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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1962-08-16, Page 11Site of the original Timothy Eaton store imeomeeMoixote The small implement shed at left, behind the brick store at Kirkton's main corner, is on the site of Timothy Eaton's first store, after he moved to Canada, in 1854, from, Ballymena, County Antrim, in the North of Ire- land. The original Eaton store, a log building, is be- lieved to have been the first building at Kirkton. The log store was superseded by the brick building which is still in service as a general store; the frame implement shed was built after the log building was removed. The view is from the present site of Kirkton Post Office. Advocate features drainage project NON-STOP PICKING BIG CAPACITY Can you handle this year's big corn crop? UPERTICKER Six good reasons Why the new breed of Supetpickers are so`0100ree • 3 low reaching gathering chains • Snapping rolls set at 45° angle • Snap bars on each roll • Hungry husking bed • Extra-long wagon elevator • bull Year. Guarantee Pact is, the &Tap-leiter is MieftriNi 811 the way through and these are only a few of the reasons your should see it for yel's& at BILL CLEMENT PHONE 19 HENSALL PHONE 11S13ti4 Name two Details specialization Pay 7.3c on .wheat 'The Ontario Wheat pre- ducers' Marketing Board .40- 1100.0iged this. week that it will rebate 7.3 cents per bushel to Ontario wheat producers who sold. wheat _during the July 1.961 to June. an period, Beard chairman,. 110y Cool= ter, -Campbeliville,„ said the rebate of 7,3 cents per bushel represents a total of about $850,000 to be returned to pro, dopers which was not used in the board's costs of purchas- ing, handling and exporting some 1,600,000 bushels of wheat in the 1961 crop year. Producers pool 9 cents per bushel on all wheat marketed as a Stabilization fund. Mr. Coulter said that ap, proximately 11,600,000 bushels of the 1961 crop were market- ed. In announcing the rebate, Mr, Coulter also stated that pro- ducers should not confuse the payment of 7.3 cents per bushel with 1962 crop market- ings, that it applies only to the 1961 crop period, K. A, Standing, secretary. manager of the board, advis- ed that processing of the more than 24,000 producer records to determine the amount each will receive will take about two months to complete and by the time this is accomplish• ed, it will probably be the end of September when individual cheques will be distributed. ag dept Hon, William A. Stewart, min- ister of agriculture, has an- nounced that W. P. Watson, chief of the production and ex- tension division of the Ontario Department of Agriculture and formerly live stock commis- sioner for Ontario, has been ap- pointed assistant deputy minis- ter of the department. The minister also announced that R. G. Bennett, chief of the marketing divison has been appointed assistant deputy min- ister (administration). Both ap- pointments are effective imme- diately. Mr. Watson, who is well known in agricultural circles will assist the deputy minister, Everett M. Biggs, with particu- lar emphasis on the various technical services of the de- partment. Mr. Bennett succeeds T, R. Hilliard, who was recently ap- pointed deputy minister of the Department of Energy Resour- ces. He will be responsible for the administrative details of the department. ... This week in Winchelsea 13y MRS. WILLIAM WALTERS S.: . ,!. .... : • • T, Johnny Morgan, of Thames Road, spent a few days this past week with Mr, and Mrs. Newton Clarke, Mies Kay Home, of London, visited a few days this past week with Mr. and. Mrs. Free- man Horne and family. Miss Karen Hera of Sunshine Lite visited this week with Janet Vern, Mr. and Mrs. William Walters and Danny visited on Sunday with Mr. Harry Walters in. Vic. toria Hospital, London. Eugene, little son of Mr, and Mrs. Harold Clarke, is quite ill in South Huron Hospital, Exe- ter, Mr. Francis Clarke and Mr. Luther Penhale, of Exeter, visit- ed on Saturday at the home of Mr. and Mrs, Harold Clarke. Gerald and Mary Skinner, of St. Petits, spent last week with Mr, and Mrs. Bison Lynn and family. Mr. and Mrs, Gordon France and family attended the funeral on Monday at Zurich for Mrs. Prance's father, the late Wil- liam Hay, Mr, and Mrs. Font Skinner and fancily, of St, PauIs, visited oti Sunday with Mr, and Mrs, non Lynn and family. Mist Barbara Ann Milian visited this past week With Mr. and Mrs. Harvey smith and Penny, of CreditOn, TIMELY TIP An 80118 in Ontario do, not need lime, 'says Prefeeser T. J. Ilecg Of the Ontario Agricultu, rat College. You waste Money when you apply unnecessary lime. A soil test will tell you hone much, Whet), and where you should apply lithe. Bement. ber, Correct leVels Of lime are vital in the efficient ,production of field trops. Notice To Hog Farmers HOG CHOLERA For, clean up: use Carbela Disinfectant White Paint 50 !ht. sprays 4,000 eq, ft., only 18.50. Just Mix with water and apply. Completely tlisin, fects and whitens in , one opera- Pion, Approved foe Banat, T.B. and -Cholera dean up, kills flies, etc, tarbols the ideal all Outpost disinfectant paint, for Hod, Dairy, and Poultry barns—Ask your feed elealet fat details or writer: Seven Oaks Manufatfuring it, Sales, tit', Box 364, kitelienerf Ontario. ?Age, Elovori Visit US farms Membeps of 4.41 homemaking clubs of Huron county found considerable difference in the way 4-H projects are carried out in Gratiot County, Michigan, when they visited there last week, Each Huron member was billetted with a 4-le member of Gratiot County who entertained them for the day. Naturally they compared notes on their projects. "Girls in Gratiot County can, start 4-H work at the age of ten whereas we cannot begin till we are 12," mentioned Ann Creery who was one of the Huron visitors, Ann also mentioned that they can take a greater variety of projects. They may belong to an insect club, a sewing club, cooking club, photography club or horse club where they learn horseback riding. Over all is the 4-1-I service club, The big event of the year is the 4.H fair being held this week. "This compares slightly to our Achievement Day — there is a big prize list and the young people enter their work in the various sections and com- pete for prizes. Shirley Johns noted that the girls start their 4-H work whe- ther in sewing or cooking with the simplest items and gradu- ally learn the different proces- ses till they can make a dress or bake an angel cake. "We plunge right into making a blouse or pudding as soon as we join," she said, Several of the girls remarked with a twinkle in their eye that more boys in Gratiot County took cooking and sewing than they do here, The group of 34 young people left Clinton by bus Wednesday morning and were joined by the local group at 8:30 at Exeter North. They arrived at the city of Owesso for lunch and were pleasantly surprised to find they were one hour ahead of Michigan time. They arrived at the famous Green Meadows dairy farm — of 1,000 cows just at milking time. "It was fortunate we ar- rived just at that time for it was a great sight to see 800 cows ready for milking — which was done in two shifts taking three hours at each shift", said Huron county crop report By M. A. HUFF Huron Summer Assistant Approximately 60% of the grain has been harvested and a large percentage of the remain• der is lying in the swath or stooked. Showers in the past week have slowed threshing opera- tions. Joan Westeott who was one of the group, The 4-Hers also stopped to watch, the picking of cucumbers by Mexicans who are brought in for the work, The cucum- bers are taken to pickling sta- tions where they are graded, the smallest bringing the high. est price. Thursday evening all the 4- Hers met in Ithaca for a wiener roast and get-together, On Friday on the return trip the group stopped at the Michi- gan State University at Jeans- ing. The entire visit was an excellent chance for the Huron young people to see bow fami- lies in another farm area live. B y MRS. FLORENCE ELLIOTT Huron FA Secretary Did you know? There were 121,338 farms in Ontario in 1961, 14% less than in 1956, The average Ontario farm is 153 acres, 12 more than in 1956. More than 90% of Ontario farms are owner-operated. Nearly one-third of the dol- lar value of Canadian farm pro- duce is marketed from Ontario farms. Today's Ontario farmer pro- vides food and fibre for 28 per- sons. In 1960 only 11.3% of Can- ada's labor force were farm- ers. In the 20 years from 1940 to 1960 the gross value of output per farmer has increased from $736 to $4,695. The farmer is the No. 1 mar- ket for manufactured items from many of our factories. As consumers in 1961, farmers in Ontario spent more than $47 million on tractor, over $27 mil- lion on truck, in excess of $22 million on automobiles, well over $7 million on electric power. They provide a market for a large portion of the pro- duction of rubber tires, steel, chemicals, petroleum products, appliances, etc. Farm business keeps many factories running, thousands of people employed. News notes Harvesting of the winter wheat crop in Ontario is now 41111MR•folk They report that farms are of smaller acreage 'than in Hu- ren, often being 40 or 60 or 80 acres and the farmer often grows a cash crop in the sum- mer and works in a factqry during the winter, Those who attended front South Huron were Ken Gemmel, RR 2 Kippers; Helen. liroadfoot, RR 1 Brucefield; Suane Haugh, RR 1 Brucefield; Shirle y Jaques, RR 1 Centralia; Joan Westeott, RR 3 Exeter; Jean McNaughton, RR 3 Kippen; Ann Creery, RR 1 Woodham; Shin ley Johns, R.R. 3 Exeter. Huron home economist, Miss Isabel Gilchrist accompanied the group, general. Production will, be well below that of a year ago since acreage is down 20 per- cent and the average yield is below normal due to winteritil- ling. The outlook for spring- sown oats and barley is favor- able. An outbreak of hog cholera in Ontario and Quebec has re- sulted in the destruction of sev- eral thousand animals which had contacted the disease or were suspected of having been exposed to it. The government is compensating farmers for destroyed animals. Manitoba crop favorable Better-than-average crop pros- pects are being maintained in — Please turn to page 15 BARN CLEANER SILO UNLOADER. & BUNK FEEDER YOU'LL GET BETTER PER- FORMANCE AND LONGER WEAR FROM A BADGER SALES • SERVICE INSTALLATION "Specializing through drain- age" is how the Farmer's Ad- vocate titled its story on Bill Allen, Woodham, on whose farm the drainage day demon- stration took place last month, The magazine cover featured a picture of the Usborne farm and Huron Ag Rep Douglas Miles examining the digging be- in done by one of the machines, Here's the Advocates's story: e Do you need to run more cat- tle to raise your income? Then you will find a visit with Bill Allen, near Woodham in Huron County worthwhile. We went to Bill's place in mid-July along with some 500 other farmers, when the first Ontario Farm Drainage Day was held there, and we, along with everyone else, came away impressed with the ideas he's putting into prac- tice. At the field day farmers had a chance to see the most up-to- date equipment for installing tile drains. The different types of trenchers on the market were actually at work on the farm. The job each of them did could be assessed. A piece of equip- ment that was new to many was an augur back-filler machine. More than One was heard to say: "That machine would save us a lot of hand work. We need one in our area." To us a most impressive part of the program was hearing Bill Allen's story of how tile drain- age has helped him increase his production. Bill has used tile drainage to get spectacular increases in hay and pasture production, And he is paying for it all through his specialized dairy operation, plus his surplus cattle. Bill ships his milk to Stacey's — a concentrated milk plant in Mite chell, Bill bought his 100-acre farm in 1948. Then the land and buildings were in a rundown condition and he immediately went, to work trying to improve this; he seeded down to better varieties of hay and pastures and also fertilized quite heavily, But due to the fact his land kept getting wetter and wetter every year, Bill soon realized he had to do something about a drainage system for his farm. Nis alfalfa would only last a short time -until ire wet spots would be killed out. His land is actually the kind that at first glance many would think was pretty well drained and not in need of tiles. In 1954 Bill changed from a mixed farm operation to a spe- cialized dairy program and started to build a registered Holstein herd. At this time his farm would only support a herd of about 35 animals with 12 to 15 milking. By 1959 his herd was increased to between 50 and 60 head with 24 milking. In or- der to increase further he was faced With two choices — he either had to buy more land on which to produce more hay and pasture or he had to somehow get more production off the land he had. He was convinced that there was no sense buying more land until he had his present farm producing at capacity. He felt that tile drainage would answer his problem. He called in the On- tario Department of Agricul- ture farm engineering experts, and they agreed that a syste- matic drainage plan was the answer. Already his drainage plan is half completed and he expects to finish tiling the other half within three years. To date he has installed 33,000 tiles, and he has about the same number to late, in, before his 100 acres will be fully drained. He is using 4-inch tile for the laterals which are either 60 or 66 feet apart depending on the slope of the land and 5 inch tile as trunk lines. What do you expect to gain from the draining?, we asked. "I'm tile draining to grow bet- ter hay, more grass and so in- crease my herd-carrying cape. city," was the way he put it. And this is already proving it- self. Good drainage is providing the necessary link between good seeding, fertilizing and harvesting practices to increase the carrying capacity of the land. A spectacular example of the benefit of his tile drains shows up in one of his original prob- lem fields, An 8-acre field al- ways had a 11/2 -acre wet spot at one end. Off this field in 1949 ,he took 100 bales of hay. That was all. Second growth was not good enough to cut. This spring off the same field — which he cut on June 13 — he took 700 bales. And he is also probably going to have a good second cut, despite our dry weather. Now all this huge increase in yield cannot be laid to tile drainage — he has followed a good fertilizing program in the interim as well. But since tile draining the field he has found the field does not need nearly as much fertilizer. He told me: "In my opinion the difference in the cost of fertilizer needed now will pay for the tile instal- lation, which cost $750 for the 8 acres, Here is the rest of Bill's drainage story in his own words: "Right after putting in the tile drains I could see the difference in soil structure. This result spurred me on to getting the rest of my farm tile-drained. Actually 35 years ago this farm was well drained, but the drains had not been kept up and the whole farm had got into a run• down condition. I found boxed drains made of wood were rot- ten and the 2 to 3-inch tiles ori- ginally installed were either plugged or broken. "Since putting in the tiles I've found that the land now ab- sorbs more water and that there is less run-off in the spring after heavy rains. During the dry weather of this summer I've noticed that my problem 8-acre hay field has continued to grow all the time. 1 also believe that the drainage will help to solve the weed problem on my,farm. "Another change is very not- iceable when I go onto the land in the spring. Before the drains were installed the furrows of my fall-plowed land would flat- ten out like a table top in the spring and there was practic- ally no penetration of air or water. Since the drains have been installed the furrows will still sit up and there is pen- tration of air and, moisture. This means I can seed a lot earlier. I feel that on my tile-drained fields there is an action going on that is similar to what hap• pens when you turn a windrow of hay over to dry. The air gets in — and that is very important if you're to get good crops." How large a herd will your 100 acres support once your farm is completely tile-drained? "I expect to be able to milk 36 cows — 12 more than I now have and more than double what the farm could support 13 years ago. My whole farm will be in hay and pasture except 'that I'll grow one field of wheat or oats to meet my straw needs. I feel that I can buy my grain cheaper than I cart provide the land and labour to operate ma- chinery to grow it." On hand during the Drainage field clay were Department of Agriculture soil experts. They gave the professional view on what drainage can do, Tack Murray, who works out of Lon- don, pointed out that Bill Al- len had decided to go ahead — Please turn to page 15 in a perfect Package A FastWorker .and Cheap to keep! LET'S MAKE. A DATE TO DtMONSTRAT5 E F xe er arm u p ent R. D, JERMYN NORTH EXETER EXETER DISTRICT Photie /3$4081 AXETER, ONTARIO, AUGUST 16, 1902 ' •••.,.••• ; • • •;•'.7!;;;':i.' Second .$fotiort :Lai= Compare H protects wi th youth in M i c higan Federation news Farmer top market for many factories John Beane JR. BRUCE FIELD Phone HU 2.9250 Collect You could raise the fuel for this kind of horsepower But there aren't many oat burners around any Mote, The work horse is all hut gone, yet the total horsepower on farms has been boosted with more and bigger traders, „ One important change resulting„ front this shift was that the farmer now bad to buy the 'fuel he used to taite. Other developments made it necessary for him to 'buy many other items . . fertilizer, seed, mixed feed, insetti, aides, Today , . . buying supplies is a much more important part of good farm Management than it was site years ago, The farmer needs a purchasing agent . . arid he ha* ane. To buy more economically and efficiently, the _fatrner has made his to•operative his specialized buyer. The coo; operative is a vital part of his operation and its int* portance will grow even more with the swift developmeat in agriculture, Beside CNR. Station