Seed growers could write Simon-Day in Winnipeg for information on the cleaner and disc separator advertised in our Feb. 23, 1963 issue.
At the Manitoba Swine Breeders Association in Brandon, members heard of a new provincial program to encourage them to set up high-standard herds from which growers could select quality animals.
Also meeting in Brandon, the Manitoba Cattle Breeders Association voted to send a letter to the federal minister of agriculture objecting to the “Canada Approved” stamp being placed on imported beef processed in Canadian plants. Association president Norman Hodson said that cattle were “the bright spot in the western agriculture economy,” and, “As long as our cattle market is tied to that of the States and as long as there is no interference with the present marketing system, things should stay that way.” Cattle numbers in the province had increased 40 per cent since 1951 to over a million head.
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Meanwhile at the Western Stock Growers’ Association meeting in Alberta, members called for an end to subsidies on shipment of feed grain from the Prairies, and opposed “trends toward paternalism in government, growing bureaucracy and creeping socialism.” A resolution said these “cannot but lead to a weak and dependent people.”
