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PLAQUE FOR NEW•GARAGE — Grey Township reeve, Roy Williamson holds the
plaque that will have a place of honour in the new works garage the township
opened Friday night on.'the county road, just south of Ethel. From left are
councillor John Johnston, clerk Edythe Cardiff, road superintendent ROSS Engel,
Reeve Williamson, deputy reettglifford Bray and councillors Leona Armstrong
and Barb Dunbar; • (Staff Photo)
Twitch grass out of control
The past two wet summers
along with dry weather,this past
spring when herbicides were
applied has led to twitch grass
getting out of control in some
fields, says Pat Lynch, local Soils
and Crops Specialist. The peren-
nial weed, twitch grass • or quck
_grass, can be controlled in next
years corn fields by spraying this
• fall.
Two pounds of actual atrazine
applied this fall along with a
further two pounds of atrazine
next spring is still the best
method to control infestations of
twitch grass. The atrazine should
be applied anytime y before
ploughing. This atrazine that is
ploughed down this fall will be in
place as soon as the twitch begins
to grow next spring.
This fall application allows you
to spray only the areas 'of a field
that are infested. This is
generally less expensive than
spraying the whole field, but just
as effective since twitch grass
generally just grows in certain
areas of a field.
Atrazine applied this fall will
not break downn -or leach away
before next spring and can be
applied even minutes before
ploughing and still be effective.
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Letters are appreciated by Bob Trotter, Wale Ad , Ont N3B 2C7
PUBLIC FORUM
ON FARM INCOME
STABILIZATION
MON., OCT. 4, at 8:30 pm
The Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food will
hold meetings across the province ,on Monday,
October 4, to receive views on farm income
stabilization.
Intereated individuals are invited to participate in
any one of the following meetings:
RIDGETOWN
Ridgetown College of
Agricultural Technology,
Livestock Pavilion
STRATFORD
Market Annex
Fairgrounds
CAMPBELLFORD
District High School
Ranney Street
CARLETON PLACE
Zion Memorial United
Church Hall,
37 Franklin Street
ANCASTER
Marritt Hall
Fairgrounds
FLESHERTON
Grey Highlands
Secondary Schoolr,-
Auditorium
MARKHAM
Markham Arena Hall
Highways 48 and:7
Ministry of
Agriculture
And Food
'KEMPTVILLE
Kemptville College of
Agricultural Technology,
Engineering EIuildin§
NEW LISKEARD
New Liskeard College of
Agricultural Technology,
Auditorium. '
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Minister
R. G. Bennett
Deputy Minister
Ontario
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Statistics presented to CMIntY
Connell at its Septentber
meetings by the Land Division
Committee showed -that, for the
period. ending Augnst 31, there
had been 196 applications for
severance, 140 approvals, 10
denied, 54 were still pending, two
had been withdrawn and four
were under appeal .
The Secondary Plans ter H
owick and Usborne Townships
were pas-sed under Amendment
NuMber 10 and 14 to the Official
Plan for the County of Huron
Planning Area.
The Planning Board authorized
R. Dzus, to attend the University
of Waterloo - Southwestern
Ontario Chapter of Canadian
'Institute of Planners three day
workshop on agricultural and
rural planning at Waterloo. The
Board will pay the $125
registration fee and expenses.
The Land `'D Committee
announced the election of Harold
Robinson to the Board of
Directors of the Ontario,
Association of Committees of
Adjust ,ment and Land Division
Committees for 1976-77.
ilk
'farm wages, salaries and other sources.
Other revealing figures in the Ministry's report: The
average net income for farmers in 1973 was $3,519. Off-farm
income averaged $6,137.
And don't give me that old fable about farmers being able
to take advantage of 'all kinds,of tax {lodges. That just isn't
true. A recent report of the now-defunct Food Prices Re-
view Board claimed that farmers Ray almostas much taxes
as everyone else and even more than most small businesses.
In Peel County, another good agricultural area, only 8.4
per cent of farmers:. income came fruit farming.'eity the
poor chaps in Haliburton County, though; where income tax
figures revealed that they had an average net income of
MINUS'$239 in 1973. Thank heaven, the good Lord made
Haliburton County a summer paradise so that many can
make additional income in the tourist business.
To bring this discussion to its logical conclusion, farmes
are actually subsidizing consumers. Farmers are forced
to drive school buses, be building custodians, part-time auto,
mechanics or machinery repairmen. Farm wives have to
teach school, become secretaries or sales clerks just to
make.ends meet on the farm.
And .yes, I know, a great many other men and women have
to hold down two jobs these days to afford what they con-
sider are the amenities of life. But how many of 'them...are
in a business that is so essential to the welfare of the nation
Os that of raising food? •
Consuthers can scream as loud and long as they like 'about
the high_eost of food in Canada but the facts prove.that we
have been spoiled in this country for the last 30 years, per-
haps even the last 100 years, into believing that we deserve
low food prices.
Canadians pay less than 20 cents of every disposable dol-
lar on food, one of the lowest rates in the world and farm-
ers are suffering because of it.
Why do farmers stay on the farm
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Why, you might ask, does this lunkhead Trotter keep peck-
ing away at the plight of farmers? •
If farmers are so badly off, why do they stay .on the farm
and why aren't more farmers going bankrupt?
Good questions but the answer' s easy.
Why are beef farmers able to remain in busineSs when
they are losing between $60 and $200 a head when they
market 'their cattle? 'How can dairy farmers remain in
business when they are forced to cut back production as
much 'as 20 per cent and take a corresponding loss in in-
come? And what is happening to all those pork producers
now that the price of pork is beginning to drop this fall?
Again,'the answer is simple.
They are not going bankrupt because thousands of farm-
ers in your county and mine are working part time at some
other job to augment their incomes. They cannot make a
decent living as full-time farmers. It's as simple-as that.
How can these things be proven? The facts come from a
52-page report released by the Ontario Ministry of. Agricul-
ture and Food. The statistics are staggering.
In other words, the most important industry in this or any
other province — that of producing food — has to be done
on a part-time basis. This. to me, is a terrible indictment
of the systegrras it stands. Farmers. most of them anyway.
have to earn more money off the farm to remain in busi-
ness. •
Is it any wonder that the average age of the Canadian
farmer is 52? Why would, any young man in his right mind
want to" get into farming when the figures are available to
prove that the greeter majority of farmers in Ontario,
at least, must have a second job to make ends meet?
In- the Waterloo Region, for instance, which is supposed
to be one of the finest agricultural counties in the province.
only 36.4 per cent of the income of farmers came from the
land. The rest—a startling 63.6 per' cent—came from off-
The Land Division Committee
reported that the actual
expenditures for the period
ending August 31 has been
$24,533 compared to an estimate
of $26,960,
,.The County Planning Board has
A final attempt to. pass a
motion calling for a private
members bill which would have
reduced the size of County
Council from its present 45
members to 36 failed at the
September session of Huron
County Council in' Goderich on
Friday.
If passed- the bill would have
provided for a county council
composed of: the reeves of the
towns, not being separated
towns, and of the villages and
townships in the county, together•
with the deputy reeves of towns,
villages and townships where
there were' 2000 or more
municipal electors.
Where a town not being a
separated town or village or
township in the county had more
than 4000 and not more than 6000
electors, the reeve ,as a member
of the county council would have
an additional vote and where the
municipality has more than 6000
electors, the reeve and deputy
reeve as members of the county
council each had an additional
vote.
Speaking before defeat of the
motion Cecil Desjardins, Reeve of
Stephen Township, noted that
reintroduction of the motion was
,another attempt to change "what,
authorized the Planning Director
to attend a Heritage Planning
Synposium September 10 to 12
sponsored by Heritage Canada,
the Ontario Heritage Foundation
and the Frontenac Historic
Foundation.
is working just fine."
The motion was lost on a vote
by show of hands.
Oppose
deer hunt
Huron County Council passed a
motion, with only two members
opposed, at their Friday meeting
to object to the Ministry of
Natural Resources over the
Ministry's intention to allow
hunting of deer within the county
with bow and arrow.
A letter of information,sigded
by H. Lancaster; Forest and Land
Management Supervisor of the
Ministry of Natural Resources,
had been placed in the report of
the Development Committee
noting that there would be no deer
season in Huron County in 1976,
with the "exception of a season
for bow and arrow only from
October 25 to November 30.
Bayfield Reeve Ed. Oddleifson,
in making the motion to object,
called the hunting with-bow and
arrow "cruel" and asked that
council request cancellation of the
season.
Mr. Oddleifson said the
animals are often only wounded
and could take days to die,
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