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Zurich Citizens News, 1975-09-18, Page 14Page 14 - Zurich Citizens New, September 18, 1975 lij}s .au£ isfi s • READY FOR OPEN HOUSE - The council of the Village of Zurich have made arrangements to hold an Open House at the new municipal office next Wednesday afternoon and evening. Visitors are being invited to come to the building in either the afternoon or evening to view the new facilities which house the clerk's office, the PUC office, the council chambers and the public library. rrange free pick Free pick up of dead anim- als has been re -instituted by two of the area dead stock removal companies. Garnet Smith of Atwood Pet Food Supplies announced the change at the Huron. County Federation of Agric- ulture meeting held in Hen- sall. Mr. Smith was speaking on behalf of his company and Huron Dead Stock Removal of Clinton, both of which inst- ituted the new policy. Mr. Smith was at the meet- ing to explain the situation in the dead stock business aft- er the issue had come up at the August meeting of the Federation held in Clinton. A committee had been set up at the time to investigate (e concern of Federation n embers that some were leaving dead in the open to rot they would neither $5 pick up fee asked farmers animals because pay the by dead • TED aF. } O EL AND SONS LTD. BUILDING CONTRACTOR FRAMING ®@!S : s & Cottages *Renovations* CUSTOM BUILT Homes Free Estimates! DASH W OOD R.R.1 PH: 238-2742 stock companies, or the cost of getting a backhoe to bury the animals. Adrian Keet who was' to make the report was not in attend- ance so the other members of the committee, Mason Bailey and Jake Van Wonder - en reported their findings. Mr. Bailey said the dead animal removal act was not well written as to the resp- onsibilities of the farmer but did say that the owner of the animal had 48 hours to either bury an animal under at least two feet of earth or have it removed. Mr. Van Wonderen said the county hgealth unit said there was Little danger to human health from carcasses being left to rot, but that they were more a nuisance than anything else. There seemed to be noth- ing under county jurisdiction to deal with the problem he said. 'Mr. Smith then made his lengthy presentation includ- ing an explanation of the problems of the dead stock industry in the past two years. He said the free pick ups were being brought back because there had been small but steady increases in the amounts paid for the meat from dead animals by the pet food companies in recent tines. Last year, he said, the bottom had dropped out of the pet food market because the pet food companies had been abloe to get all the meat they needed through the byproducts of • the packing plants. It was virtually imp- ossible to sell' meat at all, he said. The dead stock compan- ies were left to make all their money from selling meat for rendering into bone meal Come in and see ass for EOM On Teevkoi f animals and from hides, both at very low prices. Layoffs at the Atwood and Clinton plants were heavy during the bad time. Now, Mr. -Smith said, the operators hoped to be able to make charging. Mr. Van Wonderen enough business through wondered if dropping the volume to get away without (continued on page 16) ON SEPTEMBER 18 FOR TRANSPORTATION TO THE POLLS 3 4500 (Published by the Huron- Middlesex P.C. Assoc. NOTICE ZURICH MIXED BOWLING is scheduled to commence October 10, Friday nights, from 8 to 10 p.m. All young couples, married or single, age 17.99 years young are welcome. 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