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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1964-12-31, Page 10Page 2 • Wingham Adv'a tcc-Times, Thursday, Dee. 31, 1964 MAITLAND REDI-MIX WROXETER - ONTARIO Y• NW aye a Vey- kappy I\EW YEA?, MACHAN HARDWARE PLUMBERS aur sincere wishes for your happiness, health and prosperity in the New Year. W INGHAM BODY SHOP NORTH STREET - PHONE 357-1102 You Are Invited You are invited to attend the annual meetings of the Waterloo Cattle Breeding Association, planned this year with topics of special appeal to cattle owners interested in livestock improvement. HURON COUNTY MEMBERS MEETINfi JANUARY 4th -- 11 a.m. Agricultural Office Boardroom, Clinton Lunch provided Topic—Proving Young Sires. Speaker—Roy G. Snyder, Secretary -Manager, Ontario Ass'n of Artifice! Breeders. Also—Reports on the 1964 year. Election of Directors. General Annual Meeting JANUARY 8th -11 a.m. CORONET MOTOR HOTEL, Highway No. 7 East, Kitchener. Lunch provided. Topic—This Cattle Business Where are we going? How do we get there? This meeting will include a panel discussion featuring some of the best known cattle breeders and mer- chandisers in Ontario. PLAN NOW TO ATTEND. Waterloo Cattle Breeding ASSOCIATION THREE TURKEY PENS are being built on the Dick Bruyns farm two miles west of town. Of pole -type construction the build- ings will house 12,000 turkeys. Two of the structure are 40 by 600 feet and the third is 40 by 300. Moffat & Powell, of Watford, has the contract. —Advance -Times Photo. Hold Farmers' Week At OAC in February Farmers from across Ontario will have an opportunity to pro- fit from the latest information on soils, crops and livestock during "Farmer's Week '65", sponsored by the Ontario Agri- cultural College, Guelph, from February 22nd, through to the 26th, 1965. Five special days have been arranged to deal with the fol- lowing: Crops, Monday 22nd; Soils, 23rd; Dairy Cattle 24th; Swine, 25th; and Beef Cattle, 26th. Farmers will hear dis- cussions on such subjects as, Doubling Crop Yields, Recent Trends in Feeding Dairy Cattle, Live Animal Evaluation for Swine and Profits in Beef Enter- prises. All material presented will be timely and helpful to farmers. Topics will be covered in considerable depth, with the speakers drawing on the most recent research results and inter- preting nterpreting them to fit into advanc- ed farm programs. Sessions will be held in War Memorial Hall between 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. each day. Farmers may attend one or more of the daily sessions according to their particular interests. Detailed information on the program for each day can be obtained from county offices of the Ontario Department of Agriculture. OF Many Things •TURKEY DELIGHT By Ambrose Hills Farmer friends of ours grow us a turkey every year --and what a turkey! They grow a big, white bird, using all the scientific new feeds and chem- icals, but lots of free range as well. Our bird is killed and dressed just before Christmas so that it doesn't have to be fro- zen. My mouth waters talking about it. I have visions of white, succulent breast and rich brown gravy, flanked by bright -red cranher.y sauce and all the other trimmings. If I were a poet, every other stanza of mine would salute the fabu- lous turkey. Fabulous food is available to most Canadians every day, thanks to good farmers and the industries that serve them. The value of this food depends on the land and how that land is managed. It has always seem -: ed a shame to me that farm or- ganizations so often spend their energies on politicking, rather than on the more important pro- blems of soil management, pro- per cultivation, conservation and improvement of the soil on which we all ultimately depend. They seem to leave most of these worries to Departments of t Agriculture, universities, or the farm magazine writers. Those groups do fine work, but unless there is close co-ordina- tion between them and the farmer himself, it takes years for such research to get into ac- tual use, Farms all through Manitoba blow badly during the winter. We see heaps of topsoil drift- ing into ditches. In spring, signs of soil erosion are appar- ent even to the greenhorn. Our Highway Department, which ought to be working with the Department of Agriculture, is sometimes responsible for ter- rible damage. It cuts great clay gulleys over deep grades, so top land and silt go pouring down to ruin bottom land or fill small rivers with silt. How a government agency can be so ruthlessly careless of soil man- agement I cannot understand.I believe the Farm Union and the Federation of Agriculture should be after them hot and heavy to stop this sort of thing. But all this aside, Canadian farmers are among the best in the world. Our meats and veg- etables are tasty and packed with nourishment. We're lucky to live in a land like this, with abundance all around us. t Ag CHAS. HODG1NS :1, t mv F Massey -Ferguson •: Sales do Service A etieAttAkt AVIESUMMROIMMAiii DONNYBROOK Mr. and Mrs. Morley John- ston and family spent Christmas with her mother, Mrs. John W. Youngblut of Auburn. Mr. Bert Thompson of Bel - grave visited Sunday.with Mr. and Mrs. Sam Thompson and family. Miss Irene Jefferson of God- erich has been spending a few days with her brother, Mr. and Mrs. Hilliard Jefferson and fam- ily. Mrs. J.C. Robinson of Wing - ham visited over Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. Edward Ro- binson and family. Guests with Mr. and Mrs. Hilliard Jefferson and family on Christmas Day were Mr.and Mrs. Joe Marshall and Eileen, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Turney ant family all of Listowel, Mr.and Mrs. Wickstead, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Thornton, Julia, Jill, Jeff and Cindy all of Bluevale and Miss Mary Jefferson of Lon- don. Guests with Mr.and Mrs. Charles Jefferson on Christmas Day were Mr. and Mrs. George Reet,es of Toronto, Misses Gla- dys and Irene Jefferson of God- erich, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Campbell of London, Mr. and Mrs. James Leddy of Donny- brook, Mr. and Mrs, Don Jef- ferson, Cheryl Lynne and Su- san of Clinton. Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Cham- ney and family spent Christmas Day with Mr. and Mrs. Clif- ford Henderson and family of Brucefield. *6%, Aida r A r Ant -NEW -YEAR.; WI SHE S As the bells ring out to welcome the New Year, may their message be one of promise that "the best is yet to come!" MANAGEMENT AND STAFF BELGRAVE CO-OP IIAPPYEIkJ YR As the Old Year passes and the New Year signs in, we pause to tell our many customers how much we enjoyed serving them all year. HODGINS-McDONALD (Wingham) Limited Wish to thank the people of Wingham and surround- ing district for the valued patronage given our Lumber and builder supply yard. 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