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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1974-01-31, Page 13MORE 4,vot MEAT' 4.% Ass-mt Ready Mix CONCRETE 411 -4-- Pi mu 235:0833 Residence 228-6961 C.A. MOWER • George Eizenga INCOME TAX-Aa0UNTING t" FARM BUSINESS Notice ANNUAL MEETING of producer members of the Huron County Pork Producers' Association will be convened at the hour of 1 p.m. E.S.T, on 13 of February 1974, at the Legion Hall in the Town of Clinton for the purpose of the proper business of the annual meeting, the elections of officers and the election of substitute delegates. Between the hours of 2:00 o'clock and 3:00 o'clock in the afternoon of the above mentioned date, NOMINATIONS for county committeemen under the Ontario Pork Producers' Marketing Plan will be held. If an election is required for councilmen, it will be held on Tuesday, March 3rd, 1974 and the polling places will be: Clinton, Walton, and Dungannon. 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I hope you will maintain that vigilant attitude in the future, However, I want to say a few words about the public needs in this regard. We are all users of the services that are provided as a result pe theso projects. We need the Hydro for our farms and our industries. We need the access road for tran- sportation of not only hard goods, but agricultural products as well. We need the natural gas, the petroleum products and the Water that flows through these pipelines, If this country • is to grow,. if we are to maintain the rate of economic expansion that will assure us of our standard of living, then there must be this expansion. It is fact of life that services must be provided and someone, inevitably will be faced with unhappy circumstances. We cannot halt progress. All we can do is minimize the damage, plan the routes to cause the least disruption and provide as generous compensation as the public purse can justify. There are these Iv:Meyer, who Would halt all development, who would bring all expansion of these vital services to a sudden and complete stop. There is about these days a new element of ac- tivist, the professional protester who porports to speak on behalf of the masses, but really represents only a small group of Special interests. Many of these professional protesters turn up time and again, espousing causes all across this Province, organizing demonstrations, leading protest movements, writing letters and articles and stirring up the local populace although they have no local personal interest in the case, The Huron F of A reaches 1,800 The Huron COunty Federation of Agriculture reports that the membership in the county now has reached the 1,800 mark. The challenge by Gordon Hill, president of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture at the annual convention in Oshawa last November where he called for an Ontario membership of 26,000 by next fall is answered with great enthusiasm by Huron county farmers. Member number 1800 is Gerald Blake, RR 1, Ethel in Grey township. He Was signed up by Wm. (Bill) Crawford, field- man for Huron county and Wilson Sleightholm, a Grey township farmer. Add solicitor for farm credit A second solicitor will be ap- pointed in Huron County to help process Farm Credit Corporation loans, the federal government announced Tuesday. The announcement stemmed from a resolution passed at the January meeting of the Huron County Federation of Agriculture when farmers protested long delays in arranging corporation loans. The new solicitor is expected to be named soon. He will assist the present county solicitor, W.J. E. Parker, Goderich, The announcement followed a meeting here Tuesday between Brian Ducharme, special assistant to Federal Agriculture Minister Eugene Whelan and Doug Fortune, RR 1, Kippen, president of the Huron federation. Plan meetings for dairymen Three educational meetings for Huron County dairymen have been organized to take place in the Londesboro Community Hall during February. The first meeting will feature dairy herd management. Ross Marshall of Kirk ton will be one of the speakers. Mr. Marshall owns and manages Huron County's top producing R.O.P. Holstein herd, Mr. Marshall besides managing his outstanding producing herd, provides leadership for the Holstein-Freisian breed. He is presently first vice-president of the Holstein-Friesian Association of Canada. Gordon Bell from St. Marys is the Western Ontario fieldman for the Holstein breed'. At this meeting, Mr. Bell will speak on the art of marketing good dairy cattle. The present strong prices for good dairy cattle makes this a timely. topic. At the next session, milking management will be discussed. Equipment, sanitation, and milking procedure will be major topics. Dr. Hacker of the Animal and Poultry Science Department of the University of Guelph, along with resource people from the Surge Equipment Company will be taking part, Production of home grown feed is always important on the dairy farm. Pat Lynch, Soils and Crops Specialist, and Mike Miller Extension Specialist will team up on February 20 for this meeting, Oed FROSTY " „ WILL DISAPPEAR — SEES OUR 600D OIL AND /S FILLED WITH FEAR" CLIFF RUSSELL ESSO AGENT RR 3 Dashwood 2384481 tactics are almost identical. suggest it is no coincidence. believe in majority rule with the rights of minorities being respected, but I do not believe the tail should way the dog. Having said this about demonstrations and the problems created when utilities pre carried across private property, I am prompted to comment on the announced intentions of the Government of Canada to extend the cross-country petroleum pipeline to Quebec and Eastern Canada via the southern Ontario route. I recognize the important energy needs of the Maritimes and Quebec and the crisis which was not of their own doing, but rather the result of international politics. A pipeline appears to be' necessary, but this pipeline should be built across Northern Ontario. A pipeline from Sarnia to Montreal will cross the most productive agricultural lands of this Province. It will disrupt form drainage systems, fences, and utility lines. It will damage crops during construction and in the future will be the cause of ad- ditional disruptions if repairs or maintenance are necessary. It may take somewhat longer to achieve, but I suggest the most sensible route is across Northern Ontario to Deep River or M,at- tawa, at which point it should be carried across the Ottawa River into Quebec. The narrow band of agricultural land in the Ottawa Valley should not be disrupted, It is surely reasonable to require Quebec, which will obtain the most benefit, to assume its share of the disruption. Fur- thermore if it were to cross at Deep River, it would pass through considerable marginal land in that Province and cause very little hardship to Quebec farmers. I simply cannot support the Southern Ontario route and I am pleased to see the Ontario Federation of Agriculture adopting a similar stance. I support.the Ontario Federation of Agriculture in this position, although I have many doubts the Federal Government will be swayed from their announced course. More need for safety The increasing frequency of farm accidents has led to, reorganization within the Farm Safety Association (FSA) to increase promotion of farm safety education. Foremost on the list has been the strengthening of the 43 county or local Farm Safety Associations. "They have come through a period of transition," says Don Brown, FSA's general manager, "Many have emerged much stronger because they have enlarged their memberships so that more local people are ac- tively participating in oc- cupational accident prevention," The Farm Safety Association has allocated over $16,000 to the local and county associations, either in direct cash payments, in display materials and space rentals for displays, or through promotional material. , The promotional material is available free of charge. The 1973 year was the first in which outright grants were not given on an equal basis. Says Brown: "The amount . of ex- penditure to a local council was based on its safety program for the year, and the program's effectiveness in that particular county." The FSA's staff of fieldmen is being increased to six in 1974 to handle the increasing demand for consultations. These men provide professional expertise on a roughly regional or county basis. Their services are available free of charge, and they can help groups or individuals with ongoing programs for safety education. By ADRIAN VOS Sometimes people tell me that pork is not as digestible as other meats, Well, folks, it's all in your mind for you are talking about old time pork. The new lean pork is different. Listen to John D. Lane of the US Meat Board. "Official nutritive values for pork currently used by government industry and scientists in nutrition fields were developed under a Meat Board research grant back in the late 1950's. "Since then says Lane," in- dustry has made giant genetic and management strides resulting in substantial im- provements in pork eating quality and nutrition offered to the consumer. Today's pig has more meat on it then even the "ideal" porkers used in the original research work at the Okla. State U,, about 17 years ago." Mind you, that's American pork. Ours is considered to be even better. Dr. Usborne of the U. of Guelph gives some figures on the quality of pork as compared to some other meats. Calories: pork 310, beef 385, lamb 390, protein: pork 25,9, beef 20.6 lamb 22.5, Fat (percent); pork 22.8, beef 33.3; lamb 32,1,All micronutrients, as iron and other minerals, as well as vitamins compared favourable with the , other. meats: -- - 'So don't give me that old arguriient anymore, If you do, you are set in your ways, Now that I'm on the subject of pork I may as well tell 'you now that pork producers are in the same boat with the beef men. We are lucky if we break even on the cost of production. It means that farmers felt what was coming and held off from great sudden 107 Main St. — Lucan 227-4851 production increases. If it had gone as in other years when production increased sharply when the price was high, livestock men would be in very real trouble right now, It seems more likely that we will be choked slowly this time around. Whatever the forecasters say, (they sometimes sound like fortune tellers) I am not very optimistic about farm income from livestock in the next year or so. If I'm right and I hope not, I agree with Mr. Gracey of the cattlemen that farmers will go out of livestock production which will bring sky high prices in a few years. That way nobody wins, not the farmer, nor the consumer Bend plant. The craft is shown above during a testing exercise, photo T-A photo TESTING A HOVERCRAFT — The waters of the Ausable River and Lake Huron at Grand Bend were used over the weekend to test a Voyaguer hovercraft manufactured by Bell Aerospace at the Grand Lean pork different, Canadian the best