The Brussels Post, 1974-10-09, Page 11Brussels
Stockyard
Report
own:- Checking ,the number of
animals in a feedlot would not
only help a farmer discover
whether his own cattle are there
but also if somebody elses are.
°mist. Moulton said that when
a farmer loses 10 head of cattle,
probably valued at $600 each, he
has lost a lot of money.
Sound management could pre-
vent siich a loss. Farmers should
keep fences in good repair, check
herds regularly, and call police
when cattle are missing,
(Goderich Signal Star)
ow:
anew • • mimum
wage
in Ontario
Effective October 1,1974
Ontario's new minimum wage covers people employed in general
industry, construction work, domestic service, ambulance service,
funeral service, including students and learners.
If-you or your employees fall into these categories, it is important
for you to know what the law now requires.
People employed by agencies as domestics, and people work-
. ing as funeral directors or embalmers must now be paid not less than
$2.25 an hour. Learners in General industry must be paid at least
$2.15 an .hour during their first month of employment and at least
$2.25 per hour thereafter. People employed in construction work or
as construction site guards are now entitled to at least $2.50 an hour.
There is no learner rate for the construction indutry. Ambulance
drivers, helpers, and first-aid attendants must now receive at least
$108.00 per week or, if they work fewer than 48 hours a week, $2.25
an hour. Students under 18 who work 28 hours a week or less, or
during school holidays, must receive at least $1.90 per hour.
When employees occupy a room or eat meals supplied by their
employer, $9.00 per week for the room and $1.00 for each meal or
$21.00 per week for meals or $30.00 a week for room and meals
may be included when calculating the minimum wage.
As for overtime pay, until December 31, 1974, it will be 11/2 times
the regular pay after 48 hours a week. From January 1, 1975 on,
the time-and-one-half rate will apply after 44 hours a week. And from
January 1, 1975 on, there will be three more holidays with pay—New
Year's Day, Victoria Day, and Thanksgiving Day—added to the
current statutory holidays: Good Friday, Dominion Day, Labour Day,
and Christmas.
If you have any question or would like more information, write
or phone your nearest Employment Standards Branch at any of the
following addresses:
Hamilton -
1 West Avenue South
Postal Zone L8N 21R9
Telephone; 527-4501
Kendra
808 Robertseh St.
Postal Zone P9N 1X9
Telephone; 468-3128
Kingston • 1055 Princess Street
Pbstal Zone K7L 11-13
Telephone: 542-2853
Kitchener
824 Xing Street West
Postal Zone N2G 1G1
TelephOne: 744-5211
Ottawa
2197 Riverside Drive
Postal Zone K1H 7X3
Telephone: 731-7200
5udbury,
1538 LaSalle ,goulevard
Postal Zone P3A 1Z7
Telephone: 566-3071
Toronto
400 University Avenue
Postal Zone M7A 1V2
Telephone; 965-5251
London Thunder Bay
560 Wellington Street 235 Bay street
Postal Zone N6A 3R4 Postal Station "P"
Telephone: 438-7291 Telephone: 345-2101
Sault Ste. Marie Windsor
125 Brook Street 500 Ouellette Avenue
Postal Zone P6A 8B6 Postal Zone N9A-1B3
Telephone: 549-3831 Telephone; 256-8278
Ministry of Labour,
John MacBeth, Minister
Government of Ontario-
WilliAril Davis, Premier
THE BRUSSELS POST 'OCTOBER Si. 1974,
•
y Police warn farmers of cattle rustling
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Seaforth
527.0245
They drive trucks now instead
tiding horses and they use
ved highways to get to markets
stead of dustry trails but cattle
stlers still rob beefmen of
ousancls of dollars on the hoof
ry year.
The Ontario. Provincial Police,
derich Detachment, are trying
stop the rustlers in their illegal
acks as part of a crime preven-
i program.
Coot. Wayne Moulton, former
ommunity Services Officer-with
e detachment, and Const. John
ay, who has just replaced him,
wised northward front Goderich
ong Highway 21 searching for
edlots which would be prone to
tle thefts.
Last week, they began a new
'ase of the cime prevention
gram begun earlier in the
comer with mapping of cottage
bdivisions along the Lake
von shoreline.
Cottagers were becoming
rce in their summer retreats,
t missing cattle were becoming
moron. Area weekly news-
pers carried descriptions of
ssing cattle in classified adver-
mg columns as farmers found
wer cattle on feedlots than they
t there last spring.
Although the OPP had received
formal complaints of cattle
ft, Const. Moulton and
ray, thought that some of the
appearances could be traced to
dery day rustlers. •
Const. Moulton wheeled the
lice cruiser off the main
ghway down a township con,
ssion. He made a few turns
to other roads that brought it to
one-lane track through a
odiot. He drove down the track
a place slow enough to protect
e car from the deep ruts which
toed as a road.
he woodlot stopped abruptly
the edge of a feedlot where
f cattle grazed and paid little
cation to the uniformed
traders.
he constable surveyed , the
ene with disapproving eyes,
ing that detecting thieves in
is remote location would be
possible since the nearest
tmhouse was a dot on. the
lion and the woodlot effect-
ly screened the pasture from
e road,
Thieves could be discouraged,
sever, if the farmer who owned
feedlot regularly checked his
k. The police officers soon
overed that the farmer was
ng just that.
As, Const. Moulton drove the
set back to the sideroad, the
The market at Brussels Stock- ids Friday was active on choice en and heifers with medium
It under pressure. Cows were 'r to the weeks' decline.
Choice Steers - 49.00 to 51.00
sales to 52.85.
Good Steers - 45.00 to 48.00. Five steers conSigned by Max.
clfield Of Brussels, averaging
113s. Sold for 52,85, with his ering of 9 steers averaging 61 lbs. selling for an Overall t of 51,95,
TWO Steers consigned bya All h Agin of It, R, 6, iliektui*$
aging 1005 lbs. sold for
nfi steer consigned by /tOg• ov,11. of IrlolyroOd, weighing
$s, sold for 48:15.
steers consigned by 1466'
farmer appeared on the narrow
track.
The cattle owner stopped his
pickup truck beside the cruiser..
He told the police officers, that he
had been checking his feedlot
several times a day since he
discovered some of his cattle were
missing.
"I found the gate open one
time," he said.
He had found some of hii cattle
but four were still missing. Coast.
Wray told him that, there were
some cattle droppings on the
woodlot side of the fence. This
evidence seemed to indicate that
cattle had left,the feedlot on their
Own.
The constables said that most
missing cattle do escape in this
way because farmers don't check
fencing often enough.
Fencing has to be kept in good
repair.
Even if farmers believe cattle
are at large in a neighbor's corn
field because some fencing is
down, the lost livestock should be
reported to police.
Thieves easily can remove
identification tags from the
animals' ears. Holes punched in a
steer's ear prove nothing about
ownership. But if farmers can
describe their animals, police can
alert stockyards to watch for
them. •
If a man at a stockyard in
Kitchener, for example, knows
that five cattle are missing from a
Huron County farm and he sees
those animals fitting their des-
scriptions being sold by a known
thief, he can call police.
Otherwise the man at the
stockyard can do nothing.
About five minutes after their
encounter with the farmer in the
woodlot, Const. MoultOn and
Const. Wray met another farmer
Who was searching for 10 lost
steers. They asked him how long
the stock had been gone.
"Oh, about three weeks," the
farmer said.
He and his family had searched
for miles around the feedlot from
which-the steers had disappeared
but without results.
If the steers had • been stolen
they were likely in a packing
house freezer by now, the officers
speculated. The farmer should
have notified police as soon as he
discovered his loss.
The cattle could be in another
place besides a neighbor's corn-
field or a freezer; they could be an
another farmer's feedlot. •
The farmer might not have
stolen them, but the steers might
have just wandered in on their
man Kieswetter of R. R. 1,
Mildmay, averaging 1180 lbs.
sold for 48.30.
Thirteen steers consigned by
Fraser Mustard, R. R. 2, Blue-
vale, averaging 1017 lbs. sold for
Choice heifers - 45.00 to 47.50
with sales -to 48.85.
Good Heifers - 42.00 to 45.00.
Two heifers consigned by
George Blake of R. R, 2, BrdsSels,
averaging 860 lbs. sold fat 48.85,
with his entire offering of 24
heiferS averaging 905 lbs. selling
for an overall price of 41.45.
Seven heifers consigned by
Doug McPherson of Teeswatet,
averaging 04 lbs, told for 48.10,
Choice Cows = 22.00 to 25.00
With sales to 25.25,
Good eoWs - 18,00 to, 22.00,