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Home My WebLink AboutTimes-Advocate, 1979-03-21, Page 16Times-Advocate. March 21. 1979 CO-OP INFORMATION — The annual Spring Information meeting of the Exeter and district Co-Operative was held Thursday at the Exeter Legion Hall. Above, director Gerald McBride chats with manager Derwood Braithwaite, farmer Doug McBride and Co-Op representative Jim Hodgins. T-A photo Interim payment for white beans expected by April 17 ATTENTION FARMERS Liquid Manure Tanks Ay*Any Size with or without lid. We do the excavation, pour the cement and back fill. One complete job. X promising1 price prospects on soybeans and corn. He warned that no grower should plant too many white beans in any year because white beans are a high risk crop. Cardiff rotates bean, corn and barley seed crops and this year hopes- to plant about*275 acres of beans, 200 acres of barley and 400 acres of com. Ontario white bean growers will get a $2.95-a- hundredweight interim pay ment April 17 on their 1978 crop, the new chairman, of the Ontario Bean Growers’s Marketing Board said this week. “When the final payment is made this fall I expect farmers will have been paid about $15 and change per hundredweight on last year’s crop," Murray Car diff said. By this week the board has sold 1,208,761 bags (100 pounds each) from an es timated crop of 1.6 million bags, he said. Top seed from the 1978 crop this year will cost producers $29 a bag. After just three years as a director of the board, the 44- year-old Brussels area cash crop and hog farmer was selected chairman this year, a job he admits won’t be easy because of two successive bad bean years. In 1977 the crop was virtual ly wiped out by rain, and in 1978 yields suffered somewhat because of dry weather. And he said the board has been subject to some criticism, particularly because of the devastated 1977 crop. “But I would like to see farmers set 1977 aside in their minds and carry on,” Cardiff said. “We have to get back to a normal way of doing business.” He said board manager Charles Broadwell has been wrongfully criticized. “I have no reservations at all about our manager. If he didn’t have the confidence of •}• Order FURADAN now from: COOKS DIVISION OF GERBRO CORP. Kirkton 229-8986 Centralia 228-6^61 ' 79315C-9 Hensail 262-2410 The carbamate line that scores on corn rootworms while organophosphates rest. University researchers have found the best way to keep rootworms from building up resistance is to alternate carbamate and organophosphate insecticides each year. FURADAN 10 Granular is the tough carbamate rootworm insecticide you can count on. It has contact activity to check early rootworms; protect feeder roots needed for fast, vigorous early growth. It has systemic endurance to whip later rootworms that attack brace roots; helps stalks remain upright so you can harvest bigger yields. And the hard purple granules won’t bridge or cake in the applicator. FURADAN is a Reg TM of FMC Corp the board, he just wouldn’t be there.” In hisjirst term as chair man of the board, Cardiff said he wants to do all he can to'increase Canadian de mand for white beans which continues to fall and now stands at about two pounds per capita a year. “In Britain, our major ex port market, people eat four ounces of beans a week, so you can see we have a lot of selling to do to the Canadian consumer.” The board has initiated an $80,000 promotion to sell the fast-food chains and in stitutions on increasing their use of beans in prepared food, but for the time being it has decided against direct consumer promotion because of the cost, Cardiff said. Despite disruptions in Bri tain by strikes and cut throat competition among bean canners, Cardiff said consumption has remained surprisingly constant. He added, however, that the board will have to make ef forts to ensure that the British market doesn’t diminish. Cardiff said the board prediction that acreages this year could drop between*'15 and 25 per cent doesn’t necessarily mean there will be much of a drop in the number of producers. There is always about a 15 per cent “annual rollover” of the 3,- 200 growers, he added. Anticipated acreage cuts this year will be due in part to farmer reaction to two successive poor years, but Cardiff said some will be lured away because of For free estimates in Ontario. Call 296-4218 Collect T.W. Van Bree & Sons Ltd R.R. 3, THEDFORD J SAVE *200 TO *1500 off the price of any new A.C. tractor Tractors and implements sold with tractors interest free to June 1, 1979. Program ends March 31, 1979 f Saintsbury By MRS. HEBER DAVIS The congregation of St. Patrick’s church held a St. Patrick’s euchre Friday evening in the parish hall with 17 tables playing. Ladies high prize was won by Mrs. Frank Hicks, Centralia; lone hands, Mrs. Jack Essery, Centralia; low score, Miss Helen Herbert, Granton; mens high, Mrs. Arthur Abbott (playing a mans card); lone hands, Wayne Caroil; low score, Clifford Abbott, Lucan. Gote Wennerstrom held the lucky ticket on the angel food cake drawn by Robt. Tindall. The next euchre is planned for March 30. Lunch was provided. Mr. Ken/( Eaton has returned to his home from St. Joseph’s hospital following surgery. Miss Nancy Tindall is visiting friends at Wiarton. Mr. & Mrs. Harry Carroll returned home Friday af ternoon. They spent the past week with Harry’s brother and sister-in-law Mr. & Mrs'. George Carroll, Detroit. Mr. & Mrs. Heber Davis and Wes Heywood were Tuesday guests with Mr. & Mrs. Earl Greenlee. 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