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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1974-10-31, Page 8New end Used 'fermiers wed Um NeedNee Esseberm* 1—New 707 N.H. 3 pt. hitch harvester. Ready to go. 1—Used #12 John Deere harvester complete w/1 row cor- nhead, pickup and direct cut- head. 1—Dion T1 harvester with 1 row cornhead and pickup. 1—Gehl F188 harvester with 2 row cornhead with pickup. Done 1 season only. 1—N,H. Model 25 Whirl-A- Feed blowers. The greatest in haylage and highest capacity in corn silage, 1—Used Kools blower Model KI330. 3—McKee high moisture corn grinder blowers, Perfect job and high capacity with low power requirements. Just arrived a load of New Holland grinder mixers and manure spreaders. Get your order in now, Several reconditioned used manure spreaders from 120 to 250 bu, sizes in stock, Ready to go. EFEIMBIEn= EQUIPMENT LIMITED EXETER, ONT. Res. 235.0899 Tel. 235.1380 There's a Royal Bank desk in every farm kitchen. When it comes to offering specialized financial services to farmers, Roger Dowker, Manager of Exeter's Royal Bank, is as comfortable doing business in your kitchen as he is in his own office. (More often than you'd think, the farm kitchen is the best place to get Roger's banking expertise fully concentrated on helping you achieve a worthwhile project.) What's more—and this is important—Roger Dowker has the full facilities and expertise of our Agricultural and Credit Departments to back him up. In addition to Farmplan Credit & Counselling he can tell you how to protect your farm and family with Farmplan Creditor Life Insurance. We'd like you to give Roger a call, to see just how effectively he can use his experience and judgment to offer you sound advice ... backed up by some' pretty sound and sizeable dollars if your growth elan makes agricultural and economic sense. If you'd like to have that talk with Roger Dowker, call him at 235-2111. And if it makes better sense to have that important first meeting in his office, instead of your kitchen, the coffee's on Roger. I ROYAL BANK serving Ontario serving yoU Why Look Further? You probably won't find a better selection of tractors David Brown 990 (Red) IHC Super C Ford 5000 gas with power steering Ford 3000 Diesel Ford 3000 Diesel with power steering IHC 350 gas with loader IHC Super C with 4 row scufflers Ford 5000 Diesel with 218 Hrs. IHC Super C with cult. Ford Dexta gas Ford 4000 gas with power steering IHC M Cockshutt #40 Diesel Ford 4000 Diesel with power steering Cockshutt #30 gas Cockshutt 540 gas Allis Chalmers C with scufflers Case 630 Diesel Ford 5000 Diesel with Ford cab Ford 5000 Diesel with power steering Minneapolis Moline M-5 gas with power steering Cockshutt 550 Diesel Ferguson 20-85 Ford 5000 gas Ford 5000 Diesel with Ford cab Ford 4000 Diesel with power steering IHC 504 Diesel Ford 8000 with cab Ferguson 20-85 Case 430 Diesel IHC B-275 Diesel with loader Better Farming Starts At EXETER FORD Equipment Sales Ltd. Exeter 235-2200 Tr ,.'sr t or s E4 quIpment Pug. Times-Advocate, October 31, 1974 NOMINATIONS Township of McGillivray For Offices of Reeve, Deputy Reeve Councillors will be received at the Clerk's Office 171 King Street, Parkhill, from 9 a.m. Thursday, November 7, 1974 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, November 12, 1974 W. J. AMOS Clerk & Returning Officer :411 Suggest flooding land to provide more water By ADRIAN VOS. The Kitchener-Waterloo Region needs water and lots of it. Their mushrooming growth demands it for domestic and industrial use. Canada is the country with the most of this resource in the entire world. However, instead of looking to the great lakes they want to dam the Nith river in Oxford county, flood about 9,000 acres of the best crop land and pipe it into their system. I happen to know the Nith river and all through the summer there is about as much water in it as in a good sized creek. At best then, it would just help out a little bit and they still would have to go to a Lake Erie pipeline. It seems from here that people don't care one bit about food producing land until they themselves are hit. But I bet they are the same people who holler loudest about higher food prices, Luckily there is one man in government who opposes the move and that is agriculture minister William Stewart. Also LOOK MOM — Ricky Gilfillan shows his parents, Mr. & Mrs. Bill Gilfillan and sister Tracey the Indian village molded out of plasticine he made for Open House at the Exeter Public School last week. T-A photo. NOW Grant for slaughter cows opposed is a second minister namely William Newman of the Environment Ministry. Let's hope that their views prevail. Just to show how efficient farmers have become, Ontario's farmland declined from 3.5 acres per person of the population in 1941 to 1,4 acres now, but production now is higher than it ever was. One shouldn't think however that there is no limit to what the farmer can do. If the revived plan for a power plant in Huron county would be approved it would certainly mean that due to increased traffic pollution, hundreds of acres of white bean land will have to shift to other less protein producing crops. It bothers me some that the struggle to preserve the land is left largely to the farmer and that the people in the towns and cities who will be the first to be hurt are not heard from when food production is threatened. The Consumers Association of Canada devotes a good deal of their time on fighting farmers to lower food prices but forget the struggle to protect the base of food production. How about it you towns-people that read this column? Can't you persuade your church or your organization to help fight unnecessary urban sprawl and loss of food producing land? . . . Is The Time To Order Your Help for cow-calf operators SEED CORN Requirements While Varieties Available DON'T BE CAUGHT SHORT EXETER DISTRICT position to produce its share of the market at that time, The present situation has been brought on by a rapid escalation in grain prices which has made feeding beef cattle uneconomic," Hill says, He adds that high oil prices have forced many countries to reduce imports of beef to con- serve currency to pay the necessary oil bill. These are the factors that have led to a world surplus of beef — surplus in the sense that there isn't money available in importing countries to purchase the amount they would like to buy. OFA is maintaining close contact with Ontario Beef Improvement Association in an effort to help cow-calf men. Victoria & Brock Sts. ' 235-2081 List number of area office The Ministry of Natural Resources is distributing by mail a telephone sticker with the address of the Wingham office along with the location from which toll free service -is available. Approximately 40,000 of these stickers are being sent to households in the Wingham district. General inquiries are handled from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m, Monday to Friday. Emergency calls (e.g. ongoing infractions of the Game and Fish Act) directed to the Wingham office after hours will be taken at any time. The Ministry hopes that this will be of service to the public. NOTICE OF NOMINATION Nominations for Council Members, Deputy-Reeve and Reeve, for representation on the HAY TOWNSHIP COUNCIL will be received by the undersigned Commencing on Friday, November 7 and until 5 P.M., E.S.T., on Tuesday, November 12, 1974 Three Council members, One Deputy-Reeve and One Reeve to be elected to the Hay Township Council for the years 1 9 7 5 and 1 9 7 6 W. C. HORNER Clerk, Hay Township Zurich, Ontario The Ontario Federation of Agriculture Thursday asked the provincial government for financial assistance to help cow- calf operators stay in business without drastically cutting production and adding further to the boom-bust cycle in beef. OFA asked Ontario Minister of Agriculture and Food, William A. Stewart, to encourage cow-calf operators to cull up to 20p per cent of lower quality animals in their herds by payment of a grant of $100 per cow sold for slaughter between October 1, 1974 and March 31, 1975. OFA urged that each cow culled should be replaced by a heifer calf so that herd size would be maintained and adequate beef would be available for market in 1976-77. OFA also asked that cow-calf operators be given a grant of $25 per calf, whether the calf is retained in the herd or sold between October 1 and December 31, 1974. OFA is also asking the Ontario Ministry of-Agriculture and Food to undertake a study to show costs of Production and deter- mine whether or not beef raising is practical, given the costs producers now face in Ontario. "Boom and bust cycles are just not good enough in today's high cost farming economy," Gordon Hill, Varna, OFA president, said following the conference with Agriculture Minister Stewart. He contended that cow-calf beef operators are entitled to know what is expected of them in this difficult time and what prospects are in store for them. "They need to know these prospects as soon as possible," he added. Hill says a pause is needed in beef production. However, OFA would not like to see a drastic reduction in Ontario's ability to produce beef. "That is why OFA is recom- mending culling for market of up to 20 per cent of the lower quality animals in each herd but stressing that each cow culled should be replaced with a 1974 heifer calf that could produce beef to go to market in 1977. "Because cow prices are at a disastrously low level of around 11 to 12 cents, the OFA has asked for a $100 payment per cow culled, Hill stated. To offset the high cost of borrowing for feed OFA is asking a $25 payment per calf of the 74 crop. These paymetits would.-be• made to , producers registered for production of beef. "These amounts should enable cow-calf operators to pay taxes and stay in business." OFA says indications are that in 1976-77 markets will open up again and Ontario should be in a th CONOP store ee Cots nett a Twine this Nd! Cor O-OV's oside Catty Pro Fall Casts E3 g,rans "The 2549 Line BALER TWINE provides • 10,000 ft. 40 lbs. gross per BALE • 100% PURE SISALANA FIBRE • 300 lbs. 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