HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1976-03-04, Page 11Sound Management
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the churches, sponsored a film, "Gospel Road", Friday night at SHDHS. The film, produced by Johnny Cash,
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Cudmore and chairman Neil Gingerich, The men have also handed out over 13,000 Scriptural billfold calen-
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harder when freezing large
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of the frozen Nod is lowered since
it takes longer to freeze.
For best utilization of the
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quarters full. Operating a freezer
with only a few items in it adds
immensely to the cost of that
food.
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Times-Advocate, March 4,1974 .Page
Save Energy in
Everyday Activities
Recently I was asked by an
urban High School student if I
could provide information that
might be useful as background
material for an essay on On-
tario's dairy farming. The sub-
ject content was supposed to in-
clude breeds of dairy cattle,
breeding and feeding of dairy
cattle, and housing for dairy cat-
tle.
It was a pleasure to'obtain in-
formation that could be useful as
background reading material for
such a project. However I men-
tioned to the student that in the
many visits it had been my
privilege to make to various
types of farms, sound farm
management appeared to be the
most important aspect of the
operation. It was suggested that
regardless of the improvements
made in all of the points to be in-
cluded in the essay, unless astute
management of all aspects was
made by the dairy farm
operator, the results could he
less than desirable,
The same philosophy of good
management could apply to any
type ,of farm. Some suggest
bigness is the answer. Unfor-
tunately many of us have seen
farm business failures occur
because "bigness came before
better". It is amazing what can
be done with the top six inches of
most farms if appropriate effort
is made to determine the soil's
potential. It isn't often one
observes a successful farm
operation where good crops are
not the prime objective. Soil
testing can be a help. There are
some farmers who are reported
to use far more fertilizer than
may be required. But they may
have heard of someone who has
used the appropriate amount for
his particular soil and had a
resulting good crop. So if that
amount of fertilizer could
produce that quality and quantity
of crop an extra few hundred
pounds per acre would produce
an even better crop for them.
But such a theory fails to take
into account drainage, humus in
the soil, previous crops, heat un-
its in the area, weed control and
type of cultivation, etc. It is the
wise farm manager who tests his
soil first, and then, taking other
things into consideration, makes
his decision on type of crop and
quantity of fertilizer to he used.
It has often occurred to me in
the past that to many of us
farmers have not taken suf-
ficient care of livestock and
poultry manure nor have we used
it as effectively for crop produc-
tion as we might have. There are
some farmers who have manag-
ed to achieve excellent crop
production through sound crop-
ping practices, and the wise use
of livestock and/or poultry
manure, without using commer-
cial fertilizers, In today's high
cost economy no farmer can af-
ford to guess at what his soil re-
quirements are. Soil testing is
done free at the OAC for any On-
tario farmer. See or call your
local Agricultural Represen-
tative for details.
Perhaps farm tile drainage
where necessary — and most
farms require some tile drainage
— pays for itself faster in im-
proved crop yields and satisfac-
tion in planting and harvesting
than any other investment a
farmer can make. Over the
years Ontario Ministry of Agri-
culture and Food agricultural
engineers, agricultural represen-
tatives and farm management
specialists have been urging
farmers to make better use of
the various grants and subsidies
available to them to improve
farm land drainage.
Grants of one-third the cost
are available for Municipal
Drains — those being drains in-
volving more than one property
owner and which can involve one
or more municipalities. Then in
most municipalities the Tile
Drainage Act provides for the
local municipality to issue
debentures to farmers wishing to
tile drain their farms. The
debentures are bought by the
Province of Ontario who only
charges the farmer 4% interest
on the amount involved. The
Province pays the difference
between the 4% rate and the cost
of interest on the Debenture.
This program has been a real
boon to farmers who have used it
in the past. I hope the current
budgetary constraints on all
Ministries of the Ontario
Government will not adversely
affect this program.
If the public really want in-
creased food production there is
no way to increase it faster on in-
dividual farms than through well
planned tile drainage systems.
Annual meetings of farm
organizations, at local, county
and provincial level, have been
taking place over the last several
weeks. It is good to know many
farmers attend such meetings.
There is usually something
worthwhile to he heard and
learned. And as has been so well
said on many occasions, unless
farmers look after their own
business no one else is going to
do it for them.
That is why it is good to see ac-
tive farm people take the time to
involve themselves in matters of
concern to them and their fellow
farm people. We have such a
wonderful country with oppor-
tunities to use our resources
wisely and well. Too often too
many of us just exploit those
resources without realizing the
necessity of renewing valuablle
renewable resources such as the
quality of our soil, Surely it
should be every farmer's ambi-
tion to leave his farm in better
shape than when he took it over.
The same applies to the Com-
modity groups, the Soil and Crop
Improvement Association, the
Federation of Agriculture, the
Junior Farmers or the Women's
Institute — the list could go on
and on. But the important thing
about them all is that someone
cares.
As soon as responsible people
opt out of community matters,
providing health and family cir-
cumstances do not dictate
otherwise, those people sort of
telegraph to everyone they really
don't care much about what
happens outside their own im-
mediate interest. That's why it is
so encouraging to see active, in-
terested, intelligent people com-
ing forward to assume responsi-
ble positions in Ontario's farm
organizations and agri-business.
It should also be encouraging
to Ontario's nearly eight million
consumers to know that farming
in Ontario is alive, well and
flourishing, and mostly in the
hands of farmers who do care.
But if it is to stay that way, and
good productive farm land is to
be kept in production while being
constantly nurtured and im-
proved, the farmer is going to
have to receive prices for his
commodities that will allow him,
as a sound business-man, to pay
Solar Energy
Solar Energy on the farm may
be a future source of economical
power to dry grain, writes Basil
Jackson of The Financial Post,
The savings in the consumption
of fuel oil and electricity could be
substantial — the Canadian
agricultural industry (including
manufacturers of artificial
fertilizers) consumes 12 percent -
15 percent of all energy used in
Canada. Farmer George
Rauenhorst, at his farm near
Olivia, Minnesota, uses his barn
roof as a solar-heat collector.
Fans and ducts blow the warm
air over the grain, to dry it.
his bills, meet his living ex-
penses the-same as anyone else,
and set something aside for those
inevitable times when just about
the time he thinks ends are going
to meet, somebody or something
moves an end!
With the cost of energy con-
stantly rising, food specialists at
the Ministry of Agriculture and
Food suggest that in the future
consumers will increasingly
concentrate their efforts towards
conserving energy in their
everyday household activities. In
the kitchen alone, there are many
routine occurrences that can be
curbed to cut the use of energy.
For example, every time the
refrigerator or freezer door is
opened, additional energy is
burned. The cold air lost from
inside these appliances must be
made up in order that the proper
temperature is maintained,
Thus, the mechanisms are forced
to use more energy, Avoid
opening the fridge and freezer
unnecessarily and above all,
don't leave the door open while
you decide what you are going to
take out for dinner.
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