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L 1 te March jHfe it J 5 FARMING REPORT By AL WALL fry Agricultural Representative for York County Its time again in York Clubs for boys gfi girls from farms will be organized in Easter day week Calf Clubs for both beef and dairy are the most popular but there will also be clubs for people interested in gram corn and farm machinery There are some new features this year All mem- hers will be given two well started Maple trees to plant at their homes to mark Canada Centennial Another new feature is that there will be a special Farm School for members held in the summer Members will be brought to Newmarket by bus for a threeday course As well as some learning sessions at the school there will be lots of visits to farms in this district A lot of the emphasis on competition will be removed this year Prizes will be based almost entirely on each member finishing his project satis factorily So a good year for new members to start Ill be glad to send full details to anyone or its even better to discuss it with any one of the Leaders Leaders are Dick Munro and Jim Sellers at Sutton Dalton Faris and Bob Hope at New market Grant Leonard at Hank VanderPost at King Carl at Bruce Fieldhouse at Jim Darlington at Maple Elmer Pembleton at Richmond Hill or of the following from Township Lester Don Alex Davidson Stuart Watson Gerald Mann and Miles Our meeting on Weed Spraying is combined this year with the Seed Fair Its at Victoria Square on March Well have top authorities there including Professors Glen Anderson and Don Clark Anyone who has weeds to kill will find this session useful A John Bradshaw Hie 1st and 2nd East wit llmbury Brownie Packs aU tended skating show pur m Town on Ice on Thursday About Industrial Milk Price wore Brownies and eight t First resident pastor of the Free Methodist Church Newmarket years ago the Rev Miles celebrated his birthday March at the home of his daughter and soninlaw Mr and Mrs A Tampa Florida Mr returned to Newmarket to address the congrega tion on the occasion of the anniversary of the Free Methodist Church Individual Milk Quotas Basis For Subsidies See New POWER Line DOWNINGS Sales Service Ontario WHY NOT WHY- NOT ORDER THE REMAINDER OF YOUR FERTILIZER NEEDS FROM US THIS SPRING Custom Blending Bagged or Bulk Pickup or Delivery Spreaders Available Check our Prices Open til pm on Saturday daring April and May BRADFORD FERTILIZER CO LTD Wellington St Aurora OPINIONS Do Better Grade s Make Better Drivers Dramatically better according to compiled by a large insurance t Indeed accident records corporation studies of drivers under age students with superior schoolable records averaged 318 car damage claims per year policies in force compared with for students with Inferior grades In accidents involving injuries good student drivers were involved an average of times an nually per policies in force Students with inferior grades had accidents per policies in force Combining frequency and cost of accidents Good student drivers had a record to per cent better their counterparts Forty per cent of the countrys population is Under years of age and in some areas as much as 25 per cent of the teenage population own their i cars Seventy per cent of youthful drivers Includ ing those In Aurora and Newmarket purchase used ears In preference to new and over per cent with own money Youthful and inexperienced buyers are too often attracted to a latemodel body hiding a worn- out vehicle and should seek adult advice or a reputable serviceminded dealer Price is only one part of the picture that includes the true mechanical condition the unused mileage left In he car and the safety with which it may be driven under conditions that youthful driver demand Received March OTTAWA In the dairy year beginning April federal subsidies for manufac turing milk or cream will be paid to dairy farmers on the basis of individual quotas the Canadian Dairy Commis sion announced today Each producers quota will be related to the amount of milk or cream on which he received federal subsidies in the dairy year be ginning April 1 and end ing March 31 As soon as records are complete each registered producer will be informed of the volume on which he was paid subsidies during the year and of his subsidy quota for To ensure inclusion for a quota producers should be registered with the Agricul tural Stabilization Board and have their eligibility for sub sidies established by March Any one who has received subsidy cheques for milk or cream Is now registered The Commission said that while it is not yet able to an nounce full details on the quota plan for the forthcom ing year it felt it would be helpful to dairymen in plan ning their operations to know that the quota arrangement will apply The purpose of die quotas is to relate the volume of milk and cream eligible for subsi dies to approximately the amount of manufacturing milk and cream required by the Canadian market Cecil Mortson Bull Named Superior Sire NEWMARKET The sey bull Basils Ven ture Excellent Silver Medal bull has just been desig nated a Superior Sire by the Canadian Jersey Cattle Club He has tested daughters with an average produc tion of 9381 lbs milk 513 lbs fat per cent and classified daughters that av erage per cent This bull was bred by Cecil E Sons ville and is now owned joint ly with Pioneer Farms Old Lyme Conn He is a son of Basil Fern- hill Charla Very Good with five tested and four clas sified daughters and his dam Is Beacon Bonnie Very Good with six records including that made at six years of age in days of lbs milk lbs fat per cent Unless your lawn is given a feeding right after the snow has melted it can actually be starving for nitrogen until the first of May Even lawns that have been well fed in previous vears will be also starving The nitrogen thats carried over in the soil from one season to another is in a form which can only be made available to the grass plants the action of the billions of bacteria in the earth Its usually around the first of May when the soil temperature reaches 60 degrees that these bacteria start to work We also know that grass starts to grow when the soil temperature reaches degrees It doesnt take very much of a mild in late March or the first week in April for that temperature to be reached and the grass to be in need of nitrogen Just as soon as the snow has melted away and before the ground has thawed out is best time to make the first feeding Use si complete fertilizer which contains immediately available nitrogen Its better to apply it while the earth is still frozen as less damage will be done to the sod than would be the ease if you waited until the soil becomes soft and oozy Before applying the fertilizer take a fan- shaped bamboo or aluminum rake and lightly go over the surface of the lawn to free it of any sticks stones bones or any other debris which might damage the later on Whatever you do dont take a steel rake and go heavily over the lawn When you do this youll be disturbing and raking up the valuable mulch of grass leaves and clippings left over from last years lawn if this mulch is left undisturbed it would eventually be returned to the soil as a valuable source of humus Once the lawn has been light raked and the complete fertilizer applied its a good plan to fence it off from all traffic until the soil has dried out and becomes workable Heavy traffic over the surface of the lawn while the ground is thawing out docs more damage each year than any other single factor Just as soon as the frost is out of the ground and the surface of the lawn is soft and oozy is the time that many men decide to level out the bumps and hollows To do this they take the heaviest roller available to them and go back and forth over the sod Ive even seen people hire one of the heavy mechanical rollers used to put down macadam driveways All they succeed in doing is seriously compact ing the soil which in turn prevents the vital oxygen from freely moving among the soil particles The only reason a lawn is rolled in the spring is to push hack into place a few of the grass plants that may have been partially heaved out of he earth by the alternate thaw ing and freezing which takes place in late winter or the very early spring For this job you use a completely empty roller Bumps and hollows can be levelled out in two ways You can add an inch of sterilized soil mixture at a time until the bump is smoothed out or the sod can be lifted the hollow filled up and the sod put back in place The will or desire to top dress a lawn with soil each year is a strong one with home gardeners Unless sterilized soil is used thats free of weed seeds all you succeed in doing is adding a tremendous crop of weeds and crab grass to the lawn Scattering the earth over the surface of the lawn provides the ideal germinating conditions for these weed seeds Top dressing is a good idea but if earth is to be used it must he sterilized I find that one of the organic composts makes the best top dressing With one of these youll be adding one of the finest forms of humus and valuable bacteria at the same time leaders The 2nd East The settling Ihe countrys dairy Pack earned funds dent of the Ontario producers Also on the com- for this outing from their lion of Agriculture says it were representatives will be a serious blow to of the Ontario Milk Marketing the dairy industry if the pro- Board the Ontario Farmers dont get more for in- Union and the Dairy Farmers Mastitis No Problem With Good Management GUELPH Any dairy man who claims he cant feed high energy rations be cause his cows will get mas titis has a mastitis problem in his herd states extension veterinarian Dr J Ontario Department of Agri culture and Food Submission of quarter milk samples to one of the Ontario Department of Agriculture and Food Veterinary Services laboratories will probably re veal that to per cent of this farmers cows are affect ed with chronic or hidden mastitis per cent of the cows in the average Ontario herd have mastitis If he learns how to control in his herd he will find that the additional costs of his new management practices will bo more than compensated for by the increased production in milk The Ontario Mastitis Con trol Program Is available to HAVE A FEED OF PANCAKES EVERYONES WELCOME TO OUR PANCAKE OPEN HOUSE PRESENTED BY INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER Joe Hall invites You To Attend An AllDay HOG SCHOOL At Mai Starting Tues At 28 am A BUS WILL LEAVE THE MILL AT AM RETURNING TO NEWMARKET AT S PM Guest Speakers will ho ROBERT JOHNSON DR JOE of St Ma ERIC ALOEUSON of Aurora STORE GEORGE ST THURSDAY MARCH 23 am to 5 pm BRADFORD ARENA aft- special door prizes Mum mid and all the All you can eat kids Let us our appreciation See the Intent in business combines bailers and Ullage MoTle day equipment LUNCH WILL BE SERVED AT NOON contact for a ticket on loo North York Farmers will provide a Noon Luncheon To everyone attending YORK FEED GRAIN OLD DON MILLS r milk In the year Speaking at a meeting in Toronto of Federations member organizations Char les of said Thursday the proposed price of a hundredweight Is not a bargaining position It Is only a considered reasonable figure to meet the cost of producing milk he said It should result in only a small increase in the cost of milk products to the con- He said there should be no increase in the price of bot tled milk It is of utmost import ance he said that the government realize the dam age to the dairy industry if there is no increase in the in dustrial milk price Mr spoke as the meeting passed a resolution calling on the government for a price for milk The resolution says even this price would still fall short of economic equality for producers of industrial milk The resolution also calls for a formula to provide further increases as costs and price levels of other foods tise While the resolution was being discussed in Toronto Keith Matt hie of Algonquin and Leonard of Glasgow Station were in Ot tawa making the presentation to the government There were OFA represen tatives on a committee reprc- Light rain or drizzle after a dry spell produces a thin film of oil on the road surface forming a treacherous lubri cant between tires and pave ment When the first drops begin to fall stow down and be extra careful coming of Canada Christmas cake sale The Brown Owls of the two Packs would like to express their thanks to the parents who so I graciously supplied for this event V dairymen who wish assistance in he control of this disease Further bo obtained from your veterin arian Agricultural and Dairy Orde your Fertilizer for Spring now and sleep nights Rest easy this winter with your fertilizer ail ready for application next spring No worries about supplies when the big buying is on No race against ard weather Youre all set Right now we have stocks of ever analysis for delivery before the spring rush Tafce deliver of your fertilizer now and save by taking advantage of substantial seasonal 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