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Bred for Traditional Meat Type
and High Production
1937 - 1997
*60 YEARS OF COMMITMENT
TO THE BREED'
Ram and ewe lambs available - some
with Scottish Suffolk bloodlines
Lambs superior for:
- Thickness - Leanness -
- Rapid Growth - Bone -
- Superior Feed Efficiency -
• R.O.P. home tested
• Closed Flock
Don & Florence Pullen
BOX 715,
CLINTON, ONTARIO NOM 1L0
PHONE/FAX: (519) 233-7896
HIGH QUALITY
SHEEP HANDLING &
FEEDING EQUIPMENT
OFF THE GROUND
BALE FEEDER
• FOOTBATH
• PANELS & GATES
• WORKING CIRCLES & ALLEYS
• GRAIN & HAY FEEDERS
• SALT & MINERAL FEEDERS
Ja REID
Manufacturing & Sales Ltd.
R.R. 1 MOOREFIELD,
ONT. NOG 2K0
(519) 638-3551
32 THE RURAL VOICE
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HOG & SHEEP SCALE
• Perforated plastic floor
• Heavy duty Detecto scale head
• Capacity to 400 lbs.
• Pneumatic tires
• Both doors open from same end, shorter
wheel base for easier manoeuvrability
Model with Detecto scale head or
Model EPN 500 electronic available
A division of Steve's Welding
R.R. 1, Newton, Ont. NOK 1R0
519-595-8025
CANADIAN
CO-OPERATIVE
WOOL GROWERS
LIMITED
Now Available
ADVANCE PAYMENTS
400 per pound
* Skirted Fleeces
* Well -Packed Sacks
For more information contact:
WINGHAM
WOOL DEPOT
John Farrell
R.R. 2, Wingham, Ontario
Phone/Fax 519-357-1058
the point where you have to pay for
all the inputs, it forces you to a size
where you can pay for the inputs."
You can't, for instance, own a
quarter of a baler, he says.
"Traditionally, a sheep is a
converter of roughage (grass and
hay) into meat and fibre," Logan
says. In Australia and New Zealand,
for instance, there is very little input
cost as vast numbers of sheep roam
vast acreages of grassland. The new
"high technology" methods moving
into the Ontario industry increases
costs for housing, feed, and labour.
"Even though your lambing
percentage goes way up, the care
needed limits the size of your flock."
The technology is so expensive, he
"Traditionally, a sheep is a
converter of roughage into
meat and fibre."
says, it's still a question as to
whether the added income can
support the increased expenses.
But if sheep management is
different in Ontario than elsewhere,
so is the market for lamb. The
multicultural society of Ontario's
cities that has resulted from wave
after wave of immigration since
World War II, has created a unique
market — perhaps the strongest in
the world. As consumption of lamb
declined among Canadians of British
ancestry, a new market was born with
the influx of new Canadians from
Greece and Italy. Central European
arrivals also had a preference for
lamb. While the Chinese wave of
immigration hasn't affected the lamb
market, large numbers of Muslims
have strengthened the market for
mature sheep. More people in the
worldeat lamb than any other meat,
he points out.
But while each country where
lamb is traditional fare tends
to have standards, Ontario's
mix of different cultures creates
something entirely different.
"The lamb market is rather
fascinating," Logan says. Each group
brings its own preferences and the
religious holidays at which lamb is
the centrepiece vary with the origins
of the consumer. There's a market
around the western Christian holiday
of Easter, then another for Eastern
Orthodox Easter. Muslims have their