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-o-$1tor . 00__ 1-18tN DA-I RY SYSTEMS
on the opening
of their new building in Walton.
"MAITLAND,
EADY.. MIX
CONCRETE PRODUCTS LTD, Listowel
get an introduction to the, basics
of solar energy. Can it really heat
a horrie during the._winter?-,Can it
be used to heat a swimming pOol
or a barn? How can it be used to
heat water? •
Come to the I ucknow Centre. on
Campbell Street (next to the.
Sentinel Office)lin Friday, April
7th_ •at 7:30 pan. ...or to the
Goderich Centre" at 36 West
Street (above Bluewater Clean-
ers) on Saturday, April 15th at
1:30 p.m.
To
& N DAIRY SYSTEMS
•
On the completion and opening
of the new building..
We lo6k forward to serving
you in tho_coming years.
Ronnenberg
insurance Agency _
Brussels Monkton
It's enough to Make grown men weep, isn't it?
Years ago when farmers were fighting 'to form market-
ing boards, most of the so-called free enterprisers in this
province'pooh-poohed their efforts and did everythingy
possible to scuttle them.
- ' FeW major daily newspapers, as I recall, came out in,
favor, of marketing boards. I can remember one farm
reporter 20 years ago ripping lip 'a -661iVarthe Ontario
Farm Products Marketing Act in disgust. He could not
believe that such powers, could possibly be given to an
organization in this province. He actually fought against
the orderly marketing of tobacco, would you believe!
• Those of us who remember the first days of the hog
marketing board with its great growing pains and the •
milk board's hard-earned successes know how difficult it-4;
was to get these radical ideas accepted, not just by the
public but by many farmers -themselves. I can recall an
old, bow-legged dairy farmer, a good one, slamming his
'gnarle,d fist on the table in frustration against the milk
board's decision to take over the pick-up of milk. .
&it these same marketing boards are accepted in the
darndest circles these days.
For instance, .at the 13th annual marketing seininar
sponsored by the Rural Learning Association, . two key-
note 'speakers . said. they supported collective marketing.
They, weren't just ordinary sp_eakers - you don:tget just
ordinary speakers _at one, of Vic Morrow's seminars
they were self-admitted free enterprisers.
Lorne .Almack, an industrial engineer and a manage-
ment corisultant with the well-known firm of Price Water-
house Associates, gave solid facts and figures to back
marketing Wards. .
"Let's start with the charge that marketing boards re-
' strain international trade and impose high, non-competi-
tive prices on Canadian consumers," he said. ."What are
.the facts.? Twenty, years ago when there-were no Market-
ing boards, Canadians spent 25 per eent of their disposr_..,
-able income on food. Today they spend 19 per cent, less,
'than any other nation in the world."
Jack and Lorraine Nelemans,
owners of H • anti N Dairy
SyStems, are no strangers to the
Wallen area. Although their
business headquarters building is
new, the couple and their family
have lived itr-Waltou . since 1974.
But last year the couple bought
two acres next to their home 'near
the Highway 12 intersection and
built a new 3200 square foot
Wilding. Before then H and N
. Dairy Systems had been housed
in• rented quarters in the old
Cousin:sCreamery• in Brussels.
doser to home," Mr.
Nelemans said, and besides the
Brussels building needed a lot of
work.
Jack Nelemans has a great deal
of dairy experience. He was born
in Holland and raised on a dairy
fram at R.R.3 Listovvel. In 1962 he
started- working for Janiesway
Farm Equipment in Freston.
When Jamesway discotintinued,„
milking machines in 1975. Mr,
Nelemans started H and N in
Brussels.
H and N' is the Ontario
He told the .135 delegates at the seminar that if any com-
plaints should be levelled against marketing boards it .is
,that they have failed to lobby effectively for protection of
their industry..
Even more surprising were 'the statements made by
Frank Warnock, president of M. Loeb Limited, the firm
.which controls all the liGA stores in Canada, one of the
big five in the retail food-selling chain in this country.
He frankly admitted he was against the basic concept
of fixing prices by artificial means.
"However, we live in a very real world where compro-
mise is frequently the best,, if not the only, course open
to us...but in defence of fixed prices within such pro-
grams I have to say that I consider many of them to be
not only desirablebut, in fact, essential," he said.
The thrust of multi-national companies into Canada and
the formation of Canadian conglomerates brought an in-
crease in purchasing power and financial strength to
those companies and this' "made it mandatory, ill my -
opinion, that' farmers unite to match this strength."
Right on, Durangol
Those are heart-warming words from a free-enterpriser
like Frank .Warnock. Or: "The . formation of marketing
boards was essential to the survival' of the type of farm-
ing community required in 'a growing Canadian economy."
_Wow! Double wowlAnd, wow again!
Hear, 0 farming community, , th-ese words of wisdom.
Cherish them, And when the. goitig gets tough and con-
sumers are snapping at the ragged pass of your. ants,
remember those words of comfort from a couple okfree, .
enterprisers who realize the value of collective market-,
ing. •
Use those words to assuage the vitriolic throatS of your
aggressors. And use thein, too, to mollify the members of
your own organization when they falter in the ranks.
As I have said- before, marketing boai•ds are far from
perfect but until soin y domes along with, a better
idea; stick with the • , riends.
Solar workshop on in Lucknow
There has been a lot of talk
lately about solar-energy, but-how
malty people understand how it
works.
Here is your opportunity to
attend a free Workshop at the
Energy Conservation Centres to
, •
distributor for Universal milking
systems and sells through other-
dealers as well as retailing
UniVersal produrets locally. The
company stresses service, Mr.
Nelemans says, "24 hours a day,
seven days a week." .
The new building houses
$100,000 inventory in parts and
equipment "so that the customer
doesn' have to wait," Mr. Nele-
mans says. H and N will design a .
whol dairy operation, - for the,
farm
Mrs. Nelemans, a native of
Preston; is thefirm's bookkeeper.
In addition H and N employs a
service Man, two installers and
one man on a supply truck who's
on the road' all the time and takes
a different route every day.
Mr. N elemans is president of
the Walton Area Sports Club. The
couple has two children Christine,
10, *and Jerry, 7.
An Expo*Sitor Classified will
pay you dividends. Have you tried
one? Dial 527.0240.
Jack and Lorraine Nele(nans of H N
Dairy Systems
Complete Stock Of Dairy Equipmen't Parts of the new
H & N Dairy Systems building
Morris critical of F of A - cuts grant
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$30 and each house used should
get $35 for when Morris holds' it
liquor vote on April. 10.
• Connell passed a by-law on the
Martens Bridge, Lots 10 and 11;
Concession 6 which is,to have a
-weight restriction of 5 ton and a
'by-law on the Blind Lind Bridge,
Lots 20-21, Concession 2 which is
to, have a-10 tort 'limit:: •
We congratulate Jack and his wife on the
_GRAND OPENING •
of their new building at Walton. We are
pleased to have been chosen as General
Contractors for the proje c t.
JOHN NELEMANS CONSTRUCTION
Palmerston, Cintarfo
Comrniercial
Farm - Residence
15 Years of Building in Palmerston and Surrounding Area.
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