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the tribune thuraky febramy 22 196s pge 7 0 f a president urges one voice for all farmers harry ferguson left president of the whitchurch federation of agriculture pre sented mr and mrs mel mcmhien of pine orchard with an electric wall clock at the annual meeting at vandorf mr and mrs mcmillen will take up residence at stayner staff photo garden guide leave rock gardens for professionals by john bradshaw garden editor a rock garden can not only add a great deal of beauty and character to any garden but can provide the man or woman who genuinely loves growing flowers with a re warding hobby and a neverending fascination one of the biggest drawbacks to the care of a larger rock garden has been the difficulty in keeping it free of the an nual weeds and grasses this problem is now a thing of the past with the introduction of the new grass and weed con trol plant foods which will not only feed each pocket of the rock garden successfully but will provide seasonlong pro tection from the onslaughts of the annual weeds and grass es the new controls also mean that you can go away for a months holiday and not come back and find the rock gar den overrun with weeds very few home gardeners have the ability to build their own rock garden a lot of people dont possess the healthy body the strong back and the strong heart necessary to move the rocks into place the majority of the people dont have the imagination necessary to do this job id recom mend that you call in an expert landscape firm to build your rock garden the best plan is to check with one of the leading nurseries because they usually supply nursery stock to the better landscape men in any case be sure to check the firms qualifications very carefully before you give them a contract to do the job what you want is a rock garden not a pile of rocks that would suggest to passersby that you were a recent gradu ate of kingston penitentiary hundreds of rock gardens in southern ontario have been built by mounding up the soil in front of the house to hide part or all of the foundation wall all the socalled rock gar den expert did after that was to level the slope apply a thin layer of top soil and then take a group of rocks of ap proximately the same size and shape and place them in even rows along the slope he compounded his lack of knowledge and ability by placing the rocks so that the ends point up to the sky in my experience most people ignore the garden part of the term when it comes to building a rock garden despite the fact that we use rocks of all sizes and shapes were still primarily concerned with creating a garden not a modern castle or some other type of architectural monstrosity we are really trying to imitate the eyesatisfying formations wo see in the woods there youll never see a group of stones on end or marching in a straight line the best site for a rock garden is a gently sloping bank either at the front side or rear of the garden unfortu nately this is the type of site which is seldom present in the average subdivision garden where the land is almost entirely levelled before beginning to build the homes nev- ertheless this neednt prevent you from having a rock gar den an artificial mound of earth can be created in the gar den as the site for a rockery it may never look quite as natural as one built on a gen- fly sloping bank but who cares its the fun and joy of rock gardening that counts each rock garden consists of many pockets large medi um and small the pockets are composed of small areas of soil surrounded by rock the landscape man or i he home gardener will need equal amounts of large size stones that one man will have trouble moving by himself medium and mall size stones the large ones are needed to add charac ter to the rock garden and also to use up quite a bit of the height of the bank j the kind of rock to use will vary with the area in which you live undoubtedly the most attractive kind is the por ous weathered limestone found in many places in southern ontario ive also been able to create attractive rock gar- hens using granite and field stone one of the most exciting happenings in the rock garden ing world in recent years has been the introduction of very light weight lava rock which comes from the sierra nevada mountains in california this rock is not only extremely at tractive and natural looking but has the added advantage of only weighing about a third as much as ordinary stones its lightness will mean that the home gardener will find it much easier to build his own rockery than was possible in fhe past regardless of the kind of rock used the professional and amateur alike must be able to recognize what is called the face of the rocks each one has a face which is best described as the way it looks best when set in the soil it may be necessary to move it several limes until you get it in the position where it looks best hog quality competition uxbridge the an nual meeting of the ontar io county hog producers association was held at sunderland the guest speaker was dr s c tan ner head of technical services animal health products division eli lilly company of canada limited toronto his sub ject was hot health winners of the 1967 hog quality competition were farmers producing 25 to 100 hogs stan lynde ash- burn rr 1 harold jones zephyr rr 1 harry woodland good- wood rr 1 farmers producing 101 to 200 hogs earl dowswell goodwood rr 1 wilmot suggitt sunderland rr 1 douglas harder black- water rr 2 wm pegler janetville rr 1 lloyd wilson ashburn rr 1 don hadden blackwater rr 1 c b hewitt bea- verton rr 3 les faux blackwater rr 2 farm ers producing 201 hogs and over oscar and brian gibson seagrave rr 2 john townson oxbridge rr 3 harold clark ux- bridge rr 2 duncan mc- tavish uxbridge rr 3 elected directors for 1968 include scott mau- styn mcknight uxbridge rr 2 reach ted lamb port perry rr 4 ux bridge gordon kydd ux bridge rr 2 scugog anson gerrow port perry rr 3 whitby heber down brooklin rr 1 and pickering lloyd wil son ashburn rr 1 di rectors at large are gor don taber brooklin rr 1 earl windatt beaver- ton rr 3 and harvey moore brooklin rr 1 mr and mrs tom daw son of goodwood visited sunday with his daughter mr and mrs clarence hal- iett and family of whitby on the occasion of mr dawsons birthday iiiiiiiifiiniiiiiiiiiiiiimiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiir whitchurch meeting the family farm attended by 150 from father to son iiiiiiiiiihhiiiiiimillllllhmmiiiiieiiiiiimiltlllllllllllltlllllllmmiimmhillllllllllmiiiiii illlllllltlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllllllluuiiiuiiiiilulllllllllllullllluuiiiiiillllllllll vandorf one organ ization with one voice for all farmers that was the recommendation of ofa president charles munro the guest speaker at the annual meeting of the whitchurch township federation of agriculture at vandorf it was attend ed by 150 people why do we need two organizations to represent farmers asked mr mun ro we have come to the conclusion that what we require is one strong gen eral organization not only in ontario but across the entire country mr munro pointed out that it had become diffi cult to raise sufficient fin ances to cover expenses involved in such an opera tion especially when con siderable preparation is needed in making presen tations to governments he said that through a single representative voice ex penses could be reduced mr munro revealed that on jan 5 a meeting was held that included officials from the cooperative the federation of agriculture and the farmers union it was during that meeting that it was decided to form a 16man committee the ofa president said he admitted that in order to achieve the goal of one organization a spirit of goodwill was imperative mr munro commended the executive and mem bers of the whitchurch federation for their excel lent attendance i only wish that a similar kind of enthusiasm was prevalent in other parts of the pro vince he said a highlight of the even ing was the recognition paid to mr and mrs mel mcmillen of pine orchard they are leaving whit church where they have farmed for 26 years to take up residence at stay ner mr mcmillen served as the first president of the whitchurch federa tion and a director in the york county federation he was also the chairman of the york county hog producers association mr harry ferguson pre sented mr and mrs mc millan with an electric wall clock mrs mcmillen received a bouquet of flowers for top farm profits a a wall agricultural representative for york county i got into a bit of an argument the other day on the principles involved in making the best profits from a farm its still on my mind because i think i got the wrong side of it i took the view that the key was to have a nice difference between cost of production and selling price get production costs down with good manage ment and then when pro duction methods have proven out get volume as big as possible for the most money the guy on the other side argued that my theory was backwards his idea was that management should first concentrate on building gross income by him a small margin on a big volume had a lot more potential than a big margin on a small volume he would have us go all out first on gross income and then worry about net income later for sure this theory is a lot better than mine in a strict business sense and its important to recognize that its likely going to be the prevalent pholosophy in the future if we follow it pressure first goes on crop yields corn barley alfalfa and orchard grass should re place some of the plants we grow now bad reputations are blocking the progress of some of these plants bar ley for example gets blam ed for being hard on land and being a hot feed act ually it doesnt take any more plant food from the soil than oats and its al most tops for digestability compared to other feeds orchard grass hardly rates as a hay or pasture plant in york county be cause it has a repultation for maturing too early this really should be a point in its favour with the equipment we have to handle it its the best grass to go with the flem ish alfalfa harvested right it can be up to 70 digestible its regrowth is far superior to any other grass and it cant be sur passed in total yield these kinds of things are going to be a lot more important than the chances for success of the new kelsey oats high yields require high fertility surveys indicate that farmers who increase yields do so by using more fertilizer along with top management following the 1967 wet season we suggest it will pay to use more fertilizer from bradford fertilizer co ltd holland landing 8955108 aurora 7279421 locust hu1 2942909 ttftt edgar ward director of beef assoc claremont edgar ward of clarcmont has been named a director of the ontario county beef improvement association representing the town ship of pickering the an nual meeting was held at sunderland other directors for 1968 are bert guthrie whitby rr 2 walter bcath osh- awa rr 2 norman mc- leod blackwater rr 2 peter hart port perry rr 3 hugh shillinglaw mt albert rr 3 harvey blackburn uxbridge rr 2 clare bagshaw sunder land rr 2 clarence hewitt beaverton rr 3 john spccdie brechin rr i hector mckinnon orillia rr 6 directors at large are gus lask sunderland rr 1 wm newman balsam and car man boadway mt albert rr 3 mr and mrs gordon stiver danny and kathy of halls lake were recent visitors with her sister mrs stewart vague and family of ringwood 3rd annual dog eared clearance sale hundreds of books also bibles cards and records sold at up to 75 off jackets slightly soiled boxes broken for best selection come early sale starts thursday february 22 christian supply centre 170 main st w stouffville ont many farm sons wonder about their future on the family farm father often says dont worry about it the farm will be yours when im gone should this answer satisfy the son in most cases it is not enough first of all the farm may not be his everyone should have a will unfor tunately many do not without a will a persons estate will be divided by law among his relatives according to their rela tionship to the deceased even with a will the son has no guarantee that the farm will be his because a will can be changed any time during a persons lifetime a person who re marries automatically nul lifies his will made prev ious to the remarriage wills are sometimes so involved and restricted that it would be impossi ble for a son to take over the farm on a reasonable basis there are other reasons why more than a will is needed to transfer the farm to the son the son wants some security es pecially if he is married the will does not give him this he wants a stake in the farm business includ ing a share of the real es tate another reason is the large estates that many farmers have now accum ulated careful longrange estate planning is needed to minimize death duties for example on an estate of 100000 left outright to the wife with no depen dent children death dut ies would be 6981 if the estate was 75000 the death duties would be 900 giving it all to the son at once or transfer ring just a year or two be fore one dies will not help much either swine disease control policy two diseases of swine virus pneumonia and a- trophic rhinitis are being successfully eliminated from swine herds under the certified herd policy according to dr p g ol iver swine disease con sultant veterinary ser vices branch ontario de partment of agriculture and food the policy is designed to help farmers establish and maintain herds that are free of these diseases virus pneumonia and atrophic rhinitis thought to be caused by infectious agents have no satisfac tory cures the program supervis ed by the veterinary ser vices branch consists of complete isolation of herds from contact with possible disease sources farmers can get disease- free stock from certified herds establishment of a herd requires thorough cleaning and disinfection at least sixty days before the arrival of new pigs after the herd is estab lished it must be strictly isolated all traffic onto the premises must be con trolled animal as well as human when veterinarians with the veterinary services a herd is free of disease branch are satisfied that a certificate is issued the policy as dr oliver points out is not a cure- all the pigs are still sus ceptible to disease but with good management feeding breeding and iso lation of herds they provide a good source of swine for farmers in on tario any farmer interested in breeding stock that has been certified under this program should contact his agricultural represen tative or a veterinarian with the veterinary ser vices branch organize lions club claremont the ini tial meeting to organize a lions club has met with excellent response and the minimum requirements for membership have al ready been met the first meeting was held at the home of mr les parker the next meeting will be held in the legion hall feb 28 officers will be elected and an application made to lions inter national for a club charter any further information can be had by phoning mr parker 6492026 rr2 claremont lyinci fill up of our fine oil the public rave of the way it heats and how they savel m don shank fuels 243 main n markham 2941600 farm news views coming soon mr farmer watch for this special farm section with pages of news on products equip ment and services available in this district date to appear with the tribune march 14th mr farm supplier make sure your message to mr farmer appears in this special farm feature section to appear with the tribune edition of march 14th v deadline friday march 8th for assistance and information call 6402100 ask for mr edey or mr maxwell v