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the acton free press acton ontario thursday august mth mm farm mews from haltons farm lands a most interesting and thought provoking booklet was recently is ued for 1953 by the ontario depart ment or agriculture this la en titled ontario dairy herd improve ment associations this report deals with the performance of cows that freshened in 1952 in as much ts each record is computed on the basis of a 305 daj lactation it in eludes cows that milked up to- oc tobcr31 1953 general summary number of associations operating during ear 52 number of turds enrolled 1275 number of cos enrolled during ear- 22 230 am rage milk production ptr cow 8 mo lbs amhui fat production per cow 300 ut amipro cot otr 100 lbs ot milk producld 3 51 aiat price rcctued pr 100 lb- milk sold 367 increase in average prdoetlon it is inttrestinr lo note that since 1951 the avtrage production per cow in d h 1 a has increased from 7954 lbs milk to 510 lbs or an increase per o w of s56 lbs ot milk and 22 lbs of it perhaps it should be pointed out that credits made fol lowing 305 dajs in a lactation arc not considered and lactations of less than 1s2 das are not included breed dbrtribwuoti 82 per cent of the cows enrolled arc holstun- 6 1 per cent ar shires 8 per cent jerses 32 per cent gutrnses 12 per ctnt short horns and 2 7 ptr cent of other breeding grades vs par breda approximate 35 per nnt of the cows enrolled in d h i a are pure bred and registered and remaining s per cent art grades it is also interesting to note that 61 4 per cent of the pure breds qualified tor cor tificates against 483 per cent in the case of the grades this is all the more significant when it is realized thai a large percentage of the grad es if their pedigrees were made up would show seeral pure bred an cestors j basts f qmalu yinc in order to qualify for certificates animals must hae produced in 305 days the following amounts of but terfat 2 earolds 220 lbs butter fat 3 carold 260 lbs butterfal 4 year old 300 lbs butterfat ma ture 350 lbs butterfal higher retards heifers artificially bred those responsible for the booklet have sorted out or separated the heifers resulting from artificial in semination from those resulting from natural service due to the fact that members of arufical in semination units on the average hae the use ot somewhat higher quality sires it is not surprising to find that the average production of artificially bred two yearolds is 219 lbs of milk and 10 lbs of butterfat higher than the average of natural en ice groups of two ear olds a somewhat similar picture is revealed in the three vearold heifers where the arlificiallv bred group average 199 lbs milk and 10 lbs butterfat over the aemge of naturally bred groups high ratten cowa in the two mar old class the high producing halton heifer is gal braith bros pick v ick daughter hich produced 497 lbs butterfat in the 3a das she placed eighth in thi provmct denul lawrence had tin hikh h iltun mature cow in a grad h uhcm with 16 311 lbs of milk and 625 lbs fat nt xt to her is a pun bred in itu herd of ernest ml th t production of 16318 lbs of milk and 622 lbs of butterfat tht pi iced eighth and ninth re specimlv in the province top halloa herds in th list of herds producing an a tract of otr 400 lbs buturfat in th 30 davs we note ttu top halton herd is that of frank rinehart camplvluiht with an avirage production of h 32 lbs milk and 430 1u buttrfat other halton herds m thi w lect clas are the fol frn st pell milton herd average uwt lbs milk and 424 b f a j ruddtll georgetown 12302 lbs milk and 4p bf c s wrtgglesworth gwnuwn 120q lbs mitk and 410 rf in iht 36 herds in the prouice prod i ni an aw race txtwcn 3 and 4w 11 binterfm under d h i a an th ii wtnc halton htrds den nl la mi mill n all n and ev rttt b t n n r dw ard fish vikvi i k g nlv bi ng lor rigl r j 1 m it n ball br w mj k mil h i iv d mean m f u n i f ui tamp l r nrt mirshi 1 mil t f iliu hrds i i vin i vi k r mcc vmack nt r n n itw han it 1 an listed m the first 1 if th ixat of irs i n phu in on articu- we hope to t- thls n port uch other nfv mation as why ht ne and secondu the f 11 vins fctos on a production per dr efic t v bor d elf cunt al e sue of herd preliminary rttan taken an north haltaa night school a meeting convened by d l m in shall cwmrnunitr programmes branch of the ontario department of education was held m the georgetown high school last week the purpose of th mettf was to explore the possibilities of a night school programme at acton milton and georgetown under the auspices of the north halton high school area board such a programme would be very similar to that con ducted at hilton the past four win ters with the cooperation of the ontario departments of agriculture and education the meeting at georgetown was attended bv rcprescntatu es of the north halton high school board the principals of the three high schools concerned and numbers of iht local committees from each of thi ctntres m halton where night school classes win held last win tir a minagtmtnl committeexom posed of the three high school prln galley two farm news cipals c a wood j l lambert and e a hansen three members of the high school area board e h cook e masterman and john e hall also mrs w j beaty acton r licata georgetown and a t wood ley milton were appointed we understand a meeting will be held at each o the three centres in the near future when local commit tees will be named it has been suggested that the courses this year will get under wav un tuesdaj november 2 4 h calf club members meet at w h merry s hilton s 4 h betf and dual pur pose club hi id their augnst meeting at merrybrook farm of w h merry near merton on tuesday evening of last week art bennett associate agricultural representative assist ed by club leaders sandy buchanan and tom massey was in charge of the meeting the club members had the oppor tuntty of judging and giving reasons on an excellent class of shorthorn heifers in addition they had their final written quiz of the club season other pleasing features of the evening s program were the demon strations on curling by kathenne mifrry and on clipping by jim mc kas bob coxe ablj expressed the appreciation of the gathering to the merrvfamily for the courtesies and hospitality extended r tractor members mee at harnby on thursdaj evening of last week halton s 4 h tractor main u nance club members met for their august meeting at thi j i case im plinunt shop of llod fisher at hornbv hal wright agricultural engineering fuldman guelph a sisled bv club uadir jo n w picket was in charge of the very excellent evenings program plans were made to enter a dis pla in the interclub educational display section of the halton junior farmers at the milton fair in sep tember president harding prtce and vicepresident spencer wilson of the esquestng agricultural soc iety invited the club members to hold their achievement day at the georgetown fair on saturday oc tober 2 fast cstter bathurst n b cp mrs edmund watson of west bathurst s claimed bj friends to be one of the fastest seed potato cutters in the province she won an electric clock bv cutting two barrels in one hour fatal market charlmetowii cp d a mac donald president of the prince edward island pota o marketiig board av the marit mes can look d ward ti a trong potato market unless the present rat of produc lion in ihe united states is step ptd up or blight interferes with the 1934 crop- llbuchner optometrist in acton every wednesday afternoon office at h mainmuze barber shop hours 1 3w 00 evenings by appointment for appointment telephone 115 more mead room bow about a tpara room our experts can harp you utlbn f pere spjace in cajlor or athc by hawim1xw k can bo mono ovor wo nt yoo with qa tty materials actot y tiocets now on sal at the cne ox oftke on rite oty hall lawn and al llwboxoflkaliirhecn e otondttatd jtttoutoteranrhmkkroam to vjoopm dairy of yowf local tkkaleoent roy r06ws in afternoon grandstand circus nonod soots h 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