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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1962-03-29, Page 11h e f e mes Second Section EXETER, ONTARIO, MARCH 29, 1962 Page Eleven borafe Urge changes in tax structure to lighten ..farm education levy DOES A BETTER JOB! COSTS LESS MONEY! Marcel Vanneste, RR 2 Kip,' .Cratg, 4,7$2; Whitney Coates,. pen, lopped area sugar' beet RR 1. Centralia, 4,753; Pat growers for the third. year in Toohey, RR 3 Lucan, 4,727; a row, .according to the re, Stewart Long, .Penfield, suits listed this week in the 4,714; Thomas- White. JIR IMblication„ "Up .and Down the .Orediton, 4,663; William. West- Jiows". lake, RR 3 Exeter, 4,614; On ,nearly 13 acres of beets, Lloyd •Cooper, RR 3 ,happen, 'Vanneste averaged 5,976 POUnds 4,583; George Burdick, RR 1 of sugar per acre which won Denfleict, 4,532; ff. brand, BR him 4 place on the division I Exeter ,• 4 481:- Jules Del3rah- no.nor rail of growers. andere, RR- A St. Marys, 4,417; B H Van Steee RR 3 Exeter His cottsin, Willy Vantleste, LA RR 2 111,1101,„Culpanclewirge, a"n'as e%erla6e.see 7(4,;77agn;ton, 4,406; Joe Lenders, yield .01,. 5,905 pounds per acre. RR 1 Denfield, 4,391; Norman ,Ridded,RR 2 Granton, 4,377. 'Willy, too, won a place on. the. ' • .division honor roll. Average yield for the district The two area growers k.vere was 4,345 pounds per acre, among the top 75 of a total of 1,350 growers' last year, in On- tarlo. In third place for this district was Donald R. Parsons, RR. I. liersell, with 5,722 pounds per acre. Fourt-h went to. Ray -Con- ant, RR 3 Ripper), and fifth to G. Branderhorst, Other above-average growers in the area and their yields: Frans Vanneste, RJt 1 Clan- deboye, 5,515; William Schroe- der, .RR, 1 Centralia, 5,511; Walter R. .0onglas, RR. 2 Utter- ton, 5,443; M. L. Davidson, Brucefield, 5,293; Joseph Van- neste, RR I Clandeboye, 5,217; Leonard Lovell, Kippen, 5,194; William Coleman, RR J Kip- pen, 5,162; Bruce Warner, RR 1 D enf iet d, 5,147; Jerome Spruyette, ftla 1 Clapdeboye, 5 082 Tops beet men for third year , Jack VanLeishout, RR 3 Lu- can, 4,917; Pearson Charters, nR. Kippen, 4,883; Stanley Hicks. RR 1 Centralia, 4,878; Alfons Kintz, RE I Centralia, 4,866; Elmer Marlton, RR 2 Granton, 4,808, Joe Caidler, RR 2 Aliso Authority sets levy Ausable authority has levied for a total of $21,500 this year, a. slight increase over last year's assessment of $20,000. Exeter continues to pay the greatest share of the 23 muni- cipalities in the watershed, The town's assessment this year is $2,509,79, Stephen township pays the second largest share, $2,312.82, which is the largest contributed by any of the rural municipali- ties, The cost is divided on the basis of population and assess- ment, Here are the levies by municipality; Adelaide $ 752.92 Ailsa. Craig .. . 438.05 Arkon a 380.95 Biddulph 1,270.38 B I a nshard t 101.61 Bosanquet » 2,029.05 Exeter 2,509.79 Grand Bend .... . 997,91 Hay . 891.66 Hensall 793,20 1-fibber- 529,78 Lobo ....... 584.44 London T,vp, ...... 100.00 Luca n ..... 675.48 McGillivray ... 9,041.83 Parkhill ,. 949.61 Stephen , ........ ..... 2,312,82 'Medford . ...... 600.89 Tuckersmith „ 117,64 Usborne '1,455.54 Warwick 209.19 William East — 1,084.36 Williams West 919.84 DIRECTORS RETURNED Two district directors were returned to the Ontario Wheat Producers' Marketing Board for tile coming year at the annual. meeting in Chatham. Re-elected were Russell T. Bolton, Seaforth, representing district seven; a n d James O'Shea, Granton, one of two directors representing district four, Timely tip A new winter barley kvill soon be available to growers in Ontario. It has been tested during the past three years and ,has been found to be over half-again as strong in the straw as Hudson and has out- yielded it by almost 10 bushels per acre. This variety will be called Dover and is the result of a toss between Wong and Kenate varieties, both of which have been grown to a limited extent in Haldiniaed, It is two to three inches shorter in straw than Hudson, two days earlier in Maturity and carried 1.3 per cent mildew as compared with litidson's 7,2, It else has slight- ly More 'whiter hardiness than Hudson. its One drawback is that it has A. rough awn. No Seed will be available this coming fa ll but there should be lintited supplies far seeding in the fall of 1983, Special emphasis was placed on marketing of milk, hogs, and eggs when the marketing committee of the Ontario Far- mers Union met the Farm Pro- ducts Marketing ,Board in To- ronto on March. 16, The WU committte is made up of Chairman Robert Tay- lor, Huron count y; Harry. Adams, Simcoc county, and Orville Dowdall. Carleton coun- ty Mr. Taylor, referring to his committee's report, endorsed by the OFU convention, stated "that a single milk marketing hoard should he built at once, aimed at raising the price of milk for processing to its true value." All producers of grade "A" milk should share equitably the returns from the fluid market, he said. Milk prices should be based on contents, non-fat, the report. had urged, and there should be an aggressive promo- lion and stabilization program, grading and testing by depart- ment of agriculture officials. It also recommended "premi- um prices for, winter milk and. milk from bulk tanks" The committee Taylor conti- nued, believed that the day is long passed when producers can afford the luxury of point- ing a finger at any one group of producers and charging them with the responsibility :for the present predicament. Too many people in farm market- ing groups have taken a self- ish "penny wise pound fool- ish"attitude, in protecting all interests of their self con- tained branch of the industry, milk against manufactured, hogs against beef, etc), When this happens the whole indus- try suffers, This, the Commit- tee claims is most significant in, the areas of conflict between co-operatives and marketing boards. • The meeting agreed that the aim should be• to retain the present level of fluid milk pri- ces, and to sell as much milk in this category as possible, It was also felt' that problems PRIZEWINNER — Julia Cron- ter, Lucan, daughter of Mr. and. Mrs R, R. Crozier, won Second prize in showmanship in the special girls' class when she showed a Guernsey cow al the OAC's College. Royal at Guelph recently. often arose through misunder- standing and lack of informa- tion, and that marketing boards should consult more often with transporters and, processors. The farm union committee's report contended that "the failure of farmers' participa- tion and acceptance of commo- dity marketing resulted from lack of information." In citing a specific case, a member of the OFU committee pointed to a recent. annual meeting of a milk organization, where very little opportunity was provided for discussion of an overall. milk marketing plan. This, it was stated, was most unfortu- nate from a producer's stand point, when the marketing of milk is in such a crucial posi- tion. In discussing hog marketing the OFU representatives slated that, "producers object to the fluctuation in daily prices," and suggested that prices could be pooled, perhaps at each assembly point on either a daily or weekly basis. The discussions showed gen- eral agreement that, during the year, committee men of marketing boards should en• gage in an active campaign to inform producers and to seek their opinions In considering the egg situa- tion and the current petition being circulated seeking a plebicite on an egg marketing plan, • the OFU group pointed out that," producers are being asked to sign and a plan has not yet been formulated." At a separate meeting the o F lf marketing committee also met with Fred Campbell, general manager of the Onta- rio Stock yards to discuss auc- tion selling of cattle. The committee cited (Ijssel- By J. CARL IIEMINGWAY Federation F ield m an Perhaps 1 am slightly biased but. 1 did find it most interest- ing to find two resolutions which originated in Huron get- ting approval of the Ontario Wheat Producers Association at its annual meeting in 'Tor- onto last week. The first was the old one that has been on the go for the past four or five years, namely: "Resolved that the freight subsidy on Western feed grain into Ontario be discon- tinued," The question can be reduced to whether or not farmers ben- efit by low priced grain, Unless you purchase more than half of, your feed grain supply there will be no advant- age in having the .freight sub- sidy. I think you are familiar with all the old arguments but ran across a new angle after hours, r was told by a municipal as- sessor that regulations under the Municipal Act state that a person. who produces less than 10ate or the equivalent, of his feed requirements can be sub- ject to business tax, I wonder how many people who call themselves farmers would be affected by this? A few of us did some rather wild guessing on the beef feed- ing operation of Seagrams at Waterloo and concluded that they could be subject to a busi- ness tax of between $6,000 and 87,000 on this operation, If this were applied in rural munici- palities it might act as a de- terrent, to vertical integration. Get wheat at harvest The second resolution was approved to give the Ontario wheat board power to obtain a percentage of wheat delivered at harvest time, if your wheat board could get this wheat for September and October export it could be moved out much more cheap- ly. Under present conditions the board can only get wheat when the trade is willing to as- sign it. This might be in time to use the full navigation sea- son but it is usually during February that the board is asked to remove the surplus. This means that, the board has to pay top storage charges and has to move the grain by rail rather than boat.. Since if: was necessary for me to shuffle back and forth between • the wheat. producer and hog producer meetings, only one resolution of the hog producers caught my attention: "Resolved that all market hogs must continue to be mar- keted, through the marketing agency," The delegates no doubt real- ize that this is of most vital importance but 1 question if the average producer knows this fact. I am thoroughly con- vinced that it is this clause in your marketing plan that has prevented corporation control of hog production, Yet there are a couple of flies in the soup. Fired the resolution implies that all market, hogs are pre- sently being sold through the agency. Enough evidence was produced, at the, meeting to cause some doubt of this. Second, if the law is being broken who is to "bell the Cat"? To my mind, these two faults can only be removed by extremely strong support on the part of hog producers, You did strengthen your po- sition at the March 6 vote. nut it is necessary that you conti- nue. Give expression to your determination in this matter, "loud and clear", Members of the Ontario Hog Producer's' Association last week moved to prevent pack- ers from producing and proces- sing their own hogs, a situation which appears to he on the in- crease, some producers claimed. The association passed a re- solution "That all hogs pro- duced or imported and fed in the province continue to be consigned to the Ontario Hog Producers' 'Marketing Board and sold by teletype regardless of whether they are owned by a processor or- a small produ- cer," The resolution was put be- fore the meeting by Bruce and Grey County producers The producers contended that processors, through vertical in- tegration, could raise all the hogs they needed on a few large farms, eventually forc- ing the small, producer's of 25- 200 hogs out of business. People rather than land should be taxed to finance eci- cation costs, a Huron federa- tion discussion group decided Clintonat Monday night. A crowd of about 100 rural people agreed that more equit- Their decisions followed a talk by Don Middleton., head of the properties department, of the Ontario federation, who suggested a number of tax changes which might be ef- fected. Outlines possibilities He felt fixed aaseasmeeta or fixed taxation tendd be applied against farm land to prevent it -from being affected bar iii ban sprawl. An upper limit might be placed on taxation, fixed as a percentage of in- co me. The cost of taxation could be removed from land,. he stated. Sir'. Middleton toted the ma- jor increase in education cost, pointing out that that the per pupil public school cost has risen from. 395,00 in 1946 In 8268.00 in 1959; high school, from $206.50 to $580.00 per, pu- pil. Fielciman comments Huron's resolutions get provincial OK Unless you have plowed una der clover seed or planned to use manure on the field, your wheat will be needing nitrogen when growth starts next spring, say soil specialists with the Ontario Department, of Agricul- ture, lf it is unusually hard to get on the field before April, then apply that extra nitrogen now before the snow gets too deep. Suggests all 'A' milk share in fluid market The producer-farmer on the concession in other allied Pro- ductions must compete, even though he may be producing a isfaction. of producers under simila a commodity. (whole this system of selling. However they added, statistics would indicate that, producers using the services of the Ontario Stock yards are satisfied due to the increased sales re- corded, Mr. Campbell stated he was anxious that; farmers would feel free to discuss with him the "pros" and "cons" of auc- tion selling, so that they would have a better understanding of the benefits derived from the system, • FARMERS ! 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Assess properties at their ar, the, services to If you are growing Swede people; turnips for waxing his year Relate planning to taxation, NAMED TO COMMITTEE — you will want a copy of the. in the sense that developments Art Bolton, Seaforth, former "Protection Guide for Swede should he encouraged which assistant ag rep in Huron, has Turnips", This outlines sue,- would not adversely affect been named to the nine-man gestions for control of diseases farm property; committee set up by Agricul- and insects affecting Swede Establish a capital gains tax. lure Minister Stewart to study turnips. Copies may be ob- Costs rise rapidly the sate and use of farm lathed from the office of the machinery and equipment in Agricultural Representative for Ontario, It is to make recom- the County, ttu'nip inspectors, mendations of legislation 1.o the many of the shippers, or from minister by Nov. 1, "if pos.. the. Ontario Agricultural Col- sible", lege, G-uelph. The OFA official said the farmer was being overtaxed for education because his es- sessment was higher than that of comparable. property in 'ur- ban centres, A farm with a sale value of $10,000 has an assessment of $4,500, while a in resolution, which sure a fair allocation of dele- house which sells for $10,000 is sparked considerable discus- gates to the. district hog pro- assessed at only $2,500 on the sion fro mthe floor, the produ- ducers' committees. provincial average. cers' association asked the , 6„ Huron County After his outline of the prob. ,hog producers resolution terns, the audience broke into a number of discussion groups, marketing board to initiate a askin g the to study of a two-price system as do everything possible to pre- vent packersfromhaving Elmer Ireland, county fete-the basis for a means of con-. trolling marketing of hogs.ration president, was chair. buyers names announced on man for the meeting. A num. There was also great inter- each sale was carried. ber of municipal officers at. est in. a Lambton County reso- A Lanark County resolution tended. lotion that would have had the asking the marketing board to sic, thus OHP'MB act to permit truckers study a method whereby a with complete salable lots on committeeman finding himself their trucks to have these hogs unable to attend the election the men on the other side per- offered for sale and sold on of the zone director, could ar- sonally and if the vote was ing them unloaded. The rest).- range for an alternate by narrowed to a township level the truck as a lot, without hay- proxy, was carried. - it would work out better. lotion did not carry, ' An Oxford County resolution Resolutions d a a li n g with Another resolution presented asking that consideration be members of the board and as by Lambton and carried by given to each polling division sociation being elected for two the meeting . will see the assn- being a unit electing from or three year terms on a rota- elation petitioning the Ontario a prescribed number of candi- Mona]. basis, instead of the Farm Products M a r k e t i n g dates according to their loca- ittional basis, instead of the Board to make it compulsory tiOn in the county, relative to present one-year term, were for the name of the county the polling places, was not. car- tabled for one year, from which a particular load ried An Oxford spokesman A resolution asking for a of hogs was shipped, to be on said he felt producers on one study of pooling of prices on the sales slip. 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