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yatiners are chron st;iMul„
llIfav bitch about 1110.400eethtgairiBitamit, input costs
the prices they get ':tor*SfiprOdneff,..,For more than
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ryeirs, they have 11* acctisOat being edrasa,!nera and
eaccusations are probably based �n tact: V.
filo* now, they are cimpiSiniUg'aliiint the image Abet
;cdtating boards have in ,tite.#71.1„.0,f the consumers. But I
est it is an image of theirpwn•Making. •
la particular, the egg bpo, the chicken board and the
Aadll nth
of tnitiliP
secretive In manycasesabout.their po
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stronglyWililam Newman
criticized' Orit&rid:f4.00,§1.49#'''
&IMO' recently agora understand.
facing..,
,Trovince's fardie94:::
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Stuart Sniith" or ktep4en. • ,,,
Lewis or Donald
Macdonald dance:Or high
r.„ixot just the
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Witt* e placed
.;#4 rn taxiiietio, and policies
orecen ly held in Barlington. None *ere invited tO tbec „ ,
jograrts for these
tot address the
are not held in,iiecOt,'
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reporters. No ,reporterk$IterPinVited to, the
of the Ontario Phicken:Frodeeers'iyiarketint
thi ahout selling cOticer :of both the
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f th To p Marko' -a ear r .i..; . food and running on efficient, . farmer and, e consumer, he
and only depilate were invited to the sem annual egg board
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this corner has been Oiii-.,,,,nlaidirig far a'decatt.....„,„ or more meeting last year. . ,C ,,'- -= ' -it.: ;:i;'1 '''';'"'
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at farmers need 10 come of the hack forty now ;and To 'cbmpound the irbie"iiffair, the oitiaipiopikiii.*O0047
- to see what is going Oa:0.11e rest of the world. They Marketing Board, aa,:::Aropicled in the qlehean*,Mail, „.,_ .and, • ' .
yea great deal to be proud OL but they sure are not telling repeated a few 'week's ego in this iorner.iegulaKell:farstr-- ,:" ' ,
ybody about it. ' , „i' ' . ' er-run marketing boards Id:this. provinee,.., , .sda4,,.. 44:,.,1s,1400
'I have decried the hey -rube programs Parried by Some ; news about its deoisitina. In recent months,;41tovoL*t.he
evision stations, the Ifee-Haws and the Funny - Farms, for1/4 watchdog of farmers; has rolled hatkeitt4401,C,reo',.ffie ,.sen ,
ting farmers to the public ah ch of stupid nincem- chicken board to forin'a new advisory Copneit quashed an •
' po who would not have. enough braing: collectively to ' egg board quataliatialpt,lioliey 'and,400P,Ok094ng. , le,c441, •-''.• .
'.duce a camel. A camel is suPpased to be a horse produced arguments among tobacco and wheat prodireekU .,;',''', •. '.
a committee. , This board makes decisions, usually in fall& of consumers.
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have. been a guest speaker half a dozen times in the last , yet aobody hears anything about them. - • ;!;'
ar at various farm meetings. I have mentioned it before • - Marketing boards have been the subject of a great deal of ,
dl will mention it again: My message is always essentially. unfair criticism. Most people have absolutely no idea what
same. All farmers are going to have to become public marketing boards can do Or cannot do. Few consumers have ,
dons men. They need a ne,w image and they have to get an inkling of the stresses and strains of marketing farm -
to the fact that a good public relations departmentls a products, . ._
tot if they are going to It the public know of their prob. : But Ilcontend that marketing boards have no one but them -
ms. - • . • selves to, blarrie lf they are misunderstood or maligned.
Right across this country, the image of marketing boards They have done little to explain themselves. They have re -
lousy. . fused to hire competent public relations people to do the
It is lousy beciuse people fear monopolies. Monopolies , explaining becatise the fernier in the field is frightened to
on everybody's , clang list these days. Bell Canada, the think that somebody at head office might get paid more than
NR, the CRC , Ontario HYdryi and any other monopoly is sus- the farmer himself.
• t. .,• 1 repeat: Marketing boards are not tierfect. They have
Farmers have some reservations about marketing boards, done a loL for farmers and can do a lot more. Until some -
They honestly disagree about some of the policies and body comes along with -a better idea, marketing boards are
0 regulations. They belie well-founded fears about ihe helpful tdfarmers. • ,'
wer vested in some of their eXeciaives on marketing But they had better tell the consuming public about it or
rds.. . •• they will go the way of all Read '
ikey board are concemedalrUt their pablic image. ing o e Ontano rkey rodwers ,
profitable business'?"
Newman asked. "They don't
4a1k about that. Instead
. they've clihnimedup„a-phony
Issue, trying to persuade our
urban population that we're
in danger of running out of
:food."
, The Minister, speaking at a
Cornwall nomination
meeting, contended that
neither food nor land shor-
tages aretthe real issues. An
efficient marketing program
and a fair return fgr heavy
investments and labour are
the farmers' prime concerns,,
he said
' Newman assured his
listenefs that Ontario's
farmers have the capacity to
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' 44Ntylitil' g'in outlined,the
1 governments current poicy,
1 , which ' ., requires provincial
,review Of all official plans
,and sometimes zoning by-
laws and : severance ap-
plications to ensure the
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protection of agriculture.
Local plans not fulfilling this
obligation are returned for
revisions.
'• In addition, the Province"
issued foodland guidelines to
••help local governments in
identifying existing and
' potentially good farmland.
These guidelines are to be
incorporated into local of-
ticial plans 'and anyone
' illanning on changing good
Ontario will host
441 club Council
• Ontario will host the ann4a1
, meeting of the Canadian
• Council on 4-14 Clubs at
Jackson's Point, 144ke
• Sirncoe, May 30 to June 3. .
4- Margaret Woof, n Ontario
' director of the Council, says
- delegates representing
business, corumerce and
• government from across
- Canada will meet to discuss
activities and goals of , 4-4
programs.
The Council coordinates
national 9-H programs such
as the National Citizenship
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farrriliiind.' to *hetdieS,411141V,
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goe.
vernment's fl
ncPntreribP
tel: *e
-proach with the - Kara:
rigidity on preserving bo-
ll -liana' and the Liberals'
"wobbling indecision".
While the Liberals are self-
contradictory on land -use, he
said "at least the NDP knows
the direction it wants
agriculture to take - straight
down the road to socialism.".
Progressive Conservative
farm policies promote the
vigor of agriculture through
sensible planning and income ,
stabilization, programs
which encourage increased
production and meet the real
needs of farmers, according
to Newman.
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Seminar, National 444 Week,
the Interprovincial Exchange
and. the Summer Work
Exchange.
Programs operating at the
national level involve more
than 250 4-11 club members
throughout Canada, ac-
cording to Mrs. Woof.
•"The major work of the
council is to provide a
channel to gain both financial
and organizational support
for 944 program's. It also
provides an opportunity to
discuss mutual concerns and
priorities of 441 programs."
New directors and
executive members will be
Iflattedi,. at the annual
At•tend• s-,
meeting. The 1976-77 outgoing
seminar
Mack Kerwighan. • of
Hackett's Farm Equipment
in Lucknow recently attended
a four day tractor service
school here, conducted by the
Agriculttiral Equipment
--Divisions of the Allis-
Chalmers Corp.
Lots to learn
on a field trip
at
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pring many beef
are devalued by• .
larvae, according
ricartney, Ontario
Of Agriculture and
specialist.
Macartney says
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COMPASS WA4K-7Brookside students learned .to. use a
compass during one Session of a 4onserVation'4chool last
week. Horteke HapperiOleacher from the schooLinstructs
them.' The conservation School was sponsored by the Mait-
land Valley Conservation Authority at Camp Wyoka, a Girl
Guides camp east of Belmore rented for the purpose by the
authority. Grade seven students from Brookside, Colborne
and Hoick schools took part, with each school spending a
day and a half there.
t le now for warble fi
producers should treat cattle a less desirable product, says
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now, before " the larvae Mr. Macartney.
develop into ' mature ilia. • "Because the trimmed
AlthOligh the treatment will carcass is not desirable for
not undo the _damage already the • fresh Meat -market, it
done will will help reduce the must be broken aat the
number Of warble flies this . packing plant. This means
summer. lower realized returns."
Dttring , the spring the In addition to the larvae
larvae move Through the, damage in carcasses, mature
ariinrial'a body to its backline. warble flies will • reduce
They, damage :the animal's
carettstby making hole's hilts
•;hidk and cysts in the fat. In
.; early sus -Atter the larvae fall
• 7 Wile ground and develop into
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, • „To tneet stringent gover-
nnent:: health inspection
stadards, the fat affected by
• •,,'t kaae: Must be trimmed
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iteaitass. rthls resultSin
weightgain in cattle:
• "If the cattle are/ being
•chased by the flies they can
• gain•one tenth of a pound less
per day. The cattle are „Rise:—
prone tophysical injury, such
as broken legs, as a resultof
running into groundhog holes
or fences." '
The best time,to treat cattle
tb° preVentlariete dattage
hides is the fall, says Mr.
Macartney. Fall treatment
will kill the warble ,fly eggs
laid on the animal during the
summer months,.
, president is George Arnold,
agricultural officer for the
Royal Bank of Canada.
441 Clubs are operated by
various agenciet in all the
provinces to enrich the
• quality of rural youth.
• In Ontario, the provincial
government operates the 9-H
club program which involves
more than 26,000 rural youth
averaging 19 to 15 years of
Hackett's Farin Equipment age' ,
handles, a full line of Allis -
Chair -tiers agricultural
products and lawn and
garden products.
This tractor service
training school was ' one of
many the company has
'scheduled around the country
tor dealers and their service
department personnel. The
intensive, comprehensive
training is- designed to keep
dealership personnel com-
pletely knowledgeable about
the design and functioning of
the latest Allis-Chalmers
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