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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1975-05-01, Page 18You'll Find It Here! Whatever Your Needs In New or Used USED TRACTORS 1—F1466D with cab, excellent 1—F826D, cab, new tires, like new 1 ros6o,ils. „e.. - SOLD 1—F1066D, cab, 18.4x38 tires, excellent 1-1FIC 434 Gas, excellent 1-1HC 656D, sharp 1-11-1C 434D, power steering, new rubber 1-1HC 414D, good 2—David Brown, 1200D, clean 1—Ford 4000 Gas, clean 1—Allis D14 with loader 1—F300 with new T.A., good rubber 1—Farmall Super M with wide front -1—.41•04•144000•04nripplkp SOLD 1—Farmall C 1—Farmall Cub (W/Equipment) 1—Massey 22 with cultivator 1—IHC 275 D (cheap) 1—T5 Gas Crawler with blade (wrecking) 1—F806D (T.A. doesn't work) cheap 1—F544D with cultivator 1—Allis C with loader 434D with p.s., good shape 1—Bobcat Skid-stear loader, excellent 1—Massey Super 90, new tires,real good condition. NEW TRACTORS —;14 1—F1566D, no cab 1—F1466D with cab and air 1—F1066D with cab 1—F1066D, cab and air 1—F766D, no cab 1-1FIC 674D 2-1HC 574D 1—IHC 574 Gas with 1850 loader 1—IHC 454D N. T. MONTEITH EXETER LTD. 235-2121 "The best in service when you need it most!" YOU CAN COUNT ON US I GLENDINNING & SON Route 8 Parkhill Ontario Phone: 519-294-6574 Suggest research to save • energy in farm operations SPRING PECI ALS WI PLANTS TREES — Members of the Hurondale Women's Institute participated in tree planting at Usborne Central school, Saturday. Involved in the planting process are Marilyn Pym, Helen Hodgert, Jean Alma Rundle. T-A photo Mills Most farm costs continue to rise By Adrian Vos Some interesting statistics came to my attention regarding farm costs. It showed that all farm inputs are up, with fer- tilizers leading with an increase of 41 percent. Only one cost factor is down from the same month a year ago and that, curiously enough, is one that is produced by farmers. While the livestock producer may have some short term relief because of lower feed prices, this comes out 'of the pockets of the cash-crop farmer who gets less for his grain, One feed ingredient that didn't go down is minerals and vitamins and this of course is 'not produced at the farm, It shows clearly that everyone has some sort of income insurance but the farmer. You may have read in the news that the Ontario Federation of Agriculture wants something done in this regard. We need some ,government assistance to get the ball rolling and the vast majority of farmers who have been polled so far support the farm income insurance plan. It simply stated, says that the farmer with help of the govern- ment build up a fund in times of high prices and pay out of it if prices fall below cost of production. To show the difference in the way a farmer sells his product with the way an urban businessman does, Mrs. Joan Stadelman of Blyth sent me the following. "A farmer bought a new car after spending a lot of time pricing them. By coin- cidence, a few days later, the dealer who sold him the car appeared at his farm gate and wanted to buy a cow for his hobby farm. The farmer quickly wrote out the following and handed it to the dealer: Basic cow $200; two-tone experior $45; extra stomach $75; produce storage compartment $60; Dispensing devices (4 spigots'at $10 each) $40 ; genuine cowhide upholstery $125; automatic fly swatter $35; dual horns $15; plus tax and delivery $595. Total charge $1190." Imagine the options on my sow with 16 spigots and a build-in vacuum cleaner. Ontario's Minister of Agriculture and Food, Hon, William A, Stewart, has an- nounced that in conjunction with the overall government policy of conserving energy throughout the Province by a comprehensive Energy Management Program, his Ministry will be conducting a number of research projects to provide answers to ways to reduce the consumption of energy as it applies to agriculture and the production of food, Stewart's statement follows the speech tabled in the Legislature on March 26 by Hon. Dennis R. Timbrell, Minister of Energy for Ontario, in which he stressed the need for the Province to take action necessary to ensure a reduction in its total demand for energy in the years ahead. "Ontario currently imports 80 percent of its total energy requirements, and has one of the highest per capita rates of energy consumption in the world," Mr. Timbrell said. `By the early 1980's there will no longer be sufficient crude oil to meet Canadian feedstock requirements west of the Ottawa Valley. An even more alarming fact is that Canadian-produced natural gas supplies are already beginning to fall short of total Canadian needs and committed exports." The goals of the Government Energy Management Program include the im proved management of energy distribution and consumption, ar d the encouragement of voluntary conservation across the Province. The Program will coordinate, on a long-term basis, energy management projects undertaken by other ministries, industries and the public to reduce the rate of growth in energy consumption in Ontario by one-third over the next five years, resulting in a cutback in The groom didn't get his pants back in time for the wedding, so he sued the tailor for promise of breeches. "If you refuse to marry me I'm going to throw myself off that 200 foot cliff." that's just a bluff." total energy expenditures by about one billion dollars a year by 1980. Outlining the steps to be taken by his Ministry, Mr. Stewart said the primary objective would be to' encourage the reduction of energy consumption in farm operations across the Province. The drying and fertilization of corn, for example, accounts for 82 percent of the total energy costs in corn production. "One of our research ob- jectives will be to reduce the dependence of high cost propane for drying," said Mr. Stewart. "At present it would take 4.4 million gallons of propane each year to dry 100 million bushels of corn." Preliminary investigation of grain drying systems has been done by a mission sponsored by the Ontario Grain CornCouncil;, a contingent visited Europe to study methods of conserving Tying both the weather and pesticide spray programs together to provide more ef- fective control of fungous diseases is one of the aims of a cooperative research venture by the Ontario Agricultural College, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, and Agriculture Canada. Professor T. J. Gillespie, an agricultural meteorologist and a researcher in OAC's Land Resources Science department involved in the project, points out that weather plays a big part in the development of most crop fungous diseases and insect pests in Ontario. Just the right temperature, sometimes 'in combination with high humidity or extended rains, provides ideal conditions for fungi and insects. While these ideal conditions are sporadic, the idea of weather forecasting for pesticide application is to predict the appearance of these weather patterns. Growers can then be informed of the need to spray through code-a-phone systems using recorded messages at energy and preserving grain quality. Other areas of research have. been planned to get the best possible value from the energy used in food production, such as the reduction of fuel usage in greenhouses, particularly in the vegetable production industry; greater efficiency in the kiln drying of tobacco;, evaluation of existing heating and ventilation techniques and systems used for space conditioning of farm buildings, and evaluation of production techniques of field and horticultural crops associated with field mechanization. Dr. J. C. Rennie, Executive Director of the Education and Research Division of the Ministry will supervise the im- plementation of the research projects and resulting technical date will be widely disseminated. locations within each area. "This is unlike the normal practice in which pesticides are put on at regular calendar in- tervals," states Gillespie. "By weather monitoring, we're at- tempting to relate pesticide application to the life cycle of the desease, or insect, then attack at a time when the disease or in- sect is present, or is most susceptible." Professor Gillespie has been involved with this research since about 1970, when southern corn leaf blight affected Ontario's corn acreages. An extensive trial on the southern shores of Georgian Bay has shown orchard growers the advantages of the system. Apple scab, an economically serious fungus, can be brought under control at less cost if a producer sprays according to conditions. "I know of one orchard that, two years ago, saved about $50 per acre by using less chemicals and in which disease control was very good. Results like this show the program is working," he says. On Lawn & Garden Equipment NOW $208 NOW 3290 NOW '347 CHAIN SAWS 1.3 Cubic Inch Ford Hawk (09CS136) Sugg, Retail $163,50 Now 9 44 2.0 Cubic Inch Ford Eagle II (09CS2001) Sugg. 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