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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1976-03-03, Page 12OPNOTCH TOPNOTCH FEEDS LIMITED SPRING IS COMING Order your requirements While Stocks Are Still Available of: -Seed Grain -Funks Seed Corn -Stewarts New "Laurier" Barley -Fertilizer Brussels 887,601 I Os nti S $3 As recently as 10 to 12 years ago, you could pick up a hunting friend, throw a tent and sleeping bag into the car, drive to your favourite moose lake, hunt for a day or two, bag a moose and drive home. The entire trip, including licence, probably cost no more than $100. Today, with nearly 100,000 hunters after Ontario moose, you've got to go beyond the end of the road to be reasonably sure of sighting a moose, and your hunt can cost a lot of money, says Carl Monk, an information officer with the Ministry of Natural Resources and a successful moose hunter. Every home gardener knows he shouldn't harm a ladybug. They eat aphids and many other noxious insects, and should be kept in the vegetable patch. It's a poplular theory and it's also true -- to an extent. But what about the role of ladybugs on a larger scale -- in a 10-acre field of an aphid- susceptible crop? Bryan Frazer, an insect ecologist at the Agriculture •Canada Research Station here, started to answer that question three years ago by studying the pea aphid on one of its many host plants, alfalfa. • He already knew that the rise and fall of that species coincides with a similar cycle in ladybugs. But would it be practical or possible for a farmer to help along the ladybugs and use them as an inexpensive arid efficient means of aphid control? The early parts of the study would have raised a few eyebrows had they been witnessed by many people. Scientists and technicians clustered around a few alfalfa plants on which they caged aphids and ladybugs. They watched and recorded every movement -- time the beetles spent moving around on the plants, time spent hunting aphids, time spent eating them, and time spent resting. From these observations, a computer program was made which simulated ladybug activity under field conditions. It took into account the fact that ladybugs get hungrier for aphids faster in arm weather than in cool The simulation predicted how ••• nany aphids should have been oaten. It also showed that a warm spring results in greater ladybug acitivity, causing them to eat more aphids. The aphid population then is drastically reduced. ' But we discovered that ladybugs usually only harvest the aphids," Dr: Frazer says. "Under ideal conditions, they car: eat lots of aphids. But when the aphid population gets low, the ladybugs fly away to find food in greater abundance. This leaves the aphids to increase unhampered. "This is the reason for, the rise and fall in population levels. The ladybugs were making sure there would be food when they returned to that field." Putting ladybugs in fields does riot help as their numbers are quickly balanced to the aphid numbers present. One hope does linger however. 12,-THe aRUSSELS POST "It's a safe bet that the 12,000 to 14,000 hunters who bagged a moose this fall spent an average of $400 per man," according to Carl. "That's about the minimum cost if you live in southern Ontario and hunted in the north, chartered an airplane to fly you in and out, and hired a butcher to cup up your meat. If you hired a guide, it could cost you another $300." A good moose hunt • doesn't mean that every member of a hunting party shoots a moose, says Carl, who won the moose calling contest at the Canadian National Sportsmen's Show last March. A party of three that gets one moose is considered "We are looking at the possibility of breeding a type of ladybug that can't fly. This way they would hve to stay in one field and would presumably eat all the aphids." The annual meeting of the Ontario Ayrshire cattle club was held on Monday, February 23 at the • Holiday Inn, Hespeler, Cambridge with Geo. Mitchell, President of Thamesford as chairman. On Tuesday a bus tour was taken of area herds arranged by Ontario Fieldman Maurice Weber of Ayr with about 75 people participating. Starting from the Holiday Inn they visited the Future Acres herd' of Tom Barnes, Petersburg , the Mellick Mead herd of Wm. Westman & Sons, Milverton after which they were served lunch by the Gravelridge Womens' Institute in their hall. In the afternoon they visited the Century Acres herd of John and Brian Oldfield of Seaforth. The Willamead herd of Vernon Baker, St. Marys, the Silver Cedar herd of Geo. & Brian Mitchell, Thamesford and the Rebekahs have silent auction Morningstar Rebekah Lodge -- held its regular meeting Feb. 24 with a fair attendance, Noble Grand Leona Connelly in charge. Vice Grand Dorothea Ritchie thanked the Members for cardso and gifts when she was a shut-in, Members were invited to attend a banquet in Goderich March 2 at 6 o'clock. Several members decided to attend. It was decided we take a bus for the nieinbers to attend the Lodge meeting in Goderich March 2 at 8 o'clock. Bus to leave lodge rooms at 6:45 p.m, The property committee gave a report and it was decided we investigate further, ,before any action be taken. Lodge closed and social committee conducted a very successful silent auction which was enjoyed by, all. Lunch committee served a delicious lunch of hot dogS with all the trimmings, MAACH 3, 1978 • successful by many hunters, and others contend that one moose for a party of four makes a good hunt. Moose hunting parties of more than four are rare in .Ontario. All costs are usually shared equally by the members of the party and the meat, if they're successful, is divided the same way. Carl's analysis of the cost of a moose hunt provides about $35 worth of food to keep a hunter well fed for 10 to 12' days, but it's a good idea to take a little extra just in case. Travel costs vary with the vehicle used. Trucks and four-wheel drives use more gas than conventional cars with trailers, but about $35 , each, should pay •for the gas. Most hunters bUY a box of 20 cartridges for their high-powered rifle each fall and the cost is about $8. They also buy cheesecloth to wrap the meat in, aluminum foil to wrap up the liver, tongue and kidneys, a large shaker of pepper to keep the flies away in case it's warm, and rope and other items. These miscellaneous items can cost about $10. Aircraft costs vary with the flying distance, amount and weight of the gear, a canoe if you need it, and various other Spruce Grove herd of Floyd Hunsberger, New Dundee. On Feb. 25 the Ayrshire Breeders Association of Canada held their annual meeting in the same Holiday Inn with members attending from all province of Canada. After the meeting a banquet was held with Mel. Thomas of Eastern Breeders as guest speaker followed by the High Production awards for all Canada. MVCA plans (continued from Page 1) of poor driving conditions. The next regular council meeting was scheduled for Thursday, April 1. the village's general insurance portfolio should go 75 per cent to Mr Cardiff and 25 per cent to Ronnenberg Insurance, councillors decided. A grant of $25 was given to the Belgrave, Blyth and Brussels school fair board. The villge Supported a resolution from Chesley, asking for discussion of hospital closings in the legislature. Huron planning director Gary Davidson was unable to attend the meeting as scheduled because Not always. a culprit in food costs Looking for a culprit every tithe food prides rise is not always justifiable, says an economist with Aviculture Canada's EconornieS Branch. He points out that most food reaches the consumer in a mud' different form Than when it left the farm. Whet costs for services such as transportation of storage increase, the sector of the food industry affected must raise prices to keep even, rather than to increase tkofit8, conditions. It usually averages between $150 and $200 for flying in and out, but that includes bringing out your moose. Overnight accommodation .,;is necessary. After a long drive north, you'll need a good night's rest before the hunt. Coming back, you'll, need a rest, especially if you've had a hard pack getting your moose back to camp. Assuming two nights --- one coming and one going --- the cost of your shared motel rooms is about $20. Restaurant meals enroute, coming and going, run around $20 each. A resident moose licence, from the Ministry of Natural Resources, costs -$15 and all members of the party ' must be licensed of conrse. Most hunters also purchase the resident hunting licence for $3 and the migratory bird permit for $3.50 making a licence total of $21r.50 each. Moose , lakes are favourite waterfowl stopovers, and moose country is often good grouse habitat. With the $3 licence, a hunter can bag a grouse or two for the stew• pot, and with the migratory bird permit he can pick up a goose Or duck to supplement the camp larder. Most hunters like to cool the meat well before the long drive home. Cooler prices vary across the province but they can run as high as $15 for one night for one Ten tables • play euchre There were ten tables in play at the St. Ambrose card ,party on Tuesday February 17th. Prize winners were: High man, Joe Murray, High Lady, Mrs". Mel Jacklin. Closest Birthday, Grant Elliott. USE POST WANT-ADS animal. If the weather unseasonably warm (as it's bet the lasts couple of years), betlti opt for at least one night io cooler. Chalk up $40 for cool services. Unless your butcher is personal friend, Carl figures it going to cost between 10 and I cents a pound to have your moos butchered professionally. Moo meat is nearly always lean so itt well worthwhile to pay as additional $5 to $6 -for beef fat re mix with the ground meat. Assuming your party of thret gets two moose, your portion of the meat should dress out at 450 pounds, , and it will cost yoo between $50 and $72.50 to get ha into steaks, roasts, hamburgers and soup bones. Now, • let's summarize the' moose hunt costs: food, $35; gas $35; ammo, $8; miscellaneous, $10; aircraft, $175; accomme dation, $2.0; meals, $20; licences, $21.50; cooler, $10; and butcher, $61.25. The total tally comes to $395.75: Put another way; it works out to about 90 cents pet pound of moose meat. "Not bad when you consider you've had couple of weeks roughing it in the outdoors, and your freezer's stocked with some of the most nourishing and tastiest meat is the world," says Carl. 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