Times Advocate, 1994-04-27, Page 15L((!'iIl I)a in II('fls('Ill
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Friday's Earth Day
celebration in Hensall
was also a
combination
celebration for the
village's 110th
birthday. To celebrate,
Reeve Cecil Pepper
took part in a tree
planting at Hensall
Public School. Twenty
students were also
awarded seedlings for
correctly answering a
Hensall history quiz.
Farm business
registration
CLINTON - On April 15, 1994
the Ministry of Agriculture, Food
and Rural Affairs reported that
h48,0u� gi setieg
ved in These reg-
istrations were in response to the
passing of Bill 42 - an act to pro-
vide for Farm Registration and
Funding for Farm Organizations
that provide Education and Analy-
sis of Farming Issues on behalf of
Farmers. It was known in the rural
areas as the "Stable Funding Act."
At that time of registration the
farm business was asked to send a
$250 cheque made payable to ei-
ther the Ontario Federation of Ag-
riculture (OFA) or the Christian
Farmers' Federation of Ontario
(CFFO). This fee was refundable
upon written request. The OFA re-
ports a 12 percent refund rate, thc
CFFO reports a refund rate of over
30 percent. Actual numbers will
not be known until after June 14
when the final 90 -day refund peri-
od expires.
Several thousand farmers mailed
their registration forms without a
cheque. Some assumed that OFA's
automatic bank withdrawals would
continue but these withdrawals
were stopped in January 1994. Let-
ters are being sent from OMAFRA
Toronto requesting for a second
time the $150 registration fee.
The 1994 Farm Tax Rebate Pro-
gram will require valid registration
numbers. Farmers who have re-
ceived a refund arc still eligible for
a rebate cheque. Land owners who
rent their farmland must include
the name, signature and registra-
tion number of the tenant farmer.
Farmers who have gross farm
sales of $7,000 and more per year
and who have not registered yet
must do so before they receive a
1994 Farm Tax Rebate cheque.
Local farmers can contact the
Clinton Field Office at 482-3428
or 1-800-265-5170 if you would
like me details.
Junior Farmers
Volleyball
CLINTON - The Huron County
Junior Farmers are inviting every-
one to the "Huron County Junior
Farmers' Volleyball Challenge" to
be held at Ontario Street United
Church on April 30, 1994.
The cost for the callenge is $5
per person or $30 per team. The
purpose for the challenge is to
draw awareness to the club, its
purpose - self help through com-
munity betterment and have some
fun at the same time.
The money raised will go to-
wards prizes and club functions
around Huron County. For more
information, please contact Steve
Pilon 482-7061, Fred Peel 523-
4458 or Hank Nyman at 524-6416.
That evening of April 30, thc
Huron County Junior Farmers will
be hosting its annual hanquct. Thc
hanquct will be held at the White
Carnation in Holmesville with a
social hour at 6 p.m., dinner at 7
and a dance starting at 9 p.m.
Fred Peel, the 1994 club presi-
dent will be the host for the event
which will include member awards
for 1993 and an auction. Thc cost
for the dinner and dance is $15 per
person and for the dance only is 45
per person.
K•0ENSALI: ADVERTISING CORRECTION
STRICT We sincerel re ret the errors indicated below
.OPE!AIMYM y
in our April 27 - May 18 Flyer on
the prices of PRESSURE TREATED LUMBER.
8' 10' 12' 14' 16'
Flyer Price 2x4 4.48 5.60 6.72 7.84
8.96
Correct Price 2x4 3.36 4.20 5.04 5.88
6.72
Flyer Price 2x8 6.72 .8.40 10.08 11.76
13.44
Correct Price 2x6 5.76 7.20 8.64 10.08
11.52
*NOTE Cedar stocked In Zurich
8' 10' 12' 14'
16'
Clear 5/4x6 9.43 11.79 14.15 16.54
18.86
Select Tight
Knot or STK
6/4 X 8 7.01 8.77 10.52 12.28
14.02
Exeter' Ailsa Craig * Ikierlon' Forest
ZURICH COOP
challenge
All are welcome to attend. If you
wish to know more information
about these events, membership,
or to donate to the auction please
give Fred Peel a call at 523-4458
or Hank Nyman at 524-6416.
Times -Advocate, April 27, 1994
Page 15
One Foot in the Furro%,
By Bob Trotter
Weeds and wild animals
Do you want to eat or do you
want pretty butterflies in your
back forty?
Sounds like a stupid question
but I can see a confrontation
coming between the environ-
mentalists and the farmers right
across this nation. A few weeks
ago, 1 read an account of a meet-
ing which ended up pitting
farmers against non -farmers. It
was workshop time on the use
of trees and shrubs to attract
songbirds and wildlife.
An environmentalist said she
was being hassled by municipal
officials about milkweed on her
property, a noxious weed. She
liked it, she said, because it at-
tracted butterflies.
Any farmer can tell you that,
if milkweed is allowed to ma-
ture, it isn't long before it will
take over a field when the seeds
take their delightful parachute
jumps in the wind. Sure, it's a
plant that not only butterflies
but birds love, but it can be a
dreadful nuisance to farmers.
All kinds of "pretty" weeds fit
this picture.
More than 30 years ago, I
wrote a delightful story about
giant Canada geese and how a
few of them -- thought to be ex-
tinct -- had been located on the
south shore of Lake Ontario.
Wildlife people went to great
pains to relocate the birds on
small ponds and lakes through-
out southern Ontario.
These beautiful, graceful birds
mate for life and always return
to the same pond where they
were hatched to reproduce. The
plan to preserve them succeeded
far beyond anyone's imagina-
tion. Today, there are a million
of 'em and they can pollute
beach, ruin a field of sprouting
wheat, mutilate a cornfield and
Fquse greaj,prs ems for farm-
er8.
They fly only as far south as
open water and can stay for the
year if we get a mild winter.
No one appreciates the call of
the honkers and the lovely V -
flights more than I do but they
can be a plague to farm fields
and resorts and parks.
The same thing is true of the
graceful, glorious little white-
tailed deer. I adore them as most
people but even a small herd of
a dozen can mutilate an orchard
almost overnight.
I know of one farmer who
counted 168 head in a deer herd.
Now, that many deer suggests to
me that nature has been allowed
to get out of a balance. When
nature is out of balance, man,
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I'm afraid a huge hunk of the
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make farmers see red.
There is a compromise here
somewhere but it is going to
take the wisdom of Solomon to
find it.
Farmers have to produce be-
cause people -- even those with
green ideals -- have to eat.
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