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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 Finds farms here small 41) i . .44 (ica e r'a t'e t4ine ,EXETER, 17NTARIP1 MAY 10, Pio:4 Second Section xefer hues- .:44001,1s:E$ et.? TOP QUALIV Oils Et Greases ALWAYS USE CO-OP PETROLEUM PRODUCTS SEED CORN GRAIN & ENSILAGE. ar Pfister .* DeKalb Warwick t Jaques Hybrids SEED POTATOES Cobbler & Sebago EXETER DISTRICT 2351081 Get rid ofweeds Weeds c o s I, Canadian farmers $350 million annually. 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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. V V V Ftgrow farrow 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.