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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1966-03-24, Page 12George Vriese lm convinced, it molly pays to use LIQUID FERMI R Now You Can Spread Liquid Fertilizer On Your Cereal Crops With Our New Applicator • it's so easy • applied so even • every drop so uniform • application cost so low • crop response so great This is NOT a FOLIAR fertilizer. Cann's Mill 235.1782 EXETER 229.6118 WHALEN CORNERS Limited Pogo 12 Times-Advocate, March 24, 1966 Plan 4-H Swine Club program Ont. Junior Farmers elect Maurice Love Maurice Love, RR 3 Exeter, has been elected to the executive committee of Ontario Junior Farmers, Mr. Love is well known in this area for his work with the Junior Farmers group. At the present time members are pro- moting the sale of slow moving vehicle signs for farm vehicles. Jack Morris, 25-year-old operator of a 200-acre dairy farm in Essex County, was elect- ed president of the Junior Farm- ers' Association of Ontario at its annual meeting. Other officers: vice-president Patricia Knox, of RR 1, Hamp- ton; secretary-treasurer, Carm Hamilton, of Toronto; past pre- sident, Alex Connell, of RR 3, A Senior 4-Il Market Hog Club will be offered in the 1966 Huron County 4-H Program. Members are to be 16 (as of January 1, 1966) and must not have reached their ?1st birthday (by December 31, 1966). Members will select, feed and market a group of not less than five market hogs. Fur- ther details are in the recent edition of the "Huron County Soil and Crop News." 4-H Calf, Tractor, Grain, Corn and Conservation Clubs will be organized during Easter Holi- days, April 11 to 15. Please check the "Huron County Soil and Crop News" and your local News- papers for advertisements con- cerning these organizational meetings. meetings where they will study swine husbandry during the sum- mer months. A. number of members will be using pigs from their 1963, 1964 Or 1965 4-H sow, while new mem- berS will purchase pigs from these litters or from purebred breeders. their township hog producer director. This year gilt club members are to purchase a pair of pure- bred gilts of their breed choice. These pigs should be born be- tween March 1 and May 1, 1966. They will keep records of cost of production and attend monthly This year's 4-11 Swine Club program will get under way on Thursday, April 7, at 8;30 p.m. in the Board Room, Ontario De- partment of Agriculture, Clinton. All young people between the ages of 12 (as of January 1, 1966) and 20 who are interested in joining, should get in touch with Palmerston; executive commit- tee; Delmer Cavanagh, of Kin- burn; Alex Connell; Grant Rich- ardson, of RR 4, Dunnville; Bert Albisser, of Oxdrift; Maurice Love, of RR 3, Exeter; Edward Segsworth, of Burlington. Mr. Morris told the 600 dele- gates yesterday that $3,000 will be presented to the Canada My- sore project from the group's freedom from hunger p r oj e c t which was started in February, 1965. The money will be used to train three people in Mysore, India, in food technology. One person will receive a two-year scholarship and two others will get four-month scholarships. Chopped corn stover for livestock bedding Ont. mastitis program not for slaughter ment can be used--the old thresh- er. It not only shells the corn, but conveniently blows the shred- ded corn stover into a pile. The trend to earlier-maturing hybrids is an aid to the storage of stover since it allows earlier grain picking and hence, harvest- ing of the stalks. If the stalks are wet, they should be stored outside the corn, but even wet stover makes a fairly absorbent, useful, bedding material, accord- ing to Dr. Stoskopf. This machine's efficiency in col- lecting stalks which have been run down by harvesting machin- ery is worth noting, The shred- ding action makes stalks more absorbent and easier to handle when the manure is cleaned out. Length of cut should be deter- mined by bedding use. Stanchions or free stalls should have a finer cut than loafing barns that can be bedded easily using longer material. Still another piece of equip- New secretary is appointed Mrs. Brenda Brooks, of Blyth, was appointed secretary of the Huron County Federation of Ag- riculture recently. She succeeds Mrs. Florence Elliott, of Clinton, who resigned after four years' service because she is leaving the community. Directors also appointed Elm- er Hunter, of RR 3, Goderich, first vice-president, to draw up plans for the federation's 25th anniversary celebration. YOUR RED (ROSS THANKS YOU FOR YOUR HELP Drainage tile expert urges spring cleaning Slow moving vehicle sign Maurice Love, R.R. 3 Exeter is shown here as he mounts a Junior Farmers' sponsored slow moving vehicle sign on the rear of his tractor. Huron County Junior Farmers are attempting to get as many farmers as possible to use the signs. Mr. Love was recently elected to the executive committee of the Ontario Junior Farmers. (T-A photo) The Ontario Mastitis Control program conducted by the De- partment of Agriculture is not a slaughter program. It's an at- tempt to control mastitis. Ac- cording to Dr. H. J. Neely, Vet- erinary Services Branch, "When half of Ontario's cows have mas- titis, dairymen must accept the responsibility of doing something about it. We suggest that dairy- men remove hopeless cases from the milking line. Those cows which are highly infectious should not, of course, even be near the rest of the herd. It's strictly a voluntary program. We don't force farmers to do anything; we only advise." One of the enrolment conditions of the program states that any cow not responding to treatment should be removed from the milk- Annual report given to dairy association Rural Learners Fairfield Rural Learners met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Schroeder and listened to a documentary on a trip to Russia by Dr. George Dion, dean of agriculture at McDonald Col- lege, Quebec. It will be continued next week. Next Monday night they meet at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Haist. debris should be cleared from the channel now," Professor Ir- win relates. "This is a real hazard where culverts or bridges may be blocked by this refuse. Burning and the application of chemicals are sometimes effec- tive in weed control, but the use of chemicals may create a hazard to livestock that use the drainage water for drinking purposes." The Ontario Department of Agriculture's Publication 290, Care and Maintenance of the Drainage System, offers addi- tional information, free of charge to Ontario residents from the Information Branch, Parliament Buildings, Toronto. ing line and isolated or disposed of in a manner approved by the Director. Unfortunately, this is the major excuse hindering farm- ers from enrolment because they are afraid that they must dispose of the best breeding stock in their herds. "We've never asked a dairy- man to remove a cow from his herd", reports Dr. Neely. "With regular herd testing, the dairy- man is in a position to decide which cows mean mastitis trouble and lower milk production." Mastitis is controlled by three basic steps. First, farmers must embark upon a system of sound milking management. This in- cludes milking procedure and the general maintenance and care of their milking machines. Second, they must set up effective sani- tation barriers to eliminate new infection and reduce disease in those already infected. The third major step is the removal of those cows which are hopelessly infected. nemia and herd health. He was thanked by Mr. Victor Jeffery. Mr. Gerald Carey, Provincial Director of the C ream Producers Association for Huron and Perth counties spoke briefly on the importance of high quality cream. Gerald Agar, plant manager thanked the shareholders and pat- rons for their co-operation and interest in the company's busi- ness. Arthur Kemp was reap- pointed as Director for another five year term. The maturity date on seed packets is the average number of days from the time the seeds are sown or plants are set in open ground until first harvest. Sea- son, altitude, type of soil, rain- fall and other factors can cause it to vary considerably, however. "If any puddles hover over your drainage tile, dig down now?" urges Professor R. W. Irwin, School of Agricultural En- gineering, Ontario Agricultural College. "When there's a stop- page in a tile line," professor Irwin explains, "water rises to the surface at the point of stop- page. This can cause a serious washout. The tile should be dug up at once and cleared. Broken tile or wide cracks are another menace--they cause cave-ins. At the sign of the smallest hole, these should be repaired before too much silt enters the tile system. Ontario Department of Agriculture Publication 36, Lay- ing Tile by Hand, describes a method of relaying short sections of drain tile," this agricultural engineer adds. Ditches are often overlooked. Unfortunately, however, they too won't drain efficiently if they're clogged. "Trees, weeds, logs, brush, old fencing, and other It's not just high TDN, it's bedding potential that will make corn acreages increase. "Some farmers were worried about the straw shortage for livestock bedding this last year", reports Dr. N. C. Stoskopf, Crop Science Department, Ontario Ag- ricultural College, University of Guelph. "A ctuall y, with new farming methods, there's been an increase in straw production. However, even if there had been a real straw shortage, straw isn't the only bedding. Corn stover has many advantages. "The water-absorbing capac- ity of shredded corn stover is equal to and perhaps greater than that of combined oat straw", Dr. Stoskopf relates. "Three bales of chopped stover (approx- imately 35 pounds each) can do the job of five bales of straw, mainly because cattle don't tramp and cut the stalks into mulch so readily. Ontario farmers using chopped, baled, corn stover have reaped yields ranging from 1 to 3.5 tons per acre, much higher than straw yields." Corn stover can be harvested without buying special equipment. Dr. Stoskopf notes that one On- tario farmer adjusted his forage harvester so that the stalks pass- ed through the rear of the ma- chine rather than through the blower. This operation chopped the stalks into one to two-foot lengths. The chopped stalks were then raked into windrows and baled. Baling not only reduces the amount of space needed to store stover bedding, but also increases the cost. When bedding must be moved by hand, as in stall barns, baling expense might be justified, however. To avoid baling, some farmers use a flail-type forage harvester. Swine club will auction gilts The 33rd Annual Meetingof the Hibbert Co-operative Dairy As- sociation Ltd. was held in the Hib- bert Township hall Staffa March 10 at 2 pm. The president Russell Worden welcomed the shareholders and guests. Arthur Kemp, secretary treasurer read the minutes of the last Annual meeting. Mr. Brock Monteith presented the annual report. The share- holders learned the total amount of butter manufactured in 1965 was 1,336,575 pounds. And the bonus paid to patrons was $64,- 085.21. Mr. Harris Hutson introduced the speaker, Dr. W. D. Schaefer of Kirkton who spoke on Aceta- If you're the farmer who's reached a profit ceiling... you need Super a LIVESTOCK REPORT Farmers' Union discuss march Three area locals of the On- tario Farmers' Union will meet this week to discuss a mass march on Queen's Park being planned by the provincial organ- ization. In a letter to members, the OFU said it feels the Ontario government must accept some responsibility for low prices far- mers are receiving for their produce. No date has been set for the march on Toronto. Locals will meet at the St. Marys legion hall Wednesday, Mitchell town hall Thursday, and the St. Patrick's church hall in Dublin Friday. All meetings start at 8;30 p.m. Shoplifting In a shoplifting case a woman has been fined for walking out of a store with eight dollars worth of unpaid for groceries in her purse. The story doesn't say whether this was possible be- cause of the size of the handbag or because of the price of the groceries. 28.75 27.00 20.25 ED HENDRICK Steer 1330 lbs. . . . @ GEORGE LATTA Heifer 750 lbs. . . . @ ORVILLE FARREL Cow 1130 lbs. . . . @ Huron County 4-H Swine Club members will be auctioning one of their purebred gilts at a sale to be held at the Clinton Fair Grounds Barn in Clinton on Sat-. urday, March 26th commencing at 1 pm. There will be 34 lots including Lacombe, Landrace and Yorkshires. Many of the lots consigned are rich in Record of Performance (R.O.P.) "blood lines" and every individual can be considered worthy of purchase by a breeder for the general improvement of his swine herd. All consignments will be guaranteed as breeders by the 4-H members. These gilts have been bred to top ranking premium boars. Ca- talogues may be obtained from Filson and Robson, Auctioneers, or the Ontario Department of Agriculture, Clinton. 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