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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1953-12-17, Page 9THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 17, 1953 Page ? Brandram Henderson PAINTS Arp Now Handled In Exeter By Fred Hatter Full range of shades, including Swing Satin, Popular prices, high in quality. • Painting and Carpentry Work Solicited PHONE 413-J EXETER Report On Crediton East By SIRS. W. MOTZ Mr. and Mrs. Mervin Colling'* wood and family, of Hamilton, spent Sunday with their uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. William Motz. Mr. Harry Lewis has been con­ fined Xo his home with lumbago. Mr. Charles Anderson spent last week in London with Mr and Mrs, Jack Anderson and Linda. Mrs. Bella Edwards has re­ turned to Exeter after visiting her sister, Mrs. H. Lewis, for a few days. Must Lower Farm Costs Of Production In Face Of Prices Crop Ass n Speaker MAKE THIS YOUR FROZEN FOOD CENTRE I Give Shoes and Slippers for Christmas ’Pleasing Gifts Of Real Value Ripon - Loafer Sox For The Whole Family GIFT CERTIFICATES AVAILABLE Be Prepared For The Holidays! I Let us carefully Sanitone Dry Clean those formal dresses and special Holiday Apjparel now and have them finished with our exclusive Sta*Nu Process. Special Attention Given to Sizing and Refinishing Net and Nylon and Taffeta Evening Dresses Brady Cleaners PHONE 13S EXETER “J have a lot more respect for the simple fact of crop rotation than I had when I went to col­ lege,” said George Gear, Walker­ ton, speaking at Londesboro on Wednesday night to an audience of 135 Huron county farmers. Mr. Gear, agricultural representa­ tive for Bruce county, was the principal speaker at the second annual banquet of the Huron Crop and Soil Improvement As­ sociation. Mr. Gear, well-known through Western Ontario as an expert on the management of beef herds, and on modern practice in the management of pastures, spoke on “The Philosophy of Farming.” His ideas, he made it clear, were his own and not necessarily the policy of the Ontario Department of Agriculture. “I’m interested in all live­ stock; I’m interested in growing something to feed them; primar­ ily, though, I’m interested in the soil,” said Mr Gear. His own ex­ perience,. he said, has led him to be a little impatient with some of the more extreme doctrines of the conservationists. It is an ex­ aggeration, said Mr. Gear, to ar­ gue that the typical Ontario far­ mer is mining his land, and it is an absurdity to argue that any considerable proportion of On­ tario farm lands should be taken out of cultivation and put back to tree. One of the ironies of farming, Mr. Gear observed, is that the good farmer is the one who hag the problems. “The poor farmer has no problems,—he’s happy. Once he starts producing more, then he starts to have problems. The fellow who gets the big, lush growth of hay early in the sea­ son has to worry about how to get that hay crop off a month earlier than he’s used to, and then he has to worry about keep­ ing more livestock to eat the hay, and more buildings to keep the stock." Mr. Gear was introduced by Harold Baker, assistant agricul­ tural representative for Huron. Thanks for his address were ex­ pressed by Richard Proctor, of Morris township,vice-president of the Huron Crop and Soil Im­ provement Association. Chairman for the gathering was Russell Bolton, of McKillop township. M.P.P. Speaks Thomas Pryde, Exeter, M.P.P. for Huron, said he considered the association one of the most important organizations in the country, and one that is concern­ ed with the basic problems of agriculture. “I think everyone is aware,” observed Mr. Pryde, “that the honeymoon is over,—the days of high prices and easy selling are behind us for a while, There’s going to be more of a seling job for all of us to do, and I think one thing is true,—that you can’t go wrpng selling quality.” Alvin Kerslake, Hensall, war­ den of Huron, congratulated the association on its work during the year. Agriculture, he said, is the key industry of Huron county. “Folks like you make that in­ dustry go.” A welcome to Hullett township was extended by Reeve William Dale, recently re-elected for 1954. Orville Taylor, of Belgrave, a member of the County Council's agriculture committee, said he believes the grant given by the county to the association is money, well invested, and added that the agriculture committee is firm in "its support of the associa­ tion. Other speakers were Harry Strang, Exeter, provincial direct­ or of the Crop and Soil Improve­ ment Association, representing Huron, Perth and Bruce counties; Russell Wagner, of Dobbinton, president of the Bruce Crop and Soil Improvement Association; G. W. Montgomery, agriculaural representative for Huron; Ken­ neth Fallis, Toronto, of the crops, •weeds and seeds branch of the Ontario Department of Agricul­ ture. Cheques Presented Cheques were presented by Mr. Fallis to winners in the 1952-53 50-Bushel Winter Wheat Club competition in Huron county. Top score in the competition was made by Hugh Berry, of Usborne township, who had a yield of 57.9 bushels an acre; second place was won by Allan Walper, Parkhill, with 52.8 bushels an acre. The target for next year, in the wheat club competition in Huron will be 60 bushels an acre, it was announced by G. W. Montgomery. Eleven have al­ ready entered, and additional entries will be welcomed, he said, from any who have at least five acres seeded to registered varieties. Three 4-H clubs in Huran car­ ried out projects that fit in with the association’s work, it was re­ ported by Harold Baker in a brief review of his 1953 work. Grain clubs, he said, were active in McKillop township and in the Exeter area; and a county forage club was organized with H. L. Sturdy and Wallace Bell as lead­ ers. Total mebership in the three clubs was 40; this proportion, out of the 437 4-H Club members in Huron this year, was not as high, Mr. Baker suggested, as the importance of crop projects 1 might warrant. Good Things To Eat For The Holiday Season BIRDSEYE FROZEN FOODS Strawberries — Peas — French Cut Beans — Lima Beans — Mixed Vegetables — Brussels Sprouts — French Fried Potatoes — Scallops'— South Coast Shrimp —• HO-Ma Frozen Oysters (these are frozen in tins where they are packed fresh) — Pickerel Fillets — Salmon Steaks •— Halibut Steaks, etc., etc, FOR A SMALL PARTY after the hockey game try Frozen Chicken or Beef pies. Just heat them in your oven—they are delicious. WE WILL BE OPEN Wednesday, December 23, until 10 P.M. CLOSED THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 7 P.M. We wish all our 700 locker holders and good friends in this district a Merry Christmas! Good luck in 1954! Exeter Frozen Foods Phone 70 Main St. Good Fanning Best Conservation “A good farmer improves his soil, and can make it two or three times as good when he is finished with it as it was when he got it,” said Mr. Gear. “Good farming is a better method of conservation than any other we have.” "The lower level of prices is here, and there’s no use arguing about it,” said Mr. Gear. “The thing now is to get lower costs of production,”. Mr. Gear said he would disagree vigorously with those who criticize the farmer for lack of efficiency. “I think that as a rule the farmer is more efficient than any other branch that produces in our society,'” he said. The answer to the problem of lower prices for farm produce can not, in the long run, be found in any policy of reducing production, Mr. Gear asserted. Obviously, he said, it would be suicidal for farmers to deliberate­ ly try to grow fewer bushels an acre. “Farming isn’t of that na­ ture,” he said^ “You can’t shut the’ doors and stop production for two or three weeks and then start up again, the way you could in some kinds of industry.” While he would not agree with those who argue that farm pro­ duction should be limited, said Mr. Gear, he also would not go to the other extreme and agree with the prediction that before long farmers will not be able to produce enough to feed this country’s growing population. Greater Production Goal “I look for a great period of prosperity,” he said, for those who have their farms set up right to pull through the next few years of lowered prosperity. The whole thing is tied up with greater production, because great­ er production is cheaper pro­ duction.” The time will probably come, Mr. Gear remarked, when far­ mers in his own county of Bruce will turn to growing cash crops, as farmers in south Huron have already done. “We don’t grow cash crops now in Bruce,” he said, “because there is more money in livestock. We can make money on hogs even _ when the price is fairly low. Up my way, my guess is that the gqod farmer is getting continually better. The same can hardly be true of the cash crop areas.” The farmer who relies on cash crops, and does not have a- really well-planned system for getting organic matter and fertilizer back •into the soil, can not maintain soil fertility, said Mr. Gear. Fertilizer Alone Not Enough “I’m a great believer in com­ mercial fertilizer,” he continued, “but I really think that commerc­ ial fertilizer isn’t much good to you unless you’re growing soil­ building crops . . -. The fellows who have been doing most things right over a period of years are the ones who can suddenly double their production by the applica­ tion of some fertilizer.” Comparison plots in pastures, to illustrate the effect of using commercial fertilizer, do not al­ ways Show conclusive results, and one-year tests prove nothing at all, said Mr. Gear. Hundreds and thousands of soil tests In Bruce county, he noted, have in­ dicated a prevailing deficiency of phosphorus in the soil, and yet when phosphates are added, in the form of commercial fertilizer, they do not seem to have much result in the succeeding crops, unless the soil itself was in fairly good condition before the fertili­ zer was added. Hoiv To Build Soils “I think we can build soils something like tills,—with a long time to do it,” Mr. Gear contin­ ued “The first thing we should try to do is get along Witli the soils the best way we can, We’ve got to get a living out of these soils while we are working them. They tell its, and t believe it, that where you take three tons of hay off the tofi, there’s a toil Of roots below. I sow fertilizer to get a good crop of hay and grass to make more of those roots to build up the soil. What the com­ mercial fertilizer is for is to stimulate the growth of grass ■ and hay so the soli will build.” The Be! Air 4-door sedan. With 13 models in 3 series, Chevrolet offers the widest choice in the low-priced field. i ON DISPLAY TOMORROW! More things more people want, that’s why most the new car that combines great new performance (m/ beautiful, most powerful ChevroletCome see the ever built... with money-saving gas mileage! This is what you’re going to find when you come in to check over this new ’54 Chevrolet: In every way, Chevrolet now brings you even more of the things you want. More beauty with brilliant new styling in Body by Fisher and bright new color harmonies outside and inside the car. 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