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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1980-04-23, Page 16THE .BRUSSELS 'POST,- APRIL. 23, -080 roponics Sunspun • CANNED POP No Mixing , 24 tins Nabob` Pere COFFEE 1 lb. Clark 24ozs. BEEF OR IRISH STEWS BRIQUETS 10 lbs. Kraft & St. Williams assorted JAMS 9oz. 3.99 3.39 1.39 1.69 .75 E.D. Smith 19 oz. CHERRY PIE' FILL Chapman's ICE CREAM ' 2 Litres Limit 1.29 1.19 Bakery Grocery STEPHENSON 887-9226 free Delivery Brussels WIN a HOMEL 0 Come in.today for a demonstration without obligation. Demonstrations end June 27,1980. Draw will be held on July 11,1980. Possible winners must correctly answer a skill testing question. Homelite ST-100 will be awarded in, each of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes. The approxi- mate retail value of a ST-100 is 9174.95. Extra light(71/4 lbs) most advanced gasoline powered string trimmer ever Made! Full 20" Cutting path. eZclUsiVe automatic string advancing system. Textron Canada Limited Registered User. WARMTH 521.0120 150 size 500 gr. TE e• (HOMELITE) Flowerdale TEA BAGS California HEAD LETTUCE Schneider Side BACON ENDS 2.99 .59 1.29 1.19 1.45lb. 1.19 .63 Tang 4-3 1/4 oz pouches ORANGE CRYSTALS Schneider RING BOLOGNA Weston Granny BUTTER TARTS 12's Long Seedless CUCUMBERS McCUTCHEON GROCERY We Deliver BRUSSELS Phone 887.9445 FARM EQUIPMENT LIMITED (continued from Page 5) off the plastic film, remove the film and greenhouse operators try to control disease with the eontParlY• Then after the-first year clean the place up one day, sterilize it the in plants. Hog producers are worried about if the company thinks they didn't do a good second day and set it up again the third Pounds of gain in each pig, while they're job or if the Blacks think they can do, better clay. A regular greenhouse farmer. would worried about pounds of tomatoes,- Both . have to cover the soil with a layer of ,plaStic are worried about the costs of production, to hold the moisture in, run heat pumps The hog producers have to buy tons, of feed underneath to sterilize the soil and to raise while the greenhouSe opeuators have to the temperature of the soil up to kill the buy tons of fertilizer. bugs. A GUARANTEED PRICE FOR AND AGAINST The hog producers don't know what . "There's publicity both for and against they're going to get for those pigs four or this system. It is more expensive'to set up five months dovvn the road, "but we've got ,because it has slightly more sophisticated JOr the first year at least, a guaranteed controls, but I feel in the long run, this will work out eheaper," Robert said. Walton Phone "Thi's s way, the plants merely have to (continued from Page. 1) 3, accommodates pupils from' Brussels, Seaforth and Dublin area, resulting in long distance calls for parent-teacher communication. Walton students also attend,' Seaforth Public School, Seaforth District High School or St. James" Separate school. These difficulties would increase • during periods of severe weather, ,,affecting parents, school administrators' and bus operators. RECREATION . • Mrs. Marks pointed out that even recreation in the area would but 'hurt •by the' change to Brussels phones. Walton's rec- reational park provides sports for all and contacting 75 per cent of the members of a price 'for the sale of croO. Robert believes tie can put pigs, or cattle in the barn and can use the entire farm to feed them and still have the greenhouse rt1oning. The greenhouse ,setup only took about. IA of an acre off the farm. He alsO saw0 the potential fbr haying many people living off the sone acreage, "We have to find some way of making this. land more useful and practical,`.' Robert" says. baseball team by long distance would ,be costly,, ,Shc said Church members at. the Walton United Church were split between the two exchanges and this would cause many long distance calls. Banks, 'insurance companies and public offices in Seaforth, are in a foreign exchange and this would make business awkward to conduct. Mrs. Marks told Mr. Crooine that the Walton 'area subscribers appreciated 'Bell's - updating the system in the Brussels exchange and suggested that while this work is in progress, the technical changes could' be made to give toll free calling to Seaforth. "We should not be penalized because Of our rural location," concluded Mis. Marks' letter to Mr. Croome. with someone else, they split up. If both sides are satisfied they'll sign a contract for another year of buy-back. Although the company can't provide the new greenhouse operators with a lot of financial , help, they do provide packing boxes and plants, help out with the learning process and for the first year provide the services of a hydroponist who visits the greenhouses fairly regularly and gives advice. They've also set up a kind of school where another specialist from the Depart- ment of Agriculture explains in a bit more detail about certain diseases, how to improve crops and ways of saving money at the same time. The main advantage of the Aquiculture greenhouse seems to be that is more labor saving than a regular greenhouse. Both systems use sterilization but with a regular greenhouse it would probably take'about a week. ' Robert says in the Aquiculture system, two people can remove the plants grow and absorb what they need. With a regular greenhouse, maybe it requires a little more stock and a better trained eye. To mc, the ordinary system looks harder and it requires more knowledge," Robert said. Robert says the, greenhouse has the potential of running' and• making money year round once the bugs are ironed out. Robert secs some common problems in the hog and greenhouse industry, saying hog prodUcers arc worried about disease and go to any length§ to control, it, while Report from Queen's Park Reversal on 2 4t • 5 -T IOW Rif/arkff BY MURRAY GAUNT, MPP Environment , Minister Harry Parrott has reversed a plan to allow the spraying of 35,000 gallons of herbicide in Ontario this ,summer, and ordered it stored until it can be destroyed. The herbicides 2,4,5-T and 2,4,5JP had been banned for a year while the• govern- ment's pesticides' advisory committee studied questions concerning their safety. In early March, Dr. Parrott announced that the ban-on spraying was being lifted to get rid of the remaining stock. However, this week Dr. Parrott said that the herbi- cides will be disposed of at a permanent liquid industrial waste site, when one can be established. While the U.S. Environ- mental Protection Agency says the chemicals have been linked to cancer and birth defects and should not be used, Canada's Department of Health and Welfare says the testsdonit establish a link between the herbicides and disease or environmental problems. Ford Motor Company .of Canada will lay off 1,530 workers at its Oakville plants and let go nearly 1,000 more in Windsor this summer, as part of a North American cutback in production that will eliminate 15,000 jobs. Ford will lay off 1,400 hourly workers and 130 sal- aried employees at its Oak- ville car and van assembly plant in August as it cuts production on its full-size Ford LTDs and vans. Another 840 hourly workers will lose their jobs when the Windsor engine casting plant is closed later this year and the work is transferred to Flat. Rock, Michigan and Cleveland, Ohio. About 125 salaried workers in Windsor also will lose their job's. The new cutbacks will bring the number of Ford workers laid off in Canada at about 5,000, Opposition members in the Legislature ' questioned. Treasurer Frank Miller as to why the Government of Ont ario negotiated the contract with Ford Motor Company of Canada for the provincial share of a $68 million grant, given the company to build an engine plant in Windsor, which made no mention of the word job, let alone any guarantee of increased employment. The seven-page agree- ment, tabled in the Legis- lature this week, was reached in August, 1978, and gives Ford $28 million from the province to go with $40 million from the federal government. The agreement binds the company to build a $533 million engine plant capable of producing 638,000 engines a year. Ford is bound to prOduce 1.5 million engines over five years, beginning in the 1983 model year. Premier William Davis' gove'rnment survived ' a Liberal non-confidence motion on the Throne Speech with the support of the New Democratic Party. Dr. Smith faulted Mr. Davis for letting the Ontario economy sag, failing to act on high interest rates, allow • - ing Ontario's health care insurance scheme to erode, and allowing continuing pol- lution of the environment. .NDP Leader Michael Cas- sidy warned that NDP sup- port for the government might not last if -Treasurer Frank Miller fails to offer any relief on interest and mort- gage rates in his budget next Tuesday. Mr. Miller, will consider what options the province can come up with, in the absence of federal action on interest rates. The Minister of Agricul- tUre, the Honourable Lorne Henderson, indicated in the Legislature this week that he will not be proposing any changes to the regulations having to blends. He felt that butter blends would have serious con- sequences for the dairy industry, because experience in other jurisdictions has shown that once butter blends are introduced the butter part of the blend is constantly reduced until it gets as low as five per cent. , This could mean a reduction of as much as fifteen per cent in the country's total market share quota. The Minister also indi- cated that he believes con- sumers have the right to know whether they are get- ting butter or margarine just by looking at it, and he saw no reason why margarine should be allowed to masquerade as butter. A Post Classified will pay you dividends. Have you tried one? Dial Brussels 887-6641., do with butter