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It's not amusing..
The headlines in last week's daily Penal' looked groat:
Amusement. park pear Toronto to provide 2,000 student
inbs.
, Great news, huh? •
An agreement signed to build a $105 -million amusement
park M Maple, 32 Kilometres northof Toranto. Schedeled
to open in, early 1981. Canada's Wonderland. it will be
• called, Owned and operated by Family Leisure Centres at
Canada Ltd, Famtiy Leis= owned 75 per cent by Taft
Broadcasting Co„ a yankee firm in Cincinnati, and 25 per
cent by Great West Life- AssUrance Co. of Winnipeg..
Total equity of about S58 million. Balance of funds in
longterm' loans from Sun Life Asseranee Co, of Canada,
Prudential Insurance Co. of America, Standard Life
Assurance CoTerentesDoMinion Bank and Lumberman's
Mutual Casualty Co,
Pernianent Staff of 250, More' than 2,000high school
and college students will find seasonal employment at the
site.
Two million visitors a year.
Great stuff for Ontario, right?
Right. if you're only looking at figures and jobs.
Wrong if you're trying ta save farm land in Ontatia
It is another classic example of selling farming short. It
is proof that this province is paying only lip service to the
idea of preserving farm land.
Because that amusement park will gobble up 320 acre$
of land. It will also gobble up a few hundred more acres
inperipheral building such, as fast food.outlets, motels,
roads, as stations and everything 'else that surrouna—a
••••,metal -and -tinsel, phony fairyland which will prOhably have
an over -abundance of yankee bullroar•attractions,
In 10 years time, the entire area will be transformed into
a summer -time mess, a-blOt on the landscape,:a. sore' on
theside of progress,
NMI
It's only 320 aeres now. Double that far atntiliaty
sen,ices. Triple it for farnt land beeause no farmer will be
. able to work, aathitt 10 miles, of the place beeanSe the land
will be too damn expensive
I chink its t shame. A downright, rotten, lowdown
shame that Soatany acres of land will be burled under
ticky-taeky buildings, stores, pavement and, asphalt, eircus
rideS. boutiques, games and cartoon characters.
Land sharks, 1 understand, moved into the area a year
ago efferingfantastic prices for land! Sttrroundingthe
• proposed park, I still maintain theproject,'if needed,
could have been located on poor land instead. of good land,
But no. The becks talk.
Listen to the words of Charles S.Meebetn, Chairman of
• Taft Broadcasting.
"In tete', within 150 miles of the park IneatiOn are 9S
rnUUon peoPie.",
It matters not that less than one-fifth of .the total land
mass that is Canada is viable agricultural land. It matters,
• not that. in 10 years titne, more than. 1,000 ares of that
land will be lost to farmers forever. It matters net tattle
money boys that someday, Canadians will be weeping
• because there is not enough good land left within 100 miles
of Toronto to support a decent -dairy herd
Aw, shucks,
I wrote shout this latest desecration almost a year ago
when the Ontario. Cabinet gavecOnsent ta Family Leisure
Centres for the development. ,
• I said then that nobody seems tocare any moreatsclut
•green growing things in this province.
• its like banging your head against the wall.Nobady
\•pays any attention to you until you stop.
Are there only a handhil of people left who are
concerned abut disappeating farm land?
•
• Perth Milk Committee sponsors visits
BY ALAN SCOTT
• PAT LYNCH
Each year the• Perth Milk
• Committee carries out a
three phase project in con-
• junction with the Perth Board
• of Education. Initially two
• directors visit a school to
• shim • slides and answer
• questions about • the milk
production •process. • The
Perth County and the Ontario'
• Dairy Princesses then visit
• the school to discuss the
nutritional values of dairy
products and the work of the.
Dairy Princess Last week,
the Perth Prineeia, Debbie
Coneybeare of Listoivel and
her Ontario • douaterpart,
Nancy Wilson of fte4frew,
were busy with visitations
throughout the Coenty.
The program cencludes on
Tuesday and Wednesday,
April 10th and lith when
grade 5 students ' from'
throughout Perth Cotinty visit
.the Coliseum in Stratford.
,This program involves seven'
different presentations on
cow description, pedigree,
feeding, • animal apd herd
breeding, • butter
• Making • and' another visit
with the Dairy Princes.'
The Milk Committee dir-
ectors put a great deal of
time into this project Under
the direction of co-ordinator,
Futu res co'urse'
Centralia College is offer-
• ing a short course on Market-
• ing Strategies, at the College .
on Wednesday, April 18th
from 9:30 a.m. until 3:30
• p.m. •Interested • parties
should register at the College
or at the Perth Agricultural
Office. 'The course instructor
. •
Ken Scheerer or R„R. 1,
Stratford. They ' are to be
congratulated for • carrying
out such a. worthwhile com-
munity project.
•
at CCAT
is Sean Usher, Economics
Section, Ridgetown College
of Agricultural Technology.
A. video presentation on how
the Futures Market operates
will be shown 'during reg-
istration for those who come
early.
•
"Canada is the greatest country in the
worl4 and the Liberals have nothing tO
shamed about because they had the mast
;Oa withi making it what it b." Federat.
Agrieulthre Minister Eugene Whelan told an
enthusiastic audience in litiiSsela
Wednesday night.
the thalaSels. Morria and OreY Community
Re was speaking at a dinner meeting in,
Centre in support of ,Httron-Bruce Liberal
candidate Graetne Craig. Huron Warden
John Timmy brought effielal greqingS from
,Igt;oel4oedthec.ountytoltahrgehalleandlence of Pearl)! 4Q0 that
Reviewing what had been accomplished
by Ministry of Agriculture and what the
Liberal party had accomplished for Canada,
Mr, Whelan said that during tast
year alone about 400,000 new jobs had been
created in Canada, He compared that with
Gerreany, where jobs created weredown by
61% from the, previous year he said.
He said that some people who talked to
him about the economy told turn • that the
the trouble in Canada was tho...11fe number
Of social services were tee great. Be said
that he could remember a tittle when you
didn't dare get sick and yeti didn't dare go to
the hospital because you coaldn t afford to
pay for it, • "but .now you're not scared
because you've gat social services," he said.
Referring to thaebig giant to the south of
us" the minister asked "Do they have social
services compared with ours? You know how
feardie,"
ysaid. stog.et sick. 1twOald ehcaPor to
ie,,,he
Mr. Whelan reminded the audience of the
• companies that were investing in Canada
like Ford Motors, United Co-op, and the
• Thompson and Weston groups. He quoted
lord Thompsoe as saying, "1 think this is,
the best place in the world to invest in" and
Weston who said about investment in
• Canada, believe that even at these high.
prices.assets are going cheap." •
Canadians are the best housed, the best
educated, have the best food, have the most
television in the world and are the best
travelled, he said.
The agricultural minister said he bragged
about • how efficient Canadian • farm
Production was and said that across Canada
the average Canadian farmer produced
goods worth 52000 more than the average
American farmer.
He spoke of farmers as being the best off
in the World and, the most productive and
not Scared to defend that anywhere
with anyone, anytime," he said,
An, indicator of farm economy is that
young people were returning to farming, he
said and added that for every farmer who
wants to retire, three more are waiting -to
take his place:
•
"Marketing boards are the one thing that
stay belay(/' Canada's , anti-inflationguide-
lines and 'they, 'gay marketing boards create
inefficiency," he said. '''As your Minister of
LI
AgricititOre; when go to meetings in other
countries what do they want to find out?'
Haw our ferMerS UV Se ptettOctiNn4 They
ittSt clOn't naderattand hew WO*X0 o prothtet4,
ive itcre-"
"We don't pay farmers for doing nothing
in Canada. They must produce and they are
producing," he said.
Liberal candidate Graeme Craig told, the
Meeting that despite critieiSm• of the
economy the fact was that Canadians stilt
bad 37 per cent disposable ineoMe cempared
with a 24 per Cent disposable income in the
United State. •
He described O•nada as having ene of the
FDOSt succeSsfut economies in the world and
said that the Liberal government had created
429,000 jobs in the IASI 12' months,
Surveys indicated that 86 per cent of tho
people were now satisfied with their housing
and that that figure was only 60 per cent
when the present government was first
elected. The Liberal candidate emphasized
that 71 per cent oaf what the novernment
takes in is already committed to • the
provinces and individuals for • such
expenditttres as pensions. The federal
government has only 29 per cent left with
_which to carry on the business of Canada,
Crawford Douglas, M.P, for Grey -Bruce
told the meeting, 'Never before have we
had an election as important as this one is to
you in Canada, It's people like you who are
going to decide the future for Canada. To. See
that future comes about we need a titan like
Or erne Craig on our team " he said,
Murray Gaunt, M.P.P. for Huron Bruce
introduced Graeme Graig and Herb.Kuptz,. •
president of the Hurop Bruce Liberal
Association thanked the speakers • •
Jack Riddell Huron: MidoleSex, M.P.P.
said that if the Liberal government was not
kept in' power 'the country would lose
agriculture minister Eugene -Whelan whom
• he described as being, "one of the greatest
defenders of agriculture that we've ever had
in Ottawa."
• lk said they had to get across to the
consumer the fact that we Canadian's; are
enjoying quality food at most reasonable
Agriculture and Feed
Minister Bill Newman 'has
annouoced. that fanners who,
wish ttt raise tatkeya for
time use. up itt irtaximnnt
of 50 turkeys per Year, will he
exempted from the regq.
•lations of the Ontario Turkey;
Producers' Marketing Board,
Mr. Newman also said that
• farmers who raised turkeys
prior to January 1, 1979, and
who, wish to raise up to 400,
turkeys a year eernmereially
will be able ta buy the
necessary quota from the
turkey board at the current
PITO for quota, Applications
to purchase quota must be
received by the turkey board
by May 31, 1979.
prices, and that it was because. of Eugene
Whelan that Canadians were enjoying these
benefits, ,
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• plan's base .qualifying years
,of i%4,. 19.f.7 and 1968. wilt
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Ittn the number of turkeys,.
they grew in those years,
The turkey board will also
be authorized to licence all
Talcheries: and aealers
turkey poults.
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One on the ice, keeping pressure on the opponOnt,
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The same appliee:to corn rootworm inseeticides,
• University researchers say the best way to keep
rootworms from building up resistance to insecticides
• is to alternate organophosphate and carbamate
'Insecticides each year,
• To keep your rootworm attack going strong,
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Carbarnate Line:
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to provide long-lasting residual Control
of roOtViontis which hatch later in the
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brace Mott needed to prevent lodging
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More cOrn,
Ther hard, purple granules won't
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