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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1979-01-25, Page 29Advertising is difficult.to gauge. Ycu can spend many millions telling the world about your product and never know how much those dollars bring in ac- tual new business. About the only definite statement that can be made is that advertising in today's business world is a necessity. Which brings us to the $5 million being spent in Canada topromote butter. Butter is better in my view. I love the stuff. I spread it so thick on toast that the bread gets soggy. I love to see it ooze right through to the plate under the slice. A sandwich of any kind without butter just isn't a sand- wich. I am without a doubt, a butter -lover and believe that campaign a few years back with slogan that e5erything is better with butter. Now, after 30 years of taking a beating from margarine. butter producers have decided to fight back in earnest. The nation's 67,000 dairy farmers will finance the campaign, of course, and the promotion of cheese, sour cream. yogurt and skim milk powder will be included. Maybe it is too late. Dairymen should have been promoting butter. at least 20 years ago. even 30, when use of 'margarine became legal: Butter is being priced right off the market and the mar- garine -makers are chuckling with glee. Even now, margarine has 60 per cent of the spread mar- ket. And that spread will get larger because the price of but- ter went up this month'to around $1.40 pound. If the federal dairy subsidies were removed, the price would have to go up another 25 to 30 cents a pound. •?With' disparities thatIgreat, butter wouldn't stand a chan- ce. Only a few old-fashioned die-hards would continue to buy it. If dairy organizations think they can get a bigger share of the market. with their $5 -million advertising .campaign, more power to them. They are also fighting the cholesterol craze. Many people, rightly or wrongly. equate cholesterol in the blood with excess consumption of dairy products. There are proponents on both sides of the fence and I'm not about to get caught in the middle. I'm of the private opinion that the amount of butter eaten RRSP Farmers should con- sider Registered Retirement Savings Plans (RRSPs) as part of their everyday financial management, says Gary 'Hutchison, ,of ,the Ontario Agricultural College, University of Guelph. Farmers can use these plans to average income from one year to the next, or to finance future farm expansion. "B'uying RRSPs in' a high income year can save- taxes,” he says. "Taxes on annual taxable income of ' $40,000, two years in a row, will 'be loners are appreoated by Bob Trotter E.idaie Rd (limes Om N3B 2C7 by most people has little or no effect on the cholesterol count. Hard margarines. in fact, are just as saturated with fat as butter. For me, it is a matter of taste. That is why everything is better with butter. Dairymen are going to have an uphill battle. I have no major objections to their advertising. The television and newspaper advertisements are as good as—even better than, most of the insults to my intelligence that pass for commercials on the boob -tube. I honestly think most advertisers are deliberately trying to insult me, even drive me away from buying their pro- ducts, with so many of those inane, asinine television corn- mercials. I almost get sick to my stomach watching them. In fact, 1 watch little television these days si,mplybecause I can't stand the pap pumped out by the cameras. Little doubt remains, however, that the dairy industry in Canada is in grave trouble. Dairy cow population declined 12 per cent from 1971 to 1976. Canada spent about $300 million last year in subsidies and support for the dairy business. In Europe. the economic community spends more than $6 lion a year in support. The (1.S, spends more than $700 mil- lion. . Whether you buy many dairy products or not, your tax dollar is being spent to support the industry. Which. in the eyes of many dairy farmers, would indicate you might as well„buy and eat them because you're paying for them any- way. • And there are others who suggest that any industry which needs so much money for the public purse to keep it viable should be allowed to die a natural death, Those same people will tell You the government should get out of supporting farmers and let natural attrition separate the,.efficient pro- ducers from the inefficient. iI, believe it is a vital industry in Canada and should be sup- ported logically and sensibly. If this country ever gets to the point where it does not have enough to fill its own needs. then we are at the mercy of other nations to fill that hole. When that happens, they will dictate the price of those pro ducts. Then we'll really be in trouble. I'll think twice then about smothering my ,toast in butter. Management tool for farm $15,000 each year 'under 1978 regulations." "However., if a farmer.' buys the maximum RRSP (20 percent of the income up to a maximum of $5,500), taxes •will be reduced to $12,300 each year." During the following year, if the farm income dropped, or an expansion program resulted in reduced income or a cash loss, the farmer could cash the RRSP. • "An $11,000 RRSP, plus interest, could be cashed for living expenses if necessary or could be This Huron grower made history book William Warnock of Goderich, famous for the huge squashes he grew, shipped one to the World's Fair in St. Louis in 1904: Better hurry it along," he was• advised by a Canadian government representative, "squashes are coming in from California, and some are around 200 pounds!", _ , . Warnock's mammoth green squash weighed 365 pounds and won first prize. A picture of it, with Iris and Grace Warnock sitting atop and Mr. Warnock . behind them, is in the Huron County Pioneer Museum. The Warnock triumphs are recalled by mention of A. McD. Allan in the Signal -Star story of January 18 about Church,street people. He arranged and supervised, for the Dominion department of agriculture, exhibits of grain, fruit and vegetables at international exhibitons as ,well as in Canada: A Warnock squash won top award at the Chicago World's Fair in. 1893. A brass medallion in possession of Frank' Warnock of Cameron street, ,a grandson of William, symbolizes an •awardat the International Exposition in Paris in the early 1900s. William Warnock's garden was back of his house on Albert street. He died here December 16, 1924, and with him, evidently, so did the secret of growing big squashes: WATER WELL,' DRILLING "76 YEARS EXPERIENCE" • FARM • SUBURBAN • INDUSTRIAL • MUNICIPAL • • FREE ESTIMATES • GUARANTEED WELLS • FAST MODERN EQUIPMENT • 4 ROTARY A PERCUSSION DRILLS "OUR EXPERIENCE ASSURES • - LOWER COST WATER WELLS" DAVIDSON WELL DRILLING' 4 Rotary and Porcusalon Drills LIMITED PHONE 357-1960 ti WINOHAM Colloet Calls Accepted "ONTARIO'S FINEST WATER WELLS SINCE11900" ti used to financ,e farm expansion," says Hu-t- -ch-isan-. 'These 'funds will be taxable, but depending on the situation, there may be no tax to pay, or the tax rate will be reduced from 50 percent to 20 percent." RRSPs are also valuable managment tools if a farmer is planning a large capital purchase subh as 'a combine, explains Hutchison. The in- vestment tax credit on the $60,000 combine is $4,500. An $11,000 RRSP combined with a $20,000 taxable income increases the tax payable by about $4,900.. "The investment tax credit would offset most of the tax, then the balance of $10,600 would be available as a down payment on the com- bine," says Hutchison. RRSPs are also easy to buy and manage -another advantage for farmers. They can be purchased through banks or trust companies to -offset the 1978 income until March 1. RRSPs are only one of the many management tools explained in .the farm income tax course "offered by the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food. This homestudy course is available through the Office of Continuing Education at the • University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario NIG 2W1. Cost of the course is $50 for. Ontario residents, and $60 for non residents. This course can be credited toward the Ontario Diploma in. Agriculture. Pioneer Seed Corn in the Goderich 8 Clinton area Call Ray Brown 529-7260 or 524-8114 T833 handles the stress T833, a new hybrid from Trojan'°came through in the Goderich area. Look at the results of the T.S.T. plot on the farm of Donald Bean, R.R. 5, Goderich PLANTING DATE: May 19., 197,8 HARVEST DATE: October 27/78 SOIL TYPE: Clay Loam ROWWIDTH: 32" HERBICIDE: Atrazine INSECTICIDE: — FERTILIZER: N. 97 p20. 85 K20 - 11 VARIETY i BROKEN STALKS i HARVEST MOISTURE YIELD at 15.5 T833 2 23.8 122.8 TXS94 2 29.4 117.0 TX90 1 24.8 115.3 PLOT - AVERAGE 2 24.3 109.2 For complete details about this and other tests and what the results could mean to you, contact your local Trgjan.dealer. t 1HE GODER ICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, JANyCY 25, 1979—PAGE 11A ro• 4 Mile fever skimsh t e profits Ontario dairymen could increase profits if they paid more attention to their dry cows. Dennis McKnight, lecturer at the Kemp- tvill.e College of Agricultural Technology, says proper management of dry cows can prevent outbreaks of milk fever. The disease causes heavy milk loses in many herds, so he. offers suggestions to help dairymen prevent the disease. "Feed dry cows a ration of grass hay or limited amounts of corn silage. This improves the chances that cows will receive nearly equal quantities of calcium and phosphorus in their ration." McKnight stresses that the cows should be fed no more than 75 g of calcium and 30 g of phosphorus each day. Recent studies indicate that when dry cows receive the proper balance of calcium and phosphorus, they are tress likely to contract milk fever. "Only ten percent of cows that have had milk fever contract it again when fed this• balance of calcium and phosphorus during the dry period." McKnight says dairymen should not feed dry cows alfalfa or legume hay because they'll receive an in- correct balance of calcium or phosphorus. This just increases their chances of contracting milk fever, he says. Another way to prevent milk fever is by feeding dry cows massive doses of vitamin D. "Feed each cow 20 to 30 million units of vitamin D2 daily, three to eight days before calving. This will prevent 80 percent of milk fever cases." Another method of milk fever prevention is one injection of 10 million units of vitamin D3 one week before calving. McKnight urges producers to obtain detailed information on milk fever prevention from dairy specialists at county offices of the 'Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food. "Dairymen can't eliminate the disease completely, but if they manage dry cows Notice of Annual Meeting The Annual Meeting of the Huron County Wheat Producers will be held in the Agricultural Board Room in Clinton on: Thurs., February 8th at 1:30 p.m. Russel Rodgers, chairman of the board will be the guest speaker. properly, they'll reduce the number of cases." CLAY — Silo Unloaders Feeders Cleaners Stabling Leg Elevators Liquid Manure Equipment Hog Equipment BUTLER — Silo Unloaders Feeders Conveyors FARMATIC — Mills Augers, etc. ACORN — Cleaners Heated Waterers WESTEEL-ROSCO Granaries B & L - Hog Panelling LOWRY FARM SYSTEMS RR 1, Kincardine, Ont. Phone 395-5286 A. For sale LFI FARM SUPPLIES:. Liquid feeds, cattle minerals, swine pre- mixes, wagons, trailers, Spray Sickle recir- culating sprayer, Bauman hog equipment, Lucknow snow blowers, Weber cultivators. Phone 482-3159.-4,5 F85 FERGUSON tractor with Industrial Henry loader and snow bucket, 3 point hitch and blade. Phone 482-7066.-4,5 CAflADA FARm SHOW '1Nrl�;lr' r Exhibition Place Toronto Jan. 30, 31, Feb. 1, 2, 1979 10 am. to 6 pm. Jan. 30 Old Time Fiddlers' Contest • Jan. 31 Horse Pull and Sale Feb. 1 - 2 Tractor Pull • Ladies Program Daily • Cattle Sales Reavis Farm Equipment Lucknow HAS BEEN APPOINTED THE SPE FRY+NEIN HCLLAN© FARM EQUIPMENT DEALER Come in and cash in on the. Winter Buyer's Option: Cash bonus or Deferred Finance Plan! Here's the big choice of equipment The size of the cheque you receive included in the program. depends on month you buy. JAN. 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