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Home My WebLink AboutTimes Advocate, 1992-10-28, Page 16Page 16 Times -Advocate, October 28, 1992 One Foot in the Furro Eggimals in Branton The first meeting of the Granton #1 4-H club was held at the Beat- ,. son home Thursday_ to commence the project Cooking with Chicken and Eggs. After opening with the 4-H pledge, members elected Katherine Harding as president, Jean Bryan as glee president and rotating secre- tary and reporter. The leaders arc Deanna Beatson and Margaret Bryan. The group then proceeded to list good ways to help keep the meeting on track. In August, Melanie Beatson, Lisa Reeves and Jean Bryan attended a conference at Ridgetown College entitled Believe in Yourself. They explained to the club how much fun it was and hopefully encouraged others to take advantage of the op- portunity. Also in the summer Susan Bryan and Charlotte Mcllhargey attended a 4-H Fun Day at Dorchester. They told about their good experience and about meeting many other 4-H members. A game was played which iiltis- trated the processing of chicken and eggs. Beatson, Reeves and Bryan demonstrated how to cook hard and soft boiled eggs with sev- eral variables such as old and fresh eggs, hot and cold starting water, number of eggs, brown and white eggs, and piercing one end. These were all opened or peeled and ex- amined and Angela Mcllhargey re- corded the results of each experi- ment. Margaret Bryan demonstrated how to make an omelet with mush- rooms. The group each had the op- portunity to make Eggimals using hard boiled eggs and various vege- tables (e.g. a pegg, eggephant, eg- gasaurus). A snack and the 4-H motto brought the meeting to a close. Osborne holds meeting USBORNE - The Usbome #1 "Great Chicken and Egg Project" held its first meeting last Monday after school at the home of Judith Parker, cm of the leaders. The other leader is Bev Prout. Members are Aimee Bayer, who was elected president, Lori Kenrick, vice president; Sarah McAllister, secretary; Erin Parker, treasurer; Eliza- beth Kerslake, press reporter; Rhonda Dougall and Rebekah Prout. When the group arrived off the bus, half took time to make cheese ome- lets while the other half got their books and discussed them. A game about the life of the egg and the chicken followed. Leader Bev Prout showed how to hard boil an egg. The meeting ad- journed about 5:30. Next meeting is on November 2 at the home of Bev Prout at 4:00. Exeter 11 4H news By Jayden Russell EXETER - "Eggs" ptrimenting with Eggs was the third meeting topic of the Exeter II 4H Club on Monday October 19. Finally the club decided on our club name "Eggs"tra Special Chicks" and picked their title page picture. They split into three groups and got "crackin" in the kitchen with new recipes like "Ca- nadian Country Pie", "Microwave Peanut Butter Brownies" and "Honey Lirne Dressing". While the pie cooked members discussed "eggs"actly what is an egg and the roles eggs play in reci- pes. Back in the kitchen they tast- ed the quiche, devoured the fust salad with the lime dressing and the brownies. Mom good cooking is to come. 4-H show and sale HANOVER - Strong bidding by many businesses and community leaders helped give good prices to 4-H beef club members in Huron, Bruce and Grey Counties. Seven- ty-seven calves sold at the Huron - Bruce -Grey Show and Sale on Sat- urday October 17, at Tn-County Sales Arena, Hanover. The aver- age sale price was $1.20. Businesses from Huron County which bought calves at the sale in- cluded: Cargill, Falcon Spring Farms (Clinton), Hensall Live- stock Sales Ltd. (Hensel!), McKil- lop Mutual Insurance Company (Seaforth), and West Wawanosh 1992 Field Crop EXETER - The Exeter Agricul- tural Society's 1992 Field Crop Competition has been a difficult one to wrap-up. The growing sea- son that has delayed harvesting all year has also delayed most of our judging. With this in mind, the so- ciety announced that the judging of the ensilage corn and grain corn has finally been completed. The following arc the field scores for ensilage corn: Torn Hem 98, Allan Rundle 97, Alan Powe 95, Alan Hern 94, Tom Tri- eb.rer 91, Miller Farms 91, Gerald Dearing 91, Pete Tuckey 90, Bob Down 8`), Earl French 86, Pass- more Farms 85, Cliff Hicks 77 and Hem Farms 76. The grain corn field scores are : Allan Rundle 98, Tom Triebner 97, Bruce Shapton 96, Passmore Farms 95, Alan Hem 95, Miller Farms 94, Alan Powe 94, Gerald Dearing 92, Pete Tuckey 91, Earl French 90, Bob Down 89, Murray Dawson 88, Tom Hern 97, Cliff Hicks 80, Gerald Johns 79 and Hern Farms 68. The overall winter in the 1992 Field Crop Competition was Rob- . err Down. Down entered all seven crops in the competition. He fin- ished first in three of the seven sections and plaoed well in the uth- er four. Down will receive the spe- cial prize as overall winner, $"2.5 - donaled by Ontario Maciti e,ry Ring, RRII1 Centralia Onlirio. Mutual Insurance Company (Dun- gannon). The top price of $1.65/1b. went to Suzanne Crawford, Owen Sound for her Grand Champion Steer bought by Formosa Mutual Insurance. Over 55 buyers and a variety of donors, sponsors, and volunteers helped make this event a success. Nancy Scarrow, ROP Technician did backfat measurement` on all the calves. Results will later be compared to carcass grades. Orga- nizers arc thanking local buyers, Tri -County Sales Barn and the auctioneer, Len Metcalfe. This business of fanning gats more complicated every day. Once upon a time, more than half the population was keenly aware of agriculture because they were directly connected with it. Even those who did not know much about green, growing things were involved with those who did. You grew a crop or raised your livestock and you sold it. And you sold it wherever you could find a market. Not so any more. Recent statis- tics indicate that less than four per- cent of the people in this country are involved in agriculture. Mind you, more than 25 percent of the jobs in this country all along the food chain are generated by agri- culture so it has to be considered the most important sector of thc economy. Think of it for a moment: thc IMimets, the pickers, "the truckers, the processors, the canning plants, the packagers; the printers, the butchers, .the packing plants, the implement manufacturers and hence the steel plants, the dealers, fertilizer companies, the .pesticide and herbicide makers, the retail Stores right from the huge super- markets to the small convenience stores and till the rest of vendors of food such as restaurants and ham- burger stands. Nowadays, though, we arc em- barking on a hemispheric age. With the North American Free Trade Agreement in the wings, it won't be long until Central and South America will be pan of thc trading group. I am quite puzzled as to why Ca- nadian negotiators arc so anxious to get this deal signed. 1 know. 1 know. It will give Canadian farm- ers - - and everyone else -- a crack at selling to the millions of people in the Excited States and Mexico. But our history of dealing with the United States in agricultural prod- ucts has me frightened. The Yanks hate to be hit in the pocketbook. They just simply can- not take it. Hogs -- always pan of a north American market -- are a classic ex- ample of what the Americans can do to frighten a little brother or sister away. Canadian farmers raise great hogs, the leanest and most delicious in the entire world. The Americans know this. So when we make too many inroads into their market, they get cheesed off. They slap a counter- vailing duty of 9.3 cents a pound on Canadian pork. - Then they start harrassing our shipments at the border by using meat inspectors to delay shipments. Jim Goodhand, the articulate chairman of the Ontario Pork Pro- ducers marketing board, says the Americans simply will not allow Canadians to meet them on a level playing field. Another point to prove the case Deadline approaches for bids EXETER - Owners of agricultu- ral land arc being offered funding to cover the cost of tree -planting through Permanent Cover I1, A pro- gram of the Ausable Bayfield Con- servation Authority. This one-year program is intended for mw - cropped acres that will benefit from windbreaks, buffer strips and other such plantings for sites vulnerable to erosion. Interested land -owners who submit a bid application by. December 4 may receive a grant to- talling 100 percent of their tree - planting costs. "It's an excellent opportunity, es- pecially for land -owners just start- ing out with tree -planting," says Stephen Harburn, Extension Servic- es Technician with the Ausable- Bayfield Conservation Authority. "We're encouraging people to take advantage of this program; the chance to plant trees with a 100 percent grant doesn't come every year. The bid form is simple to fill out and there arc several agencies involved to help with the program and give guidance." Funded by Agriculture Canada, the program is administered by the Ontario Soil and Crop Improve- ment Association, in co-operation with the Conservation Authority, the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, and the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources. Bid kits are available from the ABCA, MNR and OMAF offices; applicants must submit their bids to the OSCIA who will review sub- missions and notify successful bid- ders. In addition to tree -planting costs, grant recipients may also receive funds for land retired from produc- tion. "The highest number of grant dollars in the province will be spent right here in our area," adds Ste- phen, "in Huron, Middlesex and Lam bton Counties." The ABCA has trees available for next spring's planting. Land -owners should be doing site preparation this fall if they arc thinking about planting next year. The Conserva- tion Authonty is equipped to offer HYDE BROTHERS PAM EQUIPMENT LIMITED Hensall.Stare IM) Rannoch Store Ill) 519.2624605 r —1 519.2294700 (Bob. Terry, Joel l OiNTZ (Murray) iLINIME Ott mains 1<i)tiOfe) "YOUR NO -TILL 1PECIALIST" PARTS SPECIALS WOK OIL SPECIALS 821 Hyd 5 gal. Pail $27.00 10W30 30 gal. drum.... 8162.00 15W40 30 gal. drum.... $165.00 12 qt. lot...15W40 Motor Oil $22./case 821 Hydraulic Oil $24./case 411 Transmission Fluid $26./case Rad Anti Freeze $5.80(4 I.) f3ATIHERING CHAIN SPECIAL Replace those Gleaner corn head gathering chains with this special price $89.40 r F.TIER REPLACEMENT PLOW t;OULTERS 20" Blade 800 II) Int“.',utr' , OInl)lrltr, unit.$225.00 tow - _FARMHAND - TYE - GEHL • 4t11.+R10H - YETTNR technical advice and can also pro- vide a planting plan for land- owners intending to complete a hid application. For more details or to obtain a bid kit, call the ARCA at 235-2610. Appreciatw n day Cleve Gingerlch of C.G. Farm Supply chats with area farmers Bill Steckle, Jack Schade and Glenn Hodgins at the Zurich farm machinery dealership's recent customer appreciation day. came about when J.M. Schacher Inc., "you can taste the differeviee quality makes,” started shipphsg train the U.S. market The famous quality gave the products a ready matfaet for shoppers in the States oath somebody started talking abbot chloramphenicol, a drug used Vis treat sick cattle and hogs which h allowed in Canada but not in the States. No matter that meats Schnieder shipped contained no trace of the drug, the scare tactics paid off so J.M. Schnieder quietly withdrew its products from the American market. U.S. officials raised the concern that a shipment of Schneider's wie- ners "may" have contained lysteria bacteria. Neither Schneider's nor Canadian government officials were ever able to find any trace of lysteria but the damage had been done. People in any other sector of the economy who think this free trade is going to be a piece of cake better get ready for all kinds of fights with these Yankee traders. They know how to play these trade games better than we do. 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