The Rural Voice, 1980-02, Page 3This month
Special features
Egg Producers P 4
Broiler Quota Question P 7
Egg Quota Question P. 8
Constructing a Poultry Barn P. 10
Ralph Barrie P. 11
Feeding a Family of Six P. 32
Regular features
Letters to the Editor P. 2
Farming in the Past P. 12
Wives in Winter P. 13
Keith Roulston P. 14
A Matter of Principle P. 14
Voice of Farmer P. 16
Rural Voice in Brief P 19
Advice on farming P. 26
The Rural Family P 30
The Young farmer P. 34
Up and Coming P 36
Rural Voice Want Ads P. 37
Perth Pork Producers P. 38
Bruce Federation P 39
Huron Federation P. 40
Cover Photo
Pieter Westerhout displays his method of
arranging cages in his poultry barn at his
farm at Whelan's Corners.
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Inside the Rural Voice
Eggs and chickens
While we don't try to get an answer to that age old question
"which comes first, the chicken or the egg?", we've covered a
lot of other ground in the chicken and egg industry in this
month's Rural Voice.
Rural Voice reporters talked to several innovative egg
producers around Western Ontario. We also got some opinions
on the importance of quota in both chicken and egg production.
Sheila Gunby of our staff talked to a couple of experts about
what's new in poultry barn construction.
Eggs and poultry are the focus of this February issue but
there's Tots else too. We're proud to have a guest column,
written exclusively for Rural Voice by the newly elected
president of the OFA, Ralph Barrie. And we welcome another
contribution from that Bruce County humorist Giselle Ireland
who tells what happened when she followed a magazine's plan
for "feeding a family of six for $36.65."
Thenwe've finally got a list of locally compiled cookbooks,
telling you where they are available and sampling recipes from
same.
Next month Rural Voice looks at the computer on the farm.
Probably the most unusual item in this month's Rural Voice is
a short, unsolicited one. It's a letter from a Russian agricultural
library, in Moscow yet, asking for a sample copy of Rural Voice.
We may want to subscribe, they say.
A couple of days after the copy was duly sent off by Laurel
Glousher in the Blyth office, Alice Gibb of our editorial board
thought of what we should have done: Refused to send Rural
Voice until the Russians pulled their troops out o f Afghanistan.
Try our free classified
"We know Rural Voice classified ads work but why don't
people use them more?
That's the question one person asked when those of us who
write for Rural Voice had a think tank (really an excuse to get
together socially) recently.
And it's a good one. From personal experience or from
comments from readers the odd time we know the classified ads,
which go into thousands of farm homes in Bruce, Huron and
Perth do bring results. And the price is right. . .they're free.
But still we get only five or six an issue, often from repeaters,
who've learned we guess that they'll reach the right buyers or
sellers through Rural Voice.
Maybe people think Rural Voice classified aren't any good
because they're free, we've wondered. Could be but we've
decided to leave them that way and try and do a better job of
blowing our own horn.
That's why you'll likely see sheets offering free Rural Voice
classified at farm meetings you attend over the next few months.
We hope you'll pick some up and use them.
To go over the ground rules, Rural Voice classifieds are free
for personal, non-commercial ads only. Businesses can advertise
on the classified page too, at our regular rates. If you're in doubt
about whether your ad is commercial or not, send it in anyway
and our ad rep will call you if it doesn't qualify as a freebie.
There's a coupon on page 37 for your free Rural Voice
classified ad. So clean out the attic or the barn and turn
unwanted stuff into cash.
Then a few more people will know Rural Voice classified ads
really do work.