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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1958-07-30, Page 9WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1958 ZURLOH Citizens NEWS ®r' ce NARCH CIRO1=Y..E SUITE only $57,00 Kroehler Recliner chairs Reg. Value — $174 On Sale at Only 9. Also Available with Electric Massage at a Slight Extra Charge Drop In And See Them SEALY d '}actress Special REG. $5g-50 for $39,95 SPRING -FILLED MATTRESSES AS LOW AS $14.00 11.17 ®rOLNG,A r AT raslo7af579rea. S' iso - ®$9 95 each FII{,. tit 1•�: (� f�, L I � 7h x IMMIX IMO= ZURICH — Phone 89J "Complete Furnishings for Home and Cottage" EtZga MEW PAGE N1N$ Consider Poultry Producers Problems; Packaging Does Increase Product Cost (By a. Carl Hemingway) The latest news bulletin from the •Cream Producers paints out that there lass been an increase of 12 percent over last year's produc tion. This might seem to be leading to 'a surplus position ,but this will not likely .be the casae. Last year, at this time, we were definitely going to a shortage condition and had the trend continued we would have r'equi'red ,large imports of butter. Consumption of ,buttem'hras;lirop- pecl three percent during the month of June as compared with last year. - While in as, easy to con. - sale ourselves with the thought that higher :prices for butter, coupled with unemployment, is the reason this is. hard to believe when we read B, D, S. figures which state Dep- artment store sales were 4.1 per- cent higher tun the first five months in 1958 than in 1957. In spite of unemployment, labour income increased 132 million over the first four months of 1957, also population increased iby almost one half million. Ordinarily any' eof ,the features mentioned would have been ac- companied by some increase in the. consumption of butter. Since the increase has not been forth. conning maybe it's time the butter industry shook off the complacent attitude and really started to sell butter. For some strange reason people first .think of economizing on food. Housewieves have demanded more expensive packaging and partially or wholly prepared food yet, in spite of •this added cost, are spend- ing the ,seine: p:erceeta:ge of their income at the grocery store, This can :only rearm that a smaller and smaller percentage tage ;goes for the food contained in the package. Butter, for example, is an excel- lent food but margarine does cost less- per pound so the customer buys margarine to save the pen- nies. II - O'BRIEN'S PLUMBING Heating and Tinsmithlaag Phone 156 — ZURICH I wonder where the pennies go? Largely for things much Bless valu- able than good food. If any -lady wants a new hart or a hair -do she all toy often saves up by put- ting away the difference between the price of 'butter and margarine. This is a point that salesmen of farm products need to realize. The housewife sloes prefer butter and (doesn't object to a fair prim However when "hubby" wants soniee new egollf drabs or fishing tackle the money Is too often gained by using margarine instead of butter; a soup bone instead of steak. Later carnes the read swal- lowing of vitamin pipits that might have been had in a proper diem. Scene years ago my doctor com- pared butter quite favourably with cod liver oil as a source of vata- mins. Let us not be penny-wise and pound-foolish when supplying our families with food. Hold Your Wheat For Better Prices Reg. Myers, Chatham, chairman of the Ontario Wheat Produoens Marketing Board has expressed: disappointment with the :award of $1..45 on track for No. 2 CE. Grade or better announced by the Arbrritratien Board. The Board advises farmers to hold their wheat for better price conditions. "The producers board as not hap- py at such a ]ow price," he stated. "and were asking at least $1.50 to the farmer. This was the price for No. 2 C.E. wheat up until ten days ago and hi some eases, part- icularly for the export market, we know the price was higher. We know of ane case where $1.62 was paid on wheat in storage at Sarnia and this wheat went into the export market." This year's crap wilil be fairly lirght. There is no carryover from Last year and the ex. -port demand has been good. The natural re- sult of this condition should mean higher prices for wheat to the 'Farmer. But if two thirds of the wheat produced in Essex and Kent areas moves onto the mark- et in the next few weelvz at the award price the overall effect will be to depress wheat prices for producers everywhere in Ontario, with a resultant loss in income. The producers beard recommends that the producers keep their wheat on the farm until the mar- ket strengthens." Lands and Forests Officials Warn Holiday Hunters No gun licenses are valid in Ontario. during July and August, the vacation months. Every year, the Ontario Depart- ment of Lands and Forests re- ceives many requests for permits to use .22 calibre rifles and even revolvers and 01 her shooting irons taken to summer camp. Reason for the ban on shooting during vacation time is the poten- tial danger to vacationists. The use of firearms near water is pa:rticugarly dangerous, since bullets ricochet or bounce off the surface of the water and still travel great distances with killing force. There is no restriction, so far as the Department is concerned, on the use of firearms oe a target range. "However," advises District Bio- logist F. A. Walden, of the Parry Sound District, "inn order that the marksman should not place him- self .in an embarrassing position, he should dismantle or encase his ,rifle during transportation. Simply wrapping the rifle in a paper and tying a string around it would serve. "Meanwhile, those licences is- sued in Southern Ontario may be used only in the county noted on thern. "The site for a target range should .be carefully chosen, with. a clear approach from all sides to assure that eople ran be readily seen. A sand bank is a most use- ful ibackstap or, failling this, prop- erly ,placed timbers are satisfact- ory. "Do not use a rock or a mason- ry wall for a 'backstop. Be cert- ain - that all bullar will be stopped and none w 11. be' deflected.'