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Page 22 Times-AavoOte, May 13, 1976 • Summer exchange program
No shortage of farm kind
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exchange, Canada's Provinces
have been paired as follows;
British Columbia - Quebec;
Alberta New Brunswick;
Saskatchewan - Nova Scotia;
Manitoba - Prince Edward
Island; Ontario - Newfoundland.
The participants, who must be
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The exchange plan anticipates
that the incoming delegate will
replace the outgoing delegate in
the home situation. The two
participants will have an overlap
stay period at both ends of the
exchange so that they can meet
each other in their respective
homes.
Anyone interested in learning
more about this exchange should
contact their provincial 4-H
An experimental agricultural
exchange program,designed to
allow young people to experience
farming conditions in other
sections of Canada, has been
developed jointly by John Deere
Limited and' the Canadian
Council on 4-Il Clubs,
The pilot program, called 4-H
Summer Exchange, will be ad-
ministered by 4-H and financed
by Deere..
The objective is to provide a
unique opportunity for a young
person intent on agriculture as a
career to experience food
production in another Province,
It is also felt that the program
will foster a better understanding
of Canada's cultural differences.
It is expected that participants
will exchange homes and home-
farm responsibilities for a
minimum of one month during
the summer of 1976. In addition,
each exchange participant would
have an opportunity to travel
KHIVA PUBLIC SCHOOL, 1940—This photograph was. submitted to the T-A by Carl V. Elliot, RR 2, Inger.
soli. Mr. Elliot was known in this area as Carl Carruthurs but has since been able to get his correct birth cer-
tificate from Ottawa. (See Community Comment on page four). Shown from the left are: Front row: Reta
Houlahan, Grace Pickering, Larry Houlahan, James Pickering and Donald Webb. Second Row: Marie
Clarke, Eugene Houlohan, Paul Webb, Eddie Houlahan, Arthur Davies and Gordon Kenney, Third Row:
Russell Clarke, Audrey Nathan, Dorothy Marriott, Mary Houlahan, and Dorothy Desiardine, Back Row:
Jock Houlahan, Harvey Pickering, Carl Elliot, Audrey Finkbeiner, Margaret Ratz, Elsie Gaiser and Evelyn
Kenney,Several of these students are still residing in this area and the photograph should bring some fond
memories.
Federation comments
on milk production
4. Should step up movement to
single pool.
5. Step up activities directed at
increasing per capita con-
sumption.
Federal responsibility
1. Ease the montly allocation of
annual quota which is un-
necessarily harsh and restric-
tive.
2. Ensure that imported cheese
meets health and sanitation
standards equivalent to domestic
production.
3. Ease pressure on Farm
Credit Corporation payments,
The OFA Executive, in meeting
on Wednesday, May 5, issued the
following statement with regard
to the current milk situation.
"Although the Ontario
Federation of Agriculture is very
concerned with the effects of the
current milk situation on
producers, there is no indication
of a single party responsible,
OFA believes that the Ontario
milk marketing system is one of
the best in the world. Recent
actions by both provincial and
federal governments intended to
reverse the trend of declining
milk production caused over-
reaction by producers. Excep-
tional weather conditions, which
improved fodder quality, further
compounded the problem.
Overproduction must cease,
but producers need a little time to
reduce production or acquire
additional quota,
The following suggestions will
enable producers to more easily
live within the necessary
restrictions without hampering
the necessary cut-back, ac-
cording to the O.F.A.
CLAY
FARM EQUIPMENT
crease from the 1971 figure of
20.5% or 14.5% if you discount
the land that's waiting but not
producing.
In Peel we find that 175,282
acres are being farmed and 37,-
607 acres — or 21.5% as much
again — are available for far-
ming. That gives a total of 212,-
890 acres. In Halton the total
acreage in farms is 137,801 and in
vacant or non-farm land 24,376,
or 17.7% as much again. That
gives a total of 162,177 acres.
Now if we consider Peel-Halton
as a unit, its boundaries would
correspond to those of the coun-
ties used in the last census. And
then we find the biggest acreage
increase that has come to light
so far — 29.1%, smack in the
middle of all the development
we've seen west and northwest
of Metropolitan Toronto. Even if
you count only those acres ac-
tually producing food, you'll
arrive at an increase of 7.8%,
In the Region of York the
acreage in farms is 257,642. The
acreage listed as vacant and non-
farm land is 32,199, or 12.5% as
much again. The total potential
agricultural land is 289,841 acres.
In the Region of Durham the
acreage in farms is 400,157. The
vacant or non-farm land is 80,-
723, or 20.2% as much again. The
total is 480,880 acres.
Surely, as Mr. Newman has so
well stated, "There is no food
land crisis. There never has
been, and there never need be."
With this I would completely
agree, providing the price is
right for farm products there
will not likely ever be any shor-
tage of land on which to grow
those crops suitable to our soil
type and climate. It is only when
prices become so comparatively
low that farmers can't even get
cost of production back that land
will be let go idle,
Let's hope Ontario consumers
are willing to pay the farmer a
sufficiently attractive price that
farm land will be kept in produc-
tion and young farm people will
be encouraged to stay on the
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Sweet Corn Club
By BILL STEWART
Denfield
There have been few, if any,
subjects that have generated as
much public controversy for so
little reason than has the myth
that Ontario is running out of
arable land at such a supposedly
alarming rate that Ontario
farmers will have no place left to
produce food.
Nothing could be further from
the truth. There may be some
useful functions that economists
and statisticians perform. There
are many who doubt that very
much. However, when so-called
agricultural economists pon-
tificate that 26 acres an hour was
lost to Ontario food production
between the years 1966 and 1971,
then those same economists
should have been responsible
enough to advise the people,
whom they chose to alarm, of the
true facts of the situation re
agricultural prices in that 5-year
period.
The "26 acre an hour lost"
figure was obtained by taking the
census figures of 1966 of im-
proved farm land in Ontario in
use, then deducting the com-
parable figures of 1971 and
dividing the result by the number
of hours in the 5-year period, It
should be explained that the
figures were obtained on a ran-
dom sample of 1 farmer in 10 be-
ing required to fill out the detail-
ed census form. And for purposes
of the census a farmer is a per-
son who has sold $50 from a
holding of at least 1 acre of land.
Hardly consistent with most
people's idea of a producing
farm!
But the academic economists
didn't tell people where the land
had gone, I asked the questions,
while in the Minister's office, if
the land were covered with
buildings, or roads, or sub-
divisions, or held by urbanites
who just wanted a place to live in
the country while commuting to
urban employment, or was it let
go out of production because
farm prices for grain and
produce were so low that
farmers were taking off-farm
jobs in order to keep food on
their own tables and clothes on
their families' backs.
I got no answers — the
economists didn't know. I
suggest that, if they didn't know,
they had no business to generate
alarm by making such an
irresponsible statement.
Surely those same economists
were aware that the Federal
Minister of Agriculture, with the
complete support of the Ontario
Minister of Agriculture and
Provincial Government
responsibility
1. Ensure that producers who
are trying to do a good job are not
harassed by creditors.
2. Make forgivable portion of
IMPIP loan available in 1976.
Food, introduced the LIFT
program (Lower Inventories For
Tomorrow) during that 5-year
period because there was such
mountains of unsold surplus
grain piled on the Western
Prairies that farmers were being
paid to take land out of grain
production. They should surely
have remembered hogs selling at
$19.50 cwt. and eggs selling at 3
and 4 doz. for $1.00 in Ontario,
It wasn't much wonder that
farmers were letting land lie idle
in 1971 — or selling it whenever
they could find an urbanite ready
to take it off their hands, Not
many farmers were buying land
to farm in those days of depress-
ed grain markets.
However, the short grain crop
in Russia in 1972 and the scarcity
of fish meal protein in world
markets of that same year
generated the greatest buying
spree of grain and soybeans the
world had likely ever seen up to
that time. Surpluses disappeared
in a matter of months. Grain
prices, and soybean prices,
skyrocketed to their highest
levels in memory.
What really happened recently
was that thousands of acres of
land which previously had been
taken out of production came
back into production when prices
made it attractive to again
cultivate the land,
Shortly after assuming office
my successor, the Hon. William
Newman, Ontario Minister of
Agriculture and Food, establish-
ed a committee to work with
provincial assessors who keep an
eye on farms to record any
change in use for tax purposes.
The assessment rolls were com-
puterized this spring on three
counties and four regions as of
this year.
Starting with Huron, which is
basically a stable agricultural
county, the print-out shows that
768,445 acres are being farmed
and another 5,663 acres haven't
been farmed for two years, but
could be. That adds up to 774,108
acres of producing or potential
agricultural land — or 4.2% more
than was listed in the 1971 cen-
sus. Even if you count only the
acres now being farmed, you get
a 3.4% increase.
In Essex County in South-
Western Ontario, where there
have been definite urban
pressures on the market garden
producers and greenhouse
operators, we find 355,502 acres
used for agriculture and 4,966
more that could be, for a total of
360,468 acres. That is 2.1% more
than the 1971 census showed, or
0.65% if you count only the acres
that are producing foe'
The third county which a
print-out is currently available is
Dundas, which is pretty
representative of Eastern On-
tario. There we find 216,625 acres
being farmed and 11,379
available, for a total of 228,004
acres of potential agricultural
land. That represents an in-
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The first meeting of the Exeter
4-11 Sweet Corn Club was held
April 14 at Canadian Canners in
Exeter.
The leaders are Albert Van
Dyken and Bob Simpson. There
was election of officers and the
executive is as follows:
President, Rob Stewart; Vice-
President, Doug Easton;
Secretary, Carol Dougall; Press
Reporter, Murray Stewart;
Youth Council Representative,
Janet Pryde.
• A demonstration committee
was chosen to be responsible for
making a demonstration for
Exam Night. Several topics were
discussed for the coming year
and our corn contracts were
signed. The meeting was ad-
journed by Rob Stewart.
Ontario Milk Marketing Board
responsibility
J. Ensure monthly allocation of
annual quota is eased.
2. Move quickly to free up
additional quota such as tem-
porary incentive for early
retirement of can shippers,
3. Take over complete ad-
ministration of quota transfers.
Give special consideration to
provide quota to those producers
in greatest need, such as new
producers and producers who
recently increased production.
Should financequota sale to those
producers who require it. Wettable
powder herbicide Charolais production
changes farming pattern
•
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For
Pre-emergent
weed control in
soybeans, field beans
(white and kidney)
snap and
lima beans.
We would be pleased to have you
stop in for a visit to see and "talk"
Charolais.
Our farm is 3 miles west of Aylmer
on #3, 1/2 mile north.
Verdun Charolais Farm
Aylmer 773-8078 (Evenings,)
"You will be most welcome" Why spray for weeds you
don't have? If you don't have
velvetleaf, cocklebur,
thistle, yellow nutsedge or
bindweed, but you do have
troublesome grass
problems like crabgrass,
green foxtall, witchgrass,
and weeds like lamb's-
quarters, black nightshade,
pigweed or ragweed, then
Patoran IS your most
efficient and most
economical weapon against
weeds.
economically produce beef.
Rapid growth rate is synonymous
with the breed justifying and
demand for Charolais cross
calves by feedlots. Economic
beef production has been one of
the most sought after attributes
of the beef illustrating the respect
and demand shown by com-
mercial cattlemen, feedlot
owners and packers.
The cattle industry has sur-
vived many trials and
tribulations. With the onset of
many new management
techniques and many new breeds
of cattle, the Canadian industry
will surely put itself on the right
track to improve the quality of
our herds and the overall
production of livestock and
ultimately beef production of
cattle and ultimately in placing
the superior product in front of
the consumer. The introduction
of Charolais brought about new
ways of thinking and new ways of
beef production. These ways
have hopefully brought the in-
dustry to a realization that we
can never be satisfied with our
present situation and must
always strive and look for new
challenges within our industry,
In 1953, Wayne Malmberg of
Coaldale, Alberta recorded the
first Charolais animal in Canada.
From this beginning, the pattern
of the Canadian cattle industry
would never be the same. Since
that beginning, some 23 years
ago, many changes have oc-
curred within the Canadian in-
dustry which can be directly or
indirectly related to the in-
troduction of Charolais and other
new breeds of cattle to Canada.
Mr. Malmberg and others just
like him were pioneers in the
livestock production, for it was
they who saw the future needs of
the industry and it was they who
realized what had to he done to
improve the Canadian herd of
cattle.
Charolais were not new to
North America for they had been
brought into Northern Mexico in
the early 1930's, with the famous
PUG1BET herd being
established. Charolais were
taken into the United States and
finally arrived in Canada. France
is the native country for the breed
and records go back to 850 A.D.
Charolais are strictly a beef breed
of cattle and are greatly known
for their ability to quickly and
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