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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1961-11-23, Page 11a:„a :,: wr . igFer p grain prices' ay cut productiQn The high Dna of feed grain historyexcept 1959. "The de - has caused quite a stir among mend is up ' nit of VP:Urn, the farmers across the ,province. prices :are up.'» Prices have been climbing Jle forecasts; continuing high sinee early June and now stand .p ices though .sornewhar fewer about $4 to $6 •per ton higher than the highs of August. Ji.e than for the seine period last expects the v 'heat board policy year. • of allowing imports .of oats and Professor I). R, •Campbell, barley to hold prices .down .by head of OAC's agricultural possibly $3 to. $4 per ton. -e.eonomics department, lists The economist suggests that low supply and high demand as farmers use ;as much pf their tha reasons own grain as possible "Make. "We have been eating into arrangements with other farm - bur stocks of oats and bailey er.s to buy their grain before •on the prairies .for the last four they ship it, or use more corn or five ,y.ears.. And this year it in your ration,” looks as if the crop will only. He expects a good number be about 5$ to 60%0 the size it of people to eut back ,produe- was last year," says Professor tion during 1962, sees lower Campbell. f{e points out there prices for most livestock lir the• is more beef cattle, milk cows, next ]:2 ninths, and. suggests.. Bobs, turkeys and broilers than that farmers :with hogs aim for at any other time in Canadian. the J962 fall .rnark.et. Osborne boy second in fair essay contest David Tomkinson of Mitchell public school stood first in the District 8 (Huron.Perth) essay competition ".The Place of the Indian in. Canadian History " Sponsored by agricultural so-- eieties in tr i, two counties, the i"` ap essay from each fair is nteredin the district coinpeti- s 's a i n year e r s x essays reached the district level, with. over 50 essays baying been en- tered in competitions at the various fairs,•., Fete couple at Kirkton Ey MR$. FRANK SQUIRE WHALEN Mr, and Mrs. Horace Green - street celebrated their 25th. wedding anniversary with a family dinner for .1.6 at the Iroquois Hotel. Ti,. the evening the young people of the families gathered at the home. Mr. and Mrs. Greenstreet were presentedwith a coffee table, magazine rack and ches- terfield cushion. Meet Munchers. The meeting of the Kirkton "Meat Munchers" was held on Tuesday, Nov. 7 at the home of Mrs, Earl Watson. Iris Marshall and Sharon Thomson prepared flank steak 'and. Barbara Spearin and Helen Baillie preparedsavoury salad. Mrs. Watson discussed and gave notes on made -over dish- es; preparing meat; materials that may 1 e combined with meats, frozen meat and how to cook it. persona{ items Miss Mary Lou. Black, Perth Mr. John. Mossey, St. Marys, - me economist, was present a n d discussed. Ac.hievenl:ent was a weekend visitor with Mr. Day demonstration and actin and Mrs, Grafton Squire. • ities. She also discussed recipe Mr, and Mrs. Cecit Squire files and record books. Helen and family were Sunday visi Humphreys and Margaret Earl tors with Mr. and Mrs. Dick served, while Nellie Bilstra Lamond. and Beth Crago cleaned up. Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Sher- Eighth meeting will. and Mr. and Mrs. William. The eighth meeting of the SherwiIl, London, were Satur- Kirkton "Meat Munchers" was day callers with Mr. and Mrs. held November. 14 at the home William Morley Sr, of Mrs. Watson. Mr. and Mrs. •William French Linda Th a c k e r, Margaret and Mr, and Mrs. William Mor - Dykstra and, Faye Mitchell pre- ley Jr. attended the funeral on Earl hot and dogs and dNethercott (Dannaret ) of Porter, London,fr Gladys prvared hamburgers. the Needham funeral home. Mrs. Watson gave beef and. Miss Cora Nuttycomb and pork outlines in which. all filled Mrs, Stillwell, also iMr. and in the cuts. A quiz on ten cuts Mrs. Thos. Simpson, London, from beef. and park was held. visited on Sunday with Mr. and Sharon Thomson and Faye Mrs. Alex Baillie. Nethercott served. Mr. and Mrs, Howard Mot. Personal items ley of Hazel Park, Mich., Were Mr. and. Mrs. Harvey Wright Saturday guests of Mr. and and family attended the 50th Mrs. William Morley Jr. wedding anniversary.of Mr. Mr. and Mrs. Frank :Squire and Mrs. George Wright in were Thursday evening visitors Exeter, Recent visitors with with Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Mor - Mr, and Mrs. Harvey Wright ley,Exeter. were Mrs. Vera Cleverden. of Mr. and Mrs. Milne Pullen, Mr. Trenton and Mrs. Vern Tippit and Mrs. Norman IfodgiTas of Port Hope. and Avis also Messrs Mervin Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wag- Baker, Grafton Squire, Percy horn of Exeter, iMr. and. Mrs. Hodgins and Clare Bryan. at - Ted Brine and Paul and, Mr. tended the Royal, Winter Fair. Charlie Brine visited Sunday in Toronto on. Friday. Mr. and with ,Mr. and Mrs. Bill...wag. Mrs. mily also Norman atte attendedHodgins the 4-H horn. • •... Mr. and Mrs, Sidney ,fear- banquet, son and family of. Galt visited Mr, and Mrs. Wilson Morley, Sunday with Mr, and Mrs, Mrs, Edna Passmore, Mrs, GeorgeBall. Jas. Earl and Mr. Walter Gun - Mr, and Mrs. George Davis, ning,, Exeter, visited Sunday Sunday with evening with Mr, and Mrs. of Exeter, visited Mr, and Mrs Harold Davis. Melville Gunning and Muriel, Mr. and 117rs. Ai Zurbrigg of Mr, Harvey Herbert, Brainp- listowel, M�•, and. Mrs. Got•- ton, spent the weekend with don Zurbrigg and family of Mr. Wilfred Herbert and Mr, Stratford were Sunday visitors and Mrs. Cleve Pullman. with Mrs. H. Copeland and 'Miss Mr, and Mrs. Lloyd Elliott, Ethel Copeland. London township, visited Wed - Mr. and. Mrs. Wilfred SQUCle nesday afternoon with ,Mr. and and family, of. Burlington, visit- Mrs: Cleve Pullman. ed Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Mr. Alis Gordonban Jarvis. Mrs. Olive La'ngtree and Nor- man, M Kitchener„ visited Sun- day with Mr. and MIs. Boy Switzer. The essay of David Tomkin- son wilt be forwarded to To- ronto to be entered in the pro- vincial ro vincial competition, which. is sponsored by Mrs, Ethel Brant Monture and the women's sec- tion Ontario Association of Ag- ricultural Societies. Other district prizewinners were: Keith. Strang, R•R 1 Hen - salt (Exeter. fair); ,and Ruth Gor•will of. Seaforth. Also entered in the.district contest were essays written by Rosalie Westlake, SS 4 W elan - ley township, (Bayfield fair); Glenna Lupton, SS 4 Downie township, (Stratford fair), and Elaine Sanders 5S ,5 Morris township, (13elgrave school Feldman comments fair). Fred Cosford ' of the Seaforth . district high school. staff, Eng -I lish department, was the judge' S a ov inspection on the district level, Mrs, J o •s e p h Grum-nett, women's representative f o r District 8, who is in charge of the competition in the district Second Section !v� Ildxi.l . at> w.r lha'R.n,n INr m. vrau N. .••••,.• e exeferZimes-Abuocafe EXETER, ONTARIO, NOVEMBER 23, 1961 age Nina! SHORTHQRN LASSIE—••Pretty Monica O'Shea, a mem- ber of the Kirkton 4-H beef calf club, :flashes the win- ning smile which helped her capture the Shorthorn Lassie title at the Royal Winter Fair last week. Another Kirkton youth, Allan Hodgins, was reserve champion in the Queen's Guineas steer class. —T -A photo reports that the response has been most gratifying. Attend fete Royal at the By MRS. HAROLD DAVIS KIRKTON Allen Hodgins, son of Mr. and Mrs, Norman Hodgins won the reserve championship with. an Aberdeen Angus steer. Allen is a member of the Kirkton Beef Cattle 4-11 Club. It was the second time he had entered at the Royal and the first time he had'placed. and Dock your rain ing, Munro, visited on Monday 11 s4.h I with Mr, Frank Parkinson and Glenn. Visitors on Sunday and dur- I —.Please turn to page 10 i Irian iia -fir hurts small packer By J. C. HEMINGWAY Federation Fieldrnan Jusl. a reminder that the Huron County Federation of Agriculture annual. meeting will be held at Londesboro, November 29. You will be re- ceiving Annual your k Survey very shortly. Look up the particulars. I could very well fill. up this article with a report of. the OFA Annual. but you will.get a much more comprehensive account in your Rural Co -Op erator. Some time ago you probably heard. that there was to be an investigation into restrictive trade practices in the meat packing industry. The report has been Lelleased and. a. few copies found their way into the county. However we have been informed that it is now out of print and no copies are avail- able, Since it is ,such an en- lightening n lightening manuscript it is un- fortunate that more farmers can't have it. It could, be very briefly sum- med up by simply stating that the packing industry 'finds it much more profitable to elim- inate or intimidate competition rather than improve efficiency. New method found Since the hog producers have made it possible for- small pack- ers to obtain a ;supply of hogs through their open market method of selling another means of eliminating competi- tion had to be devised. In chatting with a small packer from Eastern Ontario recently I find that the answer has been found. thata i s a I had noticed tl ere i concerted promotion of federal- ly -inspected meat. I, innocent- ly, had thought that this was perhaps •a good health precau- tion but my packer friend tells me that this effectively elim- inates the .small packer since his volume of business cannot afford a federal. inspector. Tins has cut off all his sales to chain stores, In trying to con- tinue by selling to small stores he suddenly found that sales- men from the large packers were offering 14 days' credit. This means that the small packer anust have enough, work :ing capital to pay for three' week's supply of livestock. Small pa c k e r s don't have enough money. Effective measure While the small. packer sell- ing locally has to meet this competition on his total sales, the large .packer only needs to do this i:n the comparatively small area in which it wishes to eliminate competition. Ac- cording e- cording to my friend the meth- od is quite effective. 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CONCENTRATE is ARem ir 1 !CONCENTRATE • 11 11 'i'.hat fill granary Of yours ran heli+ 3'o11 crit: feeding Pasts • thi' year: Mils Co-op Cona.enirates with yon. gain Sud 'yeti gWilt have an ecdnomieet And high-powcrcd feed, .T,et Co-oi ])airy Conaentratha heip ;4roiir entvs give ;reit, an. extra. i3OAa Thk. Iof Intik , We Ce -ori Beef Concentrates with Siiibestrei tittii Antcomycin tri tive ),nii the retest gain per )h. e( feed - ▪ os, lot 's resft1C.Mitting and cost-c,itiing feeding program, use g GO.OP FEEDS , Special Prices during November EXETER DISTRiCT" Phone 287 Celite beside CNi Sf#ei Kirkton 4 -hl members a tures Royal laurels Forums see changes threatening Jamily l family life, is changing in the community; some of the changes are for the better and some are not, Modern living is better At Fairfield farm forum meeting at the home of Mr, and Mrs. Russell Schroeder Monday Cousin wins Ford praze Mr. Leslie Taylor, Richmond, Quebec, a first cousin of Mr. Sylvester Taylor, Exeter, was awarded neatly $10,000 worth of farni machinery at the Ro- yal Winter Fair in Toronto, Friday. The Quebec farmer was judged the winner in the recent Canada -wide Ford. Farm Farn- JI~ Quiz and won a Fordson Dexta gas tractor, Ford hay baler, disc harrow, loader and manure :spreader plus a 1962 Ford Falcon station wagon and a 1962 Mercury pickup truck. The quiz attracted thousands of enquiries from all ten prov- inces and of these enquiries, 5,200 actually submitted solu- tions to the judges. Hay and Stanley to hear Krueger Hay and Stanley Township Federation Units held a joint meeting in the Hay Township Hall, Zurich,Ivlonday, Novem- ber 20th to make final ar- rarigenients for their joint an- nual meeting and banquet which will be held in. Zurich, Thursday, December 7. Dr. Ralph Krueger of Water- loo College has accepted an in- vitation to address the annual meeting on the topic, "Resour- ses for Tomorrow." Dr. Krue- ger,..a, former local resident, taught in a number of area schools. by inspectors under the Fed- eral Health of Animals 'Branch of the Department of Agricul- ture is a necessary health liro- tection then :t should be avail- able vailable to all processing plants regardless of size. It must not be the means of discriminating the small •supplier out of busi- ness under the pretense of a health precaution. night, the general opinion was that modern conveniences tend to a better standard of living but on the other hand 4'ehildrexi are away from their parents too early and too Jong and parents are much toe busy in give the time they should to their chit- dren," "On the other hand, children. learn to be independent earlier but they miss out on good clean family life" was the opinion ex- pressed by one group. 11 was generally felt a good. example of Christian living set by the parents in the commun- ity wouldd go far to help build strong Christian character in the young people. For as one member expressed it, "what we are is of more importance than what we have." "Young people are better in a rural area unless they have the ability to get top positions" was the general opinion. Next week the forum will convene. at the home of Mx, and Mrs. Joseph White. here were 22 present this weep Not conducive to family life Members of Eliin.ville forum felt it was difficult to strength- en family life when both the husband and wife are working away from home possibly at different hours of the day and there is little time for family life. This is the result of the high cost of living and of a an inspection service to carry higher standard of living. out the intent and purpose of an agricultural machinery act; and shouldrovide for an agri- cultural machinery board to ad- minister the•act, The OFA executive met with the Hon. William A. Stewart in the afternoon of November 16. The farm representatives indi- cated satisfaction with their session with the minister and expressed 'hope that their pro. posals would receive serious consideration. Two Kirkton A -H members Granton, won. ,;reserve grand Captured impressive honors at championship in the Queen's the Royal Winter Fair this Guineas class as welt as rem year, serve honors for Angus steer, Monica O'Shea, the attractive Winner was Shirley Early, a 17 -year-old girl who copped the 20 -year-old Middlesex 4-H mem- showmanship sweepstakes at ber who caught headlines by Kirkton fair, won the Shorthorn kissing both the judge and her Lassie competition over other champion calf. county contestants front the province. She'll preside at major Shorthorn shows through- out the province during the next year. Allan klodgins, 16, RR 1, Min. lim Monica,onica whoelight can twinkle as . pretty a smile as you'll find, received her title and the Mac, Gregor tartan that went with it Thursday afternoon. Her prizes also included luggage.. Does an Irish girl mind wear- Urge Stewart ing the Scotchpica ? Not a. bit," laughssMonica. 'I'm en- joying it." to alter a c t presentation of prizes by JelinShe was in her kilts for the J, Wintermeyer, Ontario Libel'. Prevision for availability of al leader, Thursday afternoon. repair parts andservice to She wore them later for a farm machinery purchasers is Shorthorn banquet in the city an important principle to le. and to distribute major prizes clude in any Ontario farm ma- to winners at the breed. sbow chinery act, says the Ontario at the Royal on Friday. Federation of Agriculture. Friday night, she and other The OFA's seven -man execu' contestants were guests of the tive committee suggested five breed association at the horse other principles for considera- show. tion by government in a meet- lier duties during the coming ing withthe new minister of year? "I'm supposed to attend agriculture, Hon. William A: a number of banquets and as - Stewart. It was the first meet- sist at fairs and sales -- I think ing between the minister and it's going to be a lot of fun." the OFA since Mr, Stewart as- The grade 12 Medway stu- sumed office, dent, who hopes to go into train- The rainThe OFA says that any On- ing for a. nurse next year, is a. tario farm machinery act true Shorthorn fan. She's shown should provide for the control them four years in a row in the . and sale of farm machinery Kirkton club. One brother, Mi - and parts in the province; the chael, showed a Shorthorn in testing of farm machinery of- the Guineas class this year. fered for sale in Ontario and Brother Patrick, 19, and sister the publishing of reports of tests Anne, 13, both raised. Short - conducted on. this machinery; horns this year. Her eldest brother, Charles, 21, now a club leader, won a number of prizes in competition with the same b reed. Monica succeeds Cathy Stew - Shorthorn Ailsa Craig, as the Shorthorn queen, Hodgins in celebration The Hodgins brothers were in. the thick of the celebration which followed the judging of the Queen's Guineas Friday. Along with Champion Shirley Earley, reserve winner Allan was hoisted by friends for a parade aroundthe ring. One of the major "boosters" of the champions was Gordon Hodg- ins who had a personal interest 1in both — besides being Allan's crop report brother, he is Shirley's' steady By D. G. GRIEVE date. Associate Ag Rep Another brother, Grant, also competed in the class. Allan has already quit school to make farming a full-time career. He's going to "just keep right on with Angus cat. tie While their elders felt young people would be better off on the farm they want to venture forth to see the world and make money. Members met at the :home of Mr, and Mrs. Lewis Johns. Onion growers - choose GB man Inaugural meeting of the On- tario Onion Growers' Marketing Board resulted in the election of Arthur Van Dyke, Bradford, as chairman. William Blewett, Grand Bend, was elected vice-chairman. The board will meet within the next few days to review applications for the office of secretary and discuss details in connection with the estab- lishment and operation. of the plan. A diplomat can tell you where to go and make you look for- ward to the trip. Huron county Cold weather and snow in the past few days has caused the stabling of most of the live- stock.. This weath.e.: has also slowed down the plowing operations with a good deal of plowing Award to Huron left to do,Lila Black, Belgrave, one of Heavy rains approximately the Huron County competitors a week ago have helped the for the Guineas, won the Here - water situation. ford championship in the class. What's Your Beef? 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