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The Rural Voice, 1986-06, Page 60Bulk Food and Home Bakery Working with the Farmer "We use what you grow Soybeans and flour, flax seed, millet, wheat germ. cracked wheat, rye flour and flakes, oatflakes, triticale flour. sunflower seed oil — and don't forget the eggs. We have been baking the "Homemade Style" since 1971 11 Give yourself a taste treat Armstrong's Home Bakery Lucknow 519-528-2211 Open: Tues., Wed., Thurs.. Fri.. Sat. 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. Bakers of whoie grain bread since 1971 Tp M of t wONY LIMITED BUYING & SELLING SURPLUS BUILDING MATERIALS • Surplus Westeel Galvanized & Coloured Steel Cladding • Surplus Dashwood Energy Efficient Windows • Surplus Plain & Thermal Sheet Glass All in stock All Types of Used Building Materials 2x8 & 2x10 Plank, 40 ft. Span Open Web Steel Truss, Pipe, 4 & 8 ft. Flourescent Lights. — Items Arriving Daily — For Information and Demolition Quotes CaII 1.800.265.3062 519.369.3203 Warehouse and Sales Yard Located 5 Km South of Durham on Hwy. 6 NEWS Whitehorse or by contacting Maurice Egan, Agriculture Canada, New Crop Development Fund, Ottawa, 613-994-0086.1 Where did cows come from? It is a little known fact that Jac- ques Cartier was one of the first explorers of Canada to bring cows to this country. He brought them from France when he made his first voyage to this continent in 1534. In 1606, cows were imported to Acadia, and in 1610 cows were shipped to New France by Samuel de Champlain. The first cattle shipped to Acadia died during English raids, but more were ship- ped to the colony in 1632. Available records show that there were 1500 cattle in the Minas Basin when the Acadians were expelled in 1775. When the United Empire Loyalists migrated to New Brunswick from New England from 1778 to 1785 they brought cattle to form the foundation stock for the agricultural community, but even before they arrived, set- tlers in the upper regions of the Miramichi had cattle. The Hudson's Bay Company helped in the shipment of cattle from England to the Red River Settlement. Lord Selkirk, after his first visit to the colony, sent a ship- ment of dairy cattle to York Fac- tory, but many were lost in the trek to Fort Garry and others were slaughtered in Indian raids. Still, enough survived to form the dairy herds that were built up in the col- ony. In the far West, Sir James Douglas, acting on the behalf of the Hudson's Bay Co., had cattle shipped in from California to the delta and mainland areas of British Columbia. According to a census taken by Jean Talon in 1667, there were 3,107 head of cattle in New France. After Confederation, a na- tional Census of Agriculture was taken in 1871 and cattle numbers have been collected consistently in every census since then. The 1981 Census of Agriculture recorded over 13.5 million head of livestock on farms in Canada of which 1.8 million were dairy cows. The 1986 CENSUS will be held on June 3. Count yourself in! O HAVE SAW, WILL TRAVEL • Custom Sawmilling • Cants • Ties • Timbers • Dimension Lumber Any diameter log up to 23 feet long All work done on your site. KOOPMAN WOOD SALES, Box 671, Harriston, Ont. NOG 1Z0 519.338.2527. I maw Recent trades on New Vicon. New Holland and New Idea Haying Equipment. HAYBINES NI 290 . . $2.200 NH 479 .$4.500 NH 489 .. $5.600 NH114,14ft. . .$7,500 NH 477, 7 ft. .$3.200 RAKES NH 256 $1.600 MF $ 900 Scufflers used. 4 & 6 row BALERS NH 68 .. $ 700 MF10 .$ 800 IH 440 with thrower . . . $3.700 NH 273 with thrower $4,995 NH 270 with thrower $2.500 SPRAYERS 300 gal Calsa . 51.495 300 gal Continental $ 900 500 gal Continental . . $1,300 100 gal. 3 pt. h . $ 550 500 gal Geo. White $3.100 7 -et"— MARSHALL N/ntw IOCA McGavin FARM EQUIPMENT LTD. Walton 519-527-0245 519-887-6365 JUNE 1986 59