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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1975-04-23, Page 10JOHN'S AGRO SERVICE Custom Ploughing & Discing ALL TYPES OF CUSTOM WORK Phone 887-6542 Brussels Iv,„41 47•8. CO1:NG Ifs time to order your Seed Grain Grass Seed and Fertilizer Requirements Flax seed also available We offer custom SEED CLEANING For fuir.their information contact TOPNOTCH FEEDS LIMITED Brussels 887-6011 • Loan increase is good news corpgrations and co-operatives would be limited to $100,000. The amendment also would extend loans to persons about to get into farming. Mortgage loans now are restricted under the existing act to full-time farmers, The bill now needs only Senate approval and routine royal assent to become law. A heavy supply of cattle at Brussels Stockyards Friday sold actively. All classes of fat cattle were higher with cows selling lower. Choice Steers - 40.00 to 42.00 with sales to 42.75. Good Steers - 38.00 to 40.00. A steer consigned by Alex Strauss of St. Agatha weighing 1150 lbs. sold for 42.75 with his offering of 32 steers averaging, 1107 lbs. selling for 42.15. • A steer consigned by Larry; Howett of Londesboro weighing ; 1190 lbs. sold for 42.00. A steer consigned by George Dickson of RR 1 Clifford, weigh- ing 1140 lbs. sold for 42.00. Three steers consigned by Lorne Kieswetter of RR 1 Mild- . may averaging 1116 lbs. sold for 41.85. Sixteen steers consigned by K and L Farms of Ethel,- averaging 1151 lbs. sold for 41,80. Ten steers consigned by Jim flowatt of Londesboro averaging 988 lbs. sold for 41.85. A steer consigned by Hilray Farms Ltd. of Holyrood, weighing 1130 lbs. sold for 41.75 with their four Holstein-Hereford steers averaging 1302 lbs. selling for 40.80. Eight steers consigned by Ron Kaufman of RR 1 Clifford, averaging 1155 lbs. sold for • 41.75. Agricultural schools ask for rescue money Canada's 11 university faculties of agriculture and veterinary medicine say they are starved for public funds. In a statement issued in co-operation with the Science Council of Canada, the faculties r told the federal and provincial I governthents they urgently need more money to allow them to do - their jobs properly. 1 Michael Shaw, dean of the I I University of British Columbia's . faculty of agricultural sciences, I said last week in a news release accompanying the statement that the situation is scandalous, The faculties have asked 11 . 'federal Agriculture Minister (Eugene Whelan for $2 million in rescue money" to cover' . ['research programs that must be undertaken now, he said. IWOZWi.v.:2WWWZMWW.:::fteMagi Si :1$ Wants What You Don't Need! Fourteen steers consigned by Wm.. Bennett and Sons of Gorrie, averaging 1064 lbs. sold for 41.70. Choice Heifers - 37.00 to 39.00 with sales to 39.25. Good Heifers - 35.00 to 37.00.t. Two heifers consigned by William Rintoul of Wingham, averaging 920 lbs. sold for 39.25. Fifteen heifers consigned by Stuart Strong of Gorrie, averag- ing 925 lbs. sold for 38.85 with his offering of 32 heifers averaging 893 lbs. sold for 38.65. Five heifers consigned by Murray Mulvey of RR 1 Clifford, averaging 904 lbs. sold for 38.60. A heifer consigned by Graeme Craig of Walton weighing 990 lbs. sold for 38.50. A heifer consigned by Ray l)olmage of Londesboro weighing 780 lbs. sold for 38.00. ' A Holstein-Hereford Crossbred heifer weighing 1000 lbs. ....onsigned by Walter Oster of 3lyth, sold for 38.50. Choice cows - 23.00 to 25.00 with sales to 27.00. Good Cows - 21.00 to 23.00. All Classes of pigs sold at higher prices 40 to 50 lbs. pigs sold to a high of 48.75. Special Stocker and Feeder Sale on Tuesday, May 6th. A bill that would substantially increase loans available to young farmers was approved Thursday by the Commons in Ottawa. The proposed amendment to the Farm Credit Act would increase the maximum loan to any farmer under 35 years . of age to $150,000 from $100 ,,000. George Whittaker (PC — Okanagan Boundary) failed in an attempt to have ,$150,000 loans extended to farmers up to 40 years of age. After all, it is common knowledge that life begins at 40," the 55-year-old British Columbia farmer said before his amendment was defeated. Mr. Whittaker said the government should make more money available to older farmers "if they are really concerned about getting as many people as possible back into farming." The bill, primarily designed to attract young persons to farming, would increase to $100 million from $66 million the capital available through the Farm Credit Corp. The crown company was established in 1959 to provide mortgage, loans to farmers. 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Bladex 80 -- Use for pre- emergence and early post- emergence alone or in combination with Atrazine to control annual grasses and broadleaf weeds in corn Cytrol — Combine with Atrazine to control quack grass a hd broadleaf weeds in corn. -utan T = Use before planting corn in combination Everything you need for the things you don't want to grow CO-OP has the solution to all your weed problems Seed Growers Wanted for growing GARRY seed oats ,on contract W. G. THOMPSON & SONS LTD: MITCHELL We will pay top Premium Prices and Transportation For more information. Phone 519 348-8433 collect Belgrave Co-op Chemicals, for Weed Control Free copies of the CO-OP Weed Control Handbook are available from! Embutox E 2,4-D Butyric acid for broadleaf weed control in legume crops. AALI ex 90W — Atrazine. Use for pre-emergence and early post-emergence weed control in corn. Lorox — Recommended as a pre-emergence spray for weed control in soybeans, field beans and field corn. 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