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The Rural Voice, 1980-01, Page 3This month Special features Showing Supercow in Italy P 4 Farm wives in winter P. 8 The OFA Convention P. 10 Signs of the times P. 24 Winning milk recipes P. 31 A broom, a ball P. 34 Regular features Letters to the Editor P. 2 Farming in the past P. 7 Keith Roulston P. 12 The director says P. 13 Voice of a Farmer P 14 Up and Coming P. 16 Rural news in brief P. 18 Advice on farming P. 27 Mailbox of the month P. 30 Rural Voice want ads P 37 Perth Pork Producers P 38 Bruce Federation P 39 Huron Federation P. 40 Cover Photo of Seits deBoer and Phyllis McMichael who like to ski out and meet at the back fence on the deBoer farm near Bluevale for a cup of coffee before returning to their chores. (By Bev Brown) the rural Voice Published monthly by McLean Bros. Publishers Ltd., Box 10, Blyth, Ontario, NOM 1H0. Telephone 523-9646 or 527-0240. Subscription rates: Canada $3; Single copy 50c. Editorial Board: Bev Brown, Sheila Gunby, Alice Gibb, Rhea Hamilton, Adrian Vos and Susan White. Bruce Correspondent: Gisele Ireland. Advertising representative: Barbara Consitt, Telephone 527-0240. Staff reporter: Debbie Ranney. Authorized as second class malt by Canada Post Office. Registration number 3560. Inside the Rural Voice "Our family really likes Rural Voice but 1 haven't a clue why we get it." That's a comment we hear fairly often around our office or when we're representing the magazine at meetings. We've also had people who are already getting the magazine come in and take out an individual subscription because they didn't want to miss a copy. We thought the first issue of the a new decade might be a good time to set the record straight. Rural Voice is the farm magazine that focus es on the prime agricultural areas of Bruce, Huron and Perth counties. And although we have a good number of individual subscribers in all three areas (and a few in other parts of Canada and the U.S.) most of our readers receive the magazine as group subscribers. If you are a member of the Huron or the Bruce Federation of Agriculture, your Rural Voice subscription comes to you automatically. Rural Voice carries your organization's newsletter to members every month and the organization buys subscriptions to Rural Voice at a group rate. Now those of you who aren't individual subscribers at least know why Rural Voice turns up in your mail box every month. Whether you're a Huron or Bruce Federation member, or (new to Rural Voice this month) a Perth pork producer or an interested individual who subscribes or picks the magazine up at a newstand outlet, we hope you'll consider Rural Voice YOUR magazine. And whether you're reading your first copy of Rural Voice ever or you're a subscriber who's been with the magazine since its beginning five years ago, a happy and productive New Year to you from all of us at Rural Voice. Next month's issue of Rural Voice will feature eggs poultry with stories about the controversial chicken import problem and features on innovative egg producers in Bruce, Huron and Perth. Our Rural Family pages will have recipes from some of the terrific cookbooks that volunteer organizations around here have produced and a listing will tell you where you can buy a copy of each. As well we'll have a guest column written specially for Rural Voice by the new president of the OFA, Ralph Barrie. Welcome, Perth Pork Producers With this issue, our first in 1980, Rural Voice is pleased to welcome new subscribers, members of the Perth County Pork Producers' Associaton. Perth is theTirgest pork producing county in Ontario, the site every year of the big Pork Congress and co -host, with Oxford and Huron, of the annual Swine Symposium. Everyone in the county who ships pigs is automatically a member of the county association and is eligible to run for office. Every month the magazine will carry a newsletter from the county executive to members and individual producers are invited to make use of the page too by sending any information they want to share to Hans Feldman of the Communications Committee at RR 3, Listowel. All Perth County Pork Producers who ship more than 50 pigs a year will automatically receive Rural Voice every month. If you know of any Perth pork producer who is not receiving the magazine and would like it, please send the name to Mr. Feldman. All of us at Rural Voice welcome our new readers in Perth and hope you enjoy all of the magazine. Send your comments, story ideas, compliments and criticisms to Rural Voice, Box 10, Blyth, NOM IHO.