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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1984-04-25, Page 22• .. Paelt)41T.ssr.00§-41511 • 111.,GORDON pittERN japripw....Nmetimmisma In his "Notes on Virginia, 1785", Thomas Jefferson de- clared that our farmers "are the Chosen People of God in whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue." Expounding his conviction further Jefferson laments the fact that so many Ameri- cans of his time were -finding excuses to leave the land and the independent life which it alone could guarantee. "De- pendence," he writes, "be- gets subservience, suffo- cates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the sinister designs of ambi- tion . . ." Finally he declared that the proportion of the State's urban citizens to its farmers was also "the proportion of its unsound to its healthy parts" If this conclusion of the great thinker who became America's first Secretary of State and its third president is still valid, we are indeed living in a -sick civilization, because fewer than five per cent of North Americans are now tilling the soil. But if Jefferson were to come back to his beloved country today he would un- doubtedly be confused to dis- cover that it is not really the fault of the.people that so few now remain on the land to feed so many, and that there are hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of Ameri- cans and Canadians who would gladly surrender their hope of heaven if they could somehow discover a .way to buy a farm of their own and make farming their way of life. The sad fact of the matter is that land which sold for less than 400 an acre in their father's time may now be worth 20 times that. And the cost of the machinery neces- sary to till that land has jumped so dramatically that a tractor bought ten years ago and worked steadily all that time is probably worth more today than what it cost originally. But even if an ambitious young man were somehow to get the money to buy himself the farm of his dreams and the machinery to make it produce, he must still reckon with the fact that for most kinds of agricultural produc- tion he must obtain a quota. To buy into the dairy indus- tryfor instance, he would have to pay at least $80,000 for a quota that would assure him a market and an income big enough to support a family. If he prefers to' work with something not quite so form- idable as cows, well, he could explore the possibility of producing eggs. But here, in addition to building housing sufficient for 20,000 layers, and in addition to the cost of acquiring those layers, there is again that troublesome business of getting a quota. And in my province at least, the going price for quota is about $20 per laying hen, a mere $400,000, and one is rarely permitted to buy quota unless he already has quota! The sad story of what is happening to modern agri- culture could go on and on. Want to grow potatoes? If you intend to make a com- mercial' operation out of spuds today, one must again reckon with restrictive laws. The government and the growers' organizations will let 'you grow no more than five acres of them without their say so. Same with as- , pa ragus. Pigs? A marketing board is right now in the process of formation, and a lot of sheep men are itching to do the same thing. The shame of modern agriculture is that it is dos- ing the farm gate to youth • and healthy ambition,'doing its best to force the little man already farming into bank- ruptcy and threatening thiso continent with a new aristi- cracy — a sort of landed gentry. 'We are sowing the wind so far as our land is concerned and we will reap the whirl- wind. The Canadian National In- stitute for the Blind's 12 week adjustment to blind- ness program teaches old skills a new way, and focuses on attitudes to blindness and decision making. • ;iO4,.. .44 FRESH! COMBINATION BUDGET PACK LOIN PORK CHOPS 3 OONTRE PO 3 RIB. PORTI41 3 TENIERI.6 • POR S TIQNS ' "' • • 26 /kg - • • - . .... • • . .. .. . .. .. .. .. ...... • •.' '' . .."1" ',.;",:4% • . ••:'„ FRESH COUNTRY. CUT lb. 1/4...FRYER PARTS "CENTRE CUT" LOIN PORK CHOPS •$3.95 /kg Ib. FAST FRY "CENTRE CUT" COUNTRY STYLE FRESH PORK LOIN CHOPS 4.37/kg 1.98 Ib. RIB PORTION PORK LOIN 3.418/kg 1.581 : • • " ". .. . • • ONY • • a fOREQUARTERWITH 'WHOLE NECK AND BACK • 3 HINDQUARTERS WITH WHOLE BACK" 3 WINGS -2 GIBLET PACKS ......... • . • . . • .. . SAVE '1.80 SCHNEIDERS STEAKETTES (ALL BEEF) 500g PKG. --(BONELESS CENTRE CUT PORK LOIN ROAST or CHOPS 05,. 2.29. FRESH PART BACK ON CHICKEN LEGS 3.06,k. • 1.39.. 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