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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1984-06-06, Page 23i l Imas-Advocate, June 6. 19d4 � A The Wsstsel-Rocco Asim -System — d..tgtt.a to grow with > needs � . Your new Area Dealer for Westeel-Rocco Storage and Hop. per Bottom Bins 1 I Callus for all your material handling and storage needs Dougall Construction Exeter 235-1281 ATTENTION CORN & WHEAT GROWERS You are invited to a A. Grain Drying and Con- ditioning Seminar 8 Demonstration This event will be held June 7 at the Pineridge Chalet Hensall, Onta -,o Registration at 9:30 a.m. ,• Grain Drying, - Equipment Display • Dryer Demonstration • Door Prizes • Lunch and Refreshments will be served See you there! RUN1111111n1II1lN111111ltltrnittttltl; IlIlflllll Itlllll 11U11t111%Ifflllllll lllllllrtlitr MF AGRI BUILDERS MAIN STREET SOUTH. EXETER. ONT. NOM ISO (519) 235-2120 You make it sound as though every farm wife in the country is getting beaten up by a frustrated husband. That is a quote from a let- ter received more than a year ago when 1 quoted a survey prepared by the Concerned Farm Women. It delineated some of the problems on the home front in agriculture and painted a chilling picture of some of the frustration in agriculture today. Still another survey, Women in Rural Life, prepared at a cost of $96,000 by the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, has. pinpointed a few more pro- blem areas. I hope, though, that the information will not be misconstrued and provoke a few more letters castigating me for putting farm wives in a bad light. The new surve revealed thataffordable day care is a top concern for farm women. A great many rural wives are forced to, take off farm jobs just to keep the farm out of the red these days. In addition, the economic crunch has meant a change in farm labor. Few farmers can afford to hire help. So who has to pitch in and help? Wives and the family, that's who. 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Why 'are some pens - clean while others are always messy? What can be done when planning new buildings or in existing barns to reduce the problem? Here are some ideas that seem to provide a basic recipe for clean pens. They are aimed especially at feeder pig barns with partial- ly slotted floors, but will app- ly to other situations. 1. Don't crowd the pigs. As a guide, allow one square foot of pen space for every 25 pounds of Weight. 2. The pens should be two and one-half to three times as long as they are wide. 3. The slats should be at one end of the pen and should take up about one-quarter to one- third of the pen length. 4. The feeding area should be either on the floor or along Admits costly farmer poll Agriculture Minister Den- nis Timbrell spent $120,000 last year finding out that On- tario's beef fhrmers are in financial trouble - something everyone already knew, Liberal agriculture critic Jack Riddell (Huron - Middlesex) revealed this week. Timbrell conducted a poll of beef producers "to tell him the beef producers of Ontario are in dire straits. We've been telling you all along," Riddell said. Timbrell acknowledged the poll was coni ted, but argued that his miastry felt it necessary to canvass everyone with a direct knowledge of the industry's problems. Despite that kind of spen- ding, Riddell said, there was no new money or emergency assistance for farmers in the May 15 provincial budget. Any increase was for existing programs or programs already announced, he said. In Saskatchewan, Riddell said the government has given farmers emergency assistance of $25 a cow, $5 a pig and $2 a lamb, while New Brunswick is providing in- terest free loans until com- modity prices increase. NDP agriculture critic Mel Swart ( Welland -Thorold) said the budget contained no money for Ontario's share of the national red meat stabilization plan which Tint - !well has urged the federal government to adopt. Without money set aside, no payments could be made in 1985 evert if the plan was approved soon, he said. Timbrell explained that such a plan would have quarterly payments, and could'tte implemented in 1985. The producers themselves do not want any money from the province which would jeopardize chances of federal government agreement to a national stabilization plan. the minister said. Farmer sm Book Now To have your spring grain and beans custom cleaned -on YOUR farm. We clean, treat, wags or bulk and we offer germination tests. CANADIAN MOBILE SEED CLEANING LTD. 1-519.269.5602 or (416)775.6994 one side between the front of the pen and the manuring area. The pigs have to be able to move freely between feeding and manuring areas. 5. Open pen partitions en- courage activity in pigs. Open partitions should be used in the manuring area but the resting and feeding areas should have solid partitions to discourage activity. Keep in mind that the solid partitions must be compatible with the room's ventilation system. 6. Pen floors should slope one-half inch to the foot from front to back, with an extra one to two inch drop from solid floor to slats. 7. Locate the waterer over the slotted area. Wet the slats before moving pigs into a pen. Sprinkler systems on timers may be used in hot weather. 8. Make sure the resting area is clean and dry when pigs are first moved in. Floor feeding for the first couple of days will help encourage the pigs to keep it clean. Small pigs may need some sup- plemental heat in this area in cold weather. 9. Perhaps the most impor- tant of all is to eliminate drafts in the resting area. Ventilation plays a major role in hog health and the stresses which are put on pigs. We en- courage ventilation systems where fresh air moves across the ceiling, drops into the back of the pen ( manuring area) and moves slowly toward the resting area. On the very hot days of summer, there are advantages to reversing this pattern. However. most systems don't have this -capability. By following these prin- ciples, you should go a long way to keeping pig pens relatively clean. Once that happens, then maybe you can worry about carrying all that money to the bank. At least the barn will be a lot more pleasant place to work. N38 2C r to work out some solution on child care. And Robert Welch, the man responsible for women's issues in Ontario, was not much help, either. He made some vague references to church basements. Dianne Harkin, founder of the Survival of Agriculture, put it -in perspective: The report will net make' big waves..."but it will be a tool to use when we lobby for change, "she said. She knows darn well the province has no intention of , providing daycare in the boondocks, in spite of the fact that 64 On- tario children were killed on farms between 1975 and 1981. A farm is clearly a combin- ed effort and it is practically unavoidable fora farm wife not to do a lot of physical work on the farm. It would seem to Inc that the province is. remiss in not taking the prb- blems of farm day care seriously. I am well aware that day care problems in the cities'is far from adequate. If it is in- adequate in most cities, think of how bad it is in the country. Which is not to put down the Federated Women's In- stitutes. If those ladies are presented with a challenge, they could certainly put their membership to work and sur- prise the whole country. Farm wives -- and farmers, for that matter -- were given no consideration of any kind in the recent provincial budget. I perused the pages of the national newspaper and our local daily and c.,uld-find no mention of agriculture anywhere. So any solutions to farm problems will not be coming from Ontari-ari-ari-o. Give them time and the farmers will solve their own problems. 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