The Wingham Advance-Times, 1965-07-08, Page 10Page 2-Wingham ,Advance -Times, Thursday, July 8, 1965
Oxford Formers
First to Merge
With U.C.O.
A major decision, and one
that could have far-reaching
effects on farm people through-
out this province, was made
June 24 by a group of farmers
in Woodstock. The sharehold-
ers in the Oxford Fanners' Co-
operative voted 119 to none to
surrender their charter and
merge their organization with
the United Co-operatives of
Ontario.
Oxford Farmers' is the first
large co-operative to merge
with UCO in a direct member-
ship program which was inaug-
urated earlier this year. This
program of reorganization and
consolidation was initiated be-
cause of the increasing de-
mands for service created by
the rapid changes in farming
and modern business techniques
Born well before the depres-
sion, Oxford Fanners' has suc-
ceeded in building assets of
over $1 million in patronage
dividends. The Co-operative is
in a strong financial position
but was faced with major ex-
pansion requirements. A re -or-
ganization with UCO was felt
to be the best solution.
The United Co-operatives
of Ontario has functioned as
the supplier for the local co-
operatives. UCO is a major
manufacturer of feed and fer-
tilizer, a handler of grain, a
marketer of livestock and poul-
try, a wholesale for hardware,
appliances and farm supplies,
and a distributor of petroleum
products. UCO is owned by
135 local co-operatives and
individual shareholders of local
co-ops who have become
shareholders of UCO when their
local co-op merged.
An additional ten local co-
operatives are engaged in
studying the advantages of
merger and could become di-
rect members in the near fu-
ture if the members approve,
May Harvest Hay
On Rights of Way
Owing to the serious drought
throughout many parts of the
province, particularly in the
Ottawa Valley and sections of
Eastern Ontario, which is re-
sulting in an emergency condi-
tion insofar as fodder shortage
is concerned, The Honourable
C. S. MacNaughton, Minister
of Highways, has issued in-
structions to the effect that
farmers are to be allowed to
cut and harvest hay on high-
way rights-of-way wherever
the operation can be undertak-
en safely. Farmers will be con-
tacted by Department repre-
sentatives in all districts and
personally advised of this offer.
NOTICE TO DESTROY
NOXIOUS
WEEDS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to
property owners in urban and sub -divided
areas to destroy all Noxious Weeds as
often as necessary in each season, to
prevent their going to seed.
Also after July 10, 1965, proceedings
will be taken to destroy Noxious Weeds
in accordance with the Weed Control
Act.
ALEX CHESNEY
Huron County Weed Inspector
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CELEBR
THE
ATE
Glorious Twelfth
IN WINGHAM
Orange Lodges from Huron, Perth and Bruce
Counties will parade in Wingham on
SATURDAY, JULY 10th
PARADE AT 1:30 P.M.
ADDRESSES AT TOWN PARK
MIDWAY •CHICKEN BARBECUE
DANCE IN ARENA
PUPILS OF S. S. 8, East Wawanosh in 1919,
Front: Blair Gibbons, deceased, Bruce
Chamney, dec., Lewis Bone, Alex Menzies
of St. Marys, Harvey Stapleton. Second
row: Beryl Cunningham, (Mrs. Eldon Kir-
ton of Bluevale), Myrtle Leishman (Mrs.
Fred Barker of Goderich), Annie McDow-
ell, dec., Angela Gibbons (Mrs. O'Hagan of
Jamestown, N.Y.), Jessie Menzies (Mrs.
Greer of Streetsville), Blanche Cunningham
(Mrs. Courtland Kerr, Benmiller), Zora
Bolt (Mrs. Harold Cook, Blyth), Dorothy
Logan (Mrs. Cliff Logan, Belgrave). Third
row: Lauretta McBurney of Calgary, Ev-
elyn Gibbons (Sister M. Irenita of Wood-
stock), Ruth Menzies, Toronto, Teacher
Miss Laura Currie (Mrs. O'Brien, dec.),
Beatrice Leishman (Mrs. Percy Barker of
Goderich), Gwendolyn McDowell (Mrs.
Shouldice, Cooksville). Absent when photo
was taken: Arnold Vint of Goderich, Alex
McBurney and Clarke Johnston, both of
Belgrave.
—Photo, Mrs. C. Logan.
Some Mushrooms
Found on Lawns
Most lawns produce a few
mushrooms from time to time.
They may be unsightly; they
make a good meal; they may
also cause illness when eaten,
and, on that account, they are
a worry to parents whose child-
ren might eat them.
Dr.J. Walton Groves ofCDA's
Research Branch, says the fairy
ring mushroom --so called be -
Enter Contest to
Brighten County
For International
The Huron County Federa-
tion of Agriculture has volun-
teered to be the sponsoring
body of the Farmstead and
Rural Improvement Centennial
project, combined with the
competition supported by the
local committee of the Inter-
national Plowing Match 1966.
C. H. Thomas of Brussels is
chairman of this event with
Gordon Elliott as vice chairman
and Bob Henry as secretary.
Copies of rules and regula-
tions have been sent to the
township chairmen. Chairmen
in this part of the county are
for Howick, Jack Ferguson, R.
R.1, Clifford; Morris, Ted Fear,
R. R. 5, Brussels; Turnberry,
Cedric Moffatt, Wingham;
West Wawanosh, Murray Wil-
son, R. R. 2, Auburn; East Wawa -
nosh, Robert Henry, Blyth.
It has been recommended
that before and after pictures
be taken by the individual and
the suggested size is 31 x 5
inches.
It is hoped that each town-
ship will have at least 20 en-
trants. The contest will centre
on a township basis with a
champion and reserve champ-
ion selected to compete for
county honors.
Entries will he accepted up
to September 1. Contact your
township chairman, or the De-
partment of Agriculture office
in Clinton for complete details
on the project.
cause it grows in circular pat-
ches --is one of the commonest
lawn mushrooms and fortunately
it's one of the best for eating.
It can be cooked fresh or dried
for future use. The fairy ring
cap is up to two inches across,
buff -colored, and flat except
for a bulge in the center. Gills
are whitish buff.
Beware of another mushroom
that sometimes grows along
with the fairy ring. It is white
or grayish white and has numer-
ous narrow gills set closely to-
gether. It can cause acute dis-
comfort if eaten.
The glistening inky cap is a
lawn mushroom that grows
where wood has been buried. It
may appear in great numbers
in successive crops following
wet periods. The fruit bodies
are up to two inches across,
somewhat bell shaped, ochre -
tan fading to white in color and,
when young, covered with glis-
tening particles. The gills are
white when the plant is young.
Closely related to this species
are the common inky cap and
shaggy mane mushroom. The
former is larger and fleshier and
is gray. Shaggy mane has tall,
barrel-shaped fruit bodies cov-
ered with shaggy scales. The
caps of all three can be eaten
when they are young and white;
later they dissolve into an inky
fluid and are both inedible and
unsightly.
The beautiful pure -white
smooth Lepiota which has a
ring or annulus around its stem
makes good eating but it should
not be taken by the amateur
because it so closely resembles
the deadly poisonous "destroy-
ing angel". The latter is ordin-
arily found only in the woods
but if woodland soil has been
used in making the lawn, this
and other unexpected species
of mushrooms may appear.
There are three brown to
yellowish small mushrooms
without common names that
often grow on lawns and are
eaten by small children, gen-
erally with no ill effects. One
is about an inch broad, convex,
smooth or sometimes breaking
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into patches. The gills are
dark brown to purplish black.
Another, about the same size,
is flatter but more yellow-
brown with dull -brown gills.
The third is strongly conical,
very fragile, whitish buff and
the gills are crisped and inter -
veined.
Dr. Walton Groves points out
that the chances of children be-
ing poisoned by eating 'lawn'
mushrooms is slight but for
them, as well as for adults, it
is best only to eat species that
can be identified as edible.
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