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Home My WebLink AboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1980-01-03, Page 144±o.00 .•t 4' I r.4, c e sales - •featured -events :ft With exhibitsmore,..„.. of , - out,- .iarm equipment •an4.1 supplies ,attbe 1980 Canada ''Farnk Show, „January 29. t� 1 at Axhihit1011. Place, Toronto.. - --- . ' Sponsored by . the .,••• buttatto.:,: earrn .• , • ggaiprnentDeaters tiie four-day show will occupy all . available, space in the complexof five • e;_dlibit buildings, plus the Coliseum Arena and parts of the adjoining ' nee4.41/4 DAV/AV Mops,sho rtlatlager.• NearlY• 300!009 aqUare- fent...0 41004y space Will he used to exhibit new machinery, e,quipment, sipplies And services for every . segment of agriculture. - "After -more ' than 30 years of epetatiort, the show continues to grow 'each year in, number of exhibitors, exhibit space Goccupied and visitof attenclange," Mrs.1Viorris said. • "Exhibitors includeall the major farm tractor manufacture-1.1-11nd short line companies along ... 0tfler .. manfaturers" and distributors , of a wide ,range of farm equipment and tupplieS," . - More than 40,000 visitors, ' many from outside Canada,,- • are expected to attend: "Requests -for in- forrnatioq and assistance In.- making travel arrangements have come inirom Japan, Australia, New Zealand and the United States as well as various points in Canada," Mrs. Morris said. "It's amazing how many people have alTeady made plans tti 3,3(J).i bsir fto. ars oavQ'rheadj;370y0 01,hdoe,ewandn Anotvslf a'ttoie bOng in grOtips." Visitors' will :see ' a lbs. the horse pulls are *11i agalo be eutored variety of special at,, open to- teams from hoth :under the auspices of the traetk114 as :wen 4t the Canada and the U.S. Qatari() Aberdeen Aagas ealnhifsFeatiited on the Two cattle showS and AssociatiOn. A showing of sbox,es 'first two days, sales are scheduled ,for the sale ardrrials.Will take 20 the 1980 show. placein the :morning with ,Tanuary and 30, will be the • Ontario Belgian A showing and sale of the sale in the afternoon Herse Association's '27th Hereford •cattle will be in the Horse Palace ring. draft horseSale-end horse beld" tit the show for the •"We had "-atig-rircrease pull. A showing of the•Sale first„' on ThUrSABY, ai attendance at lest • horseswill take place afternoon, January 3 , year's sale and we an- • January -29. with the saleSPonSorecl by the West ticipate another excellent on Jan,u,ar5rQaCentral Ontario Hereford crowd and the offering of horse pull thatnight. the ZOne Club, the "Winter a lot of very good cattle," •• Classic" sale will auction said Dave Sleigh of the off about 60 head of prize Aberd een Angus _ Hereford cattle. Association. He said the On Friday, February I; Association's 20th The- horse pulling events • for total prize Money. of $4,000 will feature a light horse draw for teams weighing up to It is insidiOus. -- It- is -happening all across Canada. It is t subtle process -perpetrated by the major media outlets. • I refer to•the deliberate erosionnf rural and small- town interests and the constant advancement of urban ideas and ideals. • It is impossible for anyone in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, perhaps Edmonton, Winnipeg, Windgor, Halifax or Quebec to hear the rural argument on many subjects. Only when a scandal develops to put farmers in a bad light do the big newspapers carry stories about farming. Sugh a blatant urban biagis apparent even in the plibliely-ownedCBC. Farmers -have been trying., vainly to get better -.coverage ori the national network but are met with resistance every step of the way.' • It goes farther than that. Literally dozens of major, •government,hand-outs continue to favor, the cities and discriminate against the rural vOice. For instance, the new market value assessments will see a tremendous shift in the tax burden from city - to, country. On my little country estate, I'm told my taxes will increase 25 percent this year, With a, small holding such as mine that is a bOrdeii but how much , greater for farmers with two and 300scres?' Fatners pa,y for their own water and Sewage -sySterris. Some Of those sewage -;systems for 'turn effluent are extremely costly. Almost every municipality in the nation gets. a subsidy for urban sewer systems, water syritetns and disposal'plants. And those subsidies comefrom the gebetal tax levy in • each of the provinces, out Of farmers' pitakets. "' • Farmers pay as much as 35 percent more for hydro ,in some areas. Farmers getlittle benefit, from many • other programs which are accepted blithely by urban. people such as day -centres, low rental° housing .. • programs, mortgage assistance programs or even unemployment insurance, yet more than $8 billion was paid lastyear. • ••• Rapid transit through cities is subsidized highly for Average prices announced • The Farm Income Stabilization Comnrission • of Ontario has announced that the average price for corn and soybeans sold by' farmers •between September :1, 1978 and'- August 31, 1979 was. $108.26 per-tOnne for corn • and $280.-72 per tonne for soybeans. Under the Ontario - stabilization program, payment is made to producers enrolled in the plarf wben the average price (ails between 90 percent and 95 percent of the five:year - average market price; indexed • to reflect 'changes in the cash .pro -duction. For corn, the 95 percent level was $103.06 per tonne and for soybeans $237.36 per •tonne. Since the average prices received for both crops during the period indicated were greater than the stabilization levels, no :stabilization payments wilt be made to producers. CLAY - Silo Unloaders Feeders Cleaners - -- Stabling Leg Elevators Liquid Manure Equipment , ,Hog Equipment BUTLER — Silo Unloadors Feeders Conveyors FARMATIC -,- Mills Augers, etc. ACORN - Cleaners Heated Waterers' WESTEEL-Rosco 06:Onories B & L - Hog Panelling LOWRY FARM SYSTEMS RR 1, Kincardino„Ont. Phone 345-5216 leiteis pp,o;lated py 8ot TrotterTOU, dae Ad EIrmra OM N38 2C7 Guidelines announ Agriculture and Food debentures based on the Minister Lorne C. Hen- applisations received by (Jerson has announced the municipality prior to guidelines for August 31, 1980. As in municipalities to._ use in. previous years, ap- reviewing and approving plications are to be based loan applications for tile on not more than 75 •-drainage; for- the -1-980-81 pereent-el--the-estimated . , fiscal year, cost of the project. For Mr. Henderson said 1980-81, however, there that initial drainage will be a maximum loan • -allocations will be an- of $200 per acre tiled. nouneed following the The maximum amount operational and capital expendituxesoand I have seen Treasurer's budget in the any one farmer may no rural equivalent. . _ _ spring. The allocations receive in loans in one' Land transfer taxes of 20 perce-nainposed-O-icfor-eign--wiiI 156-b-a--A-cd---e-r-c"--th-e-----sre--e.--t-i8--tir000d-th-e--- purchasers of farm property discriminate against the farmer. What am I saying? That untold billions of dollars are spent for urbanites that a farmer never can reap much benefit from. That the tax systems, the subsidies, the • grants and the programs are clearly designed for city dwellers yet the farmer pays just as many dollars out in taxes as his citycounterpart and never gets a penny back. Why? Because_he is a farmer. - What iS a farmer? -1-1e is.the most important cog in •the production wheel of this Country. He out -produces his city factory worker- friend by 450 percent. He has contributed more for less to this nation than any other citizen of the country: He keeps food on our tables when millions of people in many parts of the woad go to sleep hungry every .night. Some of those people literally -starve to death. In,Cambodia, it is diffiCult to. find a child under five years of age becaus-e- they have died of malnutrition. • When 'will this country come to the conclusion that the farmer should be respected for what he is? When will associations, economists, constimers, and big corporations quit badgering farmers' about their marketing boards? So far, the senior governments have stuck te their guns and even strengthened legislation -permitting marketing boards.. Howevet, farmers make up less than six percent of the population of Canada and the politicians can only stand up so long against powerful corporations which are out to scuttle farmers. . • If ever the farm community needed strong leadership it is today. We need men and Women who chn, hang. in there when they are being stomped on by consumers, corporations and major media. " We need people with guts and courage to kick against the pricks. Are they out there? • THE:AUTO.SOLIN DEAL OF.THE DECADE 1,11 CLARION CASSETTE AUTO STEREO with Stop ?ndlast Forward Mechanism MODEL PE1840A ATOMICOVOX STEREO SPEAKER SYSTEM 35 watts power, 6 x 9" 2 way speakers with 20 OZ. MAGNET MODEL CX -6920 AUDIOVOX - "SOUND EXPLODER" AMPLIFIER 40 watts total power MODEL AMP -500B SPECIAL TILL JANUARY 12, 1980 ONLY REG. SUGG. RETAIL '204.95 I 74?' WHERE YOU CAN HEAR E DIFFE*E. • "eie^, -411 Goderich S24-4414 applications received maximum cumulative over the previous three loan is not to exceed years. I , $40,000., _ For the corning fiscal In making the an - year, a municipality may nountement, Mr. Hen - apply for a reallocation of • derson .. said, "T -hese funds for tile drainage' -criteria have be -en • •••• Puttirity Show and Sale aniOng "other Ow will offest_aetween 00 and highltghtS, , • ; 00 head of _OP quality E.?<bibita open at 10 :- cattle. • a.Mand contirtae 6 Canada's onry m dailY. Evening tractor pull which offers events in the cousrun more than $21,000 in prize Arena (horse anti, ttan• 30 -money ..to Winning pullers and tractor pulls. Jan: 31 "'"4111 ' traction in the 6,00IY-seat to start at 6:30 p.m, • WANTED TO RENT: • -754•975;i•••••-••••,-77791.,:, Will be the. featured at- anti Feb. 1) arescheduled Thursday and Friday contact Mrs. Dawn Goderieh • and Ashfield 'FC0eoAblirsueaursinype:ci_axlrena on For -more information Crop land in Colborne, nights, January 31 and Morris, Manager, The Townships., TOP dollar ladiesEutterick Road, Toronto, S v e 'Buchanan , Canada Farm Show, 36 paid for Op program running Ont. M8W 3Z8, telephone 4Goderich r $24'. throughout the four days (416) 252-3506. 70 of the show, and table -top mim acro-ini tractor nulling competitions are , J.J: (Jim) MULNERN INSURANCE - Protection for. Farmers • Full Fire & Floater Coverage to Buildings, Conte,nts, designed to ensue that as manyfarmersaspossible will be able to take ad- vantage of the program"i Ontario's tile drainag-akit program is more than one hundred years old. About 3.2 million aeres of land. have been drained, with another - three million expected to be tiled within the next three decades. In the last ten years, farmers- spent -about -$-245. -- million on maintaining or improVing the drainage on 1.3 million acres. About 3111 million of this was borrowed from the province under the tile drainage program. Pork production home study course offered -,.4t.Guelph In the competitive hog specialists and edited by -"Farmer, who have industrY, efficiency -is the J. D. Jainieson, principal taken the "course agree key to success. One way of Centralia tallege Of that the program • is for producers to brush up Agricultural Technology. valuable," says 'Miss their Skills i to enrol in "The,, course folloWs -Eltick. "About 300 people- " the ficif•k prOduction hoine step-by-step through the ave., .ocornpIeted the study course, offered trends in porkproduclion course since it was through the. independent: and. Considerations in- revised in1978." study program at the volved in starting a swine • .• University -of Guelph. •operation," says Miss This course,is ene of 50 "The purpose of the Etrick. "Chapters deal correspondence courses pork production course is with ' breeding, im- in agriculture and horL • to. • present Me fun- • provement, reproduction,ticulture. sponsored bY.., e damentals of, and the and feeding." thOntario Ministry of latest de#elopments in,' The second half Of. the Agriculture a nd Food. • the pork industry," says course covershd The cost to -enrol is 300 Wendy Irick .0f the in- health ,- for Ontarioresidents, and dependent study, division: equipment arid design. $80. for out -of -province "The," course • has • The „- final chapter residents. For in,- sOmething ,.u4;offer both :ex amines farm formation write •,to 'the novice and ex- management, systems, Independent Study, • perienced producer." including record keeping • University of 9ueloh, The 360 -page text was and financial con- Guelph, Ontario, N1G prepared by swine siderations. 2W1. • ' • : „ Livestock & Equipment Loss of Earnings Income Coverage Farm Comprehensive Liability - also - Life & Disability Coverage 46 West Street Goderich, Ontario Representing: Howick Farmers Mutual Ffre-riii. Co. 524-7878 PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE CONVENTION • Buses will leave the Post Office, East Street at 6:45 p.m. Tues., Jan. 8th - and Carlow Haliat 7:154.m. 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