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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1975-10-09, Page 5•.1 TUCO w4z#: 'nkaVat,. WITAU" z'ao •••••:: Mx\ aNak, \ Twalm s watt Hugh o 650-tori barn byrns Frick) night Story on page 4 xxisitor A MORE DUBLIN CHAMPS-- Dublin Girls Squits team are also provincial champs. With their WOAA homebrew trophy are, rear, left; Assistant Coach, Mrs. Liz Fleming, Theresa Kramers, Colleen Melady, Ann Marie Kelly, Cindy Elliott, Marijo A few weeks ago this corner took a swipe at the super- markets in this country; all of them in general, and Domin- ion Stores in particular. The suggestion made in that column was that chain stores do not just take a big chunk out of the food dollar at the retail level. They take a bite all- the way along the line right from the time food leaves the farm gate. A few disgruntled chpin store people said I should not have stopped with one chain. "Why don't you do some research into the Weston chain of stores?" one independent store owner asked, "That out- fit is even bigger than Dominion," I have been unable to find out which is the biggest but some research was done into the Weston g., up. Weston's fronts a variety of chains:thatIhe buying public rarely connects. For instance, you are buying from that group when you shop at Loblaws, O.K. Economy, L-Mart, Super-Valu. Economart, Zehr's and Shop-Easy. On top of this, Weston controls such retail and whole- sale outlets as Red & White, Lucky Dollar, Super Save, Maple Leaf, Shop-Rite and others. But it doesn't stop there. The degree of manipulation which is possible through such conglomerates is just amazing. Loblaws. for instance, says it has to raise the price of lacead because Loblaws has to pay more for the bread from its supplier which is Westons. But Westons own Loblaws,. Weston's said the price of bread had to go up because of increased costs for milk and suge used in the bread. But Weston gets milk and sugar/ from Donlands Dairy and Royal. Dairy' and West Cane Sugar. all owned by Wes- ton. Of course, the price of flour had gone up. too, but that flour came, from suppliers such as McCarthy Mill and Soo Line, both owned by Weston. Distribution costs also went up, according to the bread- makers. The distributors involved were National Grocers and York Trading, both controlled by Weston. See the picture? Perhaps the farmer who produced Rats and Mice go for Warfarin Bait Paks they knock 'em dead Flavour-fresh Warfarin Bait Paks are More attractive to rats and mice than normal food. Placed where these pests are seen Warfarin BaiOaks provide a ready-to-use feeding station that kills rats and mice during three to four days of feeding. There is a better chance of eradicating all the rats and mice on your farm evith Warfarin Bait Paks because the slow-acting rodent killer does not cause pain or other symptoms that might warn the rest of the cdlony. Use TUCO's Warfarin Bait Paks—they kill millions of rats every year. • Available in 1, 2 and 5 lb, Paks In both meal and pellets. Seaforth Farmer's Co-op Seaford, Out. Kale, Louise Nolan, Michelle Rowland, Coach; Mrs. Mamie Delaney. Front left to right; Caroline O'Reilly, Kitti Krauskopf, Barbara Flanagan, Captain; Margaret Hicknell, Lucille Delaney, Kim Swart, Jayne Delaney. • (Staff Photo) Letters are OPteciated by Bob Trotter, PO Box 267, Elmira the items that went into making bread got a slight increase. But that increase was magnified all along the line and 'every one of those increases went into the same corporate superpocket. Farmers, of course. fight this type of organization. Is it any wonder why farmers resort to marketing boards and other commodity organizations and groups to be sure they get a reasonable return on their investment and labor? Under this seeming socialistic exterior, I am a dyed-in- the-wool, small "c" conservative. I would like to see laissez-faire marketing. But when farmers must face such huge conglomerates which control every bit of food from the time it leaves the farm gate to the time it hits your dining 'table, they must organize or the conglomerates will take over with corporate farms, too. And if you think the price of food is high now, watch it go much, much higher in a very short time, 'Because these conglomerates will have everybody's stom- ach in control. They'll be able to create artificial short- ages in every commodity. This is not to say that such a thing has been done by the corporate conglomerates. It may have happened, ,But why should any country allow itself to be put in such a posi- tion? 'The best way to:prevent it is to keep the farmer inde- pendent; keep him on the land and producing while seeing that he gets a reasonable return on his labor and invest- 'tent, • Just remember: The next time you go to a supermarket and you see Weston bread. Dietrich bread, Zehr's bread, Hollywood bread or Wittichs bread, you are buying from the same corporation. The money paid goes into the same corporate pocket. I'm not suggesting that this is all wrong. I am suggesting that farmers must take advantage of every possible method of competing in the marketplace so that the cor- porate giants won't run off with every penny received for food. • 7••••••••- --••••••••-- -•••••••••-- V Buyers of Timothy, Red Clover and Birdsfoot Trefoil SEED- Maple Leaf Mills Ltd., Seed Div., Exeter, Ont., Phone 235-0363 (Jones ,,MacNaughton) ne foot in the Jarrow' byais,4 'at* saagw.hisAm. ,ApalltitniVeOrAif accounts totalling $13,501.36 and general accounts of $4,638.72. Council accepted the tender of George Radford, Blyth, for the open work on the Glanville Drain for $1,500. It was the lowest of three tenders. Council decided that as the single tender for the closed work on the drain would not be completed until August 1976 that it would retender in the spring. The tender was considered too high compared to the engineers estimates. For The Most Competive Prices- Sell or Store Your Corn at W.G. Thompson & Sons Ltd. We now have two FAST NEW elevator intakes. We have the quickest and most modern un- loading facilities available for our Bean and Corn • Growers. • MITCHELL 348.8438 McKillop postpones drain tenders McKillop Council accepted the tender of Ryan Bulldozing R.R. 1, Walton, for a grader for snow- plowing at the rate 0518. per day adn $9 per day, standbt time from December 1,1975 to April 1, 1976, when council met Monday after- noon. Requests for building permits were granted to; Raymond R. Cook, R,R. 4 Walton, garage; John J. Lane, R.R. 4 Seaforth, renovations to garage; Joan Ch'esney, R.R. 5, Seaforth, replace siding on house; Samuel McClure, R.R. 2, Seaforth, bunk- : er silo; Keith Backert R.R. 1, Walton, renovations to imple- ment shed; Henry and Nora ,Enzensberger, 130 Nelson Street, East, Goderich, addition and renovation s to house at Roxboro. Mrs. Kenneth McClure, clerk- treasurer was authorized to send letters to ratepayers who have failed to get building pertnits before beginning construction and renovation work. A grant of $50 to the Brussels Fair • Board was approved. Requests for tile drain loans amounting to $17,100 were apprOved. Four farms where buildings were demolished had assessment reduced by $3,300. The report on the Barron Drain was provisionally adopted as no appeals Were heard. Cou,rt of Revision was set for October 27 at 2 p.m.' Debenture by-law for tile drain loans was possed for $12,000. 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