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Expense Is Big Factor In Farm Improvements Most Ontario farmers are to years behind new develop ments in farnung tectmlque and equipment yet most of this new knowledge and machinery is made available to farmers soon after it is no the market So says Donald Cameron of other corn This type of bunk not only distributes the feed but also does good job of mixing when Don adds grain or other supplements to silage The silos and auger unloudcr and feeder along with the con crete yeard and the automatic 500 tons This silage manages to take care of the toodd cat tle Don leaves outside in the yard all winter With three fe edings day all that Is re qulred is the push of button and the emptying of bag of ground meal or grain 111 HARM EXAMINER DAY ma Don said with wink gazing towards his chicken house where 30000 chicks were fattening But set about our crops of broilers year Last year shipped about 140000 broilers Actually the broilers are not any particular gold mine either Don pointed out Id be happy with ten cents bird profit on the sale be said but my last crop only brought me three cents We all have our various problems but guess one of mine and one of many other raising only brothn Oukrb Dan said only about no We can let toxether and discuss our busineu and our problems but when it comes time to sell the birds we are up against some big business he added hlr Cameron has been former for so yearn Ha new up in Barrie graduated from high school and did not get ian farming until later in his Life been in potatoee Lhia No Barrie farther who has been fortunate enough to be able to avail himself of some of this new labomaving machinezy so many arm rs homo get along without the lite whole operation automatic devices why is Mr The two new 51 which are Cameron considered fortunate 20 feet across hold 533 of The answer Is yeera ago Mr lumen on instaued two concree prelt fabricated silos bringing the total on his 700 acres near Bar rie to five The important dif terenco in the new ones was an automatic tap unload in double auger device which removes the ailsge and distri butel it along trough where cattle feed The feed bunk Is the auger type it serves both silos one which contains grass and the gutter cleaner in the barn plus few other little extras has probably cost me in the neigh borhood of 315000 Mr Cam eron said But now only need two men to help me run llr Camerons whole opera Lion is combination of some beef cattle nearly three times as many Holsteins the ships about ton of milk every two days from shiny and spotless from the United States every bulk mliRloaderl and thriv time the prices goes up lit Ina chicken raising business do here Theres no money in beef There are very few farmers BROWN at co NEW IDEAS COMPLETE SUPPLIES TO farmers is the chain stores ll who control the market price of so many commodities Anoth er problem is that of shipping heel and other farm produce some wonderful potato country around here and dot en other lines Dan said and have picked up lot of knowledge as would any form er know how to make good living from taming but particularly IIIre the healthy le FREE or DISEASE Hull Que Because they are the first litter in early Oct ree of disease the pigs Incl nbcr litate research work Dr An dre Girard of the lnstiruies $iiellfih$il°éa°l Fence Change TOBACCO Marks Farms FARMERS By STEWART PAGE fence in pioneer days was tho palisadc copied from the lnd Agricultural Representative North Blmcoe County ians In building pallsada on files l2 or so in length Not long ago had visit set pright in the ground gadmm 5950fl323 close together to enclose the days on homo am In this small area to be rotect area at the turn of the com The second most common type fury He had just visited the fence in those early days and old homestead now in ulhm more sniinble for cnclosing lar hands and it had changed be Ear men was the Int form yond recognition Small to medium sized logs Nothing was the same The readily available from the land farm buildings had been mod being cleared were lid zlgzug smiled and every fence and with the ends crtzsing and nob Icncernw had been cleared out ched to prevent rolling or The whole farm looked as bold palr nf larger lags wcro placed as the prairies before they at the boundary of the cleared planted windbreaks In fact he area with smaller log on had to check his location to top with short cross logs betwe makc sure be was on the right on If more height were rcquir farm ed His rather nostalgic comments started me thinking about the trcmendous changes to our farms in the past 5060 years and about fences in particular From the time the pioneers first cleared plot of land for their garden and fleltl or two for grain until the start of rcrhanized farming toward the mid of the First World War lenses were an important and essential part of farming First they were wrotection of sort against wolves and on wild life of the woods later they were protection for crops to keep out the farm livestock which was often allowed to pas lure at large Still later the linefences marked the bound ary at the farm These line ienccs were quite important as they were the final step often the achievement of lifetime in the making of farm They also marked the real beginning of livestock farming as such in Ontario Probably the first type of Some so specificpafhogen frcc pigs have been produced in date at Canada Dunnrt men of Agricultures Animal Diseases Research Instfute at AND SUPPLIES HOW IS THE TIME TO START MIINY OF YOUR SEEDS INDDDIIS CHOOSE YOUR SEEDS FROM THE LARGEST DISPLAY OVER 800 VARIETIES OF SPECIAL TESTED STRAINS OF FLOWER AND VEGETABLE SEEDS FOR STARTING SEEDS and BULBS WE HAVE ALL YOUR REQUIREMENTS Sierilized Potting Soil Jiffy Pots Vermiculife Perlife Peat Moss Plant Trays Fungicides to Control Diseases of Plants gt liquid Ferii izers Red Clay and Plastic Pots Plastic and Woodenlnbels DORMANT SPRAY Fpr Fruit Trees and Shrubs rmzmc TME IS REAR plete Selection Three hundred and five 305 acres ideal for tobacco Has large trout stream and is loc ated on paved highway north of Colborne and Castle ton Ont Has very large barns and new modern 65 ft cut stone bungalow This is at Pale fences vhcra polewcod was plentiful were built In var lous ways Same were built much the same as the zigzag lag fences xcept for the nut chad ends The poles were us ually locked in place by short poles set at tin angle where the top pnlcs crossed DEVELOPMENT The next development as our Ontario farms egnn to take shape was the split rail fence Straight knottfrce pine or dnr logs were freely available on many farms for several decad es otter the settlers started clearingthe land and before local sawmills opened up market for wood products The production of split rolls was IEHBI offseason job for many pioneer farmers and splitting rails from logs usually 12 long sometimes 14 was quite an art requiringboth brown and skill in the use of the axe the heavy wooden mauls and wedges NO MATTER WHERE 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