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Home My WebLink AboutTimes-Advocate, 1981-02-04, Page 25Hold card party for Centralia folk By MRS. FRED BOWDEN CENTRALIA Mr. and Mrs. Bob Blair, Mrs. Kay Elston and Mrs. Viola Atkinson were in LIST WNINERS The first KirktonVenturers gas draw winners have been announced. Winners were Allan Hodgert, $100 gas; Bevan Matheson $50. gas; and William Heather Sr., one case of oil. charge of the euchre party at the Community Centre, Monday night with 10 tables in play. Winners were: ladies high, Mrs. Ross Richardson; lone hands. Mrs. Cecil Neil; low, Mrs. Les Gibson; men's high, Maurice MacDonald; lone hands, Les Gibson; low, Roy Swartz. The committee for the next party will be Mr. and Mrs. Maurice MacDonald and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Dickins. CO.OP 1 itt 1 Dairy farmers in Ontario are going to get a herd - testing program shoved down their throats whether they like it or not. But, you say, dairy herds have been under ROP testing 4 Myers' • fully Automatic WATER � CONDITIONERS FA 20-6 Featuring 20,000 grains capacity per regeneration 5384,: Other sizes available for the do-it—yourselfer FREE professional installation advice Plumbing, Heating and Electrical supplies available. HENSALL DISTRICT CO-OP Brucefield 482-9823 Zurich 236-4393 Mensal! 262-3002 ne loot in the Urro'v°.> --- record of production -- for years. Some have. And what about the well- planned and popular DHIA -- the provincial dairy herd im- provement association -- which a number of farmers are using? Yes. That, too. Dairy farmers have been given plenty of opportunity to participate in testing and performance records. Other incentives are available. Annual at Cromarty By MRS. J. TEMPLEMAN STAFFA Mrs. Ada Schellenberger, Clinton; Mr. & Mrs. Earl Elliott, Dublin; Mr. Norval Elliott, Mrs. Agnes Ische, Mitchell; Mr. & Mrs. Reg Elliott and Mr. & Mrs. Lorne Eilliott, Staffa attended the birthday celebration (dinner and dance) for Mr. & Mrs. Dur Elliott, at the Mosse Lodge in Hamilton, Sat- turday evening. Miss Laurie Milne, Start - ford, visited Sunday with Mr. & Mrs. Hank Bertens and Mr. & Mrs. John Templeman and family. The South Hibbert Athletic Association held a very successful poker rally Sunday. Annual meeting The annual meeting of Cromarty Presbyterian church was held Sunday evening preceded by a pot luck dinner . Rev. Ken Knight chaired the meeting. Reports were well received and accepted. Two film strips were shown. A news report on the Presbyterian church and Commpac. Board of managers for a one year term are: Larry Elliott, Mrs. Jean Carey, Otto Walker; two year term: Rob Templeman, Craig Kerslake, Andrew Douglas; three year term: Alec Scott, Robert Laing, Mrs. Cathy Elliott. leas ere reacted by Bob bons, Etdete Rd Both the senior levels of government, the province and Ottawa, have provided plenty of encouragement in the form of grants and subsidies. But production in Ontario has dropped in the last few years and the Ontario Milk Marketing Board wants to know why. That is precisely why the OMMB is going to impose a testing program on dairy farmers, a program which will eventually force every dairyman in Ontario to keep responsible records. It is the only way production standards can be raised. It is a mystery to me why so many dairy farmers have refused to adopt some kind of performance records. How in the name of heaven can they expect to keep track of the best producers in their herd? How can they be sure their best cows are producing to their capacity? A couple of decades ago, most dairy farmers milked maybe a dozen cows, 20 at the most. But the average dairy herd has doubled, even tripled in size and even a budding Einstein cannot keep the records of that many cows in his head. Back in the old days, a good dairyman knew exactly, almost to the pound — pardon me, the litre -- how each was producing. But that sort of envelope -record- keeping simply won't wash any more. Under the present regulations, each province is given a market share quota. Those quotas are then alloted, sometimes sold, to provincial producers. Ontario has a hefty share of that national quota but Ontario producers, after fighting to get their share of the quota, have been unable to meet that quota. Every producer was coaxed, cajolled and even pleaded with by the Ontario milk board to keep accurate records so that every cow in the herd could be proven a Etm'a Ont 143B 2C7 worthwfile producer. No other method has been devised to increase herd production. Artificial insemination units across the province have proven sires and the semen is used by thousands of dairymen. Yet it is not enough if producers do not keep ac- curate records. If some dairy farmers get a little testy because another system may be imposed on them, they have only themselves to blame. Always, it is a few rotten apples that spoil the barrel. Because some producers refuse to keep proper records, a fee for the milk board's system will be im- posed on all dairymen. The milk marketing board is spending more than $6 million on promotions which are designed solely to in- crease consumption of milk. The advertising and promotion campaigns are working. Even with the increase in the price of milk, consumption has been maintained and butter consumption continues to increase. Yet, all this money could be spent in vain if producers cannot fill the market share quota already alloted to this province. The best way to increase production is to know the top producers in a dairy herd and the only way to find out is to keep accurate records of production. It seems a shame that so many producers are already keeping -- and paying for -- accurate records but yet another system may be imposed. No where in farming is good management more important than dairying. If the milk board feels it necessary to help farmers in becoming better managers, I guess this is the best way to do it. But it seems a shame that all have to suffer for the neglect of a few. Times -Advocate, February 4, 1981 Pogo 2S ' One extra piglet from each gives... ten sow production from a nine sow pen. Shur -Gain Dry Sow Care helps sows produce more. Did you ever figure how much more you can make from sows simply by improving the averages of performance just a little? Dry sows for instance, can add to profits when properly fed through dry and gestation periods. 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