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Saks, Service and installation
of;UNIVERSAL pipelines
and Milking Products.
thilversul Br R.R. 4 Walton
ussels 887-6063
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airy. Systems Ltd.
Dr. Martin is doing an analysis
an different marketing methods
and the costs of each system.
The systems, such, as the
country , auction, the terminal
auction, direct to packer sales.
listing service, and teletype
system, all mean different costs
to throe in the marketing systeint
the producers. the packers, and
the intermediates (the • agents,
trucker,s. etc.) ••
The Association also received
an update on the new- Brucellosis
control• program from another
*1,1 goest speaker, Dr. Bill
Thompson • front the Canada
Department of Agriculture,
Health of Animals. Branch.
In Blyth
poileyettlito rs - hold
The first of five seminars for
the Huron County Dairy Farmers
was held in Blyth last Monday
with a turnout of 90 farmers.
The series of meetings are
planned by the Ontario Ministry
of Agric,ulture and Food and will
cover a variety of topics centred
around the theMe,of fertility,and
Throughout the year dairymen
have expressed concern for poor
'calving intervalS along with
getting , cows, , re-bred after
calving.
The, series' of lectures and
presentations have been —co-
ordinated by Dennis Martin.
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A,SSociate Agricultural represen-
tative fctr Huron' County. . '
Speaking Monday Ken
-s McKinnon. Chariman
and president of the Dairy
Farmers of . Canada, Dr,
W . T horn pson . Healthof
Animals. Seafortb. They coveted
the preseiit dairy situation and
the outlook for 197:8 .miry Year
and gave aBrucellossis update:—
Dr., N N, Shain. 'United Breeders
Incorporated. Guelph. and Jack
Roe Rodenburg, Dairy Cattle
Specialist. ' F. covered
reproduction, heat detection
calving iicterv,als and ntaurition
with the aid of slide's and graphs.
T uesday's meeting covered
dry cow ,management and the:
importance of a . dry period for
following lactation. Jack
Rodenburg spoke to those
present. . •
The final three meetings •.•••
be held at the Myth. Methorial
Hall, in Blyth on the;following
da tes: Monday. January ' • 30,
Tuesday.-la unary 3I , Thursday.
February 2, All meetings start at -
h30 p.m. and topics will include
milking mantigement. dairy cattle
seicTlion and dairy. feed
formulation program.
residency basis when they held
their ..January meeting in the
Londesboro CoMmtmity: Hall.
A by-law, to impose special
annual drainage rat-os upon lands•
in respect of which money is
borrowed under the . I He
Drainage AO 1971 was read 'a
third time and passed.
Council is to renew the
of Londesboro.
(Rim. it instructed the road
superintendent to apply for the
remainder of the 1977' Subsidy.
approYed the tile-drain inspectors
completion •. certificate • and
instructed the clerk to prepare the
neL.essary by-laws.
Accounts 'were missed as read.
Hullett Council voted in faveur Garbage Colleetion Contract with
of the proposal to put senior Bud Chamney for the Sum of
citizens housing on a cou tny_wide__,_5-2-:054--prr-tirrntrrrfor the -VA jage'---
rates be higher than city rates? -
A select committee of the Ontario Legislature has been
formed .to study the operations of the Ontario' Hydro. MoSt
farrners .who have had anything to do. with the land-buying-
policies of the, huge utility could testify that its ethics in
many places are highly questionable. • ,
Farm organizations have been fighting hydro for 'more
than a decade. The, most blatant examples of high.handed-
ness came about. when hydro' corridors were-needed from
Douglas Foint to the industrial complexes throughout
the golden triangle. It seems to farmers that what in-..
dustry rants, industry gets, even if it is at the expense of
some of the best'agricultural land 'in the world. ,
Some gf the stories of duplicity were enough. to give a
dog's 'gut heartburn. Neighbors were being played against
neighbors, farmers against farmers.
Hydro is an essential- service today. It is like public
transportalion, like the mails, like public radio. It is nec-
essary .for our existence. No modern farm can long exist
without hydro. Concentrated, highly mechanized operations
cannot provide water, feed, heat and,light, without hydro:
It may not have been true, years ago but it is true to-
day: we cannot get alotig without hydro.
But why do farmers have, to pay more for hydro than
those living in the'city?
It is an unfair burden to place on the agricultural com-
munity, especially at a time when energy costs are sky-
rocketing., vat a time-when farm priCes„are_not keeping
pace with the in,creased costs of production, when dozens
of farmers are being, forced off the land and the_auction-
eer's hammer is ringingout too often in rural areas.
It is time, these inequalities were put right. I have never
been given a -reasonable answer as to why I should be
paying more for hydro-than- my city cousin. 30 per cent
-more for me.
It doesn't -make sense and it is time Ontario Hydro did
Something about it before that fancy Hydro building in
Toronto gets a load of milk-and-mianure scattered through
its fancyentrance. .
over to aprovineialregistry where
each-worker's entire work history
can be followed? This would
appear to be absolutely essential
for two reasons:.one, to enable an
individual worker to prevent.
irreversible damage to his health;
and tyvo, to enable medical
authorities to identify high-risk.
• su'bstances and. working
conditions. -
The bill fails to establish jilic
Occupational Health • and Safety
Reseraeh institute which the
Premier announced during the
1975 election carnapign. What is i
'going to be dsiife'abair this":7ne
• wonders? .•
In .spite. of • 'increasing • and
Widespread. concern 'about
ind.ustrial -hazards. to health, the
province . continues to lack an
adequate supply of gecupationaj
health specialists in various
fields. 'There is a lack of industrial
hygienists. nurses.... safety-
engineers as well as other profes-
sional._ antLparaprofessional
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Standards needed for toxic agonts
Iaily harmful subsfalices, should about' possible production•
be • made available to every _hold-ups and loss of •competitive
employee. This is done in some of advantages.. They are not
the Californian legislation " on opposed to the concept of pretest-
health and safety. • ing , providing that delays are'.
T,here is.some coecertrithat the 'reduced to the minimum possible
bill makes no provisibn for the
,0 4'1,004, A. of, ..„-pretestin0 .÷il,r -Triltod e 44 ielV'Soffie "kirdereabalii
program for new' substances the manner -in 'which records of•
introduced in the work place over-exposure are to be utilized.
which ,are suspected of being Are these records to "13eturned'
harinful. The, federal food and
as well as the'rnaximum exposure potential for causing harm, • •
period.. We 'believe that. the cause cancer: New medical w yide' residenc . 'permissible : for a short-term particularly those which may
with respect to .the average ment. Priority is being given to
concentration for a 40-hour week' substances with the greatest
environ - -ullett. favours county
It's time some farm organization in Ontario started to
pound the table .about the stupid inequities perpetrated
• by Ontario Hydro.
For some reason, now lost in antiquity, rural .people in
this province are paying more for hydro — as much
50 per cent more in some cases than city dwellers,
Years. ago this practice may have Made a .little, sense
when,,it was many miles between farm hoUSes but it is
just an asinine inequity-today.
More than /300,000 customers in Ontario's rural retail
-system, pay moreJOr hydro than they should be paying '.
because their bills are not based on the cost of providing
that electricity to them. The billS are based upon the much
higher cost of providing -electricity to remote regions of '
the province.,.,
What that means. is that the, poor folk iii rural Ontario
are helping' td-provide services to remote areas io 'north-
° ern Ontario butt the city, dweller,. just because his house
is close to his neighbor's does not pay extra to supply hydro •
tb all parts'Of the province.
This system' was developed 50 or 60 years ago when it •
might have made sense. Today, it is just plain stupid.•
The' cost Of electricity throughout Ontaria-strould be -
shared by all consumers in the province.
For. a , number of years;•-•-most farmers accepted the
status-quo: They -found-Ontario-Hydro-autocratic to deal
with-anyway and paid their bills,, grudgingly. -But they
have been faced with whopping annual-increases and are
about ready to pop off in justifiable anger.
• In 1975, the rates 'charged by Ontario Hydro to local
hydro systems increased 12.4 per cent. In 1976, the in-
crease was a . huge 22 per cent. Last year it went even
higher, up 30 per , cent. This year, the increase will be '
about 5 per cent. And Would have been higher probably
if the Anti-Inflation Board hadn't been around.
Now,' those are staggering figures: almost •70,per cent .
in less than five years. And, no doubt, due .to go higher
in the next few years.
So Why in the cotton-pickin' world should r 1 hydro
JACK RIDDELL M.P.P.
With respect to the Occupa-
tio,nal Health. and Safety Act, we
were concerned' about the lack of
inclusion of standards for teede
substages. While,provisien, is
m o-Aii;.414Aetite0,0.60;v,er nor 6,1
in eoti4iliO make' iegalations on
a wide variety of subjects; there' is
no indication of criteria or guide-
lines to be adopted. There has •
been extensive research into the
concentration of airborne
substances; to which workers may
be „exposed , without adverse
effects. For example, the
American g.o.nference of
Government ' Industrial
Hygienists has compiled a 'list of
some 400 toxic substances,
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thresholdlimit valne standards at Surely the Government of Optario
least as effective as those adopted' could co-operate with • other
fot,yanoltS substances. _At the agencies involved in testing new
very minimum, the legislation substances, perhaps dividing up
should set out specific standards the substances to be tested in
for materials or harmful physical order ethat pretesting could be
agents which would adequately done in an expeditious and
ensure to a reasonable extent that efficient manner.
no emplOYee will Suffer material We • have had preliminary
'impairment of health or discussions with representatives
functional capacity, even if of employers' grotips as well as
regularly exposed to a hazard for employeeS on this subject.
the period of his or her working They're naturally. concerned
life, •
How are these standards to be
set? Under the proposed
legislation f entirely at the
discretion of the minister behind
closed doors. We have proposed
that employees, employers and
independent experts should
have a voice in establishing
standards. One possible
mechanism might be the advisory
council On. occupational health
and safety, to be established•
under the proposed legislation.,
This'advisery council might play a
useful-role in •setting standards,
providing its membership is
repiesentative of all employees
and employers,. non-unionized as
well as unionized, small as well as
large companies.
In _a number of other jurisdie7
tions, industrial health and safety
. standards are set openly by public
bodies; and we' believe the
Minister sbbuld follow this
example in Ontario. The
legislation does set out a distinc-
tion between designated toxic
substances, and other toxic
substances for which the Minister
suggested that guidelines . be
enacted. 1-16-Wever, it is not cleat
what Ott of regulations will be
enatted with respect to either
categbry.
/how wilt these regulations be
conununicated to workers on the
job site? In our view, ' the
,legislation should require that a
not containing pertinent
information on genefal
occupational health and safety`
andmotice of partici"-
Art Bolton of R.B.1. Dublin.
WO elected the 1978.79 prestdeht
of the Huron Cattlemen's
AssoCiation at their • annual
meeting in the Clinton Legion last
week,' ' 7 '
Mr. Bolton succeeds "George
AdaMs of R.R.2. Wroxeter. last'
year's president.
Neil Stapleton o.f Auburn
is the new, vice .president of the
240 member association. , while •
Bob McGregor of R.R.2, Kippen
is the new treasurer, and Stan
Paquette of the ag office, remains
as
ArChie Etheritigtoit
se c ret ary.f
Hensall. was named Huron
o
director to the Optario
Cattlemen's Association -of. which
he was 'president for the past
'directors from the 16 townships in
HtT
irlown, meeting 'also named 47
Dr, L. Martin of the University
-of Guelph:, one' of the, gpest
spe akers, told the audience• of
the difficulties he , is having ,
gathering information . on
marketing methods and alterna•
lives.
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There are five models to from. Each
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drug directorate provides such.
protection with respect to food
and drugs, and it is felt that
workers should receive similar
protection.
Apparently the• environmental
protection agency in the United.
States has begun a program 'Of
pretesting all substances which
setting out exposure standard's, find their way into the
Province of Ontario should adopt techniques are being utilized.
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