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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1970-08-13, Page 71111111111, salrossimits14 HEAR ABOUT COLLECTIVE BARGAINING — Members of the Farmers' Union in this area heard all the aspects of collective bargaining from guest speaker Leroy Stirling of Ridgetown at a recent meeting held in Dashwood. Shown above are from the left, district director Lorne Luther of Lucknow, Mr. Stirling, Eric Finkbeiner of Crediton and local president John Laporte of Zurich. T-A photo No need to pay school levy says manager of OFA ibL'\ WHEN BUILDERS MEET THEY DO DECLARE, } 'Of OUR HONEST 1, BUS/NESS DEALINGS THEY ARE FULLY AWARE" • Silo Unloaders • Milking Parlors • Barn Cleaners • Bunk Feeders • Honey Wagons • Belt Bucket Elevators • Farm Gates • Forage Boxes • Comfort Stalls • Water Bowls • Waterers • Farrowing Stalls • Livestock Pens • Exhaust Fans • Roof Ventilators • Roof Grain Doors • Meter/Mills • Windows SALES SERVICE INSTALLATION Kerslake Barn Supply JIM KERSLAKE RR 1 Centralia 285-046u ON USED HARVESTING EQUIPMENT 1—Int. 403 Combine, 13' header,Innes Pick Up, Cab, Straw Spreader and 100 bushel Grain Tank, Hydraulic Reel Lift, completely equipped for grain and beans, Excellent Condition. 1—Int. 403 Combine, 13' header, Int. Pick Up, Straw Spreader, Scour Kleen. Excellent Condition, has combined grain only. 2—Int. 175 Swathers with Hay Conditioners, completely reconditioned and ready to go. N. T. 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Applying the proper analysis of CO.OP fertilizer every year boosts the total digestible nutrients (TDN) you get from every acre of forage. In fact, your livestock carrying capacity can often double or triple and your return can be as much as $3 for every $1 spent. Now add the proper CO-OP Feed Ration to balance your forage for optimum production of milk per acre. Sound crop management and feeding practices, as detailed in these feed and crop brochures, will give you better production year after year in both the field and the barn. CO-OP Fertilizer and Feed Rations don't mix, but they combine well to give you maximum results, EXETER DISTRICT available at your Co-operative Times-Advocate, August 13, 1970 Page 7 Drive safe NFU sets many precedents strives for better tomorrow There is no need for most municipal councils to pay any funds to Boards of Education during 1970. With the exception of Halton County School Board, no Boards of Education presented a budget by the 1st of March, 1970. As a result, there is • no obligation on any municipality in the Province of Ontario, with the exception of Halton County, to pay any funds to their school boards this year. "This fact has caused considerable concern to some school boards," said Jack Hale, General Manager of the O.F.A., "but it should help municipal councillors and elected officials across the province to see their way clear to supporting the reasonable demands of their constituents. All the farmers are asking for is a fair and equitable tax system for everyone, based on the ability-to-pay, and surely no municipal councillor can oppose that. So, with this legislative loop-hole they can, with a clear conscience, act to support the property owners who are being unreasonably taxed to pay for education." Legal council for the Ontario Federation of Agriculture brought this to the notice of the last members' meeting and municipal councils throughout the province have been notified of this fact by the Ontario Federation of Agriculture. It was also widely circulated to individual members of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture, so that everyone should be well aware that there is no obligation on any municipality with the exception of Halton County, to pay over any funds to Boards of Education this year. Beef producers get new service The Huron County Beef Improvement Association in cooperation with the Ontario Beef Improvement Association is organizing a hew market information and price reporting system for area beef producers. The service, called Canfax, is operated using telecommunication machines which are rented from C.N. or C.P. telex. The proposed system will be coordinated with present existing systems in Canada and the U.S. covering Calgary, Chicago, Omaha and Toronto markets. A membership fee will be charged to the producer. The system then will supply him with up-to-date market reports on feeder and finished cattle from major Canadian and U.S. community sales and terminal markets, also live and dressed sales direct to packers on finished cattle. The producer member must also report all purchases, sales, conditions of each and monthly inventory, to the system. A weekly report and market analysis will be mailed to the members. Present plans are to set up one or two units in the Huron County area. The Ontario Government's decision to exempt farmers from paying sales tax on farm ventilating fans was welcomed by the Ontario Federation of Agriculture. Mr. White, the Minister of Revenue, made the ruling recently as a result of a request by OFA. The individual farmer has to sign an "end user's certificate" to get this exemption. "This will help farmers to continue to help fight inflation," said OFA President Gordon Hill. "It may not be as important as the tax fight but it will be of considerable benefit to many farmers who are building or improving their farm buildings." The sales tax exemption resulted from a resolution from Huron County Federation of Agriculture passed at the members' meeting of the OFA and a considerable amount of background work by staff members. This is the sort of work that has to be supported by farmers on a continuous basis if Jerry Arnold & Sons ESSO HOME HEAT SERVICE RR 2 DASHWOOD 238.2649 they are to receive a fair break in competing with producers in other provinces and other parts of the world. Work is going ahead in many other areas where farmers have asked the OFA to act on their behalf. Liquid diet for calves feasible A liquid diet for replacement calves, fed once or twice a day, six or seven days per week, is considered feasible, as long as a starter ration or hay is provided as an additional source of dry intake, says Mr. A. S. Wood, Department of Animal Science, University of Guelph. A recent study on newborn calves, continued until the animals weighed 275 pounds, indicated that with a liquid diet there was greater nitrogen retention, less time needed to reach 275 pounds weight, and a better development of the longissimus dorsi muscle. Known as a milk-replacer diet — purchased in powder form and supplied in 50-pound bags the liquid diet used in the study tended to limit the amount of dry matter, digestible protein and digestible energy intake required for best possible calf growth, expecially up to 200 pounds. Calves fed twice a day, says Mr. Wood, showed greater ability to utilize the available nutrients and a stronger growth rate. Once-a-day feeding is not recommended for veal production, says Mr, Wood, since a good finish requires a higher dry matter intake than is needed for replacement calves. Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set With sixty diamond minutes, No reward is offered, for they are gone forever, Thomas Maim or at that price, he can wait until successive bids come through to his satisfaction. At the time Of ratification the farmer will be given a confirmation agreement setting of the price, time and place of delivery, the number of bushels of a certain comodity that is being sold and so on. The farmer can ratify any quantity of bushels at any given ratification period where he will be kept informed of the latest market trends and utilization records, This method is new and The Canada Department of Agriculture has notified the pesticides manufacturing industry that it intends to place restrictions on the sale of mercury next year. The pesticides unit of the CDA's Plant Products Division, in a memorandum to the trade, says it does not intend to register seed treatment products containing mercury next year. Nor will it register other pesticides containing mercury if suitable alternatives are available. The pesticides unit has control over the registration of all pesticides manufactured, sold and used in Canada. There are several exceptions to the mercury restrictions. The exceptions apply if: — the use of the product will not result in mercurial residues in food or feed, or cause significant adverse effects on bird and animal life when used according to the label directions under practical conditions. — continued registration is required to clear stocks in order to avoid difficult disposal problems. — mercurial products are found to be necessary to control plant disease on essential crops. ''No restrictions are contemplated for other uses of mercury, such as turf disease and apple scab control, but these uses are being re-assessed," the trade memorandum says. The restrictions follow discoveries that mercury can, under certain circumstances, accumulate in the food chains of some seed-eating and predatory birds with potentially deleterious effects on those species. "Further, misuse in the disposal of unwanted treated seed has resulted in concern that grain destined for human food may occasionally be contaminated." The extent of residues in the environment and in food or feed grain arising from the use of mercurial seed dressing depends upon the care taken in transporting, handling, planting Beef day date set for college The 6th Annual Southwestern Ontario Beef Cattle Day will be held at Ridgetown on Wednesday, September 9, 1970. The program will be somewhat different from that of previous years. An open house will be held during the morning at the farms of George Morris, Merlin, and Fairburn Farms (Jenner Bros.), RR 6, Dresden, according to Don Luckham of the Animal Science Division, Ridgetown College of Agricultural Technology. The program at Ridgetown College of Agricultural Technology will start at 11:30 a.m. when beef cattlemen will have an opportunity to view research projects and demonstrations at the College. The afternoon program will be held in the Livestock building and will feature Frank Jacobs, editor of Cattlemen magazine, and Ralph Bennett, who recently retired as Director of the Livestock Branch, Canada Department of Agriculture, Ottawa. Mr. Jacobs will discuss the Present Cattle Situation and My Market Outlook. Mr. Bennett will speak on The Cattleman and the U.S. — Canada Tariffs on Beef and Beef Cattle. The subject of importing cattle from the U.S. and what is involved at Customs will be discussed by Lex Rutherford, Assistant Live Stock Commissioner, Ontario Department of Agriculture and Food, Toronto. Anyone interested in beef cattle is invited to attend. 1970 NORTHERN FEEDER SALES SOUTH RIVER — Thurs. Aug. 20, 300, sale time 12 noon; WIARTON — Thurs. Sept, 3, 3500, sale time 10 a.m.; W1ARTON — Thurs. Sept. 17, 3500 sale time 10 a.m.; THEssALoN — Wed. Sept. 23, 1000, sale time 10 a.m.; MANITOULIN — Thurs. Sept. 24, 3000 sale time 9:30 a.m.; LaSAR RE, P.D. (Sale at Dupuy) — Wed. Sept, 30, 1000, sale time 1:30 p.m.; NEW LISKEARD — Thurs. Ott. 1,500, sale time 1 ;30 p.m.; SOUTH RIVER — Thurs, Oct, I, 1000, sale time 10 a-rn-1 wIARroN — ThurS. Oct, 15, ?500, sale time 10 a.M.; MANITOULIN — Mon. Oct. 19, 250, sale time I P.M.; SOUTH RIVER '— Thurs. Oct. 22, 400, sale time 12 noon. For further information write S. MacDonald, Advertising Manager, Box 130, Huntsville, Ontario. maintains the right of the individual to accept or reject any or all prices quoted with the benefit of the best information available on the markets of the world today, Farmers, for the .first time, have a chance to speak with one voice and say they will take a price which had better be much better than in the past or you can shut down the operation's of Many high dollar profit enterprizes , . We are sure they would RATHER PAY THAN DECAY, and disposing or treated seed. "There are indications that improvements in practical handling of treated seed is necessary to reduce the hazard to birds in the affected food chains," the memorandum says, "Experience also demonstrates that some farm practices respecting treated seed have been incompatible with the care necessary to prevent the contamination of grain destined for human or animal food." Mercurial compounds are recognized as effective and easy to apply seed dressings, but there has been a tendency to use them when a real need for disease protection has not been determined. "This practice results in casual and excessive use which, in the light of current information, is unwise since it increases the hazard of mercury poisoning without a compensating benefit. Reorganize county staff Members of the Huron County Board of Education learned Monday evening how the reorganization of its academic administrative structure will actually operate. D. J. Cochrane, director of education, reported that the schools will be divided into three operational units — Unit A including nine elementary schools, one school for the retarded and F. E. Madill Secondary School; Unit B, six elementary schools, one school for the retarded and Central Huron Secondary School and Goderich District Collegiate; and Unit C with 10 elementary schools, one school for the mentally retarded and Seaforth District High School and South Huron District High School. Unit A will be administered by W. D. Kenwell who commences his duties with the board September 1, 1970. Other specific duties to be taken by Mr. Kenwell are special education, advisory committee on schools for Trainable Retarded Children and vocational education. W. H. Knisley will have charge of Unit B as well as special interest in English, geography and history. F. E. Madill in Unit C will oversee mathematics, science and the Advisory Vocational Committee including Adult Education. James Coulter will co-ordinate the duties of the three superintendents and John D. Cochrane as director of education, will remain in charge of the entire system. Used Equipment Ferguson 3-furrow plow $ 75 John Deere 12 foot heavy spring cultivator 100 Case 6A pull-type combine 125 MF 2-furrow 12" plow 140 Freeman loader, fork and material bucket 195 IHC No. 10 10-plate 6-foot one-way disc 250 John Deere 3-furrow 12" plow 250 Case blower and 60 feet of pipe 275 IHC "A" tractor, 2-row cultivator and bean puller 325 Ford 3-furrow 14" plow 340 David Brown 3-furrow 14" plow 350 Overum 3-furrow 14" plow 490 Ford 8N tractor or Ferguson 28-85 tractor Your choice 550 Ford 204 10-foot wheel disc 625 Ford 612 Forage Harvester, 2-row cornhead and pickup 875 Ford Super Major 1550 Ford Super Major and loader 1950 64 Ford 6000 Diesel 2950 65 Ford 6000 Diesel 3300 Massey Ferguson 180 "D" loaded with extras 4995 Ford 4500 tractor, loader, back hoe 8850 NEW BLUE TAG SPECIALS Ford 501 3-Point Hitch 7' Mower 4465 Ford 3-point hitch, 2-row cultivator Shields and stabilizer disc $125 6 MONTHS FREE FINANCE On All New Ford Tractors, Combines and Equipment Snider Motors LIMITED FORD TRACTOR EXETER 235-1640 LUCAN 227-4191 CO-OP Fertilizer and CO-OP Feed, —you wouldn't mix them Phone 235-2081 Beside CNR Station i•h CO.OP Peed and Crop Products a total service for Ontario farmers At a meeting sponsored by the National Farmers Union, held in the Dashwood Community Centre recently Leroy Stirling, Collective Bargaining agent for corn and soyabeans, pointed out that the N.F.U, has set many precedents in the past few months and will continue to be the farmer's guide to a better to-morrow for the Farm Family, "New and untried methods of dealing with other sectors of our society must be experienced on the road to the farmer's economic security, We have witnessed in the past that no one else is prepared or indeed obligated to carry the Farmers on their shoulders to the Farmer's ultimate success." It is with this in mind that a new approach to the marketing of corn and soyabeans is being introduced to farmers. "Farmers do not yet realize their true value to the rest of society, but are gradually becoming aware of their worth to the world as they become educated in this direction", said Mr. Stirling. "They are reluctant to use the great power of their production against the other people in our society because of moral obligation to produce food." The speaker felt that as far as moral obligation is concerned we are pulling other sectors asunder by our refusal to organize and put a price on their products and thus be able to purchase with dollar power other products where other people's livlihood and employment opportunities are involved. WE must realize that the economic wealth behind us is second to none against any or the total of all corporate giants with which we will become involved. With this combining of resources by the farmers banding together in a Union, we will have a terrific impact on the thinking of the powers we will be dealing with. HOW DOES COLLECTIVE BARGAINING WORK? The mistake was made the last time an attempt was made to market the farmer's corn of revealing the amount of product tied up by their Union, however people profit from mistakes and this will not happen again. The method of bargaining has also changed in that no price will be quoted on the farmer's behalf as this has always ended up being the ceiling instead of the floor price. Farmers are merely being asked to block the number of bushels of corn or soyabeans and they are legally responsible to the Union for delivery of the product to points to be revealed when they ratify their contract. Bids will be received from processors on the blocks that will be offered and if the prices bid appeal to the farmer, he signifies his desire to sell via ratification of the contract. If he doesn't wish to sell at that time Fan tax exemptions welcomed by farmers Planning restrictions on use of mercury a