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Not enough Prince Edward ls- land farmers take hi'l advan- tage of the wealth of informa- tion and the assistance .ii'oilnlilc to them from the provincial dc- partment of agriculture. says the department minister Hon. Andrew B. MacRae.

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able to every farmer to slimv phat centiain praliiccs produce better quality and that these factors produce higher prices on the market and hence more in- come. "Working cooperatively with ‘hidustiry we have been able to up programs by \ii‘iich a hog producer can increase his income by at least ten dollars per hog. At the same time he is getting a premium product. This is no longer a matter of

“1m potato marketing. of which

ion to the problem begins at the source of production. High» or yields of better quality pot atoes are a real possibility, But here again the determining fac- tor is the collection of product-

!iion factors that are out in. gather—seed. fertilizer. culti- vation practices and pl‘ope’r

handling and shipping.

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have available for farmers

are are also three compres sors and the remainder of the basement—a large a'i't‘a—is hold available for future cxpansion of the operation.

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guess work: It is a provcn fact.

we hear much lately. the. solid-j,

iDept. set to aid farmer t

And Will] public meetings stag- .cd by the department. the main 3prol)lcm is that inevitably "the

ones that aicnd are the mos .progressive farmers and the .otics \ic’d like l'i help most are > those staying at home". he adds,

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The department of agriculture, visory and more practical cap- located mainly in the "prov1n-.3Cm95- cial Building annex". the Rich-3' STAFF or 17 mond Street building which also} Besides Mr. MacRae and his houses the P.E.I. Travel Bureau. l dellmy mini-Ste" Stewart C- has a large Staff, whose {ask u‘ Wright. the department has a is to help Island farmers in ad- Sta“ "f at lea“ 17-

tioucth tihe [water with a broom haindlle. it's -’that close to the top." Mir Ma ‘Adam said. There's another well available to complement the. water supply.

They expect to have a butter- lmilk drier in operation before {the year is out. though there‘s a mod drman‘d for whole butter- milk. now that more hogs are ihein-g fed.

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0 n can receive. sample. drain the milk cans and place tliirm on the straightiline can dVaS‘lPl‘ on the cheese side of the operation.

.On the cream side the cans ‘rome in along an automatic con- veym‘ belt. go onto the scale for ju-oiqv‘iing. pass through a rotary iii-asher and are covey ‘tu the outside.

3 The milk is dumped into the lpasteurizing vat “there it is lheated to 180 degrees. then goes lllll‘f‘llEll a plate cooler and s t‘t’"i‘lt‘f’(l to egrees before bring piped into the holding tank »oi ‘20.000 pound capacity.

l The cheese after being manu- it‘aiiurrd goes through a vacuum .nt‘ {78 pounds w ic com- parts it. and "takes the holes nut of it."

The business office at the t'irni of the hlll‘lfl'illtg has ther- mrtrrue glass on two sides and also provides a sale floor for cri-iain items. The manager's of icc is alongside.

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I This includes an agricultural ,, r. . ‘ ‘representative for each county

on mus Slde 0f theia horticulturalist. aii agronom: ' . . list. an assistant agronomist. n surgiwgggsttlfctggm'fiox‘ngegelfle director of 4-H activities. a soil Ohgrlott‘etown who was hired at l analyst a point”, fieldman'. a 'fixed ‘sum to do the job [director of livestock, a dairy

“ _ i superintendent. an assistant we V9 saYed 3‘ leas‘ 32:9001‘40“ dairy superintendent. a dairy ggcglga‘l‘fllggmfiaédres ' r' fieldman. and a director of Wo-

me‘s institutes. who has a staff lo ree. ' Such related organizations as the Farm Establishment Board. the Housing commission. and Improvement Services also come under Mr. Mac-Rae‘s jurisdiction.

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POLICY (‘O-ORDINATION ST. JOHN'S. Nnd' (CP\_E "The fieldvmen are responsible President Dr. Ravmond Gus-l fm‘ the.°"'°rdi“§ti°“ “I‘d.i'"‘pl?' h of Memorial‘ University . mentation of policies Within their

respective county areas." Mr. MacRae says.

Farmers can get the help of the department of agriculture by contacting their mounty rep- resentatives.

These "ag reps” are David Peacock. Queens County; Smith. Kings County: and Grae-

said Monday the institution has turned down an invitation -to, join the Association of Atlantici Universities. He said Memorial may join the association formed Sunday in Fredericton later.

Dr. Hugh .1. Somers. presi-i dent of St. Francis Xavier Uni- . versitzy in Antigonish. N.S.. was i appointed executive director of the association which aims to co-ordinate higher education in the Atlantic area.

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By NEIL A. MATHESON A unique operation province is the etition! to build

certain types of farm machinery . at Bedeq

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petitively with imported stock. ;

talked tio Harold Campbell : wthose activity is better known ; Caimp- .

under the firm name of hell and Burns, the first com pany to can peas in the province in volume.

Th-eil' machinery plant, a new ' development, is building bulk f

fertilize-r boxes this spring for a large company handling the ct. The bones set on a, stand in a farmer’s yard. hold i six lions; are filled by the sup-‘ plying company and the tanner ‘ backs his potato planter underl it so the fertilizer will flow into I tihe hoppers that distribute it, ‘ UNIFORM JOB 3 They are also experimenting, witthatiyipeofheavy disc or. whee-l bairii‘ . “ e believe",j Mr. Campbell told me, they will do a uniform

in the tough or hard land. and; wheels keep them from sinkiingt too deep into the sorter land.”

One interesting feature is a "triple seal bearing". the onlyl moving part t h at requires grease: but this bearing does not greasing tihiroum it's. lifetime, Mr. Campbell saidi It's not unique but it is fairly, new". heeiciilaii ed

n . ; 1 With this type of bearing—«it’s;

an English can. use a disc barrow that is two; feet wider and have no heavier; draught". he said. '

The film farms 1,200 acres! and gmws all the peas for their ! canning plant. so they are going? to try the barrows out in twirl own operation this year. beforel they will offer them for sale. ill was explained. Then we can‘ make sure that we have some thing that will stand up and will not give trouble". he. added, SUIT CONDlTIONS

There is no machine that can- not be improved on and that is our objective. said rmp- bell whose cousin, Geor e Camrp— bell is in charge of the machin- ery operation. “You have heard it said". he

rVed for example “that is are not made for operation on the Island. Well we i feel that local industry. thoughi ' small, c probablyt clhiange certain parts of machines to better suit conditions here."

They have six people working in the machinery plant now an are "searching for something that can be ma here success- fully and that may be competi- live." he suggested.

“We n ed some of this eq- uipment. in our own lairm opera- tion so we are probing what can be done,“ observed Mir.

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The Campbell and Burma operation started about 10 years ago "on a shoestring" in a way . that is interesting in itself. Mr. ‘ Burns is not active in the com- pany now. but he perhaps more than anyone else was responsible for the canning idea at first_

"We were growing perhaps 1.300 capon-s on the farm in Ohelton". Mr. Campbell recalled

and Mr. Burns was also buying poultry on a fairly large scale and Mr. Campbell was raisinga first to cviscerate and pack poul- try in polyethelync bags. They were selling the lower grade poultry elsewhere. and at times were dissatisfied with the price received. So Burns suggested they take some canining equip-i ment that he had and start to can it themselves.

“Our first lihCllEllll was tin can chicken in this building. but the chicken volume seeme small

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on this interesting and poten- called with appreciation". They

so we decided we would have to i can something.' else" said the man who is president and gen- eral manager of the company today."

"None of us had ever seen the inside of a canning fiactory be- fore" recalle . Campbell who explained that they decided

n peas and got perhaps the poorest variety available the first year. “G “

Teen Admin and got. 18 f‘ar ers involved in

Cam bell who is modest about what tihe plant is doing. and was re- luctant to talk flor publication

one and one-half acres each.

"These mean really gave us our start". Mr. Campbell re-

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« 200 of beans. The product is (bank. I have been seeking to put grown in a radius of seven miles things in cans ever since". he on rented land". and there is a said with a smile. reason. VALLEY LINK

“We‘re a one-horse, or a one— The canning operation has a main operation pretty well and link with an Annapolis Valley our volume is not large enough 1 fruit organization,“ They mat- to have tihe fieldiman service we ‘ ket our products and we ware- would need to keep in tau-ch house their apples for them." with tihe more than 50 farmers he observed. we would need to grow 20 acres ‘ Marketing is a major problem each for us". he explained. It i but the Berleque people are do-

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‘would be a job in itself I01 mg some on their own

‘ supervise the planning. etc. i“We‘ve been selling some in SPRAYING pROGRAM ‘Ontario recently" said the gen— 1 "We ave a strict spraying “‘31 manager WhO Observed

}that" one touch took recently an amount equal to one half of

Tprogram and our weed control effective. We employ a more , i or less permanent staff from ‘ 0‘“ “T51 year's 930K"

r‘MaIy 1 the early w>inter.; Gem“ ba°k '10 PCSSible in- Otherwise we would have peaks I‘d‘u'sm'v? he recalled mat he had 3 of employment need and it would i see" 1" Florida 3 Plant that ‘be difficult to get help. Mikes only “he 0098 for foun- . In e peak season there are [ ta”? 99!“ and “he fiI'm hold him, i l50 people on the payroll with 1 the" [7133951 markfi is in Can- two shins running. "We had 16 “‘3' _

:peiasons employed last week. he .“ 5 sai

One of the efficient phases of, their operation is that they

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d an advantage of produc- ling tihe crop themselves is that ‘

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a chance on us. We got used equipment and started to operate."

snme‘iou required quality standard";—

r .we don’t have to explain to any- ‘ lone why we did it", Mr. Camp-

l70.000 CASES‘ :bell otb . . 'lll. included ‘an old woodeni can think of a good many For Your inner that had been tilimiwn up‘thinxgs that we should be able against ‘a wall in the Annapolis j to manafacture here success-1 Service Valley. We worked 14 days andfully though the freight cost is. 14 nights steady and processed [a problem. What we need is. 14,000 cases of peas that fall.;somethinig that is light enough; on co-o The plant has been expanded . so the shipping charges will bet p and improved no the paint where 'small and is expensive enough 5 F A i'hEty packed 170.000 cases last to the contrast between value an ‘ transportation cost will be Our wage rate has more than 1' economically such as to allow doubled in the meantime. butl‘to compete on the market." he Brackley Pt. Road 0 Dual 4-6423

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costs down through increased ihas discovered yet he observed offiCiericy," he said, 1with a smile. I At first the 'thought was to! The problem of freight. cost is ‘ can beans also so as to lengthen an obstacle, but it's not so big ‘ out the season, but they’re ship- ‘ that it. cannot be overcome. Mr. ping the beans to Hantsport. gCampbell added. “A Crapaud now. . ilady-dshe is now Mrs. Howard We gnowmg our own raw ‘ Scliiirman. Bedequc_ product now almost 100 per.probably started me off on the cent and that includes approxi-.canning trend when I was a mater 1,000 acres of peas andlsmall boy. she. gave a tin can

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