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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1962-07-26, Page 11Milk plan mixed at By DON FAIRBAIRN Producer reaction to the pro posed overall milk marketing plan for Ontario has been varied thus far, but not enough is actually available to enable any observer to evaluate it properly. The two groups most vitally affected—fluid and concentrat- ed shippers—have already held meetings of all provincial di- rectors, while cheese and cream shippers 'will get together be- fore the end. of the month, We say that whole and concentrat- ed milk producers will he most vitally affectedit only because contribu te the groups who 1lelr re "e -ro° stabiliza- New specialist for area soils A .new soils specialist will be appointed for Huron, Middle- seX and Perth. counties, it was announced Tuesday night at the Huron Soil and Crop improve- meat Association twilight tour Russell Johnson, of Lindsay, will succeed Jack Murray who has been serving in this position for a number of years. Mr. Murray plans to enter Michi- gan. State University in Lansing, Mich., this fall to study for his doctorate degree in agriculture communications. Mr. Johnson is a 1962 gradu- ate a OAC, Guelph. He will work out of the London office of the department of agricul- ture., New SOILS SPECIALIST Russell Johnson h? exam tries-Ativocafe Second Section EXaTgR, .gNTARIQ,„ 4VI,„Y ;6, 1962 • •••,;•—•••;••• • ,.•,•; • ••-;••-•••• •-• Paga Eleven Expoct h.erbicide' coming • • for weed control in beans iticreAsed Demarirl Through Revolutionary New Crop Development Programming Means High Profit For 'Mate Who Meet The Requirements GROWERS' PLAN. Suite 213, The'Otteetisl,ivay. britatiO,Peod . TORONTO 18, Ontario, tenteeneete: Please forward 'details of Your Profit fee ..Growers Plan. FOR FREE ItIETAILB MAIL THIS. COUPON TODAY FROM 1 . 5 ACRES NOW LAYING IDLE Extra Income OF $500 - $2500 yearly WANTED 149.89.109.9•1009.49419941.14. 1.1•In . .. WHO WOULD LIKE AN GROWERS As the 1962 Ontario winter wheat harvest moves eastward through the province, the most southern counties' wheat pro- ducers are taking advantage of favorable harvesting wea- ther to finish off remaining fields. The harvest began during the week of July 2nd and met with slight interruption due to rains in some areas the following week. However, favorable wea- ther has afforded Essex and Kent producers a fairly sue- cesful and rapid harvest much to the contrast of many areas hit by prolonged rains and loss in many areas last year, Overall, grades are reported to be exceptionally good with little probiem with rust, shrunken kernels or weeds be- ing experienced. Continuing its program of relieving pressure on the do- mestic market, the Ontario Wheat Producers' Marketing Board has purchased new crop wheat offered by dealers and expects to move a boat load out of Wallacehurg for export position next week. Of the total. crop last year, RETIRES TO FARM at 0, a Flt. Sgt. G. B. Matheson for KIondyke farms night during the twilight tour yonsored by Hurt onit ..nd Iry Ford, new manager at the lelondyke Gardens Co-On, fore - casts that teis season will be farmers Joneists mainly of lo- one of the beet for the 34 grow- eating markets and getting the ers in the rieh bag land soulh best prices for the produce and of Grand Bend. advising the growers when they "If there's ever going to be should cut their crops. "I'm etressing control sup- a good year, this is it' , Ford reported this week, despite the ply", lie Stated, explaining that in previous years farmers have unusually dry spell being exee, rienced throughout the area, harveeted their crops when they thought they should and However, Ford claims the then brought them to the Co-drought is actually doing the rep. Klondyke farmers more good '-' Ford explained that this meant than harm in the fact that they that much produce was left on are much better off than other hand to spoil because markets market gardening area in On- could not be located and it is tario and Michigan. possible to keep the lettuce and Sees best year ever =MI5' 1:11a );r11:1,heeroi= oonr two, farmers learned Tuesday rop Improvemen ssoc at on. Jack Murray, London, district His job in managing the ewe sells specialist, revealed that 000.00 business for the area two riew weed-killing chemicals being tested at GAG Guelph appeared to have excellent po- tential. "Both look good in this year's tests at the college," he told about 100 farmers who inspected experimental plots at four Hay township farms. Officials were able to state An effective herbicide for Addrett ••• .1491.• 94 • 94.4941•84 done on this test plot on the farm of Ian McAllister, Rri., 1 Zurich, The Huron farmers toured plots on four Hay township farms during the twilight - event spon- sored by Huron Soil and Crop Improvement Association, photo reaction Yield up for wheat this point the Ontario Wheat Producers producers' bargaining power and bring him a larger portion Marketing Board was required to handle a little more than of the consumers' dollar, subject to the licence fee of up 1,600,000 bushels. to lse of the value of all milk With this year's total acre- sold. age severely cut by 23 re due Cream shippers will also Centralia NCO to winterkill the marketing pay the licence fee but will not board earlier estimated total contribute to the stabilization retires t© farm production would run in the fund in the beginning (we ee- neighborhood of 14 million bu- fieleat iteletrapIhragseerrnAms enlotngs aos. After serving 7i years in the _seellsS odrowanboufrtofmiveuilnelliniooirimbati..- u army and 23 years in the RCAF, 5' ports butter prices, there is no need for any other stabilize- Flight Sergeant G. B. leeatheson However, with yields report- Lion efforts in this area, and of RCAF Station Centralia re- ed to be fairly satisfactory re- sulting from a remarkable re- anyway, it is questionable that tired from the RCAF recently. covert' of poor looking fields and joined the army in 1932. ally ti i at ed. an c pa e . ral policy changes—and this is He served with the Calgary a distinct possibility—any milk Tank and the Lord Strathconas' marketing board would have to Horse for three and 4i years take action that might involve cream shippers contributing to respectively, He transferred to the RCAF a stabilization fund, t h e as a disciplinarian in 1939 and Now for reactions to af ter served overseas from 1942 to proposed plan. The day 1943. He remained with the it was made public, Emerson RCAF after the War and serv- Farnworth and Harold Martin, cha i rman and secretary re- ed at Centralia 1950 to 1954; prov isiona l London, 1954 to 1958; St, Mar- board of the garets, N.B., 1958 to 1959, and board, presented it to a inem Centralia since that time. bers' meeting of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture. It He has served as the assist- received fairly careful study ant station Warrant officer while and considerable intelligent at Centralia, comment, although there was Fit. Sgt. Matheson was mar- some restrained criticism. It is vied to the former Georgina bound to be subject to criticism. Walker of Calgary, Children in. since this plan is obviously a elude Charles, 27; Robert, 24; compromise, and Dianne Linde, 10. The As Mr, Farnsworth (who, by Mathesons have bought a small the way, is a fluid producer) farm along RR, 5 Straillity and has said: "There are things in plan to take up permanent resi- this plan that fluid shippers device there, will not like as there are items sgt. Matheson's medals which other groups will tot include Canadian efficieney, defence, war, Canadian, volun- tary service medal and deo and the Canadian turtles Dec- oration, any provincial producer group Flt S t 'elati eson was born in early spring, production May cumstances, However, if fede. n , educated Alberta could do much under any cir- Calgary g• 1 in be slightly higher than origin- William Tilden, president of the OFA, who is also a direc- tor of the concentrated milk producers, told the latter pro- vincial group that, "We must have a plan of some kind. This is not perfect, but let us build on it, make changes if neces- sary, always remembering that there are four groups," Wilton Honey, president of the concentrated group, told his meeting that it was very dif- ficult to draft a plan that would have the full support of all, but the provisional board had done its best. All groups had made concession for the overall good of the industry, While Syd Pearson and Orvil Guy, the other provincial di- rectors who are on the provi- sional board with Mr.. Honey, supported him, along with Mr. Tilden, the other three pro- vincial directors of the concent- rated group, Charlie McInnis, George Lowry and Bill Chap- man, were opposed to the pre- sent plan and said they could not support it. Mr. Lowry in- sists on the abolition of all quotas, and Mr. McInnis says the plan will not improve the systerns S Surge Milk PUMpt and Pipelines • Serge Vaduten OUrepe • Serge 'Unite • Surge, parlour Stage 1 fyo-ht) • Surge Detergents Brushes • Stemless Steel Wash tanks MUELLE R 'TANKS BULK MILK Surge karts Available at Phil Heatree General Store, Witicheltee Harvey- Kati, thipita Antos ditigetith, Blake Authorized Surge Paige bepote ekeeeeekeeeeeeeeeekeeeeeeee.reeeeesseeiiisia4 THIS JS WHAT NOT TO PO, SAY AGRICULTURE OF. FICIALS—Agriculture officials, who usually suggest to farmers what they should do, pulled a switch Tuesday night when they told Huron farmers not to use a. new herbicide on beans, They showed the damage it had Top crops at Kirkton Sixteen winners were de- clared this week in two field crop competitions sponsored by Kirkton Agricultural Society, Judge Roy Laughlin, Guelph, picked eight winners out of 20 entries in oats and eight out of 14 in barley, Gordon Hodgins won the oat contest, with Cecil, Squire the runner-up, Other oat winners were: Ross leearshall, Newton Clarke, James Bryan, Ross 1-tern, Tom Um jr„ William Stephens. The barley competition was won by Newton Clarke with Gordon Hodgins in second place. Following in order were Har- old Clarke, Cecil Squire, Torn Horn Jr., Torn Horn, Jim Bearss, Ewart Crago. The results were announced by Alex F. Crago, secretary- treasurer of the society. Beef future All milk shippers will be Hon. W. A. Stewart, Ontario's minister of agriculture, ad- dressing a crowd of 1200 at Waterloo Cattle Breeding As- sociation's open house, July 19, stated: "I firmly believe that the future of the beef in- dustry in this country promises to be one of the brightest of any segment of our agricultural economy". He also spoke of the inroads being made into dairy markets by manufactured products sell- ing at half the price of whole milk products and said that dairy groups must get together to advance their products, "Certainly there are many, many things that can be done to promote the dairy industry in this province", he suggested. Mr, Stewart commended the men and women of the province who had the foresight to or- gamin cattle breeding associas lions, and congratulated the Waterloo Cattle Breeding As- sociation hoard of directors. commented on the tre- mendous impact being made on the tattle population of the province by the use of the kind of sires available artificially, concluding that the erased gath- ered was indicative of the the terest and appreciation of the in embership. The open heitist program was in charge of Waterloo Cattle Breedieg Association president, Floyd. Becker, Manager Roy G. Snyder reported on the progress of artificial insemination in eat- tie improvement in the area, and solicited the tontieued sup- port of all cattle raisers, so that the progearn can continue to be carried on successfully. ly marketing- of milk. "The cur- By D. H. MILES Roy A. Cullen BARN CLEANER SILO UNLOADER tt BUNK 'FEEDER YOU'LL GET BETTER a PER. FORMANCE AND LONGER IA/EAR fROM A BADGER tAtte eSeViCs INSTALLATION Jahn Beane Jtt, BRUCEPIELD Phone HU 2.92511 Cellect hit"T ilitaerderoipos hoathveer al:eeeattosbe einn higher areae," lie reported, house, dcaa bybainge tho en irleafnrdigefroar teodillystoornee- "and this has reduced the crop "My idea is to have the farm- available and the prices should ers leave it in the fields until get better", we know we have a market for He reported that the Learning- it,e h e poi n t e d ou t, ton area growers had already The 34 growers in the bog pulled their potatoes because cultivate approximately 1,400 they were afraid if they left acres and their crops consist them much longer they would mainly of lettuce, cabbage, ear- be burned, rots, celery, onions, potatoes, ele stated that they had to radishes and turnips pull the potatoes while they The first crop harvested is were very small., and while it . lettuce and it was sent to the flooded the market and brought markets on June 20 this year, prices down, they would soon After the lettuce is taken off, go back up because the supply some farmers plant a second was running short. crop of carrots, while others Ford stated that some farm- ers in the area bog were con- replant lettuce. He reported that the crops cerned over the dry spell, but are staggered in planting, so they were still producing some that all the produce of one va- of the best produce harvested there. riety is not all pushed onto the market during one short term, "We're not hurt at all," h ee but rather over the entire stun- stated. Ford, who assumed his new Lettuce is harvested right up duties about two months ago, until fall as are potatoes, onions was raised in the Exeter area where he was an ardent hockey and turnips. Export to U.S.A. and baseball player. During the - past three winters, the 26-year- The energetic young manager old enthusiast has refereed reported that 50 percent of the many of the minor hockey Klondyke produce was ehipped games in the town. to markets in the United States He gained his produce expe- with the bulk of the remaining rience at Exeter Produce, where going onto th + e Ontario market he worked for the past six in Toronto. years, starting as an office man, However, large shipments are and woreing himself up to the also made to Germany, Hol..- sales division. land, Trinidad and the West In- dies. The produce going to the States or Toronto is shipped in refrigerated cars by Thayer Transport, Thedford and Pasco Transport, Parkhill. As the produce is brought in, it is washed, graded and put in various containers ranging from sacks and bushel baskets to small plastic bags by the farmers. Many of the farmers have much of their own packing and washing equipment, but those that don't use the facilities available in the Co-Op building, During lettuce harvest, Ford STILL SOME LEFT! July SPECIALS CO-OP BRIGHT RED BARN PAINT } positively — and the .andierma could see it for themselves that a new herbicide developed for soya beaes was not good for white beans. This wa4 evil:1MA on the farm of lan McAllieter, Perr Line, where the chemica1 had hurt the crop. "We have both crop damage end poor. weed control here", said Mur- ray. "We're showing yoe here what not to do," explained Huron Ag Rep Douglas Miles who was master of ceremonies during the tour. lie revealed that the herbicide had been tried also at the farm of jack Pece, aed that damage. bad been so great it was necessary to sow the crop again., Outlines difficulties Sonic of the problems in. de- veloping weed, eontrol chemicals were outlined by Dave McDon- ald, area representateve for Fison's of Canada, who distrib- ute Atrazine, the corn herbicide which has proven effective. "It takes about 10 years in the test stage to develop a, chemical such as Atrazine before we can send it. out for government tests," he stated. It is tested by gov't officials for sonee three years after that. He said the industry consid- ered Atrezine was close to the ultimate in the control of weeds in a specific crop. Ag Rep Miles also indicated the association was doing ,s,cene work with Thiamet, the systemic insecticide, in white beans, See test plots At the three other Hay town- ship farms, viewers saw fertil- izer tests being made on oats and corn in the area, Rodney oat: plots were seen on the farms of Glenn Weld°, Parr Line, and Leonard Merrier, cone. 15. Amounts and varieties of fertilizers are being com- pared to test reaction to greater and lesser amounts of nitrogen and potash than were indicated in the fertilizer recommenda- tions made on the basis of soil tests. Jack Murray explained that the work. which has been car. ried on for several years, checks and improves the 'fertilizer recommendations made by de- partmental officials. Fertilizer plots on corn were made on the farm of Delbert Geiger, cone, 12, a past presi- dent of the crop improvement associa tion, :Refreshin ent s were served to the group here. George Wheatley. bli president of the Huron associa- tion, welcomed the crowd. This is the firet twilight tour sponsored by the Huron associa- tion. ln previous years, the light meeting has been held at the Huron county farm near Clinton. With the sale of this property, however, the associa. lion no longer has a central ex- perimental area. said bright all board. tion fund in the beginning. Cheese producers are already contributing to their own fund on about the same basis as the maximum of 3!i of the value of milk suggested in the plan, and since their marketing board is to continue operations as at present, there will be no change in the cheese milk shipper's position, except that he will contribute toward the administration cost, of the over- rent milk marketing situation demands an overall plan,"" he Huron Ag Retl plan,"" sadi. "The general principles Recent rains have aided of the plan are good and we growth of pasture s. second hope the provisional board re growth hay and beans. ceives farm support." Harvesting operations have been curtailed in some areas of the county. Yields of grain have been good, Hipening was very. fast in south end ef county prior tO Friday, Hy the end of the week most swathing and elating will be SURGE SALES a, SERVICE complete, RR Clinton Ph HU 24207 * Sorge tonganoxie Hay Lotigheed, president hf the United Co-operatives of On- tario, has announced that 1.1C0 Huron county will support the plan and call- ed on all farmere and fade crop report organizations to support order. approve, However, we feel this is the best plan for the dairy industry Of Ontario, It is a producer plan—not a govern- ment plAii—arid eve are coefi. dein, that it will benefit all producers." • Find maggot in turnips Area turnip growers were urged this week to watch for cabbage maggot damage in their crops. A department of agriculture official said maggot damage "is really bad in some fields this year". 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