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Page 14 The Gazette switches you to the first five-year occupancy agree- number cruncher available ment which allows him time from a 30-minute coffee to set up a new ranch head- break. She pulls up your file quarters to continue ran- on a computer onto a video ching. Thus the public will not be admitted to the historic site time the government will spend *4 Olds Auction Mart report Report for the week ending Tuesday. Oct. 6, 1992. Cattle 2,483, hogs 444. BUTCHER CATTLE: Al-2 steers 79.00 to 84.00. Al-2 heifers 78.00 to 83.00. Cl heiferettes 63.00 to 73.00. Feeder cows 57.00 to 63.00. Dl-2 cows 58.00 to 61.00. D3-5 cows 53.00 to 58.00. D4 overfat cows 48.00 to 54.00. Bologna bulls 67.00 lo 75.00. Light feeder bulls 75.00 to 86.00. REPLACEMENT CATTLE: 250 - 400 lb. steers 115.00 to 130.00. Heifers 107.00 to 121.00. 400 - 500 lb. steers 109.00 to 127.00. Heifers 99.00 to 114.00. 500 - 600 Ib. steers 104.00 to 119.00. Heifers 95.00 lo 108.00. 600 - 700 lb. steers 97.00 to 113.00. Heifers 92.00 to 106.00. 700 - 800 lb. steers 93.00 to 107.00. Heifers 89.00 to 101.00. 800 - 900 lb. steers 89.00 to 100.00. Heifers 87.00 to 95.00. 900 - 1000 lb. steers 81.00 lo 95.00. Heifers 79.00 to 92.00. Bred cows 680.00 to 870.00. Dairy cows 600.00 to 880.00. Baby bull calves 120.00 to 210.00, with larger calves to 440.00. Baby heifer calves 100.00 to 185.00 with larger calves to 410.00. HOG DIVISION: Weiner pigs 20.00 to 38.00. Small feeders 40.00 to 50.00. Larger feeders 50.00 to 80.00. Sows and Gilts 140.00 to 185.00. Boars 85.00 to 115.00. SHEEP GOATS: Ewes 28.00. Feeder lambs 48.00. Nannies 65.00. Billies 85.00. FEED: Hay 1.20 to 3.20. Innisfail Report for Monday, 952 head, Wednesday, 2781 head, for a total of 3733. Roping calves 250 -380 lbs., 1.20-1.35 per lb. Steer calves 400 - 500 lbs., 1.15-1.34 per lb. Steer calves 600 lb. plus. 1.10-1.14 per lb. Heifer calves 400 - 500 lbs., 1.10- 1.14 per Ib. Heifer calves 500 - 600 lbs., 1.04 - 1.08 per lb. Yearling steers 700 -750 lbs.. 1.00-1.09 per lb. Yearling steers 800 -850 lbs., 96c - 1.05 per lb. Yearling steers 900 -950 lbs., 90c - 96c per lb. Yearling steers 950 -1010 lbs.. 90c - 95c per lb. Yearling heifers 700 -800 lbs., 93c - 1.00 per lb. Feeder cows 60c - 68c perlb. Exotic cows over 1400 lbs., 58c - 61c per lb. Old cows, 45c - 55c per lb. Bulls 65c - 73c per lb. Bred cows, 800 - 1,050 per head. display terminal, can't mediately locate the problem and says shell caU back. The un-u lhe end of 1996. return call may take tour Dur'ng th-' minutes if you can wait a gt;r four month, if you can* stay m' gt; developing the s.te by the phone. The net result l / ,. r? fMl* gt;. i *l ,* . 1 and rehabilitating the to hkely another form to Ml buildings where needed. * Meetings will be held by the The successful farmer Friends of the Bar U. headed l.aday needs to have one of by Omar Bn.ughton of High those beeping calendar wat- River, to figure out what to ches so he will get the paper, do with the historic spread, work into the government on The public has been invited time. to send in its two-cents He alsa. needs lo take a worth. It could be responsi- ourse at the Banff School a,f hie for supplying part-time Advanced Management to Personnel to staff the sile. DOWN ON THE FARM bV John Schmidt Dean of Alberta's Agricultural Reporters follow instructions and understand enoujgh about complicated forms to fill them in. The alternative is to go out into the fields and pull thistles, watch for bug infestations and repair the combine and hire an accountant at 100 to 1,000 to do the paperwork. i That is the .secret of success for today's farmer. A Story for Friends of tha Bar U to Tell. . There was a great deal of excitment August 18 when a charter night was held at Longview Community Hall for Friends of the Bar U Historic Ranch Association. The Canada Parks Service of the Canada Department of the Environment bought the 320-acre headquarters of the 112-year-old ranch December 31.1991- The buildings are much the same as they were when the ranch was established, except the house which was burned down and rebuilt. The purchase is a prize because the Bar U is regarded as l he second-oldest in t he province. The oldest, of course is the Cochrane Ranch at Cochrane, The Cochrane s headquarters buildings did not survive in the same good shape as the Bar 0. Highway interchange construction resulted in demolition of some of the buildings. The Stockmen's Memorial Foundation and the Canadian Rodeo Historical Association are working on a plan to wt up a Western Heritage Centre on the Cochrane headquarters site The Canadian Parks Service defines its historic sites as cultural resources and has a number of guidelines to govern its expenditures. In other words, it could explain how and why a ranch the size of the Bar U was set up. At one time it supported 30,000 head of cattle. Over the years the owners of these large spreads have received a bad rap from certain segments of the farming community and Easterners who refer to them as cattle barons whose polilicial philosophy is to the right of Ghengis Khan. But what is not generally realized is that in the 1880s it became government policy to aid and abet establishing giant ranches with 21-year leases of 10 for 1.000 acres. After Confederation in 1867 and the establishment of Indian reserves on lands formerly owned by the Hudson's Bay Co.. then the disappearance of the buffalo, the government was charged with supplying beef rations for the Indians. The government had established another policy al Confederation: that no settlement would be allowed ahead of land surveys on the Prairies down to the township level. These two policies resulted in the first demonstration of a Canadian government not letting its left hand know what its right hand was doing - a policy continued through the present day. The decision to feed the Indians rather than fight them resulted in the government undertaking Canada's first cross-border shopping. Beef American incursions. But it also brought in settlers, many of whom the government didn't want in Alberta because the surveys were not completed. They began squatting on small parcels of land. The big ranchers saw peril in these small holdings because millions of acres of environmentally sensitive landscape was plowed up which should have remained in grass. The ranchers' opposition to this pattern of settlement was interpreted as antagonism - but their stand was based largely on good husbandry practices rather than on political exf gt;ediency. The Bar U Ranch interpretation could now tell the story of their vindication for the stand they took. frozen canola seed good good source of high protein feed for pigs. Early frosts across the province damaged many canola crops. Oil from frost-damaged immature canola seed has a high chlorophyll content. This- makes the oil green and more costly to refine. But the frost- damaged seed also contains between 18 and 20 per cent crude protein and 20 to 30 per cent oil. The percentages depend on the amount of frost damage. For a pig producer, both the protein and oil are advantages in feeding, says Salomons. Feeder pigs can easily digest protein from ground Wednesday. October 14, 1992 canola seed. The oil in- screen from clogging, creases digestive mix frost-damaged jBOiergy and reduces the seed with equal parts dustiness of the feed barley before you put it ration. through the mill. Feeder pigs, between 25 and 100 kg, can use Feeding frost- up to 20 per cent frozen damaged canola seed canola seed in their can also lower the feed feed without affecting their performance he costs of pig rations says. Sows shouldn't Salomons adds. On a be fed fost-damaged toone for tonne basis, canola seed he adds. Limited research has tj,e iower grade canola shown negative seed's value may be 20 to 50 per cent more than number one feed barley. ' results, so feeding to sows isn't currently recommended. Canola seed must be ground before feeding. This can present pro- - blems because the seed damaged canola seed, can contain up to 30 contact an Alberta per cent oil. To prevent Agriculture regional your hammermill swine specialist. For more information on feeding frost- pig feed Crushers don't like frozen canola, but the frozen crop can be very useful for pig producers says an Alberta Agriculture regional swine specialist. Pig producers around the province have a real opportunity from the amount of frozen canola seed that may be available, says Marvin Salomons, the Red Deer - based specialist. Reject canola seed can be a ATTENTION FEEDLOT OPERATORS RANCHERS DAIRY PRODUCERS UNITED FEEDS Fall Mineral Special October 5th to 16th, 1992 SAVE 40.00 PER TONNE FOR FURTHER DETAILS, PLEASE CONTACT UNITED FEEDS, OLDS 556-3395 Or Your Local Unifeed Dealer SOME RESTRICTIONS MAY APPLY The price tag. is about 13 ,w*s bought in Montana at a 'and provincial coat of 500,000 in some years for t he I ndians. million and prov government ; grants are in volved. How-eVer. this pro jecl has run'into roadblocks from local pressure groups who think cattlemen are public enemy No. 1. The Western Heritage Centre will be run oti a con- When the RCMP was sent west they brought cattle with them. One of the Moun- ties discovered cattle could be successfully overwintered without supplying extra feed (especially in the Chinook A Today's 800-number ensures successful farming I have written very little about the government GRIP and NISA programs. The reason is simple: they are so complicated I can't understand them. . However, in a blinding flash one day recently - as if receiving a signal from the Angel Gabriel -. I understood everything about them. The revelation came while I was in Vancouver visiting my 18-month-old granddaughter, Victoria. The revelation came from the Vancouver Sun which carried a story about the greenhorn Saskatchewan NDP Agriculture Minister Berny Wiens missing a March 15 deadline (by two days) aimed at notifying farmers of pending changes to the federal- provincial farm income sup port program. Gross Revenue Insurance Plan (whose acronym is GRIP). The missed deadline wilt mean less money for hard- pressed Saskatchewan grain growers, it is alleged by Harold Martens, the Conservative agriculture critic. Wiens' reply was that the GRIP program was carelessly slapped together by Ottawa and would cost the Saskatchewan government (which is harder- pressed than the hard- pressed Saskatchewan farmers) between 50 million and 100 million. However, the issue revitalized the fortunes of the 10-member Grant Devine Conservative opposition. Wiens is a gangly former school teacher (which automatically makes him a member of the NDPl. He now runs a hog and grain farm operation. He admitted to a reporter: The hogs are in the Rose town area - and 1 wish 1 was there with them. The agriculture minister is also highways minister. He got into trouble with his fellow farmers when he tried to downgrade some Saskatchewan blacktop roads to gravel. He was forced to revoke that decision to avoid being the guest of a lynch mob. The Vancouver Sun story thus revealed the GRIP program is a political program in which farmers are the pawns. That's all you need to know about it 4 . know it's no good. Now let's iook at NISA. whose proper name is Net Income Stabilization Account. Andy Sirski, farm business editor of Grainews of Winnipeg, says the thinking behind it goes back a long way: if farmers had saved 10 per cent of their in- conic during the glory years (rather than borrowing money in those times) they'd alt be billionaires. Well, Andy hasn't been reading Holy Writ where prophets 2,000 years ago stated the people should put away something during the seven fat years to see them through the seven lean years. Now they have allowed the government lo do it for them by contribution 82.00 for every 1.00 they put into the fund. That's unbelievable, considering the government was also borrowing money during the good times at usurious rates and now is damn near broke. Sirski became famous in the July issue for his one-liner: Does the Government Have to Beg Farmers to Pick Up a 8150-MillionGift? Some farmers had already * been sucked in by this blasphemy - and here's what they got: 50-page forms which can seldom be filled in by farmers themselves and just as often not done to satisfy an immense bank of government computers in Winnipeg when done by big-time expensive chartered accountants. Two sets of 800-numbers tr call and deal with upwards of 200 women in a big NISA computer zoo in Winnipeg, hired to handle Lhe accounts. One number is answered by bored public relations experts handing out information. But on rainy days the line always rings busy. The second number is an agony line which may be called when there are money problems dating from 1990 and 19**1. It is answered by a super trouble shooter, Josephine Campbell. The methodology practised here resembles those flashy city car dealers, people in white coats won't let the driver into Lhe back shop to talk to a mechanic - and y- u come home with a 1,200 bill and more problems. You are directed by one of Jo Campbell's agents, who siderabty different scale beil*- A lot J the police than the Bar U. There is a mustered out and became chance the Cochrane project squatters raising cattle, will be open to the public Seeing this development, before the Longview ranch the government began leas- 8jLe ing big pieces of Alberta Up uniil he sold the head- landscape to people from the quarters site to the environ- East to .supply cattle not on- ment department. Mel ly for the Indians but for the Nelson of .Lazy H Ranches construction of theCPR.The ran the Bar U as a working cattle originated ii ranch. 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