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where property tax payments
are significant in absolute terms
as well as large in relation to net
income, distinct improvements
in the disposable incomes of
farm operators can be affected
through reductions in property
tax payments."
One of the key issues probed
by the committee dealt with
land speculation.
Eventually, the committee
recommended that all farmland,
regardless of ownership, be
treated the same way. That is,
land held by 'bona fide' farmers,
by developers and speculators
should receive proferential
treatment if it falls under the
definition of farm lands.
Farm safety
meet is set
The Farm Safety Conferences
being held in November in
different Ontario zones feature
the value of good
communications.
Organized by Mr. Hal Wright,
Secretary-Manager of the Farm
Safety Council of Ontario, the
five conferences will be held on
November 11 at the County
Kitchen, west of Winchester in
Dundas County (Zone One); on
November 12 in Uxbridge,
Ontario County (Zone Two); on
November 13 in Markdale, Grey
County (Zone Three); on
November 18 at Cayuga,
Haldimand County (Zone Four);
and on November 19 at Petrolia
in Lambton County (Zone Five).
At each of the conferences,
the film 'Chance of a Lifetime'
will be shown. Produced by the
Ontario Department of
Agriculture and Food, the
presentation demonstrates how
easily a machine may become
hazardous if it is not properly
maintained.
There once was an elderly
lady on one of the back
concessions who was renowned
as an exceptional cook.
Housewives beat a path to her
door seeking the formula for her
success. She had a stock answer
to all inquiries. "I use the best of
everything available." she said.
Her formula might well apply
to the Royal Agricultural Winter
Fair for that has been the recipe
on which the success of the
Royal has been built ... the best
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Be it cattle, horses, or the
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be found at the Royal with the
added attraction of everything
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your convenience.
This year opening on Friday,
November 14 through to
November 22, the Royal
promises to surpass other years
in the number and variety of its
displays and competitions. Truly
there is something. for everyone.
Always a premier attraction,
the Royal Horse Show will again
provide one of the Highlights of
the fair. Teams from Argentina,
Mexico, the United States and
Canada will thrill with their
spirited display of horsemanship;
the best the world has to offer in
livestock will be shown in
addition to educational and
entertaining exhibits,
For the "do it yourself" fan
there will be plenty of interest.
For the sports enthusiast there
will be the latest in equipment
and tips to be had from experts in
the field.
The automotive industry has
not been overlooked. The latest
off the production line will be
on hand for viewing. There will
also be an opportunity to see
what can be done with barnyard
"junk" if you have an artistic
bent, Andreas Drenters of Alton,
A Huron County farmer, who
once strongly opposed the
Ontario Federation of
Agriculture, became its president
here Tuesday in a major
shake-up of the federation's
executive.
Gordon Hill, 43, of Varna,
who was president of the rival
Ontario Farmers Union from
1958 to 1960, won the
presidency, defeating the
federation's second
vice-president, Roy Coulter of
Campbellville.
In his nomination speech he
made it clear to delegates at the
OFA's annual convention he was
not always a staunch supporter
of the OFA, but has always been
a staunch supporter of organized
farmers.
"The Ontario Federation of
Agriculture is now the only
GORDON HILL
provincial farm organization we
have, but I want to let you know
in advance that a major overhaul
of the structure is needed,
starting from the grass through
the staff to the brass," he said.
"We must become aggressive and
militant.
"It is important that the OFA
do the job that the marketing
boards want and if we can't do
it, there is not much sense in
existing."
In an interview later, Mr. Hill
said the OFA must look at how
it represents farmers and find
out if the method of providing a
dialogue with farmers needs to
be changed. He said a system
must be devised to get the ideas
and comments of farmers into
head office immediately so they
can be handed quickly.
He said the federation must
decide what staff capabilities are
and what the federation
requires. He made it clear he was
not advoCating a wholesale staff
cleanout.
Mr. Hill succeeds Charles
Munro of Embro, who served for
the past three years and is now
president of the Canadian
Federation of Agriculture.
Also gone from a top
position, besides Mr. Coulter, is
Tom Robson of Leamington, the
first vice-president who declined
to seek re-election.
Elected first and second
vice-president respectively, were
Frank Wall of Port Burwell and
Keith Matthie of Algonquin. Mr.
Coulter ran for the first
Ontario, will show you how even
old horseshoes can be made into
a work of art.
The International Poster and
Photographic Show will be back
this year and for those who have
an interest in wildlife the
Department of Lands and
Forests will have an exhibit of
native animals which should
especially appeal to the children.
Carrying on the old tradition
of the Country Fair in modern
surroundings, the Royal
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annual get-together where city
and country people can meet
and discuss their mutual
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vice-president's job but lost
there also.
Following his stint as OFU
president, Mr, Hill became ,a
member of the Ontario Farm
Products Marketing Board — a
position he resigned in a dispute
with Agriculture Minister
Stewart and other board
members over the handling of
the Ontario Bean Growers
Marketing Board's problems four
years ago.
Mr. Hill and another board
member, Alden McLean of
Muirkirk, had been advocating
that the bean board be separated
from its wholly-owned
subsidiary, the Ontario Bean
Growers Ltd., of London and
become an agency-type
marketing board handling the
entire product.
He and Mr. McLean resigned
from the government board for
what they termed inaction on
the bean question. Shortly after
the two were separated and since
then the bean board has become
an agency-type scheme. Mr. Hill
is now a bean board director.
Mr. Hill was a member of the
Ontario special committee on
farm income which handed
down its report last January. It
was then that . he came in
conflict with the group he once
headed — the Ontario Farmers
Union.
Fertilizer prices
bound to go up
Ray A. Hergott, Manager of
the Ontario Federation of
Agriculture, believes that the
complete lack of consideration
of the financial position of
Ontario farmers is revealed in
recent moves to increase the cost
of potash mined in Manitoba.
"The proposed increase
would cost this province's
farmers about $1,000,000 more
in the next year to purchase
fertilizer," he emphasizes. FIe
goes on to point out that
Ontario farmers use about
150,000 tons of potash annually
in their fertilizers.
Mr. Hergott refers to
proposed increases to the cost of
potash which are planned by the
Manitoba Government. The 20%
price hike affects 60% grade
standard potash. The rise in
price is about $7 per ton to the
Ontario farmer in packaged
fertilizer.
The proposed price hike
comes at a time when the
Ontario Federation' of
Agriculture is completing plans
for a fact-finding mission to
Great Britain in December to
study British farming and the
farm in-put price situation in the
United Kingdom.
The OFA is presently
combating unfair in-put prices
by importing farm machinery
from Britain. Tractors brought
in from Czechoslovakia will soon
be demonstrated in Ontario in
Co-operation with the OFA.
Mr. Hergott emphasizes that
the cost of potash from
European markets will now be
added to the long list of items to
be studied closely during the trip
to Britain.
At the 1968 union
convention, he urged the onion
to be cautious about becoming a
national group, Shortly after, he
parted company with the union.
The OFU joined the new
National Farmers Union in
Winnipeg last July and is now a
regional body of that
organization.
Mr. Hill decided Sunday to
seek the presidency and did not
take out a federation individual
membership until Monday
morning, the opening day of the
federation convention.
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Preferential tax treatment
should be given to farm land by
means of reduced assessment, an
eight-member committee on
farm essessment and taxation
has recommended.
The assessment on farm land
should be based on market value
but subject to a maximum
amount for tax purposes to be
worked out by a schedule of
land value rates.
Municipal Affairs Minister
Darcy McKeough said the
recommendations will be tried
out and if the results are
favorable, steps will be taken to
implement them.
The committee, chaired by A.
N. MacKay, director of the
assessment standards branch,
suggests the schedule be based
on soil capability ratings used by
the Agricultural Rehabilitation
and Development
Administration.
It will mean a maximum rate
of $200 per acre, a minimum
evaluation of $15 per acre for
wasteland.
The farm residence and
buildings will be assessed in the
normal manner — at their
market value — and the total
taxable assessment for each farm
would be the sum of the three
components — land, buildings
and residence.
Since the preferential
treatment will be given only to
farm land, the committee
defined farm land rather than a
working farm or farmer as the
key element in its proposals.
It is defined as any land
producing a farm product.
"If the property is less than
11 acres in size, the gross
revenue from the sale of farm
products must be at least $2,000
the year prior to the year of
assessment or an average of
$2,000 per year for the three
years prior to assessment," the
committee proposes.
Where taxable assessment of
farms is determined by the
committee's proposed procedure
rather than farm value, there will
be a shift in tax burden to
non-farm properties.
The committee strongly
recommends the government
implement a program "of
transfer payment to
municipalities in order to
cushion the impact of the shift."
The committee analyzed "in
some detail" the report of the
special committee on farm
income in Ontario and says it is
aware its recommendations on
property taxes on farms and
farm land will "have little or no
effect in much of rural Ontario."
"This in no way indicates a
lack of concern for the farm
income problem in those areas;
it does indicate that in our
opinion the income problem will
not be significantly alleviated,
much less resolved in
predominantly rural townships
through adjustments of property
tax payments."
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