HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1970-07-16, Page 12irlemoe-AdVece10, July 16, 1970
PARTICIPATE IN 4-H SEMINAR — Members of 4-H clubs from thirteen counties in Western Ontario met
at Centralia's Agricultural College early this week for an annual seminar. During their stay at the local school
they visited several farms in the area. Above is shown a group at Edwin Miller's farm in Usborne township.
From the left, they are, Dennis Robinson, Tupperville; Brian Miller; Graham Hooper of the Centralia
College staff; Mr. Miller; Gordon Marshall, Woodstock; Ralph McIntosh, London; Andy Livingstone,
Brampton; Aubrey Huntley, Ingersoll; Bruce Julian,13eachville and Jack Underwood of Centralia College.
T-A photo.
Name former news reporter
to regional manager position
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HURON COUNTY FARMERS
ARE ALL INVITED TO A
TWILIGHT CROP
INFORMATION PROGRAM
Monday, July 20
7:00 p.m. at the farm of JACK PECK, RR 3, KIPPEN. -i1/4 miles west of
Kippen. See the bean and cereal crop demonstrations. Feature —
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varieties.
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Ontario growers of corn and unknown is frequently used as a
soybeans are being urged by the tool for manipulating people, he
National FarmerS' Union to said. There are strong
make provisions for storing this indications, he added, that.
year's crops. suggestions of an impending
In a statement issued this surplus are being circulated as 0
week, NFU Vice President means of pressuring farmers into
delivering at unjustifiably low
prices.
In preparation for blocking
production as a bargaining lever,
the NFU is now offering grower
members an ..opportunity to use
their organization as a bargaining
agent in corn and soybeans.
Formal agreements providing for
such service are now being
circulated in areas where these
crops are produced.
"The success of the collective
bargaining program," Mr. Miller
said, "will depend upon the
willingness of farmers to commit
themselves to joint action as a
means of exercising their
economic power effectively.
Ask Ontario growers
prepare crop storing •
BIG BITES — Ladies
participating in the donut eating
contest at last week's Senior
Citizens picnic were forced to
take big bites in order to keep the
pastry from falling off the line.
Shown here are Mrs. A.D.
Steeper, left and Mrs. Leda
Sorensen. T-A photo.
evenings from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
every day except Saturday.
Each tour will last about 11/2
hours. On Sunday, July 19, the
College will conduct tours from
1:3 li0 4:30 p.m. for any urban
peo4, and tourists who are
in .tee, in seeing the various
crops.
The ladies' program will
include a tour of the educational
facilities on the campus as well
as the flower gardens.
Of special interest will be the
variety trials and production
practices involving most Ontario
field and vegetable crops.
Research in soil fertility,
particularly maintenance studies
and rates and time of application
of fertilizer, should attract
attention. In the herbicide
research section, promising
chemicals are compared to
presently recommended
chemicals. The effectiveness of
these chemicals can be readily
seen in July.
This year, a special indoor
program will be started showing
the educational facilities
available. Laboratory
demonstrations in some of the
courses studied in the
agricultural diploma course at
Ridgetown will highlight this
program. A number of exhibits
including farm management,
sprayer calibration, crop
insurance, machinery, and
current crop diseases and insects
will be on display,
Plan research tours
at Ridgetown school
Mayor David Kilberg,
Listowel, President of the
Midwestern Ontario Regional
Development Council,
announced that Walter W.
Gowing, 37, of Preston, has been
appointed to the position of
general manager.
Mayor Kilberg said the Board
of Directors are extremely
pleased in acquiring the services
of Mr. Cowing who has had
extensive work in public relations
as well as being in close touch
with the planning and
development picture of
Midwestern Ontario.
Mr, Gowing replaces Milton
Phillips as General Manager of
MODA. Mr. Phillips, a civil
servant on loan from the
Provincial Government to MODA
for the past year, will return to
provincial government duties.
The new general manager
assumes his duties August 1,
1970.
He is presently a member of
the editorial staff of the Evening
Reporter, Galt. Mr. Gowing has
been the paper's regional
government and economic
development analyst since
October, 1968, He also handles
municipal government and city
council news coverage in the City
of Galt.
Interested in regional and
economic development, as a
writer Mr. Cowing has
contributed many outstanding
feature articles on this subject to
the news media.
RR 3 Zurich, Ont.
July 10, 1970.
'The Exeter Times-Advocate,
,xeter, Ontario.
Mr, Editor,
I am writing this letter with
regret and mostly
disappointment concerning your
Exeter Times-Advocate,
Last week there was a news
bulletin delivered to you in
person entitled "National
Farmers' Union Invades
Borders."
This delivery was made the
weekend previous to July 2
edition, so there was no reason
of not having appropriate time
Mr, Gowing's twelve years of
service as the Director and Chief
Librarian for the County of
Waterloo is an example of his
work with both urban and rural
municipalities.
The new General Manager
studied public relations at Perdue
University, Lafayette, Indiana, as
well as courses in municipal
affairs.
In community life, Mr.
Cowing is a former member of the
The sensational news coverage
of pesticides is not necessarily
relevant to the actual situation
in Canada.
Speaking to the Canadian
Seed Growers' Association
Convention in London,
Thursday, July 9, Dr. C. M.
Switzer, Botany Department,
University of Guelph, said he
foresaw many new attitudes and
possibilities for pesticide use
which could be damaged by
overly sensational news
coverage.
Dr. Switzer said the main
problem for the agricultural
community, which believes in
the use of pesticides, is to
convince non-agriculturists that
o
to find room in that edition.
Furthermore, in this week's
issue July 8, which I have closely
read, I have not recognized this
bulletin, unless you seemed to
see it fitting to use a very
different heading and have
discriminated the item beyond
recognition, which is not the
way any organization would
wish.
This is just one news item
added to the many others
previous to this which were not
printed.
Also while on the Import
topic I wonder what nationality
"Batt'n Around" is. All good
Canadians are to buy Canadian.
If he has all those imports he
speaks of, he should hang his
head, instead of expecting
people to laugh with him.
Also why did his foggy item
be printed the very week the
N.F.U. clipping was supposed to
be in the paper. You seemed to
have ample room for him. The
imports he speaks of are entirely
different to having to listen to
lies of a surplus and behind
everyone's back to be importing.
I can see you never have been
a farmer and probably like most
city and town people won't go
close to a farm because it smells,
therefore do not understand no
financial problems.
I also noticed you have two
items in this week July 8 paper
in favor of the Federation of
Agriculture indicating that the
Federation have been working
on this school tax reduction.
Yes, I agree possibly more
than 20 years, but they sure
haven't done a thing about it
that helped, until the N.F.U.
started a lot of hard work on the
situation. Now the Federation
say they have been working on
this for many years. My
estimation is they sure work
silently, of course such a
minority group don't have much
voice.
Realizing you do not wish to
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Preston Board of Education. He
has been connected with sports
and is a past president of the
Preston Boys' Hockey
Association. He also served a
number of years as a
representative to the town's
Recreation Committee.
The MODA offices are located
in Stratford and the development
council serves the four-county
region of Wellington, Waterloo,
Perth and Huron.
chemicals are valuable, and do
not present a significant hazard
to the environment if used
correctly. "Agricultural
chemicals play a large role in
maintaining and enhancing our
standards of living," he said.
He added that the search
continues for chemicals which
decompose quickly after they
have done their job, and thus
leave no trace in plants which
they have contacted. If
alternative chemicals are
available, long-lasting pesticides
will not be used,
Advances in fungicides,
moreover, will continue, said Dr.
Switzer, and chemicals will
become more specific in their
action, and thus more effective.
"However," he warned "care
must be taken that the 'old
reliables' are not discarded
before possible replacements
have been thoroughly tested
under a wide range of field
conditions."
The general use of pesticides
should be regarded in the light
of benefits obtained from them.
Because it is expected that 5,000
people will be killed in cars next
year, for example, it does not
mean there will be legislation
against cars, because their
benefits outweigh their
disadvantages. Legislation
concerning pesticides should
follow the same logic.
Dr. Switzer said he saw an
increase in the monitoring of
and legislation on pesticides, but
that he believed this trend would
be modified in the light of new
knowledge of these chemicals.
print or cater in any way to the
National Farmers' Union, 1
would appreciate my paper
cancelled and the remainder of
the yearly subscription fee
refunded, For when I read news
I like all the news. I am not just
interested in the organization I
like, I am interested in them all,
that is why I renew four
subscriptions yearly, but seeing
your news is all one sided, I
don't want any part of your
paper.
Sincerely,
Gerald Regier
Walter Miller said the ability to
hold products on the farm is a
crucial factor in the farmer's
struggle for a profitable return,
"We appear," Mr. Miller said,
"to be heading into a situation
in which it will be possible to
establish a more satisfactory
price through collective
bargaining," However he said,
"farmers have no bargaining
power unless they are in a
position to hold the product
until they get an adequate
price."
While the idea of farmers
bargaining collectively for prices
on their produce is a new
concept in Canada, Mr. Miller
said, "we see no reason why it
should not, in time, work as well
for us as it has for other groups
in our society. Certainly there is
no other method available to us
which offers a reasdnable hope
of exerting an effective upward
pressure on farm prices."
He warned NFU members not
to be stampeded by rumours and
propaganda, Fear of the.
The crops, soils, and
horticultural research plots at
Ridgetown College of
Agricultural Technology will be
on display on July 16, 17, and
18. Beginning each day at 1:30
p.m., guided tours will leave for
the field plots every 15 minutes
until 4:30 p.m., and in the
Arrest more
for drugs
Two persons from out of town
were arrested in Exeter Tuesday
afternoon by members of the
local police department and
charged with possessing drugs.
Gary Dale Larkey of Sacramento,
California, and Alexander James
Semple, 177 Chelsea Avenue,
London, are at present in custody
in the Huron County jail in
Goderich.
The pair will appear in
Provincial Judge's Court in
Goderich today.
Saturday, Royal Canadian
Mounted Police officers from
Sarnia arrested two Exeter
youths at Grand Bend.
Harold E. Fiero, 18, 238 Main
street and Jack Joseph De Boeck,
94 Simcoe street appeared in
Sarnia court early this week on
drug charges.
They were released on their
own recognizance and will appear
again in Sarnia court on August
11. Fiero was charged under the
Narcotics Control Act with
possession of hashish while De
Boeck was charged under the
Food and Drug Act with
possession of LSD.
OFA manager
is guest speaker
The directors of Middlesex
County Federation of
Agriculture were pleased to have
Jack Hale recently appointed
General Manager of Ontario
Federation of Agriculture speak
to them at their July meeting.
He thought the most
important work of the
Federation was the
communication between the
farmer and the Ontario
Federation of Agriculture
through ideas, programs and the
support for programs. He is most
eager to hear from the farmer and
he hopes to develop farmer
involvement by circulating
through the province.
Middlesex County Federation
of Agriculture passed a motion
supporting O.F.A. on the policy
of removal of education tax from
all real property. They also made
a motion supporting O.F.A. in
their program in withholding the
education portion of their taxes.
The directors of Middlesex
County Federation of
Agriculture supported the
position taken by the National
Farmers' Union and Ontario Milk
Board in the importation of milk
powder.
J. O.Shea reported for the
wheat board. The price of wheat
for the 1970 crop would be
approximately $1.70 a bushel.
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THE READERS WRITE
Disappointed .
New attitudes seen
for pesticide use