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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1981-10-14, Page 18PAGE 18 -- GODi RICH SIGNALSTAR, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14,1981 GRAPEFRU 1 STRAIGHT FROM FLORIDA ORANGES: FLORIDA NAVEL SEEDLESS 1MALL BOX 004O) $ 12.00 LARGE SOX (80-125) $20.00 GRAPEFRUIT: INDIAN RIVER PINK 'SEEDLESS SMALL BOX (18-24) $11 0 .00 LARGE SOX (3 4$) $1 8.00 DELIVERY DATE: NOVEMBER 30 TO DECEMBER 4 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: THE G.D.C.I. STUDENT COUNCIL THANK YO Pierre Trudeau has been given an amber light on his con- stitutional package. Not green, mind you, just amber where he can proceed with caution. He has succeeded in -ramming the package through this far even though eight of the 10 provinces are opposed to it. Why, then, has his government been so timid about the Crowsnest Pass Freight Rates? There seems to be no limit to the power Pierre wants to wield such as the War Measures Act and the energy policy. • But Ottawa simply will not touch The Crow. "I would not have the folly... to say that I am going to tamper with The Crow," he said at a press conference early this year. "There is one government, that of Saskatchewan, that is poised and ready to hit us with a sledgehammer if we even touch The Crow." • What is The Crow? Why is it such a sacred bird? Or cow? The Crow dates back\to 1897. It is an agreement between the federal government and the Canadian Pacific Railway. Ottawa gave the CPR $3.4 million as a subsidy to build a rail line from Lethbridge, Alta., through the Crowsnest Pass to Nelson, B.C. In return, CPR had to guarantee permanent freight rate Schmid's Jewellery & China, Lucknow �e�a�y �1�1• +' it'oJcffitl .‘e.,siv *04'44t° t*.8)i) 1.O-5edo Off 7th ItEfl vea oken ' i- a•:: - Schmid's Jewellery & China Lucknow Open Six Days a Week Hearings re -scheduled The OFA's Emergency Task Force on Agriculture Toronto hearings have been re -scheduled to Monday, November 2, and. Tuesday, November 3. Morning session will run from 10 a.m. to noon; afternoon from 1:30 to 5 p.m. ; and evenings from 7to10p.m. The hearings will be held at, the Victoria Square Community Hall, located at 18th Avenue and Woodbine Avenue, 33/4 miles north of Highway 7, east of Richmond Hill. Individual farmers, farm organizations, marketing boards, agri-business, banks, oil companies and consumers have been invited to appear. The Task Force Chairman is Everett Biggs, former provincial deputy minister of Agriculture. Members in- clude John Wise, former federal Conservative agriculture minister; Del O'Brien, eastern Ontario ,.alairyman, lawyer and,. businessman; Murray Gaunt, former provincial MPP and Liberal agriculture • critic; and Barbara Shand, former president of the Ontario Chapter of the Consumers' Association of Canada. Other hearings are held at: Hamilton - October 19 - Marritt Hall, Ahcaster; and Hanover - October 21 - Coliseum. Come in and Play Panasonic Omnivision Baseball and get 510500toS1000o0ff on specially selected Omnivision models featuring 105 channel cable capability and wireless infrared remote control. 1 Phone 524-9432 Panasonic Omnivision just slightly ahead of our time See these new home video cassette recorders at Rh.!eWiT GODERICH V lit 34 Shoppers Square reductions on Prairie grain shipped east to the Lakehead. Over the years, the Crow rate extended to all railways and to grain shipped west and north as well as east. The original act was repealed in 1925 - 56 years ago - and became enshrined in the Railway Act. It has been there ever since, through rain and snow and drought and inflation and deflation and recession and depression and high, interest rates. - It is a guaranteed frieight rate of one half -cent per ton per mile. But that ain't all by any means. There is the Crow Gap which is the difference between the half -cent the railways can charge and their actual cost which amounts to about $500 million annually paid to the railways to maintain the half -cent rate. And we aren't done yet. Next comes the Crow Benefit, another subsidy paid to the railways because the Crow Gap doesn't pay enough to make up the cost difference between the Crow Rate and... well, I'm lost, too. Because then there is something else called the Crow Benefit Annuity, the amount it would cost to phase out the Crow Rate over the years. How much does it all cost? Good question. Estimates 'range between $300 million and $600 million a year in compensation to railways because some yahoos decided 84 years ago to set the rate at half -a -cent a ton -mile. There is, of course, a growing body of people who would dearly love to see something done about the Crow Rates. Even Alberta and Manitoba officials have agreed that maybe, perhaps, uh, yeah, well, that something should be done about The Crow. But Saskatchewan remains adamant. Regina won't move. The tail is again wagging the dog. Such antiquated legislation does not reflect the 1980s. An 84 -year-old rate for which everybody in the country is paying is like keeping a buggy -whip factory in business because the owner is a blue-eyed Arab with a lot of clout. As Geoffrey Stevens said in the Globe and Mail last winter, it makes whoever dreamed up Mirabel Airport look like a blooming genius. Series of courses for novice farmers "Saturdays in Guelph" is a new series of one -day courses for novice farmers held throughout the autumn at the University of Guelph. "When we held a Saturday course last year, we were amazed to find people com- ing from as far afield as Quebec and Thunder Bay," explains Nancy McPherson, course eo!o r. Buying Ru Property begins the series on October 24. This -is appropriate "since finding that perfect country retreat is the first step in get- ting started. The course is designed to steer the buyer around this potential minefield. Infatuation with the glories of country living are balanced with a cooler appraisal of financing, land use, farm buildings and other realities of country life. Potential earthworm farmers will learn about pro- duction (including biology, species, diseases and reproduction) composting and marketing at Ear- thworm Culture: The Myth and the Reality, on Satur- day, October 31. At Farm Ponds on Satur- day, November 7, experts will discuss legal con- straints, design, landscap- ing, wildlife sanctuaries and fish culture. Fish Farming on Satur- day, November 14 • will be held on a fish farm near Guelph. Topics include nutri- tion, rearing, management, disease and regulations. Enrolment limited. For more information on these and other courses for novice farmers, contact Mrs. McPherson at the University of Guelph, Room 103, Johnston Hall, Guelph or call (519) 824-4120, Ext. 3064. Canvass for hospital BLYTH - Residents of Blyth can expect a visit during October from 12 Blyth area pople who will be canvassing for the Clinton Hospital building fund: The fund raisers are urging citizens of Blyth to consider their commitment now as the project can't get underway until at least $170,000 of the $866,000 cost of the new emergency wing is raised. SPORTS TRAVELCADE October 21, 22, 23/'81 From 6:30 p.m. till 9:00 p.m. Ronald Feagan Memorial Grandstand 166 MacDonald St. Goderich Sports Travelcade promotes amateur sports and fitness to help Ontario residents to improve their lifestyle by getting involved. VOLLEYBALL CLINIC October 21; 8:00 till 9:30 porno Victoria Public School BASKETBALL CLINIC October 21; 9:15 till 10:30 p.m. St. Marys Public School CROSSCOUNTRY SKIING CLINIC Thursday October 22; 7:00 till 9:00 Victoria Public School ALL SPORTS TRAVELCADE - 1- .i - orfs`fi'r®v®icaae soeikiis c��o _free of charge. So c. me out and sae what they have to offer. Huron faun, and home news Five girls will be com- peting in the 1981-82 Huron County Dairy Princess. Com- petition on Saturday, Oc- tober 17 at the White Carna- tion Hall in Holmesville. Their names and addresses are: Sofie Beyersbergen, R.R.2,, Lucknow; Cathy Van- Ninhuys, R.R.2, Bayfield; Mary Ann VanDorp, R.R.2, Seaforth; Karen McMichael, Wroxeter; Ruth Ann Zieknan, Zurich. Anyone planning to come to_the dance may wish to make a special effort to be at the hall at 9:00 p.m. to hear the contestants speak. Following speeches the dance will start with music by ' `Mgrencove". During the first intermission the new 1981-82 Huron County Dairy Princess will be crowned. The Dairy Princess will act as a goodwill am- bassador for the Milk Pro- ducers. The basic goal of the program is to improve com- munications between the producer and the consuming public. Visits to service clubs, women's groups, schools and participation in various community func- tions are typical Dairy Princess activities which help to meet the goals of the program. As you have already read, stalk rot this year is bad. There are even reports that we have a new stalk rot. That is not the case. There are four main diseases that cause stalk rot - Diplodia stalk rot, Gibberella stalk rot, Fusarium stalk rot and Pythium stalk rot. Of these four, you generally have mostly Gibberella and Fusarium. This year there is Fusarium but a lot more Pythium than normal. This rapidly developing rot is usually confined to a single internode just above the soil line. 'The diseased area is brown water soaked, soft and collapsed. Why more of this disease this yearand what about next year? Pythium develops during extended periods of hot, wet or very humid weather. It generally develops where air and soil drainage are poor and .humidity is high. This was the time period in early September of this year. David Morris of the Soils and Crops Branch of OMAF (St. Thomas) has explained the effects after that time. "The affected plants are severely infected with rot at ground level. This rot restricted the flow of water into the upper part of the plant causing the leaves to stop photosynthesis. prematurely. (At this stage of development, the ear has priority on all growth factors so any deficiency is going to affect some other plant part first. Leaves are probably the most sensitive to water stress.) Since the leaves have not been carrying on with photosynthesis, the ear has been draining all the stored sugars out of the leaves and stalk, causing them to die prematurely and leaving them in a very weakened condition." At this point the stalk rot fungi take over. It is really too early to pick out dramatic differences in stalk rot among hybrids. However, the • researchers from the U.S. tell us that there are hybrids resistant to Pythium. But since we don't normally have Pythium real bad, we won't know until later if we have some of those resistant hybrids. It has been sug- gested that if a hybrid has a thick rind, it will continue to stand up even if it has a lot of stalk rot diseases. However, this is just a theory. Whatever the cause and ef- fects of these stalk rots, it again points to the necessity of choosing a hybrid with good standability. It is one thing to have a corn hybrid that has a lot of appeal dur- ing July and August and then produces big cobs. But it is still another to get that big cob into the bin. The Perth -Huron Soil & Crop improvement again plan to collect and sum- marize information on on- farm corn yield trials. Col- lecting these trials will measure a hybrid's true wor- th. If you are growing a test, please give your results to your township Soils and Crops director or send it directly to the OMAF office. We hope to have these sum- marized for the two annual meetings later this year (Huron county - November 26 and Perth county - December 1). I think these trials are good enough to encourage you to wait to see them before you buy any new corn hybrids for next year. Especially if you are not satisfied with the corn you grew this year. If history repeats itself, there will be 25 or more bushels per acre difference among hybrids grown in this area. We know the corn seed dealers will soon be asking you for your orders. Don't drop a real good hybrid or include a lot of a new hybrid because of friends or neighbours who are dealers. Remember what I suggested last year if they are persistent. Offer him $20 so you don't have to buy a hybrid you don't want. -We have come across another way to say No to these dealers. Make up your own corn dealer sign, and post it at the end of your lane. This way i) any new dealers come down your road and see your sign they will not bother you. New terms used in" reports Feeder cattle market reports are using a whole new set of terms to describe feeder cattle. The new grading system was recently introduced by the federal government to accommodate the wide range of breeds and crosses in the Canadian cattle population. "The new classification describes the economically important characteristics of feeder cattle," says Ralph Macartney, Ontario - Ministry of Agriculture and Food beef cattle specialist. "It classifies cattle and calves by two criteria — frame size and degree of fleshing." Within frame size, the system allows for three sizes — small, medium and large. "Large -frame cattle would achieve an Al to A2 grade at 544 kg (1200 pounds) for steers and 450 kg (1000 pounds) for heifers," says Macartney. "This category would take in most of the ex- otic heifers and exotic crosses." "Medium -frame cattle would include . most of the British breeds," he says. "In this frame size, steers would achieve an Al and A2 grade at 450 kg (1000 pounds) and heifers at 385 kg (850 pounds). The small -frame size takes in the more compact, shorter -bodied cattle breeds. Steers in this category would achieve an Al and A2 grade at less than 450 kg (1000 pounds) or less than 385 kg (850 pounds) for heifers. In the fleshing category, cattle are described as lean or fleshy. This information is important since leaner cattle have a higher feed efficiency than those with more fleshing. "The lean category in- cludes most stocker and feeder cattle that are marketed off pasture, with little evidence of fat," ex- plains Macartney. "The cat- tle in -the fleshy category have likely received higher energy rations." The Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food is us- ing the new classification system in feeder cattle market reports. These reports now specify the sex of the animal, weight, frame size and degree of fleshing. Farmers' outlook is as gloomy as the weather CLINTON - The outlook by Huron County farmers is as gloomy as the weather has been for the past month, but according to Don Pullen of the agriculture office, there's still plenty of time to get the bumper crops off, if only the weather would turn sunny, warm and dry for a couple of weeks. Mr. Pullen said there is a potential for an excellent corn crop, and a few good days should see the rest of the white bean crop har- vested, the winter wheat sown, and the grain corn crop harvest well underway. Although they were plagued by wet weather, white bean farmers are seeing their crop selling for a record $90 per bag, far above their production costs, unlike livestock and corn producers who are facing bankruptcy because of low product prices and high intertest rates. The Beauty Lounge 81 EAST ST. 1/2 PRICE HAIR TREATMENTS PHONE 524-8994 In answer to t e many calls regarding our fail treatment special we are presenting It from October 15 to October 31. Your hair needs all the help it can get to remain your "Crowning Glory" Atmosphere pollution, damaging shampoos, sun , chemical damage all result in dull, lifeless, broken hairs We believe the best approach to beautiful hair is a well balanced program of four key elements --- Shampooing, conditioning, moisturizing and a hair re -vitalizing program. Ask about our home care program. For your appointment pher..: T o duty Loucliga 524-81414. "Where the nicest people In the world walk thru our doors." Mrs. Russo