The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1959-01-22, Page 13_Dun. y Council Studies CTA
Among the subjec,fs on tele/ ing with the brief, will pass on
Agenda, of the January session .of' a recommendation to County
Heron County Council Is the Can -,Council which: may or may not
Ada Telalperance Act, 1 act upon it.
At its session in November of However, there is nothing the
last year, Hinson County Council County Council can do in the
adopted Its legislative commit- way of bringing about a repeal of
tee's report .concurring in a two-, the C.T.A. 11, can merely express
lotion from Seafortla Town Cotta- its views on the matter. It re.
Cil which said: "We respectfully mains for some other organize -
suggest that the Huron County lion to obtain a petition of the
.Cannell appoint a committee torequired ,percentage of names in
seek legal advice, and ,investi• order to have a county -wide vote
gate the desirability of petition• brought about."
mg the Dominion Government to I Lasr time the Huron County
withdraw the Canada Tempe - I Council expressed an opinion on
ranee Act, and adopt the Liquor : the subject was at the June, 1.95L
Control Act." , session. At this time, 19 voted
As a result, the County soltci , "yes" and 11 voted "no" to the
tor. was asked to have .a brief question, "Are we doing good by
prepared for the aforementioned •retaining the C.T.A.?"
committee showing the legal pro -1 It was on January '29, 1914,
vedur.e required to repeal the , that the people of Huron voted
C.T,A., should any organization to have the C.T.A, made law in
in this county decide to tale 1-luron County, Now, only two.
steps in an attempt to bring this counties remain in Ontario which
about, The committee, after deal- I are under the C,T.A.-Huron and
t Perth,
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In the January, 1914 vote (at
which time women did not yet
have the f'r'anchise) a total of
12,297 people voted out of a total
15,068 possible voters. Allowing
for the usualnomber of voters
who spoil their ballots, there
were. 7,410 who voted for the
C.T.A. and 4,802 against it -
giving a majority of 2,608.
Every municipality in the
county gave the C.T.A. a majo-
rity except the village of. layfield
and the township of 1 -lay. The
former gave a majority of 13
votes against the C.T.A., and
the latter a majority of 159
against it.
The town of Godericll voted
602 for the C,T.A., and 474
against it, Votes in some of the
other .municipalities were, the
first figure being for the C.T.A.
and the one 'in brackets against
it: Clinton, 257 (225); Colborne,
291 (70); Exeter, 229 (179); Go-
der•ich Township, 326 (125); West
Wawanosh, 253 (145); Wingham,
296(243).
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Legion has been snaking a name for itself because of the colorful ceremony it pre-
sents installing officers. Made 'up mostly of past presidents and executive members,
the team has performed at a number of district .branches. Seated are Lloyd Reynolds,
this year's president; Andrew Bierling and Graham Mason; standing, Gerald Camp-
bell,Harry Holtzman, Garnet Shipman, Pete Durand, Bert Ostland and Reg Mc•
Donald. -IA Photo
An. Explanation
Vertical Integration
From "Farm Forum Guide"
What Is It?
The terns "integration" paeans
"bringing together,"
'1'he farmer who hatches a set.
Ling of eggs, raises the pullets,
grows the feed for them on his
own land, mixes it himself, and
feeds them himself, who ga•
(hers the eggs, cleans them and
then delivers them to the custo-
mer has a vertically integrated
operation.
winch itirludes close to 905.. of
Ontario's broiler production, has
already made it difficult for the
small capacity operator to re.
main .in business."
Orlin Scoville, Economist with
th.e U.S. Department of Agricul.
ture, says: "I believe that the
most usual kind of integrated
farm unit will be a production
unit organized around the la-
bour force of a family, with the
familyoperating
it i der some
c
kind. of lease of contract. The
When a farmer, alone or can- land, buildings and equipment
traded with his co-operative, stay be owned by the .farmer,
combines in a controlled opera• the Integrating f.lr.ln, or partly
tion more than one of such funs- by each. In many cases, when
lions as assembling, transport- the integrated business is only
ing, storing, financing,
a small )art of the total farm
izing, processing or manufactu. output,i
t
the affeei on the family
ring, he or his co-op, are prat- farm will be small."
Using "Vertical Integration." On one point there is agree -
meet.. Farmers anust win for
themselves through united ac-
tion, any freedom that they .hope
market in return for an obiiga- to have under the new regime.
tion to deliver a certain firm a The Editor of the Farm JQu.r-
set amount of his product, he is nal, Carroll P, Streeter, who
a Contract Producer. Be is part
of Vertical Integration.
Any company which. buys up
or controls its sources of. raw
materials in order to ensure a
Viten a farmer accepts man-
agement help, credit assistance,
has studied the effect of Vertd-
cal Integration first hand, says:
"Farmers have this decision to
make. Will they control and run
their own business or will they
stable supply is practising Verti• let somehaiiy else do It for
cal Integration. Farm Co-ops them.
have found this practise profit• •The question is not,'will we
able in such lines as feed ntanu• have .integration' but, 'who will
facturing, petroleum refining and the integrator be?'
fertilizer mixture.
To many farmers Vertical Tn-
tegration means not so much
just a contract but dependence
on outside persons for markets,
prices and above all credit. They
see in it some form of control
by the middleman.
These questions remain; "What
products are likely to be inte-
grated? Is integration a threat
to the family? To the farmer's
independence? And to small and
medium producers?
Aprominent U.S. Economist
di
prects that the next farm en-
terprises to 'be invalid by Ver-
tical Integration will he the egg a larger share of the benefits of
business, the hog industry, and alai action.
finaiiv, beef. Turkeys a.nd
chicken broilers are almost 90:'b
integrated now„ in the U.S.
To hack up this point we've
priee r;olstttts.
i!r'xamples et Auccessful #ar-
mer-.or,garnzed "antegr +tion" to.
cowpete with that vi( feed eom-
parXies, packing plants, etc., are
to be found in both the U.S. and.
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yet, -only isolated co-ops here in Make supe the wedding invitations are correct in
iCanada have .actively engagers every :detail,• WE have a large choice fa'oi .whits
n eontraeting for their farm pro you may :select.
In the 11.8. 'co-ops have been �.
established to take tare of near- : The T!n.. es -Advocate
ly every farm product from pe- : i4+
Cans t0 peaches, and from hogs : Mons 770 'Astor
to liens. in most cases, these
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parallel those of the independent
ALF :ANDRUS
companies, and their members
lake advantage of the benefits
of this extended system of ere r
dit while control remains within
the hands of organized .agricul• ,
lure.
k,'reu in Alaska, there are:
some sixty co-ops which include
fishery co-op, rural electric coin• '
)antes, and frail Stares, all of alama 44maaaa mm4ieie aele..m,.i.min nwur1tu"mainuialianiaal mssilameei 1 ales11�'
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their needs, to some extent. In
the north. of course, the verti• '
sal integration process dates
back to the earliest prospectors
who (were "grubstaked" or set
out on "contract" by the trader,
with the unwritten law that the
debt would be paid an the tra•'
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403 ANDREW $T., EXETEF .PHONE 719
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tiers' terms. if gold returned
with the prospector, the trader
changed Itis terms accordingly.
Today through their co-ops the
Alaskans have cornered this par
Ocular problem.
Sweden, where farmers have
complete control of the hog in-'
items and at .a lower cost. These dustry from the farm pen to the l
small industries, in turn, were table, is the oldest example of
taken nut of competition by still farm -controlled integration of a;
larger units, with assembly lines product.
Aleaduds of of this system •
and automatic equipment. VerC.
tical integration may .do the been reeomnlenlerl.
sante thing to fainting. Here in Canada, certain ape-
1'erIleal integration h r n g s eialized products have been in-;
with it a danger of:.e• xpanding tegrated but most co.ops still
mitput, remote control of farms, operate without Contracts in Can.
factory farads, marketing prob- arta - therefore, are not V erti-
leets. Cally Integrated. '
At Allona, Manitoba, the Al -
Expanding Output tons Farmers Vegetable Oil
Contract arrangements speed i Plant is an example, Started in
up the "adoption of new ideas, 1946, with an investment of
particularly ideas for speeding 5160,000, this co-op is now worth 1
up production, and thus increase over a million dollars, and has.
production unless some resources paid for itself out of earnings.
are taken out of use. Balloon- It processes the local product,.
i
f seprepares surpluses are especially like- sun 1ower seeds, res , and pr pares I
ly if contracts are accompanied it for the market, But no super- i
by the large-scale extension of tisinn of the producers Is given,1
credit. This has happened in the nor is a contract signed.
broiler business, where feed A few exceptions, such as I
dealers have used their awn re.! United Co-ops of Ontario, are;
sources, credit from hanks and now entering the field of actives
other lenders, and funds pro. contracting for production.
vided by feed manufacturers to
finance broiler production.
The terrific expansion in the
numbers of broilers has been
absorbed by the trade since it
has been accomplished by im-
proved quality and packaging,
Iowa prices and advertising. But
broilers make up only one-tenth
of aur meat supply. If beef or
pork "blew up" the sante way,
"Tile consensus of. American the problems would be much
and Canadian leaders, business- greater.
men and editors is "They (Far- Change In Farms
mers) must band together into
powerful groups to do what they Another pressure which 'nix -
graafian never do alone'," creates, is the force to.
Ezra Benson, U.S. Secretary avard larger and stili larger
of Agriculture, says: "One of the 1 farms so that labour-saving
ways whereby farmers -lame or
!equipment can he used and all
small -may enjoy benefits of in -1 resources fully utilized. Lowest
tegrated operations is through! cost per unit of product and high•
sound farmer co-operatives.;
I est output per man becomes in -
Through co-operative organize. ;ereasingly important.. Farmers
tions farmers can share risk and fend to specialize. Competition
management decisions andyet t is increased especially between
extend the range of decisions for; the low-cost specialists and the
which they have responsibility. !aveenol r cannot farmer
who either will
They thus retain for themselves ' tem. ory
Fewer Farms
As farming becomes more ef-
ficient and output per farmer
sons given by economists and ! goes up. there will be fewer far -
seen such examples as Cage- experts for the advance of con• : rners unless the market grows
Lay units in the States where tract production. Iii the first very quickly. Over 90 of the
300,000 hens/ are in full produc- place, it is believed, to be some -,U.S. broiler production (one-anrl-
tion at all times. Several 1J.S, thing as • inevitable as the as• one-third billion) is produced on
units are now turning out over sembly line in industry. The mi- just 28,00(1 farms. A similar rate,
20.000 hogs a ,year•. At Phoenix, rade is that it has been Clea about 60.000 integrated hag farms
Arizona, the Tovrea Feedlot layed for twenty years fly first, I each producing 2,000 ]togs could
handles 23,000 cattle at one time. the depressions, and second, by !produce the same number of
This slows that 11 cart happen (World War 11. .!.togs as the entire 2,500,000 farms
in any type of farming. Two forces have been at work. now in the hag business in the
Dave hopper,. Economist at One is created by the retail U.S., each of which:turns out
the Ontario Agriculture College food chains and their mass re, an average of about fifty a year.
quirements; the other is the na- :Shifts In Management
total advance of agriculture! As contract farming takes
which makes possible large spe•,over in a district, a pattern be-
cialized units with lower costs,: to emerge, according to
per unit turned out. 1.S. u, dm
Large producers can meet high ,•I of Consttrdiesaet. Farming in Canadaevelopent
quality standards, large volume.is about 5 to 10 years behind the
and more uniform productionU.S. situation nearly all figures
throughout the. year better than' must come from there).
sm. n Ter nd l nt holt ostp ms, y ones
turkeyall ,industryonesIlargethebroilscale p0 -,of Othelseveracrol farcrops grnon)wfl is
duction .usually means lower; contracted and the over-all man -
costs per broiler or per turkey.' agerial role of the farmer is not
This also works in cattle produc-,' greatly ehanged although some
tion raid. it may prove to he the , decisions are shared with or
with hogs as wen, Large• shifted lo others.
producers of turkeys and brad j 13ut when farmers grew only
ers need more working capital; a sperialized crap, contract ar-
than can be obtained by the in., rangements may leave produ•
dividual farmer. In some eases eers with little
they need $100,000.00 of credit al more than gen-
one
eral lance management and care -
time. :tai-er functions.
Since there is Ito other sotu•ce l Livestock production eonlraets
Of supply .for the farmer who vary from arrangements invol-
needs a loan of this size, and (ring Cants^al of only a fray deet•
since it is good 'business for shits to contracts virtually rlete-
thent, the large feed companies gating the producer to a piece. -
Why Has integration Flourished?
There are a number of res-
in Guelph, says this: "Vertical
Integration will accentuate the
move away from the small -sized
farm to the large, highly site.
cialized production unit. The
contrail; growing of broilers,
Message From
Kirkton
13y MRS. HAROLD DAVIS
Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Slake):
and David of Avonton and Mr.
and Mrs. John E. Carruthers of
Stratfard were Sunday visitors
with Mr. and Mrs. Burns Black -
ler and family. Miss Wendy
Blackler- is spending a few days
in London visiting with Mr. and
Mrs, Harold Plenry and family.
Mr. and Mrs, Charlie Atthill
and Steven of Exeter visited
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Dan
.1 arvis,
AIr, and Mrs. Andy Paton of
Nanton,Alberta. and Mr. Earl
Paton of 'London visited recently
with Mr. and firs, Emerson
Paton. Mr, and Mrs. Tray Mor-
rison and family of St. Marys
were Sunday dinner guests. with this manner further than any Integration has cut out the
Mr. and Mrs. Emerson Paton. lending institution has been tvil•'s[agcs between the packers and
Alr, kyle Patois is new statianecl Ilea to tet. the retail chain stoes, Pollees-
A good farmer usually needs ers contract their stork to feed -
more capital than he earl get. 1a't operators who in turn sell M-
UM -fed Church W.M.S. Lack of capital is the problem reedy to packers, who are tied
that itas crowded thousands of in with Chain stores.
smaller has,
off the land, ; ;Hort intpartanI--it has been
Co)itraci farming provides a ' found that as contract arrange-
souree.of this capital and takes mails increase in impnrlaltce
Routly conducted the devotional away the risk wuall;w involved an area the importance nt sup.
servicewith Mrs, Neil, Mrs. in borrowing money, if there Is ply and demand in setting a fair
Shute, Mrs. Francis and Alts. some fora of guaranteed price. (trice drops in nearby cottipeti.
Glen Allen assisting, Iho risk of falling markets is also live marke.la.
Interesting t enerta were given reduced, 11 allows more efficient. Sinee contracts offer price pre•
from the different departmerits, higher farm units. 11 usually pro- Alums over the reported market
Mission Band with 22 members vides expert management assts• price for many a products, the
had 12 meetitigs acid sent to tatted. Specialists in feeding,' stasis fol' arriving at a fair
treasurer $5445; Baby Band with herrlsing. Sanitation and diseaseiprice is Weakened as the volume
25 members scut $14,53 to .Pres• control art Ott the job. 'his tends of buaint ss (lone Oti this open
byteral Ireasttr"er, doll call was to further increase efficiency market declines.
answered paying Errs. and expandatd alt )ttt Which brings Bargaining r
ina 1nye
t hcir by
the
AL11Cclroiwas taken to lis to the problems oVertical thee te ts tipee C n
.
covetthe Wilily alloealion which Tntegtalioti:petition among firms wanting In
goes to Canadian
_hospitals. PeehnteaT ehan,ge brings plash.; make entttnaets,. fin the existence
World DAY Of Prater Will. be 101115 of erliuratn)et)t. Our fore.; Of Cao -ops, that. can r))tiintain/
held ;Friday, Feb. 13 al the Arca- bl:ara lnttiid tltt,tir eotdage Woe .competition and act as a value
bran church. AMMO meeting of (r ieS taken over by large units yardstick, and on the pn.5sesst011
Presbyterial will be .T''eb. 26 in with A dozeti Or Mote Ample of farm pool*, el Took market
Stratford. • tea whish touid turn out a 1) onei,infonniatiet, )mieiudiri,ir ea1leti
step in to finance the operation worker role.
and burn aver their feed. rue ; T'or, agriculture as a whole the
only by providing close eontrnl'leadership role of [ratters twill
along with the capital is the depend anon the extent. to which
feed company willing to finance they retain responsibility for 'pro -
the major portion of the opera- riuction managemeet decisions.
tion. In this way the loan is se-
ct`etl with a small egnily, The ' Mtlrketing Changes
company can extend credit in In the beef business Vertical
with the, Stratford divisiott 01 the
13e l•'Telephone at Chesley.
The \V.11.5, of the United
Church met in the church school-
room on Wednesday afternoon
with 19 ladies present. .Mrs. C.
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