Pontiac Holsteins Club barn meeting at Stanleys’: Friday, March 12th, about 50 Holstein breeders gathered at the farm of Archie Stanley and family, for the annual barn meeting. In a spacious stable two rows of well groomed young cows were on display for the inspection of everyone. Club president Keith Brownlee, in his welcoming address, introduced the Stanley family and gave a brief history of the herd since its conception in 1961.
Secretary-manager, Pierre Léonard, brought greetings from the Quebec Branch of the Holstein-Friesian Association and discussed some of the services provided by the Association to help breeders improve their herds. He then led in a rather heated debate on the class of cows which had been judged. It was concluded that the Holstein breed has become the foremost dairy cow in Canada, if for no other reason than the strong criticism from local Jersey breeders in the area.
Winners in the judging contest were Arnold Wren of Cobden in the men’s class, Claudia Kilgour of Shawville in the women’s section, and Paul Hodgins in the 4-H section.
Regional Development Incentives to help Fortin Industries: The Honourable Marcel Lessard, Minister of Regional Economic Expansion, announced this week that nine firms across Quebec have accepted development incentives offers from his department. An estimated total of 95 jobs are expected to be created by these projects.
One of the nine is Les Industries Fortin Inc. which has accepted an offer of $41,850. for the expansion of its plant located at Waltham, Pontiac County. The expansion will allow the manufacturing of a new product, laminated panels. The project is expected to create an estimated 11 jobs. The offer is based on a rate of 25 per cent of the approved capital costs, estimated at $103,000, plus 15 per cent of the approved wages and salaries at $107,333.
Grist and miscellaneous items: Just a casual mention of our Pontiac County Recipe Book brought a flood of orders in the mail. If this keeps up we’ll have to start a second printing. Along with everything else, printing costs have gone up so whereas the booklet now is a dollar (plus 25 cents for mailing) its second printing will be two dollars (plus 25 cents for mailing).
At the moment the Printshop is piled high with the pages of the second printing of S. Wyman MacKechnie’s “What Men They Were!” and the presses are being readied for Phoebe Rathwell McCord’s “Down the Lane”.
