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Tho Acton Froo Press Wednesday Apr 1980 9 if if 4jg I Br Trucks back to am start Trucks can again on 17 Sidcroad and the Fourth Line starling six in the morning Monday night Halton HUI3 council bowing to pressure from Indusmin the independent truckers and the union voted to amend the bylaw which set a as the starling time for truck traffic Mayor Pete reporting on a meeting with the company truckers representatives of residents In the area and Councillors Miller and George said the truckers wanted no bylaw at all and the residents were apprehensive but in fairness to business settled on the a m time He explained there would be strict supervision of the hours by town staff who would report on any abuses He said the police will be asked to increase their level of enforce ment or the bylaw said reports would go to Indusmin if trucks start earlier and pointed out the company has the power to cut off any truckers who abuse the time Miller said residents are afraid the truck traffic will be on the roads before six the town and police have to make every effort to ensure that does not happen Last week truckers and union a m starting time would create a hardship since most jobs want the material on site by seven and warned it could make less competitive The truckers also contended the hour first thing In the morning was valuable since there la leas traffic on the road They also pointed out the a start put trucks on the roads at the some time as school buses Councillor Harry Levy asked if council could assume the residents would not be back com plaining The mayor doubted if the residents would be satisfied but stated Somewhere a decision has to be made The am start could put local businesses in Jeopardy The trucking industry has been In operation In Hills a lonR time before the people on the road That a as clear as I can be and as fair as I can be to both sides Maltby claimed if the trucking industry did not help police itself he would support a move to block the road off completely lonson market rabbit producer week old New Zealand rabbits a from their mother Ro lonson two six thousand New it in lib I completed Hoy well known I now commercial rabbit breeder plans for more than six rjbbits to occupy his Acton farm From Quarter horses to Easter rabbits Police seek explosives Halton Regional Police found a orange are asking anyone having shell similar to a shot gun shell to turn It over by Jennifer Easter and rabbits go together and one Acton area resident who has more than his shore of Easter symbols is Roy lonson Formerly of George town lonson well known Quarter horse breeder and show judge is now in the market rab bit business At the moment he has roughly 1 New land whites and is head for Why did Roy go into rabbits after a life time with horses Call It How to make a living on acres Roy chuckles There still horses on the form oui Quarter horse lion Sugar Joe Reed and approximately 16 mares and youngsters Roy feels his acres Maple Meadows Farm is easier to maintain than the acres farm he had in George town He and wife Joan are with nev establishment just north of Acton However with lesser acreage and an overall slowdown in the horse market Roy looked to rabbits to help him living put me through Roy ex plains referring to the years he raised and showed the finest New Zealand Reds in the country With consumer interest in rabbits rising to make a com living out of five to six hundred does Rabbits reach market able weight five pounds In eight to 12 weeks Does have five litters a year Roy are having more with an overage of eight rabbits per litter Gest at ion is a month long Add up those math ematics and It easy to see how a producer can make a comfortable llv even though he re ceives a mere cents a pound live weight com pared lo 85 per pound in retail stores Large rabbitry caring com pi ell on It takes investment of time and dollars to set up a rabbit business and Roy has spent the last year doing just this He now has a large foot by foot rabbitry building near com behind his horse barn The new building is ventilated heated has an automatic manure handling system an automatic watering stem and is environment ally controlled It spring all year round A thousand rabbits are living in temporary pens in the new building will be joined by the re maining rabbits lining the walls of extra box stalls in the horse barn as soon as Roy has his pens completed Assisted by the lonson youngsters Bruce and Lee Roy and Joan have been building the brood stock from a nu of excellent stock Roy was able to buy from a Quebec breeder I got lucky Roy says His rabbits are now some of the best pro ducers in the province Standard for New land bucks is 10 pounds Roys are 11 to pounds His does reach pounds at maturity His New Zealand rabbits are going to mar at tight wetkh fully up to weight and arc dressing out at CO per cent when the average is much lower from to per ding for Improvement Most market producers don get into selling breeding stock but Roy wants to combine both and has already done well it the slows where he entered market classes is up to capacity popular dish he be using three times Restaurants feature feed bit as gourmet fare now Rabbits are watched Even with rabbits be- carefully for common coming more popular health problems such as and marketable the ear mites sore hocks to police The shells explosives belonging to Canadian National Rail ways arc activated if struck a sharp blow scours Medicated water is fed periodically through the automatic watering system Market ribblts ire on a separate water line and so receive no medication as per meal regulations lonson ships all his breeding rabbits through one of the considerable eight provincial govern demand proving it packing houses sible to combine breed were improvement with mar processed last year as rabbit becomes a more His improved breed him one head ache his does arc large enough to breed at four months of age eight pounds but there too young to become mot hers A doe is usually in pro duction for three years till they CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY ACTON BRANCH For Information Coll For details on plans covering Corn Spring Grain Beans New Forage Seeding call Spring into the 80s with MP Ferguson DURING OUR OPEN HOUSE THURSDAY APRIL 17th from 10 am to 9 pm HELD WHEN TIME RAN OUT LAST TIMES WED LITTLE MISS MARKER GOOD FRIDAY HOLIDAY MATINEES ALL 3 CINEMAS AT 2 PM THIS ADVERTISEMENT IS SPONSORED BY THE ACTON INDUSTRIAL COMPANIES IN THE INTEREST OF THEIR EMPLOYEES