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One wonders how the Royal
Agricultural Winter Fair can
continue to exbeed itself in ex-
cellence year after year, But
such is the case. Although the
1976 gate attendance was about
on a par with other years the
Horse Show was a sellout every
night.
Mr. Reford Gardhouse, an out-
standing Halton County farmer
in his own right and one of North
America's greatest Shorthorn
breeders, in his Presidential
remarks in opening the presenta-
tion ceremonies of the Field
Crop Trophy Awards seemed to
sum up in a few words why Cana-
dian Agriculture has achieved
the degree of excellence it has.
He said, and I quote, "that the
farming population of Canada
has dropped from 40 per cent to 5
per cent since the Royal
Agricultural Winter Fair was
founded in 1922. But because
Canadian farmers have used the
best quality and varieties of seed
available and knew how to use
the top -6 inches of Canada's
agricultural land we have
achieved success in food produc-
tion that is the envy of most
other countries, That is why the
World Seed Championship
Awards is on of the Royal Winter
Fair."
Mr. Russel Bolton, of Seaforth
won the World Hay Cham-
pionship for the 5th consecutive
year, a great honour and a
achievement. Mr. and Mrs.
Alphonse Godelie, of Delhi, won
the World's Championship in
flue-cured tobacco for the 2nd
year in a row. Several other
awards went to Ontario growers,
the rest going to Prince Edward
Island, Western Canada, the
U.S.A. and for the 7th con-
secutive year the Barley Cham-
pionship was won by Mr. Alex
Blackall, of Aberdeenshire,
Scotland,
The Hon. E. Whelan, Federal
Minister of Agriculture, was the
guest speaker for the presenta-
tion of the World Awards. He
said winning a World Cham-
pionship in seeds or crops was
equivalent to winning a gold
medal at the Olympic Games.
Indeed he felt it was even more
important to excel in food
production than in athletics,
although both were important,
The Federal Minister said that
Canadian farmers were produc-
ing enough surplus food to feed
our own population plus another'
100 million people, pointing out
that with 2 million acres less
planted to wheat in 1976 than in
1975 Canadian farmers produced
6 million more bushels of wheat.
The Federal Minister stated that,
with price incentives Canadian
farmers could increase food
production by another 50 per cent
using as illustrations the effect
on production that strong prices
a few years ago had on beef
production, more recently on hog
production, and of course on
wheat and corn production.
Unfortunately due to over-
production, prices for hogs have
dropped about 33 per cent in the
last few months while beef is at
such disastrously low prices to
producers of beef calves that
thousands of young breeding
cows are being sent to slaughter
particularly in Western Cnada,
One wonders if we'll see a repeat
in beef prices of what happened
to hog prices over the last 3
years as a result of the low hog
prices of the early '70s that led to
a wholesale reduction in the the
Canadian and U.S.A. sow herds
in the early '70s.
The Royal Winter Fair crops,
section featured the CORN crop
this year. The Kellogg Corn
Flakes Co., the St. Lawrence
Starch Co„ and Seagrams Ltd.
Distillers, along with other users
of corn, such as in animal and
poultry feeds, put on an excellent
display to draw attention to the
many uses that can be made of
both the whole plant and par-
ticularly grain corn.
The Ontario Ministry of
Agriculture and Food presented
an excellent 10 minute film on
modern corn technology and
uses, again drawing attention to
the versatility of the crop for
human and animal food.
For anyone interested in early
machinery used for handling the
corn crop there was an excellent
display of pioneer hand planters,
mechanical planters, a corn
binder, a husker, and several
hand-cranked cutting boxes to
chop the stalks for cattle feed.
Anyone who nostalgically longs
for the so-called good old days
can have them, No wonder we've
had a 35 per cent drop in
numbers of farmers in Canada
since the early '20s. My guess is
there would be even fewer
farmers had there not been such
a trend to mechanization over
the last few years.
Personally I would like to see
more farm equipment displayed.
Perhaps there just isn't room.
Certainly all space seems to bek
at a premium. And perhaps since
there are so many urban people
and school children by the hun-
dreds attending, they might not
be as interested in farm crops,
livestock and poultry handling
equipment as those who attend
the International Plowing Match
or the Winter Farm Machinery
Show, either in Toronto or at the
Western Fair Farm Show in Lon-
don.
There were over 350 entries
(the largest ever) in the Queen's
Guineas 4-I-I steer classes. Both
the Grand Champion and reserve
came from Wellington County:
Dominion Stores bought the
Grand Champion an Angus at
$5 per lb. and they also bought
the reserve at $1 per lb. The
other steers sold in the 50 cents
to 60 cents range, which con-
sidering the low price of market
cattle with today's high cost of
production seemed to be about as
much as one could reasonably
expect to receive.
Every 4-H Agricultural Club
member who brought out a steer
is to be congratulated on the
quality and the showmanship of
their individual exhibit. As the
lion. William Newman, Ontario
Minister of Agriculture, so well
said in presenting the Queen's
Guineas there wouldn't be such a
show without .the interest of
parents, club leaders and par-
ticularly young people anxious to
learn and develop new skills, Mr.
John Willmott, a former 4-H
Halton County Club member and
Queen's Guineas exhibitor, now
a purebred Angus breeder of
Pense, Sask., did an excellent job
of judging the enormous number
of Queen's Guineas entries and
made most appropriate remarks
concerning the educational value
of 4-H work, before choosing the
champion.
Brian McComb of Elginfield. in
Middlesex County, had the
reserve champion Charolais steer
in the Guineas competition. With
entries from every county in
South-Western Ontario it isn't
much wonder the Queen's
Guiheas show attracts the
largest ringside in the Coliseum'
of any of the livestock shows.
Several organized bus tours
are planned each year to the
Royal from various parts of On-
tario. That seems like a good
way to get there, while avoiding
Toronto traffic and parking
problems. In any event it's a
privilege and an honour to have
the window of Canadian
Agriculture right here in Ontario
within driving distance. "
It's time well spent just to see
the magnificent flower show,
which this year featured mums
of all colours, cyclamen,
anthuriums, carnations, poinset-
tias and many others.
Bill $tewartis . . Down to Earth
Royal Winter Fair continues to exceed itself
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