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1 producers, canners and seed O'Toole said; He •said bean mother nature is kind, we'll be `resistant to ozone 'damage, and .
- compa'tiy, ` .offiei.als discovered _ growers in other areas, looking, ata 1400 pounds peir acre strains that give higheryields but w
\ '• •III Letters.aro appreciated by Bob Trotier, Wale Rd . Elmira. Ont N3&2C.7., ., P Friday on a .tours sponsored by the articularly. in lYiichi an, have • average yield, he said, But he mature •at .fife same "time as
" "'ii, I • , Ontario Bean Producer's Market- experienced falling yields due to tempered'his optimism,, saying a current cottimercial varieties.
p . i� j�� ", Iing Board. The tour gave those^ improper rotation. resulting in ••lot-ic'an happen betWpen pow and Dr. Wally Beversdorf, a h .
Farmers . oVVrci I1r1i al. Q1 . CIBC involved in t1�e industry, a chanbe the end of harvestiaga professor in the crop science I
- to look closely at some of the soil compaction and nutrient ' He also said the idea of average department, tqld the tour 1
I tri getting fed up tb` here ,with all this foofaraw' about strongly supports the recofrtmendations that it t the new , , research 'underway .in fields and depletion. yield was a little misleading attempts are being • rhade to
the CBC not providing proper farm Coverage. programming ► operate outside the: confines of CBC general , laboratories at Centralia College Also in the, Centralia field since there is a large variation in isolate strains of bean'plants, that
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A House of Commons Broadcast Committee reported on news coverage, that an a ricultural advisor council be es g caused b
- the University of Guelph'. varieties of white beans, Santlac, yields between southern high levels of ozone. If a.resistanf
the inadequacies of farm reporting on the Canadian Broad- tablished, provided there are farmer members of the ,coun- Second Year Seafarer, Kentwood and northern areas. 1100.potrnds per . strain is found it will then be cross.
�- casting Corporation stations. -The committee blasted, .the cit; that a fpll-time,,well-qualified agriculture broadcaster • ' leetweed have -bee torted -at acre is-censid' `
i.�� e',pu in c arge o arm ro cas trig; and a a broadcast eld le h a"h s .. - commercialvarieties to
Crap! I submit -the top brass is: in, touch with the real complaints commission be established,." says Hannam.; been going on for many years, the weekly intervals for five weeks southern bean growing areas, he make, them less susceptibly to.
. world.' Programming has been changed 'to exclude farm He adds, top, that any changes vi+ih depend on the attitude . experimental program at beginning May,2Q to'gather yield said, while in McKillop Township ozone damage;
i information. simply because too few people are engaged in .with which they are`barried out, It must be'recognized that Centralia College is only two � data, , 2000. pounds to the acre would be ,He said ozone levelruin the air I.
farming these•days. No radio,stafiop..ca,n....exist' by trying to farmers require specific information... differentiated from years'-•••oid; according to , Jim. ' rotary -cut. bean palter common. have been increasing in 'recent
supply all the needs-of.Ai4. per cent of the population. food programming aimed at Consuiriers. O'Toole head of -_the ,gAege's - ... _._.._ _ __ __ . _ Grey Tow years, and -emphasized the trend «:'
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-- dest neo and built in Quebec ylelfi' could run as htgh as -.2500 l
q Agronomy division. He told the under a Federal government pounds per ac is likely 'to continue:
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robs listeners. and farm information does not rob listen But the CBC brass and the lower eche producers and more than 40 people on'the tour. Ozone, an unstable oxy en
e eo le are not out af. touch. The know what All of which is uite true.
:ers. Which isn't to say that the CBC should not present that directors have been giving the listening public just exactly 'that research at, ,the college
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Centralia being tops evaluated on that there' has pb o4ation in the cend ompound, is -always, present in f
toward better cro trace amounts in the, air; but the
information. _ what they want to hear: consumer -oriented programs be includes variety tests. herbicide ,
P . g *county.' "'Hopefully Hopefully it will . i
'if, as Peter Hannam, president of the Ontario Federation ' e'ause consumers make u the biggest art of the listening evaluation, white , mold control Acren a increasin pollution from internal
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.. of Agriculture, says, the CBC, has a responsibility to pro- audience, „ • •"'•'effdrfs, crop rotation studies 'and ' Don Pullen, Huron t-ounty Ag•combustion engines has driven "
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vide that informat'ion,,good. Then, provide it. But don't casti , Who can fault them for giving listeners exactly wfiat they date -of -planting varl'atians. Rep., told the tour bean acreage level's; up, .he said. . ' ,
: gate the CBC when the listetiing audience dwindles. want to hear? Mr. O'Toole said -some 16_.in Huron_ -and Perth Counties has Chuck Broadwell; an official of High lgyels .of ozone. from the d
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1. Don't call, them 18 kinds'of•a dam fool when surveys snot- The CBC has other obligations and ;the OFA executives varieties of white beans and' two, steadily increased over the years. , Ma'rketin Board, said Ontario industrial areas around Windsor,
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Cate that only a handful of people are listening. And don't along with the commons committee made those obligations varieties of yellow -e a beans are In 1.960 there'wi re 21',000 acres'in, _Beate g Owers ,are the most Detroit and ,Sarnia forced white
- _- _ -._ _. _ - shot to-the'robftops_thaVp:1}, i- money is being sst uandered,--a'bundantiy Aea-r- -•-YT - - _ �__ _ - _beutg grnn n tn_gather data__an_�• white_beans... tr> Heron . CaunLY - - bean producers _-in_ -southern- - -
toprovide thaTservice. But it will'cost money and it will, cost listeners to, the CBC. ' , yields 'anal date, .of maturity, As .This year the. are, 63.0,00,- acres tenC-tn ihe'worI , with yields counties to switch to soybeans, '
Is the whole point of having, a public broadcast system to So, don't scream liken wounded wart -hog -if the•changes a& well, 15 . different herbicide - -of-'beans in the county, he ,saict. that average 30 percent higher Which•are' more resistant t ozone
fill the needs private stations cannot meet? Is this why•we" made.I . "' products • and .10 white mould Mr. Pullen said there has been .than'
rod rshose of ' IGlichigan damage, Dr. Beversdorf said.�•At
have a CBC, as Mr. Hannam asps. ... Heaven -knows too _much top- screechin Whining- ui- -.-- control ,products are bein field. a,general shift in b an- rowin present,.,there there are
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--- If--you-agree,-finer Let's have it:'Let s get s'drtie'more pro- tars, wire -news cliches, staq.cato newscasts' and shallow re- .. tested - and their ' residue from` southern counties to more' M protectants a . - -
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-`fessionals m the CSC to join szrme of the gsbd titer suctr as --porting i • heard on fhe private networks. Most •of •those so- analyzeld"W rdcommeniiatiors can. northerly ones. Ozone damage in on roducin a h' screen plant's � from ozone
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.1. Laurie Jennings, George Adkins, Glen Powell and Don Bar- called news reporters wouldn t know a. good story if it hit be made to •the Ontario Herbicide' Lambton and Kent Countid"s -has product tc gain a shares of. bronzing, he said.
If ton. them between the ears., -'Committee,. forced' producers to 'abandon international markets. He said Nitiogen••FixIng
Do farmers a minimum of 30 minutes a day to -pro- The CBC is the last hope for good'farm broadcasting. The Crop Rotation , ` - white beans in those „areas; he, Ontarjp rower's, cannot row Dr. Dave • Hume showed
vide the information about prices, technical improvements 'private networks. are too hung up on making money and fol_ The Ion term affects. of 12 =said• gh g producers field research he' is '
and national and international developments and analyses" lowing traditional'patterrrs to pdy any attention to farm g 111iY beans as c .cooly as they can be' 'supervising Which is attempting
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y meant that '#he growth rate of quarter of 1976 --which had itself advertising programs. The people .: made• to fix more nitrogen "it
(B Jack Riddell; M.P.P.j g trend has been .to -increased bean i
The develo inert of tourism in •„ 'tourism revenues in Ontario has been a y / i would decrease the cost of _
p poor year for tourism in' of the province are especially .� j � acreage, and there are presently production; he said.
Ontario has contributed, quite glodtned steadily since 1974. the province, desirable visitors They tend,to ' j � / i' �. about (60,000 acres cif beans in , .
substantially' to our Province's This .trend, .was particularly .,Op jhe other hand, the number stay longer at tourist facilities, „- j. j % .....•r . the province. Both' 1)r. Beversdorf and Dr.
y noticeable in 1976. A number of __ _ g -, cons _�_entte-ntl,ys'pe % _ ' _` Hume emphasized that. it 'would :
econom ]t is, in fact,''one of our of Ontarians choo iii to t>avei.. i� Ozone )(desistance
. largest employer's and our second factors ma a this a .so.mewhat outside the country has continued' money, . . j % % I : White, bean . re'search` at the �severa years' a ore the
biggest industry, Last year, it disastrous year ' ,for, Ontario to increase, at an average,rate of ' Ontario tourism is an attractiveoffivem % j University of'' Guelph includes results of their 'research'. would .
produced $2.$ billion •in.revenue tourism; the Mctti,trealwOlympics, 8.5%o for every first quarter since proposition fo"r"t1i holidaytuaker, .' % ;,both• :breeding .programs, ,and bear 'fruit for - Ontario . bean '
and employed 200,000 people. khe .0„S. Bicentennial. celebra= 1974. •This would indicate that the We have, in this province; superb -' l - an fisc `prolilent_af rtsot ro � -
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Without•question, it is one of Election d the- U Presidential problem . is more serious than - scenery' aitd recreational - ----- •- - - - -
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our greatest sources of .foreign . energy- crisis " simply a matter of a year during o,portunties which are so' -unique
currency.. 'In -1976, some confusion regarding sizes of U S..• which a number :of 'special and ' that people 'genuinely wish,• to
tourists from- the' ane a anadiait gallons of gasoline, interesting activities. took place' return'...'. once they haveWHIT!:AN _
t, xenon a rate on the dollar,
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United States ,visited Ontario, g outside Ontario. - experienced a --holiday. "Here.., 8.
spending, in the neighborhood sof ' negative - 'publicity ` regarding
'Ottr tourist industry has-to.cope, ,However; our fourist_industry.will t1i
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$750;0011;000. Visitors from . all � y P with - a reputation for being continue to be in, a .depressed ""
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other countries totalled 885,000 g ttgr l econgrn�c. over' -overpriced., n fact, our costsraie condition. until"
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The tourist industry is vital to y Y P For exam le,., he..interest costs a erienced can be corrected, -'• "
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recentlybeenIOsinario,oundt hasFor forward to 1977 for a. return to Canada•Swou ded tbe oldrox otel in This province invests some $6 Add1t'lon,alapQe'ty no�IV Civa�'ICibl Qt our"new j
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,1" ' :r anumber of years now, th.e total _Increased val,19, tourist dollars. 11%, compared with 7% in the attract and retain touristic dollars: .
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0 number of visitors choosing this '. P.. P Y United ` States. This. ,would, For.the d t bar , b nal modern ICrnt at Sedforth 'which r` vrdes -even•
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-- pr-iimce for a -.vacation -land ltias o - increase overhead' costs from the activities prove rewarding. The . - - -
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-beeh-steadily ,decreasiti g:" -Over --For some reason, the slump in outset.' Minimum hourly wages return on our advertising' dollar is - � Y - . ..a ' . - `
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$ of In the. first quarter of this ears orerattn costs:, hreaterna Our hp her"return than -5260. .That is, ,a y '
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southern climate he or mtak sunny q Y g g g an that obtained --~••-.... •
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ing the number of ' non-residents , property, tax system ;places many by the Federal Government or the "'-'•'""""' '
advarltage of charter flights visiting Ontario 'decreased by 'motels at '' a -competitive-, 'Province of• Quebec, wRich, 'by - 4 -.�.
abroad has :increased. This has. some 8 lo, compared with the first disadvantage. Finally, some comparison. -obtain only $.158 and .
'' „ : , 1. bu nesses.simp are not honour- $147. on the dollar; respectively, • I .. 1. I . .
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