The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1958-08-21, Page 9'1
Fielclman Comments
Using Grain For Fee.
May Increase Profits
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Perhaps by the time this gets
in print the farmers will have
progressed ;far.enough in their
harvest to have time to read
agarn,
Again It looks as if farmers
in this area will. have a bounti-
ful harvest. True, the first cut of
hay was a bit short but in most
Vases a second cut will make yup
that shortage, The grain crop
is turning aut exceptionally well,
so our tears of a month .ago were
largely unfounded,
Now that we have the crop,
what will we do with it? Can
the average farmer afford to
take the one profit and sell his
beef ar bogs or poultry can
l hardly cover the cost.
I We hear of marginal farmers
and 1 h e dangerous position
'they are in. This ordinarily
:means the farmer on -the poor
,farm that scarcely produces an
existence There Is another mar-
Banal farmer who is in an equal-
y precarious position. The far-
mer who rains a beef, hog or
poultry enterprise on a bought.
feed basis. He buys alis livestock
for a price and .also his feed. He
works strictly en a aruargin. He
is• in the same position as the.
,:man who plays the grain market
!on margin. `.:here is a difference,
,The marginal farmer works and
,worries while the man plating
the grain market just worries,
grain as a cash crap? It seems
to me that farmers need to put l
more emphasis on the production Liter
of their own farm. To do this be
needs to make the most of that
production and get as close tocauses . Loss
the retail market as possible.
His hay can he fed to dairy
or beef cattle of his awn raising
sa that when he sells milk or
beef, whatever he gets will be
his own. Some of ills grain will
go to his cattle, also any balance
can be fed to poultry or hogs. In
this way feed will he purchased
only as a supplement to cover
any slight shortage in his pro-
duction and to balance rations,
This farmer won't have huge
feed bills running up' on trim
when perhaps the sale of milk or
4-H Exams
Next Week
Four -instead of two -4-H twi-
light demonstrations and • final
exam meetings will he held in
Huron. County this. year, Assist-
ant Ag Rep Arthur Bolton an•
nounced this week.
Purpose of the meetings is to
demonstrate how to prepare 4•H
projects for exhibit,
Leaders decided to enlarge
the number of meetings because
they found there were too many
members trying to watch dem-
onstrations.
em-onstrations.
Six South 'Huron clubs will
meet at SHDI•IS on Thursday,
August 28. They include Exeter
and Stephen beef clubs; Exeter
dairy, Exeter grain, Exeter corn
'and South . Huron sugar beet
clubs.
South Huron white bean and
Zurich calf club will meet at
Bayfield Community Centre on
Wednesday, August 27,
Other twillight meetings will
be held at Belgrave and Sea -
forth.
In addition to the demonstra-
tion, members will participate
in a quiz oft 25' 'short .questions
which amounts to 100 points on
the basis of awards for 4.1-I
clubs.
Survey Reveals
k A survey run in 1956 with, the
Cattle Disease
results just announced in, a
Hog producers in Ontario will
lose An .estimated. $10,000 per day
because of the drop of $1. in hog
prices on 1''ednesday, August 13,
according to a statement from
the Ontario Hog Producers' Co-op
sales agency for the hog produ-
cers marketing board. The price
of saws dropped to $21 on the
same day.
The break came shortly after
an article by a Mr. .Peter Mc-
Donald of Bright, was published.
in the Iitchener•Waterloo Rec-
ord of August 11.
The article indicated that far-
mers could deliver their hogs
direct to processors without fear
of retribution from anyone- until
after the Supreme Court handed
down its decision on farm mar-
keting legislation. This created
misunderstanding and Confusion
in' the wholesale trade, and re-
tail outlets took advantage and
bid processors drastically• lower
on cuts.
Establishment of prices is a
delicate matter al certain times
and prices can he easily de-
pressed. Unfounded and miscal-
culated statements made indis-
criminately cando a lot of harm,
Indications are that this article
definitely weakened the hog co-
op's bargaining power and re-
sulted in the hog market break-
ing.
List Dates
For Fairs
A list of Ontario Agricultural
Societies' Fairs for 1958 includes
the following:
Arthur Sept. 23, 24
Bayfield Sept. 24, 25
Belmont Sept, 17
Blyth Sept, 16, 17
Brussels Sept, 25, 26
Clifford Sept. 10, 11
Collingwood Oct. 2 - 4
Drayton Sept. 13 &-15
Dunanno n Oct. 3
Aug. 29, 30, Sept. 1
Sept. 15
Sept. 17, 18
Sept. 5, 6
Sept, 16, 17
Sept. 17, 18
Sept. 18, 19
Sept. 25, 26
Sept, 22, 23
Sept..23, 24
Sept. 19, 20
Sept. 23, 24
Sept. 12, 13
Oct. 8 - 11
Sept. 29, 30
Sept. 16, 19
Sept, 12, 13
Oct. 7, 8
Sept. 18, 19
Stratford Sept. 15 - 17
London Western ........ Sept. 8 - 13
Tavistock Sept. 5, 6
Toronto CNE Aug 20 -Sept. 6
Toronto Winter • Nov. 14.22
Walkerton Nov. 5, 6
Wellesley Sept. 9, 10
Woodstock Aug. 21 - 23
Zurich Sept. 20 ,& 22
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Elmira,
Embro
Exeter
Fergus
Forest
Harriston
Kincardine
Kirkton
Canodian Veterinary Journal in- Listowel
dicates that Leptospirosis does Lucknow
occur in cattle in many parts of Milverton
the country. During the survey Mitchell.
2,695 cattle were tested and 8.1 New Hamburg
per cent were shown to be posi- Owen Sound
tive for Leptospirosis. Palnr.erston
The 8.1 pet, cent figure would Parkhill
include those animals that are Port Elgin
currently infected as well as St. Ma s
animals that may have had the Seaforth
disease at some time in the past.
The reactors were distributed
among over half of the 113 herds
tested.
According to the Ontario Veter-
inary College the 8.1 per cent,
reactor animals suggests a fair-
ly high distribution of Lepto-
spirosis-a much higher distribu-
tion of the disease than would The Internatonal Plowing
have been anticipal.ed on theMatch will be held in Stormont
basis of clinical. reports alone. I County, October 7 - 10.
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EXETER, ONTARIQ, AUGUST 21, 1956
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STU[aENT'S HOME PROJECT -Laverne Flynn, KR. 1 Centralia, is one of several
hundred SHDHS students who are completing a Mame project this summer, one of
the requirements of the agricultural science department for students in grade nine.
Above, Laverne, his father,, Clayton Flynn, and SHDHS teacher Andrew. Dixon, right,
inspect pigs which Laverne is raising. Both boys and girls undertake similar projects
under the guidance of the high school. -T-A Photo
Youth Judge
At Exibition
Fifteen junior farmer and 4-H
members from Huron County
will he takini, part in the CNE
junior judging competition on
Wednesday, Sepenrber 3, Assis-
tant Ag Rep Arthur Bolton said
this week.
From this district, Bill Ether-
ington and Gordon Strang, both
of R.R. 1 Hensall, will take part
in tractor driving competitions
representing Exeter Tractor
Club.
Others will be judging beef,
dairy, sheep and swine classes
as well as taking part in farm
machinery tests, and grain and
root judging.
The members will be divided
into junior and senior sections.
The Huron competitors include
Ken Alton, Luckndw; Crawford
McNeil, R.R, 2 Lucknow; Ken
Coulter, R.R. 5 Wingham; Rob-
ert Scot, R,R. 1 Seaforth; Bill
Strong, Dublin; Jim Renwick,
R.R. 1 Fordwich; Gordon Bax-
ter, 11.11,' 1 Goderich; Richard
Harrison, R.R. 1 Bayfield; Jim
Coultes, R.R. 5 Wingham; Glen
Coultes, R.R. 5 Brussels; Don
Hemingway, R.R. 3 Brussels;
Ivan Howatt, R.R. 1 Belgra.ve;
Ken Coleman, R.R. 4 Seaforth.
Mr. Bolton also said he has
received 40 entries from Huron
members for competition at West-
ern Fair judging tests on Sep.
tember 8.
Junior Farmers
To Attend Camp
Two junior farmers from Hu-
ron County who will attend the
provincial leadership camp at
Lake Couchiching are Bill
Strong, Dublin, and Eleanor
Walsh, R.R. 4 Brussels.
Strong is a •member of the
Seaforth club and Miss Walsh is
active in. the North Huron group.
The camp will. be held from Sep-
tember 1 to 8.
Among the symptons of Ibe,inrurnnunururmiurnuulinntiulururnunnruuuuminuumnmluwromtnuowlrnmrtruunlmrnumy
disease are abortion, greatly de-
creased milk flow, and high
temperatures. Accurate diagno-
sis is made only on the basis of
a blood test.
Grain Yields
Record High
Reports of excellent grain
yields through.dut this area con-
tinue to circulate.
One local dealer reports a
number of his customers esti-
mate their yields of oats at 100
bushels to the acre and winter
baileyhas been giving up to 80
bushels.
The dealer said "I don't: think
I've ever seen such a quality
crop." Weight for oats is ranging
tip to 45 pounds to the bushel,
compared to the standard 34,
and barley has gone as high as
55 pounds, seven more than the
standard 48.
While the :market is limited,
most farmers feel they'll profit
from the yields using the grain
as feed,
'IENSALL SALE PRICES
Pri.cns at llensall. Community
Sale. Thursday, August -14.
Weanling pigs „ $ 1.2,60 to 8 14,00
Monks 15,70 1.7.25
Pceders 19.00 25,60
Sows , 61.00 90,00 ic
Holstein cows 10.00' 195.00
'Durham cowS 172.$10 200,00
Holstein calves 12.50' 20.00
Durham calves .... 30.90 56.00
There were 320 pigs 'and „110
had of cattle and calves sold.
In the year ending March 31,
IOW the universal old age Peri-
gee cos[ $473,9 ihillion; In the
taxa rearmarkedtl fort11thesfund
Walled only $371.5 hfillielly
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Beef Club Display
At Western Fair
Exeter 4-1-1 Beef Calf Club will
enter an educational display on
beef at Western Fair this year.
Western Fair
Greatest Yet
Western Fair at London, Sep-
tember 8 to 13, will truly be
The Exeter club's display will the greatest of all lime, states
represent, Huron county in an E. D. McGugan, General' Man -
exhibition in which all Western ager. Entries to date have been
Ontario counties will partici-
pate. extremely heavy' and promise to
In charge of the display are exceed last year's record list.
club leaders Harold Hern, John Western Ontario's finest cattle,
Pym and Tom. Easton. horses, sheep and swine will fill
the $500,000 livestock pavilion to
capacity. The largest farm ma-
chinery exhibition of any fair in
Canada is close by the pavilion
and so is Conklins' famous mid-
way.
Confederation and Manufactu-
rers 'Buildings will house out -
is standing industrial and merchan-
dise displays as well as health,
hobby, home, art photography
and women's work.
In the language of teen agers,
the grandstand shows are "the
greatest." There will he new
classes and more variety in the
fair's outstanding horse show in
the Ontario Arena every night
except Monday.
Square Dancing, Old Time
Fiddlers' contests and hand con-
certs will again be featured.
Huron County
Crop Report
By ARTHUR BOLTON,
Threshing and combining
approximately two-thirds com-
pleted on Huren County farms,
A good deal of combined straw
will be gathered and stored dur-
ing the next week.
Grain corn crops continue to
make good progress and early
crops are cobbing well.
Farmers in the' south end of
the county are •taking advantage
of the good weather to harvest
second cut hay.
tudents' Mom+ rrojects
m�hasze Profit Return
While most children enjoy a awhile Bruce D.
school -free holiday during the , the agricultural
summer months, some 200. dis-'inept, viewed the
tr•ict high school students are Many of the
ars members of
Perry, also of
science depart -
girls' projects.
rural students
complete r a 4 -Er club and
doing "home work" to eon
p their work in this organization
their grade nine studies. can be counted as a project
The summer assignment is a ' since the 4-11 program requires
home project carried cut under sirllllar records to those requested
the supervision of the :agricul- [ by the school, In addition, hew-
ture science department. Each; ever, the student must submit
student must complete at least' a written report to the teacher.
one project before finishing grade! Some of the larger projects
10. being undertaken this year in -
While such projects are a re- - elude;
quirement of the provincial de- I Steve Ryle, Hensall, has al-
partment of education, they re-; ready raised 75 rabbits and hopes
ceive extra emphasis .at SHDHS to have quite a few more which
whose department head, Andrew i he plans to sell to the medical
Dixon, believes strongly in the
educational value of such prac-,
tical undertakings.
Students have •a wide rang of
projects from which they may
choose and they often come up
with some unusual, and ambi-
tious. ones. This summer, for
example, a Hensel! student is
raising rabbits to sell to a medi-
cal school; an Exeter hay has
rewound an electric motor; rural
students are raising hogs,*calves,
growing sugar beets, turnips and
beans; town students are making
lawn chairs, desks and chests
of drawers.
SHDHS encourages the students
to sele t projects from which
they will derive a profit and re-
quires them to keep accurate re-
cords of their cost and returns.
To complete the project, the
student must not only submit a
written report on it, along with
a financial statement, but must
also give an oral talk to the
class on his experiences.
"1t might aui'laze you," states
Mr. Dixon, "to hear some of the
talks given by these students.
Because they know their sub-
jects well, and have a personal
interest in thele, they can talk
with the assurance and ability
which rivals speeches by univer-1
sity professors."
Mr. Dixon says the home pro-
jects also provide numerous
other benefits. In many cases a
boy or girl is given responsibility
at home which he or she has
i never received before. It also
Igives the many students an op-
portunity to go into business for
l themselves on a limited scale.
Parents, too, become interested
lin the project and encourage
their children to do a good. job.
They also become more con-
eerned about the school work of
'their children,
Another of the benefits is the
contact made between school and
home when the teachers make
their summer visits to the home
to view the progress being made
on the project.
Each student is visited once
I during the summer by a teacher
1 who inspects the project and his
records. This summer, Mr. Di -
von has inspected the boys' work
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60,000 new reasons every day
for mechanized farming!
Irt these days of malt -made planets ire
tend to overlook thisold, but still
rniraetzl.ous, earth that feeds and, pro.
vides for tis all.
That over 60,000 babies are born into
this world each day-inore than enough
to repopulate the whole of Canada n
less than a year --goes unnoticed.
That these 60,000 new mouths willbe
fed on the produce of this small earth
does trot snake headline rieWs!
Vet, when we consider this astonish-
ing growth in the world's population,
we, must; wonder how it is that our
standard of living -measured in terms
of food conswiiption-remains so high.
1tow is it possible when there has beeti
little appreciable increase in the world
farm acreage and a decline in the ac-
tual farming population?
'rite answer liesin faun mechanize.
tion in a scientific approach to food
cultivation: and the development of
modern machine methods to increase
output per acre and per man-hour
Worked.
In this development Massey -Ferguson
plays A leading role throughout the
world ---in Canada, in. the United
States, in France, Snail America,
Great 13ritdin, South Africa, Germany
and Australia.
MI the world over, wherever farming
15 thechanized to meet our ever-grow-
ing needs, there we find Massey-
1 ergusora machines hard at work in
the fields.
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TORONI
Lambton Groups
See Area Farms
Three busloads of beef and
grain 4-H club members and
leaders from Lambton county
visited points of interest in Hu-
ron on, Monday.
They toured the Klondyke Gar-
dens, Grand Bend, on their way
to Goderich where they visited
the courthouse, museum, pen
plant and went for a boat ride.
Following a tour of the cash
crop areas in South Huron, the
group viewed the operation of
Don Waters'feed lot near Park-
hill.
Lewis Ford, Lambton ass't ag
rep, was in charge of the tour. He
was assisted by Huron asst ag
rep, Art Bolton.
school at The University .of West.:.
ern :Ontario.
Bobby Johnston, JJxeter, has,
rewound an electric motor and
replaced a number of its parts,
Andrew Durand, near Zurich,.
is growing seven acres of beans.
Bill Systma, Dashwood, is 11.
charge .et three acres .of sugar
beets.
Jim Foster, Whalen, has grown
11 acres of registered oats.
Even the girls launch into~
some ambitious agricultural pro-
jects. Mr. Perry reports that IA
additionto the girls who are
members of 4-H clubs two
Catherine Love, Shipka, and Di.
anne Johns, Usborne-are rais.
ing pigs and several are keep.
ing chickens. Katharine Hodgins,
Centralia, is raising a colt.
Majority of the girls are mak-
ing dresses or blouses this year
and others are making collet.
tians. Eleanor Prang, Zurich, ie
one who has nearly completed
a collection of 100 insects and
others are keeping weeds and
weed seeds, .
One unusual project anon$
the girls is that of Grace Mc.
Kenzie, Exeter, daughter of
Reeve William McKenzie, Shat
has drawn several house plant
including construction details.
Home projects suggested b3'
the department include compari.
sons of seed variety yields, fer
tilizer mixes, crop returns; cost=
accounting, conservation, con:
struction of models complete
with plans, collections •of insects,
weeds and weeds seeds; live.
stock raising, poultry ,and litre.
keeping, field crop work.
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• HARVEST EARLY - BEFORE WHEAT
• HIGHER YIELDS THAN SPRING BARLEY
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Our contracts this fall averaged
over 60 bushels per acre.
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• Enquire immediately..
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