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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1970-03-05, Page 16Y.ou are the present day Mc s,. National Farmers' Union members were told by John Kgeh, N.F.O. representative speaking et a Union rally held in StrathroY Arena, February 26. You are the people to lead the farmers out of the :captivity of INSPECTING NEW EQUIPMENT ON DISTRICT BEEF LOT — An addition to the Cann's feedlot in Stephen Township has made treatment and sorting of cattle much easier. Above, Stan Paquette, farm management specialist for the County of Huron is watching Carf Cann demonstrate the squeeze chute and holding gate located in the animal treatment centre. T-A photo Farm show visitors told pesticides necessary Now—more than ever—the Co. op Big Bonus Hay and Pasture Program takes the guseswork out of selecting seed-mixtures for higher yields, and hence higher farm profits. How? Simply by taking advantage of our new prescription mix seed service. And it's so convenient too right in your own area!' Here's how it works: just pay a visit to your Co-op and discuss your particular seed requirements with its Soil and Crop Specialist, Based on Department of Agriculture recommendations, high quality name-variety seeds will be accurately blended in our NM MID meow These specific mixtures will allow for maximum yields of the bay and pasture required in YOUR livestock program, Oar obiactive is Po make yos xeter District Co-op Phone 235-2081 Farmers income Tax Service Year 'Round Services Bookkeeping — Income Tax Businesses — Contractors Farmers — Individuals GEoR(3E EIZIFNGA Box 35 Lucas, Ont. Phone 2274851 We will come to your Farm or Place of Business. edn Mienorema0.1.1•1•0••••••••••••,11•••i!,011.1 Spring's Just Around the Corner — Don't Delay SAVE ON NEW EQUIPMENT During Our SPRING SPECIALS Ford 8000 Tractor Ford 1124 4-wheel Drive Tractor Ford 3400 industrial Loader & Tractor, 3-point hitch. A Feed-lot Special, Ford 132 5-furrow heavy duty plow Ford 208 101/2 & 131/2 foot vibra shank wheel cultivators Ford 235 9-foot mower conditioner Triple K 91/2 & 11-foot cultivator* levelling bars and harrows Ford 120-bushel 2-beater manure spreader USED EQUIPMENT Ferguson loader $100 Manure Spreader, new apron $150 Used Tractors — Gas and Diesel — from 35 to 68 horsepower. Priced to sell, THIS WEEK'S EXTRA SPECIAL 171/2 -Foot Triple K Hydraulic Wing Lift Cultivator, Levelling Bar and Trailing Harrows, One Year Old Snider Motors LIMITED FORD TRACTOR EXETER 235-1640 LUCAN 227-4191 ~rh a4 Pv HAY AND PASTURE MIXTURES... p4e404-4itioa FOR GREATER YIELDS GET READY FOR SPRING PLANTING See Our Selection of 4-ROW PLANTERS JOHN DEERE 494A DRY WITH INSECTICIDE INTERNATIONAL 56 LIQUID INTERNATIONAL 56 LIQUID WITH INSECTICIDE and HERBICIDE JOHN DEERE 494 A DRY. All In Excellent Condition COMPLETELY RECONDITIONED N. T. MONTEITH EXETER LTD. 235-2121 "The best in service when you need it most!" Attention Corn and, Bean Growers WHAT HYBRIDS FOR '70? WHAT HERBICIDES FOR '70? For the answers to these questions you are cordially invited to.attend a meeting at the HEN$ALL ARENA Thurs., March 12 8:00 p.m. SPONSORED BY W.G. Thompson & Sons Ltd. HENSALL * Door Prizes * Refreshments Will Be Served New! Lasso 4 or corn and soybeans The most remarkable herbicide ever developed. • Needs no incorporation, • Lasso 4 will not damage your crops or ruin your rotation plans. After it has done its job it breaks down harmlessly in the soil. • Lasso 4 by itself kills a wide variety of grasses in corn and soybeans. • Lasso 4 mixed with Atrazine BOW controls both broadleaf weeds and grasses in corn. • Lasso 4 gives excellent results with as little as 3/10-inch of rain, yet won't leach out with heavy rain. • Lasso 4 Works consistently in heavy and light soils and performs well regardless of organic matter. Available from your local Co-op Farm Centre or your local Aero Fertilizer Blender. For free descriptive literature on LaSso 4 and its use, write Monsanto Canada Limited, 425 St, Patrick St, LaSalle, P.O. AVAILABLE FROM 2354/82 Cann's Mill Ltd. .E,ER • "'ict""Monsanto over efficiency and no price. It is peer product, you have it first, quit begging and sell it. In your organization you have ; the structure to block your production together then sell it for paxity price, The fern-fere are no longer the rugged pioneers that their grandfathers were, they are paseive and. are constantly being fleeeed. "Why haven t the_ farmers put a price on theirprocluct?'"T believe," said Mr. Kuch, "that many modern farmers have not broken the ties with ancient times, The tribal hunters would bring in their kill, give it to the tribe and in turn receive whatever prize the tribe would give them. The hunter who had the biggest kill got the best prize and was the hero for that day. The farmers still do the same." Mr. Kuch pointed out that one bushel of wheat is worth $67.00 as wheaties, one hundred pounds of potatoes is worth $87.00 as potato chips, one hundred pounds of white beans worth $7.00 to $9.00 to the farmers is worth $82.00 as pork and beans, tobacco worth 56c per pound to the farmer is worth $6.90 per pound in the form of cigarettes, all based on American prices. The consumer in the U.S. spends 16.8c of every dollar earned in wages on food. This is the lowest in the world. On the other hand a farmer would have to receive $270.00 net profit on a 1150 pound top grade steer to obtain equal to the net profit of the chainstores in the U.S. Also every American farmer lost an average of $10,000.00 per year from parity price since 1951. Mr. Kuch stated that the farmers have three choices, organize and bargain together, turn ownership over to corporations and move into the slums or let corporations take over agriculture in which case the farmers will become hog pen or chicken house janitors. It is your choice, Charter nights were announced for March 4, in Ridgetown, with N,F,U, President Roy Atkinson presiding and in Lucan March 10, with N.F.U. Vice-president Walter Miller doing the honours. Turnip group is formed A large group of turnip growers in this district attended a meeting at the Exeter Legion Hall, Monday night and formed the Huron-Perth Rutabaga Growers' Association. Newly elected chairman Frank Vanneste, RR 1, Clandeboye said this district was formerly known as area 5 of the Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association. Tony Conlin, also RR 1, Clandeboye who has been secretary-treasurer in recent years was named vice-chairman and Joe Koricina will handle the secretary-treasurer duties. Directors named were Russell Dougherty, Blyth; Charles Srokosz, Grand Bend and Eric Vannesste, Lucan. The local turnip growing group will be holding a meeting in Exeter in the very near future to give growers more information on pesticides. Ralph Shaw, a fruit and vegetable specialist with the Ontario Department of Agriculture and Food of London was in attendance and was in charge of the election. Chairman Vanneste said there were about 120 active turnip growers in the Huron-Middlesex area. Centralia Farmers Supply Ltd. Grain • Feed • Cement Building Supplies Coal 228-6638 Abuse thrown at the agricultural industry over the misuse of pesticides received critical attention in London on Tuesday from the director of the department .of agriculture and foods' soils and crops branch. Addressing the opening day crowd at the 32nd annual Western Ontario Farm Show, Byron Beeler said there is much comment about the bad effects of pesticides and not enough said about their beneficial aspects. "We could not produce food on an economical basis without the many pesticides to protect our crops and livestock," he said, "Farm people have a better understanding of living systems than the general public. If they know a product might cause problems, they are the first to demand its removal from the market." Mr. Beeler said that in many cases, agriculture has been damned strictly through poor- research. He said that while farmers want bad products removed, they do not want products eliminated through improper research and misleading information. Discussing restrictions on DDT, he said PCBs Poly Chlorinated Byphenyls) have often been mistaken for DDT. He said not much is known about PCBs except that they are extremely toxic to bird life. They are found in consumer products such as varnishes, waxes and paints. He also attacked those who blame farmers for the high readings of toxic materials in Northern Ontario cottage areas. He suggested farmers are the ones spraying insect pests around the lakes and bush of the cottage areas. He noted that farmers this year will have to turn to other insecticides to replace the banned DDT. "They will be more expensive District 5 National Farmers Union conducted a junior workshop Saturday with Jerry Hasiuk of Orono, Ontario in command. Mr. Hasuik is the junior regional co-ordinator for Ontario. The workshop, the first to be held in ()Mark) was opened with a short address from the district 5 queen Miss Mary de Gouw in which she pointed out and less effective," he added. Two of the replacements expected to be used are Sevin, costing 86 cents a pound and Methorychlor, costin g pound. DDT was about 41 cents a pound. $1.11 a The farm show, which last year attracted more than 23,000 persons, has become one of the largest farm machinery and equipment displays in Ontario exceeded only by the International Plowing Match and the Canadian Farm Equipment Show in Toronto. More than $1,000,0001,o worth o of equipment, including $15,000 tractors, occupy about 130,000 square feet of floor space in the Progress Building and grandstand areas at the IN estern Fairgrounds. Among the education exhibits is a display financed by a small group of independent area farmers attempting to point out the wide difference farmers pay for inputs in Canada compared to the U.S. price lists of various inputs, showing both U,S. and Canadian prices, are being distributed. A 10,000-gallon anhydrous ammonia tank owned by Karl Stumpf of Denfield is a visible example in the exhibit. It sells for $484 in the U.S. but would cost a Canadian farmer $646 if he imported it. The Ontario Barrow Show is being held in conjunction with the farm show. Judging of the carcass classes has been completed. Murray McRae of Denfield won two classes — for market Perhaps the most flagrant and most common of the unconscious vandals is the tosser or dumper — the affluent tourist who is so intent on the beauties ahead that he ignores the ugliness he leaves behind. Conservation Volunteer. the trend in consumer spending. In 1949 the consumer was spending 24.3% of his income on food while in 1965 he was spending 21.1% on food and today the percentage is still lower. In 1949 the average industrial wage was $42.96 per week. In 1965 it was $91.01 and in 1967 it was $102.80. Miss de Gouw also stated that in 1949 the processing and selling costs of farm products were -three quarters of the farm value while in 1965 the processing and selling costs were one and one half times the farm value of the farm products. Mr. Hasiuk outlined the aims of the National Farmers Union and led in the discussion to determine how this effected the youth and ways in which the youth of the district felt they could help. Those present felt the most important areas in which they could be of greatest assistance immediately, are in research and education for the collective bargaining program. They also decided to hold workshops on county and local levels because the youth have to be reached and shown how the changes in the economy are effecting them personally, The county Workshops are to be scheduled in Lambton county March 24. Elgin county March 25, and Middlesee county March 30. These workshops will be conducted by district 5junior director Joe O'Neill and will determine the action tobe taken in each county, hogs over 200 pounds and under 200 pounds. Runnerup in the under-200 pound class was Allan Lilley and Son of Dutton. Albert McCully of Northwood was runner-up in the over-200-pound class. In the nominated litter carcass section, Belldoon Farms of Iona Station was first with Allan Lilley and Son, second. Plant 2350533 Aisience 228-6961 C.A. McDOWELL kf 14- 'Times-Advocate, !March A, 1970. Farmers held in captivity over efficiency, prices Annual Meeting of the HIBBERT CO-OPERATIVE DAIRY ASSOCIATION LTD. Will Be Held in the Hibbert Township Hail — Skiffa FRIDAY, MARCH 13 — 2:00 p.m, FOR GENERAL BUSINESS Patrons And All Interested Parties Are Requested to Attend District queen speaks to junior workshop