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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1971-03-25, Page 15were: Terry Dalton, 7 Centralia;Keith Love, R. 1 Zurich. Lneknow; John Semple, R. 2 County Pork Producers will Bayfield; Paul Steckle, R. 2 again sponsor the 441 Swine Cub. Zurich; Hoist, H. 2 At the provincial annual meeting held in the King Edward Hotel, Toronto, James McGregor was named representative from Huron on the provincial board. ./6••„.4;,00 • .• Look what you can get at the Agromart 1. Feed Complete line of feed pre- mixes for Hogs, Beef and Dairy Cat- tle. Starter feed for calves and pig- lets + Minerals -F Feed-processing equipment. Custom-designed feed programs for your livestock, to in- crease production, raise profits. 2. Animal Health Products for Hogs, Beef and Dairy Cattle. Antibiotics for all major diseases + Feed Med- ication + Shell Brand insecticides for fly, louse and grub control + Growth promoters, Plus valuable on-farm advice on disease Control. 3. Seed Seed-corn, barley, wheat, oats and forage seeds, especially chosen for this area. Northrup King seed corn: single, double, 3-way, 4-way and special crosses: early and late maturing varieties. For grain and sileage corn. Hyland grand cereal grains supplied by W. G. Thompson EA Song, Pius helpful information on crop- target planning; "Corn-Mate" pro- grams, 4. Fertilizer Nitrogen fertilizers. Easy flowing dry fertilizer for all crops, bulk or bagged, custom- blended to suit soil needs + Corn starter fertilizers + Rental bulk spreading equipment — when you want them. Delivery and custom application services. Soil-testing and plant tissue-testing to help you raise yields. 5. Pesticides A complete range of top-quality brand name herbicides, insecticides, fungicides for all crops. Help is available in choosing the right pesticide, and advice on how to apply for best results, 6. General supplies CIL farm paints, heavy duty plastic sheets, twine, tools and other hardware items, 7. How to do it booklets Useful in- formative booklets by Federal and Provincial Governments On all as- pects of farming. Plus special infor- mation leaflets on all our products and advice from C11- specialists. You can get a lot more than fertilizer from the CIL Agromart ® Now, you'll find over 90 farm inputs in stock— and a new type of technical and business service What's going on at the Agromart? Drop around and see for yourself. It's turning into a one-stop farm service centre. Right now, you can get most any farm input you want. Whatever crop you're growing. Whatever livestock you raise.' Brand-names you can trust Every input was chosen because it gives the best results in this area and the best value for your money. You'll find names you know and trust like Chipman, and Shell pesticides; Ayerst, Tuco, Norwich and Sepko animal health products. Northrup-King seed corn — Hyland Brand seed grain and our own CIL range of custom-blend fertil- izers and feed pre-mixes. Special Adviser Service Your Agromart Manager knows local farming very well. But there's so much new information pouring out, no one man can keep on top of it. So, to help you and help the Agromart Manager, CIL has formed a special Adviser Service — a team of specialists to give you down-to-earth advice on what's new and what works. You can get on-farm advice about Feed, Seed, Soil Management, Fertilizer, Animal Health, Nutrition, and Farm Man- agement simply by asking your Agro- mart manager to call the Advisers in. Agromart Farmers' Meetings keep you up to date When we talked to farmers about this new service, a lot of them said "I've got to know what the new farm ideas are before I can get advice on them." Fair enough. So this year the Agromart will run a series of Farmers' Meetings on what's happening in farming. Nothing formal. Just coffee and donuts. An agricultural specialist or one of our supplier's experts will talk a while, then answer questions. We'll announce the meetings in the paper. Plan to come along. You never know what you'll learn. What else can the Agromart do for you? The biggest problem a farmer faces is the battle to keep profits up. It's not a new problem. But CIL have some new answers. CIL Agromart Managers, Advisers and economic specialists have been con- ducting months of research into crop- planning, livestock production and farm economics. Now, solid farm management plans are being drawn up. The first is called "Planned Profit Farming". Its aim? To help you develop a long-term program for your farm business, using and adapting new and proven products and systems. You can put "Planned Profit Farming" to work on yourfarm operation right now. Ask your Agromart Manager for more information. Now you know a little more about the Agromart, why not drop in and meet the Agromart Manager? He's got a pot of coffee on the stove, and he's ready to talk. CIL Agromart Centralia Farmers Supply Ltd. Centralia, Ontario 228-6638 OIL Agromart G. Thompson & Sons Limited Hensel!, Ontario 262.2527 OIL Agromart Scott's Elevator Limited Lucan, Ontario 22Z-4479 Agromart Also reprosents Huron on provincial board 'TimesAsivocate, .404rch 25, 197.1 gage 14. K...s. ippen man heads hog producers. At a recent meeting of Huron County Pork Producers held in the Legion Hall, Clinton, James McGregor, R. 2 Kippen was named chairman for another term, Eric. Moore, 1t.4 Goderich is Vice-Chairman. Lloyd Stewart H. 1 Clinton, secretary. One hundred and thirty-five registered pork producers at- tended. The guest speaker was Blake Snoblen of Kent County, chairman of the Provincial Pork Producers Board. His topic was hog marketing in the United Kingdom and Switzerland. The following resolution was passed: Whereas the o.p.p,m.B. is interested in promoting pork products at reasonable cost to the Ontario consumer, and, Whereas, the place to do this is at the meat display counter with appropriate colored display posters of pork recipes with convenient trays to, hold these. Therefore be it resolved that the O.P.P,M.13, furnish all the county associations boards in Ontario with the appropriate material to be placed in every grocery store in their own county as a promotional program in 1971. Huron County has 22 coun- cilmen on the County Pork Producers Association and they are: George Moncrief, Ashfield Township, R. 3 Goderich; Eric Moore, Colborne Township, R. 4 Goderich; Alfred Warner Goderich Township, R. 1 Bayfield; James Williamson, Grey Township, R. 3 Walton; Lionel Wilder, Hay Township R. t Zurich; Elmer Harding, Howick Township, R. 1 Gorrie; Lloyd Stewart, Hullett Township, R. 1 Clinton; George Campbell, McKillop Township R. 1 Seaforth; Wilfred Shortreed, Morris Township, R. 1 Walton; Harvey Coleman, Stanley Township, R. 1 Zurich; Kenneth Baker, Stephen Township, R. 2 Dashwood; James McGregor, Tuckersmith Township, R. 2 Kippen; Alex Corrigan, Turn- berry Township, R. 1 Bluevale; Alvin Cudmore, Usborne Township, R. 1 Hensall; Adrian Vos, East Waw.Township, Blyth ; Allen Miller, West Waw. R, 1 Lucknow, Directors at large elected Plan 4-H rabbit club The South Huron Rabbit Breeders Association held their March meeting, Tuesday March 16 in Elimville Hall, one week late owing to .tad weather. The February meeting had been cancelled for the same reason. The business of the evening began with election of officers. President David Stanley, Vice- president Pat Dickey and Secretary-treasurer Angus Murray were returned to office. George Carpenter was elected as commercial representative to replace Bill Dickey who has been elected as a Director of the Canadian Commercial Rabbit Growers Association. Mr. Dickey remains in charge of meat marketing for the club and also assumes the duties of club librarian. Mrs. Joyce Dickey was elected Press Secretary. Guest speaker was Leonard MacGregor from Clinton, representative of the department of Agriculture, 4-H division. He informed the club of the steps required in starting a 4-H rabbit club in this area, stating this would he the first 4-H rabbit club in Ontario. The club accepted the challenge unanimously. The club will be open to all interested youth between the ages of 12 and 20 and anyone interested can contact any member of the club. An advisory committee to the 4-H was formed consisting of George Carpenter, Angus Murray, Jim Donaldson, David Stanley and Bill Dickey. Auctioneer for the Dutch auction was Bill Dickey and winner of the prize was Hay Murray. Institute meets at McGillivray McGillivray Womens' Institute met at the home of Mrs. Tom Kooy. The meeting opened by singing the Institute ode followed by Mary Stewart collect. Roll tall was name a city of Canada and its main Industry, After a short business meeting plans were made for a dessert euchre to be held in April. The program was presided over by the Convener of Canadian Industry, Mrs. Laverne Allison. The motto, 'InduStry Exists for Man, not Man for Industry ' was given by Mrs. Melvin Allison who also gave a humorous reading, 'The Old Chicken House,' Mrs. Allison gave an in- teresting talk on local Industry at Centralia, Huron Park and Strathroy, A Stanley party concluded the meeting, The next meeting will Onveile in the evening at West McGillivray Hall. • ....; ,Asv.•:•:$03.tfta*Mainoefts:C:z:co,Pgr4g4.i...witAKWIllz ftto."20has4-3M3.1iMa ,i.i-. • t t • ••••0<56 The Agromart is turning into a one-stop farm service centre with top-quality farm products and the service to back them. Come on in. The coffee pot's on the stove, and we're ready to talk. fS