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GROWER INFORMATION MEETING — A Growers' Information Meeting sponsored by W.G. Thompson ltd. and
held in the Hensall Community Centre was attended by approximately 200 people. A get-together at the dinner
break included Lloyd Whitesell, (left) manager of the Hensall branch, office manager Gail Skinner, farmers
Gordon Prance, Woodham and Bill Bell, Hensall, sales rep Rick Ingram and assistant manager Bob Voir.
Files focuses on garbage
Hauling out the garbage,
most of us groan, is a chore,
a bore and waste of energy.
What most of us do not
realize, however, is that
throwing away such garbage
also literally costs us money
in lost energy.
"Money to Burn?", an
award-winning 28 -minute film
produced for the Ontario
Ministry of Energy, focuses
on just this problem. It shows
how we can save money by
converting what we normally
throw away - garbage,
sawmill waste and even
manure - into useful energy.
Made to appeal to a general
audience, the film hi>zhliehts
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from waste products.
These include garbage in-
cineration to provide steam
for industry, recovery of
methane gas from land -fill
sites, recovery of waste -wood
products from forestry and
sawmill operations, use
ofdead wood from woodlots
and production of methane
from cattle -farm manure.
The film is a part of an
ongoing program at the
Ministry to promote the
potential of alternative and
renewable energy sources in
Ontario. The Ministry's goal
for Ontario is to replace with
such sources at least 20
million cubic feet of imported
oil by 1995.
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provincial government.
The film will be included, in
the fall of 1984, in a 10 -part
series on TV -Ontario,
"Energy, Search for an
Answer"..
"Money to Burn?" was pro-
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film or a 3/4" videotape may
be borrowed, free of charge,
from: City Films Distribu-
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Quilting Bees
name officers
Hurondale IV, the Quilting
Bees, have held their first
three meetings. The leaders
of this club are Mary DeBoer,
and Gail Holliday and presi-
dent is Shery1 DeBoer.
The girls have made a
quilting sample and a string
quilting sample to date and
hope to learn more before this
club is through.
They have also learned
about different, types and
sizes of prints in order to help
in their samples and free
choice article.
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Huron `Farm and Home news
Times -Advocate, March 7, 1984
John Bancroft is new form management
We are.JmoA to announce
We pleased to announce
that John Bancroft has been
appointed to the Agircultural
Representatives Branch as
Farm Management Specialist
for Huron Count, effective
February 1, 1984.
John is a native of Perth
County where his family
operate a purebred Yorkshire
breeding herd. He is a
graduate of Listowel District
Secondary School, and Perth
County 4-H program, and
received his Bachelor of
Science in Agriculture at
O.A.C. in Animal Science in
1981.
He joined the Ontario
Ministry of Agriculture and
Food in 1981 as an Assistant
Agricultural Representative
in Prince Edward County and
later transferred to Carleton
County. He has been in Huron
County since June of 1983 as
the Rural Organization
Specialist (Agriculture).
He is succeeding Stan Pa-
quette who recently was ap-
pointed to Brant County as
Agricultural Representative.
John will be working in the
area of Farm Business
Management with an ex-
phasis on beef and swine ad-
visory services.
It is expected that a suc-
cessor for John in R.O.S.
(Agriculture) will be ap-
pointed in the near future.
Don Pullen
Agricultural Representative
for Huron County.
Beginning farmer
The Beginning Farmer
Assistance Program has
become retroactive to
January 1, 1983. A farmer
who has arrapged a loan at
terms other than a five year
fixed rate or has a loan with
a non -approved lender, is still
eligible for the rebate. The ap-
plicant must indicate his/her
intent to enroll in the program
prior to April 30, 1984. He/she
will then have until August 31,
1984 to arrange a five-year
fixed rate loan with an ap-
proved lender.
Brochures on the program
are available from some
banks, Farm Credit Corpora -
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We loot in the
sati
I `r(ilo, olYw"
. This battle about butter is
becoming bitter.
,The Dairy Bureau of
anada is fighting back
against a campaign by
Fleischmann's margarine
which links heart attacks with
butter consumption. The
advertisements are based on
media reports of a 10 -year
study of 3,806 men prepared
by Lipid Research Clinic.
The media reports are be-
ing quoted by the
Fleischmann company:
"Canadians who want to
lower the risk of heart disease
or a heart attack should start
cutting back on butter, bacon
and animal fats in their diet".
So said the lead paragraph of
a Globe and Mail story about
the research report.
Although the Globe is sup-
posed to be a Canadian na-
tional newspaper, such
reports are usually quoted for
sensationalism and not for ac-
curacy. The Globe is,
understandably, an urban -
oriented newspaper. Taking
the farmers' viewpoint is not
good for circulation.
To combat the
Fleischmann campaign, the
dairy bureau's advertisemen-
ta are headlined with
"Fleischmann's are wrong."
Both protagonists quote the
same survey to back up their
claims. Ironically, both offer
• to send copies of the survey
to those interested in reading
It.
Which just shows to go you
that statistics can be inter-
preted in whatever manner
you choose.
The dairy bureau has even
complained to the national
Advertising Standards Coun-
cil. Claude Chevalier, presi-
dent of. the bureau, said he
finds it upsetting that com-
panies will manipulate
research data to serve their
commercial interests.
He quotes food and drug
regulations as a reason for the
complaint. The regulations
state that "no person shall in
advertising...make any
representations, general and
specific, respecting the fatty
acid or cholesterol content of
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See what I mean about the
battle becoming bitter?
Robert Alain, director of
marketing for Nabisco,
Fleischmann's parent com-
pany, has countered by
stating the deeper issue at
stake is "the idea of diet in
long-term health."
I don't know which side is
right in this issue. I do know
that the old slogan used some
years ago by the dairy in-
dustry that everything's bet-
ter with butter still holds true
for me. No matter how hard
I have tried, I still cannot
equate the taste of butter with
margarine. Butter is better
tasting for me no matter what
I'm eating.
In fact, the dairy industry
makes a tankfull of money
from me every year. I drink
a couple of quarts -- oops,
litres -- of milk every day. I
splash my toast with butter
and anything cooked in or
coated with butter tastes Net-
ter to me.
I should add here, though,
that I also love Nabisco
shredded wheat, especially
when it's eaten dry and
smeared with butter.
Sound yacky to you? Try it -
if you like both shredded,
wheat and butter.
It seems to me, though, that
these ad campaigns where
another product is dumped
upon do little for anyone in-
volved. When Coke and Pep-
si went head to head it was
amusing for a while. Now, it
is disgusting.
Why can't all products be
advertised strictly on their
own merits without getting in-
to childish, confusing and
sometimes erroneous
accusations?.
Remember when you were
a kid and the arguments
started? No you can't. Yes; I
can. No, you can't. Yes, I can.
The petty foolishness became
ridiculous.
These advertising cam-
paigns strike me as just as
childish. Unfortunately,
millions of dollars are being
spent on this foolishness and
the consumer is the. loser.
tion, and the Ontario Ministry
of Agriculture and Food of-
fice, Clinton.
Don Pullen
Agricultural Representative
for Huron County
4-11 Personal finance
To help young people learn
about personal money
management, the Rural
Organizations and Services
Branch of the Ontario
Ministry of Agriculture and
Food is offering a new 4-H
project in 1984 called Per-
sonal Finance.
Personal Finance will focus
on the needs of senior 4-11
members who will be moving
away from home in the next
few years of members who
are already living on their
own.
The six meetings in the club
will each focus on a different
topic. They include finding a
place to live, financial plann-
ing, banking, credit and con-
sumer rights and
responsibilities.
Meeting one looks at renting
a place to live, landlord te-
nant relations and choosing a
room mate. Meetings two and
three deal with making a net
worth statement. Planning
for large expenditures is also
included.
Investing your money and
banking will be studied at
meeting four, while meeting
five deals with your credit
rating and how to obtain a
loan. The final meeting
discusses consumer rights
and responsibilities, how to
complain. effectively and
what happens in small claims
court.
Meetings are designed to in-
clude discussion of related
material and activities which
will reinforce information
learned. There will be several
chances to invite community
professionals into meetings to
act as a resource on banking,
rental agreements and use of
credit.
If you or someone in your
family would like to learn
about Personal Finance. why
not join a local 4-H club which
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4-11 gardening...
Learning to plant and care
for a garden will be the focal
point of a new 441 project on
gardening.
The project will also cover
home and farm beautification
which will help Ontario to look
its best as it celebrates its
200th birthday in 1984.
Members will learn how to
best use the land in their
garden for the produce or
flowers they want to grow.
Soil sampling and testing will
be done to show the young
gardeners how tkgy can im-
prove the growth of their
plants.
Solving weed and insect
problems and caring for
lawns and shrubs will be
covered in the club. Members
will also learn how to exhibit
their vegetables.
Members maychoose what
is grown in their garden. They
must grow one new vegetable
which they have never
cultivated before.
Senior members will be en-
couraged to start some peren-
vial plants like a rose garden,
a grapevine or rhubarb.
The home and farm
beautification section will in-
volved taking "before" and
"after" photographs.
Most clubs will start in
April and finish at an
Achievement Day where
members will display the
"fruits of their labour."
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specialist
Everyone will be interested
n the 4-H Gardening Club. For
more informa tion, contact the
Ontario Ministry of
Agriculture and Food in Clin-
ton at 482-3428.
Jane Mugge
Rural Organizations
Specialist
(Home Economics)
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