THE WILLIAMS

LAKE TRIBUNE

Wednesday, November 4, 1959

farm Renew

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OOOh! what a

By Test
The Best

Leading their calves
~ | around the ring so that
the judge, Dr. S. N.
Wood, can get a good
look at them are mem-
bers of the 4-H Club.
There were about 14
club animals competing
for the championships.

Big
| elub
grande

winner at the 4-H inter- pounds. The lad
competition to take the| Joseph's Mission.
umpionship was David| In the 4H inter-club contest
Maur 11, who showed his 750) club

: . | “
pound calf Wednesday and/ David Belleau accepted the prize
received a price of $

is from St.

last

topped the scales at 910 pounds) Derrick was
and was auctioned for $26.75.

A” won over club “B” and| wi

CALF WINNERS SELL STOCK AFTER ANNUAL SHOW

the auctioneer. A
|totat ot 22 calves passed beneath
Judge of the calf competition) the judge’s critical eye and went

as Dr. S. N. Wood and Elmer | on sale last Thursday.

| 0 per on behalf of his group. There
hundred the following day when} were six or seven calves competed
the PGE bought the animal. from each group.
| Other winners included: John|

Reserve championship went to] a. e z i
Stafford who placed third in the}

the calf shown ‘by Mable Corn-| : .
shown : jclub competition with a calf|
wall, 8, who's entry weighed| 77: Es
. |weighing 1150 pounds and re-|
}1090) and x t a price - of far, A e6ex
. *_|ceived a price of $28.50; little]
| $34.00 per. hundred, — Mable’s| \ 74... af |
Mary Cornwall, tive years old,
| calf was a non club entry. tes A nee
jlead 990 pounds of beet around
| David Belleau. 17, who paraded| the ring to take sécond position
jthe animal which weighed 1,130| among the non club members
| pounds, won f place among}and her calf brought $27.75:
| the Indian entri Dave's calt| third in the non club calves was
Jwent for $24.25 per hundred!Don Mayfield who's animal

US. breeder pays $1,025
for Earlscourt heifer

Hache.

Top bull in the sale was Court
Bushman, 29N, sold for $800 to
F. C. Laughlin, Lumby.

At Earlscourt Farm sale a
yearling heiter topped Col. Victor
Spencer's Heretord beef cattle at
‘Lytton October 26 at $16

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Buyer was an American breeder,
Earl Heathman, Grand Coulee,
| Washington, against spirited

Buyers wanted young bulls
around 18 months and showed no

interest in the 6-year-old grand
champion Court Royal Tone 1H
when auctioneer Mat Hassen,

| biddi gs by Doug Bowers, Kam-
| loops and Jack Alexander, Lac La

‘ROP program

Third report of a performance
|testing program for beef cattle,
|operated on a federal-provincial
| partnership, points to increased
interest.

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The daily growth of 1,2
calves in 64 purebred herds was

recorded. king part were the
western provinces of Manitoba,
Saskatchewan and British Col-
umbia.

And, reports J. D. Bai Chiet
of the Livestock Section, Canada
Department of Agriculture, Al
berta and New Brunswick indi-
cated a desire to participate in

) test program.
% HEREFORDS

Seventy-five per cent of the
calyes tested were Hereford

» were 645 bull calves on
test to weaning they
d gains of about two pounds
However, the top one-
recorded gains of
while

and aver-

the

pounds pe

bottom one-third mar ed only
1.61 pounds.
649 female calves

A total of
averaged 1.7
the top one-third puttin,
pounds daily agd the bottom one
third 149 pounds.

. the difference be

pounds a with

In each

tween the top one-third and the

bottom one-third was roughly a
halt a pound a day—or about
j 100 pounds on a calt

| The kop permit

and all calves

put on the post-weaning

are now

feeding test of 168 days

AVERAGE GAINS
Number of bull calves was cut
to 554 and these ave 1 191
pounds per day during the feed-

od. The top one-third
chalked up pounds each day,
while the bottom one-third claim-
ed 146 pounds—a difference of
almost a pound a day.
daily ain of 580 fe-
male calves during the feeding
period was 1.23 pounds, with th
top one-third
pounds and the bottom one-third
0.85 pounds.
Lowering

Average

recording

the overall gaining

average of female calves was the
fact that in British Columbia and
Manitoba, heifer calves for the
most part were carried through
the winter on little more than
maintenance rations.

ON BREEDER'S PREMISES

The ROP program is designed
as a herd test to be carried out
on the breeder's premises with
as little deviation from his regu-

lar eS as possible. The

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primary purpose is to identity

Greater interest shown in beef

n a program since 1950 under

and |

Armstrong, insisted on a $1,000
operating bid. He sent the bull
back to the barns

Average price for the 45 head
sold was $460 against last year’s
$495, for a total of $20,740.

Second high ot the sale for
bulls were $750, paid by Cedric
Dorrell, Clinton, for Court Bush-
man 28N.

within the herd the better and
poorer performing calves for re-
placement or culling, and to pro-
ide a means of relating these to
their dams and sir

|
|

The Ontario
Agriculture has

Department of
been operating
the
Ontario Advanced Registry Policy
for Beef Cattle. While this pro-
gram does not come within the
scope of the ROP program, there

Second high heifer was Court
Miss Royat Jr.

59M, for which
Lac La Haghe,

Although bidding was slow and
prices weak, Keith Gilmore, of
is close liaison between the feder-| Canadian Hereford Journal, said,

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Cattle Auction at Williams Lake
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10

ELMER DERRICK ‘IN CHARGE
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al department and the Ontario|“It was a good sale compared
board in the operation of the pro-|with the falf auctions I

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