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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1971-05-27, Page 14JUNIORS IN SHOW — The first horse show of the season sponsored by the Exeter Saddle club Sunday afternoon drew a large number of junior entries. Shown above are, from the left, Barbara Parsons, Trudy Johns, Leslie Hill. Steve Preszcator, Gail Johns, Jeff Darling and Debbie Webster, T-A photo District crop prospects good, drought hits Lambton area CANIOX obwockvioxi • Welding Gases • Welding Supplies Hamilton's Machine Shop A "Complete" Welding & Machine Shop Service 20 NELSON ST. (AT MAIN) Bus: 235.1655 E XETER HOME: 235.2598 1 GIANT ECONOMY SIZE. FORD 5000 TRACTOR • 67 PTO hp gasoline or diesel engine. More pulling power at lower engine speeds. Dual range 8-speed transmission with four low range speeds under 5 mph. • 5-plow power with longer life, ex- cellent fuel economy. Exeter Ford Equipment Sales Ltd. )At the Rear of Larry Snider Motors) PHONE EXETER 235-2200 Tractors Equipment Drive carefully 'At CO-OP, we always deliver' GASOLINES both grades, formulated for cleaner carburetors and less power loss in on-farm storage. DIESEL FUEL high cetane index number for faster wet and cold morning starts. Low sulphur content for less deposit build-up. OILS & GREASES a complete line. Everything you need for a smoother running farm. t clean burning and efficient. A complete home comfort service including furnaces, humidifiers and water heaters. Call your CO-OP petroleum driver today — and count on him to deliver. • Registered Trademark EXETER DISTRICT Phone 235-2081 Beside CNR Station CO-OP a Petroleum Products Everything for farm and home, FUEL &STOVE OIL WHIwie"litEAN CONTRACTS We have a good supply of the "NEW SEAFARER VARIETY" and SANILAC Foundation and Certified. Unizil LIQUID HERBICIDE numb, FOR BEANS AFESIN1INITRO ,11 Two proven weedkillers in one liquid concentrate. ro Greater safety for all types of beans "Trade with Confidence" Ittrade With Cows HENSALL D1VLS1ON OF GEIBRO CORP. PHONE 2624605 [ But Do It Pre-Emerge. Now! We Custom Apply or Rent Equipment As In Above Picture CANN'S MILL EXETER 235.1782 1 Page 14 Thues.Advocate, May 27, 1971 Busy schedule is planned for Centralia Dairy Day Dairymen in Western Ontario will have an opportunity to get their questions on milk marketing and dairy cattle f• acilities answered Tuesday June 1. That's the date of the second annual Dairy Cattle Day to be held at Centralia College of Agricultural Technology, In addition to lectures there will be demonstrations and exhibits during the noon hour, Registration begins Tuesday morning at 9:30 with the first speaker, Prof. S.H. Lane of the University of Guelph beginning a half hour later, His subject will be "Quotas - Should I buy now?" At eleven, o'clock, current issues in the dairy industry will be discussed by moderator Jack Hunter, Prof. Lane and regional members of the Ontario Milk Marketing Board, Grant Smith, Ray MacDougall, Harold H. Scott and Kenneth G. McKinnon, Among the exhibits to be seen at noon are milk quality tests, mastitis monitoring, farmstead snow and wind control and an Ontario Milk Marketing Board display, In the afternoon, Jack Underwood of the Centralia College staff and zone forester Howard Langstaff of Stratford will discuss farmstead im- provements at the one o'clock session. At 1:0, R. J. Milne, agricultural engineer from Woodstock will speak on dairy barn design and the final talk on environmental management in the dairy barn by J. E. Turnbull, of the Canada Department of Agriculture at 2:20, will be followed by a question and an- swer period. Another feature of the program will be a quota exchange board. Producers wishing to buy or sell milk quotas can post their in- tentions on the board located in the meeting hall. Buyer and seller can then meet and transact their business. Dairy princesses from surrounding counties will be on hand throughout the day to assist with registration and refresh- ments. Offer course in horticulture The University of Guelph is offering a correspondence course program leading to the Ontario Diploma in horticulture. A wide range of courses in landscaping, park and turf management, nurseries, and greenhouses is available at minimum cost. There are no minimum educational requirements for enrollment in the course which generally takes about three years to complete. It consists of 15 subjects, which may be com- pleted at the student's own speed. To obtain a Diploma, however, two years of practical experience in horticulture are necessary. This must be completed before the third year, Part-time work during the course or full-time work for three summers will be accepted. All lessons are supplied and papers marked by correspon- dence, enabling persons to take the course. The required text- books provide a valuable reference library for future use. Each student chooses his own study schedule, The studies have proved popular with persons in park work, landscaping, commercial nurseries, and other related fields. Anyone interested in taking the complete course or any one of the individual subjects can write: Office of Continuing Education University of Guelph Centralia Farmers Supply Ltd. Grain • Feed • Cement • Building Supplies Coal 228-6638 Despite the lack of rain for the past few weeks, crop prospects in Huron County look good ac- cording to Huron's Agriculture representative Don Pullen of Clinton. "While Monday's rains could be called of the million dollar variety, most crops were coming along very well despite the dry conditions," said Pullen, "Spring grain has never ger- minated more evenly and has come up evenly. Right now crop prospects are very promising. With the help of some more rain in the next week or so we should be in for a good year, crop wise," added the Ag Rep. He attributed the excellent growth so far in dry conditions to excellent ground moisture reserves because of the heavy In a letter to the Hon. H. A. Olson, Minister of Agriculture, Wm. Langdon, chairman of the National Farmers Union dairy Bean plots for Huron White bean research plots will be established this year in Huron, Oxford, Kent and Elgin counties, Dr. Charles Baldwin, Ridgetown College of Agricultural Technology, said recently. Last year white bean research plots were in Kent and Elgin only, "We are going further afield this year to serve two pruposes, In Huron the locations will be established in what is known as the older bean growing areas as well as areas where beans have never before been grown." "In the older growing areas, root rot does not seem to be quite so prevalent." Conducting nitrogen research on the two types of conditions, Dr. Baldwin said , should aid con- siderably in explaining the reason for the marked yield response due to nitrogen ap- plications found in the past two years in Kent and Elgin counties, "This research in the new areas has primarily come from requests from bean farmers, who are experiencing trouble maintaining good economic yields in some of the older bean growing areas of Huron." The trial in Oxford County should serve to answer some of the questions as to the nitrogen response on white beans in areas "that heretofore have not grown white beans." Milk price goes down The average selling price for Group 1 Pool quota in Southern Ontario for the month of April was $24.35 per pound, down from the high of $27.45 per pound recorded in March. In an in- formation bulletin from the Ontario Milk Marketing Board a year ago the price was $22.91 per pound. In the Northern Ontario Pool the April 1971 price was $19.25 per pound, a jump from the 1970 comparable price of $10.20 per pound, The bulletin points out that the composition of fluid milk sales in Ontario has changed significantly over the past ten year. From 1960 to 1970, total sales of fluid milk have increased by 20,7 percent. Sales of standard fluid milk (3.25 percent to 3,99 percent butterfat) have decreased by 18.2 percent; special milk (4 percent to 9.99 percent B.F.) by 97.7 percent; and skim milk (under 1.5 percent B.F.) by 17.1 percent during the same period. Sales of partly skimmed milk (L5 percent to 3.24 percent B.F,) on the other hand, have increased by 3:17.7 percent and now con- stitute 40.9 percent of total fluid sales, compared to 11,3 percent 30 years ago, snowfalls of the past winter. Jack Urquhart manager of the Canadian Canners plant' in Exeter was of the same opinion as Pullen regarding crops. Urquhart said,"We were getting a bit concerned about the lack of rain but it hadn't reached the critical stage yet." "Monday's rain was certainly helpful. It is rather surprising that the early planted peas have excellent root sprout and we should have better spread than other years. The first peas planted April 19 are coming along well and should be ready for harvesting about June 26-28. The local manager said this year's total acreage of peas and corn is slightly higher than in 1970. committee called on the Minister to up date the federal dairy policy to provide a return of $5.75 per cwt, to Canada's industrial milk producers. He also called for an immediate discontinuance of the 26 cent per cwt. holdback producers pay to finance the export of surplus dairy products. Mr. Langdom said the hold- back is not now justified in view of milk production going down, consumption increasing, and world prices being stronger than they have been for years. "Actually all the government will be doing is letting the farmer keep his own money that should not be taken from him in the first place, and no way should it be interpreted as a price increase for his production." In his letter Mr. Langdon stated that "basically, the sup- port price must be raised to provide producers a return of $5:75 per cwt. for standard milk produced within quota - a price which should have been em- ployed at the commencement of the 1971-72 dairy year." "Now that production is in a short supply situation, and will in all likelihood continue to decrease, the export hold-back of 26 cents on quota milk is no longer justified and should be immediately discontinued. The original reasons for taxing producers to export surplus are not qualified." He told Mr. Olson that "to ignore and disregard the com- pelling need for increased returns to industrial milk producers will mean disaster to the industry. Further degradation of the milk producing industry can only mean further mutilation to the whole farming industry, which will not only be disastrous for farmers but will continue to cause chaos in the whole Canadian economy," "The cost of increasing returns to producers for the federal government will be in- finitesimal, compared to the benefits that will accrue to the farm community and the Canadian economy as a whole," he said. Mr. Langdon's letter related than an increasing number of small and medium sized Canadian owned processing plants are recognizing that if the Federal dairy policy is not corrected it will only be working in the interests of the multi- national corporations intent on the strangulation of family farm production, and the gluttonous advantage to be taken of the Canadian consumer, "Or this country becomes more and more dependent on imports, while more Canadians join the unem- ployed," he stated. Mr, Langdon said the $5.75 demand was justified, especially since producers in the two major producing provinces had ac- cepted rigid production controls in the firm belief that low prices would cease, This has failed to materialize, It may be true that life begins at 40, but everything else starts to wee out, fall out or spread out. Other parts of Western Ontario have not fared as well. Lambton's Agricultural representative William Abraham said Sunday that drought had killed about $250,000 worth of winter wheat in his county. Ten per cent of Lambton's $26 million, 40,000-acre crop has been lost, he said, adding that many farmers have been replanting the acreage with soybeans. The crop damage occurred in the rich 3,000-acre marshland area about 11/2-miles wide bet- ween here and Grand Bend. Authorities fear the prolonged spell of dry weather will cause further damage. Meanwhile, Thedford area farmers have replanted 100-150 acres of land with onions, after Wednesday's wind storm damaged up to 700 acres of the crop, and an additional 300 acres of carrots. Charles Srokosz, a farmer from RR2, Grand Bend, said about 100 more acres will likely be replanted, but added damage to the remainder of the 700 acres of the crop was not great. "The onion crops on the land that has been replanted to date were destroyed," Mr. Srokosz said. "But on the other 100 acres there is a chance the onions may come on. If they don't we'll likely plant potatoes." Mr. Srokosz estimated the per acre cost of planting onions at $110—$40 for fertilizer, $40 for seed, $10 for insecticide and $20 for weed killer. The replanting would likely cost $50-an-acre. Fertilizer and weed killer would not be used in the second planting. It has been estimated total damage to Thedford area onion and carrot crops may exceed $50,000. BILL PINCOMBE APPLYING NITROGEN-ATRAZINE COMBINATION TO HIS CORN GROUND Have You Experienced BEAN ROOT ROT? BEAN BLIGHT? If So — Use Our 28% Nitrogen Solution And Increase Your Yields Spray Liquid Nitrogen just prior to planting. Harrow lightly to put Nitrogen in the top inch of soil. This will induce the bean to grow new top roots to anchor and feed the plant for increased yield. Ask minister to update federal dairy policy