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EASTER SURPRISE — Rabbits are associated with Easter but Sunday morning the children of Mr. and
Mrs. Bev Hamilton of Usborne township were thrilled with the arrival of twin calves. Shown with the double
visitors are Gordie and Dianne Hamilton. T-A photo
Huron F of A hears speaker
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Farmers soon won't have to
worry about how many pounds
per acre of fertilizer they shoud
apply it will be kilograms per
hectare.
Fertilizer companies will begin
switching over to the metric
system this summer and fer-
tilizer application recom-
mendations will be given in
metric, Ed Brulbaker of the
University of Guelph told
members of the Huron
Federation of Agriculture
Thursday night.
Three of the major farm
machinery companies—Massey
Ferguson, John Deere and
International—are designing
almost entirely in metric now,
Mr. Brulbaker said.
The directors for the
municipalities in South Huron are
as follows : Hay — Glenn and Lois
Hayter, Stanley — Paul and
Kathy Steckle; Stephen, Jim and
Nancy Morlock; Tuckersmith,
Elgin and Grace Thompson;
Usborne, Bob and Pat Down;
Exeter, George and Lee Dobbs;
Bayfield, Viola Haines; Hensall,
Doug and Karen Shirray;
Zurich, Ron and Marilyn
Heimrich.
Farm deeds which are
presently based on the English.
measurement system would not
have to be surveyed, Mr.
Brulbaker said. But anything
that is resurveyed will bedoneln
metric.
Bags of 100 pound cencentrate
will be changed to 40 kilogram
bags which is about 88 pounds.
Fertilizer will be packaged in 25
kilogram bags or about 55 pounds.
"The problem is that they are
dragging out the change. If
Monday they said we are going
completely metric, we'd struggle
for a week, but we'd soon know
what it' meant," Mr. Brulbaker
said.
"No we wouldn', quipped one
farmer. "We'd take up arms and
overthrow the government.
farmstead, rural dwelling, urban
development and grounds im-
provement, farmstead already
improved and entrance im-
proved.
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"It is an emotional thing. None
of us like to change, but in many
ways we are going from a com-
plex system to a simple system,"
he said.
Mr. Brulbaker said the easiest
way to learn the metric system
was to start to use it without
referring back to the old system.
"The best thing for us to do would
be to throw our Fahrenheit
thermometers away," he said.
Bev Brown questioned the
advantage of switching tern- •
perature scales when the
variation of one degree Celsius
was less accurate and could be
critical in a pig operation.
"The best thing would be to get
a thermometer measured in half
degrees," Mr. Brulbaker told
her.
The officers and directors of
the farmstead and home im-
provement competition in con-
junction with the 1978 Inter-
national Plowing Match have
been named.
Clen and Sharon Miller, RR 3
Parkhill, will act as chairman,
while the vice-chairman will be
Doug and Gerry Fortune, RR 1
Wingham. Jim and Nancy
Morlock, RR 2 Crediton will be
secretary-treasurer and the
publicity director is Muriel
Coultes, RR 5 Brussels.
There will be five areas of
competition, involving both
rural and urban properties.
These are: farm home and
Agriculture and Food Minister
William G. Newman has released
a report on financial protection
for agricultural producers in
cases where buyers go bankrupt
before payment is made. The
report was prepared by the
Financial Protection Task Force,
established by Mr. Newman in
1976 to make a systematic review
of the effects of such bankrupt-
cies.
The task force recommends
that all those who buy from
agricultural producers be
licensed and that prompt
payment procedures be im-.
plemented for all commodities.
Where necessary, the task force
recommends a fund be
established for individual
commodities under The Farm
Products Payment Act.
The report says that Ontario
producers lose a total of only
$135,000 ayear as a result of buyer
bankruptcies.
"Of course, this is no comfort to
the individual who suffers and it
should be the aim of everyone
involved in agriculture to prevent
even this loss," Mr. Newman
said, "I hope commodity groups
will consider this report very
carefully and give me their
comments as to how they believe
their situations could be im-
proved."
Mr. Newman said he and his
staff will review the recom-
mendations in detail, giving
particular attention to those
requiring changes in legislation.
Task force members were
Morris Huff, chairman, Hubert
McGill, Richard Heard and Dr.
J.A. Meiser, all of the Ministry of
Agriculture and Food; Marshall
Dawson, Ministry of Consumer
and Commercial Relations;
Hugh Baird, dairy farmer; Sam
Piott, Ontario Tender Fruit
Growers' Marketing Board; and
Charles Gracey, Canadian
Cattlemen's Association.
Copies of the report are
available at no charge from the