oe SPRINKLER SYSTEM ON NORTH RIVER FARM

_~ PRICES REMAIN STRONG Island potato farmers

get impressive returns

‘Always a. strong factor in the agricultural economy of Prince

Edward Island, potatoes have |migh

heen particularly strong in ear- ning capacity now for three years in a row. ‘The estimated cash value for 1965 year-was a whopping .7 million dollars and that for the previous year was an even larger 17.7 million. The value estimates are for the calendar in both instances, nit for crop year. Potato yields were not consis- téntly high last year, indeed the driest growing season in many years curtailed production in many fields, although ‘here were some top yields reported. Bat the strong. price through mipst of the selling season— it’s sfill really strong— apparently rolling up another a ~story~ for~ people: are fortunate ‘to have had | ds: to sell since the 1965 crop geason selling got underway.

“The price earlier this month they can obtain seed to plant as an added inducement

many farm leaders, and respon- sible government people, feared t endanger the Island’s splendid feputation for potato ‘excellence, resulted

nounced for potato seeding this coming season.

The government move, though stirred farmers all across the province and they flocked to a number of farm meetings called to discuss a situation that -was worrying many of them.

The order “to plant nothing but certified seed or better (this would be Foundation) stirred angry protests among the peo- ple who normally plant table- stock spuds. Finally the govern- ment relented and offered a compromise. ' Th whose: own tablestock spuds’ which can be shown free from disease can plant them -in~ their own farny this year— they cannot sell any \for seed though, and they can | plant a seed plot from which

in more,

precedentedly good for travel ling, but it. has been shy of snowfall, which means a lack of

| Moisture. There were scattered reports. ‘stringent regulations being an-/of Island farmers hauling water

early this month. It’s a most un-

ipleasant outlook for a province

with a predominantly farm ec- onomy

yee ‘that leads to the observa- tion that irrigation was used jhere in a large scale last year for the first time— garden plots had used this equipment pre- viously, at least one did— and it’s almost certain that the irri-

gation will be used..in consider- lably larger proportions this)

year.

One large grower— Horace Willis, Kingston— told this pap- er late last year he would irri- gate in future even though there ‘Was normal moistiire. The idea of side-dressing applications of fertilizer at regular intervals ithrough the year was suggested to

__ OF $3.00 per bag for contents was their own potato acreage next: [Breater production, given the “considera

bly below the’-“$5-00

p aed i the price was uniformly good

out the current market- season. consistently strong price

‘(the current season is all the

more surprising— of course it’s

lecome— because the tremen- |

sly large crop in the United States last year made many po- marketing observers expect

et fall that the price for Island

pétatoes just could not hold up - the marketing season, it opened with obvious

‘freeath last fall.

~2But the fearful were encour-

pea as the season advanced,

>the price level was maintain- eg through the winter and gath- @red strength as ” spring sea-

—on-—appreached.— =»

TIGHT REGULATIONS _ A threat of an increasing incl- | @nce of ring rot last year that

*year; provided the

per_bag-which- was re- (duction passes inspection.

be inspected and all of the pota- | toes on the farm must pass in- spection— be free from disease —in order to:qualify the seed plot spuds for planting next) S ‘year.

It's too early to report with any degree of accuracy on po- tential. potato acreage this year, but the fact that there have been three really good potato years in a row, so far as price is concerned, ‘is expected to create the thinking among agri-

crop acreages.

MOISTURE LACKING

‘- One of the factors. that could possibly curtail potato acreage ithis year is the lack of moisture. ‘|The calendar year 1965 ended up “with something more than 10 in- jches below n

ormal rainfall. The} Inaat winter has been almost un-

eee

‘Livestock division lists = dairy cattle ROP results

Milk production certificates fer 106,475 purebred cows were fgsued in the last fiscal year wnder the Record of Perform- ance (ROP) program supervis-

.@@ by CDA’s Livestock Division

~The program provides pro-

oe credentials for each

entered on test. This infor-

tion is used. as. the basis for |

ee constructive breed- jag programs.

-According tothe ROP annual |

report just issued the 4,142 dairy Nerds which participated were aa, Ontario (2,502), Quebee ), British Columbia (173), on (122), New Brunswick 17), Nova Scotia (89), Prince Edward Island (80);—Manitoba (74). and Saskatchewan (57), ‘Holsteins led in breed repre-

; sentation with 2,954 herds on |

~ followed-by Ayrshires (512) rseys (338), Red Polls (9),

rise (6).

* Results for the year, on lac- tations up to 305 days on twice

&day milking, were:

« Holsteins, 64,731 records aver- , aging 12,041 pounds of 3.72 milk -milk (448 pounds of fat);

CAyrshires, 10,655 tecords ave- Bing 9,042 pounds of 4.04 milk *f pounds fat); Jerseys 9,292 records ’avera- 7,676. pounds. of 5.29 milk % pounds fat)’; ~Gu@rnseys, 5,592 records aver- , aging 8,555 pounds of 4.86 milk "(416 pounds fat); »Canadiennes 924 records aver-" aging 6,966 pounds of 4.49 milk (312 pounds fat); ‘Shorthorns, 442 records avera- ,ging 7,316 pounds of 3.9 milk .(285 pounds fat); : «Red Polls, 153 records avera- ‘ging 6,699 pounds of 4.12 milk “4276 pounds fat); .Brown Swiss, 78 records ‘aver- ‘aging 9,927 pounds of 4.2 milk 4 (417 pounds fat.) , «Herds of 50 and-more cows comprised only 7.7 per cent of ° herds on ROP, the 2 to 39- gategory accounting for tyore than 50 percent. |

“eOf the 106,475: records made. |

198. were under Plan A and remaining 50,277 under Plan Under Plan A, the herd ow-

ner weighs each cow's produc- | thou at each milking and re- | cords it. . This is supplemented ty a monthly visit by the ROP 4

Guernseys (222) | and Brown |

inspector who spot checks weights and makes a butterfat test on each cow. Under Plan B weights are recorded only on the day of the month that the

inspector visits the farm.

Beasley Ave.

culturists_for_one_of_the bigger |—

eertainty of adequate imioisture” ithat..artificial irrigation would

in May a year ago. ‘But | The tablestock spuds will also provide.

PAYS FOR SELF

The irrigation seulenedt is fairly expensive but two of the half dozen or more Islanders

who used it last year 9n_pota- jtoes— Mr. Willis and Chessel Irving, Murray Harbor— told ithis paper that the expenditure | 4+ is-well-worth while. The equip- ment pays for itself, and does so rapidly, was the gist of the opin- idns expressed, Mr. Willis sug- gested.

at the time this edition went to press were down perhaps 1,000 carloads from those of a year ago, and that must be regarded as an evidence of-the smaller production: in 1965 which was caused entirely by the moisture lack. The hope of every agricul~

rainfall will increase noticeably in time to provide for reasonab- ly profitable yields of all live- stock in 1966.

Shipments from this province

tirist here this year~is-that-the+

CONVICTS ATTEND ABBEY LONDON (CP)—There was no. sign. that history was being made in Westminster Abbey, except for four prison trucks and extra.police on patrol out- side. Inside, 50 convicts frm London prisons were attending a special service with the judges, lawyers and policemen who put them in prison.

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SECTION “B”

EVENING PATRIOT PAGES 1B- 12B

) Need for regulating

‘irrigation

Uneven application, of eal | ‘is a problem in using a sprinkler =" system for hillside

“The trouble arises from the variation in water pressure be- tween, the upper and lower lev- els of the system. Sprinklers near the bottom of the hill operate under greater pressure and, -con- oon: apply more water than do those Ligher up, says H. C. Korven of CDA’s experi- _Mental farm: at Swift Current.

The difficulty can be solved by installing a regulator in the riser pipe-of each sprinkler At Swift Current, researchers fast year evaluated four makes of regulators. Two were flow control valve types of similar characteristics and designed to discharge a fixed volume of wa- ter under varying pressure, The. others were pressure regulators designed to give a fixed

systems.

Both pressure ‘regulators are adjustable for nozzle size, and one can be preset at the factory to a requested pressure.

reliable of those tested because only in a few cases did the regu- lated sprinkler pressure coincide with the factory setting. How- ever, a series of adjustments

The | Jatter proved to be the least)

be made while the sprinklers | were in operation — factor that partialy makes up for the rather short range of line pressures over which it satisfactorily regulates | ie sprinkler pressure.

Seed testing fees increased

| For the first time in 20 years, fees for seed testing by the la- boratories of the CDA’s Plant Products Division have been raised. -

sprinkler pressure despite variations in water line pressure.

All four were tested over a range of nozzle sizes-from 3-32 to 1-4 of an inch and under pres- | sures of 15 to 200 pounds per | square inch. ]

Neither make of flow. control valve is adjustable-and because of this it is‘necessary to match valve capacity and nozzle size. | Stamped on each value is its rated capacity in U. S. gallons per minute. In the tests. both gave good results over the whole range of nozzle sizes when the | appropriate-valves were used.

Light can influence egg size

creased by varying the amount | of light pullets receive during | the rearing ana laying periods, say researchers at CDA’s re- search station here -

Proudfoot base thei* conclusivas on experiments with several thousand birds kept throughout | ~ lives in windowless hous |

ote one experiment pullets were | ailswed. six hours of light a day unt -.47 days of ege; then the

utes per week untii a maximum |

In a~—second test, light was | decreased from 17 hours a day | at hatching to nine hours at 147 days then imcreased 15 meteasiee per week to 20 houfs per day. This group produced 53.6 per | cent. Grade A Large .¢ oti compared with 50.7 per eent for | the control group.

In a third. experiment, light was decreased from 20 hours and 40 minutes at hatching to 14 hours light at 147 days then in-

per cent.

The researchers say that the odds are greater than 100 to one that the differences could not

have occurred by chance alone.

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light was increased by 18 nie

and tests led to improvement | and results comparable to those | obtained from the flow control | valves. Although adjustment of this regulator was found to be inconvenient and required its re- moval from the riser pipe, the device offered the © advantage | that the one size covered the

The new rates bring the fees closer to meeting the costs of testing.

Under the revised schedule, testing of a‘sample of wheat, oats, or barley will cost $1.50 for a germination test and $1.50 for a pany test. Testing of a for- ; age sample (such as timo- oa — of nozzle sizes used thy, red clover, alfalfa, or bro- in |megrass) will cost $1.50 for a

The other pressure regulator germination test and $2.50 for was found to be ineffective when ‘2 purity test. uséd with ‘nozzle sizes of less" Other new amendments to. than 3-16 of an inch. Adjustment the. Seeds Regulations include: was easy, however, and could’ a simplifying of the fee col-

A MAINSTAY OF ISLAND ECONOMY lecting procedure for pedi- canate Foundation No. 1 and name if it is. one of the pedi.’ in oe provision that, effective Ju-|~More- detailed information is

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