HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1962-05-10, Page 1SCOTCH VISITOR —Although her schedule calls for tours of farms and meetings
throughout Ontario, Ann Stewart, right, found a diversified interest in little Patti
Lou Down, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Down, when she visited on 'the
area farm over the weekend. She spent her brief stay in the Exeter area on a
tour of area sights and also showed slides of her native country at two local
schools. She left Tuesday for her next trip which will take her down into the Lake
Erie district. —T-A photo
Scottish visitor
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EX' TER
termed lovers' spat
By. PON FAMAIRN not clear to us who is getting
the anger—eo.opprotives, mar- It looks .as though ,the rocky t.„ting or commodIty
road of love has ditched —1,47'0"u6s. or all of sthem. At am
ottrtSiliP earam .carrying the other point the union deplores Ontario Farmers Union .excem "empire budding com.modilY
..tive and Me Ontario
groups" and at this point they Lion. of Agriculture too brass, .wotot find too, m a d if ference
While resolutions calling for of opinion in many sections of an over-all farm organization the federation,
in Ontario—and Canada—have President Bill Tilden warned
been passed by many groups egg .producers at their annual
in both the union and the meeting regentiy against the federation over many years, dangers in individual groups nothing much happened. In the
or-OFA, have been sitting clown
the past year the OFU And the aehx2eiCzinilitegionloh.fejar Isltnrretclur:rea rantl
together and talking, and some The Orli statement seems people were hopeful that steps very blunt—we're n ot interest-toward amalgamation could be
taken. ed ,playing ball with the
OFA until they change their
however, a recent statement ways. The OFA, the other
by the On) executive and a hood, leaves the door open by
lengthy resolution passed at sa yi n g it "regrets that the
the members' meeting of the OFU, according to press re-
°EA last week, constitute more leases, is not 'interested in
than a rift in a beautiful joining with the OFA in one
friendship, general farm organization in
When one side (the On) Ontario" and later maintaining
y a; "The OFU has no it has been quite sincere in
time for any further attempting to work toward one
fraternizing until the federa- organization.
(ion indicates a definite desire
to change the ,structure of
their organization," while the
federation claims; "The OFU
has misrepresented the facts
regarding the structure of the
OFA", it sounds like more
than a lovers' spat. Of course,
the cynics might say it sounds
more like a couple of young-
sters in the old, 'You are so
—I am not" routine.
Terms and conditions remain The increase in the aupport
unchanged, Surplus milk from levet for cheese will mean
producers delivering to. tbo that Producers supplying milk
'fluid milk trade will be .ex. for the manufacture of ',cheese
eluded .from the payment. will not be required to take A
The price support for cheese lower price because of the re-
will be 32.? ..a cents a pound, duced value of whey beater.
basis Montreal and Belleville. In the past, Mr. Hamilton
This will increase the price said, ..the support price for
support of Ontario cheese by Quebec cheese has been half
one-half a cent and Quebec a cent below the support level
cheese at Montreal by one for Ontario cheese, Under the.
rent. Quebec-made cheese will new program, the support price
also he purchased at approved for Canada First Grade cheese
points other than Montreal at at Montreal regardless of
an appropriate price .clifferen- where it is manufactured
will be 321/2 cents.
Sides sound mad
Whichever way you look at
it, both sides sound mad and
this does not hold out hope for
building one farm organization,
The union claims that the
majority rule in the federation
comes from commercial type
organizations, although it is
Huron county
crop report
By 0, G. GRIEVE
Associate Ag Rep
Heavy rains early last week
slopped seeding operations in
the county.
However, combined with warm
weather we have had excellent
growing conditions for the crops.
hay and pastures especially
have made rapid growth during
the past week.
Some corn is being planted.
Elementary school students
from East Williams township
celebrated. Arbor Day in a most
appropriate :fashion Friday.
Under the direction of the
Ausable Authority, they visited
woodlots to learn about young
and mature trees and then
planted about 1,000 with their
own hands.
Over 70 students from East
Williams Memorial Public
School and 11 from the Parkhill
separate school took part in the
celebration which culminated
in a tree-planting competition
in the afternoon.
In the morning they visited
the Wright tract of the Ausable
Authority forest near -Lieury to
see a young plantation; then
they inspected the 30-year-old
Red :Pine plantation owned by
Alex Smith at Liciwy.
After having lunch at, the Du-
can conservation area, they
went to the Hugh 'Rose farm,
miles south of Nairn, where
they were shown how the tree-
planting machinery operated
and how to sow trees properly
by hand.
The students were divided in-
te pairs and then into teams for
planting competitions.
Freeman Hodgins, Authority
chairman, and W. FL A, Thomas,
Middlesex West MP, presented
books on natural history to the
schools for their libraries. Mem-
bers of the winning team were
presented with subscriptions to
the "Young Naturalist" maga-
zine and the runners-up re-
ceived copies of " 'Tain't run-
.nin' no more ", Dr. Sherwood
Fox's story of the Ausable
river. •
Assisting Field Officer J. J,
McCauley with the program
were Conservation Officer John
Fingland, London, and Fred
McLeod, authority member from
-Use Craig.
PASSES FIRST YEAR
W. H. Gordon Strang, RR 1
1-lensall, successfully passed his
first 'year of the two-year di-
ploma. course at OAC Guelph, it
was announced last week. FL
A. MacLean, Cromarty, also
passed his first year.
During 1661. there were 2,600.
business failures recorded
under the Bankruptcy and
Winding Up Acts, a decrease of
eight per cent .from the pre-
ceding year.
A Scottish dietician had the
Ontario delicacy of maple syrup
and the staple food of corn in-
troduced to her diet when she
visited in the Exeter area over
the weekend.
Ann Stewart, 23, from Earl.
ston, Berwickshire spent three
days on the farm of Mr. and
Mrs. Bob Down, RR 1 Henson
and towed several points of in-
terest. in the area before mov-
ing onto her next destination,
Tuesday.
The young Scotch visitor said
she was surprised to find such
warm weather in Ontario at this
time of year, because she had
been expecting the cold tempe-
ratures to remain until the end
of Slay.
On a three-month exchange
visit. Miss Stewart arrived in
the area on Friday night after
a brief stay in the Seaforth area
and returned to Seaforth Satr-
clay to attend the Huron junior
farmers achievement day.
"We don't have anything like_
that in Scotland'', she com-
mented, and added that she had
found the clay's activities very
interesting and educational,
On Sunday, she was taken on
a tour of the New Venice
Farms, Rock Glenn and Grand
Bend and other scenic spots in
the area.
She pointed out that Ontario
farms were much smaller than
those in her native country and.
reported that there was not as
much father and son farming
done here as in Scotland.
Her own farm is a spacious
1,200 acre .lay-out managed by
her father and two brothers with
14 other men in their employ.
The. Stewart,s' program includes
croppng of barley, oats, sugar
beets and turnips and carries h.
purebred. Aberdeen Agus herd
and a flock of 800 sheep.
She explained that corn was
not grown because the season
was too short and cool for the
crop,
The visitor also noted that
there were fewer buildings on
Ontario farms, as Scottish farm-
ers tended to builded smaller
buildings around their barns
rather than the large double-
About 8,000 head of cattle
have been sprayed for warble.
fly control in Birldulph town-
ship, it was reported to council
May 1 by Inspector Anthony
Lamphier. The number of head
treated is about the same as
last year.
Council instructed Clerk.
Austin Hodgins to arrange a
meeting with Usborne council
to discuss public school bound-
ary changes in the Whalen sec-
tion. Some properties in Bid-
dulph joined the Usborne area
when it was formed in 1.946 and
now, with the formation of an
area in Biddulph, a number of
property owners have .petitioned
to be transferred back to Bid-
dulph.
storey structures prevelant in
this country.
During her stay in the area,
she showed slides of her cowl-
try to the school children at
winehelsea and Kirlcton and
also took many pictures to take
hack home.
She was accompanied on her
Ontario trip by 'three other
young Scottish farmers who
spent the last week in Perth.
Middlesex and Lambton coun-
ties bfore they rejoined in Lon-
don on Tuesday to continue
their tours to other counties.
In other business, the council:
Appointed Engineer C. P.
Corbett to bring in a report on
drainage work necessary in the
area of the new separate school;
Approved Biddulph's portior
of the cost of the Gordon
Pittock dam near Woodstock.
proposed to be built by the
Upper Thames River Conserva•
lion Authority, (the portion L~
estimated at $1.44.00);
instructed Road Sup't Jame
O'Shea to call tenders for weec
spraying for the '1962 season,
Reeve Harold Wallis presided
for the meeting.
Migratory birds have been
protected by a Canada-United
States treaty since 1916.
Further details in amplifica-
tion .cif the government's dairy
support program for the dairy
year beginning May 1 have
been released by Agriculture
Snider attends
G eorgia school
Larry Snider has returned
from Vienna, Georgia, home of
the southern training center of
Tractor and Implement Divi-
sion, Ford Motor Company,
where he participated in three
days of intensive product and.
sales training on the operation
and features of Ford tractors
and equipment.
With 17 other Ford tractor
dealers from this area. Mr.
Snider worked with many dif-
ferent models of farm tractors
and implements. A part of the
training program is classroom
work but most of it is in the
field.
The training program at
Ford's southern training center
requires a large assortment of
equipment, including 50 trac-
tors, an even greater number
ofimplements, and a variety
of competitive equipment for
use in making direct compare.-
live tests. At this session, Mr.
Snider is working with trac-
tors, mowers, rakes, hay con-
ditioners, hay balers, Ford's
new LCG tractor and related
implements.
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OFU, OFA quarrel
* Harkness OUT mes
new dairy supports
OK if terms are right
This has something of the
aroma of international .negatim
lions—as they are called, One
side slamming the door with a
bang—which doesn't seem to
mean they won't open it again,
by the way—and the other
couching its feelings in more
diplomatic terms that leave
the door ajar. What both sides
really mean is — we'll agree
with you anytime on our terms,
The OFU is basically a union
—a dues-paying organization—
and shows no desire to change.
fact, it has always main-
tained only a national, direct
memberehip organization can
truly represent Canadian farm-
ers. However, the. union has
only been able to persuade
about 3,000 Ontario farmers to
join and pay dues. Farmers in
this province seem reluctant
to accept the union idea. The
OFA claims a membership of
over 100,000 farmers through
its county and township fede-
rations, corn modity g r o ups
(26), co-operatives (5) and edu-
cational organizations.
While the federation organ-
ization is not perfect—as most
members realize—it does seem
to have more support. than the
union, After a fairly heated
discussion last week, OFA
members resolved to continue
to try to develop one over-all
farm organization in Ontario,
Children plant trees
to mark Arbor Day
Spray 8,000 head
on Biddulph farms
Budget $.140 million
A draft general agreement
will he sent immediately to all
provinces. It designates the 3. Rural development pro.
projects that will qualify for jects to increase income and
federal assistance under ARDA, employment opportunities in
the share of federal contrihu- rural areas and to assist in in-
dons, and the amount of the creasing standards of living in
total Ottawa aid that will he those areas.
allocated to the provinces, 4. Research projects design-
The minister said negotiations ed to help determine the most
on specific projects and pro- productive use of rural re-
grams proposed by the pro- sources.
vin.ees will get under way
within the next few weeks, It
is expected that work on a
number of programs will he
started this summer.
Explained Mr. Hamilton:
"It is proposed that through
the establishment of rural de-
development areas and advis-
or' committees in these areas,
Basic aim of the act, passed rural people will have a major
less than a year ago, is to hand in working out overall
meet the problems of agricul- programs for the development
hint and rural economic ad- of their particular locality."
justment, and, by an integrated The minister said that with
approach to rural development, federal-provincial co-operation,
assist in increasing the pro- the ARDA program will in-
ductivity, incomes and oppor- crease the prosperity of rural
tunities of people in rural areas and that sound rural
areas of Canada. land use will provide greatly
Discussions have been held expanded outdoor recreation
with all the provinces during opportunities for city dwellers,
productivity on good agricul-
tural lands, and at making the
best use of water supplies.
;Minister Alvin Hamilton.
As he announced previously,
the Agricultural Stabilization
Board has been authorized to
purchase ereamerY butter at
64, cents a pound and resell it
at 52 cents a pound. To do
this, the board has arranged
with the trade to buy all the
creamery butter that is manu-
factured and to immediately
resell it at the lower price to
the manufacturer.
Additionally, the board will
maintain its offer to purchase
all butter that is surplus to
current requirements. This will
pound. for Canada First .Grade for A RD-A program be on the basis of 52 cents a
(40 - 93 score), Montreal.
Specifications on this tender- Agriculture Minister Alvin the past three months. Out of
able butter remain unchanged. Hamilton said this week that these talks emerged the initial
gram into effect.
The board will also continue more than $100'000'000 may he federal policies to put the pro-
the e stabilization payment of spent in Canada in an intee
25 cents per hundredwei ght, for rated program of rural de- Many projects and programs
milk delivered by prod ucers velopment over the next three quality for federal contribution
for manufacturing purposes. Yea "' and participation, among them:
di ecetiro.n Hianmial ntonnoumncai cnieg this t ptihe use of marginal lands he alternative 1, Projects for t
unsuit-
federal government, subject to able and uneconomic for cultia
parliamentary approval, will vation, including projects far-
m a Is e available $50,000,000 assistance in establishing these
under the Agricultural Rehab- lands for pastures, tree produe-
ititation and Development Act lion and recreational and wild-
between June 1, 1962 and life uses.
March 31, 1965. • 2. Projects for soil and water
Balance of the total will conservation aimed at main.
come from provincial and local taining and increasing efficient
contributions.