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Talk of farmers' strikes, and of a
mass march on Ottawa was heard last
week at the annual meeting of the,
Heron Federation of :rgriculture held
at Clinton, during open discussion of
the current qpsvving in feed grain price
t.s. Moderate counsels prevailed, how-
ever. and the meeting finally was 'un-
animous in endorsing a resolution that
the Dominion Government be asked to
put coarse grain prices under control,
and to re-negotiate contracts for sale
of farm products overseas.
"I should like to appeal to you to
hold down for a while - not to get too
drastic," said W. It T obb, Clinton„
tolto was elected president of the Hor-
n Federation, " o Let us conduct our
business with pride and digiiitle.:'
Pressure from farm organizations in
other provinces for Organization of a
mass delegation of protesting farmers
to go to Ottawa is becoming very great,
Arthur Stewart, president of the 'Ont.-
Federaion Of Agriculture, said, It
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Celery Olives Sweet and
Salad
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may become difficult, he said, for the
Ontario Federation to resist the urging
OVER FEED GRAIN
of farm bodies elsewhere in Canada
for a national protest trek to Ottawa.
Demands More Action
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"We're not showing enough strength
evert yet," said Wilfred Glazier, Clinton
liatcheryinAn, during open discussion of
the resolution to ask the Dominion
Government for action. "I think it's
time we took a little more action," said
,:fir. Glazier. 'It seems there are only
two things the federal Government will
listen to, - one is the ballot and the
other is the strike."
"What's the good of our resolution,"
one farmer at the meeting shouted, "If
the Government is going to let the
strikers run the country?"
The feed grain shortage in Septem-
ber and October of this year was not
the fault of the western farmer 'Who
produced the grain, declares Charles
Coultes, 13eIgrave, who was elected 1st.
Vice-Presideet of the Huron ?okra-
floe, ,
could not get grain through in
September and October, yet once the
subsidy was removed and the ceiling
price taken off,there was loft of grain,"
Mr. Cotittee said. 'It was the 'broker
Dressing
Dill Pickles
Jello
Fruits
Milk
out of businese by high, prices for feed I
grain, Mr, Stewart declared. On a re-
cent trip to Western Canada, he said,
he found that Manitoba farm organiza-
tions Were "definitely not in' favor of
having controls removed from coarse 1
grains;" SaskatcheWan farmers were
almost solidly in favor of holding the -1
ceilings on coarse grain prices; officers i
of the Alberta Federation of Agricult-
tire to whom he talked said they felt
that anything done to injure the eastern
livestock producers would eventually
react against tine western. grain-grow-
ers,
When the decision to remove sub-
sidies and controls from feed grains
was made, Mr, .Stewart charged, "the
feed grain situation was dealt with by
the Cabinet behind closed doorl, and
in the absence of the Minister of Agri-
culture, and with np farmer present,
There was no,,,,,inst reason why they
had to relinquish controls, We put our
dependence in the Department of. Agri-
culture; we have had •a great many
promises from the Department of Ag-
riculture; through Mr. Gardiner, that
farmers would be looked after during
the transition period, The only reason
we can see that the -The took that
action was looking afer the consumer
angle. We hive lost confidence. in the
consideration that our Government is
going to give us; our Department of
Agriculture seems to have lost its in-
fluence in the Cabinet. We feel that the•
only thing that can have any effect
now is to go to our ,local members. We
don't want to orianize a mass protest
meeting .in Ottawa unless we are sure
that the people would support it."
Two Members of.Parliament who at-
tended the meeting at ,Clinton under-
took to present to the Government any
resoktions for warded by the Huron
Federation.
"The whole problem of controls,"
said William H, IGolding, Seaforth, M.
, P: for Huron-Perth, "has been a vexed
question from the time they were start-
ed." The government is subject, he
said, to strong pressures both for and
against. It had been intended by the
Government, he told the meeting, to lift
Coarse grain controls at the end of
July, but the lifting was deferred be-
cause of the packinghouse workers'
strike.
"The Federation of Agriculture is
the best organization the farmers have
ever had," said L. E. Cardiff, R. R. No.,
4, Brussels, M.P.1 for Huron North.
"The farmers are being forced out of
production," he said, "at the very time
when production is needed. My advice
to those of you who can afford it is:
hold your breeding stock if you can.
It will be valuable. This situation will
be corrected."
"It is now financially impossible to
produce hogt," 'said Charles Coultes,
reporting to the meeting for the county
hog producers' committee: He, listed
cost figures to back hfe estimate of the
cost of production of a bacon hog at
$44.08, While at prides controlled by
. overseas contracts farmers are getting
about $35 for the hogs they sell,
The provincial hPg producers' or-
ganization, Mr. Copltes reported, had
this year, ironed out difficulties with
truckers who refused to take out Been-
, ces, under the hog marketing regula-
tions, to carry hors to market. The
truckers argued, he said, that if they
had public commercial vehiete licences,
they did not need any other licence to
carry hogs. The regulations have now
been clarified, Mr, Collies said, so
that truckers can be enamelled to take
k out licences either as buyers, ptoces-
sors, or producers, before they con i.,
legally handle hogs.
The negotiating committee of the
hog producers' organization, said Mr,
'Coultes, was responsible, during the
packinghouse workers' strike, for get-
ting. ' an agreement from the packers to 1
,
pot a $23-a-cwt. floor under hog prices
when the strike ended, and so avert a , .
collapse of the market when a pent-
'up flood of livestock came on the mar-
ket at strike's end.
, , The organization is ttow working,
Said Mr, Coultes, to get a better' deal
for farmers on transit insurance rates
on hogs going to market. It has been
found, he taitis that at the existing rat-
es only 25 tote is paid out in Claims
for every dollar paid in premiums.
, • Figures which show that poultry-
thee are losing money with `feed grain
at its new high level of prites were
presented at the meeting by It. S. Mc-
Xerther, Seaforth, who was elected
'2nd. Vice President of the Huron Fed-
eration of Agriculture. .
The cost figures were prepared with-
in the last few days, Mr. licKercher
said, froth records kept by poultry far-
riers itt the Seaforth district. They
show that it has been .costing an aver-
age of $1.89 to raise a fittliet to Illattir*
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