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10 THE RURAL VOICE
Mabel'
s Grill
"Good to see they're holding the
International Plowing Match in
Ottawa," said Dave Winston a while
back when all the news about the
match was on the radio. "Maybe then
the politicians will remember there
are farmers in the country."
"Heck,
you'd have to
have the plow-
ing competit-
ions on the
lawn of Parlia-
ment to get the
attention of
some of those
politicians,"
said George
McKenzie.
"Maybe at
least a few of
them will go
down and find
out what all
the fuss is about " said Dave.
"Oh yeh and they'll find out all
about miracle kitchen gadgets and
pizza by the slice," said George.
"You ever looked at how much
farming there is at that show?"
"I see there's a new poll out that
says 78 per cent of people support
farmers' need for financial help,"
said Cliff Murray.
"Who'd they poll, farmers'
wives?" wondered George. "I mean
they may tell some pollster they
think farmers should have more
government support but if their taxes
gu up they'll be saying something
else at the polls."
"What I'd really like," said Dave,
"it to wake up some morning and
finll out that from now on I was
going to get a decent price for all my
crops. No worry about subsidies.
Think of what it could mean if
farmers actually made money."
"Maybe they could actually tip,"
said Molly Whiteside as the deliver-
ed Dave's bacon and eggs.
"They'd bury the country in corn
and soybeans," said George.
"Not with weather like this
year's," offered Cliff.
"Or last year's," said Dave.
"What I mean is that if farmers
could make money on every bushel
they could grow they'd keep growing
so much there'd be more than the
The world's
problems are
solved daily
'round the table
at Mabel's
market would bear," said George.
"And they'd bid up the price of
land until they couldn't make a profit
on what they did grow," sighed Cliff.
"The guy who bought the farm
beside me paid so much I thought he
must have won the lottery."
"Maybe he's got an extra special
cash crop growing back by the bush,"
said Dave. "I saw the OPP helicopter
flying by the other day."
"Now those marijuana growers
are the guys who know how to make
money," said George. "You take
your ordinary farmer and he rents
land at $10O an acre to grow a crop
that can make him, at best, $200 an
acre. A marijuana farmer doesn't
even rent the land, he just plants his
crop on somebody else's property.
And if the cops don't catch him, he
makes a killing."
"Yeh, he doesn't even have to buy
crop insurance," saysCliff.
"I'm surprised they're still
growing pot outside anymore," said•
Molly. "The stuff they grow
hydroponically is much stronger."
"And how would you know about
that?" George asked.
"The news. It was on the news,"
said Molly. "Though being around
you guys all day might make me
want to bliss -out at night."
"Better watch out," said Dave. "I
hear pot also makes you hungry."
"How would you know about
that?" George asked.
"I read about it," Dave said, the
corners of his mouth hardly turning
up at all. "I was just worried that
Molly might spoil that figure of hers."
"Mabel," called out Molly,
"there's sexual harassment going on
out here."
"Wait 'til I come so I can get
some," Mabel called from the kitchen.
"Look, I just didn't want you to
blow up and be like that lady who's
suing the airlines claiming she's
being discriminated against because
she's so big she won't fit into one
seat and they want her to buy two"
"The way things are going for the
airlines these days, they might want
to make everybody buy two seats,"
said George.
"Of course they've got plenty of
room to make the seats bigger, too,"
said Dave.O