The Huron Expositor, 1980-12-11, Page 28A
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a physical Inire4tic:
.1.11aVc just re* 40411.01110 the dentist ttett,hawtieert,told
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in a 00011 manner that I must spend at least IcErianateS
:fladee A day cl anthg My teeth and flhssing my „gums. '•
4tolf you Oral you will be Wearing falsies before you
',.tett_tea be said in a .weak attempt at a joke.
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Not long ago, I had AA Annual physical examination and
le(kned that the O'Keefe centre Jest above my belt was
reatinifigaaotalacame proportions. My doctor told Me to get
more exercise, at least 30 minutes a day. . 4.
Some years ago,, a horse fell,on -my right ankle and.'
broke it in three places. A Metal pin holds one bone in
'place. At Plitt time, the specialist in the ease suggested•
that I ahold -spend at least 10 minutes a day exereisingathe
•-*Met • • • ;''v 4
I have mentioned before that'my wife and I feel filet an
attempt atspirituality is necessary in this life, We made a
decisimi more than 10 years ago to spend at leaet half an
hour a day in a serious attempt at meditation. We' have
keptthat promise.
Regular readers of this column are also aware that we
keep horses around our place.1 love thein. There is
something about the outside of a horse. that does wonders'
for the inside of a man. It is ope of,the few pleasgres I have
in this vale of tears and it takes me anothertalf an hour or
so to feed my horses.
Now, I am a night person. I rarely function well until the,
sun is almost over the yardarm. 1 get to bed about
midnight and arise groggily a few minutes before eight in
the morning. But I do find I need about eight hours sleep
every night.
I cannot function without that much sleep.
I also enjoy eating, a habit I picked up when very young
and 1 fina it difficult to break. It takes tile half 'an hour for a
hearty breakfast, half an hour for a light lunch and about
three-quarters of an hour for a leisurely dinner.
Writing, too, is something that must be. done on a
regular basis or rust, dust and decay set in. An hour a day
Farm management topics
IS neceSsary to keep from getting rusty.
• Inthis ceuntry, one must be gainfully emplayed. So, at •
least seven hours a dapare spent on the job.. Because we
choose to live in the silOtty, 1 spend one hour and ,10,
minutes, every day, driving te and 'from work.
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Well, what you may ask, is the purpose of all this?
A lament. please!,
I am •lOsing hair at a great rate and have just been
informed by a hair specialist that I will have to spend
another 10 minutes a day In hair care unless I want to base
the're.st of it. '
• Suppose, just suppose. I needed eye exerciser or ear
exer`ases, Suppose I had a few more problems with my
v•--healthr as if 1-havenThenough already •
As a journalist, I niust read one or two papers a day and
keep myself posteriori wOrld, federal, provincial and local .
,events.
•Now, fatal it all.
I figure, if I follow the advice of the doctors and the
specialists and the experts, I might have enought time left
to spend. 10 minutes with my daughter, 10 minutes with
*my wife and a few seconds with my dog.
So I tave decided to tell all the experts and the
specialist's to go suck eggs.
I may die a physical wreck but who needs the body then?
Who wants to be the healthiest.corpse in the graveyard?
I would rather die a physical wreck and speacf,more time
with a woman who has stuck with me through -thick and
thin for more than three deeaderand a daughter who is
more 'beautiful that a 'spring sunrise with a voice more
tinkling that a mountain brook.
And a horse who nickers a welcome every time I go to
the barn.
And more time in prayer and meditation, too.
'My spiritual bodrwill be welcomed l:Him Who taught
us all to pray. 1 don't think He cares f. my teeth are my
own:
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Is more profit all you want?
BY H.G. NORRY; AREA
COORDINATOR AND
FARM MANAGEMENT
SPECIALIST
The following is a question
from a farmer:
I am 52 years old and right
in my prime. I have always
had good health and never
felt better. My four sons,
ranging in age from 21 to 31,
are big, strong and healthy.
My wife is healthy too but I
will confess that she doesn't
seem to be able to accomp-
lish as much farm work as
she did 10 years ago.
The missus and I started
farming together in 1948 and
we never looked back. We
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bought land, livestock and
machinery and more land,
livestock and machinery. To-
day our farming assets are
worth over a million dollars
and ourldebts are only one-
quarter of a million. Not
bad, eh! The farm is a
profitable one. However, 1
have never had to pay much
income tax. 1 have been able
te minimize it by buying ,•-•
more machine y. building •
more buildings. tiling land
and increasing the amount 9f
livestock on hand.* I have
used these to the limit and
I'm really going to have to
pay soon.
What is my problem? The
farm next door is for, sale.
Like all farm land the price is
higher than its value but we
have the cash floW,to handle
the purchase and the drain-
age that needs to be done on
it would help with future
income tax problems.
I have told the boys that if
they put their shoulders to
the wheel we can buy that
land and pay foi it in a kw
years buy they don't want to
put their shoulders to the
wheel. The oldest bov who
farmed with me for many
years packed up and left two
years ago and is now in town
driving a taxi. He was a darn
good fumes too. The second
boy took a trip west a year
ago and has 't come back.
The third bo „js working on
the farm but ru around
so much that.heivil ti ed and
doesn't get as much work
done as he should . The
youngest son is at the stage
where he drives fast cars and
burns up ru titter. What do 1
do?
This is a made up question
and hopefully it has been
exaggerated But it deser‘es
an answer
When trying to solve any
farm management problem.
a good starting point is
deciding what our objectives
are The common objective of
many farmers is fo make
more net profit Another
objective with many is to pay
as little income tax as poss-
ible. These two abjectives
are so prevalent that we
soretimes think of More net
reel and less' isat• as the
basis for feria -management
It's not always so.
By your accomplishments
we would guess that you
have had these two object-
ives and (hat you have been
constantly achieving your ob-
jectives. Very few people
could give you additonal
clues in that section.
The objective of making
more profit was a very noble
one when you started farm-
ing in 1948 but is it the same
pbjective that should be top
on your list today? Is it
possible that you have con-
centrated so much on this
objective that you have neg-
lected other worthy ones
such as having a pleasant
farnily life. The fact that your
boys are away from home or
threatening to leave makes
me think that you haven't a
happy relationship with
them. Did you ever take
them fishing or hunting or
was there always teo much
farm work to be done? You
spent your younger years
during the great depression
and your sense orvalues was
moulded at that time. Your
sonsaivere young' during the
exuberant 50's and 60's.
They have as a result a
different set of values than
you have and it is very
difficult to say who is right
and who is wrong.
I could jump to theconclus-
ion that you are a tyrant to
work for. Because the decis-
ions, that you have made in
the past have been so suc-
cessful you may not want to
stand by and let your sons
take actions based on their
opinions which you consider
to be inferior to your own. It
is very difficult to watch
someone waste money that
you have earned even if they
are sons and are learning in
the process
If you want to continue to
have full responsibility for
your farming operation for
the next 20 years, you should
continue on you present
course. You will likely be
working alone and when you
die you should have an amply
supply of this world's goods
td leave .to your sons who .
have rpt helikti earn them.
If. hmkever, you want to
gradually take it easier you
should sit down with your
family and possibly an out-
side counsellor and try to
determine what you jointly
would like to achieve. Your
main obtective now is not
to make. nitre money or to
increase the 111111TrbCT n't your
assets Unless your sons are
in the business you haye
more- than you need al-
ready As you sak. you are in
your prime but ih ten short
years you yviil he approach,
ing pension age That•s .1652
days.
My main point is that there
is more to farm management
than makihg more net profit
and paying less tax. There
are times when making more
net profit is absolutely es-
sential but we should not
allow this good objective to
mar °tic thinking for the rest
of our lives. There's more to
living than money.
MalaSeett4
IIEPRESENTATIVE
IV) ROT I,
ASOc. AG, REP
John Hart has draWn a
number of conclusions 'after
growing erolis-'• in Oxford
'county for to decades. He
,paSsed, on so* of them 0,
the, Perth SOil and Crop
ImprOverneat Assaciation
menabetS at tb4i recent An -
Inial meeting:,
• fie s noticed that his earn
'yield has been 'depressed if
•he plants the first day after a
major rainfall,,It's important
to hold back until the soil is
Nothing makes soil harder
to Work than running over it
when it's too wet. Spreading
manure early in the spring Is
amajor cause of ,soil com-
paction. •
John uses the chisel pfiaw,
He refers ' to it as the 4"
mould board. He chisels at
6" to 7" and feels that
there's no benefit in going
de eper. If the land isn't well
drained, the chisel shouldn't
be used. It's useless to plow
or chisel too deep. We're too
deep if we're bringing up
subsoil. The subsoil is fine
and increaies: the tendency
for the tap soil to crust. It's
also usually lower in fertility:
There's no research to
suggest that we have a plow
pan in Ontario as our winter
ten ds to get rid of •any
compaction - often in one
year. pelace we're just wast-
ing filef-io •till deep in an
attempt to break( a supposed
layer. .
John had slides on some of
his soil- management trials.
The mould board plow caus-
ed major erosion when used
up and down a slope but only
slight rill erosion when used
across the slope. Even this
slight erosion was eliminated
by chisel plowing across the
slope. Other slides showed a
'Water Wel.11.
DRILLING
W.D. Hopper;
and Sons
4 MODERN ROTARY
'? RIGS
Neii 527-1737
Durl 527-0828
Jim 527-0775 ._j
sallnISInt increa0e in ero-
iOlOyhare the, preYIPUS' Crap
ehallged from con to
Artothr slide compared Sus-
eePtthfiiity to crusting. Part Of
the 4914 aNaa-Ciliael TIC0Wed
-#4.10:thefemOdqr.lv§ 004
ed, lb the dooventiatatt taut;
uer, Tao goil, in • the pillSel
plow 'section' bed 'Jess tend-
eney, to ,crust becnitWpf file
Crop 'residue on. the „,s act
"Rough, la, ,bqaijtitii
John's ;opittion, Re likes to
see trash on, the surface and
a rough, lumpy
4.911tt as the flgure to
back ;UP 'What tIP s4.31s.‘ One
section that was chiSelled
and disced in the Sprina
yielded 115 bus. to Iht) acre.
,An iaijoietag field, that Vfra'a
spring plowed Yieldek, 112.
/MIS' per acre. Hc • stressed
that you had to adJaSt yOar
Manageluent. It. might be
• necessary to plant sooner or
deeper (plant to moisture)
with one tillage toettled'ilian
the other. You imcl to make'
this adjustment in Oder to be
fair to the ria1.•
John - has ‘ Spent a lot .,91,
ante designing his own till-
age trials. As a result, he's,
made change 4 that he would
never have believed a fevv,
Years aaa. He cautioned that
everyone's soil and condiV
• ions are different. It's Vital to
• atraylucsotmafrCo4Witwith acres
attrarldris: wp
yeas
breafeqe9e7intteeP4'ucinteqg
dPa'
tional methods for a few number of acres. •
eat on.14 .tfp in Stoffath is vectr
•„high_est ..nember . uf
heat unit, fpreorii in Huron
and Perth cianntlea during
the summer of 1980 were
achieved at Centralia College
of Agricultural Technology.'
The Centralia heat units
reached 2,965 as compared
to 2,779 the previous year.
The normA„.figiire for the
Centralia area is 2,811.
This information was re-
vealed at Tharsday'a annual
meeting of the Huron Soil
and Crop Improvement As-
sociation at the Seaford'
Legion.
At the H. Scott farm at
Staffa, heat units were meas-
ured at 2,819 up 163 from
1979 while figures at Elora
were 2,562, a slight increase
from the year before.
On the subject of corn
rootworm, a report ' from
Andy Megens of Cariadtair
Canners in Ex eter indicated
there was no significant in-
crease in the number of adult
corn borer moths during
1980.
Other speakers said ex-
cessive corn stalk breakage
this year could not be blam-
Jim O'Toole of Centralia
College reported on proso
millet. a ,,..weed which • has
been spreading rapidly in
Huron during the last two
years..
O'Toole said prow , millet
is—a very competitive tall
grass and nq cheiniCal con-
trol has yet been registered.
He indicated two other
weeds are becomink more
prevalent in Huron. They are
poison hemlock which ap-
pears in alfalfa seeaed in
1979 and Indian hemp which
looks like milkweed.
District director Lawrence
Taylor reported ,that the
Ontario Association, has cir-
culated about 60 resolutions
duzing1980.
They were centered on
municipal drains. research.,
luseer -mminotilig-;-- gasohol
and crop insurance.
Considerable discussion
took place Thursday on foun-
dation seed and problems in-
curred in germination being
below the prescribed limit.
Near the end of the
meeting. a resolution was
Pasaed- asking_the__Plant _and Palo& budget.
Products, branch to control A new Huron County soil
seed companies in guaran- conservation award was pre -
teeing seed quality and am- 'Tented for the first time.
end crop insurance regula- It is named in honour of
tions to cover grower loss Norm ,Alexander and was
because of poor seed. won this year by John
Soils apecialist Pat -Lynch flazlitt, R.R. 4, Goderich for
said the seed compaaies and his project of tree planting
•not the government put tags odd shape areas and con -
on bags. servatio
A second resolution asked
for -greater funding for ex- An Expositor Cleated
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tario Ministry of Agriculture you tried one? Dial 5270240:
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WHETHER YOU DRIVE IMPAIRED,
FAIL THE BREATHALIZER, OR REFUSE IT,
YOU FACE A CRIMINAL CHARGE.
IF CONVICTED, YOUR LICENCE WILL BE SUSPENDED
FOR AT LEAST THREE MONTHS,
AND YOU WILL BE FINED UP TO $2,000.
YOU WILL HAVE A CRIMINAL RECORD.
YOU COULD GO TO JAIL.
YOU FACE INCREASED AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE RATES
FOLLOWING A CONVICTION. AND IF YOU CAUSED
AN ACCIDENT, YOUR INSURANCE DOES NOT COVER
YOUR PERSONAL INJURIES, DAMAGE TO YOUR PROPERTY,
OR YOUR LOSS OF EARNINGS.
IF CONVICTED OF A SECOND DRINKING -DRIVING OFFENCE,
YOU WILL GO TO JAIL FOR UP TO ONE YEAR.
YOU COULD KILL SOMEONE—FAMILY, FRIENDS,
INNOCENT BY-STANDERS, YOURSELF,
IN 1979 MORE THAN HALF Of THE DRIVERS KILLED
IN ONTARIO HAD BEEN DRINKING.
COLD FACTS
E11,06, IF YOU DRINK
1b7 DON'T DRIVE,
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Attorney Gera a. a
Solicitor Gen. rat
William Davis Pr, ain,