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page 12a the tribune thusday march 19 1971 ernie crossland heads york milk producers by aa wall agricultural representative york region we always have the annual meeting for milk producers in york on the worst night of the winter and we were true to form again last week there were hundreds of dairymen who wisely bowed to the freezing rain and guest speaker freeman couldnt get here from oac either still there were enough out to have a very useful discussion on progress in marketing with ommb director francis redelmeier there seems to be general agreement on the milk sales procedure but some confusion on market share quotas a need for some better way to sell group 1 pool quota and strong opposition to the proposed single transportation rate new officers were elected ernie crossland of newmarket is the new chairman taking over from carl boynton and barry little of markham takes on the secretarys job from oliver bales jim cowieson allen wellman carl boynton jake baker and dalton faris were elected as directors for three year terms winter kill freezing rain is no good for anything of course its nearly impossible in feedlots with normal tractors and scrapers just not able to cope wheat and alfalfa aiply x cll ammonium nitrate early for wgher wheat yields ammonium nitrate is part of a wide range of highgrade fertilizers produced in our lambton works your nearest cll dealer can supply you with modern applicators time your fertilizing early this year and reap more bushels per acre fertilizers master feeds stouffville phone 6401892 plants wintering over are something else ice usually is a serious cause of winterkill but i think the good cushion of snow under the ice this time would prevent most of the damage if the ice settles right down on top of the plants we can expect losses because the gases from decomposing material are trapped around the plants but the bigger risk is from deep snow on soil without much frost flooding and sharp freezing after a big thaw beef producers the ontario annual meeting for beef producers was last week too the big issues were around marketing beef im ports a new grading system and a market information service its good our director from york grant burroughes from kleinburg was recently appointed as a director on the ont ario public stockyards board and also elected to the executive of the beef organization for the province use tribune classified ads farm land price up over 40 times in hundred years the farm land in the whitchurchmarkham area has increased in value between forty and fifty times in the last one hundred years average price at that time was 60 an acre for firstclass land and 40 for second class with only 20 for third about two thirds of the farms were fenced in those days it is interesting to note some of the average crop yields in those days as com pared to now fall wheat turned out 20 bushels to the acre barley 15 bushels oats 35 bushels rye 15 bushels potatoes 100 bushels and corn 25 bushels actual farm population has not increased a great deal with most of the growth being urban plus the thousands who have built private dwellings in rural areas in fact between 1871 and 1881 the number of farmers had actually dropped as people tended to settle in the small towns villages and hamlets the first survey of land in the local area was made in 1780 by john stegmann and various surveys continued up to 1869 m00haaaaitlt it figures total economy because everybody has problems every home needs an electric adding machine think about it money problems budgeting and bill paying problems for the housewife school homework for the kids business and income tax problems for dear old dad look at these features lists 7 columnstotal 8 columns 99999999 direct subtraction credit balance automatic total and subtotal bar extra long cord automatic repeat key for addition subtract and multiplication