The Rural Voice, 1979-04, Page 36Study will compare rural,
urban consumers
Dr. John Liefeld from the Family and
Consumer Studies Dept. at the Univ. of
Guelph has just completed a series of
meetings in Huron County to gain in-
formation on consumer problems in the
rural area.
The R.D. O.P. office in Wingham
assisted in arranging the meetings. There
were ten meetings in all, five in farm
homes and five in non farm homes or rural
villages.
A series of questions were formulated
covering the "consuming side" of rural
living. Questions were asked about
available shopping facilities. Federal, pro-
vincial and municipal services, problems
relating to repair services as well as
advantages and disadvantages of living in
the country. Dr. Liefeld even gave them a
chance to be "king or queen for a day" to
make any changes they wanted.
This information will be compiled in May
to get an idea of the feelings of the rural
population and to see if they differ from the
urban consumer.
BVD vaccine blamed
for cattle deaths
in Bruce
A BVD vaccine is the suspected cause of
death of several hundred cattle in Bruce
and the northern Huron counties.
Graeme Hedley president of the Ontario
Cattlemen's Association has said that the
suspected cause is a vaccine which is
intended to immunize cattle shipped in
from Western Canada against BVD and
two other diseases.
Bill Bennett, director of the Bruce
County Cattlemen's Association for
Howick Township said the recommen-
dation this year was that cattlemen use the
BVC vaccine. Previously there was a BVD
vaccine but it had not been combined with
the IBR and P I 3 vaccines before.
Some calves that were brought in from
the West were in good condition and three
days after they were given the vaccine they
were dead. There were a couple of farmers
in his area that had been pretty well
cleaned out by the disease. Mr. Bennett
said.
"The farmer has no way of knowing
whether it (the vaccine) is good or bad or
not," he said.
He said there are people in other areas
having trouble with the vaccine also but
who are not saying so.
He thought at this time that getting rid
PG. 34 THE RURAL VOICE/APRIL 1979
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