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The Huron Expositor, 1975-04-24, Page 20FARM- SEEDS and CUSTOM CLEANING CHECK OUR PRICES BEFORE YOU BUY CHAMP and.CLIMAX TIMOTHY ALL GRASS and CLOVER SEEDS SPECIAL MIXTURES As in the past, we will prepare mixtures to meet your ind!vidual requirements' based on recom- mendations by the department of Agriculturds Field Crop Recom- mendations for 1975 at no extra cost. LOCALLY GROWN • BARLEY (Cer tified and Carl 1419.1) - OATS - OAT and BARLEY MIXTURES - PEAS - RED CLOVER and RED CLOVER MIXTURES For Plow Down purposes Red Clover is exceptional as a soil builder.' LONDESBORO SEED PLANT "Robert Shaddick" , Blyth 523-4399 AAtrex means less weeds, AAtrex Liquid means less work When you put AAtrex Liquid to work on your weeds, you get more than just AAtrex-clean cornfields. Yo.0 als6 get a new ease of handling, convenience and even greater efficiency. Thatsbecause AAtrex Liquid is a liquid suspension with no dust AAtrex Liquid gives you the un- equalled AAtrex flexibility of applica- tion: pre-plant, pre-emergent, post-emergent And AAtrex Liquid requires qnly1.() gal/acre for pre-,* emergent control and 15 gal/acre for post-emergent control. So you can spray more acres per tankful and take less trips to your water source.. Plus, you can substitute liquid' grasses. AAtrex Liquid. The easiest fertilizer for water during pre- way yet to grow maximum yield corn emergent spraying and feed while in the cleanest fields. ' . . you weed. CIBA—GEIGY CANADA LTD., Some carry-over may be found Agrochemicals Division, where spraying has overlapped, One Westside Drive, Etobicoke, but most crop rotation is unaffected - Ontario M9C1B2 when AAtrex Liquid is used according to label rates for most weeds. This is what makes AAtrex Liquid your best choice for .controlling,most.armal broadleaf weeds and Agrochemicals Division CIBA—GEIGY AAtrex Liquid Follow label rate for control of these weeds'k well as Wild Oats, Yellow Foxtail, Lady's Thumb, Mustards, Purslane, Redroot Pigweed, Volunteer Clove6, Wild Buckwheat, Smartweed, Quackgrass, Canada. Thistle, N utgrass. RagWeed Lambs Quarters ®Registered Trademark CICON turn into new ones like magic when you apply WESTROC VINYL. SIDING T',VNOTCH FEEDS LIMITED Hoegy Farm Supply Ltd. BRODHAGEN Phone 345-2941 MILTON J• DIETZ LIMITED R.R. 4, Seaforth — Phone 527-0608 Mitchell 448-8433 Hensall 262-2527 Phone 527-1910. — SeafOrth For further information call or visit your, loCal dealer or write: INESTROC INDUSTRIES LIMITED pLAsTicsDivisioN, 2650LAKESHORE HIGHWAY, MISSISSAUGA, ON AR10 L5 j 1 K4 Fred J. Hudie Ltd., 217 Isaac St., Clinton 482-3441 r•-r HURON EXPOSIT6R, APRIL 24, 1975 Every so often I'm reminded of how very lucky Canadians are. We are not smarter than other people. Goodness knows, we are no more industrious.We are just luckier, because we happen to be living in this country at this time. When you consider that we are just a drop in the buret of the world's population, y ou c see just how blind lucky, we are. Millions of people on earth today are literally starving to death. They will be dead, stone dead, in days, months, a year. Millions more are just above the starving line. They eke out a barren, blunted, hopeless existe just one step away from the animal. These hordes are subject to all the other things that go with a minimal existence, besides hunger: cold, disease, ignorance, fear, and perhaps worst of all helplessness. And we complain endlessly, we Canadians, about such horrors as inflation, postal strikes, taxes,. and all the other relatively piddling burdens we bear. We howl with outrage when butter jumps 15 cents a pound. Some of us nearly have a stroke when the price of beer and liquor is raised. The very wealthy feel ' a deep, inner pain because they can retain only 55 per cent of their income. But what does it all amount to? The consumption of butter will go down for a few weeks, then rise to new highs. the consumption of alcoholic beverages will not even tremor, but go steadily upward. And the rich will become richer. Talk about fat cats, or buxom beavers, and we're it. The Lucky Canadians. The envy of the world. Oh yes, we have poor people, quite a few of them. But you would be hard put to it to find anyone in Canada literally starving to death. Or freezing to death. Or dying because there is no medicine for disease. Truth is, the vast majority of Canadians eat too much, suffer from over-heating rather than cold and are much more likely to die from too much medicine than 'they are from disease. And even the poorests of our poor, with all the buffers that 'welfal'e provides, are materially millionaires compared with the poor of many other countries. • You, Mister, wheeling your Buick down the highway and beefing about the cost of gas, might just as easily be pulling a rickshaw in Calcutta, wondering whether you could last until you were 30, so you could see your first grandson. . You, Young Fella, who made $10,000 in six months with a lot of overtime, and quit working so you could draw unemployment insurance., could be sweating it out in a South African gold mine, or a Bolivian tin mine, for enough bucks a week to barely feed your family. And you, Ms., whining about the mess the hairdresser made, or complaining about the cost of cleaning women, could be selling yourself in the back streets of Nairobi to keep body_and soul together, if you'll pardon the expression. But you aren't, and I'm not,' and we shouldn't forget it, ma.tes.We were -Welty. We live in Canada. Once in a while this hits me like 'a punch between the eyes. One of these times was on a recent holiday weekend. We were spending a weekend with Grandad, in the country. It was cold and blustery outside, and I spent one of those rotten-lazy, thoroughly enjoyable times when there is nothing to do and nothing to worry about: eating and drinking; playing cards, enjoying the fireplace, reading, watching television. The only fly in the ointment was the constant decisions to be made. At breakfast, for example. Banana or fruit juice? Coffee or tea? Bacon and eggs or ham and eggs? Toast and jam or fresh bread and honey? Evenings were even worse . An hour ,..after dinner, I had iito decide whether it was to 69 coffee and rake with ice cre,am or tea with butter tarts. Then there was the bedtime snack and more decisions. But .it was watching television that blew up the puffed-up' dream that life was, after all, good and gracious, cosy and comfortable, warm and wonderful. There on the "news", with nothing to hide it, was the non-Canadian world. Children with the bloated bellies• and stick-thin limbs of the starving. Other children, torn and bleeding and screaming with pain. Mothers howling their anguish because they had lost their children and couldn't find them. A refugee plane, with more than 200 "soldiers" and only five women or children .aboard. And everywhere, on that naked screen, people, suffering, terrified, running like rats, from nowhere to nowhere. Not much you and I can do, except feel horrified. It's all too far aw ay. But at least we can stop bitching in our own backyard, and face the facts that we're not smarter, or harder working or better looking. Just lucky. Sugar and Spice by Bill Smiley ( Fopd .price ..dips and peaks not good; OFA. president "Peaks and dips in prices at the- food counter are a hazard to most shoppers", Gordon Hill, president of ' the Ontario Federation of Agriculture, said in Toronto on Thursday. He was commenting on the sharp rise in onion prices which leapt yesterday to $7.50 to $8 from $4.75 to $5 the day before for 50-pound bags of yellow onions at the Ontario Food Terminal. Onion prices are soaring today because there is a shortage of onions, Hill pointed out. Potatoes, advertised last night at 10 pounds for 28 cents, far below cost of production, are the opposite side of the coin, Hill pointed out. "Potato prices were good in • 1973 and growers slanted 10 per cent more acreage 'in 1974. This surplus helps consumers temporarily but growers will lose their shirts on the crop and plant less in 19754 Unless growers have prior ,aisstirance that they can at least earn back their full costs of production, acreage will fall this year. "Today's slashed egg, beef and potato. prices will knock hundreds of producers out of the-Se - commodities. The inevitable result will be shortages and another cycle of hiked consumer prices. In the meantime,, many farmers will have gone- bankrupt with only extremely temporary benefit to consumers who will pay in the long run." The peaks for any staple food product frustrate the consumer. Too often the price dips fail to' reach the consumer, Hill commented. Even when low prices to farmers show up partially at the retail counter it takes a canny shopper w,ith lots of time and a calculator to spot the bargains, Hill pointed out. "We don't think many shoppers would want to go back to the Thirties or Forties when fresh products were cheap enough at harvest time and prices zoomed out of sight during the winter, if indeed• the products, 'were available at all. "It is definitely in the best interests of consumers to have a • steady supply of products at moderate prices. This is only possible when farmers produce consistently to slinnly the market. "However, the time is king past when farmers will produce to capacity without assurance that' they can recoup costs of production. "One measure to assure consumers of a steady food supply is the OFA's proposed income protection plan. "Under the plan, farmers and society, through provincial and federal governments, will share the risks of providing an 'protection ,abundantpremiu fmosddfosru pthpely plans will be shared by farmers and governments, one-third each. "Income protection for farmers is *designed to ensure steady production of food. It is a Every week more and more people discover what mighty .jobs are accomplished by low cost Huron Expositor Want Ads. Dial Seaforth 527=0240. protection against shortage for - consumers, not a threat of higher prices." WEDDING INVITATIONS THE HURON EXPOSITOR ' PHONE 527-0240 — SEAFORTH You can make your home look beautiful and add thousands of dollars to its value with Westroc Vinyl Siding, the beautiful investment. Tough, durable vinyl that will never fade, rot, peel, or rust. Vinyl with solid colour right through; so you will never have to paint again! 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