the farm manager class at Huron Seed Fair Saturday, shows his plan to two other winners. They are Harold Dignan, centre, RR 2 Hensall, whose turnips took first prize, and William Etherington, RR 1 Hensall, who won the chopped hay championship. Control costly mastitis with herd attack: Neely 5econcl, Section EXETER, ONTARIO, MARCH: 15, 1902 Pap aleven ust consider all viewpoints marketing issues; Stewar • CONGRATULATES CHAMPION Agriculture Minister W. A. Stewart, guest speaker at Huron Seed Fair here Saturday, examines prize-winning corn grown by Robert Fotheringham, left, who was named champion exhibitor for the fourth consecutive year. Fotheringham also won the junior farming judging competition, --T-A photo Another mayor sweep for Bob Fotheringham Exeter's Own! Kongskilde TRIPLE K ALL-PURPOSE CULTIVATORS SEE THEM! TRY 'THEM! Bt.:1Y THEM! 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Tests at Purina's Research Farm have shown that feeding is even more important than breeding if you want to farrow those big, healthy litters, Give me a call, or drop in, I'd like to tell you About Purina's Hog Feeding 'Program for baby pigs too! for fast, a.' wient feed ,service call C011111'S Mill Ltd. Exeter Phone 23$.1787 Whalen Corners Phone 3Sr15 kirkton Canadians who want bigger profits tomorrow w to IN '0 W XI WI M * X X feed PURINA CHOWS today! had the highest average in. come of any grettp in. the pro. vince. "That speaks well or your farming operations," he told the crowd. Sir. Stewart emphasized several times during his ad• dress that farmers must look among their own numbers for the strength and kind of lead- ership required to meet their challenges. In doing so, he stressed, they could count upon. the full co-operation of his de- partment The minister was introduced by Huron MPP C. S. Mac- Naughton who praised the soil and crop improvement associa- tion as "one of the most' ob- jective farm organizations we have in the .province". Other speakers during the opening ceremonies were Mel- burn Greenwood, Mitchell, provincial. director; W a r d e n George MeCuicheen, V. L. Becker, chairman of the coun- ty agricultural committee, and Mayor Eldrid Simmons. Chairman of the program was George Wheatley. RR 1 Dub- lin, president of the Huron association. Tax income for schools? Members of Fairfield and Elimville Forums in discussing "Taxation for Education" fa- vored income taxation as the fairest way since it places more of the burden for ethical-don on those who have derived the greatest material benefit from it, and on those who are the most easily able to pay. Members of 'Fairfield Forum in discussion at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Hoist, Cred. iton, felt the present taxation of land was unfair and in many cases the farmer with a large acreage pays much more than his share. Members of both forums ex- pressed themselves as agree- ing with the points made by the Canadian Federation of Ag- riculture over one .year ago; • That 'the Canadian educa- tional standard should—be the best possible. • Th e federal government should share 50', of the cost of such education on a per pupil basis. • The use of real property tax for 'the financing of edu- cation should be eliminated. o A national standard of text books and 'curricula should he uniform for all provinceS. • Federal costs should be based on income tax level, as to ability to pay. 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SHURa GAIN IN PAPER POLY BULK' See your SHURGAIN FERTILIZER AGENT or eon TELEPHONE EXETER 2354921 'EARL .NEIL'S "WAIREHOUSt FERTILIZER SERVIC Mastitis — the most costly disease in the dairy industry today — can he brought under control. if producers attack it as a .herd problem, Dr. 11. S. Neely of the Ontario 'Veterinary College told Huron farmers Sat- urday afternoon. He warned, however, that there are no shortcuts to con- trol, "'It's going to be a long, hard. pull" Dr. Neely was one of six speakers who conducted "take your choice" panels at the seed By J. CARL HEMINGWAY Federation Fieldman We hear a great deal about Canada's decreasing agricul- tural population. In view of this 1 would like to give you sonic information that has come my way in a small pamphlet put out by the Na- tional Farmer's Union in the. United States, B. e in e m her these are U.S. figures and we cart only guess at their rela- tionship to Canada, There. are about 7.5 million people on farms, 10 million handling farmer's production after it leaves the farm and 6 million who handle the goods farmers buy to operate their homes and farms. This is 37(+;- of the nation's working force. Farmers should spend about 15 billion dollars a year to ope- rate their homes and 25 billion .to operate their farms. Important buyers Farmers are one of the lar- gest buyers of steel products (61/2 million tons annually): one of the largest buyers of tires and tubes (9'lb of the na- tional output), 1/20 of the elec- trical output, the largest buy- ers of petroleum, the only buyers of farm tnachnery, one of the largest markets for cars, trucks and pickups, Farmers have a total invest- ment of over 203 billion dol- lars, equal to about 3/5 of the value of all the stocks quoted on the New York. Stock Ex- change. The farm machinery inven- tory ownedby farmers is equal to the investment of. the steel industry and is greater fair here Saturday. Classrooms at SH.DHS were crowded for the sessions, Reporting on extensive stu- dies on mastitis control, the veterinarian said farmers were wasting a lot of money on in- effective controls and were be- ing misled by deceptive adver- tising. He claimed that the so-called wonder drugs, on which Cana- dian farmers are spending over a million dollars a year, are not the answer, although they than bhe investment in the auto industry. In summary, farmers' in- come is important to the jobs and profits of industry and labor. It, is the nation's lar- gest business. A 15".,, increase in gross farm. income in 'Kansas would be equivalent to a plant hiring 36,150 men at $5,000 per year. Farmers receive $400 or 387I, from the proceeds of a rep- resentative basket of food. costing $1,061.00 (end of quo- tation). Worse position here Canada could show that the farmer is in a somewhat worse position than his Ameri- can neighbour. 1 would suggest that you take a second look at the final statement in. the quotation. A little figuring shows that an increase of 15^,= in gross in- come to the farmer would mean only an increase of 5.66", in the consumer food cost. This would mean that. Canadian consumers would pay a little less than 291;. of their income for food. This would then be about 4 more than U.S. consumers. are presently paying but would still be con- siderably less than food costs in other countries of the world.. Expansion continues At a meeting of Huron Coun- ty Co-Op, Insurance Commit- tee and agents last Tuesday T was again amazed at continu- ing rapid expansion of this as- sociation's business, No doubt some of this ex- pansion is at the expense of sonic other companies but much is due to the increasing consciousness of the need for — Please turn to page 12 can help. Much of the money being spent on the modern an- tibiotics "might as well be in your pockets as in the manufac- turers' ", he said, Dr, Neely reported tests had shown a vast difference in sani- tation agents. Some of the, pro- ducts being sold today actually will grow bugs right in them. Hibitane and the iodofor type of disinfectants had been found most effective, he revealed, These solutions also formed the best base for teat dips. Hot water proved the best disinfectant for teat cups. Dr. Neely blamed. the milk- ing machine for much of the mastitis problem because of the injury it does to udders. Manu- facturers have developed a good machine, he said, but they have fallen down in teaching their buyers how to use them properly. Little evidence had been found of the effectiveness of vaccines, he reported. "Mastitis is not an indi‘;i- dual cow problem — it's a herd problem," he maintained. "The cases that worry you are the extreme ones, the obvious ones but these are only a small part of the problem." He believed that, in the not too distant future, the fluid milk shipper will be required to have certification as far as mastitis is concerned. Other panelists who spoke during the afternoon were Tom Brown, engineering extension specialist, Stratford; Chuck Kingsbury, of the field crops branch, OAC; Jack Murray, soils specialist, London; Dr, T. J. Burgess, animal husbandry, OAC; and Jack Underwood, animal husbandry, WOAS. Each of the panelists was in- troduced by members of the Huron soil and crop associa- tion. SH juniors win prizes South Buren juniors won ma- jor prizes in the junior and novice sections of the seed judging competition at Huron Seed Fair last week. _Robert McNatIghton, Hen- salt, won the trophy for the contestant with the highest score. in the novice and junior divisions. 'He led the junior section with a total of 642. Tied for first place in the novice division with 942 points each were Neil McAllister, RR 1 .Centralia, and Garry Scholl, Henson, South Huron District High School team of McNaughton, McAllister and Scholl was run- ner-up for the school. award, won by Seaforth, A total of 59 juniors took part in the competition held at the Legion. Hall here. Biggest com- petition was in the novice sec- tion which attracted 34 contest- ants. Winners were: Novice — Neil McAllister and Garry Scholl. tied with 642; John Loch, RCAF Centra- lia, 631; Steven. Elder, R.R. 2 Hensall, 624; Jim Carscadden, Exeter, 623; John Elder, RR 2 Henson, 618; Jim Neil, RR 1 Exeter, 608; Neal Hamilton, Exeter, 608; .Tan Negrijn, RR 1 Exeter, 694; David Taylor, Henson, 592, Junior — Robert MeNaugh- ton, 642; Gordon Maloney, Sea- forth, 621; Jim ?apple. RR 4 Seaforth, 621; John Stoll, RR, 3 Kippen, and Herman Lan- sink, Seaforth, tied with 599; Gordon Pryce, RR 1 Dublin, 584; Brian Heim, RR I. Wood- ham, 576; Bill Klein Haar, RR. 4. Seaforth, 575; Larry Du- charme, RR 2 Brussels, 559; Bob. Bowan, RCAF Centralia, 530. Intermediate — Ivan. Hew- abt, RR 1 Belgrave, 678; Bruce Papple, .RR 4 Seaforth, 658; Fred 'Uhler, RR 3 Walton, 629. Senior — Robert Fothering- ham, RR 3 Seaforth, 711,; Mur- ray Scott, RR 1 Belgrave; Ken Papple, RR 5 Seaforth; Mac Stewart, RR, 5 Seaforth, 682; Larry Beuerman, Seaforth, 677; Ed Hero, RR 1 Woodham. 668; Fred Delbridge, RR J. Wood. hain, 658. 4" ..... "You'd never believe he got two speeding tickets this month." Besides winning the seed fair championship for the fourth consecutive year, Bob Fothe- ringham of. RR 3 Seaforth cap- tured a lion's share of the spe- cial awards, He won 'two trophies, a blan- ket, silver tray, four cash a- wards, seed and fertilizer, in. addition to the cash prizes pro- vided for individual classes. He was tops in silage, hay, small seeds, corn, white beans, barley and 4-H oats. And, he also won the Huron. Crop and Soil Improvement Assn trophy for scoring the highest mark of 711 in the junior farmer seed judging competition. That's not all. Bob also took part in the drama festival Fri- day night, portraying a role in the prize-winning entry by Sea- forth junior farmers. Locals take prizes A number of South Huron farmers captured prizes in the competition. for the first time. Harold Dignan, .FIR 2 Hen- son, displayed the best turnips 'Farmers must look at both sides of the marketing prob- lems which confront them to- day, Agriculture Minister Ste- wart told a crowd of over 500 on Seed Fair hpeeil:seonisa tharld”14-ur He illustrated his point by describing a personal expert- "cier' A. Stewart- said he received "quite a dressing down" re- cently from one eastern Onta- rio producer who violently op- posed the hog marketing reg- ulations. A trucker 'who used to take hogs into the Quebec market, the man was annoyed because he could no longer do so under the new direction pro- gram. The same man, however, praised the minister for his in- sistence upon the establish- ment of a milk marketing plan. The farmer said his neighbor had no right to re- ceive $5.10 for fluid milk while he received only $2.60 cwt. "I 'pointed. out to him," Mr. Stewart said, "that his neigh- bor probably would be just as reluctant to lose his contract for Mild milk as he was about losing the right to truck hogs outside the province." The minister said there are no simple answers to the prob- lems involved in marketing. The development of a milk pploainn t, s. for example, involves many complexities on which there are many divergent view- "I have confidence in our farm people that they will sit down together to work out po- licies which are in the best interests of all producers," the minister said. It was his department's re- sponsibility, lie felt, to encour- age farm people to find the solution's to their problems and to provide the legislation re- quired to bring them into ef- fect Management problem Formation of farm manage- ment, groups which would con- duct their own programs and. pay fees for professional as- sistance was suggested to Hu- ron farmers by the agriculture minister. He said such a program had been carried on successfully for the past five years ; by a group in Bruce county. They had benefitted by the farm management courses sponsored by the dep't and had decided to organize their own group, Participants paid a fee for services provided. The minister said his de- partment would be happy to assist in the development of such a program. He acknowledged that Huron farmers were among the first to take advantage of the farm management assi s t a n c e of- fered by the gov't. He revealed that the farm. management group in Huron and William Etherington, RR. I Hensel", won the chopped hay award. Ian McAllister, RR 1 Zurich, topped two major contests — the farm manager of the year award and the cutting costs class. Robert P. Allan's Russell entry won the oat champion- ship. Ilene are the . results: Oats —.Robert Fothering- ham, Seaforth; Jim Broadfoot, Brucefield; Alvin Bellies, Bay- field; Allen Betties, Bayfield; Newton Clarke, Woodham, Russell oats — Robert P. Al- lan, 'Brucefield, B a r l e y Fotheringham, Broadfoot, Alexander, White beans — Fothering• ha in. Small seeds — Fotheringham, — Please turn to page 12 Fieldman comments Farmers big buyers US statistics reveal Art Cann's TIPS ON BROOD SOW CARE FAST FERTILIZER SERVICE . throughout seeding time from YOUR LOCAL SHURaGAIN SERVICE PLANT! Right, through seeding time you can be assured of fast, service front Shur-Gain's modern handling facilities right in your own area. Consider these advantages offered by your Shur-Gain Fertilizer Service Plant—