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The Huron Expositor, 1976-02-12, Page 1414--THE ..HURON EXPOSITOR; FEBRUARY 4976 AT SOIL & CROP MEETING — Several area members of the OntarioSoil and Crop, Improvement Association, were among thOse who attended the recent annual meeting of the association in Kitchener. Taking part in the two-day meeting were (left to right) G. Proctor, R.R.5, Brussels; W. Taylor, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Guelph; L, Taylor, OSCIA director: Londesboro; A. Kipfer, R.R.1, Brunner; and C. Diefenbacher, R.R.1, Elmira. bite foot in t 'furrow' b If you require financing to start, modernize or expand your business and are unable to obtain it elsewhere on reasonable terms and conditions or if you are interested in the FBDB management services of counselling and training or wish information on government programs available for your business, talk to our representative. FEDERAL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT' BANK • tor pritit infOrniatiori eitt/71-5650 or write 1036 Ontario Street, Stratford. 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There'll be refreshments, lunch' and door prizes . - - - AND WHAT'S MORE IMPORTANT There's fun for the whole family - ALL FREE .at Pineridge Chcljet TUESDAY, FEB. 24 at 8 p.m. Bring the whole family and enjoy 'yourself with, your 'hosts PIONEER HYBRID LTD BILL COLEMAN, DEALER. Kippen, Ontari0 HYDE BROTHERS ALLIS CHALMERS 262.2605 Hensel!, Ontario • Cigarettes go tip in price. Liquor prices are_ increased •, either by' taxes or by the distilleries. Parking fines are. increased, Automobile prices go up every year. , But nobody gets too uptight. A few executives in the consumers associations make statements to the press. No- loody marches on Queen's Park, Nobody calls Trudeau dictator. But let food prices go up and everybody gets into the...act. . It's a mystery to me why so many Canadian's complain so bitterly about food prices yet they allow almost anything else to increase in price and only a few resigned murmurs are heard. • • . • Canadians are better off as far as food prices are con- cerned than any other nation in . the. world except the United States. Recent figures released by the federal department of agriculture'have only confirmed• what farm-, ers in Canada have known for dozens of years: Canadians spend less of their disposable dollars on :food than any other industrialized country in the world except the U,S.A. Check your groceries some lime and deduct k the items inthe "grocery - cart that are not too.d for your table. • You cannot include,paper products — facial tissue, toilet tissue, paper towels and you cannot include hardware items, drug and patent medicines, mouthwashes. shaving creams, eight creams, day creams, cat food. dog food. cat -•••litter,. d ink mixes, soda pop. cutlery, glasware, rovelties• ma es, television guides, cigarettes. ceramics. Cigars an you-name-it-you-canitave-it." These are not food items. You buy them and almost any- thing else in the supermarket. Too many people fill gro- cery' bags with a dozen or more other items and are ap- palled at the tab received at the checkout counter. The point I want to make here is that food costs as.a per- centage of total disposable income went down not Up — fn the last 25 years. In 1963. Canadians spent 20,5 per cent of -their disposable incomes on buying food. In 1972. they No severances from agricultural land will be allowed at all as more townships complete their secondary plans,' Jack McCutcheon, HurOn's newly elected warden predicted in a speech to the Huron County Federation of Agriculture Thursday night in Seaforth. '.'But I think this is what you all want," Warden McCutcheon said. "It has to be if we re, to keep Huron 'agricultural." The warden, a former chairman of the county's planning board, told about' 25 F. of A members that although severances were allowed under the Huron County plan, two or three secondary plans which have been adopted by townships say 90 severances while two or three others say another set of farm buildings can be built on a 100 acre parcel, • which can, then be- severed from the rest of the farm. would first be encouraged where land is already within town boundaries and divided into lots, the warden replied. He gave the example of the Graham Survey in Grey outside Brussels. He emphasized that the county official plan is looser than the secondary plan which townships are drawing up now. According to the official. plan, a farmer- could sell his farm but retain a lot to build himself a house. But if his township has a secondary plan and that right isn't spelled out in -it, he can't. Speed Up Doug Campbell of Ashfield asked the wardoer how township secondary plans could be speeded up. Mifield is fairly close to Douglas Point and "three years could be too late," he said. The warden acknowledged that a wait for a plan croulcl be "awkward" with development pressures;and secondary plans are done by the county planners on a first come first served basis. Grey's plan is waiting for the minister's signature, Howick's and Usborne's are nearly finished, he said. Huron's planners hope to do three or four a year and have hired a new rural planner, Warden McCutcheon said, If a township ', really feeli ng development pressure, it could fiire its own planner, but that Could cost twOd three times what it costs the county. County planners •develop secondary plans with a series of public meetings and the warden said "it's unbelievable how it Grader operators get $5 per hour • and Gamsby and Mannerow Ltd., Guelph, were appointed to make a survey and prepare plan, profile and specifications and report on same. • AccOunts paid were - General $11,841.55 and Roads & Bridges 23,174.01 for a total of $35,015.56. Topnotch manager on grain corn council which was founded.in-Decemh4.., 1971. He says he's found the work with seven producer representa- tives and four other industry reps, from Aistillery, dry, miller,' elevator 'and broker companies ';extremely interesting." The group ,advised the ministry • on "anything pertaining to corn" and investigates "present and potential problems". Two council members went to England and France to look at production and corn drying methods there, Mr... Cunningham said; and he went to Michigan with other council members to look at their corn operation. The council , which was st arted - by former ag minister Bill Stewart,- is not intended :to develop into a,- marketing •board. Mr. Cunningham said the .seven 'producers on the council are —not market board types. They're free market supporters." The agriculture mirfistry estsimates the 1975 Ontario corn 'crop at 125 million bushels. About 30 million buShels are expected to he shipped out. of Ontario this year. The Ontario Wheat Producers' Marketing, Board. plans to make an interim payment to producers about April l y of 85 cents per bushel. , Board chairman•Fergus Young, Ennismore...following a meeting of the board February 3rd pOinted out that the payment will apply to 19.75 crop wheat sold by producers. • Mr. Young said producer sales to date exceed 19.6 million' ^bushels which has been „ purchased by,,the board and total bbard sales to both domestic. and export markets, to date al approximately 16 million bushe s, This' leaves the board with ab u t 3.5 million bushels of unsold stocks on hand. Producers have received an initial paymeat of $2.00 per bushel and the interim payment to be made from the pool will add an additional .85 cents per bushel to the pricer received ' by prodpcers. Mr. Young said that in addition to the interim payment a final payinent will be antiounced some time later in the crop year. The wheat board hay hired a consulting firm to study its 1976 at the rate of $1.50 per dog. bogs will be counted by May 1. Robert Bremner was appointed a member of Mount Pleasant Cemetery Board for a three year. term. The Road Superintend was instructed to advertise for ten ers for crushing and hauling approxi- mately 26,000 cubic yards of,Si 8" gravel. Tenders to be in by 1, P.M. tM "Ohday, March 1- • Councillors sent a resolution to the Minister of Health in Toronto. It read ': "WC, the Council of the Township of Grey in Huron County. oppose the closing of the Goderich Psychiatric Hospital.,. We feel the ratepayer* in our district will feel a great loss if this institution, is closed." An; application for tile drainage marketing operations. Board (haitman Young, said the study is aimed at impro‘ ing the board's domestic and export sales arrangements and freight handling and, storage art.an,goents for the movement of export' saleCI Mr. Young said following a _regular meeting of the marketing board February 3rd that the study has begun and will take about six weeks for a report to be turned over to the board. , He said increa;kd volumes of, wheat handled by the board, coupled with tight transportation, handling and storage .conditions throughout lake shipping ports and the St. Lawrence Seaway system are placing increased demands on the bbard's marketing procedures. Mr. Young said emphasis will be placed on export. operations where a record volume of sales 'has been experienced during" he current crop year. • The 'board has exported over 10.5 millien bushels since July 1, 1975, 'compared to the pfevious record of Al 0.3 million bushelsi, during the tomplete crop. year July 1974 - June 1975. .• Grey Township's plan, which has been apprpved, says that no separations will be allowed. New buildings, even houses, can be built, but they must stay 'part of the whole farming operation. Instead of seeking a severance to build a house on his farm, a retiring farmer is now encouraged to get a life time lease on his present house or build in a 'hamlet, Mr. M cCutcheop said. He doesn't think there will be much leasing land from a farmer in order. to build in the country. There has been a good indication from the county's 16 rural municipalities that farhiing parcels should stay intact. Warden McCutcheon said. Planners find that ' land never returns to agriculturakise once it -°goes out of production. 70 per cent of Huron is class one farm land and 20 per cent is class two. • Ripbon development can prevent intensive farming because it brings urban type neighbours who complain about smells. It also costs municipalities to provide services to scattered 'urban type devylopments, in the country, even it they are built on non-productive land. The only way to control' development on agricultural land is to "make no exceptions'l he said. 'Vies about time," F. of 'A. member Glenn Miller told the warden but he asked where villages and towns would get more land for housing. Annexing gland . to enlarge a c town's boundaries would use • less agricultural land than scattered development, but development • Jim Cunningham Jim Cunningham, of Clinton, • general onager of Topnotch Feeds Ltd. in Seafdrth has been re-appointed to the Ontario Grain Corn council by agricultural minister William .Newman. It's Mr. Cunningham's second one year term on the Council, works." !n Brussels people are skeptical about the need , for a plan but at the meetings learned about zoning and came to understand its importance. "It's. an education as the planning 'process goes along," he said. "Plans will be written up by the people who attend the meetings,' the warden. said. Stanley Topwnship farmer Jake Van Wonderen agreed with the warden that 'severances would cause nuisances for future farm operations. '• But, he said, a farm is 'like retirement' savings. His farm's price is frozen by its productive value as long as it's looked into agriculture. Meanwhile, a developer can sell land in a hamlet or town at an inflated price and he'll have to buy one of those, lots when he retires front farming, Mr. Van Wonderen .said. Locked in • The warden said there isn't an answer to this problem. "You are locked in, there's no denying it': He hoped that farmers would sell their farms when prides are good. "If' we ' retain land in agriculture, the price will 'come tip to what it should be, I hope". Warden McCutcheon confirmed for Bill Mann of Grey that two adjacent 100 acre farms owned by the, same person have to be severed be ore one 100 acre parcel can be sold, even if the parcels are on separate deeds. "The province tied this up," he said, but added that there shouldn't be • any problem severing the 100 acres, "as long as it's a viable farming operatipn." "We may think we're getting a big price by selling a ,lot, but in the long run we're devaluing obi- farm" said George Adams of Turnberry, who wanted to know if Morris Township had assembled lots on the edge of Belgave and made them available. The warden said he thought the , lots in question were in Belgiave , but that the country had 'had to insist a plan of subdivision there, because houses were being built a quarter mile apart. McKillop Reeve Allan Campbell asked the Federation to take charge of arrangements for a . home improvement contest to be 'run in Huron in 1977 and 1978 for the International Plowing Match. President Adrian Vos appointed h Foster of Ashfield chairman of the contest committee and asked interested members to contact him. The meeting broke up into small groups to arrange topics for their annual dinner meeting with local members of parliament in Clinton on March 6. " Letters are appreciated by Bob Trotter. Eidale Rd Elmira Ont N3B 2C7 spent 17,5 per cent on food. . • How can anyone read ,these figures and' suggest that Canada dales not have a cheap food policy? If I were. living. in the land of my 'ancesttirs, 'the United Kingdorri. I .wdtild, be paying 9.8 per cent of my disposable incrinle for food..' Ireland'. No thanks. Irishmen liae to spend -37.8 per cent on food. Nope. Italians have to spend 33:6 per cent. Want some more statistics 'to prove that Canadians are fortunate? In Greece. food' costs account for 32.6 per cent; in Aus- tria it's 28.6 per cent: in Sweden — that so 'called socialist paradise it costs 271 per cen.t to put food. on 'the table. In France. food costs take up 23,4' per cent of income. In West Germany. it's 24.2 per cent. • Do not mistinderstand me. I am not suggesting that food costs have not.„gone up dramatically in the past 10 or 20 years. Crazy I am but pot that crazy. Food prices have risen and will continue to rise as long, as the rest ..of the economy is inflating. - • I am suggesting. though, th food. costs have not risen as high as. other sectors of the economy and these statistics • from the federal ministry substantiate that suggestion. •Most .of us see -the cost of food biting into luxuries to which we think we are entitled and the accusing finger is pointed at 'the supermarkets. the processors. the truckers and. especially in recent weeks, at farmers. Max Saltsman, . the NDP member for South Water-II:join the House of Com - mons. has publicly , stated he thinks the major increases in food prices should'be blamed on prices paid at the farm gate.. I don't agree and I believe the statistics prove me right. Farmers have adapted to technology and are producing far more , than most other sectors. of the economy:. They should sbare in some of. those increases because they' de- serve it. At the same time. they are taking less from the incomes of the public than they did 25 years ago.. Hyron's Warden predicts No agricultural land severan loan in the amount of 510,000. Was accepted. A rebate of part of 1975 taxes in the amount of $71.64 was granted to Harold W. 13ragg for buildings. removed. The petition .of Gerald Ryan and Ken Jackson fora drainage works at Walton was accepted • sk f rthis folder from our representative, David Alexander who will be at: Parker House Motel, CLINTON on the 3rd ThurSday of each month. FEBRUARY 19 TH ' Put punchj into youlr corn program with these high performance hybrids R'221 , R173 <1'1144 28,'5 CHW. 2750 tHU 2700 CHui c. Wages for grader operators, Harry Gillis and Larry Keifer, were' set at $5.00 per hour effecti• c January,. 1 at Grey Township council's meeting February 3. Harold Bolger, attendant at the waste disposal site was given an increase to $3.50 per hour. The motion of January 5 paying the Reeve and Councillors $10.00 for special meeting wasvreseinded and it was decided that the Reeve be paid $950.00 and the Deputy Reeve and councillors paid $850.00 salary for the 'year. A membership fee of $25. was paid to the Ontario . Good Roads Association and $25. grant to the Huron Plowman's Association. George Wesenberg was • re- appointed dog enumerator for Wheat producers Plan interim payment • 7