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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1957-04-18, Page 11SUPER CHICK STARTER 't Second Section • „r • . 4 t t. 1 IMPORTER FINDS MARKET FOR BURROS AS pus—Mrs. .Ama Diebolt has' had peculiar orders in her career .as importer, but even she is surprised at the enthusiasm for Mexican burros, She set up business in Vancouver during the war, answering re- quests for hard -to -get items. After the war sheiust continued on and now her requests • range from. a 70 -foot log to be used as a boat keel to out -of -print books. The first burros she imported wereas a surprise present for a bank manager's wife. Now she has orders for.:'59•;•rnore, mostly 'frompersons who want to make pets of the 40 -inch - high patient, donkey like animals, • Central 'Press Canadian Writer Raps Middle Man, Worse Than Bad Weather Dear Editor; where the Gordon Report is I have been following the worth the paper it is written op, letters on the Gordon Report, and As sure as there is seed time and harvest, the weather is the pri- mary factor towards creating a Shortage or a surplus of farm products, We can plan and dream and make predictions, without using millions of dollars of tax- payers' money, and the mighty weather can make mere puppets of the smartest. Yet unreasonable weather is no moke exasperating than these creatures we call the "Middle man." For example: Why should implement agents with long greedy fingers reach in and help themselves to approximately one- third of the price of all imple- ments and repairs for broken parts that the farmer buys? So many leeches syphon a fat living from the farming indus- try it is small wonder we get tired and frustrated. And I main- tain the leeches are our biggest difficulty. Agriculture is a good, whole- some, honorable occupation, and shame -on us if we teach our children to call any part of it drudgery. Rather teach them that Canada was made a goodly inheritance for us by our valiant forefathers who staunchly be - it seems as if Farmer's Wife from +Hensel' has been waxing into an oratorical mood — as if she could be sitting around rest- ing a fractured .bone or some such thing while her head takes flight. Did she ever hear that long- winded, after-dinner speakers are a bore? Team up three W's, three P's or any letter in the alphabet, but do hunt for another word than. drudgery. Ministers, doctors, polititions, men from many walks of life have been known to be victims of overwork but who called them drudges? If agriculture is not as fine an art as any,it.should be, for it is the basic industry that provides the necessities for Jiving. We read in the pages of ancient his- tory the times when the fanner was the peasant, full of super- stitions and ignorance,and al- ways exploited by the rich. Prog- ress has changed the world and the people in it, and yet the toughest problem for the farmer still is to get a just share of the profits from his labor. Like many others, I fail to see Farmers Be Prepared For Spring Seed and fertilizer prices are at their LOWEST now.. Order your•SED OATS while supplies are good and prices reasonable. Carry, Rodney, Simcoe, Ajax and Beaver seed oats in stock. Barley Contracts are now available with FERTILIZER SUPPLIED . • We Also Have.A Lmited Amount of No. 1 Commercial Brant Barley For Sale Cook Bros. Milling Co. LIMITED Phone 24 Hensall , „, ,,, lllllllllllllll lllllllll 1.k11111111111111111/111111111111.11111 lllllll 111.1111.11111 lllllllllllllll 1,11111111111111i lllllllll Clover & Grass Seed, Permanent Mixtures SEED OATS AND BARLEY Fencing BARWIRE $9.00 STEEL & CEDAR POSTS Ete. Cement By the Bag or Truckload Quantity Discount Delivcry Guarabteed Fertilizer Get Your Supply NOW! Aeroprills Co -Op MOToR OILS AND GItEAStS lieved that genius is 10% inspira- tion and 90% perspiration. Thank you, Another Farmer's Wife. *Name available on request, ell llllll I ll I l 11111,111 llllll I ll I l lllllll III lllllllllllll Fieldman's Comments On Eggs By CARL. HEMINGWAY Huron County Federation of Agriculture held a directors meeting Thursday April 11 in Clinton with a very good atten. dance front township and affilia- ted organizations. The Heldman reported on the annual meeting of the wheat and poultry producers organizations held in Toronto. The meeting instructed the se- cretary to extend an invitation to the Ontario Director of Field Services to •attend County Direc- tor meetings. It was also decided to make the county fieldman available to township meetings whenever possible. After discussion it was' agreed that the Federation hold a coun- ty field -day and picnic sometime in June. The executive was to de. cide place and date, also to ob- tain a suitable speaker. The secretary was also in• structed, in View of the serious losses being suffered by famiers in the Clinton ' and Chatham areas due to grain dealers going bankrupt, to draft ;resolution, to be forwarded to the Ontario Federation, to the effect that grain dealers be required to es- tablish some sort of financial re- sponsibility for grain held by them for storage or for sale. Mrs. Gordon Greig, Vice- chairman of Ontario Farm Fo- rum, reported on the annual meeting in Toronto. In this she urged stronger support to the farm forum organization. She also advised farmers to visit the United Co -Operatives' new plant .in Toronto. Mrs, Greig was chosen as de- legate to the Dominion Farm Forum meeting in the Mari- times. SEED. Potatoes' NOW IN STOCK; • Irish Cobblers • Katandins • Sebago GARDEN SEEDS • Garden Fertilizers • Vigoro • Alliorganite • Sheep Manure WE SHIP HOGS EVERY TUESDAY Exeter District CO-OP 'PhOrifi 28 Coiled tree Dilivery Saturday !Wide co Station, EXETER, ONTARIO, APRIL IS, ItS7 Offer Bean Contracts,. rice Up $9.00 Over Last Year Forums Urge, Better Hogs The majority of the 600 Farm' Forums reporting on the topic, "What Can We Learn from. Abroad?" thought that Canadian hog producers. 'need to improve their breeding program. Some wanted one standard breed .of hogs for Canada. Others desired an improved system for 'feeding hogs or increased premiums for top grades in order to improve the quality. Over 200 groups be- lieved that there should be more. co-eperative packing and market- ing facilities in Canada, while a few groups suggested more co- operative slaughter houses. For- mula prices based on feed costs - shouldbe considered by Cana- dian hog producers .according to more .than 100 groups. A number of groups favored a compulsory marketing board much like the wheat board and 40. groups just said, "We need producer •of Government marketing boards," HENSALL SALE PRICES Prices at Hensall Community Sale, April 11: Weanling pigs $ 13.00. to $ 16.35 Chunks 19.00 22.75 Feeders 24,00 28.10 Sows 68.00 91.00 Holstein cows .,140.00 • 165.00 Durham sows , 150.00 175,00 Holstein calves 12.00 16.50 Durham calves 13.50 28,00 Fat cows sold up to $13.80' a cwt. There were 300 pigs and 150 head of cattle and calves sold. Huron County' Crop Report By ARTHUR S. BOLTON Cold weather during the past week has made it impossible to do anything on the land: Growth of grad and other plants has been at' a standstill for the same reason. Cold nights and little Sunshine during the day has prolonged the run of sap making this year, a very good one as far as that enterprise is ,concerned. Farmers report that a good deal more of last year's poor quality hay and grain has been required to produce a pound qf gain on beef cattle or a 100 of milk from dairy cattle- than was the case a year ago. Local veterinarians report that digestive troubles in livestock are at a minimum this year which is probably one of the few advantages of a wet summer last year. etas, r of SOOTY 1/1/120N and NORTH AllOOLES'EX_,"_!--6- rrr P 1 Defend. For 'Last Time' View On Gordon Report To The Editor, Upon reading Farmer's Wife's letter in your April 4 edition, one could not but assume that she believes we are ignorant people and that she has graduated in one year as a "specialist" in farm economics through the reading of four farm magazines, two daily newspapers and The Exeter Times -Advocate, Never can 1 recall an incident where a group of innocent peo- ple, intent on minding their own business and doing the ground work for the betterment of the economy of the industry from which they derive their living, have been charged upon in such an unwarranted. malicious and contemptible manner. Most people know their place in society and it is well that few ever make themselves so ob- vious. On March 14, we gave our. answers in your paper as to why we said the Gordon Report was "unnecessary and a waste of the taxpayers' money." You will find those reasons sufficient to with- stand this further onslaught by Farmer's Wife. Farmer's wife has her mis- givings: first, she says if all the points of the report are for - .gotten excepting the five per- taining to agriculture and only one of these nurtured to its full harvest the report shall have served its purpose. Second, she does not want to see it discussed, debated and then shelved, Farmer's Wife, we are paying mighty dear for such a doubt- ful bahY. Farmer's Wife, for- ego; VW out of line with that wMetiShe upholds, draws A.M. patient, to. wait for another 25 years. She better get up on her crutches (marketing boards). The report says there will be little change in the future de- mands for our products and no' great change until the 1980's. Farmer's Wife told me what* security you must have for a government loan and asks, "Is llllllllllllll lllll I llllllllllllll I llll 011111 ll I ll III lllllllllll IIIIIIIIIIIIII Down To Earth By D. I. HOOPER Excerpts Many farm papers come into the average farm home. Among the ones that come to our house is the Canadian Hereford Digest. This is a breed magazine pub- lished and mailed to all mem- bers of the Canadian Hereford Association. With a sharp editor- ial staff, it contains this month some hints and facts on feeding which we deem worthy of pass- .ing on. ALFALFA BALED and OTHER- WISE: That the feeding value of baled alfalfa hay equals that of alfalfa stored in an upright silo, was brought out by W. C. McCone of South Dakota State College, Brookings, S.D. McCone made comparisons of baled alf- alfa, alfalfa silage in an upright silo, silage in a trench silo and silage piled on the ground. Average gains per head daily for cattle in this feeding study Were very similar, but total gains varied because of differ- ences in lengths of feeding per. leds. Steers on the baled alfalfa made similar daily gains to those fed alfalfa from the up- right silo, and in an equal length of time. GRINDING CORN: No signif- icant differences in the amount of grain consumed or in gains in weights of steers were noted in a study involving three meth- ods of grinding corn, according to feeding tests made by 1:)r. A. L. Newmann, Dr. W, W. Albert and R. W. Kleis at the Univer- sity of Illinois. In this study, ear corn was ground to equal fineness in a hammer mill and a burr mill in 1953, and in 1954 was similarly ground by a hammer mill, a burr mill and a knife mill, Shell- ed corn used in 1955 was ground with a hemmer mill and burr mill. Although the cattle refused some of the large cob particles in the hammer mill- ground feed, this factor did not effect grain consumption nor increase cost of gains, . —Please Turn to Page 12 CANADIAN CANNERS LIMITED Are Now Contracting For Picking Beans Price $109,00 per fort' Office Open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday Through Friday Canadian Canners oink% PHONE 28 Ltd, EXETER, this charity?" My answer is cials to hail the report as a blue - but if she asks for low- print to guide us over and around er amounts of security my the many obstacles, etc? And answer is "Yes!"—and rightly ;how was A possible for Mr. Gor- so,—the same kind of charity as ' don and his committee of three she asked for when she wanted to succeed in sounding the depth lower interest rates, longer of such a fathomless problem? terms and not so many stipulThe Gordon Report was -!ad- tions. dressed not so much to thc gov- The forum termed selling eggs eminent or other agencies as it at 30 cents a dozen as giving. was to individuals (nonsense) and we as individuals should ac- cept it, study it thoroughly and then urge the government to adopt and support an or all the recommendations that may in some way assist us, Farmer's Wife will not get far if she approaches a government as an individual. The better method would be the forum, fed- eration and department of agri- sumer; labor organizations are culture road./ .. looking after him very nicely. Farmer'sI topWife s ale G. sit Rand G.R. means Farmer's Wife says we misin- nothing terpreted 'a broad and compre- hensive scheme for a better system of land use. The forum said, "We think the farmers are making good enough use of the land; otherwise we would ..not have the surpluses." Why bring more land into use, flooding our Markets with surpluses and send- ing our prices lower? The prime interest of the farmer in the sale of his product is to get his cost of production and a fair profit or why farm? Let us start at the bottom and give the farmer the price that is his, lower the price spread by use of co-operative egg -grading stations and storage plants, and sell directly to the retail store. Don't worry too much about the con - say we will have such and such a share of the gross national product by 1986, for rising ex- penses in a boom economy could wipe out the predicted gain. In the same vein she suggests a 70 per cent rise in production by 1980 and a decrease proportion- ately (70 per cent) in the cost of production to get us nut of the (b) Plans for substantial irri- price squeeze.. If the first state- ment does not hold water, the .gation projects should be restrict- —Please Turn to Page 12 ed in the next decade to guard against farm surpluses. Here the report is guarding against over. production. These two points are contradictory, who made the wrong interpretation? At the time of writing this let- ter, our government has all but closed an agreement with Sas- katchewan and the South Sas- katchatVan power and irrigation scheme; tvhichWilllifing into use some 500,000 dry acres with addi- tional water storage for a larger area; turning an area of detenor- ating and abandoned farms into prosperous and productive mixed farming. From this, it would appear that the federal government is al- ready ignoring the report's rec- ommendations. A change of government in the June 10 elec- tion would send the Gordon Report down the "waste paper basket" road and deny it forever the privilege of resting with its predecessor on the dusty shelves of Parliament Hill. Remarks on excerpts from Farmer's Wife: No one person or group of persons could under- stand the many faceted problems of the industry as a whole, How then was it possible for leading government and agriculture offi- Canadian Canners. Ltd, is offer, mg bean contracts an -MOTO' of',$9.(10. ton ioverlast Year T1PrCeib.tete 1)hegrrfrom (), 0p97wAs;etlsiweit17g* nvetettiaarees obreotwweer, them44,,Oicnetatirrl Board and the processors.' This is the largest illOreaS, given td any crop this year, in offering bean ,contracts in this district Canadian canners Ltd, fulfills its promise to farm. ers that the crop- will 'stilt be grown here even 'though „equip. ment has been moved aut ofib local factory. The machinery was transferred earlier this year .cials said, the bean pack' inter* fered, with both the pea -and'corn packs. Lengths of these iatter. packs can be extended now,"tlut contendlocalthe factory will beaus,not Of bf a gall; say. • Beans grown locally will be point, to another ProceSSing Price increases were also granted for carrot and beet crop* in negotiations last week. ' Raises amount to 50 cents and $1.00 per ton for certain grades. • - Prices. for tomatoes' have established by awardat:,-$4.1,50- per ton for No. 1 grade Pumpkin and squash -.Avitrbe worth more in. 1957,,the price haton, having from $0.00 to- $104/0 per Mayor R. E. Pooley, member Of the negotiating. board' for ,cab- bages. announced Wednesday that the price was raised 50 cents Or the late variety and dropped 50 cents for the early type. Prices- are $15.50 for early, :as compared to $16.00, last year, and $13.50 for late, as compardd to t13.00. The may,or said grower-ditt changeistheonlybe crop pe strhoewnlvariety. this area will benefit.frocithel) More farmers switch to Sure iMnigl.kers for .safert. faster:,Milk- WANTED WHITE BEANS If you wish to sell, see us immediately. MALTING BARLEY CONTRACTS Still some available. — Fertilizer supplied. Check our Clover and Grass Seed Prices ' Before You Buy E. L. Mickle & Son Office 103 HENSALL Mill 205. f FAST UNIFORM GROWN GOOD FEATHERING! 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