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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1952-02-01, Page 6• ; roducers arketing PIan Ver.etittri. of Agriculture cordon M. Greig) unty Hog Producers'. -held its annual moet- e board room On on Friday. Guest speak $,,the meeting was Norman ed; of Waterloo County, who member of the Ontario Reg nelacere Marketing Board. Uri McLoed in his remarks out- -linekthe Position that the hog in- , 4uatnY is in at the present time and etepilleading up, to the present de- cision to -set up a central market- ' ixig agency for the sale of all hogs in Ontario. Following his address, Mr. lifeLoed answered many ques- tieeseconcerning the marketing ag- ency and the future plans of the marketing board. A resolution was passed by the meeting asking that the Ontario Hog Producers' Association press .rder legislation that will enable the association to make a deduction from the price of hogs, to set up a fund., large enough to be used to stabilize the market. President R. McKereher, of the County Federation, in his remarks to the meeting, stated that Huron iC'eunty has been reported to be op - .posed to the central marketing ag- ency for hogs. He advised that if the hog producers of Huron County Were not satisfied that the agency was a good thing for the industry, they should oppose it and make their opinions heard in provincial • meetings. However, Mr. MeKer- cher advised the Huron County hog producers to throw their weight be- hind the Central Marketing agency if the majority of the producers within the province voted for the central agency. Last year's committee was again elected to represent the county in • 1952. They are: Orval Taylor, of Belgrave; Harry Sturdy, of Auburn, and Burt Lobb, of Holmesville. The: annual meeting of the On- tario Hog Producers' Marketing Board will be held in Toronto dur- ing the early part of March. * * * The question of Daylight Saving Time is causing farmers some con- cern in Huron County. Last week it was discussed by many of the farm forums in the county, and there seems to be a feeling that daylight saving time is not in the ' best interests of agriculture, and should be discontinued. A. request has been sent from Huron County to have the Ontario Farm Radio Forum discuss day- light saving time on a ,provincial broadcast, to bring out the import- ance of this questio-n be an- other summer season .rolls .along. * * * The annual meeting of the Cana dian Federation of Agriculture was held in the Windsor Hotel in Mont real, from. January 21 to 25, with. President H. H. Hannam presiding over the meeting and having such notable speakers in attendance as Pr•rne Minister Louis St. Laurent, Rtt Honorable James Gardiner, M nister of Agriculture, Mr.• Leslie W. Wheeler, •Commodity Officer for I F.A.P., from Washington, U.S.A., and- Dr. E. C. Hope, economist for. the Federation of Agriculture. Mr. Hannam, in his president's address, stated that the Federation f'''Agriculture was one organiza- tion that has been Able to bridge ' the- barriers between the Feench- speak'ng people' of Canada and the other nationalities witWn our' bor- ders. It was apparent from the number of French-speaking people attending the conference that they are vitally interested in farm or- ganization. Aocording to Dr. Hannam, farm production has increased by 35 per cent over pre-war years, while our • working 'population on the farm has decreed by 15 per cent. This means Slat farmers have increased production by 60 per cent over the past sixtenn years. This, according to Dr. Hannam, *as accomplished by hard work, long hours, new ma- chinery, along 'with improved meth- ods and workmanship. Efficiency among farmers is equal to that in any- other industry. A 40 -hour work week on the farm would mean that food prices would rise- from 20 to 33, per cent higher teen- they are today, was stated by Dr. Hannam. ft speaking of recent repor s that the Federation is not speak- ing for the majority of the fanners and- that it is playing party poi' tics, he stated that the Federation is run on a democratic system where representatives come from local organizations and `even stilly become members of the National Executive. Likewise, many of the problems and questions raised by the national office liave their ori- gin in County Federations. The Federation of Agriculture is taking its place among the great organizations within the Dominion by acting as advisor to the Depart - merit,: of Agriculture, not only in matters concerning Canadian agri- culture, but in relationship to ex- port trade and world food prob- lemsa Dr. Hatinam, in speaking of the plea from F.A.O., that world pro- duction Should be increased, stated that this plea would -have to go Un- heeded by Canada because there 'CMS no international plan to Wt hihnarketable Surpluses from our 4.t1atkets and direct them into lo - tentless Where they are needed. To .iticrease production at this time in Pariada•vsould bring disaster to our bwi agricultural ecenetny. The Canadian Pederattank et`Agr tictettrer eentrittitien to the Infer- deganizatiiert amounted to 450.51f. IhI s Made up by bly contribute fo their Ina ,f`etieratfoll :that in tint, aends pitik,' tot ttd ••ProViiinial and OCarganiZatientri. 'AgriCtilttiral hi itb"6itt ItiMtek it**Lb � Welt tills to indicate the buying power would be as great or greater 1.953 than in 1951. There would be an increased demand' for food on the Canadian market, but not as great an inekelkse as in 1951. The only export market for food is wheat, and there would appear to be little hope ,of obtaining a very large export market for cheese, bacon or eggs. Milk pro- duction in Canada has &topped to a point where we are now an im- portant nation of dairy products. This would indicate that there is a good market available for all our dairy products at the same or a higher price, According to Dr. Hope, there are 200,000 more cows in Canada than in 1949, and most of these are beef cows. There has also been a mark- ed increase in the number of steers and beef heifers in 1951, which indicates that there will be increased marketings in the near future. According to Dr. Hope, produe- tion of hogs will be high until the middle of 1952 when it is expected marketings will decline a little. The •heavy marketings with no ex- port market will keep prices at a very low level. Egg production for 1951 to 1952 fall season is expected to be about 15 per cent higher than the 3950- 51 year. Dr. Hope's opinion is that eggs will not bring as high a price this year as they did in 1951. This heavy market may' continue into 1952 because of the abundance of feed grains. Farm labor will be searee in 1952, according to Dr. Hope's predictions, even with the planned immigration of from 15 to 20 thousand workers, Other farm costs are expected to rise somewhat due to material shortages. Fertilizers are up in price and pesticides are likely to Se the same. Feed grain supply is up 33 per cent over 1954) level. Export de- mand to U.S.A. will keep mill feeds at a high level during 1952. Ap- parently United States has. a high animal population and not too sood a feed, grain prospect. * * * 'The Honorable James Gardiner, in attending the Canadian Federa- tion annual meeting, gave the farm- srs there represented a wonderful Opportunity to question him regard - :ng the Department's plans and what farmers can expect in the fu- ture. Mr. Gardiner reported that our home market is. taking about 40 ser cent more of our farm produc- th;in than it did before the war. Our exports of food from 1946 to 1950 was greater than for a similar per- iod during the war and was many tires greater than prior to the war. The dropping off of .our export market in such things as bacon and eggs has not decreased our export tonnage greatly. The change from producing hogs to wheat in Western Canada has kept our ex - 'ort figures at a high level. Mr. Gardiner seemed to be slight - y d'sturbed by the dairy trend. Last year, hestated, the Depart- ment of Agriculture tried to sup - ort 5the-price of butter during the year and in, so. doing provide suf; ficient stoclZs to keep the price 'rom rising during the period- of low production. They were, accord- ihg to Mr. Gardiner, checkmated in their attempt by those who do not wish to see thigh profits dis.appear. Mf. Gardiner would like to see an increase in the production of but- ter that would take up the slack .0,1111111101111111111111111111111111110IIIIIIIIIIII11111111111111111111111111101111111111111111lis. Annual Meeting The Annual Meeting of the Us - borne & Hibbert Mutual Fire In- surance Company will be held in Farquhar Hall, Farquhar on MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1952 at 2:00 P.m-, NI. the purpose of receiving the reports of the Directors and Audi- tors for the past year, for the ele-tion of two-Direetoriss for a three-year term, election of Audi- tors, for the amendment of Art- icle No. 33 of By Law No. 1 relat- 'ng to remuneration of Directors, and any other business that may be in the interests of the Com- pany. .MILTON' McCURDY President ARTHUR FRASER Secretary -Treasurer , . 11' II... • • PL ABROAD • by 3. A. CARROLL Fowled), Secretory Mana;or ONTARIO PLOWMEN'S ASSOCIATION (This is the 'fourth of a ser- ies of weekly stories which, John A. Carroll, assistant dep- uty minister of agriculture for Ontario and formerly secre- tary Manager of the Ontario Plqwmen's Association, vyM write about the visit of Can- ada's champion plowmen to the British Isles, Germany, Den- mark and Sweden. COPENHAGEN, Denmark.—Yes- terday we stood in a Danish cheese factory and watched the making of the first experimental batch of Cheddar cheese produced in this country. The sight left us with mixed feel- ings. As agricultural observers and your reporters We knew this was red-hot news. But as three Cana- dians we also knew we were watch- ing something that may turn out to be a new threat to the Canadian Cheddar market in Great Britain. We gathered from our Danish friends that the experiment was being made to see if it were pos- sible for Danish ,cheesemakers to turn out a Cheddar acceptable to the British in an attempt "to take, up the slack" of Canadian Cheddar. ' It doesn't take an exceptionally keen eye to see that is such a Ched- dar is produced, in the years to come it may not -only' be the slack that is taken up. Even. with that thought in mind the Aliree of us (Norman Tyndalle of Richmond Hill, Ont., the cham- pion tractor ,p)ovnpen; Begone Timbees, of 'Milliken, Ont., the ohempioe horse plowman, and. my- self) telt great admiration for these enterprising Danes. 'They need the British market as much as we do; perhaps more so. For despite the fact the people look well-dressed and are, well-fed, there is austerity here. No automobiles have been imported since 1938; and for those with cars gasoline costs 50 cents a gallons Britain has been importing only limited quantities of Metter, bacon and eggs—and at low prices—so sterling credit is as low as dollar credit here. Are' have been heresjest over 36 hours and have another day and a half to spend, in this orderly and, well-planned little country. Tomor- row we shall be visiting two of the area show farms; one of 90 acres and the other a completely mechan- ized farm of 1,500 acres. It had been originally plann€d that we would motor from West Germany to Denmark. but our Gar- man hosts thought we would appre- ciate more time here so they made last-minute arrangements for es to fly by Finnish Airlines from Ham- burg to -Copenhagen. Flying is becoming almost rot.I t ne with us, for it was by air that we travelled from London to Ham - between what we now produce and what we have to import. He 'warn- ed that if we do not come closer to supplying the demand of our own Nation, we mayfind our indus- try in direct competition with coun- tries that can .produce butter at a lower price than we can ever hope to do. Mr. Gardiner spent well over an hour listening to questions and i e - plying to them. No one was able to ruffle him the least bit. As re- marked. by Dan Stoffer, of Bright. Ont., "Mr. Gardiner hi one of oar most capable debaters and no far- mer can corner him." A resolution on farm labor wa- passed at this meeting that was directly in line With many of te recommendations contained in the resolution sent in by fiuron County Federation on the same topic. It requested closer screening of agri- 'sultural workers and closed super- vision of workers who are placed 'In farms. A Sm. ile Or Two Mrs. Banks: "Well, I admit tha: I was outspoken at.the Social Ser vice rreeting today." Mr. Banks: "I don't believe it Who outsfiolie you?" • "Now children," seined the Sun- day School teacher sweetly, "I, want you to be so still you can hear a pin drop." After silence had reigned for • an interminable 30 seconds, a kid in the corner yelled, -Okay. Let 'er drop!" Perhaps it's the, friendly telephone installer, doing his job quickly and neatly... Or an operator going to extra trouble to help you locate someone in a distant city. Or that pleasant young lady in the telephone office, , so readydo oblige you in any way she caN'`... It's true that the men and women who work for the Bell really are "glad to be of service". They are always looking for ways to make good telephone service even better. They take pride in the Bell tradition of treating people the way theyslike to be treated. THE BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY ,OF CANADA se„ cV1(‘ Ciao@ cV TfNa Ba DOC, WHY ARE MY CHICK5 SUCH SLOW STARTERS? I THOUGHT TODAY'S CHICKS WERE BUILT FOR FA5T (ROWTH. 50 THEY ARE, JIM, IF YOU DON'T HOEIY. THEM BACK. kwa Ded Chil@W HOLD THEM BACK! 190 EVERYTHING, TO FEED THEM WELL'EXCEPT SET THEM AT MY DINNER TABLE p, and U7.4 $.4.001 a.10f.'et 0,0,144 C!?,44t*Mdtiand we able ib:.1see` th 'SlitPiPin&movi up anddown the went coat. • Our fi4t goovieWeef the cern- tinenteeerIng to a sudden ifiwor4g of the clews—was over Holland, which was revealed ap a gorgeous p hwork of green Paetures, can - ale el red -tiled howsee. . Yes, 1 said green pasteres. We haven't seen snow sine() we left Toronto. A ,short stop at Amsterdam and then within an hour we wheeled 1u - to Hamburg. Waiting for us was Hanejurgen Zetzsche, Of the Ger- man Esso company., Tell, Pleatant, in his, early thirties,- this foretop young submarine commander, was our guide throughout our German stay. • Even our brief glimpse of Lon- don—which is now pretty well patched • up—had not .prepared us for the shock we received when,we saw the bombed section,s of Ham- burg, soraetimes. just rubble and other timesopen spaces where buildings once stood. We were shown two air raid shelters built to protect 50,000 persons. If this sounds fantastic, is it any more fan- tastic than the :feet that 3e,000 were reported killed in one raid on this city? • Political refugees pouring over the border from East Germany have almost doubled the population of Hamburg,' from one million to 1,800,000. Recovery, both building and economic, is remarkable and, we were told that Hamburg was leading the whole of Germany in this regard. We were surprised at the mildness of the climate and saw tender shrubs and bush plants growing in many gardens. The land here is relatively light and poor, so we were interested to see what progress was being made at the Esso experimental. farm at Dethlingen, 60 miles south of Ham- burg. There is quite a story to this faint It was rented in 1947 by. Esso to provide food for its em- ployees for the immediate post-war years. It had been in the posses - son of one family for 500 years. The owner lost his only .son..dur- Ines the last 'War, and then when • AT49'S4 t „40 ?APT Ati"#014.11.101 ttiO ki,00,0Pg foorm, opligo te479140, new graduated L$9 a maker (stgi3OeT,w,100,'1,4pt115 allte4e latest eq,11.iinnent end teeming MP:O- dds to increase cops front Ole ra- ther poor soil. •Mechenigateen is up against a strong foe, tpa,dition, but the scieutific methods and results of the Best) fame are 'making head- way. Potatoes are important in the diet of these PPOPle, and yields on the Esso farm have been snbstan. tially increasted. Stook on the fare includes about 25,0 hogs of all Ger- man, breeds (rather fat types cora- pared to Canadian begle), 430:111e 20 cows, ,to is planned to increase the herd to 35), and about 400 sheep, called l3eidschnucken. These are cheap to rear for they thrive on the forage from the local heather moorS. We startled our host, Dr. Sven von Muller, when after noticing rye was being grown we suggested that it would be plowed itedei fo.r soil impetevement. When he recoV erect, he said such action would cause a revolutsion. -Rye is need- ed, and used as food for humans and animals. A press conference was held for tie attended •by reporters from five city dailies and 20 agricultural papers. As usual we apologized for not being able to speak their language, but most of those prOent 01111.11111111111W 1110 Contract Barley We are again contracting acre- age for the Canada Malting Co. SEED WILL BE AVAILABLE AT OUR WAREHOUSE SEAFORTit FARMERS CO-OP. Phone 9 ammammismiaminegmemp. that .didn't there wast.44i-exPer 11#1, Orpreter; The attentiOn pa.d4tO1 9111.' re04TY#frAO'' never-endi4'"viestKoite. ;din us indieated a 'keea inteir tr math Plowing`,.CanadfldflF hare and immigration Pl"001r,..ctsr,' With the interest shoVni in 'Wm,*- gration in Hamburg and eleeveltete Germeny, Ontario .should have e.difficulty this year of getting its quota of 2,500 German immigrants. Time is short now anti i will 40- 4 ;rep,oa p00: tour of yediL. . ' - Including AuTomoBILE, WEATHER aue -FIRE Please consult: R: F. McKERCIELER • Phone 849 r 4 - Soatorth . 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