The Lucknow Sentinel, 1978-01-04, Page 14.
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anadian sheep inchistry'xieecis
• "What the Canadian ' $heeP
Industry needs is a large source of
good commercial sheep and it just
does mit havp that," says Woody
Lambe, past president of the
Western Ontario Sheep Associa-
tion.. "..The. farmer can buy
Western• ewes and therare good
producing,. Sheep With .a superior
• ool to mutton sheep usually kept
• in arable areas, bilt," says
Woody, "they. are not the. whole
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Ofteda farmer buying:into the
• industry is stung. He j?uys sheep,
that are old?, inferior, or •a group.
that wak.sulled from the . west
becadse they could not keep utrto
the distance aspects of grazing of
he may biiy into di-seaSel.
"For my purpose," says Woo-
' dy, "I would like to be involved in
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producing. 'a good "cb•mmer-Cial .
sheep which would work for our
part of, the country here,"
- Woody sees the industry': is
polarizing about where it .is fl�w
and possibly increasing a bit. The.
'number of. small • flocks „ will go
down and the number of large
flocks will increase so there are
fewer- flocks but more sheep in
the flocks., • - •
"Basically, I would like to ,see
more flocks'of sheep Committed to
producing Commercial sheep and
I would like to see it made 'Viable
for. the. farmer, to make this
coMmitnent," -say § Woody. •
To do that, the farmerhas to -
have two breeds of sheep. He has -
to maintain kith Breetds, maintain .
ewes and rams .for both, and
make sure they don't get mixed.
For the farmer" to do this; the
effort must bemade.'worthwhile,
and at the present time, the
industry does .. not •. have. the
stimulus to pay the extra indney
f• or goodcomniercial lambs, .
"The sheep industry is lilFe the
whooping crane," says Woody,
`-tles-cotne to Such small ironbers
that g!ttirtg- it back to its -original.
• population, or getting it back to -
the population you'dlike to see,
has all kinds of problems."
Like the crane too, there is the
situation where there are so few
breeds .of sheep- that you can't
help but inbreed, . no -matter
where the farmer goes to,• buy a
ram. •
Small numbers and inbreeding
areonly .twio of the problems
which seriodsly affect the indust -
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ry in Ontario. Two definite OW * Tonto Ethnic • -Market
. problems. which are the major has stimulated or maintained a lot
ignificance' in this part of the of sheep which might otherwise---
coantry are predators and the have been, dumfied. Sine econ-,
Toronto Ethnic' Market:, oinicsdictate that the farmer send
"This area is. suffering from ; an his Jai -0s4° this early. market, the
• increasing predatbr 'problem 'de- t industry is affected in several
spite what the lirolf league of ways. • . '
Ontario says. There aren't less The farmer does not :have the
coyotes in this country, now, there tune to select replacemptits. The
are more,' says Woody, "There fastest growing lambs are, the
seem to .be more wild dog; .and ones which areready for the early
more stray dogs as' well." - market and,they are probably the „
"It's like a jiiane crash. when replacements which the farmer
dogs$ your flock and, tear them shodld keep for breeding.*
up and the ones they don't injure, ' "If the farmer could keep his%
if they are in lamb, they'll cause fastest groAring lambs and sell
half of them to abort. This is so them for $80 to $90 as breeding
depressing when you've worked stock, that's financially cask- ,
hard to get a good, flock going and able," says Woody, "but if the
you. are hit by predators." - industry does not have • the'
Because the prices are so high,
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WELMRSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1978
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Lucknow Reeve George Joynt
4.0d -Councillor Ab *Murray Voted'.
'against a Motion passed bi-
LuCknow Village gothic& to hife
Robert Symes for snow removal
until the spring of 1978 at an
increased rate, when they met in.
, regular session on December 13,
- 1977'..,
Symes is t be paid $1.50 more
p -.ii • each of last . year's rates
,bringing the rates 'to $16.50 for
iraii-r$19.50. for the 2 yard
loader, . -
county engineer and the Council
at a special meeting in. January or
#•ebruary,
Council agreed to support a
• resolution from the town - of.
• Collingwood that the death pp.- • -
alty be re-iilstated in- Canada by
the federal overnment. •
• Reeve Joynt said that he voted
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against. the . motion because .
council vOted ta-pay_Symes more. • _
money . than it cost for. slow - 0 •
removallast year and council * ' •
should---have-called-,4enders--for_ ' •
' snow rerno'Valr before deciding to , •
hire Syines. , •
cause some of the councillors .
.Some confusion resulted be- -1,-, rap
thought that the hiring for snow • .
irwiccraii waterlevel-iirthe-tucknoW--------- •
',e....C• the whole year. Reeve Joynt Swimming Pool at Caledonian
'stated that it was from fall to Park was still dropping when Bill .
'spring only. • Hunter- J.ast checked the pool .
Councillor Hamilton suggested before the pool's protective cover
that .tenders.-sbould-be-called-hr-driftee,didti1 ice an snow.
the fall for snow removal. Hunter was recording a 3 -inch
•drop' in the water level each $eek
11 dr mites up, .• when he asked local scuba divers,
Ken ,Johnstone and Rod MeDon-
igh to dive down to the bottom of
In other business Lucknow the deep end to clitck the three .
Hydro' has applied to Ontario hydro-sitatic valves at the end *of
Hydro to raise their rates because Noveniber. .
the bulk hydro rate to the town • After the men checked .the
has been increased , by Ontario valves the water level was
Hydro. The amount of the rate dropping 1 -inch a week. instead of .
increase is subject. to approval by the previous 3 -inches per Week.
Ontario Hydro * Hunter said that he filled the
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Gerrie „Glenn and Barry; .114c. pool with water and if the pool
Donagh asked ,couticil to inform • continues to lose only 1 -inch a
them about the Ministry of week, he hope S that spring will,
Transportation_and_Cominunica.- come in .„March-before....theLpoor3
tion.standards, that must be met reaches the danger-poith where
to construct roads to develop the damage will be done to the pool
property ofi Albert Street be.: liner.
tween Rose and Hamilton Streets; linker said that the hydro-
, Glenn • and Mctionagh require 'Static valves should be checked
• grants from MTC tO develop .the periodically and that the, 'Valves in '
property and must meet MTC , the tucknow pool have not been
standards to, qualify, checked for two years. ' The
Council decided that Glentijand shuation require attention in
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Sheila•ounby;12., R. 1 1)upgannoit, Uses lOcatelayS as grazes whici vary hi colourlitom light tan to red On.
' her pottery 'Which she niakes in her own."pottery place" hi the basenient of her home. She prepares,a shp
' of the clay b mixing it with water after sieving out twigs and grass. She then brushes the slip, ontO, the
pot before the first firing. She has fouid a pure clay where a neighbour built a silo and anothgt clay ,she
• uses as a glaze She found iti a brickyar Benmiller. She also digs for clay in gulleys' along Lite Huron.
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(Stoty. and pidtures on page .1• 2.) McDonagh should meet with the the spriYVUA ng he said.-
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