The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1968-07-04, Page 23Income committee meets at Centralia
Members of the special committee set up by the Hon, William Stewart to study farm incomes met at the
Centralia College of Agricultural Technology, Thursday, to discuss the mattel- with College staff and
area agricultural representatives. Shown above, from the left; Don McArthur, on staff at the College;
Gordon Hill, Varna, acting chairman of the committee; Huron agricultural representative Doug Miles;
and Malcolm Davidson, Brucefield, another member of the Farm Income committee. T-A photo
Farm income inadequate
says committee chairman
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During a noon luncheon, the
members of the committee held
a press conference.
Gordon Hill, Varna, acting
chairman of the committee, said
he felt there were farmers in
Huron who are doing fairly well,
but feel that in general the
farmer here does not have an
adequate income for the capital
expended".
He suggested that returns for
capital, labor and risk were low-
er than those enjoyed by persons
outside agriculture and said the
committee's main aim was to
determine the reasons why and
find solutions to the problem,
Hill was of the opinion that in
some cases management was in-
volved, but for many others,
circumstances were not con-
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Mr. & Mrs. Wm. Trudgeon,
Stella and LOrne of Dimdalk were
Weekend visitors with M, H. &
Mrs, Elston. MiSs Anne Grayer
Victoria Hospital London and Jim
Paddy of Toronto called on Mr.
& MrS. ElStOn Sunday evening.
Mrs. Inet Dickey, MlS8 Joyce
Dickey, Mr. & Mrs. JnO. Dickey
and family and Mr. & Mrs. Ron
Dickey and son Jamie of Exeter,
gathered at Pinafore Park, St.
ThOrnaS on Saturday for a family
picnic, They were joined by their
sister and her husband, Mr. &
Miti.M triS Kelley, Margaret
and Stephen of St. ThOinaa:
The family of Mrs. Ellen
Flanagan held a gathering on
Sunday afternoon on the laWn
of Mr. & Mrs. Jack Blair. The
supper was in the form of a bar-
beetle, Those present were Mrs.
Ellen Flanagan, Mt. & Mrs. Bill
Hedley and family, London, Mr,
• Mrs. Norman Mr: &
Mrs. Leo Flanagan, Dorchester,
Mr. & Mrs. ken AbdtSan and
family of Dorchester and Mr. &
• Jack Blair and Brenda.
Mr. & Mrs. SAM 8kinner and
family attended the Pym Reunion
Sunday afternoon.
Mr, & Mrs. HarVey tagieson
of dte'etiWay spent Sunday even-
ing with the former's sistatiMr.
& MrS, CMS, Atkinson.
Mr & Mrs. Earl O'Brien and
son from Sarnia and Mr. ti Mrs.
Ray Snell and tardily Of Guelph
visited with Mr, & Mrs, Carl
Theander On 'sumo,
Automation changes
method of pea hontes,.
Miles Tisdale, manager of the
Exeter „District Co-Operative at-
tended a sales management sem-
inar at Kimberley, in the Beaver
Valley from June 23 to 26.
The seminar sponsored by
United. Co-Operatives of Ontario
was designed to give managers
training on development of sales
and service programs to better
serve members and patrons of
co-operatives.
Topics covered included least
cost distribution methods, cred-
it, marketing employee and pub-
lic relations and advertising. Two
seminars were held, with a total
of 100 management people at-
tending from most areas of On-
tario.
The warm, sunny weather of
the early part of the week has
accelerated the haying operation
in the county. There is still a
large portion of the crop to go
in. Corn and white .beans are
growing well in all parts of the
county.
Spring grains look very good
with all of the crop approach-
ing the milk stage. Some bar-
lage will soon be harvested and
put into silos at approximately
55% moisture.
The turnip crop in the county
looks very favourable.
Despite the use of chemicals,
crop losses due to weeds are
about $300 million a year, ac-
cording to CDA's Research
Branch.
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CDA's General Services units
inspect 10,000 retail food stores
a year.
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CDA inspectors certified 9,003
lots of 1967 surplus potatoes
offered for non-food uses.
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ages are cheaper sources of
nutrients than grains,maxi-.
mum nutrients should be sup-
plied through theforage source,!,
Dr. J, B, Stone, PePartroent Of
Animal Science, ()Ptatio Agri
cultural Cellege, told fgr.ners
attending a Stored Forage pay
tere recently,
Two things determine the a-
mount of protein and energy a
cow gets from the forage,--the
concentration of prOtein in the
feed, and the amount eaten,
The second factor, he sajd,, is
the more important of the two.
Consumption of teed drops by
about 50 percent when the forage
is harvested in the full,bloorn
stage rather than in the pre-
bUti stage. Ftirtliermore, the eti-
ergy concentration of forage cut
at the full-bloom stage is about
25 percent lower than 'that of
the pre-bud forage,
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age of higher intake and batter-
qaality :geed makes it more impi
produce
Ow r ever that a farme
procitiee high quality forage,
4r,, ow will consume! .on the
average! P9144.04, of prerlpd
cut forage Per loop pounds.
NOY weight if she IS fed slow
levels of grain, With each pound
of grain consumed, the forage
intake will be reduced by Poe.,
third to ooe,h4f poOecl,
A question often asked is ffpc)
cows need dry hay?" The ans,
wer, Dr. Stone said, is a definite
!'No".. As a matter of fact, he
WOO out, if the :forage was
stored as wilted hay crop 'silago,
it would be possible to have a flinch
higher proportion of high quality
feed.
Equal milk production per cow
can be achieved with wilted hay
crop silage as with dry hay.
Four members of the Ontario
Farm Income Committee held a
session at the Centralia College
of Agricultural Tech no 1 o g y,
Thursday; exchanging ideas with
members of the College staff as
well as agricultural representa-
tives Doug Mlles, Huron, Newt
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ation.
From his observation as a
member of the Committee, which
has been touring the Province,
Hill stated that the County of
Huron was in a much better po-
sition than most of the counties
which the Committee had visited.
Malcolm Davidson, Brucefield,
another member of the Farm In-
come Committee, pointed out that
farmers had many problems and
the Committee was seeking the
opinions of farmers and others
with a view to recommending
various programs to the Ontario
Government.
He said it was primarily an
'economic and social study. There
must be some reason why the re-
turn to capital, labour and fi-
nancial risk, was lower in. On-
tario in agriculture than in other
industries not nearly so import-
ant.
He asked: "Why is this? What
shall we do? What changes should
be made?"
Tom Robson, Leamington, a
big tomato grower, and Mrs.
Kenneth Macintosh, a Kitchener
alderman, vice-president of the
Consumers' Association of Can-
ada, are also members of the
Farm Income Committee, while
the executive secretary is Ed-
ward O'Meara, agricultural
economist of the Ontario Depart-
ment of Agriculture, loaned by
the department to this special
committee.
Others who participated in the
conference held at CentraliaCol-
lege of Agriculture and Tech-
nology were: Jim MacDonald,
principal of the School; Don Mc-
Arthur, farm management spe-
cialist at the School; Doug Jamie-
son .and Graham Hooper, mem• -
bers of the staff.
The special committee on
Farm Income was appointed by
the Hon. W. A. Stewart, Ontario
Minister of Agriculture, follow-
ing a request from the Vineland
conference in October 1966. A
preliminary report was present-
ed at the Kemptville conference
in July 1967. When its labours
are over, the committee will
report back to the Minister and
all farm organizations in On-
tario.
Periodically, the committee
has been meeting in various parts
of the Province with farmers
and agricultural representatives
in an attempt to get suggestions
for solutions of farm problems,
This year!s pea harvest is one
of the beat in Years)apcordiegto
Jack Urquhart, manager of the
Exeter plant of Ganaliaa Can,
Mars,. The local manager re,
porta quality of the product .as
excellent and the yields well
above average,
Modern machinery is speed-
lhg up pea pack production and
it is now possible to harvept
the PP44 and have them ready
for shipment within M Nut's.
The Plctures to the right of
this article depict the various
stages of harvesting, directly
from, the field to the factory.
Top right, shows the first move
in the field operation,. a swather
cutting the peas, Tuesday morn--
ing in an Usborne Township field
owned by Howard Johns.
Next - comes 'the harvester or
combine that picks up and shells
the peas. In the third step, a
harvester is being emptied into.
a truck owned by Ned Armstrong
of Exeter and the final picture, at
the bottom shows the same batch
of peas being dumped ready for
cleaning and washing at the local
Canners plant.
The pea pack is now in full
swing with Urquhart reporting
double work shifts in action.
Production on peas is expect-
ed to continue until the middle
of August,
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