The Rural Voice, 1997-08, Page 52LESLIE
HAWKEN & SON
Custom Manufacturing
LIVESTOCK & FARM EQUIPMENT
• Big Bale Rack
• Cattle Panels
• Headgates & Chutes
• Portable Loading Chutes
• Gate -Mounted Grain Feeders
Calf Creeps
Round Bale Feeder
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Jim Hawken
Rural Route Three
Markdale 519-986-2507
REPLACEMENT CHAIN
Pintle & hook link chain
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R. R. 1, Kincardine, Ont.
519-395-2615
Wingham Area (John) 519-357-2018
We Handle Everything (Almost)
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We are agents for the
ONTARIO WHEAT PRODUCERS MARKETING BOARD
handling white winter and soft red winter wheats.
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48 THE RURAL VOICE
News
consistent during the past two
decades, many people have turned to
the lower fat varieties of these
products.
• However, not everyone is
shunning rich dairy products. Per
capita cream consumption of 5.3
litres in 1996 was almost 50 per cent
higher than in the mid-1970s.
• Cereal cream (containing from
six per cent to 10 per cent butterfat)
accounted for over half of the 1996
total. Table cream (15 per cent to 20
per cent butterfat) and sour cream
consumption, although small, has
soared over the last two decades.
• Milk consumption has continued
to shrink since the early 1980s and
consumers have shifted to lower fat
varieties such as two per cent, one
per cent, and skim milk. In 1996,
each Canadian consumed just over
88 litres of fluid milk, compared with
94 litres in 1991 and the record high
of 102.5 in 1979.
• Last year, each Canadian drank
nearly 75 litres of alcohol, down
from almost 86 litres five years
earlier. Beer was still the most
popular drink, but per capita
consumption has been declining.
Wine consumption, although below
the level in the 1980s, rebounded in
1996. Promotional campaigns,
international recognition of Canadian
wine and recent studies outlining
health benefits of moderate wine
consumption may have contributed to
this increase.0
Rabies in Ontario
declined during 1996
but battle not won
By Charles Maclnnes
Ontario Ministry of Natural
Resources
There were 156 laboratory -
confirmed cases of rabies in Ontario
during 1996. That was less than half
as many as in 1995, about a quarter
of the 1994 total, and less than 10 per
cent of the annual average during
1980-89. Rabies control is really
taking hold.
There were two subjects for
concern. The major one was that