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gMaritime meat shol‘tdge adds spurl to Island beef production Program

Prince Edward llsland's cat-I demen are rapidly improving] 'snd expanding their beef pro-l ‘ducdon. murned on by th e challenge of matching quality .9 e. and the knowledge of : _. huge atmrtage in the Atlantic‘ area. l

The slidrtly less than five per: sent (1 Red and Blue brand car-‘i m mparee with almost 50'

r cent across the country—l 32.5 per cent Red and 14.9 Blue- thoudr Island producers are showing improvement and arc: getting slightly less than 25 pcr ‘ n B or Standard ‘

deficiency -—pius cranmortatim costs to li'alifax. less the cost of

a competitive basis at regular Apparently not satisfied that

gram that would offer cattle on auctions and. these people tee]. would be more likely to bring the possible price for their

Ibrand. It represents an improve- Daniel Ga. explain. ' t we ment tint is encouraging. Live-l aha] have the yards away. stock Director L. . Roper notes but it don mean that we are with appreciation. fir-ml rsolved now to work to-

enge to produce a: - quality product hits the is»; ,lend beefmenthauias thew

strive to come closie w the W“ visions of ultural Re- ‘product where qual ty has tratl- . . habilitation and Devdopme 'ed other provinces. to the “best 1‘- W' MP ‘ Act so am federal. 91‘ Canada' "tmg‘held by hog‘ many Island cattlemen h the M which! mall lid Wm men here who last eﬁealrnchlev: 3 past two years_ be warlable.

.ed an unprecedent

Icentege of grade A carcasses. Angus m m. “I.

most active as they have h-

‘No other province matches it creased me“. new”, IL have

.and Canadian average is 34. m?“ 10 times sum. the M equ‘ to ed 9.2:; '1ooo,ooo GOAL drive stamléd- Bt'wt mﬁergord years. but the cattle prices do I ‘ mcnareamoseq yave.not re’llhereh en of ' 3:23:22? although the traditionally 8m incentive D! W Iand Mr. nope:- seems optimistic Shm‘mm “Winn” my “0‘ “on for I! agriculth makes-

. when “estimates that be making such an obvious 01- m fort to expand at the Mt. Sceking a further incentive to 1'” There have always been some l"creased Production. cattlemen mm, and “1115 would mean 81- good cattle in the prov- organized late last year a P.E.I. most $500 for the “We family he: but the" had never been Beef Producers Association with the People. In impreﬁdve W M min, More u, the idea of getting better prices. hem that stirred Ilium think- m m], d m impression 0,, Several ideas were studied to me over an pictura Now tha improve the price structure be- t W 35 5110111101.“, fore a decision was made to try Hereftm‘l and Angus breedch 3 “(lice gor‘Tma-mmereg by . ._ anaa acers, rip one

‘99 up in“: ixstzt'i w'th ti; year. It's based on tfne Winni- Mﬂm 0'1 3 peg price—western meat is ages in the Atlantic area in- from Ontario distributed among brought in to fill the Maritime elude one and onehalf million

per fthe goal of 100.000 more cattle will be reached in five years.

813- eraht. dam! Isl-lorri- tural minister, says the Atlantic Province people eat 69.2 million pounds

a

pounds in mutton and lamb. 58.1 ion pork, 16.9 million chicken

uczing mill this traditionally dairy and fowl and 5.2 rm'llion turkey.

. The Island, itself. is deficient in the quality of the average beef‘vetepan beef m a, the chicken and fowl and in turkey, carcass. Many . like Sandersons. long among the he said recently. Sher-thorn breeder Ralph Adams, best in the Island and Mari-

CU'I' PRODUCTION The emphasis on bed is also aimed at replacing inefficient ur

at least two crease

brand. plain that. a red or blue carcass has is 50 per cent conformation and stated. This is in keeping with 50 ' an urge to cut production acress the country rather than face an ever increasing butter surplus. of a beef steer

per cent finish. But there's still a strong core,

the dairy inﬂuence fn‘. cross with many liking the bigl province- fast-growing carcass from a would also. it was felt. increase ; beef-Holstein mating. And such

O'Ieary, maintain that it takes 1 times with their registered Here— 5 of beef to l fords. like the Hereford-Holstein produce a carcass t h at Williamsg as the best paying beet".

Livestock graders ex- I carcass. ‘

has a stable tull of the Hereford l Holstein cross steers in his barn of dairy cattlemen whose idea i at present, insists they are the is a beef-dairy ' best paying beef

1 Tom Sanderson. North River.}

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ISLANDERS BID TO MEETCHALLENGE 0F QUALITYY

The Guardian -1'he Evening Patriot

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TO THE FARMERS OF P. E.l

350 PEOPLE EMPLOYED

3,000 acres produce used

In their first crop year the huge frozen food storage capa- food processing plant of See- ble of handling 4,500,000 pounds man Bros (Canada) Ltd. at of refrigerated food products. New Arman proved a market This plant. whlah began op- ior 3.000 acres of farm produce, eration on Oct. 18, 1961. is un-

superintendent; Stan Moore. field man; Frank Currie, con- troller; Ray Smith. quality con- trol supervisor: Raeburn Orr,

c ompo sed of peas, potatoes; dcr the management of Mur- m l t: . broccoli. cauliflower. spinach; ray Mar-Ewen. assisted by a es" “mane mEMgm' and brussels sprouts. capable executive staff which Gerald Mccarvme tum" “1d

The company is now comma“? l n c 1 u d e 5: Don Wood. field ing plans for an increase in Am“—

acreage this year So DO

The acreage last year was composed of some 1.700 acres: Extends 4: WELCOME to all FARMERS

of peas. 700 acres of potatoes. A CHEERY GRIN WELCOMES YOU llN

warehouse manager.

500 acres of ‘cole crops." broc- ocli, bur-dis sprouts. and oaul- a iflower). and 100 acres of Spin-'

ch. 1

The plant, w h l c h operates steadily for 10 months of the‘ year. employs from 75 persons in minimum production periods to 350 during production ponksu

This establishment. the lam» . est food processing n'ant in tho province. has. under one roof. . MW.“ an area equal to an acre and a “on. slf ME .Pdn' EXTERIOR

Included in this p‘ant is a:

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Hon. Andrew 3. Malta.

Deputy Minister of Agriculture

DR. 1!. H. KELLY Director 8 Veterinary Services

,5/ r. w. spams arm. STERNS ‘llldlllt Dill" Superintendent Horticulturist

" H. J. MacDONALD Dairy Superintendent

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Davis Ward Economist

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Gerald Johnston- Poultry Fieldman

Charles Carr Dairy Ficldmal

The fieldmen are well qualified and experienced in the various aspects of agriculture. They keep np-to-date on the latest farming methods and experiments. Their job is to make this information

available to you.

GSTER Director of Marketing

HREY

J. '1- Dalry Fieldman

MacEachen

L. W. ROPER Director of Livestock

DAVID PEACOCK CHANDLER QUEEN’S CO. KING'S CO. PRINCE 00.

Your county representative is your direct contact with the Department of Agriculture. He is in close touch with the pre- vailing conditions in your ovm totality. His experience and knowledge can be of value to you as a farmer.

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Minister of Agriculture

TERESA MacLMD Direct! of Women’s Institute!

JACK

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Dairy Fieldmaa

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