The URL can be used to link to this page

Home My WebLink AboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1981-12-09, Page 8PAGE 8 —GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1981 31I HAMILTON ST. CHRISTMAS AQUARIUM SPECIAL 10 GAL = 05,5 Lo $49." COMPLETE WITH RLL ACCESSORIES THE PERFECT CHRISTMAS GIFT "PRECIOUS MIEN" PRECIOUS MEN a record album of the great songs been World War 1 and 11 by . • THE GODERICH HARBOURAIRES TITLE SONG BY THERESA DUFFY ONLY '$J`f' • 99(LNCLIJDES P.S.T.) Available at, • Gaderlch Legion Anderson's Rook Centra Squire Gifts. Worsoll Eros. West End Stereo Sandy's Farber Shop Main's Hardware Ed Stiles Be By Ross Haugh Fifty-five thousand hec- tares of beans are grown along the shores of Lake Huron, where an ancient glacier left some of the deepest, richest soil on earth. The annual meeting for Huron county of the S UTLER - Ring Drive Silo Unloaders Rig Jim Silo Uniooders Volum. Reit Feeders Convey-n.Fe.d .Cattle Feeders Single Chain Conveyors e arn Cleaners Oswalt Ensllmlz.rs FARMATIC- B lender Hammer Mills B lender Roller Mills S lender Mills for Ground Hi -Moisture Corn Augers Lag Elevators ACORN - Cable earn Cleaners Hydraulic Manure Pumps WESTEEL-ROSCO Grain Sins - 1,330 to 2$0,000 bu. Bulk Feed Tanks ACME - Fan -Jet Ventilation Systems ASTON - Ventilation Systems Complete Hog Con- finement Systems SLURRY -SLINGER Liquid Manure Spreaders CLAY - Parts and Service for Clay Equipment AERO -FLUSH Liquid Manure PuMps, Aerators, Separators WE HANDLE EVERYTHING - ALMOST LOWRY FARM SYSTEMS, RR1, Kincardine, Ont. Phone 3t5 -52.s Pro •' users of Huron Count Ontario Bean Producers' Marketing Board was held in the Hensall arena on November 27. Between 160- 175 bean -growing farmers attended. Anson McKinley, RR 1 Zurich was unanimously acclaimed meeting chair- man, and guided the agenda through from adoption to adjournment with his usual competence. A film produced and sponsored by the Board, "The Baked Bean Story", was shown. This well -made little movie, intended for showing in Canadian schools, gives the history of the bean from Babylonian times when it was the soldiers' staple diet, through the Roman era when that ancient people not only ate the humble legume but used it for casting votes and gambling (which may or may not have been synonymous) to the present time. The careful handling, grading sorting and sifting that puts only top quality beans into the cans is stressed, as well as the perfect blend of sun and rain needed to grow this capricious but rewarding crop. A film for export promotion, with emphasis on British canneries, and a French translation, have been made to promote the versatile bean in other countries. Reporting on the past year, chairman Gordon Hill, RR 1 Varna, said the export pattern of buying changed substantially in, 1980 with major sales made to coun- tries tries like Cuba, Bulgaria, Saudi Arabia and Iraq, with much lower volume to the UK and Europe, which had GORD SMITH CARPETS OME FORS HOLIDAYS PRICE SLASHER CASH & CARRY When Gord makes a slash... prices crash!!! BUY NOW AND SAVE ON WARM IDEAS FOR CHRISTMAS v c w been considered our major markets. Hill Bald this year the Board was able to negotiate that the bonus formula would be based on the cost of production developed by the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food,; this year the bonus will be six percent over the OMAF formula of $505 per tonne. Storage costs moved from .116 to .125 per day; there was a change in the shrink allowance from '/a to 1 of one percent; handling charges on No. ls increased from $79.37 to $83.75 per tonne, No. 2s and 3s from $73.85 to $77.90 and others from $60.63 to $63.95. Regarding the litigation that arose from the sale of the 1977 crop, the mills of the gods are still grinding very slowly, impeded by court postponements, backlogs and appeals. Two new satellite dealers, Maple Leaf Mills, new owners of the Master Feeds Greenway plant at Parkhill, and Topnotch Feeds in Milverton were approved to handle the 1981 crop. A new com- prehensive dealer, Nor- thumberland Seeds Inc. of R.R. 2 Baltimore, was ap- pointed. "All in all, this has been the best year to date for white bean growers", Hill concluded. Charles Broadwell, manager of the Ontario Bean Producers' Marketing Board, stated that before harvest began this year the Board knew the yield would be down. Seventy-four percent of the total expected inventory of 1,300,000- 1,400,000 bags has been sold. "To put . this in per- spective, last year we had 1,500,000 bags and only sold less than 30,000 at over tp7", Broadwell said. "This year the total crop has gone over $37.50". The current price is $43 export, $44 domestic, but the market is softening, he warned. This year only the UK is interested in Canadian FREESEED asENd �1� GARD(ATALOOVE Se'C Ioday for your mg FREE Cali- logue of Flower and Vegetable Seeds, Ge•den Suppl.es and Ideas ONTARIO SEED co. P.O. dos 144 WATERLOO. RIM 112J 37.0 Name Address Cede 1 ct) (PIONEER SEEDS / RAY BROWN S29-7260 Your Pioneer Seed Corn Dealer i beans; no beans have gone to Qiba and Bulgaria l ked neither the quality nor the price. Some former foreign buyers will not can beans this year. Huron director Bob Allan said research Is paying dividends; with continual cash cropping, better plants must be developed. He ad- vlsed growers to order seed early especially foundation Kentwood. Joe Miller, standards committee, informed the producers of a new program of sample mark certification of shippers' guaranteed representative samples of white beans, made man- datory August 1, 1981; submitted samples will be certified based on lot identification only and each bag will be identified by tag and stencil markings. A change in standard quality grade specification will reduce the colour standard of the extra No. 1 Canada and the No. 1 Canada grades making the colour of No. 1 and No. 2 grades the same, eliminating the cumbersome previous description and simplifying the grades. The colour change will probably be implemented by August 1982. Research committeeman Bill Whittington reported an increase in financial support from $27,000 to $32,000 to Guelph to cover the in- creased costs of research Unto timing of spraying of white mold. Guest speaker Pat Ich, soil and crop set. lth the Perth O 'r ' office, is trying to set an alfalfa exchange to bring together those who want to grow alfalfa and those who want to buy seed. He showed slides of bean rust in local fields, and commented that this year was the worst he's seen, especially in fields where beans were grown last year. Don't grow beans after beans"9 he said. "Coining a phrase,a good crop rotation does not mean growing Pioneer corn after Cargill corn. Likewise, white beans after kidney beans is not crop rotation either." Nightshade is becoming a problem, according to Lynch; during combining the ripe berrles leave , a sticky orange residue on the beans. He told of one area grower whose sample was refused at the elevator; the farmer came home 'and plowed under 30 acres of beans - and nightshade. Lasso is a satisfactory control for nightshade. He added that Sevin Is "darn hard on honey bees". During question time the litigation question was brought up again. One farmer made the point that some who plowed their crop under in 1977 got more money through crop in- surance than others who harvested their beans that year. ($425,000 from the 1977 pool is sitting In the bank, and the interest is being used to pay the solicitors handling the litigation ) User fees for satellites, number of satellites, and elevator drying charges were also discussed. Phil Durand, R.R. 2 Zurich, wanted to know what the Board was going to do about voicing an opinion on the proposed hydro route at environmental hearings beginning in Stratford in January. Durand main- tained that beans are par- ticularly susceptible to air pollution; if the count is 14 parts In 100 million, yield could be cut by as much as 50 percent. "Huron county is one of the best agricultural counties in the world", Durand said, "and beans are important." At the close of the meeting the colour discount question was raised. Hill was delighted. He confessed he had come prepared, and had been afraid he would have no opportunity to use the documents he had brought. "I'd hate to have the staff go to all this work and then have no use for it", he joked, and proceeded to read out a history of the colour discount, culled from many meeting minutes beginning lo February 1978, and a 1978 producers' newsletter. Gordon Hill, Bob Allan, Cecil Desjardine and Joe Miller were all returned as Huron directors by ac- clamation. Don Brodie, Jack Coleman, Bob Fotheringham, Victor Hartman, Clarence Rau, Bill Armstrong, Larry Wheatley, Murray Dennis, Bill Dowson, Ray Heuther, Jim Love and Bill McGregor were elected as committeemen. The annual meeting of delegates will be held on Tuesday, January 5 at Audrey's Steakhouse after delegates have first been given an informal tour of the Board's office, and a cup of coffee. Huron County resolution passed In the Wednesday after- noon session of the OFA con- vention in . Toronto November 25 highlights in- cluded debate on several resolutions concerning the • economic situation facing farmers today. Resolutions to pressure the Ontario government to produce programs to assist farmers through the present financial crisis and long term programs. to promote agriculture in Ontario and for OFA to petition the On- tario government to provide meaningful capital grant programs to give farmers. parity with other Canadian farmers were enthusiastical- ly carried by the 500 delegates. A Huron County resolution that OFA study Saskatchewan's Land Bank programs as a means of keeping control of agricultural. land by Cana- dians and getting young farmers started was passed. A report was presented by Cooperators Insurance on the good increase in enrol- ment in the farm family life insurance program and the extended medical insurance coverage. It also included a description of their new workshops to train autobody mechanics in plastic repair, and their investment in Co- Enerco, a new cooperative resource company. The report from the OFA Membership Committee ad- vised delegates that membership in the OFA was up 6.5 percent in 1981 and is now up to 25,802 Individual Service Members, with Huron County having the largest county membership, up to 2,139. Their recommen- dation that no distinction should be made between full and part-time farmers in OFA membership and ser- vices provided by OFA created much discussion by the delegates and was finally passed. It was pointed out that due to current low com- modity prices and high in- terest rates, many farmers who had been or would be full time farmers were forc- ed to depend on some outside income in the family and they should not be discriminated against. There was also con- siderable debate on a motion that OFA organize a protest to Queen's Park if the On- tario government doesn't take immediate action on the recommendations of the Emergency Task Force. The Huron County delegates unanimously supported this motion but it lost by a very close vote. Non -delegates enjoy two programs " This' year's non -delegates to the 1981 OFA Convention enjoyed two programs set up by Giselle Ireland of Bruce County. One of the programs was a talk given by Dianne Harkin, founder and chairman of "Women for the Survival of Agriculture". Her talk was on "How to Survive the Economic Crunch". The other program was a tour of CBC "Radio Noon" and then on to the Planetarium. Both talk and tour were well attended. Dianne Harkin spoke about the manycourses which have been organized for farm women at Kemp- tville. These courses enable farm women to deal with various problems they meet, in their everyday lives. Sur- vival is the object of these courses dealing with credit, bookkeeping, banks, farm machinery, - time manage- ment, how to deal with emergencies, first aid, stress management, etc. "Women for the Survival of Agriculture" provides a forum for women to learn about agricultural problems. Hardship and indignation in these tough economic times will make women act. Dianne's message was to look at the positive aspect, not the negative. On Wednesday, 50 non - delegates were guests of. CSC Radio. The program "Radio Noon" was being broadcasted live and they were all intensely interested in how the media was repor- ting the issues of the conven- Conestogo CII WOODBURNING STOVE by Findlay Reg. 5595.00 a NOW ONLY • 1,500 SO. FT. HEATING CAPACITY ALL WOOD STOVES, FIREPLACE INSERTS & FIREPLACE ACCESSORIES ARE NOW AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES! We are dealers for Elmira Stove Works. Metcraft. Woodcraft Stoves & Frndlay GAS BAR OPEN! LOCATED AT HWYS NO. 21 & NO.8 AT THE FIVE POINTS GODERICH, ONTARIO GRANDAD'S TURKEY DRAW WE'RE GiVING AWAY 30 FREE TURKEYS ( vela® to'ZS.. YlftlfR's GinCERiifiCATE) 2 TURKEYS PER DAY FOR 15 DAYS Thursday,_Dec. 18th ®Dec. 24th SIR TO DAY DASHWOOD rN STOCK WINDOWS &DOORS.... (25% OFF ALL ORDER -INS) NEW ARRIVING DEC. 17 OFF TRUCKLOAD OF CARPET ROLL ENDS Prices Slashed,.,Don't Buy Till You Give Us A Try! Open Daily 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., Saturdays till noon. Closed Wed. Afternoons GORD SMITH CARPETS AND .BUILDING CENTE Hwy. No. 8...2 Miles East of Goderich Phone 524-7123 www— tion The group then visited the Planetarium to watch the STAR show "UFO - Myth and Mystery". This was found truly fun but staying awake hi the reclining seats and listening to mystic music was for some too much after several busy days getting ready for the convention. Some of the Huron County participants on the non - delegate programs were Ann Nesbit, Shirley Geniis, Betty Stafford, Brenda McIntosh. and Judy Sturdy. Fair will continue CLINTON - William Flynn of RR 4, Clinton has ensured that the annual Clinton, Spring Fair will continue for at least another year. At a general meeting of the Huron Agricultural Society, Mr. Flynn volunteered to take the president's position for one year, in an effort to keep the fair alive. In doing this, Mr. Flynn halted a vote on a propo>3ced motion which would have called for the dismantling of the fair board. Stove fire EXETER - A fire believed caused by an improper hook- up ook up in a wood burning stove caused about $5,000 damage to the Woodham area home of Sylvester Grimmick on December 1st. PUBLIC NOTICE Special truckload consignment shipment of famous orthopedic mat- tresses and foundations, all with manufacturer's instruction war- rantees, WILL BE LIQUIDATED AT: SURPLUS FURNITURE WAREHOUSE 550 Huron St. Stratford 273-4570 THURS., DEC. 10 - SUN., DEC. 13 or while supply lasts -• • :�; SAVE UP TO $200 THURS.. DEC. 10 • SUN.. DEC. 13 ",- c• or while supply lasts Located at Surplus Furniture Warehouse 550 Huron St,. Stratford (Across from ASW) NO Layai mj, - NO Repeats ..t ter 00 747' i