Times-Advocate, 1986-04-23, Page 10d
TRADE SHOW — Municipal politicians and roads department personnel from nine counties toured the
exhibits set up by about 80 suppliers in the first-ever trade show organized by Huron County road
superintendents and held at the Stanley Complex.
Farm safety
WI concern
Farm Safety has always been high
on the priority list of all Women's In-
stitute Branches, whether is passing
resolutions such as the two passed at
the Annual Board Meeting of
Federated Women's Institutes of On-
tario last year.
The first asking that legislation be
introduced that all types of existing
and future farm manure holding
tanks have adequate safety precau-
tions maintained at all times. The se-
cond resolution asks that the Ministry
of Natural Resources strenghten the
rights of landowners in rural areas
under the Trespass to Property Act
by forbidding persons from hunting
game from roadsides in rural and
agricultural areas.
Another method is by having
speakers and programs at local
branch level on safety. Some of these
in the past year included: water safe-
ty, the proper use and how to handle
sharp knives, handling chemicals,
electrical hazards and precautions to
take with electricity, C.P.R. course
and tips on what to do in an emergen-
cy, the use of pesticides and toxic
gases such as those created by silos
and manure pits, safety in the home,
in farm buildings and around
machinery. If farm safety is one of
your concerns join a Women's In-
stitute branch and find out more.
Many districts have W.I. represen-
tatives on their local county Farm
Safety councils. In some cases it is the
work of the W.I. members that are
keeping these councils going. W.I.
members are helping both financial
and also aid in putting on workshops.
Whether you are a person who lives
in a farm house, a child attending
school, an active farmer, or some one
in the agricultural business the
Women's Institute has your safety in
mind, whether by resolutions, pro-
grams, committee work, workshops
or competitions.
Farmfety is another aspect of
how Womn's Institute is assisting the
rural community.
We can all learn something from the
parrot, which is content to repeat
what it hears without trying to make
a good story out of it.
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Superintendents' show
is unqualified success
Huron County's first-ever road
equipment trade show was an un-
qualified success, drawing about 800
municipal politicians and road
department personnel from 11 sur-
rounding counties to the grounds and
work garage at the Stanley Complex
where $2,000,000 in machinery and
equipment from 83 exhibitors was on
display.
According to Stephen township
superintendent Eric Finkbeiner,
secretary treasurer of the Huron
County Roads Superintendents
Association, the idea of a municipali-
ty hosting such a trade show was first
raised at an Association meeting a
year ago. Members of the executive
began organizing the unique event in
January. Other planning committee
members were then president Jim
DEMONSTRATION — Beth Cooper demonstrates how to prepare a calf for show to Hensall Co' If Club
members Hugh Norris (left) Anne Kerslake, Scott Lobb, Jennifer Hargreaves and Erin McNaughton. The
Club met in Hargreave's.barn; 46 calves will be shown and sold at the Hensall Fair on June 14.
The right hand obviously does not
know what the left hand doeth.
Here we have an American -based
company, Dreamstreet Holsteins
Canada Ltd., applying for and getting
a Scientific Research Tax Credit for
what can only be termed a ques-
tionable project in the minds of a lot
of people whilte either agricultural
researchers in Canada are crying for
funds.
It does not seem right.
You are familiar with the story, I'm
sure. All the big papers have been
carrying an inning -by -inning account
of the project. Dreamstreet is in the
midst of purchasing 1,000 red .and
white Holsteins and 1,000 black -and -
white Holsteins. Over a 10 -year
petiod, the research will try to deter-
mine which herd gives the most milk
and the best milk, the red or the black
herd.
I can remember when the "red"
factor was hotly discussed among
dairymen. It was not until 1969 that
purebred red and white calves got in-
to the registry books. The Daddy of
most of them was Rosafe Citation R.
Citation's daughters were great
producers but not better than a great
many other studs in this country.
Does the color of a father's skin
mean he will be a better father? Does
a brunette make a better mother than
a redhead?
Of course, you cannot compare peo-
ple and cattle but the idea of the
research seems to make about as
much sense to me as comparing
mothers who are Indian and black.
How the Dreamstreet company got
permission for the research project in
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the first place is a mystery to me.
Milk producers should be culling or
keeping cattle for other reasons. Hide,
color has little to do with production
although red -and -whites are not doing
as well as black -and -whites at this
point but that is because reds were be-
ing kept and bought just because they
were red -and -white -- or had the red
factor in their lineage - not because
they were good producers.
In the beginning, the reds were
weeded out. Then, when they were
allowed into the record books,
everybody wanted one and some poor
producers were kept. It seems that
simple to me. I am of the opinion that
most dairy farmers now see no point
in comparing the two colors. They
compare production records, mother-
ing qualities and health instead of
color.
The whole Dreamstreet thing
smacks of opportunism. To be fair,
Frank Wood of Walton, N.Y., an of-
ficer of the company, maintains the
project will search out the subtle dif-
ferences and trace traits that are not
now available from computer data.
Liberal farm critic Maurice Foster
has called on the federal government
to cancel the $10 -million tax credit to
Dreamstreet. In the House of Com-
mons he called the project phoney
research and "obviously a tax scam."
What scares me even more than the
millions of dollars in tax credits is the
size of the operation. A 2,000 head
herd can produce enough milk to
throw the Ontario Milk Marketing
Board's quota system for a loop. I
can't see the board allowing such a
high quota to be bought by one com-
pany and a Yankee one at that. Board
rules do not allow any farmer or com-
pany to hold more than 5,000 litres of
daily quota and that is the amount of
milk from about 250 good, purebred
Holsteins.
If Dreamstreet gets enough quota,
it could put even more dairy farmers
out of business in this country.
Even if they get it through rental
units, it is too much for one company.
But isn't it a little bit like asking
whether a zebra is black with white
stripes or white with black stripes?
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Conpa1ufa1ioni
To chairman Dirk Coolman and the rest of the Optimist
members for organizing a great Home and Garden Show.
Winner of Interest on One Million dollars for a day was
Gail Stubbe from Waterloo.
Other winners of Credit Union gifts were:
M.F. DeBruyn, Exeter
Shelley Parsons, Huron Park
Ron Bowers, Crediton
Steve Moeller, London
Doug Sweet, Exeter
Fred Steciuk, Exeter
Allan Brand, Crediton
Mabel McKnight, Exeter
Doris Osgood, Exeter
Gary Allen, London
Anne MacVicar, Hensall
Marie Stahlbourn, Grand Bend
Mrs. P. Morrison, Huron Park
Erin Bowers, Crediton
Clinton Community
Credit Union Ltd.
Clinton
482-3467
Exeter
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Hunter, Ashfield; current president
Harold Gibbings, Clinton; 1st vice
president Rick Palliate, Bayfield;
McKillop superintendent Wayne
Dolmage, Huron County rep to the
Ontario Road Superintendents
Association; George Haggitt, past
president and Huron County road
department employee working out of
Zurich; Bill Taylor representing the
boat township and Tom Day from
Pollard Brothers Highway Products.
Finkbeiner said he has heard
nothing but favourable comments.
Some suppliers said the local trade
showsupplied better coverage than
either the Good Roads convention or
the Toronto equipment show.
Now that Huron has taken the lead,
other. counties are considering the
possibility of bating a similar show
on an annual basis, with a different
county playing host each year.
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