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Times-Advocate, 1981-02-18, Page 20Page 6A Times -Advocate, February 18, 1981 HURON FARM AND HOME NEWS Some will be sewing pants, others will be sewing metric Are you tired of not being able to buy a pair of pants that fit properly? Do you begrudge spending the money on expensive pants? Have you always wanted to learn how to make a pair of pants that really fit but don't want them to look like you made them? Then this course may be just for you! The "Pants, Fitting and Sewing" course offered by the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food em- phasizes the steps of pleasuring yourself correctly, buying the right pattern, alterations, making a muslin and finally making a pair of pants that fit you. Since the final product is going to be a pair of pants "custom made", individual attention throughout the course is necessary. Thus the enrolment in each will be restricted to 14 people. You are strongly urged to respond quickly if you are interested in participating in this program, as enrolment will be on a first come, first serve basis. Three courses will be held throughout March and April in Huron County - one in Gorrie, Clinton and Exeter. Each course will consist of three sessions - the first will be a half day, the other two a full day. ATTENT1ON CORN GROWERS Monday, March 2, 1981 M.F. AGRI BUILDERS Will Be Holding A Seminar On Grain Storing, Conditioning, Drying A special emphasis will be placed on the drying and storing of corn. If you have ever had problems in this area plan to attend. We will have quest speakers from CALDWELL MANUFACTURING COMPANY and SHIVVERS ENTERPRISES INCORPORATED This event will be held at Huron Hall Centralia College of Agricultural Technology, Huron Park, Ontario MONDAY, MARCH 2, 1981 Registration 9:30 A.M. See You There! MF AGRI BUILDERS Main Street South, P.O. Box 550 Exeter, Ontario NOM ISO (519) 235-2120 For more information and to place your name on the participant's list, phone the Home Economist at Zenith 7- 3040 (south and central areas of Huron), Zenith 3-3190 (north) and 482-3428 from the Clinton area. LIGHT AND DARK RED KIDNEY BEAN CONTRACTS AVAILABLE NOW 11\90.A.1 = y, ea..,, ..I.1 Hensall 262-2527 Mitchell 340.8433 Granton 225-2360 Loralee Marshall and Jane Muegge, Home Economists. Herbicides in new containers This spring, when you go to buy herbicides, you will find a difference. Many will come in metric containers with the application rates in metric units. All herbicides packaged this year, by law, must be in metric units. In fact some of the suppliers were selling metric her- bicides last year. So what to do? First of all, please do not chew out your supplier or the person at the counter, or me for this happening. If metric upsets you, go outside somewhere and yell. Get it out of your system. It will do more good than complaining about metric. At least, you will get rid of some of your frustrations. Now you are ready to approach metrics with an attitude of "It's here. 1 have to accept it!" Once you take this attitude, metrics are easy. This attitude and three simple calculations: To change acres to hectares multiply by .4. To change pounds per acre to kilograms per hectacre multiply by 1.12. To convert pints per acre to litres per hectare multiply by 1.4. Thus, 12 acres x .4 equals 4.8 hec- tares; 2 pounds per acre , 1.12 equals 2.24 kilograms per hectare; 3 pints per acre x 1.4 equals 4.2 litres per hectare. Knowing these figures, now you convert your fields or crop acres to hectares. You also convert the number of acres your sprayer does to hectares. Supposing you have 40 acres of corn. Now you have 16 hectares. The bag says you need 2.5 kilograms per hectare of a herbicide. Now you must purchase 16 x 2.5 equals 40 kilograms of herbicides. When you get home, you know your sprayer does 12 per tank. Now it does 12 x .4 equals 4.8 hectares per tank. The rate of herbicide is 2.5 kilograms per hectare. Now you dump in 4.8 x 2.5 equals 12 kilograms per tank. The key to all this is first know how many hectares each sprayer tank does (with each set of nozzles) Write this number down. Also, it will help you if you work out Please turn to page 10A SHORT PROGRAM -- Peter lofquist, of'Commerce leasing in London, Dick Heard of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food in London and Frank Vanneste of Lucan, talk over things before the start of the short program on farm leases at Centralia College Thursday. Paul Revere, where are you now that the Yankees need you? It was Revere, wasn't it, who rode througikthe streets yelling: The British are coming! It seems that the Brits, along with the Canadians, the Dutch, the West Ger- mans and even the French, are buying up America and it has the big boys on Wall Street worried. Foreigners now own great big chunks of enterprises in the Hew Hess Hay that are as Amurriean as apple pie: Howard John- son. American Motors, Saks Fifth Avenue, Baskin - Bobbins Ice Cream, Alka Seltzer, Chesterfield Cigarettes , Bantam Books and even Shell Oil. It has become quite an in- vasion and Americans are concerned. Laws have been enacted at the federal and state levels to monitor, con- trol and screen foreign in- vestment. A recent Congressional report has issued a warning about the OPEC nations which have surpluses of almost unimaginable magnitude. In 1977, OPEC had $53 billion in surplus monies. With such huge amounts of money. those nations could buy all the listed stocks on the New York exchange within three nears. Legislation to provide closer monitoring of foreign investments in the U.S. will surely come if Raygun Reagan runs true to form: Amurrica for Amurricans! The whole picture is fun for Canadians to watch. We have been treated as an economic subsidiary for a hundred years by the Americans. They could br- ing this country to its knees by withdrawing their capital. 1.n.,,.e pe,.,.aled D, Bob T,o,I., (U.M No Lima Ont M311 7C, . The shoe could easily be slipping onto the other foot; the Yanks may soon be sub- servient to capital from a dozen other nations around the world including, believe it or not. Canada. But wait a minute. U.S. residents worried about foreigners buying up America may more readily understand Canadian fears if the trend continues. Unfortunately, it isn't just the Yanks that Canada has to worry about these days, especially when it comes to buying farmland. A study by University of Manitoba agricultural economist Daryl Kraft show that 1.8 million acres of arable Manitoba farmland are now owned by people or cor- porations who neither live on it nor farm it themselves. Farmers in many parts of British Columbia, Ontario, Saskatchewan and Prince dward Island have voiced the same fears. In Huron County in Ontario, rumor has it that "dozens" of farms have been purchased by foreign dollars. The federation of agriculture has been doggedly working to get some action from the province to prevent more takeovers. Government controls have been haphazard and, to some degree. ineffective across the nation. Foreign ownership is supposed to be limited. in some provinces, to no more than 20 acres. But foreigners simply set up Canadian companies with Canadian directors. Much of the money, it is believed comes from Euro- pean buyers who have "black dollars" undeclared income that they wish to in- vest outside their own coun- tries. similar the laundered money from the underworld. I share the concern ex - Eleven living reasons for choosing Shur -Gain Animal Health Products Eleven living reasons! 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Notice Annual Meeting of Wheat Producers will be held in the OMAF Board Room Clinton, Ont. Feb. 20, 1:30 p.m. Predict record price With 95 per cent of On- tario's white bean crop sold, it appears likely farmers will receive a record price per hundredweight and record income per acre, the chairman of the Ontario Bean Producers' Marketing Board said Tuesday. Gordon Hill of Varna said an interim payment of $6.80 per hundredweight bag at the end of February will be paid to farmers and a se- cond. as yet uncalculated payment will be made by the end of April, bringing total payments to more than $27 per bag. February's pay- ment will bring payments to date to $18.14 per bag.The crop is estimated at 1.5 million bags. -Usually we've only made one interim payment, but because of the sizeable amounts of money. involved as the price moves up the board wants to get the money back to producers as soon as possible and sales have moved much faster this year than normal," he said. Normally Britain buys 80 per cent of the Ontaric crop - second only in size to Michigan - but this year Bri- tain has bought only 10 per cent of the crop and new customer countries such as Iraq. Bulgaria, Cuba and Saudia Arabia have bought heavily. "The board (through 'On- tario House in Britain) has attempted to keep the British informed that our crop was slipping away quickly. but they didn't buy". Hill said, adding it's likely bean dealers didn't keep their British customers informed. He said Britain could find itself short of new beans, but will pick up more from Michigan and cut more deep- ly into its inventories than normal. Quality Products • Proto Tools • Hypro Pumps • Bolts & Blades Used Equipment • 1'h HP - 2 CyI. portable air compressor • 2 gal. 3/4 hp H.P. Washer • Cattle Headgate (split Centre) • Service & Repairs to Hypro Pumps Cecil R. Squire Sales & Service 47 John St. Exeter Phone 235-0465 WE SOLVE TAX PROBLEMS Dial toll-free 1-800-265-4010 For 29 years. 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