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The Huron Expositor, 1980-10-02, Page 9,5T•o"Ktn.:Fs 'e• BY pAT LYNCII CROSPECJAUST- One day this past month, I mentioned to my wife, Sally, "You should plan your day if you want to get the most °tit - don't 'just let it happen"7 She answered something a- bouethet being agood idea - tell it 10 our 2 young" bois- . Sometimes when I talk to you about your eropping prbgram I have the idea that Your cropping strategy just hap- pens - it's not well planned or reel:vied. Now I don't want to be critical because we both know you row Aood crops. , In fact, Htiron and Perth have very enviable crop yield records compered to the rest of the Province. Still, we are teaching a stete of techno- logy where that little corn hybrid booklet irryour pocket is not good enough. Look at your sow and milk records. Where do you keep them? Not in the corn hybrid book. Ad certainly not in your head. All the information is recorded so that you can plan ahead. The same is needed fee crops. All that I am asking is that you keep the same amount of records per t dollar invested in crops as you keep per dollar inyeeted in livestock. Somebody con - 'Awed you to keep good record e on your livestock - they said it wetted make you money. You started end they do make you money. Crop records will make you money too. RooTwoRmcONTFOL fhereason that I mention good records is connected with planning rootworin con- trol. I can predict now that rootworm will be a serious insect problem next year. It, may cost us over $20 million in lost corn yields and insecticide cost. You have to start to plan now on how to 'educe your loss to this insect. To reduce damage,' rotate crops or use insecti- Oeides on continuous corn. Flut these insecticides break down between application, time and when they are needed. Therefore, to come bat this, you can plant your first Corn on tend that didn't have corn last year. There will be no tootworm there. Plant you last corn on field that have the worst rootworm problem this year. This en- ne foot in tile irurrowfbscaa. Letters are apprecated by Bob Trotter Eldale Rd Etrn-001 N3B 2C7 Governm en t muddling waters Mention the name Horner in many parts of Canada and the image of the hard-bitten Westerner comes to ' mind., Jack. Horner Was. almost as well-known as a politician as Jack Horner, the thumb -sucking star of the nursery rhyme. ' There is another Horner, though, who has been active in Canada end -he may become better known that his brother. If he doesn't become a folk hero in yearsto come, he shouldbe'enshrined 'somehow in the memory of Canadians. Dr. Hugh Horter is the chap. More that e year ago, the grain transportation system in Canada was 'an unholy mess. Not `enough grain cars were available. The railroads, stuck with ancient freight rates, did not seem to give a fiddlers tune whether grain was shipped or not. No one seemed to care whether, Canadian promises- of grain shipments were kept. Joe Clark, a Westerner, knew the problems. So did Don Mazankowski, another westerner. In the short time Clark was in power, the Grain Transportation Authority was formed with Dr. Hugh Horner as the grain transportation commissioner. Little has been heard of the commission in the press throughout eastern Canada. Yet, from all reports, this commission and its extremely -competent commissioner have worked miraclessin -a very short time. Even green, moguls—and they are extremely powerful men in this country—have conceded that Dr. Horner and commission have solved most of the problems. Dr. Horner, it appear. has astounded almost every one connected with grain and grain shipments in Canada. When appointed, he was given only one legal authority. He could allocate grain cars where they were needed. With no more legal authority than that: using his powers of persuasion and his appeal to reason and efficiency, Horner has increased grain s-hipments ib Tho ia—sT T2 inonths by almost 20 per cent. The problems the commission faced appeared insur- mountable: railcar shortages, inadequate terminals, labor disputes, low freight rates. What Makes the commission's success.so phenomenal is that _the problems still remain hut attitudes have changed: "Right now, he says, "there -is a real spirit of co-operation being displayed by everyone connected with the grain transportation system." 111.1978-79, Canada exported 18,234,600 _metric tons of grain. In the year which. ended, July. 31, more than 21,728,000 tons were exported. Granted, Dr. Horner did not have to contend with any serious labor. problems this past year because no major grain industry labor negotiations came due. The fact that he was able to improve the situation so dramatically in epite of the serious complaints of conflicts of interest within the industry attest to his efficiency. The federal goat is to reach 30 million tons of exports by 1985. not impossible if the weather co-operates -for farmers. Horner managed to Increase shipments by almost 20 per cent in a year by using common senselwithout too much physical chauge in the system., Much more work is neededernind you. to reach ,that goam el 30 million tons. More rail cars. better labor relations, that ncw terminal in Prince Rupert. B.C., will be necessary. But the Grain Transportation Authority is a landmark in Canada today, one of only a few excellent examples of what government authorities can do when the right people are appointed.' Too often, government meddling simply muddles the water. Not this time. S700 It counters the stress that's killing your profits. Stress causcd 4 shipping and handling can read to severe %eight loss aad teen fatal respiratort diseases in ,!,our rattle. That's where Aurto S 700 feed additite comes in. 'Tests slum, that a 28-dav starter program with kureo S 71X1 medicated feed additive t'an help cattle overcome the effects of stress and maintain ueight gains and feed efficiency during this critical period. Asl; 'our Iced dealer about Aurco S 700. sou how if combats the stress that's trimrning the fat from !..IYar profits. *V CYANAMID sure e more active insecticide available when the eggs hatelt. • FURADAN AFFECTS I have just received some correspondence from Bernie Smith of CDA from Harrow. Rs research indicates that corn treated with Furadan one year has very high egg populations the next year. Meier populations than un- treated corn. Higher popula- tions than core treated with some of the other insecticies. He has no ielea of t4 Implications orthis finding. This treatment, may be at- lrpctng adults to these fields If may be inducing adults in 111E that field to lay more eggs. Or it may be controlling natural predators of the rootworni. This fact dues not change Furadan'sability to control rootworm larvae. We need more research ,t8 find out which' of these is the answer. - Suppose it'At the first. arriage a plus for a successful farmer By BARBARA ALVES, ASSOCIATE AGRICULTURE REPRESENTATIVE, WATERLOO "Go West, Young Man!" This is some advice from days gone by given to the young man who was ambitious and wanted to be a "success" in life. , For the young man who wantstobe a successful farmer in the 1980's, a good piece of advice might be "Get married, young man." This came from a speaker at the Pork Congress this year. He listed marriage as one fo the most important prerequisites for 'a successful farm. But it's not very hard to V figure that out. Look around you. How many farms can you count where the farmer has remained single? Not very many. And those you can count are probably not very good farmers. There are some very good reasons for this. The most important is that a faimily provides an incentive to fame well. The better a farmer does his job the better ,his family can -live. They also provide a future. Every farmer hopes that his children will o one ,day take over his farm. A family provides a very accessible source of dependable and cheap labour. Accessible because they are there when you need them. Dependable beceuee they have a stake in the success of the farm too. And cheap? Yes, wives and children are usually underpaid compared to what hired labour is paid. One farmer who was tired of hearing urban consumers complain of farm subsidies said, "My kids work hard around Sheep p?vgram offered Sheep are becoming in- creasingly popular as a com- mercial livestock enterpriee. Centrailia College of Agricul- tural Technology is offering a 10 session Sheep Manage- ment Program at which guest iecturcers will discuss such topics as reproduction. feed- ing. housing. health, etc. The course begins October 14th. 1980. evening sessions. 7:30 p.m. Funding of the course is through canada Employment and immigra- tion Commission and there is ne charge for the course. Applicants for the course mast heve SOftid experience cr commitment to the sheep industry. Application forms are available from Centralia College or your local Agricul- ture Office SOIL TEST YOUR FIELDS NOW Now is the time to syst&- atically test your fields. With increasing oasts of fertilizer, it just does vet pay to guess. You could be wasting hun- dreds of dollars on excessive fertilizer use. or the wrong Analyses for top production. 'oil boxes and information seteets are available at -the Agricultural Office, Clinton. Take the samples now when the soil in relatively dry and before freeze-up. Don Pullen, Agricultural Representative CHANGE IN NAME Independent Shipper 10 United &Operatives of Ontario Livestock Department Toronto *Ship your irvestock with LOH ROWLAND Dublin 345-2301 iformeoy Mike Doyle, Shipper) For prompt service, call ,by Monday evening As7. the farm.for low -pay, They are subsidizing - the cosroffood that city kidi eat.°. The farm wife is an important person. -She runs the houeehold-- a job in itself. She may work off the farmto provide money for the family to live on, or for luxuries or capital for the farm itself. Many a farm has survived tough times this way. Wives do a lot of work around the farm - with regular chores andifilling in when things are busy. They work especially hard in the early years when children are too young to work.• Many wives do the bookkeeping for the farm and this is an increasing trend. Doing the books can mean anything from keeping the bills organized right up to keeping detailed accounts and being able to pull out financial data to help in making manage- ment decieions. Studies have shown that whether the farm wife does the books or not she is almost alwaysconsulted when a major financial decisidn has to be made. And she should he. It's her future a stake too. Each week the Western Ontario Farmer ha e an article about a farm wife. There is an endless parade of amazing women across that page. Each one could probably write a book about the things she has accomplished in life. It makes you realize what a contribution the wife makes not only to her own farm but to her community. The sticcess of the farm is dependent on the family. And the family farm is the backbone of the rural community. "Get married, young man", is good stivice. XPOSITOR;;OCtOBER 2,1080 Furadan attracts adults to , corn fields. This would mean if you treated a field the last year it was in corn with Furadan, you ' could attract aclulte to that field. Then you effectively reduce the root - worth numbers on your farm. Because next year you wouldn't plant corn on that field. Those eggs would hatch and the larvae would die without corn, As 1 mentioned, this is all speet11- .ative and needs more re- search. However, it gives you ,an idea of the" type of things you can plan with good crop records. 'Fink. of approach can't justJip- Pen. ATTENTION: Corn Farmers We will bp 'combining our -test piot on Tuesday, October, 7th at 9:30 a.m. at Lot 10 Con. 8 TuCkersmith. qa' EVERYONE IS WELCOME TO ATTEND Coffee and Donuts Ken Gemmell R.R. 2 Kippen 527-1689 $ t e let so oil '' Mitchell 348-8433 Honsall 262-2527 Granton 225-236. • AT OUR HENSALL PLANT WE ARE NOW RECEIVING LIGHT RED KIDNEY BEANS FOR THE FIRST TIME ONLY AT OUR HENS41.1. PLANT!! PHONE 262.2$27 FOR MORE INFORMATION