The Huron Expositor, 1963-06-20, Page 9Jr
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SEAVORTH, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 196
•UCW Presbytery
Sets Schedule
Of Meetings
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THE DAIRY INDUSTRY in Huron County contributes $8,000,000 each year to the econ-
omy of the county, according to the Huron Federation of Agriculture. Typical of the area
dairy farms is the scene pictured here. Peter Simpson, RR 2, Seaforth, is shown with part
of his Holsteins at his farm west of Seaforth.
Tuckersmith Dairy Farm
. 1s Complex Operation
By DAVID YATES age of not following in my a past master of Britannia
Ask a city dweller what
father's footsteps," he explains. Lodge, and holds membership
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makes a contented cow and he'll
"He came out from the city, but in the Mocha Temple in Lon -
probably reply, "Stereophonic I started when I was 15." don and the Bluewater Shrine
hi-fi Guy Lombardo or Lawr-
The senior Simpson was a Club.
ence Welk melodies."
former stonemason. He worked The Simpsons—his wife is
on the Parliament Buildings in the former Jean McLachlin—
Ask Seaforth dairy farmer, Ottawa and cut stone for the have two children, Peter 7, and
Peter Simpson, and he'll an- u–
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CasaLoma and, Eaton Memor- Betty, now Mrs. Don Overholt.
swer, "Keep their bellies full. al Church in Toronto. The Overholts have two chil-
Mr. Simpson combines mod- Mr. Simpson's farming does dren.
ern equipment with time -tested -not end with his own farm How long will Mr. Simpson
techniques on his 300 -acre chores. He is a past president farm? He nourishes the fond
farm, Hillcrest Acres. of the Huron County Holstein dream that the farm will pass
The rising cost of living, plus Association and was representa- to his son. "I'll keep going till
almost static farm produce pric- tive for Seaforth for the Milk my son takes over."
es, have made it imperative to Producers. But that radio in the barn
not only cut costs of farm pro- These two organizations ne- would still puzzle a city boy.
oduction gotiate prices and inform farm- If it's not for thecows, then
tomation ers of milk prices across Can- who's it for?
ve this ada. "That keeps us on our milk -
As a community citizen he is ing schedule," he answered.
duction, hut to up
to maintain profits. A
and mechanization se
purpose.
In his barn, Mr. Simpson em-
• ploys a barn cleaner. At the
push of a button a conveyer
belt apparatus moves away
manure.
Always on the look for
new and better equipment
("you always have to keep up
• to date," he remarks), Mr. Simp-
son first saw this piece of equip-
ment in the States, and install-
ed it eight years ago. It was
the first of its kind in this part
of the country_ -.,
Push another button and feed
falls from one of his two silos
• into a large rectangular bucket.
The bucket is suspended from
an overhanging track and can
be pushed from stanchion to
stanchion letting off the requir-
ed amount of feed.
To seed, spray an4 harvest
his 110 acres of oats, 15 acres
• of ensilage corn and maintain
his 75 acres • of pasture; Mr:
Simpson uses three tractors, a
threshing Machine, a baler and
a combine.
All that artificial horsepower
still hasn't -.pushed biceps and
triceps and, most important of
• all, brains of man out to pas-
ture. Someone has to operate
the machines and lift the milk
cans onto the truck.
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John McLachlin, his father-in-
law, lends a helping hand. Dur-
ing the summer another man is
.hired to assist with the farm
routines.
All this mechanization leads
to the average production of
1200 °pounds of milk per day.
An agreement with Seafprth
Dairy sends 900 pounds .there
every day. Any surplus is sold
to Stacey's in Mitchell.
If the 900 -pound quota can-
not be met, businessman Simp-
son must buy as many cows as
he needs to meet it. There's
no slacking due to any reason
once an agreement has been
made.
To relieve the 32 cows now
milking on the 305 day ROP
cycle, Mr. Simpson keeps 40
.more milking cows. He also
has 35 yearlings, two -year-olds
and calves.
Mr. Simpson has a bull for
breeding his own replacements.
Some artificial insemination is
also used.
With such a large operation,
planning plays an essential
part of the mangement.
He emphasizes: "You
wouldn't get anywhere if you
didn't know where you were
going," The -result? "It all
adds up to feed for ,next win-
ter."
The principal staple is grass
during the growing season.
Added to the pasture diet are
feed concentrates and minerals,
so each cow stomachs 15 per
cent protein every day, The
winter feed is the grain ration.
'It all adds up to a balanced
diet," he says.
And what makes such an op-
eration as a dairy farm suc-
cessful?: There are a number
of factors.
"We definitely depend on the
weather and fertilizer," he
states matter-of-factly.
Simpon spent almost $1200
on 13 tons of double -strength
fertilizer this year.
As far as weather is concern-
ed, "I've never had any disas-
ters of any kind—no crop fail-
ures."
Last year a hailstorm cut a
swath through parts of Tucker -
smith -and McKillop, resulting
in some seriously, damaged
crops.
• "You have to count yourself
pretty lucky • to miss something
like that," he remarked.
What other factors are in-
volved? Mr. Simpson grew up
on a farm. "He had the advent -
DAIRY INDUSTRY AMONG LARGEST
CONTRIBUTOR TO ECONOMY
Dairy Foods
Services Bureau
Names Officers
The United (Church Women's
executive of the Huron Presby-
terial met in Wingham to make
plans for the fall regional meet-
ings. Theme of these meetings
will be, "All This World is
God's Own Field."
T. E. Brady of Weston, Ont.,
was one of seven representa-
tives of dairy producer organ-
izations named to the txecu-
tive Committee of the newly -
formed Dairy Foods Service
Bureau. This group, at their
inaugural meeting held in To
ronto on March 13, took over
from the officers of Dairy
Farmers of Canada responsibil-
ity for conducting the 12 -year-
old national producer -sponsored
promotional program, and to
execute the expansion of its ef-
fectiveness. A new advertising
set-aside based on 1/4 of '1% of
the producer's milk and cream
receipts went into effect June
1. Mr. Bray and A. G. Sloan,
Canadians are being remind- herd members are of good en -
ed this month that the dairy ough quality to be in demand.
industry is still one of the na- Thegeneral dairy farm may
tion's largest, Most important provide a variety of altern-
and most complex businesses. tives. The milk may be separ-
Over the years dairying, in all ated and the cream marketed
its manifestation; has become while the skim milk is kept at
highly efficient beginning with home as feed for hogs or poul-
the production of milk and c.ar- try. Here again the sale of
rying through to the delivery breeding stock from the herd
of the finished product to the from time to time may be an
consumer. important part of the general.
For instance, it might beas- farm operation. General dairy
sumed that the dairy cow popu- farmers often have some cash
lation would be increasing with grain or other crop to sell in
the increase in milk production addition. to the milk which may
which last year topped 18 bil- go to concentrated milk plants
lion pounds. However, the num- or cheese factories.
ber of dairy cows in Canada In connection with dairy
has not varied significantly for farming it is important to re -
Many years remaining at a lev- member that milk is not the
el slightly above three million only product of the herd. In
animals. Steadily increasing the process of management,
milk production, while influenc- calves as well as cows have to
ed on a seasonal basis by wea- be culled in the interests of
ther conditions, can be directly herd improvement, which in
traced to herd culling and turn is responsible for the in-
breeding programs which have creased milk production men -
resulted in herds of more high- tioned above. This culling pro-
ly productive cows. cess is the source of consider -
Canadian dairy farming .can able dairy income since it is
be divided into twa. main class- estimated that 60 per cent of
es: (1) the specialty dairy farm the beef and 40 per cent of the
where all the income is derived veal consumed in Canada comes
from the sale of milk and dairy from dairy herds. In a country
cattle, and (2) the general dairy which sometimes becomes pre -
farm where the dairy herd and occupied with the importance
its products are only a part of of wheat. it is worth remem-
the farm business. The special- bering that in a given year
ty dairy farm most likely will the farm value of the products
be producing fluid milk for a of Canadian dairy herds exceeds
nearby city or town and some that of any other single farm
breeding stock may be sold if product, including wheat.
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The following program was
set up for South Huron, Oct, '7,
in the Hensall United Church
with the Chiselhurst UCW as
hosts; Centre Region, Oct. 8,
Bayfield United Church; West
Region, Oct. 9; Benmiller Unit-
ed Church, and North Region,
Oct. 10, Brussels United
Church,
Mrs. J. D. Murray, Lambeth,
third vice-president of the UCW,
London -Conference, will ad-
dress the morning conference,
while Miss Beatrice Wilson,
Toronto, a staff member of the
Literature Distribution Centre
of the United Church, will be
guest speaker at the afternoon
sessions.
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of Fournier, are the two On-
tario members of this board and
were so delegated at a meeting
of the Ontario Regional Com-
mittee of the Dairy Foods Ser-
vice Bureau. This. regional com-
mittee is composed of represent-
atives of the various commod-
ity and co-operative dairy
groups who are members of
Dairy Farmers of Canada. Mr,
Brady is general manager of
the United Dairy and Poultry
Co-operatives of Ontario and
has been affiliated with the
United Co-operatives of Ontario
for 27 years.
Sponsor. Tea
At Rectory
June Dairy
Is Salute to Area Industr
econd Sectiou Pges 9 to16
Huron County is recognized
as an important centre of 'the
dairy industry. As a result,
there is particular significance at-
tached to the annual June Dairy
Month program. That is why
several pages of this issue are
devoted to telling the story of
the dairy farmer.
Each section of Canadian
dairy industry has special hopes
for the great festival which is
known from coast-to-coast as
June is Dairy Month. Dairy
farmers and their organizations,
among other thing, hope that
urban people may deprive ilex
understanding of the problehis
which beset producers, proces-
sors, manufacturers and distri-
butors of dairy goods.
For their part dairy farmers
might hope that as urban pea -
pie drive along country roads
past well kept dairy farms that
they give some thought to the
qualities of management which
go into making a dairy farm a
successful operation.
Once the dairy farmer is set
up with his livestock and equip-
ment he can ,go broke quickly
unless he is a good manager.
Indeed the 'suc,cessful farmer
must be "financier and laborer,
planner and caretaker, produc-
er and marketer, diagnostician
and nursemaid, student and ex-
perimenter." Essentially he
must have a good working
knowledge of breeding and
Beautiful doral arrangements
adorned St. James' rectory for
the annual tea and bake sale
held Wednesday afternoon and
sponsored by the Catholic Wo-
men's League.
Mrs. James Devereaux, presi-
dent, and Mrs. C. Malone receiv-
ed the guests. Mrs. Win. M.
Hart invited them to the tea
room, where poppies and white
peonies formed a lovely table
centre.
Pouring tea were Mrs. G.
Reynolds, Mrs. J. Meagher, Miss
M. Dunn and Mrs. J. M. McMil-
lan. Serving in the tea room
were Mrs. J. Flannery, Mrs. K.
Etue, Mrs, Joseph Devereaux,
Mrs. P. Bannon and Mrs. R,
Pringle. Tea assistants were'
Mrs. Thompson, Mrs. J. Lan -
sink, Mrs. A. Hoff, Mrs. Soseph
Nigh, Mrs. J. Kelly, Mrs. .1.
Aubin and Miss Hughes.
Mrs. Jo McConnell and Mrs.
J. L. Slattery convened the tea
and Mrs. R. S. Box and Mrs. J.
Case arranged the flowers.
The bake sale was held this
year in the bright, spacious
basement. It was convened by
Mrs. G. Van Den Hengel and
Mrs. A. Devereaux, assisted by
Mrs. C. Eckert, Mrs. C.' McNich-
ol and Mrs. M. Williams.
The ladies are grateful to
Father C. E. Sullivan for the
use of the rectory, and to all
who helped to make the after-
noon a success.
THE LONELIEST LAND
New Zealand's nearest neigh-
bor is Australia, 1200 miles
away. New Zealand is separat-
ed from the coast of Chile by
4,000 miles of open 'Ocean.
Northward, the empty seas roll
to the faraway isles of Polyne-
sia and to the south the grey
waste of water stretches dowir
to the Antarctic continent. In
size, shape and climate, New
Zealand is more like Italy and
Sicily than the British Isles. It
has several live volcanoes and
many warm or boiling springs
and geysers.
Assessments Show Gain
In Huron Municipalities
There has been an assess-
ment increase in every Huron
municipality since the 1962 re-
port, county assessor A. A. Alex-
ander told county council. The
increase, $1,061,759, brings the
county total to $63,390,020.
No outstanding increases are
noted, in comparison with the
previous year. Population of
the county, as published earlier,
is given as 50,021.
"I am not including any fig-
ures where a grant in lieu of
taxes has been made," Mr. Alex-
ander explained, "as the clerk
is required under Section 94,
subsection 2, Ontario Assess-
ment Act, to add these to the
equalization figures of the cur-
rent year."
Fixed assessments include:
Colborne, $10,400 on United
and Baptist church camps; God-
erich township, $5,000 on Sal-
vation Army camp; Hullett,
$700 on a Presbyterian camp;
Stanley, $6,400 on Anglican
church camp; Clinton, Exeter,
Goderich and Wingham, fixed
assessment on Legion halls, and
in Seaforth $28,000 on a shoe
plant, the last of this kind to
be put through before the law
was amended.
Town assessments are as fol-
lows, with last year's in brack-
ets: Clinton, $2,604,304 ($2,-
518,709; Exeter, $3,030,295 ($2,-
923,615; Goderich, $7,080,925
($6,770,615); Seaforth, $1,865,-
834 ($1,797,563); Wingham, $2,-
661,465, almost exactly as in
1962.
"The equalization committee
and myself will be making a
two-day tour of the north half
of the county and will be mak-
ing comparisons of assess-
ments," Mr. Alexander announc-
ed. "Next year it is proposed
to tour the south half."
Members of the assessment
corhmittee are Warden Forbes,
Deputy Reeve Thomas Howard,
Ashfield; Reeve Wrh. Moffitt,
Blyth; Reeve Milton Desch. Zur-
ich, and Deputy Reeve Elmer
Hayter, Stanley.
HURON COUNCIL CONFIRMS
GRANTS FOR FALL FAIRS
Requested by Huron County
Council to review "the whole
system of grants" in the coun-
ty, its finance committee at
closing sitting of the June ses-
sion brought in. a report in
which 13 reductions were re-
commended. Council went into
committee session, with the
press out; debatedthe report
for an hour and a quarter, and
finally come up with a much -
amended document, restoring
seven of the cuts.
As adopted in council, it
shows the following reductions:
Breeders' associations, $500 to
$375 (all association grants re=
duced 25%); 4-H Club Leaders,
$500 to $400. Also in the agri-
cultural category, the commit-
tee recommended that the per-
centage based on fair prize lists
be 7% for Seaforth and 6% for
all others with a minimum of
$125, except Lucknow and Kirk -
ton, $62.50. This was not ac-
cepted and the percentage
stands at 8% for all fairs.
In "patriotic" grants, the Sal-
vation Army is reduced from
$1;500 to $1,200; Canadian Can-
cer Society, Huron Branch, $500
to $400, The three Women's In-
stitutes will get $15 each in-
stead of $25, and the St. John
Ambulance $75 instead of $100.
Belgrave music festival is out
from $50 to $25. Reductions
from ".$25 to $10 for Belgrave,
McKillop, Hensall/ and Howick
school fairs was ,not approved.
The Canadian (National Insti-
tute for the Blind will get
$2,000 as before. No action was
taken on applications from
Wingham Trade and Agricul-
tural Fair and the Canadian
Red Cross for grants. The mat-
ter of scholarships and bursar
ies for the University of Wa-
terloo was left until the 1964
budget is being prepared.
MOUNTAIN LION HAS MANY
NAMES
The New World 'mammal
found over the widest area is
the mountain lion. It ranges
from the southern tip of South
America to northern British Co-
lumbia. It is also known as
the puma, a word from the
Quechuan tongue, language of
the Tncas of ancient Peru. An-
other names cougar, is chiefly
literary. The big animal is
so known as the panther, the
panter and the catamount.
Less Work If
Rate Reduced,
Council Told
feeding, of seeding and fertil-
ization, of machine opention,
machine repaif, pest control and
weed eradication. Above all, he
must know how to cope With
the weather in relation te, his
management problems for few
occupations in the world are so
subject to the whims of the
weather as is farming,
Management of a dairy farm
is complex indeed and the man
who makes a success of dairy-
ing probably would be a suc-
cessful administrator wherever
he might be. Any farmer is
continuously making decisions
on hundreds of matters which
range from the broad "policies
of the organization of the farm
to the intricate details of day-
to-da'y operation. Some of his
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Less Work Done
If Rate Down
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cerned with what crops to
pro-
duce and how much to VtePee;,
how to market 004 what
kinds, grades and quantities of
materials to use in h* 149014 -
tion operation; where to buy
them; and how to time the sea-
sonal pattern of activities. Nor
turally he must decided how
many cows to keep in the herd
and which individuals; what
quantities of the various sorts
of roughages and concentrates
to feed them; how much of the
roughage to produce on the
farm; what crop rotation and
fertilization practices to follow;
how to store roughage for win-
ter feeding; whether to raise or
purchase replacement animals
and plan the seasonal pattern
of breeding and freshening
major decisions will be con-. dates. for the herd.
The Huron County Federa-
tion of Agriculture held its
June meeting in Clinton - with
chairman Elmer Ireland report-
ing on the various meetings, in-
cluding the Wingham Trade
Fair he had iattended.
Lloyd Stewart, president of
the Hog Producers, reported on
the 160 gilts distributed to 4-H
club members. He said all but
one gilt was doing well. He
expressed satisfaction at the in-
terest shown by the young peo-
ple in hog production:
Alf Warner spoke on the
Swine Producers' meeting he
had attended in Guelph.
Reports were heard from Em-
merson Crocker on the hog
marketing plan, Bob McGregor
from the Beef Producers, H. D.
Woodham from the Cream Pro-
ducers, and Lorne Rodges, the
Fluid Milk report.
Deputy Reeve May Mooney,
Goderich, finance chairman, ask-
ed what would happen if the
mill rate' for roads were re-
duced. Mr. Britnell said the
projects listed would have to
be cut one-half or two thirds
and proceeded with on that
basis. Some counties set up a
road program and then levy
a rate to pay for it, but Huron
and some other counties decide
how much can be spent, and
plan accordingly.
',Condition of Huron County
bridges is excellent," Mr. Brit-
nell said, "in that the county
has been undertaking to build
two or three 30 -feet in span
and over each year for the past
10 or 15 years, as well as the
construction of approximately
six reinforced concrete culverts
varying in span from 10 to 20
feet. We are pleased to re-
port that nearly all of the 74
bridge structures 20 feet in
span and over on the county
road system are in excellent
shape and with the exception
of a few long bridges over the
Maitland and Bayfield Rivers,
near Lake. Huron, all structures
are capable of carrying full
loads. 11'4
"In. the not too distant future
it may be necessary to give
consideration to replacing some
of these longer spans which
could cost up to $250,000 apiece.
The existing structures are in
most cases only wide enough to
accommodate one lane of traf-
fic, and in some cases are not
safe for loads in ex6ess of 20
tons. Fortunately, none of
these structures are required
to carry excessive leads, since
they are on roads that do not
have a high traffic volume and
under the provisions of the
Highway Traffic Act the load
limit on these roads is limited
to 11 tons."
Notwithstanding a letter from
J. K. Sully, of the Dominion
Road Machinery Co., Gaderich,
urging renewal of membership
in the Canadian Good Roads
Association, council accepted a
recommendation of the commit-
tee to send only the engineer
as a delegate to the conven-
tion.
THE DAIRY FOODS SERVICE BUREAU officially accepted
responsibility for the national farmer -sponsored program of
dairy foods promotion on Wednesday, March 13. In the above
photo Lincoln Dewar (seated) accepts congratulations from
John Dickson, President of Dairy Farmers of Canada, on his
election to the Chairmanship of the Bureau. Extreme left is
F. R. McCalla, of Edmonton, . Alberta, second vice-chairman of
the neves group, and representing the regional committee of
Alberta and British Columbia, Next is Romeo Martin, of Mont -
peal, appointed from the Quebec regional committee and Vice-
chairman of the By. Immediately behind .Mr. Dewar, who
hails from Charlott wn. P.E.I., and represents the Maritime
regional committee, is John Monkhouse, of Toronto, Executive
Secretary of Dairy Farmers of Canada. Flanking him is G. R.
McLaughlin, of Beaverton, Ontario, Vice-president of Dairy
Farmers of Canada. Regional committeesare appointed by
the member bodies of Dairy Farmers of Canada resident in a
region. Each region is entitled to one member of the National
Executive (two from Ontario and Quebec). G. H. Ledoux,
Montreal, was the additional Quebec member, while T. E.
Brady, of Toronto, and A. G. Sloan, of Fournier, represented
Ontario, J. F. Warburton, of Poplar Point, Manitoba, attended
as the representative of the Saskatchewan -Manitoba regional
committee. In line witIviscslicy decisions taken at the annual
meeting .of Dairy Farmers of Canada the Dairy Foods Service
Bureau has assumed full responsibility for collection and ex-
penditure of funds under the new advertising set aside pro-
gram which began June 1 of this year. Collections from pro-
ducers will be an amount equivalent to 14 of 1% of producer
receipts for milk and cream, although the actual mechanics
of collection may vary at the discretion of the regional com-
mittees concerned.
ongratulations
airy
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June is your month! All year long you work hard
to send us delicious, nourishing dairy foods. And
now, during June Dairy Month, it's our turn to say
"Congratulations,,DAiry Farmers, on a job well done."
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