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ane foot in the
furrow' bY
• Dufferin and Simcoe •bounties are pretty fair agricultural
areas'in Ontario Farming means a lot to communities in
that district.
• George Mc(•ague; •the Tory backbencher representing
Duff
enn-Simcoe. is aware of the importance •of farming
. and .the equally important fact that agricultural land iAr this
province ts slowly liut surely being eaten away by urban
encroachment:
Mr. Mc('ague has presented a. private. member's bill which,
• should. be studied by the legislature. Itis unfortunate that
rnost private bills -never reach the serious stage•of debate.
But this one should.
At pre knt,, all land in .this province now used for farming
or that which Could' be- farmed is designated in official,
plans only as•agricultural land, a weak. and virtually. use-
less designation: If urban uses come -before .planning
boards, the zoning bylaw; is. quickly amended and the "agri-
cultural'• designation is changed.
Time and time again. some of the finest agricultural land
in the world becomes forever buried under tans -of asphalt.
cement. .shoppir g• plazas. ticky-tacky houses and utility
lines.•
And yes. I'mwell aware -that Ontario farmers• are still
capable cif producing a surplus in almost every coinmodity
grown in the -province.
I'm cognizant of the fact that, right now. Dntario..duesn't
really need all the land presently used for agriculture. But
this is only 1976.. Who can say we will not'need.it in 10 y,;'ears
or 20years? Farmland. if•left or preserved ter farm•idig, is
a renewable resource. But when it is buried under tons of
cement. 'it-• isnon-renewable. 11 should be treated as re-
newable resource and not raped for the almighty developer's
diillat • •
• \lr. Mc•Cague's idea is to have all municipalities in this
province rezone or rewrite their land use, bylaws and desig-
nate the land.as ('lass 1, 2. 3 and 4. The whole idea makes a
lot of'sense.
• Any developer. any municipality needing land. would
have to prove het .and any reasonable doubt -that Class 1 or
2 agricugfural land would be need-ed•under the dev'eloper.'s
hammer.
Donald Henry the owner.
Getters are appreciated by Bob Trotter Eldele Ad Elnwa. Ont N38 2C7
And any expansion by any one could be steered to those
lands designated already as poor farming purposes.
Mote good land and abetter etimate in Ontario is proof
enough that a comprc•liensive land use policy with plenty of
o
teeth in it.should be adopted in this pr ylnce. We are for-
tunate, Other prOyinces have good 1'arrnland. too, but more ,
of it exists.here than anywhere else. • •
All the more reason it should be pf eserved with land use .
legislation and local bylaws that are workable and Man-
datory. '
Mr.. McCague's bill suggests a two-year period to -allow
every municipality in •Ontario to classify. and' designate. -
land, I ,don't think. two years is necessary. The designa-
tions -have already been -carried out by. agrologists. The
maps are readily available. All lural planning hoards would
have to du is redesignate thelxtnd and use information that
is available now. " - •
Few people today will argue the need for preservation
of good farrn land. A fere farm writers suggest it is not
necessary: that Canada has more than enough land to pro-
duce all that is needed. That may be true today but will it
be true tomorrow as the population of this tired old.globe
grows and grows''
A few glimmers of hope in- the population explosion
around- the world have' been seen lately but no one has sug-
ges.ted•that more -and more is not going to be needed in the
years ahead.
There'is,a great and pressing need to halt the desecration
of farmland in.Ontario and•in Canada. Mr, VTcCague'ssug .
gestion makes a great deal of sense. Not ottly,is it .timely but, •
his .suggestion to implement. the idea is sound. It wouldn't
costan arm and a leg.
Let's hope the moguls at Queen's•Park will pay attention
to -the bill and mit let it die on the order paper.
NDP leader Stephen Lewis has suggested that the Con-
servatives will allow the bill Co.get farther •tha ,most.pri- -
vate bills because the Davis government .is just as anxious
as everyone else to do something concrete about land use
planning. •
•George vlcCague peels ail_.t'he encouragement he can:get.
Top indexing boar from Bluevule
Young Donalddlenry, RR 1,
Bluevale, again ..had .the
highest indexing boar in the
group - of x'104 boats which
completed test at the Ontario
Swine Test Station, New
Hamburg. This high indexing
Yorkshire boar had a per-
formance index of 147 which
combined low •bacicfat
thickness of .53 inches, fast
- average daily gain on test of
2.24' pounds per day and
excellent feed conversion ,of
only 2.34 pounds feed per
pound gain. . .
Following the Henry boar
were three other Yorkshires.
from the herds of Roy Hedley,
Canfield, Murray . Bancroft,
Newton and Arnold Cook,
Belgrave
OMMB now distributing
addiiional
miIk quota
Extra industrial milk quota
released in : October by the
federal government to assist
producers suffering from
production cutbacks ordered
this spring will be distributed
by the Milk Marketing Board
immediately. •
The quota is to .be
through November.
It will first be distributed to
producers who did not exceed
-theirquotas last year, and
their quotas will return to
either the 1974-75 or 1975-76
levels, whichever • is the
lesser. '
World Hay Champion' Russell T. Bolton! Seaforth, ac-
cepts the White Farm Equipnient trophy from company
representative Tom Mackay at the Royal Agricultural
Winter Fair in Toronto, November 17.
A- FOR SALE
HAY, grain and straw. Phone
529-7517.---49
D LIVESTOCK
lemelnimimeelieureinailimMeeneerreerrenerrollenill
MUST SELL three registered
bred York Pitts; one
registered York boar, ser-
. viceable age, Phone 482-
9939.-49
AFOR SALE
Top Landrace with an index
of J35 was from the herd, of
John Boeim, St. Jacobs,
while the top indexing
Hampshire was from the herd
of Andy Schertzer, Tecum-
seh: •
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GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURS
Doug Fortune speaks ! .
at Hullett annual
Doug Frortune, a _Wingham comprehensive brief which
area`airy farmer and past was prepared by the Huron
President. of the Huron County Federation and
County • Federation of ,presented to. the Blair
Agriculture, was- guest Commission by Adrian Vos
speaker at the Annual and Maurice Bean.
Meeting of the HullettMr. Fortune concluded. by
Township 'Federation on sesting at ht we shoud
November 23. 'He discussed pleaseduggthat at thi provincial
the Proposed Reform of government has recognized.
Property Taxation in Ontario, that the Municipal Tax Act.
•. Mr. Fortune outlined- the needs some drastic. changes,
basic changes proposed, But the changes brought
although he admitted that the forward; by The Honourable .'
information available is W, Darcy McKeough,
vague. For instance,Treasurer of.Ontario, cowl -d
reference is made to_ lead' to some very serious . .
"reisidences and a reasonable le ablerns for farmers. He
amount, of land",but „what urged everyone to obtain a
constitutes` a reasonable copy• of the'booklet entitled
amount of- land has not yetReform of Property
been defined. Also,. Mr. Taxation. in Ontario" either
• Fortune said he could not see by contacting your• M.P,P. or
any advantage an taxing all . by writing t.o: Municipal
school property. . Finance Branch, Ministry of
-He voiced the concern of . Treasury, Frost.•Building, .•
many. farmers _ that, if the Queen's Park, Toronto M7A
taxes on their land are being ..1z2.
100 percent paid by the • '
provincial government, how The •meeting was chaired
-much influence will farmers by Hugh Flynn who has been.
have on their local municipal President of the Hullett
officials and how much Federation of Agriculture 'for
control will they have over the past five years. He an- •
the management of their own nounced that he was stepping
land. "Most farmers want to 'down from this position and
pay their fair share of taxes", called for elections for a new
Mr.: Fortune said, "and are executive for 1976-77.
not happy at the prospect of The results . were as
having their taxes paid by the follows: President: Bob Peel,
government. One con- Vice -President: Gerrit Wilts,
sequence might be that the County Director: John Van . -
public will feel that they Beers, Directors: •Auburn
should have free access to . area: Tom Cunningham,
farm land for hiking,
snowmobiling, etc."'
Attention wasfocused on
the official policy of the
Ontario' Federation of
Agriculture, which is that
services to people should be
paid by people taxes while
services to property should be
paid by - the owners of the . Mrs. Ted Hunking agreed
property. Mr. Fortune •also to continue for another year '
1 told the meeting about _the ' as Secretary -Treasurer.•
AY, DECEMBER 2, 1 .6.4AGE 214-
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LIFE, AUTO,
FIRE AND
ALL .OTHER LINES
319 HURON ROAD'
GODERICH . 5 4-7411
NOTICE CIF ��._,LR� L
Notice is hereby given to the Rornan Catholic Separate
School Electors of the .Twp. of Ashfield that whereas two
. candidates have been. nominated for one member on the
Huron County Board of Education.
A po11 will be held, on
Monday Dec. 6th 1976 from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
at the following locations. •
• Electors in. the Western Division at
KINGSBRIDGE PARISH HALL
• Electors in the, Eastern Division at: -
ASHFIELD TOWNSHIP HALL
ADVANCE POLL
An advance poll will be held at the c-lerk's home lot 9, Con-
cession 13 Western Division on Saturday Nov. 27th 1976 from
11 a.m. to 8 p.m. .
Given under my hand this. 18th day of November 1976.
Donald Simpson,
RR 3, GODERICH, ONS'.
•- Returning . Officer
1
Gordon Daer, Elliott Lapp
and Lawrence . Plaetzer,
Blyth area: John Benjamin,
Gerry Heyi.nk and John -Van .
Beers, Clinton> area: George
Colclough, Stewart . Dale,
Cecil Elliott, Bill Gibbings,
George Postma, Lloyd
Stewart and Bob Trick..
Top Duroc with an'index,of
125 was from the herd of
Warren & „ Richard Stein,,
Woodstock.
Thirty-six' of the top boars
in the . November group in-
cluding the top indexing ones
mentioned above will be sold
In . a letter ma -Med ._to -at`._the. est ...Station on
producers on Monday and
Tuesday the O.M.M.B. said
the rationale behind quota
being returned to this group
of producers is that the
federal government- feels
these -producers did not
contribute to last year's
surplus, so they should not be
"punished unduly becaus?of
it". .
Producers who sold quota
in this' dairy year will not be
eligible.
The second category to be
considered .includes
producers who entered the
dairy industry in the 1975-76
dairy year which ended
March 31. Their industrial
„milk quota will be increased
by the board, which will make
"reasonable estimates of
their planned level of ship-
ments for the 1976-77 dairy
year."
The board says it will use
only their individual:
production , projections
associated with their credit
and lending applications' to
-''the Ontario .Industrial 'Milk
ProdTuctian Incentive
Program (IMPIP) and the
federal Farm Credit' Cor-
poration (FCC) lending
program. '
Producers who did not use
these credit sources will have
their planned -industrial
delivery levels for the 1976-77
dairy year estimated "by
projection" their shipments
of last year. A• ll remaining producers
will 'receive a one percent
increase in their quota.
Leading Corn
Hybrids from
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Asall boars at the Test
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under uniform conditions,
buyers can be sure that
superior performance is due
to true genetic superiority for
low backfat, fast gains and
good feed conversion which
will be passed, on to the pigs
they sire,
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ADVERTISING CORRECTION l
!lithe November 25th edition of the Signal Star the electron
notice for Mr. Oscar G. Keiffer read in error "Vote Oscar G.
Keiffer Roman Catholic Separate School Board."
• The ad should have read "Vote Oscar G. Keiffer, High
School: Representative on the Huron County Board of
;ilucation'. The Signal Star apologizes for any confusion and
embarrassment this may have caused for Mr. Keiffer and his
associates.
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To the Separate School supporters of the municipalities of
Ashfield, Colborne, Grey, Howick,Hullett, McKillop, Morris,
Turnberry, East Wawanosh, West Wawanosh, Towns of
Goderich, BI Th, Brussels, Seaforth, Wingham.
Having served on the Huron -Perth Separate School Board
for the first six years of its formation I feel that at this time 1
would appreciate the opportunity to serve you again as. your '.
Roman Catholic Separate School representative to the Huron
County Board of Education. If elected I shall endeavour to
give' my best service.
On Monday, December 6th; I ask for your vote:.
VOTE
OSCAR G. KIEFFER
High School Representative
on tfie Huron County Board of Education
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