Times-Advocate, 1985-07-24, Page 18Page 6A July 24, 1985
The readers write
Dear Editor;
1 ani very hurt, upset, and angry to
hear that the people of the town of Ex-
eter are objecting to the new group
homes that are to be built by S.H.D.A.
DLH, that l am part of. 1 have lived
in a group home for a year and a half,
and look at me now. 1 am out on my
oivn living in an apartment.
I think those people who are against
the group home are so prejudiced,
selfish and unreasonable.
have known the people from John
St. for a long time, and 1 think they
are nice people. and they are my
friends. Please cone to the group
homes. and see all the responsibilities
they have to allow them to get their
awn places in the future.
%%hen you die would you like your
son !daughter to be put in an institu-
tion where they would have no rights.
freedom or choices in life.,
I do not discriminate against you
when you buy your homes. so why do
you, the citizens of Exeter, feel that
you have the right to complain and
decide where I should live?
Without the support and encourag-
ment of ►nv parents. my staff at John
St. and Albert St. Residences. and my
Staff of ARC Industries, I- would _not
be living independently today.
Give us a chance to live in your
community.i no, our community with
the dignity and opportunity that we
deserve.
We are people first and always.
Yours truly
Colleen Carter
Middle age is when you begin to
wonder if your warranty is running
out. •
GETS YOUTH AWARD Florence Ryan of Mount Carmel recently
received a Canada Day Youth Award for her outstanding efforts on
behalf of the Huron County Junior Farmers. Making the presenta-
tion is Richard Hamilton, Rural Organization Specialist with the On-
tario Minister of Agriculture and Food.
Mount Carmel girl
chosen as delegate
Florence Ityan of Mount Carmel is
one of two Junior Farmers from the
province of Ontario attending this
week's State President's National
conference at Arlington, Virginia.
Florence is the daughter of Michael
and Theresa Ryan and a very en-
thusiastic member of the South Iluron
Junior Farmers.
She is also a director in Zone 7 in
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Ontario and was selected by this
group along with Mark Balkwill of
Essex county to attend the conference
in the Washington area.
On the agenda this week are visits
to Mount Vernon, the Statue of Liber-
ty, Arlington Cemetery, a Congres-
sional lunch, time with the secretary
of agriculture and to top it off with a
stop at the White House.
Florence was the Western Farm
Show Princess in 1984 and recently
received a Canada Day Youth Award
for her untiring efforts on behalf of
junior farmers not only in Huron, but
throughout the province.
Conservation
tillage event
The Iluron Soil and Crop Improve-
ment Association. Soil and Water
Conservation District is holding a
twilight tour of conservation tillage
and cropping on Tuesday. July :30,
1985.
The focus of the tour will be on sites
in Southern Huron County, starting at
the. farm of Jack McGregor, Lot 25.
Concession 3, Stanley township, at
5:30 p.m.
The tour will cover ridge till white
beans, no -till and minimum till corn.
as well as no -till and minimum till
soybeans.
To get to Jack McGregor's farm,
turn west at the second road south of
Clinton on Highway 4. drive one con-
cession, and the meeting place is the
farm on the south-west corner of this
intersection.
Disappointments, frustrations and
predictions that things will get even
worse are what farmers are facing
this summer.
It must be much easier to be in op-
position than it is to be in power when
it comes to making promises. The
federal Tories made great promises
to all agricultural organizations
before they were elected. After one
year in power, things have not im-
proved in the boondocks.
John Wise, Canada's agminister, is
competent; knowledgeable and now
has experience but he does not have
the clout necessary to get things done.
One of the most baffling things I Have
witnessed in more than 30 years wat-
ching the farm scene is what the Con-
servative government did to beef
farmers in Canada.
Mulroney promised many things
during the election campaign but at
no time did he indicate he would hit
beef farmers from behind when it
came to import quotas.
The Conservatives increased the
European quota of beef from 5.94
million pounds to 23.5 million pounds.
Not satisifed with this kick in the
head, the same government allowed
increases in quotas from other coup-
/ tries to bring the total import quota
10210 million pounds from 148 million
pounds as of Dec. 21.
The quota increase amounts fo 1,000
cattle a week.
In a segment of the agricultural
economy that has been in abysmally
bad shape for five years, the federal
government not only does nothing to
protect beef producers but seems to
go out of its way to make it even more
difficult.
Ron Oswald is president of the
Canadian Cattlemen's Association.
He is not one to make empty
statements.
"We keep knuckling in and backing
down, but nice guys finish last," he
said of the trade deals with Europe
and the United States. "It's time we
had the guts to stand up and not
knuckle under".
He is absolutely correct.
I have not been on the side of the
cattlemen in many of their problems
Scouting
monitors
production
The hot days of July and August
provide optimum growing conditions
for corn and an excellent opportuni-
ty for farmers to check cornfields for
adult rootworm beetles. -
Crop scouting in late summer helps
101, gtzf ve local farms will be
assess damage caused by rootworm
visited during (Fie'e3etiilitg Everyone larvae- rit A count of adult
is welcome to participate in this funt: ,.a_.
and informative event. For more in-
formation. call the Clinton Ontario
Ministry of Agriculture and Food of-
fice at 482-:1428.
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potential infestations next year.
"By determining the adult popula-
tion, action can be taken to prevent
losses in the next crop year," explains
Donna Houghton. Dow Chemical
Canada Inc., Sarnia.
Crop scouting is a relatively easy, -
inexpensive way to determine if root -
worm problems are present and
whether treatment the following year
is required. As a guide for accurate
scouting, Houghton offers a few
techniques she uses in the field.
Divide the corn acreage into 40 -acre
sections, segment each section into
four areas and check twenty plants
per area for adult beetles. Count the
adults on each plant. t Note: 60 per-
cent of the adults will be located in the
ear zone. i Calculate the average
number of adults per plant. Avoid
counting in areas which could give
misleading information such as field
borders, fence rows, grass waterways
or other typical areas.
When checking sections, heal each
field individually.
While scouting for insects, notice
and record any growing problems.
Watch for herbicide effectiveness and
injury, fertility problems. and stand
inconsistencies.
Finally. keep accurate records. Use
these records to determine the
percentage of infested or damaged
plants, and the average number of
adults per plant in each field to
prepare for next year's crop.
Pest infestation records can help
when making cost-efficient decisions
concerning insects such as rootworm.
-From field trials we conducted in
1984. , we found that as long as the
farmer treated infested areas with
one of the major corn rootworm insec-
ticides, he gained a yield benefit of 12
and a half bushels per acre compared
to untreated areas,"•says Houghton.
"The economic threshold of 1.5
adults per plant in second year or con-
tinuous cornfields warrants the use of
an insecticide' control the following
spring," says Houghton. For first-
year corn fields, the threshold
average jumps to .8 adults per plant.
Houghton explains the reason for
the difference, "Female adults are at-
tracted to first-year cornfields where
they lay large numbers of eggs. The
ratio of females to males in first-year
cornfields seems to be about 70 to 30
whereas in continuous cornfields it's
about 50 to 50."
A heavy infestation in the fall
means more beetles will lay eggs
making way for high populations of
rootworms the next year unless con-
trol measures are taken.
Northern corn rootworms are
predominant to this area. Adult
beetles appear yellowish to pale green
in colour. Western corn rootworms
are also found. Their characteristics
include yellow to tan bodies with
black stripes running down the back.
because they have refused to take ad-
vantage of federal legislation which
would allow them to organize their
own marketing board. They are
fiercely independent and they wantto
stay that wpy„ thank you.
It is a philosophy that the Tories,
especially the Mulroney brand of
Toryism, should be completely em-
phatetic with. You would think the
Conservatives would be right behind
the cattlemen in every move they
make.
Not so if this import is any exam-
ple. And, the cattlemen opposed any
national stabilization plan if pro-
vinces were allowed to topload. Yet,
Agminister Wise has suggested a plan
which may allow toploading. What is
toploading? It is subsidies at the pro-
vincial level which could be in addi-
tion to federal stabilization.
Charles Gracey, general manager
of the Canadian Cattlemen's Associa-
tion, has gone on record as saying that
the Tory government did the one
thing the CCA asked them not to do,
amend the stabilization bill to allow
provincial toploading.
He also suggested that some
legislation, even with toploading, was
better than none and if farmers do not
like the deals that are struck with
other provinces, then Ontario can
always pull out and wreck the
stabilization plans.
And I wouldn't blame them if they
did. It's certainly time they got angry
and upset somebody's wagon.
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