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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1962-05-03, Page 13Ontario's winter wheat crop is expected to fall some 41 million bushels short of the 10-year average production of 18f: million bushels, Statistics compiled from sur- veys conducted by the Ontario Wheat Producers' Marketing Board by means of both ground and air observations indicate 23(1 of the soft while winter wheat in the province has beers lost to the ravages of winter. K. A, Standing, secretary- manager of the marketing board, said .the estimated pro- Huron ass'i- Morris A. Huff, Bloomfield, began his duties this week as summer assistant agricultural representative f o r Ii u r o n. Raised on a dairy and orchard. farm in Prince Edward county, he was active in 4-11 and junior farmer work there, He is completing his third year at OA.0 in the agricutural econo- mics option and for the last_ two summers has been em- ployed in the economics dept of the OAC. His main respon- sibilities in Huron will be with the 4-11 program, • LAMBTON BREEDERS 1962 Hereford Sale FOREST FAIR GROUNDS. — LIVESTOCK BUILDING Saturday, May 5 1:30 P,M. — DAYLIGHT SAVING. TIME 8 Bulls 21 'Bred Heifers John Smith, Forest W. S, O'Neill, Denfield Sale Manager Auctioneer SEED CORN AVAILABLE DEKALB, PFISTER, WARWICK FUNKS, JACQUES, COW SALAD BLENDS HERBICIDE FOR CORN ATRAZINK 50W for sprayer. ATRAZINE 10G for granular application. ',I'oday there's a new way to bale—that lets one man bale and load faster than a 2- or 6-man team! The new system consists of a New Holland Ha yliner plus a simple, foolproof mechanism that "airlifts" the bales into a trailing wagon. It costs surprisingly little. In fact, the lowest inticed. Hayliner—the new Compact Idayliner 65 with Tele-Flow feed—costs no more with Bale- Thrower than many balers without automatic wagon loading! You get the job done in half the time—all by yourself See us about a dernonstra. tion today. Exeter Farm Equipment 235-1380 DICK JERMYN Exeter Plant Corn, Fertilize with Liquid Apply Granular Atrazine Herbicide All in one Operation The above machine may be seen at work next week on our farm just west of Exeter. If you are interested in planting corn, using Liquid Fertilizers and Atra- zine for weed control, it will pay you to see this new method of doing so, WE INVITE YOUR ENQUIRIES. Used Gro—Gold Mixed Liquid Fertilizers Follow With A Side Dressing Of 41TO Liquid Ammonium Nitrate C s Mill Ltd. EXETER WHALEN CO'RNER5 Heldman coimments Expropriation threat remain.s.with farmer Wheat crop down 4 1 /2 million bushels NAMED BEST CITIZEN Donald Hendrick CLASS RUNNER.UP . Douglas Thiel e exefer Two district students win WOAS awards Find Perth Holsteins on ranch in Arizona EXETER, ONTARIO, MAY 3, 1962 mesakwocafe Page Thjrfemi . Lars SEE US 'FOR • Frotif End Load * Bale Elevators * Bale Bundlers Baile- St oolzar5 *' Pipe Elevators * Peed Mixers * Grain Augers rs ...AS:440,44e fly- J, CARL 1-1gMlt%0WAY FeflerAtitm 104man 'The continual irritation of land expropriation is Still with the farmer. At a recent meeting of fede- ration fieldmen, it was revealed that, the taking of -casements for drilling for gas. or -Mt are not necessarily what seem to be. It was indicated that while these operators would ,not he disappointed to find oil or gas it may well be that they are' simply lookng for a hole in the ground, This underground cavern may then be used for the storage of natural gas supplies to meet heavy winter requirements. They tell us they could even be used to store tomato catsup. Apparentsly it is possible to blow a plastic covering into the cavity, pour In the catsup with free refrigeration guaranteed, and pump it tip as required. What next? Be careful when you drill a well. You might end up with catsup, chicken, soup, beer or even water. The polet for the farmer to watch is the. compensation for storage rights. This little mat- ter apparently fails to appear on some of the contract forms. Net income drops In closing some interesting figures on 1961. came my way. Farm cash income rose from 2,702 million in 1960 to 2,798,- 000,000 in 1961, an increase of 3,6^%,, But, the net farm in- come dropped from $1,188 mil- lion in 1960 to $909 million in 1961, a decrease of 23,4G , Since there were 9,000 fewer farmers the decrease in net income would be somewhat less than the 23.4 r.;-, Salaries and wages increased, from $18,119 millions in 1960 to $18,884 millions in 1961. Cor- poration profits increased 5'';, but if increase inventory is considered the increased pro- fits to corporations is estimated at 10"!1, Sportsmen's advanta g e I have also received a copy of a few sections relating to the Game and Fisheries Act that are of interest to farm- ers, "Land may be acquired un- der the public works act for, purposes of management, per- petuation and rehabilitation of wildlife resources in Ontario". In other words farm land can he expropriated for the above purpose, "No person, without autho- rity, shall pest 'Not Hunting or Fishing' signs. This is interpreted to mean that 'the farmer must first. ob- tain permission from the min- ister or his officials before he shall undel•take to post his land. By JEFF DIETRICH Thursday, April 26, the Zurich 444 tractor maintenance club was organized at Becker's im- plement shop in Dashwood, un- der the direction of Donald G. Grieve, associate ag rep, Eleven members were en- rolled and officers were elected: president, Don Weigand; vice. president, Bob Shapton; secre- tary, Bob Becker; press re- porter, Jeff Dietrich, Tom Brown,. engineering spe- cialist, showed slides on safety nn the farm and outlined the plans for the coming year, V. L. Becker treated the club members and their fathers to a sauerkraut supper served by Iris and Bob Becker, It would seem that the clause is giving a great deal of free- dom, to hunters and fisher- While 1 have bad little diffi- culty in this matter, there have been eases quoted at OVA, meetings where farmers have suffered definite serious los- ses due to irresponsible bunt" crs and the changes in the act seem to be to the disadvant- age of the land owner. In the first letter from Bob. Carbert, the new infornation officer for .0FA, we are told that the federal government has anthorized a temporary subsidy of $5.00 per ton freight assistance shipped to the At- lantic provieces by rail or boat This is something that Onta• rio corn growers have wanted for a long time. American corn due to certain subsidies paid to American. farmers and due to very favorable shipping rates, U.S. corn can be de- livered in Kingston or points east cheaper than corn from south western Ontario. This left Iwo choices to gov- ernment: Either they could give freight assistance to Onta- rio growers or they could have placed an import quota fee on the U.S. corn to the equivalent of the American subsidy to the farmer. This then becomes a ques- tion of whether the powers that be think it advisable to keep the price of corn low to the buyer or to let it find a tine market level, By introducing the freight assistance it is ap- parently in the eyes of gov- ernment expedient to keep the saleprice as low as possible, In the same letter we are told that clue to an urgent re- quest from fluid milk produ- cers, the government will pay the 12 cent subsidy on butter manufactured for surplus, fluid milk for the next year. This is to give producers and proces- sors time to re-adjust their production and quotas to more realistic level. Huron county crop report By D. H. MILES Huron Ag Rep, Spring seeding is progressing very favorably with a large percentage of o u r farmers finished. Canning peas are being sown as well as sugar beets and it is possible that some corn will be sown this week. Some fields of fall wheat is winter-killed in the low lying areas of the field, There has not been too much growth of wheat, or grass, Some cattle have been turned out,. but there is very little for that eggs were being marketed in the breaking trade for the manufacture of egg melange, which is widely used in the baking industry, A similar sit- uation existed last year when Polish eggs were brought into Canada, and sold in. competi- tion with Canadian eggs. Mr. Robson dismissed the trade suggestion that there was a shortage of Canadian eggs for the breaking trade with the remark that "Given some de- gree of reassurance that their producton would not be mis- used, Canadian producers could easily supply enough eggs for domestic needs and have 1;0411- ty for export as well", He also pointed out that lat- est market reports from the Canada 'Department of Agri- culture showed the production of .frozen eggs in Canada until April 7, 1962, to be 6,997,454 lbs., nearly twice the figure for the previous year when the output was 3,838,264 lbs. to that date, "Ontario egg producers arm hard enough pressed by other factors," said Mr, Robson, without having to contend with the threat of cheap imports of Polish eggs. In 1951 according to the census there were some 78,000 egg producers in On- tario. In 1959 there were only 37,800 . producers to register .for Me federal government's de- ficency payment program, and recent indications are that we would he lucky to be able to — Please turn to page 14 By KEITH RIDDELL Middlesex Ag Rep Mrs. Riddell and 1 left Lon- don on March 22, for sunny Arizona, As holidays hadn't been taken for some years, days coming to us were being lost sure there is a limit on maxi- mum holiday time that can be accumulated, So we felt this would be an opportune time to visit our daughter, Beth, her husband, Gerry King, ane our young granddaughter, Twiny, who have been living in Tuc- son the past two years. The trip lo the continent last summer, as representative of the Ontario Department of Agriculture, had many holiday features but a very busy sche- dule. Emphasis on this trip was to be on some needed re- laxation. The trip is by train, We came down here via Chicago and the Golden State-Southern Pacific lines. Prom here we go to visit a cousin, Dr. Grenville Rid- dell, in San. Diego at the southwestern, tip of the United States; then visit Pacific Coast cities such as Los Angeles and San Francisco and then on to Seattle for a couple of days at the World's Fair. From there home will he through the northern states. The "belt trip" wasn't much more basic rail fare than a Tucson-return so we decided to get our money's worth. The northern states still had snow after a severe winter, There was fresh snow from Bat- tle Creek, Michigan, to Chi- cago and quite a lot of old snow 'tit we got almost to Kan- sas. In Kansas their extensive fall wheat areas were showing green. Down here there had also been colder weather than usual and some .alfalfa had, been frozen back, and. citrus fruits touched a hit. Those sunny 80's We have had beautiful sum- mer weather here with sunny skies and temperatures up to the high 811's though the ther- mometer was down to 32 de- grees a night or two, On Mt. Lemon — 30 miles from here— they still have drifts almost covering some of the ,summer lodges and had good skiing a couple of weeks ago when we were tip, In this area are quite vast desert stretches, covered only with sparse. scrubby hushes, and a wide variety of cactus, with desert sections, rich irri- gated areas and interesting mountains, Arizona is a land of variety. During a brief stop-over in Chicago, we rode the elevated trains around the loop, did stores like Marshall-Fields and had a most interesting visit to the Board of Trade. When the bell sounds for the 9 a.m, mar- ket opening there is great ac- tivity in the various grain and provision pits. Traders stand on various steps to indicate the futures in which they are dealing, and by rattier wild, hand gesticulations seem tr, get large transactions completed with dispatch. There was quite a flurry in corn the morning we were there. The Kings have a new ranch- style home with a gravel roof — new to Its — and the inevit- able patio, From this base we have taken many interesting mountain, canyon and desert tours. Cotton is being seeded, alfalfa is being baled, barley is in head, and some trees hang heavy with ripe oranges and grapefruit, T,and to produce must, of course, be irrigated. Sees 4-H show Part of A day was spent at a county 4-1-1. championship show at Phoenix. and several dairy and beef lots have been visited. Cow herds here run up to 750, am beef feed lots car- ry large numbers. The largest we have seen was at Phoenix, operated by a former Canadian from near Ottawa. He runs up to 12,000 feeder cattle at a time, about. 5.000 cows and 5,000 ewes. Some of the better Holsteins on one daily lot came from the Stratford area in Perth Coon- ty. Crop production per acre on hest irrigated land is outstand- ing. On some desert land, though, only two or three cat- tle can he grazed on a section of 640 acres. The t .niversity of Arizona. here at Tucson, has some 15,000 students though a relatively small college of agriculture. Arizona, one of the youngest stales, celebrating its 50th an- niversary this year, has not got a state department of agriculture. So much of the work of such a department is carried on through the dean of agriculture and various special- ists and 'agencies. The exten- sion service with its county agents and home economists carry out active programs. Cities have made estronomi- cal growth, partly from an in- flux of residents who find this desert setting "grows on them." partly from defence spending, with a very large air base a.nd missile manufacturing plants here in Tucson and, of course, from a generally expanding economy. —Please turn to page 14 Two former SHDHS students have won graduation. year awards at the 'Western Ontario Agricultural School, Ridge. town Donald Hendrick, son of Mr. and Mrs. ,Edmond Hendrick, has been awarded the W. G. Thompson prize for best school, citizen and the B of M trophy f(eirr.spublic speaking. He placed 19th in the class of 66 mem- b Douglas Thiel, son of Mrs. Earl Thiel and the late Mr. Thiel. Zurich, has been award- ed the southwestern area WI trophy for high student in civics. Ile stood second in the entire Hass, one of eigh t stu- dents who graduate with honor standing. Top strident of the gradual.- Mg class was Gerald Rose, Ailsa Craig. Other area members , Clioesofflie class were Murray bh ton, who placed fifth with honor standing, and James Scott, who topped the pass standing group; Robert, Snar- ling and Douglas Heard, both of St. Marys; Leslie Wernham, Denfield, and Bert Da.men, Luca fl. The graduates will receive their diplomas at exercises on Tuesday, May 15. Pass junior year Four former SHDHS students successfully completed - their junior year at the Ridgetown school, Fred Desjardine, Grand Bend, placed 14th in the 77- member class. Donald Weigand, Dashwood, and Douglas Shirray, Hensall, were among the top 25. Garry Roweliffe, also passed the junior year. Better dehorn those calves before fly time if you plan to gouge them, says Prof. G, E. Raithby, of the Ontario Agri- cultural College A nimal Phis- bandry Department. Some of the horn sores are almost cer- tain to become infected with maggots during fly season, auction for the 3962 crop Will be about 14 million bushels— down 4 million from last year. He said the unexpected re- duction is for the main part due to extreme winterkill dam- age in the heavy producing areas of Esex, Kent, Lambton and Middlesex. fee conditions during late winter snuffed out about ;iv:, of the wheat in southern On- tario on the average with some areas suffering as high as 50'.'1, Mr, Standing said. And in spite of more ade- quate snow cover which tends to reduce winterkill, the coun- ties of Huron, Perth Waterloo and Wellington suffered about 15',- damage, The marketing board usually is required to export, wheat when total production amounts to 18 million bushels or over. "A lot will also depend on the amount of, rainfall received to bring on and assist growth through the growing season as surface moisture is now below normal in many areas." Mr. Standing concluded that "through crop information pres- ently being studied as a result of the surveys, we have a good idea of what' may he expected. of the board this year, but close watch on the crop must he maintained sothat the board may negotiate the best possible terms on this year's short crop." Ontario egg producers are concerned over reports that shipments of eggs from Poland are being received in Canada again this spring. Tom Robson, Leamington, pre- sident of the Ontario Egg Pro- ducers Ass'n says today that this move by certain commer- cial firms represented a threat to the price structure for dom- estic production. Reliable reports reaching producer officials indicated the latest; shipments would amount to 10,000 cases or more, and Tractor club picks officers Eggs from Poland irk producers here THIS SPRING SOW Contract Barley Barley price the past year has averaged $1.35 per bushel, The Dominion I3ureau of Statistics states that this year's Western Barley acreage is down 29% on the five-year average, Barley prices are expected to remain good. It is one of the, easiest; cash crops to handle with seed and fertilizer supplied, Delivery is taken directly from the field, Free Storage supplied. SEE US FOR YOUR SEED GRAIN COOK BROS. .MILLING +C O. LTD. P itiffe Hensall Give us a try! 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