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NOTICE TO DOG OWNERS
No Dog are allowed to run at large during the
gardening season. By-Law No. 2 . 1959 levies a
fine of $50.00. Police have authority to kill any
dog not tied.
David Hastings. Chief of Police,
Village of Brussels
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CBC concert party entertaining Canadian and other United
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Republic. Recorded highlights of these stage show" will Ise
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and and 10th edition Of What's on Tapp will also be recorded
there:
FRAME NEW POLICIES
TO ASSIST FAMILY FARM
A minimum average family
farm income as the main ob-
jective for a national agricul-
ture policy for Canada was re-
cently proposed in the House
of Commolla by Agriculture
Minister Harry Hays.
Speaking in t h e throne
speech debate on April 13, Mr.
hays said:
"I believe the primary ob-
jeetive of all our agricultural
programs should be to encour-
age a national average realized
net income for the family farm
equivalent to the national av-
erage industrial wage. I think
this should be our definition of
an economic family farm unit."
Mr. Hays pointed out that
the current national average in-
dustrial wage is about $4,500
a year. This compares with a
national average realized net
income for Canadian farmers
in 1964 of about $3,800—a dif-
ference of $700.
Mr. Hays said' the federal
government "is developing a
comprehensive national policy
for agricUlture" to ensure that
'Canada does not become de-
pendent on world markets for
its main food supplies.
While he did not go into
details, the Minister offered, a
hint of the direction in which
he believes an income-based na-
tional policy for Canadian agri:
culture will lead.
"I believe the direction we
will be moving
b
with the pro-
posed National Dairy Commis-
sion should provide a guide for
approaches to income and mar-
keting problems in other areas
of agriculture in the future.
He also suggested that a
federal-provincial program will
soon have to be considered for
purchase of poorly used lands
and their redevelopment into
economic family farm units.
These could then be sold or
leased back to individual farm-
ers who could then expect to
at least 200 acres of land and
make a decent living on them.
Mr. Hays added:
"The government intends to
develop, in co-operation with
the provinces, a national agri-
cultural program based on eco-
nomic principles which, as far
as possible, can be placed be-
yond the reach of political ex-
pediencies.
"This program must ensure
a stable supply of food for our
consumers at reasonable prices.
It must recognize the legitimate
interests in our domestic mar-
ket of our trading partners. But
it must also recognize the right
of every farmer in this coun-
try to an income that is more
closely equivalent to what the
w,orkers in our towns and cities
enjoy.
"We now have labor laws
guaranteeing minimum wages
for our workers. We have tar-
iffs and tax incentives for our
businessmen. It's time we
started thinking of a. minimum
income for our farmers."
Mr. Hays noted that since be-
coming Minister of Agriculture,
he has personally studied agri-
citItural programs in ten coun-
tries.
!Troth what I have learned it
is my considered opinion that
Canada today is behind most
Of those countries in establish-
ing policies that will ensure
strong, economically-sound food
production industry for the ex-
panded population we Will have
in the fhture,
"Where we are most behind
is in. establishing a comprehen-
SiVe national policy to cover
pthcewho.,1e, of our agricultural
The Minister said that while
Canadian agriculture as a whole
is healthier and more produc-
tive today than ever before,
thousands of individual farm-
ers still have serious problems.
"You can sum up these prob.
lerns in two words — low in-
come. This is the core of the
problem we have to deal with
in all our agriculture policies,"
Mr. Hays said. the first ma-
jor step in developing a na-
tional agriculture policy was an
expansion of farm credit facili-
ties, to enable the family farm
to expand to its rightful level
of profitability. This had been
achieved in the following ways:
1. Maximum loans available
from the federal Farm. Crettit
Corporation were doubled, to
$40,000 for unsupervised and
$55,000 for supervised loan,.
2. Fine-print changes made it
easier for a father to pass on
the family farm to his children,
for a father to help a son or
other near relative buy a farm
of his own and for any young
farmer to get started.
3. The maximum farm im-
provement loan available from
the chartered banks under a
government guarantee, was dou-
bled to $15,000.
4. The Farm Machinery Syn-
dicates Act was introduced en-
abling groups of three or more
farmers to borrow together the
eqUivalent of $15,000 each, up
to a maximum of. $100,000, for
the purchase of equipment to
be shared among them.
• In explaining the need for
this expansion in farm credit
facilities, Mr.. Hays gave some
examples of the kind of family
farm that could be expected to
return a cash income of about
.$4,500 a year for the farmer's
labor and investment.
For a wheat farm on medium
land in Saskatchewan, he would
need about 700 acres, plus the
machinery.. to work it—an in-
'vestment of .$40.000 at the very
least and probably closer to
$50,000 or $60,000.
For a dairy farm in Ontario
to provide that kind of a liv-
ing, he would probably need
40 to 50 milking cows—a mini-
mum investment of $60,000 and
probably more.
To make a cow-and-calf beef g
operation pay that much in Que-
bec. or• the Maritimes, a farmer
should have something like 500
acres, and at least 100 cows and
probably closer to two hundred
—an investment of anything
from $60;000 or $75,000 up
wards.
Mr.. Hays .said the next stage
is to develop policies that will
assure farmers the kind of mar-
kets and incomes that will en-
able them to pay for this eX-
pension..
• It was with- this•. stage in
mind that the government bad
introduced a new • utility-based
prize program for major farm
fairs, a step designed to encour-
age Canada's development as a
World supplier of animal and
plant seed stock.
It . was with a view to adding
a . new element of stability to
farm incomes that the govern-
ment had widened the crop in-
surance program, to cover pro-
vincial crop disaster risks
through re-insurance.
Mr. Hays said the successful
family farm must mean modern,
expensive and efficient machin-
ery, good buildings, costly fer-
tilizers, city style bookkeepito
and management, with enough
cash income to send the chil-
dren to university as city lam-
Hies do, and with electric light
and indoor plumbing.
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APPLICATIONS WANTED --
Applications for the position
of caretaker for the new Grey
Toi,vtiship ,Central School at
Ethel will be received by the
undersigned up to Jpne 5. Sala,ry
to be negotiated. Duties to com-
mence Sept, 1, 1965.
.NOrillEtall S. Hoover,
RE, 3, Brussels, Ont.
Sec'y, Grey T. S. A.
.APPLICATIONS WANTED
The Grey Township School Area
requires for September 7, Sias (6)
regular bus drivers and three (3)
spare drivers. Wages to be. $6.00
Der day fOr regular drivers &n6
:13.30 per day for spare drivers.
Applications for mese positions
reeened by the under-
signed up to June 5.
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