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THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1990. PAGE 19.
OPPMB explores
REAL ESTATE
FOR SALE
“THIS SUMMER IN LINDSAY”,
Rivermill Village. Amenities plus
at the Rivermill Club. Video room,
billiards, marina terrace overlook
ing Trent-Severn Waterway. Boat
slips, tennis, lawn bowling and
much, much more. One and two
bedroom suites priced in the
$180’s. May/June occupancy. Call
Ray Vint at 1-800-461-6521. Upper
Canada Lakes Inc. 04-1 p
TENDERS TENDERS
THE HURON COUNTY
BOARD OF EDUCATION
SERVICES
CUSTOM WELDING: Ornamental
railing, bale thrower racks, trail
ers, custom hitches, machinery
repairs and fabricating. Call Peter
de Jong, 523-4816. tfn
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HANK’S SMALL ENGINE SALES
and Service, Highway 4, Londes-
boro. Complete service for small
engines. Dealer for Canadiana,
Bolens, Weed Eater, Poulan and
Badger Farm Equipment. Call
523-9202. tfn
GRASS CUTTING
TENDERS
Tenders will be received by the
undersigned for mowing and
trimming at the following Conse
rvation Areas during 1990.
Location
1. Gorrie
2. Brussels
3. Harriston-Minto
4. Turnberry Floodplain
[Lower Town Wingham]
Acreage
2%
2%
31/z
6
FOR YOUR PLUMBING NEEDS.
Specializing in softeners and re
pairs. Check our low fixture prices
or supply your own. Call Tom
Duizer Plumbing 523-4359. tfn
Tenders must state the type of
equipment and provide individ
ual price quotations on a per cut
basis. Lowest or any tender not
necessarily accepted. Deadline
is February 6,1990.
Contact:
Ray Gowdy
Field Services Supervisor
Box 127
Wroxeter, Ontario
NOG 2X0
335-3557
BOILER REPLACEMENT
Usborne Central Public
School, Exeter, Ontario
Sealed tenders are invited from
Qualified Mechanical Contractors for
Boiler Replacement, Usborne Central
Public School.
Drawings and specifications will be
available January 24, 1990 from:
Vanderwestern & Rutherford Limited
Consulting Engineers
36 Talbot Road South
LAMBETH, Ontario NOL 1S0
or
Huron County Board of Education
103 Albert Street
CLINTON, Ontario
on payment of a *50.00 refundable
deposit.
Tenders are to be addressed to:
Huron County Board of Education
103 Albert Street
CLINTON, Ontario N0M 1L9
and delivered to the Board Office prior
to 12:00 Noon local time on Wednes
day, February 7th, 1990.
Lowest or any tender not necessarily
accepted and the Owner reserves the
right to reject any or all Tenders.
MORTGAGES. BETTER THAN
bankrate. 11.5% (effective rate for
1st yr. on 11.75% 5 yr. rate). No
Broker Fees. Cartier Financial
Services (licensed broker). (416)
747-8795. Messages 7 days. 04-lp
VEHICLES
FOR SALE
1956 CHEV, PARTIALLY RE-
stored, 396 motor, new brakes,
tires plus many more new parts.
Phone 887-9316.
A BETTER TAX RETURN! THE
best way to get it is with TaxGuard.
When we prepare your tax return,
you’ll receive every break coming
to you. You’ll pay the least tax
possible. Home appointments
available now! Call Toll Free:
1-800-265-1002. Farm Business
Consultants - your farm tax experts
for 37 years! 04-lp
WANTED
WILLING TO DO HOUSEKEEP-
ing in Brussels area at an hourly
rate. Please call 887-6453 after 5
p.m. 44-tfn
JEEP OWNERS. WE HAVE
parts, accessories for most models.
Gigantic soft top sale. Immediate
shipping. Gemini Sales, 4736 E.
Hastings, Burnaby, B.C. V5C 2K7.
f Phone: (604) 294-2623, (604) 294-
4214. 04-lp
TRAVEL
THE SNOW’S GREAT NEAR
Parry Sound! Stay in 4-Diamond
accommodation at Sunny Point
Cottages - Inn. Fireplace, whirl
pool, sauna. Groomed track-set
cross-country ski trails. Snowmo-
biling on Seguin Trail. Call (705)
378-2505. 04-lp
OLD WRIST WATCHES WANTED
Eaton’s 1/4 Century Club - men’s
rectangular wrist watch. Will pay
$3,000 and up for this watch. Also
wanted, old Rolex, Patek, Phillip,
Cartier, Movado, Vacheron Con
stintine, or any other high grade or
complicated wrist watches (men’s
only). Call (416) 365-7240. Write:
B. Walsh, 211 Queen St. East,
Toronto, MSA 1S2. 04-lp
OLDER PAINTINGS AND WORKS
of Art. One or entire collection.
Karl Mearns, Box 1266, Caledonia,
Ontario. N0A 1A0. (416) 765-6782.
04-lp
Huron Public Education
MARCH BREAK - TAMPA,
March 10 - 17/90. $279. Cdn. Plus
10% tax/SVC. Flight from Detroit.
Packages available. Call T & S
Tours 1-800-265-9365. 04-lp
CANAL CRUISES ON SCENIC
Trent-Severn Waterway and Ri-
deau Canal aboard Kawartha Voya-
geur; private staterooms; all meals;
free brochure from Captain Marc,
Box 1540, Peterborough, K9J 7H7.
04-lp
Farm
meetings
Thursday, January 25 - Breadven
ture 4-H Leaders’ Workshop, Bel
grave W.I. Hall, Belgrave. 10 a.m.
- 2:30 p.m.
Tuesday, January 30 - Huron 4-H
Leaders’ Association Annual Meet
ing, Huronview, Clinton, 6:30 p.m.
Thursday, February 1 - Putting
Your Best Food Forward 4-H
Leaders’ Workshop, Huronview,
Clinton, 10 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. or 6:30
p.m. - 10 p.m.
Thursday, February 1 - Small
Animals Leaders’ Workshop,
Huronview, Clinton, 6:30 p.m. - 10
p.m.
Crime
of the week
Crime Stoppers and the Goderich
Police Force are seeking your
assistance to help solve this theft.
At 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sep
tember 17, 1988 the employees at
Cashway Lumber in Goderich lock
ed up the store for the weekend. It
is presumed that a thief hid inside
the store somewhere and waited
until dark to make his move. The
thief opened the side door and
removed the following items:
1) 2 Makita Mitre Saws one serial #
is 2880E
2) a Makita Cordless Drill Kit III
3) a Makita Cordless Drill
4) a Makita Cordless Jig-saw and a
small amount of cash.
The total loss was in excess of
$1300.
If you have information about
this or any other serious crime call
Crime Stoppers toll free at 1-800-
265-1777. You will never have to
identify yourself nor testify in
court. If an arrest is made you will
earn a cash reward, possibly up to
$1,000. Call during office hours
Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Remember crime doesn’t pay but
Crime Stoppers does.
marketing changes
A new hog marketing system
designed to minimize holdovers
from one day to the next and
minimize the length of time be
tween when hogs leave the farm
er’s barn until they reach the
packing plant is being studied by
the Ontario Pork Producers Marke
ting Board (OPPMB).
Glynn Waterton of the OPPMB’s
committee looking into better mar
keting reported the findings of the
panel to the annual meeting of the
Huron County Pork Producers As
sociation in Blyth Wednesday. The
committee looked at the impact any
changes would have on the current
price discovery (auctioning) system
and the changes the new system
would have for humane handling of
pigs.
The committee identified four
minor changes that could be made
or one major change.
The major change, if it was
adopted, would involve a system of
full booking/forward selling. Book
ing (which currently is used in the
sale of about 40 per cent of hogs)
involves the farmer or trucker
informing an OPPMB assembly
yard of the number of hogs he has
available. The hogs are not actually
moved out of the farmer’s barn
until a sale is made. Under a full
booking system, hogs would be
sold for delivery at least one day
ahead. Once the OPPMB staff has
arranged the sale and scheduled
delivery the pigs would actually be
shipped from the farm and deliver
ed directly to the packer, saving
time on the trucks and in holding
yards and reducing stress on the
hogs.
The system, the committee says,
could help reduce the problems of
marketing in short weeks where
presently there are often too many
hogs delivered for plants to be able
to process. Using a computer and
keeping the producer’s 10 week
average, the Board would allow the
producer to ship the proportion of
his normal weekly shipping that
could be accommodated in the
shorter work week at the packing
plants.
Problems with the system were
emphasized, however, over the
Christmas period this year when a
booking system was used. Many
farmers because of bad weather
and other conditions, didn’t deliver
the number of pigs they had
promised. Under the new proposal,
Mr. Waterton said, there would
have to be a penalty clause to make
sure farmers and truckers deliver
ed the number of pigs they
promised.
Minor changes studied by the
committee include:
•Zone bidding instead of the
current system of buyers bidding
on pigs from a specific yard. Under
GLYNN WATERTON
Several possible changes
the system a packer would bid on a
load from a zone (there would be
five zones in the southwest, two in
the central area and one in eastern
Ontario) and the OPPMB could fill
the load with pigs from any yard in
the zone. The change would have
little effort on pricing but would
help prevent build-ups and hold
overs in one area.
•Yard operation times could be
changed to accommodate the real
ity of distance to market, delivery
and kill times. Days of operation of
some yards could be changed to
even out the flow of pigs to the
packers with some yards even
being allowed to open late Sunday
in order to serve the need for pigs
early on Monday at packing plants.
•Because holdover problems are
often at the assembly yards farth
est from the market and often the
problem is made worse because of
the small numbers at these yards
make it hard to get an economical
load assembled, the committee
proposes that an alternative system
could be set up to ship these pigs
directly to the packer. The OPPMB
would negotiate the contracts and
the price would be based on a
percentage of the provincial aver
age price. Contracting could help
provide more hogs for Monday
startup at packing plants and could
help supply the smaller packing
plants. The committee estimates a
maximum of 11 per cent of hogs
would be sold through contracts
leaving the other 89 per cent of
provincial sales to set the provincial
average.
•The committee suggests prefer
ence could be given to booked hogs
over hogs dropped off at an
assembly yard, even if the hogs at
the yard have been waiting there
longer. Voluntary booking of hogs
leaves greater flexibility, the study
says, but it could create more
problems than it solves if a penalty
system isn’t included to make sure
producers deliver the pigs they
have promised.
Supply management
rejected by Pork Producers
Continued from page 14
farmers a lot of extra money by
driving prices down.
But another farmer argued that
reducing supply wouldn’t increase
prices. If pork prices went up, he
said, more people would just turn
to chicken or beef.
One farmer said he couldn’t
afford to cut back his production to
meet a new, smaller market under
supply management but another
wondered how farmers who com
plain they’re losing money on every
hog couldn’t afford to produce
fewer hogs.
Chris Hills, first vice-president
said it would be foolish to get into
supply management at a time when
supply management is in trouble in
other commodites. Pork producers
would be far better off to make
their marketing board a real marke
ting board and go out and find new
markets around the world and not
depend so much on the United
States, he said.
One resolution that did carry (by
a count of 47 - 1) was a call on the
provincial government to bring in
an interest rate assistance program
that would put Ontario producers
on an equal footing with their
competitors.
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