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THE T1MES-ADV0CATE, IXETCT, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 2,‘1956
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Farmers' Failure To Yield Profit
Hinders Progress — MacNaughton
Failure on the part of farmers
to recognise the right of a profit
for those who process and mar
ket what he produces is the
greatest single reason for some
of the manifest shortcomings of
the seed industry in Canada, C.
’S. MacNaughton of Exeter told
Ontario 'Soil and Crop improve
ment Association convention in
Toronto last week.
Basis for this statement, he
said, was last year’s Huron
County Seed Drill Survey which
showed that 17 percept of the
seed sown by Huron farmers ‘last
year would have been rejected
■by O.A.C. heenuse
quality,
He pointed out that of the
small seed samples ' ML
purchased from dealers graded,
either number one or two, but
almost half ’ of the lots purchased
from farmers were rejected.
Of 50 grain seed samples, in
every instance grades were un
known. Three samples described
■by the farmers as oats were
actually mixed grain.
"I regard this as an affront
to the seed industry,” Mr. Mac-
iNaughton said, "Is it ignorance,
false economy, unwillingness to
pay an honest price and a fair
profit that causes this deplorable
situation to exist?”
"Graded seeds whether they
be cereals, clovers or grasses are
available from reliable dealers
throughout the province," he
continued, "Certainly the initial
cost is higher and the price
should and very likely will pro
vide some profit <to the processor
and dealer. It is recognized be
yond doubt that graded seed is
'by far the most economical in
the long run,”
Directing criticism to the in
dustry itself, Mr. MacNiaughton
said he felt competition in the
seed trade has too often been on
the basis of price only. The de
plorable condition shown by the
seed survey could have been im-
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of iu jioor
tested, those
•proved if the industry had fully
exploited its promotional capa
bilities."Generally speaking,” the Sx-
eter seedsman continued, "the
Exeter seedsman continued, "the
trade cannot deny that they have
failed to provide leadership and
direction ' towards the Improve
ment of seeding practices/*
"It seems to me that with the
trade it has been a matter of
‘cutting the suit to fit the cloth*.
In forage crop seeds particularly,
the practice has been more a
search for methods of competing
at the price level with quality,
purity and adaptability in many
cases being sacrificed?’
"I believe that a proper re
spect foi' the profit motive would
result in competition on the
basis of improved service, a pro
gram of education sponsored by
the trade in collaboration with
recognized authorities, a con
tinuing search for improved
varieties, frequent examination
of the regulations which govern
the sale of seeds with appropri
ate recommendations for revis
ions as they may from time to
time seem warranted."
"iSurely there has ibeen a
serious gap between consumer
and producer somewhere along
the line, Positively there must be
■an area in which the producer,
the consumer and the trade to
gether with the federal and pro
vincial departments of agricul
ture, colleges and experimental
station can collaborate to the
end that good seed of adapt
able quality and variety can be
the rule rather than the exception
in the farming procedures of this
country."
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"Again I say, most emphatic
ally, a proper regard for honest recognition in the form of lair
profits at every level of the
farm
way
which
Mr. .
a recent meeting of the seed
trade association a public relations committee had. been estab
lished for the first time and that,
as chairman of this new commit
tee, he hoped that it could do its
part to improve seeding practices.
"Rememlber," he concluded,
"the hope of the harvest is in
the seed; let us resolve to im
prove the seed and make the
harvest profitable.’''
Mr. MacNaughton, manager o.f
Jones, MacNgughton Seeds Ltd,,
led in the panel discussion on
"Let’s Take Stock of the Seed
Industry,"
economy will go a long
to correcting the evils
beset US today."
MacNaughton said that at
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■Much has been written about
soil tests and the lack of major
and. trace elements in our soil.
Some very fast-talking salesmen
are really putting on the pres
sure with this line, They will
really give you the works—your
’soil lacks magnesium, boron, iron
etc. etc. Perhaps our soil does
lack some of these trace ele
ments but according to oui" in
formation, the most inexpensive
way to .overcome these defic
iencies is in the form of a feed
supplement.
With the coming of hybrid
grain corn to this area more and
more fertilizer is being planted
per acre. Applications as high as
800 - 1000 lbs. per acre are not
uncommon. These heavy applica
tions of commercial fertilizer do
not always mean higher- net re
turns for corn.
The O.A.C., Central and 'Ridge
town Experimental Farms do re
commend -that, sufficient plant
food 'be available for a record
crop. But—and this is important
“but”-—commercial fertilizer nit
rogen used to the exclusion of a
sound legume and grass program
will on the average soil show
lower net‘return per acre, Leay^
ing legumes and grasses out of
a rotation in a clay loam or any
other type of soil usually lowers
the moisture holding and water
controlling qualities of y our soil.
And water is as important as
food itself to a bumper yield.
Legumes do far more than fix
nitrogen in a soil at an economi
cal rate. Legumes also do the
following:
1. The penetrating roots of
legumes help develop a friable
suib-soil.
2. Legume and grass roots
prevent soil erosion by increas
ing water-holding capacity, thus
eliminating -the fast run-off that
carries away valuable top soil.
3. Legume and grass roots
create minute canals in the soil
which carry excess, water down
into ■ field tiles, thus preventing
standing ponds which can drown
crops.
4. Legumes and grasses help
in weed control; most common
noxious weeds cannot sur-
a heavy stand of legumes
grasses.
Directly and indirectly, leg
umes and grasses introduce hu
mus into the soil, improving its
tilth and structure. Valuable
aeration qualities are furnished
the soil by legumes and grasses,
6. Legumes furnish a very
important source of protein for
■livestock and, along with grasses,
balance rations of forage-consum
ing livestock.
In the long run there can be
no replacement of legume grass
■meadows by commercial nitro
gen. Commercial nitrogen can
fill in gaps and team»up with
legumes and grasses to give
■greater over-all protection, but
in our opinion, it cannot replace
them. *
Crop rotation is not—and must
not become—-a dead issue. As
the margin of profit in farming
narrows we are going to have
to .use every .trick in the book,
make carefully thought-out pur
chases and strive for top yield
per acre with as low a produc
tion cost per bushel as possible.
•Sound crop rotation as practised
by the farmers in this area is
the key to one' of the problems
of farming today as in the past
and without a doubt will continue
■to be so in the future.
DID YOU KNOW?
In 1955, growers harvested the
largest alfalfa seed crop on re
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