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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1956-03-01, Page 5THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 1, WW Staffa Co-op Pays Return At the annual meeting of shareholders of Hibbert tCo-op- erative Dairy Association held Thursday, February 23, at Staf­ fa, the company announced turn of a patronage bonus mounting to $39,466,41 on a tai make of 895,'581 pounds butter. It was also announced that the co-op has on order one of the most modern stainless steel Churns available to take care of increased business, Wellington Brock was elected president for 1956. Vice-presi­ dent is Norman Dow; secretary­ treasurer, James Scott; directors, Bert Fell and Arthur<Kemp. Man­ ager of the co-op is. Gerald Agar, Archie Jeffrey director and secretary-treasurer for the past 17 years, resigned. Down to Earth By D. I. HOOPER Forum, Displays, Auction Feature Huron Seed Fair Canada’s famed Welland,Canal was opened dn 1932. SUPERIOR Propane Limited Your Distributor for Propane Gas and Appliances for Farm, Home and Industry Call Stratford 4174 - If itfye farmers of today were ■to stop and figure 'they /would make some drastic changes in their farming practises. The past decade h’as been too easy. Prices of produce were high and new with manufactured goods at a higher price level than farm products iwe must cut /corners to break even. Commercial fertilizers have pretty well shoved animal /man­ ure, the old fertilizer standby, out of t/he picture insofar as fertilizer programs are •concern­ ed. With labour shortage and high wages there has been a tendency to purchase food by the ton in chemical /form. /Sure it was good business, but it gave its greatest net return (per dollar invested) when used in ’con­ junction .with animal manure. Manure compared ‘with today’s fertilizer prices is said to be worth $5.00. per ton when used with commercial fertilizers. With­ out commercial fertilizer its value jumps to nearly $10.00 a ton. Experts /tell us we can step up ^tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiinyiiiiiiiiiiii ........... To Obtain The Highest Prices FOR YOUR POULTRY Sell To The Riverside Poultry Co. Ltd. LONDON London 7-1230 Phone Collect Hensail 680R2 Buying Fertilizer? NOW is the time to buy your fertilizer and get ad­ vantage oi\EARLY DISCOUNTS and avoid the spring rush. By purchasing SHUR-GAIN FERTILIZER you are sure of a TOP-QUALITY PRODUCT at BEST POSSIBLE PRICES. Drop in now and get our prices or check with your nearest Shur-Gain Agent. our returns 'by watching our ap­ plication rates more closely. They think that too many farmers consider manure just something to dump on 'the ground and they don’t pay too much attention to their rate of application. They recommend a minimum of six tons per acre and a maximum of 10 .tons. /Manure applied at six ton ratejs worth >$'5.00 per ton and if you double rate .of appli­ cation is ’worth only $3,115 per ton. n The old, time-honoured analy­ sis of 'barnyard manure is 10-5- 10- In other words in every ton you 'have 10 lbs. of nitrogen, 5 libs, of phosphate, 10 libs, of pot­ ash, Those are the figures on which. we must compute /the available plant food and they vary according to the condition of ■your manure pile and the straw or fibre content of that pile. The Ontario 'Department of Agriculture has always stressed the wastage that occurs in the manageiment of manure. Storage losses can ‘be 'high due to leach­ ing from rain and sun, burning from .poor packing of pile, and from improper application. Seep­ age from a 'manure pile imay con­ tain as 'high as 30-40% of the plant food. To prevent these losses is the individual problem of every farmer. Just imagine buying five tons of 'commerciartertilizer and then piling it up in the yard without adequate protection. That is the same thing as piling up your manure in an open unpaved yard with no fibre to absorb the seepage from that pile. Wastage is just as expensive as if some­ one /backed a 'truck up to your fertilizer pile in the shed, loaded 40% of that pile and drove off with it. We rather guess that you would spend a, bit of /money to apprehend the thief and get- your /fertilizer. What- steps are you taking to stop Ithe thief • on your manure pile? It's valuable, too, with proper storage and .application. DID YOU KNOW? 'Let the- children live, Very’, very /few Children would be killed by motorists if everyone drove as if each .child were his or her own. , 1 THIS WEEK Attend /Soil .Management meet­ ing at /Exeter Town Hall, March 1, Redecorate now—before spring work catches hubby. Plan- next summer’s flower garden. •Remember to send Get Well and Birthday cards. Educational displays by five district high schools, a panel dis­ cussion by experts on soil mana­ gement, competitions for county seed honors and auction sale of prizewinning entries will feature Huron county’s annual seed fair at 'Clinton on Friday an<J 'Satur­ day this week. Prizes and trophies valued at nearly $1,000 will be given away at the tenth annual seed exhi­ bition which is the second largest county fair of its kind in Ontario. G. W. Montgomery, agricul­ tural representative for the coun­ ty and ■Secretary-treasurer of ithe fair, said Tuesday he has already received a number of entries and hopes to see a record-size com­ petition this year. * Mr, Montgomery emphasizes that all entries must be" in be­ fore noon Friday. Official judg­ ing of the seed will take place Friday afternoon along with the junior. farmer seed judging com­ petition. Arnold Jamieson, Clinton, is the defencing champion of the Huron seed fair. He won last year with a total of 4>8 points. Runner-up Was Jim McEwen, of Hensail, with 30. Merton Keyes, Seaforth', exhi­ bited the champion bushel of seed—Lorraine oats. Dr. D. N. Huntley, director of the department of field husband­ ry, Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, will direct the panel dis­ cussion on soil management Sat­ urday afternoon. Panelists include Professor N. J. Thomas, Department of Soils, O.A.C. and Dr. Jack Roe, At­ wood; William Turnhull, Brus­ sels; Alvin Bettles, Bayfield; and Robert Allen, Brucefield. The panel program has proven a popular feature of the fair, It packed, the school auditorium last year. /School fair dieplays will fea­ ture new development in various farm operations. /South Huron will feature corn; Goderich, soil; Clinton, grasses; Seaforth, cere­ al grains and Wingham, the seed drill survey. 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Milburn, secretary­ manager, of the Ontario Federa­ tion of Agricuture. Mr. Miilburn made the an­ nouncement immediately follow­ ing a meeting in Toronto of the Federation of Agriculture direc­ tors, and directors from Ontario’s 22 commodity groups. The secretary-manager said that preparations will be made to accommodate approximately 1,000 delegates and members of Ontario farm organizations Who will be attending the marketing conference. “■In keeping with the Ontario Federation of Agricuture’s policy of ‘self-help’,” Mr. Milburn said that “the conference is being cal­ led to help clarify what were the 'respective areas of responsibility of Ontario farmers, the provincial government, and the federal gov­ ernment in the field of. market­ ing.’’ “Ontario farmers have to esta­ blish clearly what their responsi­ bilities are to make the Ontario farm product marketing pro­ grams a success. Once having established these responsibilities, then it will be up,to the confer­ ence to look to the future to see how these responsibilities can be carried Out,” Mr. Milburn said. “Admittedly there has been a serious deterioration in farm prices, and governments have a responsibility to formulate cer­ tain policies to help u.s stem this farm price trend, but farmers themselves have to shoulder some of the responsibility for clearing up this situation.” Mr. Milburn said that discus- sioh at the conference would likely touch' on marketing legis­ lation, a detailed review df speci­ fic problems feeing individual commodity groups, and a num­ ber of resolutions looking for­ ward to a co-ordinated plan of action by the commodity groups for the months ahead. The traditional time is not necessarily the best time. 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