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sv tribune july 19 1989 a7 gormley i resident i marks this 80th evelyn milsted correspondent a number of gormley people attended the open house in honor of rev george sheffers 80th bir thday on sunday at the brethren in christ church in staynard mr and mrs walter hill en joyed a day last week with mr and mrs earl milne in keswick mr and mrs lawrence wideman and leslie of belleville visited sunday with his mother mrs martha wideman mr and mrs chester reigle of ridgeway visited on the weekend with mr and mrs clifford winger mr and mrs ivan good and boys of vineland and mr and mrs david yake and son cameron of kitchener spent sun- iday with their parents mr and mrs fred yake j mrs helen henry of toronto was a weekend guest of ms genevieve bruce mrs joan bernie of north bay is visiting with her soninlaw and daughter mr and mrs larry bryson mr and mrs mel baker en- joyed a couple of days with mr jand mrs george barrett in gravenhurst rev and mrs peter gibbins have returned from their holiday he will speak at both services at the missionary church on sun day july 23 mr and mrs gary winger and family serving with the nor thern canadian evangelical mis sion in povungnituk que will be speaking at 11 am on sunday july 23 at the heise hill church mrs winger was born and raised in gormley farming jchanges dd up w j baxter j agricultural representative paying attention to a lot of little details can make a big difference in profit at the end of the year a comparisdn of figures from on- itario dairy farms shows that small differences in production j and financing resulted in a 70 per cent increase in net farm income the ontario farm manage ment analysis program com pared 420 dairy farmers who i voluntarily submitted records j from their 1987 production year the program compares each co- operators farm with the average of all farms and with the most i profitable onethird the high profit group produced 200 litres more milk per cow milked two more cows per per son had higher yielding crops especially forages and 500 less debt per cow j while each group carried 194 jcows per 100 tillable acres the high profit group was able to sup port nearly three more cows per 100 acres of forages grown s it would appear that the more profitable group kept their in vestment more in line with their sales their accrual net farm in come was 9312 per 1000 of in vestment compared to only 6660 for the average they also had 9 more milk sales per 1000 invested in their farm the more profitable farmers lost only 5000 on crop produc tion compared with 9000 on the average farm in the group this was less than half the loss per tillable acre for the high profit group most businessmen would agree lhat the reason for investing in a business is to return a profit at j1987 net farm income levels the average group would need 15 years for their net farm income to equal their investment the high profit group could ac complish the same goal in less than 11 years