The Rural Voice, 1978-12, Page 21municipal officials they shouldn't expect
the museum to be self-sustaining, and the
most they could hope for would be to cut
down on subsidies used to support it.
He said at most three or four full-time
staff members should be hired, and that
the museum should rely heavily on
volunteers.
Also, he recommended making the
museum buildings very practical, to ensure
as low a level of maintenance as possible
and that adequate land should be available
in the event an addition is needed.
Erosion pollutes
lakes IJC says
Farmland erosion is a major contributor
to pollution in lakes a recent study has
found. The study, carried out by the
International Joint Commission, shows
that farmland erosion contributed as much
as 60 per cent of the total pollution.
Hugh Whiteley, a water resources
engineer at the University of Guclph, said
the farmland proportion will increase
because most major urban centres plan to
eliminate phosphorous through sewage
treatment.
"It's easier for urban centres to
eliminate phosphorous at a central treat-
ment plant. but for rural areas you can't
buy a package treatment plant and place
one in every field," he said at a London
meeting of provincial drainage engineers.
He advised farmers to begin employing
such simple measures as bordering ditches
and waterways with vegetation to reduce
erosion which is the main carrier of
phosphorous.
Whiteley warned that failure to take
these preventative measures could result
in government intervention regarding
land use.
The study also showed that the bulk of
the phosphorous being eroded into the
Great Lakes was not residue from
agricultural land use.
Whitely said nearly all the phosphorous
was found to have been in the soil before
fertilization.
Consumers need more
info NFU head says
Consumers need to know where their
dollars are going on the food chain Roy
Atkinson president of the National Farmers
Union told a meeting of the Public Service
Alliance of Canada Consumers recently.
He said that consumers should find out
what happens to their food dollar on every
Zink of the chain from farm gate to retail
shelf.
"If they (consumers) knew all the factors
involved in getting raw food to super-
market shelves, they could make a more
informed decision about what to buy and
where to shop," he said.
Atkinson charged that multi -national
corporations "use fancy arithmetic to tell
us they're not making a lot of money."
"But if consumers had the power to look
closely at those figures they could find out
that there is a high rate of return on
investment for corporations in the food
system.
"They could also find out if those
multinational companies are reinvesting
that profit to make the food system more
efficient and thus lower prices or if they're
investing somewhere else in the conglom-
erate."
wheat sales to China
down this year
Canadian wheat sales to China are down
this year and some members of parliament
are concerned Canada is losing out to the
U.S. as China's traditional wheat supplier.
China has bought 3.5 million tons of
wheat from the U.S. this year while buying
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