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IN THE NEWS
EGG PRODUCERS NEED
BETTER IMAGE
The Ontario Egg Producers' Marketing
Board is concerned with its image.
Communications officer Kathy Ull-
yott, appointed to the new position
about eight months ago to improve the
Board's image with the media, sugges-
ted to producers that writing a letter to
the editor with complaints is probably
easier, and more effective. than trying
to change the negative persuasion of
some reporters' minds. She was speak-
ing to a Board -sponsored poultry semi-
nar in Seaforth.
Ullyott said, since her appointment,
she has been concentrating on four
main areas in an attempt to have the
Board's voice heard and improve its
image: the media, policy makers. con-
sumers, and producers by newsletter.
"I'm not working under the illusion that
improving our irnaoe will sell more
eggs," she said.
Board director Bill Scott spoke briefly
on energy-efficient ventilation systems
for poultry barns. New energy-efficient
motors on the market are about ten per
cent more efficient than regular motors,
he said, but only when run at full
speed.
Poultry specialist Peter Hunt outlined
some pullet management research as
discussed by Dr. John Summers at a
recent seminar at the University of
Guelph. He said hens, in general, are
maturing earlier these days because of
improved pullet management, for in-
stance, better vaccinations and more
uniform growth rate control. But this
earlier maturity has resulted in some
problems for producers, such as. a
failure to peak or a rapid decline in the
peak, and persistent low egg weight.
Hunt said some of these problems
may be due to light birds. Low body
weight, encouraged early in the growth
cycle, may cost later on. It is perhaps
unrealistic, he said, to expect chickens
that are bred to be small, to adjust and
eat what is considered proper. later in
the growth cycle. By then, he said, they
have less capacity. Hunt said feed
restrictions, to control body weight. are
generally implemented late rather than
early in the cycle, and perhaps further
research will confirm the procedure
should be reversed and the growing
schedule should be adjusted, in an
attempt to get high body weight before
laying. In an experiment where early
laying was induced, it was found in
general, it resulted in low egg weight,
but there appears to be some relation
between body weight and egg weight.
FARM LAND TAXES
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but will this eventually give them control of our farm land?
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proposed scheme some farmers may be paying more taxes than at the present time.
If you arc concerned, contact your local M.P.P. and, sign the coupon below and
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Postal code
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concerned farmers.
THE RURAL VOICE. MARCH 1983 PG. 29