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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1976-11-18, Page 20ROAN Your Trojan Seed Corn Dealer has a hybrid for you. See him today. Exeter Produce & Storage Exeter 235-0141 Lloyd Mothers RR 2, Ailsa Craig 228-6210 Ken & Jim Bearss RR 1, St. Marys 229-6222 TROJAN CUSTOM CORN PFIZER COMPANY LTD. LONDON, ONTARIO Exeter District .ANNUAL MEETING Tuescbgaigymb_er 23 1976 .44%:,450.m. sharp KIRKTON-WOODHAM COMMUNITY CENTRE PURPOSE OF THE MEETING — To receive the Financial Report for the year ended August 31,1976 — To elect three Directors for a three-year term — To appoint auditors for the ensuing year. — To update Exeter District Co-op Bylaws to conform with the Co-operative Corporations Act, 1973 BOARD OF DIRECTORS 1975-76 JACK STEWART, President HOWARD HENDRICK, Vice-President JAS DOUGALL, Secretary STAN FRANCIS JACK BLAIR GERALD McBRIDE LORNE BALLANTYNE ERIC KINTS ELSON LYNN You'll Find A Grat Selection of Farm Machinery Toys Here! Built To Scale with Working Parts . . . Just Like The Big Ones Dad Drives EXETER FORD Eli Equipment Sales Ltd. Thames jRoad East Phone 235-2200 06 A6•14° Glendinning & Son Farm Automation Wildwood Farm Services - Material Handling Specialists "Bossie" cow trainer Wildwood Liquid Manure System Bedding Keeper Wildwood AAE Alternator-Generator Electric Fencers Mole Hill Manure Management System tom•••••••••••• ••••••••••• ••••••••••• alm.••••••11 101..•••••••11 Farm Automation Wildwood Farm Services Material Handling Specialists GEORGE GLENDINNING Sales Representative • • RR 8, PARKHILL, ONT. George Glendinning - 294-6574 Ken Glendinning 227-4593 I O Please ask your local representative to call Please send me more information on the following: O Bedding Keeper O Mole Hill Manure Management System O Electrocutor "Bossie" cow trainer Flowtron O Electric Fencers O Wildwood Liquid Manure System q Wildwood AAE Alternator-Generator Name . Address Phone Wildwood X Glendinning & Son 40-3UTLE0 Our number one number is 206 How many hybrids stay around for five years or more? Not many. But here's one that is going to make its mark in this area - Pride 2206. .It's a 90 day, mid-season maturity hybrid in the 2850 heat unit range. This single cross hybrid has everything going for it — impressive yields, disease resistance, combining quality and good test weight. Supplies of this exciting new hybrid are not over-abundant. Don't miss the opportunity of planting 2206 in 1977. Get the facts now from your local Pride dealer and make sure you have seed for your 1977 program. King Grain Limited P.O. Box 1088 Chatham, Ontario, Canada N7M 5L6 HAROLD KERSLAKE RR 3, Exeter, Ontario 229-6403 DOUG LIGHTFOOT RR 1, Crediton, Ontario 234.6287 ROSS BALLANTYNE RR 1, Kirkton, Ontario 229-6503 TED OUD RR 3, Kippen, Ontario 262-5900 DONALD G. MAGUIRE RR 1, Luctm, Ontario 227-4896 2274723 JIM ROWE 74 Richmond Street, Hensall, Ontario 2622937 235-2840 Area farmer picked for dairy herd group Times-Advocate, November 18, 1976 Flick of the switch embers of the Dairy Herd Ira, rov,etrient Advisory Com- i mi tee have been appointed for 19 6. The seven members, re resenting producers, are C irman Ray MacDougall, G1 nworth; Vice-Chairman Ar old Stansell, RR1 Aylmer; Gr nt A. KetcheSon, Rill Madoc; Jon Nanninga, RR2 Mount F est; Robert Hern, RR1 W4odham; John P. Dunford, RR4 Lakefield; and Ivan Keall, Br cebridge. The eighth m mber, Roy Snyder, RR5 G 1ph, represents the Ontario As ociation of Animal Breeders. prihe dairy herd improvement gram of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food maintains records of herd performance for more than 3,000 dairy farmers in Ontario. Information provided assists a farmer in making decisions which will enable him to realize more income from his dairy operation, The program also includes four central milk testing laboratories which provide information on the quality of output from herds and individual cows. The Dairy Herd Improvement Advisory Committee ,asserse5 the goals of the program annually and advises the ministry on improvements to the service. Committee members are appointed for one year. 20 YEARS ON AI UNIT STAFF —Ken Park of Varna was hon- oured at United Breeders Inc. awards night recognizing 20 years of service to farmers of Huron County. He was pre- sented with an inscribed watch by Dr. C. Reeds, General Manager of United. Agriculture and Food Minister William G. Newman has an- nounced the appointment of members to the Ontario Drainage Tribunal. They are: Delbert A. O'Brien, Pembroke, Chairman; E.C. Brisco, RR3 Chatham; Basil Dawley, Winchester; Robert Drummond, RR1 Smith Falls; Ralph Gagner, Chatham; John King, RR1 Camlachie; Glen Larmer, Blackstock ; Fred Lewis, Denfield, Judge Joseph P. McMahon of Windsor was appointed earlier this year as referee under The Drainage Act. The drainage tribunal was established this year to provide farmers a more accessible procedure for appeals under The Drainage Act against the technical content and assessments in engineers' reports prepared under the act. A farmer wishing to make an appeal to the tribunal simply notifies the municipal clerk who in turn most notify the tribunal, Ethering ton tops beans Usborne township farmer Dick Etherington topped the pedigree white bean seed class at the Royal Winter Fair. Of the top 11 prizes, eight came to Huron County farmers, Etherington's entry was a Seafarer seed and had been processed by Hensall Co-Op. Bob Allan, last year's winner, placed second with a Sanilac seed. The Brucefield area farmer also had the sixth place entry with a Kentwood variety. Orville Workman, Kippen, placed third while fourth went to Stephen Dietrich, Dashwood. The seventh prize was awarded to Spencer Jeffrey, Staffa, while the eighth and ninth place winners were Ernie Talbot, Kippen, and Bill Coleman, Kippen. Bolton retains hay award Huron County continues to be the hay capital of the world. Russell Bolton of Seaforth won the hay championship at the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto Friday for the fifth consecutive year. He took the hay title over all competitors throughout the world for the first time in 1972 and hasn't missed since. This marks the 13th time in 18 years that the hay championship has been won by a farmer from Huron. The first winner from Huron was Robert Allen of Brucefield in 1958. He repeated in 1962. Russell Dallas, also of Brucefield is a three time champion in 1963, 1969 and 1971. Robert Fotheringham took top hay honours in 1965 and 1966 and Wilber Keys, RR 4, Seaforth was the champion in 1964. The tribunal will then hold a hearing in the farmer's locality, at which he may present his case, Three members of the tribunal constitute a quorum. Some tribunal decisions may be appealed to the referee. In addition, appeals against legal procedures are made directly to the referee and some of his decisions may be further ap- pealed to the courts. In announcing the ap- pointments to the Ontario Drainage Tribunal, Mr. Newman said that farmers in Ontario invest $30 million annually in drainage. In view of the magnitude of the expenditure, he said, the accessibility of appeal procedures is important and the mobility of the tribunal is, therefore, a major advantage. No labour saving device has taken more drudgery out of every-day living, urban or rural, than has electric energy, A flick of a switch has improved the standard of living of more people than any other modern con- venience. Perhaps such statements date me, for which I make no apologies, I all too well remember farming when electric power was seldom found in rural areas. Like most other farmers we have become so almost totally dependent on it that when the ice storms of 1975 and 1976 caused such havoc to hydro systems, we found ourselves in serious trouble on our farm - no furnace, no water, no power to move silage to the cattle, and of course those with cows to milk and milk to cool were in even worse trouble. Had we not had stand-by tractor driven generators I don't know how we would have managed for the 96 hours we had no power at our farm, And there were many others who waited much longer, In the recent severe ice storm over Thanksgiving weekend in the Ottawa Valley many hundred of farmers and others were without power for several days. I have publicly paid tribute to Ontario's Hydro workmen in the past for their virtually round-the- clock efforts to restore power in past Western Ontario Disasters and for the same a few weeks ago in Eastern Ontario. Quite a contrast where just across the Ottawa River in Quebec their linemen refused to work over- time even though unbelievable hardships were being ex- perienced by those just as badly affected by the early freak storm as those in Ontario. There has been much media and political attention given to Ontario Hydro's request for a 31.9 per cent increase in the price charged to bulk power customers. These are the municipal Public Utilities Commissions. The large direct customers of Ontario Hydro, such as the steel, paper and lumber industries, etc., have been asked for a 33.7 per cent increase. Of course all such requests must go before the Ontario Energy Board for public hearings. The Board has recommended, and the Ontario Hydro Board has ac- cepted a 30.3 per cent increase. Contrary to what one may read this increase is completely within the Federal A.I.B. guidelines. The basic concept of Ontario Hydro's mandate has been to provide power at the lowest possible cost. When water power was sufficient to meet the needs of Ontario Hydro's customers, rates were comparatively cheap and people were encouraged to use more power by making the greater amount used cheaper than the initial amount. A study report has been made which now recommends that there be no price advantage given where more power is used. Personally this seems to make common sense, The annual growth in power demand in Ontario is about 7 per cent. Due to borrowing con- straints initiated by the Ontario Government, which guarantees all Ontario Hydro borrowings, and the cut back in power rates implemented by the Ontario Government Select Committee last year, 6.5 billion dollars was cut from Ontario Hydro's ex- pansion program. Even with the increase granted by the Ontario Energy Board, and which is currently being discussed by the various political parties of the Ontario Legislature, Ontario Hydro will have to borrow 1,5 billion dollars in both 1977 and 1978 just to try to provide an annual power demaqd growth of 6 per cent, To achieve this reduction in demand will mean a genuine attempt on every-one's part to conserve the use of electric power wherever possible. The day of low cost energy is definitely over, and the day of the seemingly endless supply of electrical energy is now gone as well. About 60 per cent of the electric power used in Ontario is generated hydraulically from water. Most of the balance is produced from steam generation which requires coal, fuel oil, natural gas, ornuclear power. As everyone knows the cost of fuel has risen dramatically. In 1973 a ton of U,S,A, coal cost $13, in 1975 that same ton of comparable quality U.S. coal cost $30, and the price is still rising. In order to obtain a second source of coal to fire Ontario Hydro steam generators, negotiations were begun with the Province of Alberta which has enormous coal resources, However the best price that could be obtained from Alberta would be not less than the price of U.S.A. coal laid down in Ontario. Alberta will supply Ontario with 3 million tons of coal beginning in 1978. The world price of uranium has increased 4 times over the last few years. Over 80 per cent of Ontario Hydro assets are in debt so with current interest rates being what they are one can imagine the enormous cost of carrying such a debt load. According.) to the Power Cor- poration Act debt retirement, as well as interest payments, are annual requirements. However, Ontario Hydro fell 54 million dollars short of its debt retirement requirements last year. . While the 30.3 per cent increase may seem high - and It is - Ontario just must generate More power, Ontario has had contracts with Quebec to supply power, to Ontario. One contract expires in November of this year and the two others in May of next year, None of these contracts will be renewed by Quebec. If Ontario Hydro can obtain the increased revenue approved by the Ontario Energy Board, plus the loan of 1.5 billion dollars for 1977 it can meet its current repayment and operating obligations as well as help to provide additional sources of power that we hope will equal 6 per cent in annual increased demand. But no doubt should be left in anyone's mind, Power is going to have to be saved either voluntarily or by Government regulation. Ontario's citizens, businesses and industries just have to find ways to control power consumption. As someone has said, "We need not use energy of any kind unwisely because we now have it, anymore than we should grow fat just because abundant food is available." CATTLE SPRAYING SERVICES For Warble and Louse Control on Your Beef or Dairy Herd Call Us Today SPRATEK Enterprises, Mitchell Page 20 f3 a. Drainage tribunal appointed for Ont. ROYAL BANK AWARDS — At the recent Perth 4-H awards night in Kirkton, Dean Elliott, of the-St. Marys branch of the Royal Bank of Canada presented a silver rose bowl and tray to Jane and Bob Simpson. They scored the highest aggregates in the dairy calf club. T-A Photo Information Night International Plowing Match„; • Farm Machinery Show Fri. November 26th, 1976 in Middlesex County Building 8:30 p.m. Speakers E.A. Starr John Stephen Sponsored by the Middlesex Plowmen Association