HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1978-06-22, Page 14PAGE 14—CLINTON'NEWS- tECORD, THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1978
Beef Day planned
for July 12
The beef industry is
constantly changing to
increase efficiency.
To keep up with the fast
pace of change, Ontario
beef producers are in-
vited to attend Beef Day,
July 12. They will have
the opportunity to catch
up on innovations in the
industry and observe
current research.
The program, open to
all members of the beef
community, is sponsored
jointly by the Ontario
Ministry of Agriculture
and Food, the Ontario
Beef Performance
Testing Association, the
Ontario Agricultural
College and the Ontario
Cattlemen's Association.
Tom Burgess,
Department of Animal
;Science at the Ontario
Agricultural College,
expects 200 to 300 people
from across Ontario to
attend the event.
The morning program
will be held at the Elora
Beef Research Centre.
Producers will see
various ongoing projects
including one which
monitors the behavior of
cows on closed-circuit
television. There will be
tours of the Centre's
roughland pastures.
The annual meeting of
the Ontario Beef Per-
formance Testing
Association will be held
during the lunch hour. It
is the first time the
meeting has been held in
conjunction with the Beef
Day program.
In the afternoon the
program moves to the
Arkell Bull Test Statioa,
south of Guelph, where 55
bulls finishing test will be
up for private treaty sale.
Producers will have the
opportunity to try the cow
game during their tour of
the bull test station.
Using a computer,
producers can determine
the outcome of various
breeding programs.
For more information
about the Beef Day
program, Contact
Professor Burgess,
Department of Animal
Science, or Ralph
Mccartney, OMAF ex-
tension beef specialist at
the Ontario Agricultural
College, University of
Guelph.
Jack's Jottings
BY JACK RIDDELL,
M.P.P.
As you know,
Treasurer Darcy
McKeough announced on
June 8 that the govern-
ment would not bring in
legislation this year to
establish market value
assessment and other
aspects of property tax
reform as promised. He
gave no revised time-
table, and ministry aides
have said that the
program has been
"killed" for the
foreseeable, future.
According to a Revenue
Ministry official, the
Government would have
saved up to $25 million if
it had brought in property
tax reform in 1970, in-
stead of paying to.study it
for eight years, then
shelving it indefinitely.
During the last
Provincial Election, the
Cor_servative Charter for
Ontario promised to
reduce the municipal tax
burden for pensioners.
Liberal Leader Stuart
Smith has asked the
Treasurer 'to indicate
what plans the govern-
ment has made to meet
that promise now that
property tax reform has
been postponed (or
cancelled). In his Budget
speech, the Treasurer
had announced that basic
tax credits for senior
citizens would be in-
creased from $290 to $510
when the reform was
implemented. As well,
the government un-
dertook to raise the
maximum credit to $750.
The Premier has
promised that pensioners
will still get some relief
from property taxes,
notwithstanding can-
cellation or indefinite
postponement of reform.
There will be a delay of
four months in raising the
drinking age from 18 to
19, in order to remove
apparent inequities for
some students. The
Minister of Consumer
and Commercial
Relations, Larry
Grossman, has an-
nounced that he is
changing the effective
date of the new drinking
age from September 1 as
originally planned, to
December 31. Teachers,
parents and students
have told him that the key
date fcr school enrolment
is December 31, each
year, the object being
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that all children born in
the same year would pass
through the school
system as a group.
He said, "A September
1 date then, would have
the effect of splitting and
dividing the group of
students born in 1960 into
two categories, although
they generally as a group
have gone through the
system together and are
for the most part in the
same grade."
Ontario's rent review
program should be
continued for two years
beyond the planned ex-
piry date of December 31,
with the ceiling on rent
increases allowable
without a hearing kept at
six per cent, recommends
an all -party committee of
the Legislature. After a
long series of public
hearings, and closed
sessions,' the Committee
has come up with
proposals for government
action which are similar
to the position paper
released recently by the
Liberal Party. The
Cabinet has to decide
whether to accept ,the
views of the Committee.
Although NDP policy is
that rent review should
become permanent, NDP
members on the Com-
mittee have voted with
the Liberal proposal for a
two-year extension,
which would allow time
for the construction of
more housing units,
alleviating the need for
artificial controls.
A Conservative
proposal that rent review
be restricted to buildings
with more than four units
was defeated in Com-
mittee.
Meanwhile, a proposal
to raise the rent of
tenants of Ontario's
subsidized housing units
to 25 per cent of their
income has been stalled
until fall, according to the
Housing Minister, Claude -
Bennett. Speaking at a
press conference
following two days , of
meetings with federal
and provincial housing
officials, he said: "There
will be no increase in
rents immediately in this
province ... increases ...
will be phased in over a
number of years."
The Minister of Health,
Dennis Timbrell, has
announced that hospitals
and private clinics which.,
obtain computerized x-
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without the prior ap-
proval of the Ministry
will not be allowed to
charge patients for their
use. It is imperative, he
said, in times -of con-
straint to control the
proliferation of high-cost
technology, and the
Ministry is designating a
new category of
hospitals, called "M"
hospitals, which may
charge and accept
payment from other
hospitals for carrying out
these x-ray scans. (A
head scanner costs about
$400,000 and a whole-body
scanner costs about
$800,000, with annual
operating costs of some
$250,000).
The Province will
spend an extra five
million dollars to extend
its 1978 Ontario Youth
Employment Program,
the Provincial Treasurer
has • announced.
Originally the program
was scheduled to finish on
June 1, and it was '
estimated that 30,000 jobs
would'be created at a cost
of $17.2 million. This
program, under which
the government sub-
sidizes employers who
hire students, has
resulted in some 15,000
applications representing
about 38,000 jobs, and the
program is $5,000 over
budget.
The Minister Of
Transportation and
Communications, Mr.
James Snow, has in-
formed the Legislature
that motor vehicle deaths
in Ontario dropped to
their lowest number in 18
years for the first quarter
of 1978. He attrributed the
drop in deaths - 64 per
cent lower than during
the same period in 1975 -
to compulsory seat belt
legislation and lower
speed limits, both in-
troduced in 1976. In the
first three months of 1975,
there were 338 deaths of
drivers or passengers
compared with 123 in the
same period this year. In
1977, there were 178
driver or passenger
deaths in the first three
months.
Earlier this month, the
Ministry released figures
showing that the province
saved almost $2 million in
in medical costs in 1976 OfSeptember 26 - 30. 1978
after seat belts became
compulsory and speed
limits were lowered.
The Clinton Lions Club installed their 1978-79
executive recently. The new officers include, left to
right: Jens Anderson, 1st vice president; Earl
Hilderley, treasurer; Harold Wise, 2nd vice;
Stewart Taylor, greeter; John Dixon, one year
director; Murray Garrett, one year director; Gord
Harkes, two year director; John Wise, past
president; Ted Davies, lion tamer; Len Theedom,
president; Beecher Menzies, song leader; Maynard
Corrie, tail twister; Ken Dupee, two year director;
Red. Garon, tail twister. Absent were: Eugene
McAdam, secretary; Larry Gibbings, 3rd vice;
Glen Price, tail twister. (News -Record photo)
news farm news
Farming library for only $50
By Donald
Shaughnessy, CA
Rural libraries often
seem to take the view
that farmers don't want
to study their occupation;
but no matter, it will cost
less than $50 a year for
any farmer to develop a
superb library of his own.
Assemble your library
on the principle that a
viable business needs
current information to
survive, as indeed a York
University study on small
businesses has proved.
And if it applies to
manufacturers and
commercial businesses it
surely applies to farming
where technology and
methodology is con-
stantly changing.
One excollent volume
that every farmer should
own is the Ontario
Ministry of Agriculture
and Food's publication.
The Agricultural Han-
dbook. It's actually two
volumes of assembled
bulletins and is available
at $12, plus $3 a year for a
subscription to the
supplements which are
constantly issued.
It is amanagement tool
seen very infrequently in
the farm home. Yet i(s
one that financial ad -
More help for farmers
Agriculture and Food
Minister Bill Newman
has announced a pilot
program, "Agricrew", to
be supervised by
university students
working from several of
the ministry's local of-
fices.
The university students
will recruit crews of local
young people and
arrange work
agreements for them on
farms in the area.
Crews will be available
to assist with such work
as painting, cleanup,
general repairs, haying
and harvesting.
During the period from
mid June to September 1,
farmers needing extra
help will order a crew's
services on a daily basis
up to a maximum of five
days per farmer.
A fee of $90 per day will
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be charged ,or a crew of
five young eople. At the
end of the program,
farmers will he reim-
bursed $35 for each day
they have used the ser-
vice.
To date, Agricrew
supervisors are located
at ministry offices in
Cayuga, Fergus, London,
Milton, Simcoe, Wood-
stock, Walkerton and
Vineland.
visers have used as the
basis for advice that has
saved their clients many
thousands of dollars.
Carefully cros's-
indexed, it provides the
latest information on a
variety of subjects
• ranging from field crops
to machinery operation
costs ... perhaps. 400
articles each ranging
from one to six pages in
length.
For example, one
article deals with an
office in the farm home.
Another explains how
to determine the ap-
propriate time to trade in
obsolete farm equipment.
It includes charts that
enable you to calculate
the operating and capital
costs of such equipment
from Agriculture Canada
or the Ontario Ministry.
Just write for a list of
their publications and
choose the titles that
appeal to you.
Agricultural trade
, journals are usually
excellent sources of in-
formation, too, although
sometimes a trifle shrill
when they get away from
technical information
and into the realms of
opinion. For new about
current developments in
the agricultural industry,
however, they are in-
valuable.
One or two such
publications dealing with
agriculture in general,
and one or two others
dealing with a farmer's
specialties will round out
as tractors and forage any farm's library.
harvesters. As with all business
In the ' section on expenses, the cost of
agricultural economics, books and trade journals
there is an article on how is tax deductible. And it
and when to hold aarm would be the rare farmer
auction, It's the kind of who could not quickly
information that, if you earn the price of sub -
did not have it right at scribing to these
your fingertips, you publications by spending
would not know where to only half an hour a week
begin looking for it. or so flipping through
If you want to go into a them.
particular subject in Mr. Shaughnessy is
depth, you can obtain with G.H. Ward & Par -
more detailed publication tners, Cobourg.
A feeding program
that makes sense
Horse Sense
Horses vary in nutrient requirements according to age and activity. MASTER FEED
has the right kind of Horse Feed for your horse.
MASTER HORSE KRUNCH CUBES - primarily for breeding
and growing stock.
MASTER HORSE SUPPLEMENT PELLETS - to feed with
oats and hay.
MASTER SWEET HORSE FEED - formulated to meet the
nutritional requirements of mature horses when fed with hay
as recommended.
MASTER 17 PERCENT FRISKY FOAL PELLETS - for the
growing foal at its most critical period.
MASTER COMPLETE HORSE FEED - a completely
balanced substitute for hay or grain.
For More Information See:
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OPEN: Mon. - Friday 8:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Saturday - 8:00-12 noon
Meat prices account
for FPI increases
Volatile ° red -meat
prices accounted for four-
fifths of tie monthly
increase in the Farmer
Price Index (FPI).
Farm -gate prices of most
other food items have
changed little in the last
12 months.
The Farmer Price
Index for May stood at
192.5, an increase of 4.3
per cent from April. The
FPI for April, 1978, has
been revised from 182.6 to
184.6 as a result of ad-
justments to prices
received for beef and
pork). This Index was
designed by OFA to
measure the changes in
the farm -gate prices of
major foodstuffs. It
shows price changes of
the foods grown in
Canada as opposed to
prices of all foods on
Canadian grocery
shelves.
Over the past twelve
months, since May, 1977,
the Farmer Price Index
has increased 14.1 per
cent. By comparison, the
Consumer Price Index
for food for home con-
sumption increased 16.9
per cent over the 12
months from April to
April.
By far, the largest
increases in the Farmer
Price Index are due to the
long-awaited up -turn in
beef prices, which
measured 50.8 per cent
higher than a year ago.
There were more modest
increases for pork (12.9
per cent) and dairy
products (4.4 per cent).
Egg and horticultural
prices generally suffered
•declines at the farm level
over the 12 months.
The Consumer Price
Index for May was
released on Wednesday,
June 14.
Over the past month
the FPI for dairy
products increased one
per cent in response to
the increase in support
prices for butter and
skim milk powder an-
nounced in mid-April.
Beef prices continue to
spiral, showing an in-
crease of 7.8 per cent in
one month. The price of
pork has turned up (9.7
per cent) after a two-
month decline. The price
of pork has turned up (9.7
per cent) after a two-
month decline. Overall,
prices received by far-
mers for red meats rose
8.4 per cent from April.
With rising red -meat
prices, shoppers
naturally turn to poultry.
In the last five months,
the farm -gate price of
broiler chicken has in-
creased eight per cent.
This is mainly because
the Ontario Chicken
Producers' Marketing
Board is keeping prices
close to a cost of
production formula.
However, this has not
prevented the wholesale
price from rising 18 per
cent and the retail price
from rising 28 per cent.
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