The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1960-09-15, Page 11AWARD' DRIVING PRIZES—Safe-driving prizes were awarded to junior farmeri at
a dance following the, rodeo in Clinton 'Saturday. Taking part in the presentation
vrere, from left, Roger' Jackson, of: the Ontario Dep't of Transport,' Clinton; Harvey
Taylor, Brucefield, county farm., safety chairman, and DoUglas McNeil, Goderich, of
the Co-operators Insuxance Company Who donated two trophies.-i , .;{ —Trott photo'
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Waterloo Cattle Breeding Association
"WHERE BETTER BULLS ARE USED"
Waterloo's FIRST PRIZE County Herd
CANADIAN NATIONAL EXHIBITION
It took the offspring of Unit sires to end the 22-year winning
streak, of Peel County for this coveted prize.
The animals in this winning herd all carry from one to three
crosses of Unit Bulls,
OUR CONGRATULATIONS TO ,THE PEOPLE WHO DEVELOPED THE ABOVE ANIMALS
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Second Section. EXETER, ONTARIO, sgeTEmaa IS, 1960 aro Eleven
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COMPETES IN DRIVING RODEO—One of three contestants from the Exeter area, who
Aliparticipated in the Huron County Junior Farmers Safe Driving Rodeo at Clinton Sat-
41Wrday was Barry Jeffery, shown behind the wheel, He's discussing the test with Jim
Bowman, RR 5 Brussels, president of the county junior farmers. —Trott photo
The top bey,Apd..giet. will,:eoni-
pete in an, niter;ibianty-acompetia
ti on Pert*:Eptint•Y at Watford
Fall, :Fair';1.htOnotith.•
Under.* life '.-3guidance the
agrietltural.l. 'liar
Puron tCounty",: D. H. Miles, and
;Grieve, the
contest had As 'judges, Constable
A. Tiveddle. of the Goderich
tachment •• of;' the, .Ontario Pro-
a neat Pohte, Roger Jackson,
,.linton, and 'Ralph Gallion, etr e,. were six seniors, fifteen :utter-
.fard ; both of the Ontario 'Depart- mediates arid twelve jinuors:
raent of Transport' amid Clinton's In the 4-H ':educational
(Thief. of Police,' H. Russell plays; Tuckersmith Corn Cluh.
Thompson. was ifi Second place
The roadeo concluded with' a ' -
("Ince in the evening in' Clinton
at which' Prizes' were presented At th'e.wedding: •
Douglas., -McNeil, Goderich,,"Mama, did ..Mae latlY change
Iarvey' Taylor, Brucefield, and .her mind. She .avenf up the aisle
rerbert Bridle, mayor of CETI-. with one mail and now she's
ton, Ted Dunn, Bayfield, was coming' back with another."
Furon County safe driving rodeo
staged in Clinton Saturday after-
noon.
Ken Campbell with a score of
55:0 out of a possible 600, head-
ed both the written and driving
uniors win tests.
Runner-up was Robert Fother-
Ingham with a score of 543. at Western The contest, open to all junior
farmers and junior institute
members throughout the county,
saw only two entries in the
classes for girls. Miss Elaine
Miller, RR 2 Wroxeter, with a
score of 447 and Miss Ruth Ton-
er, Gorrie,' who scored 421, were
each awarded a prize. . . •
Two Seaforth district junior chairman of the safe driving Brussels, who is president of the
farmers placed one-two in the committee of the county junior county Junior. Farmers; Bob
Seaforth district juniors
win safe-driving rodeo
Tem Hern,-RRt Wee/41AM *was
high dairy' judge ; in:the. senior'
`section and jack RrOadfeot was`
high ireathe ,quiz” in the senior
section, , '
epresenting 'Huron Connt y
farmer members from Huron
participated in the junior jud-
ging section at Western Fair on
Monday, September 12.
Miss Amy Stewart, RR 5 'Sea- f
forth ,waS. aecend high in the
junior' seation, .'anda,Jack Broad-
„foot; • RR 1 Reffeefield was see-
,Ond:, high: in e senior, 'Section.,
Winner • an , the, "Same 'seam!?
:was HoWatt",of R/ta5, Bela,
farmers. Broadfoot, Arnold Campbell and
Con t e s t a nts" were: senior Ken Campbell, all of Seaforth;
group,' James Bowman,. AR 5. Hugh Rundle, South Huron; Bar-
ry Jeffery, Exeter; Jim Spivey,
N,o r t h. Huron; Juniors, .Tack
Broadfoot, Neil Cooper, Don Cro-
zier, Bill Strong, Robert Fother-
Ingham, Francis Hunt and Don
McKercher, all of Seaforth; Ray
Miller, Exeter, and Garnet
Wright, Clinton.
Thirty-three 4-H and junior
0 C expert sees little change
in farm produc. , paces
•
Professor R a 1ph Campbell, throughout, What troubles him is; Professor •Campbell sees little
head •of the economics depart-' "the likelihood that we Mayi for farmers to cheer. About, "Pro-
d , . ..
Pr'ces for but
Th ee
gettin rid of its canned and year and consumption is tiOWP
government has been: ter Production, is up 4% thiiC
H erd wins if rib ons I-I me. At the (Mc, experts little have another rush back into pork ductien has run about 6% aboVie
change from summer prices for production with heavy breedings last year's—owing to good pas-
farm products this fall, this ,f all and rnarketings next, tures—and I think there will bd.
in ere. or centennia what, "strong" bog prices and' 11 Beef prices will "slip" some -1 fall•
"support level"
I a further pileup,Of stocks, Dut,
In the get of sire class, the will remain "vulnerable" and poets appear to be about $25 to but the U.K. market is sound
Coates herd won 12th and 26th
$26 in prospects for an increase in Toronto this fall and' and prices should be fair. We're
prizes out of 63 entries, It cap- evaporated milk or skim m ilk stronger prices during the wiriat still overstocked with evapOrat,
lured 12th and 13th in the herd powder prices look "dim", 'ter and spring—maybe $27 to $30 ed milk and skim milk;I don't
competition and seventh in the fessora
Campb
p a,
ell i • citestl
at the peak." !see any price increase here. n back u hs ouok, Pro three calves class. i Looking at dairy products,l either at the farm or factory." o
these ob- Other prizes included: Junior nervations; yearling hull, 12th; junior bull . calf, 4th and 22nd; two bulls, ' Beef slaughterings were up H eldman comments i3a; in the first seven months of 16th; cow, 6th; senior yearling -- ' . 1960; this fact reflects the build- female, 8th and 20th; senior calf, up in numbers on farms that has . 2nd, 8th and 10th. A junior yea r
also in the money,
for good steers slaughtered in have noticed the announcement on a strong program for the pro-
. of the Federal Minister of Agri- duction of a bacon type hog
culture stating that effective Oc-' for some time and if we hope -
,
very
to continue to export a small but tober 3 ,1960 the $1.00 premium important surplus of pork
on Grade B hogs will he discon-. we must keep the quality high, tinued and that the premium on Secondly, the government has
Grade A will be increased from
$2.00 to a3.00. stated that its policy is to help
i the family farmer. Records show
This follows a change in the: that the family farmer produces
grading requirements of some a much higher percentage of
months ago which changed the i top quality hogs than the large
weights and fat measurements. commercial feeder. By increase.
I think that most producers now, ing the premium on top quality
realize that it has become more, which can be exported at a pre.'
difficulthuga
and
to
therefore
ee
there
G rad e h aAa 1
giving the family farmer the op-
mium price the government is
s.been a decrease in the returns portunity to get some return for
r pointo agree- in Huron county is proceeding 1 bers of the Ontario Federation 1 meat was that farm women have to the producer. I his extra care in breeding and of Agriculture and the Ontario general farm rapidly with 10 veterinarians
Farmers' Union in attendance. oargrannieizattnionpsia.y
i n
program.
. on the cattle testing This recent change in re feeding that is necessary to pro-
The discussions covered the The program in Huron began
pfauyrmtheenrt r eNcivui will ti 0probably
in they
duce B y Gradedolng this h othse.. family mm eniama a
far-
possibility of the OFA and OFU last week under the direction of returns for many producers andi•mer is not only helping himself
presenting joint briefs in the In-' Dr. J. C. MacLennan, sub- is therefore likely to cause con- but also the whole industry,
ture on subjects of mutual inter- district veterinarian of the health siderable resentment. Perhaps the grading of hogs
est and agreement. The, orga- of animals division of the Dept I do not feel qualified to ex- is more controversial than the nization and financial structure of Agriculture, Seaforth. press an opinion on whether or payment of premiums. Front
of each of the organizations Although none of the men is not the Government is justified time to time I hear many com-
Following is apartial list of came tinder scrutiny also in the
talks, working in this area yet, the in its action but I do think we' plaints on weights and grades.
testing is being conducted in should understand why this has In the•case of dressed weight.un- 1960 district fairs 'and exhibi-
tions: - - The meeting of executives of most of the townships simultan- been done. less you have the live weight
Sept:. 30, Oct. 1! farmers. Although there is no
Toronto (Royal Winter
Fair) Nov. 1.1 to 19 1
Walkerton Nov. 2, 3
Zurich Sept. 24 & 26
International. Plowing Match
Elgin: County — Springfield •
October 11 to 14
(All dates subject to correction)
Sow The Best' •
Sow Reg. No. 1
Seed
GENESEE
WHEAT
Whitney Coates, and Son, RR
1 Centralia, raptured 17 ribbons
at the Canadian Hereford cen-
tennial show at the CNE last
week.
Competing against over 400
entries from all across Canada,
as welt as from the U.K. and
U.S., the Centralia herd was in
the money in all. hut one class in
which it was entered,
Top prize was a second in the
senior calf competition with Hi
Lea Mice Verna 18N, which was
one of the 20 Canadian females
nominated for the auction sale
which followed the show,
Classes attracted as many as
70 entries in the outstanding live-
stock show of this year's exhi-
bition.
ling female and a junior calf occurred. In the U.S.,numbers and marketings of eef cattle
Keith Coates assisted his fa- are up. The outlook over there
h is for prices below those of to elp fami farmer Coates
last -
ther in visited with
the show
relatives
ring, Mr
at s. year for the rest of 1960." ly He notes that Chicago prices Mimico and attended the fair, Mr. and Mrs. Coates attended for good steers are down $3 per
hundred from what they were a For many years there has year ago; our prices are down
By CARL HEMINGWAY the banquet in the King Edward
Hotel which highlighted the cen- been little or no increase in the.
about $2 from what they were a _ Federation Fieldman
tennial celebration of the breed, production of Grade A hogs.' year ago. He believes that prices No doubt many" hog producers United States has been carrying
ter are expected C'heese prices frozen pork, however. The pros-' 4";•. Cheese stocks are UP 32%
ew premium on hog
General agreement was voiced
on the increasing need for far-I general farm organizations could
mer unity, at a special summit best serve Ontario farmers, and B rucellosis meeting recently between Onta- to discuss common goals of the
rio's two general farm organi-, On and the OFA.
zations,
The meeting was held in Tor-
onto, with all executive mem- the two organizations in certain Brucellosis control campaign 1 area
Farm federation, union
able drop from current prices.
agree on unity need
Agreement was also reached
on the duplication of effort by
The meeting was called prim-
arily to explore jointly how
Toronto will average about $23
per hundred this fall. He feels
poorer animals will show a size-
Moving on to hogs, Campbell
looks for a reduction in market-
ing right through to the middle
of 1961 with stren g prices
drive starts
List dates
of fall fairs
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Bayfield
BlYth '
Sept. 28, 29
Sept. 20, 21
Brussels Sept. 29, 30
Dungannon Oct. 7
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'Fordwich
Kincardine...
Kirkton
Listowel
Lucknow
Milverton
Mitchell
New Hamburg
Palmerston
St. Marys
Seaforth
Stratford
Tavistock
Teeswater
Sept. 27, 28
Sept. 16, 17
Oct. 5, 6
Oct, 7, 8
Sept. 22, 23
Sept. 19-21,
Sept. 9, 10
Oct. 4, 5
Sept. 15, 16 1 suggestion of merger of the two proceed as rapidly as possible.
Sept. 29, 30' organizations, another similar The testing will proceed in an
Sept. 26, 27 meeting was requested for the orderly f ashion in each town-Sept. 28, 29 :future, with no date set as yet. ship." Sept. 23, 241
the two organization's is signifi-
cant because it is the first time
the two groups have come , to-
gether to jointly examine the ills
of agriculture and to discuss
what, might be done to provide'
unified assistance to Ontario
eopusil. a y. First I think that the producers from a public, government in.
c t i s i n g veterinarians of most farm products will agree spected scale your organization
in the county are collecting that the government is not jus- can do nothing to get an, adjust.
blood samples from the cattle. tified in encouraging 'the produc- meat, In the case of grade it
Dr, MacLennan, commenting i ton of an inferior product by the, would he necessary for the hog
on the testing, said: "The co-' payment of premiums. There, producers to employ -check -gra-
operation of all livestock owners was a good deal of complaint ders.
is required, that the test may when the government main-1
tained a floor price for Grade B;
eggs. No doubt the same hasi Figures may not lie, but Susie:
been true for Grade B hogs says girdles certainly condense
though not needy' as strong. the truth.
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