The Brussels Post, 1975-01-22, Page 12Brussels
Stockyard
Report
The market at Brussels
Stockyards Friday was. 4u11 with
all classes of cattle trading lower.
Most cattle were laid4110
and condition. There wereiVei'y
few choice cattle on offer. IVfost
the steers were short-keep or
feeders.
Good Steers - 44.00 to 46.00.
Medium Steers - 40.00 to
43.00,
Nine steers consigned by Andy
Oehring of Chepstowe, averaging
1250 lbs. sold for 45.85.
Twelve steers consigned by
Robert Wheeler of Brussels,
averaging 1048 lbs. sold for
45.35,
Good Heifers - 38.00 to 40.00
with sales to 40.75.
Meditof1 .Heifers - 3.5.0p to
,40*)*(grp0/4.410 ,,b„
a and kraSt.els,
,
averaging 881 for 4 .175,
with his offering of 44 heifers
averaging 901 lbs. selling for an
overall price of 40.20.
Fifteen heifers consigned by
Clarence McCutcheon, of
Brussels, averaging 845 lbs. sold
for 40.00.
Choice Cows - 19.00 to 21.00
with sales to 21.75.
Good Cows - 17.00 to 19.00.
Several lots of choice ranch
steers and heifers are arriving
daily.
We often hear people talk in
connection with food shortages in.
India that we shouldn't help them
until they take care of their
Useless holy cows and of limiting
their large families. Before, we
yre shotili14,; $irst.
WO; 4.1001iOt;(4.ttwt4 holy
1).047iie. Oh.
holy cows? After this we compare
family planning. In their eyes
religious objections to birth
control may be completely silly.
Let's go back somewhat less
than A,centuv in our country and
FV1:•P
.
olc}geit'Se'COtitY and, no even
lidrne fa the elderly, what Must
one do? ZThere. must ,be enough
children to take care of them, for
they are in fact the old age
pension of the parents. So in
order not to starve when one gets
old, a large family is a necessity.
Most times it has to be large
because of the high death rate
among the very y oung. Old age
security is a must before parents
can begin limiting their families,
and this social Security can. only
be achieved when a country is
wealthy enough, to pay for it,
**1
At the Farmers Week in
.:".4.,/411mt:toia,, • last .
AStiP0.•
'
ineurred .41)y tide truce lwiitcl at+'
Detelopment , the county Woilld
have to attract ,more secondary
industry after the peak
employment period of the
construction phase. It appears
that Bruce county is now in a
vicious circle of more industry,
more cost and yet more industry.
Before long they will be paying
taxes comparable with Toronto,
all. in the name of what some call
"progress".
Agri-notes
(By Adrian Vos) •
How many of us Who, arc',
from European extraction 'wilt eat
eels or how many 'of, any
background will eat snakes. Not
many, but they are an excellent
source of protein and very tasty.
How many of us would eat
dogmeat. 14 is an excellent food,
but we prefer to keep them as
pets and when we are tired of
them we send them to the _
humane society for destruction. Is
there any difference with India's
D
TI IATS
THE
NEWS
FOR
TONIGHT.
Grant to
Wroxeter
approved
A provincial grant of $21,000
. to the Maitland Valley Conser-
vation Authority for the Wroxeter
Conservation Area has been
approved according- to the
Minister of Natural Resources.
The area comprises 2.21 acres
of land in the-police Village of
Wroxeter, Township of Howick,
on which is located buildings that
serve as the Authority offices and
workshop.
Reassessment was required
due to rapidly rising costs
involved in capital development
of the area including renovations
to the headquarters building,
improvements to the workshop,
further planting in the
demonstration arboretum,
fencing to protect the property
from showmobiles, improvements
to the service road and parking
area and other general
development work.
An additional grant of
$11,100.00 has been provided.
The Authority has an ongoing
program of acquiring lands on
Sharp Creek and its head waters
in the Saratoga Swamp for the
purposes of maintaining water
storage, wildlife habitat, fisheries
values and groundwater supplies
in the area.
The Authority now proposes to
acquire a 100-acre parcel of land
in the Township of Colborne for
the establishment of the Sharp's
Creek Wildlife Preserve. There
are no buildings on the site.
Sharp Creek crosses the property
at the south-east corner. The land
:is low and swampy at the south
i 'boundary rising slightly to the
north. While the property is
(densely wooded, the timber has
Ino marketable value at the i present time.
i Ali member municipalities will
icost.
If your heart
can't do the job
who fills in
for it?
bear the Authority's share of the
Television and radio miss a lot of local
news reporting, compared to newspapers.
Your local newspaper's prime reason for
being is to present the news with strong
emphasis on local news..
Newspapers are local. Your local news-
paper is' the news source with maximum
local identification and maximum cover-
age.
If you were somewhere else last night and
missed the news on television—tough
luck! As you know, it's not replayed for
late arrivals.
More than any other news medium, the
local newspaper is identified with your
community and is relied upon by almost
every family in your town.
If you missed the local news on television
or radio last night, this newspaper gives
you an in-depth report on what's happen-
ing, And, take your time; we wouldn't
want you to miss anything.
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Newspapers deliver the total story.
CANADIAN COMMUNITY
NEWSPAPERS ASSOCIATION' orikEtt.Nti.N6 THEl COMMUNITY PRESS OF CANADA
JANUARY '1976
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