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Brucellosis Control Act was
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this program about 400,000
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show that not more than 5% of
the herds were infected and not
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were infected.
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NFU president comments
on income legislation
Composting is a clean and
economical means by which
families can reduce their output
of garbage, the Ontario Ministry
of the Environment said recently.
In keeping with its Waste
Management Program aimed at
reducing, recovering, recycling
and reusing the amounts of waste
generated in Ontario,
Environment Ontario is en-
couraging householders to
become active in composing. To
assist interested people. the
Ministry has produced a fact
sheet on how to compost. It is
available from any Ministry
regional office or from the in-
formation services branch, 135
St. Clair Ave., W., Toronto.
Ontario.
The humus material from a
compost heap has long been
accepted as a soil additive and
mulching agent which can be
produced inexpensively in one's
backyard.
For the average person, con-
struction of a homemade corn-
poster is quite easy and inex-
pensive. Instructions are in-
cluded in the Ministry's fact
sheet. In addition, several
commercial rotocropping and
composting systems are
available.
With ailittle time and effort, and
a minimum of expense, one can
recover tangible benefits from
organic' household waste in
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Address
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compost and in so doing, reduce,
at least in part, some of the.
province's garbage problems.
Today, approximately eight
million tons of solid waste is
generated in Ontario each year.
About 40 percent of this quantity
results from organic kitchen and
yard waste.
Top boar
from Arkona
Mr. Jack Nethercott, RR 1
Arkona had the highest indexing
Yorkshire boar in a recent test at
the ROP Swine Test Station,
New Hamburg.
The boar had 0.44 inches
backfat, a daily gain of 2.08 lbs,
feed conversion of 255 lbs for a
combined index of 133. The boar
was 135 days of age at 200 lbs and
had a loin area of 5.01 square in-
ches.
The performance index of each
group is always 100 and indices
of individual boars can range
from over 140 to below 60, Only
those boars with a performance
index of 100 or higher and which
are approved by a culling com-
mittee for physical soundness
are offered for sale at monthly
sales.
Boars from this test will be
sold at the Pork Congress in
Stratford on June 15.
The Ministry offers these
helpful hints which families can
follow to curb this drain on our
resources: --- Be selective when
shopping. Choose carefully.
Remember that consumers pay
for the packaging and through
taxes, to dispose of the excess
packaging. Buy carbonated soft
drinks in returnable containers.
Try to reuse, repair, and
recycle wherever possible. —
Separate newspapers,
magazines, cans and bottles for
recycling.
With these components
removed, the remaining kitchen
and garden wastes are ideal
ingredients for a compost heap.
Tree planting
has benefits
Tree-planting programs in
semi-arid regions of the world
would have tremendous, long-
term payoffs in terms of jobs,
food resources and improved soil
and climate, the Canadian
International Development
Agency said recently.
"The challenge is to convince
other donors as well as recipient
governments to invest in projects
which will start to produce
revenue only 10-12 years lager,"
CIDA said in one of a series of
new Sectoral Guidelines for
Canada's international
development program. The
Guidelines are part of the follow-
up to Canada's Strategy for
International Development
Cooperation, 1975-80 made public
September 2, 1975.
"There are about 1,200,000,000
hectares of unproductive land in
the semi-arid regions of the
developing world which have
supported forest cover within
recorded history Afforestation
of these areas would improve the
micro-climate and the water
regime, rebuild the soil, provide
shelter for game, and vast new
sources of energy, building
material, food and feed," it is
stated in the Guidelines,
—Phis work could be achieved
with largely unskilled and semi-
skilled labor and requirements
for equipment are modest. Much
of the equipment is simple and
can he built locally. Employment
opportunities are enormous."
Initial costs incurred in
establishing the plantation would
be recovered from the sale of
forest products after the first 12
years. The capital could then
serve as a revolving fund to
continue the afforestation
program.
(The following article continues a
series on Workmen's Compensation
in the province of Ontario.)
All persons working full or
part-time for wages in the
agricultural industry in Ontario
are fully covered by the
province's Workmen's Compen-
sation program. The Workmen's
Compensation Act requires the
farm operator, whether he owns
the land on which the farming
operation is carried or leases it,
to pay for such coverage through
an annual assessment based on
his payroll for part-time as well
as full-time employees.
The farm operator himself, the
employer in this instance, is not
automatically covered, but he
may arrange coverage for
himself by personal application
to the Ontario Workmen's
Compensation Board. It should
be stressed here that members
of the farm operator's family
who assist in working the farm
are also not automatically
covered, even though the
operator has personal coverage.
unless they are actually paid
wages, again either part or full-
time, which are shown on the an-
nual payroll for the operation.
In the case of children or
wards of the farm operator,
coverage is provided by paying
them wages shown on the annual
payroll. The farm operator's
wife may be covered if personal
coverage for her is requested.
She is not protected in the same
manner as a worker on the
payroll.
Once Workmen's Compensa-
tion coverage is in force it
applies to all types of work in the
farm. Also included is work
which a farm operator arranges
that either he, his employees or
members of his family to whom
he pays wages undertake to
provide assistance to a neighbor-
ing farmer.
The farm operator who has not
arranged for personal coverage
urination of compulsory calfhood
vaccination on December 31,
1965.
From 1969 to 1973 it appeared
as if the incidence of Brucellosis
was remaining fairly constant
based on 211 reactors
slaughtered in 1969 and 209 in
1972.
However in 1973 Federal
Health of Animals officials ran
into seveal severe abortion out-
breaks in Eastern Ontario, At
the end of 1973 there were 48
herds under quarantine with 1038
reactors removed for slaughter.
By September 30, 1974, there
were 337 herds under quarantine
with 3168 cattle removed. Ob-
viously it would only be a matter
of time until outbreaks occurred
in other parts of the province.
While the federal authorities
urged the clean-up of the disease
through the test and slaughter
method, the provincial Ministry
of Agriculture and Food urged
continued voluntary calfhood
vaccination at 3 to 6 months of
age. Usually calves vaccinated
at that age would not carry over
the vaccination effects to test
positive at maturity.
It may well be that cattle
breeders interested in certain
export markets might prefer not
to vaccinate in case export sales
opportunities were lost.
However, such a decision would
have to be weighed against the
for work on his own farm would
not, obviously, be covered while
providing assistance, to a
neighbor, unless he were paid
wages for the work and these
were shown on the neighboring
farmer's annual payroll.
Board and lodging provided for
children or wards of the farm
operator who are of school age
cannot be included as wages,
since the operator would have a
duty to furnish such food and
shelter whether they work on the
farm or not.
The extent of Workmen's
Compensation coverage on farm
operations is identical with that
for other industries and
businesses throughout the
province. The farm operator is
the party responsible for repor-
ting all accidents resulting in
compensible injury. As in all
other situations, reports on ac-
cidents should be filed promptly
and in the required detail so that
claims may be processed swiftly
and the assistance to which the
injured party is entitled provided
without delay.
By DENISE FLETCHER
Mr. & Mrs. Freeman Horne
attended the 86th birthday party
for Mrs. Harry Ford in Kirkton
Sunday.
Larry Lynn, Jim Lynn, Jim
Fletcher and Doug Fletcher
attended the Indianapolis 500
motor-race this past weekend.
Mr. & Mrs. Elywn Kerslake
attended the wedding an-
niversary at Grand Bend for Mr.
& Mrs. Emerson Penhale on
Thursday.
Mrs. Jack Ryan of England is
visiting with Mr. & Mrs. Mike
Winhow, Chorine and Craig.
possible disastrous losses that
can occur in an unvaccinated
herd - to say nothing of the health
hazard to humans -through un-
dulant fever.
Pasteurization of raw milk
provides assurance that the dis-
ease cannot be transmitted to
humans from that source. But
for those looking after a
brucellosis infected herd, in-
cluding veterinarians, the risk of
infection is always present.
In this day of high cost produc-
tion I doubt if any cattle breeder
can afford to take the risk of not
vaccinating all female calves in-
tended for breeding at the ap-
propriate age of 3 to 6 months,
Not vaccinating is a bit like run-
ning the risk of no wind or fire in-
surance on farm buildings, There
may be some farmers who can
afford to take the chance, but the
vast majority would feel very
nervous carrying such a risk
hazard.
At this time of the year, with
many female calves at the ap-
propriate age for vaccination
against one of the worst cattle
diseases, surely it makes com-
mon sense to contact your local
veterinarian to arrange for vac-
cinating heifer calves. If
farmers do this they will be join-
ing hundreds of other Ontario
farmers in trying to bring this
disease under control. If anyone
believes there is no danger of the
disease striking their herd they
should be made aware bf the fact
that as of March 31, 1976, there
were 670 herds under quarantine
in Ontario. In 1975 there were 27,-
000 calves vaccinated - ap-
proximately 10,000 more than in
1974.
The Veterinary Services
Branch of OMAF recommends
calfhood vaccination. I believe it
is a sound, logical, position from
both the standpoint of economics
and human health.
It is understood that in some of
the Northern United States,
where calfhood vaccination was
continued, there is less problem
with abortion than in other
States where vaccination was not
continued. Based on several
severe losses I have heard of in
the last few years it would seem
to make sound common sense to
embark on a calfhood vaccina-
tion program now - that is, if not
on such a program at present.
"The Ontario Government's
Farm Income Stabilization
Legislation is of almost no poten-
tial benefit to Ontario farmers,"
said Gordon Hill, President of
the Ontario Federation of
Agriculture, when asked for his
reaction to the legislation tabled
by Minister Newman.
Hill pointed out, "The only
benefit will be to members of the
Bureaucratic Kingdom to be es-
tablished under the bill — a
bureaucratic kingdom that will
have very little to do since the
Minister says that they might be
called upon to administer about 7
or 8 million dollars. A couple of
OFA staff members could look
after such a non-program in their
spare time." Hill continued,
"Surely the last thing farmers or
Ontario citizens need is more ex-
pensive, inefficient and insen-
sitive government
bureaucracy."
Hill explained: "What the
legislation provides is a
stabilization program identical
to the federal stabilization
programs which Newman
himself calls inadequate. The
provincial program is to cover
farm products not covered by the
Federal Plan and not under On-
tario Marketing Boards which
both set prices and quotas.
Preliminary calculations in-
dicate that this means that 87%
of Ontario farm products will not
be eligible for support under the
legislation and that, to say the
least, is highly discriminatory."
Mr. Hill concluded: "I just
can't understand why the
Minister has bothered to bring in
such legislation. He is putting in
place provincial programs iden-
tical to the federal programs
because the federal programs
are inadequate. Surely if the
federal programs are inade-
quate, the provincial program
will be equally inadequate."
Peter Hannam, first vice-
president of OFA, on hearing the
details of the legislation com-
mented: "Once again the On-
tario Government has profferred
its usual HOLLOW CARROT to
Ontario's farmers.
"The Government has again
demonstrated that it is bankrupt
of ideas and that it clearly lacks
the will to govern for the good of
Ontario citizens," Hannam con-
cluded.
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