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This column is no longer, a voice crying in the boondocks
about the desecration of agricultural' land in the province..
Two or three times in the last 12 months, I have decried
the decision by the Qntario: government to allow a 320 -acre
amusement park nearVaughn, 2
Miles north of Toro
to
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Now, Canada's self==sty, led' national magazine, azine Mac-
lean's, has joined the chorus. It's too late, of course,.
because all the decisions to bring this cartoon platoon to
Canada have already been. made. It is refreshing though,.
to have such a prestigious publication. as Macleans take a
'rather .cynical view o "the park.
Rod McQueen penned the piece. He started it by saying
that the appalling American attacks on Canada, such as
the War of 1812, are repelled. But the insidious
invasions border television and Canadian Club.
Iske
luncheon toasts to U.S..p residents, roll. on.
McQueen calls it a cartoon latoon led by Yogi Bear and
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Fred. Flintstone.
Maclean's opposes the move strictly on American.
money being poured into Canada. I suppose that, toe, is
important, but I have been againstt it simply because it
w ill engulf far, far more acres than the 320 inside the
park.
For those of you unfamiliar with the planned' park, it will
be called Canada's Wonderland; a $105 -million deal,
financed jointly by Taft Broadcasting Co. and the
Canadian investment partner, Great -West Life Assurance;
Co. These two giants have formed Family Leisure Centres.
of Canada Ltd.
The entrepeneurs have gone through six years of bat tle
with ;local people plus bureaucratic hurdles such as the
Foreign. Investment Review Agency and the Ontario
Municipal Board and the Ontario Cabinet. The Cabinet, by
the way, smiled indulgently through the red tape because.
members,, apparently, favoured the :, plan fromthe
beginning, •
Why? Well, because it will provide 250 permanent
Lowe Wa,a<NOM/ Er $ 1Ynitw taws) Vie: ,Etmu. oar N311 2C 7
the wilderness
jobs --a paltry number conxielerine all the faun land that
wilf be gone forever--and4,5ifllf seasonal jabs. As, a
professor of journalism, 1. should he happy that some
students, will get su comer jobs at the park..1•would rather
,preserve the farmland than give studenta a. summer job in_
Wonderland, no matter how beautiful it may become, 1 can
see it in all its phoney glory now. I would rather see acres
of new -mown hay or grain than Yogi Bear or that .stupid,.
nincompoopof a Fred ,Flintstone.. No man canbe that
stupid. •
The park will feature rides, shows, shops, entertainment
a man-made, 150 -foot hill and a 100 -foot wide waterfall. It
is one of five U.S, parks owned by Taft Broadcasting along
with 16 U.S. radio. and television stations,.
How did Taft and Great -West get together? Through 'a•
conversation between: Lloyd Taft and Canadian: Paul
Desmarais of the huge Power Corporation, one of the
biggest conglomerates in Canada. Desmarais and Power
Corporation control! Great*West Life, See the corporate
connection?' Great -West has; according; to Maclean's,.
committed 523 million tothe new compan y for 25 per cent
of Canada's Wonderland.
That, then, is' where your money goes, my friends.
To help an American company build a aeisureland on'
some of the best farm land in the province.
The company hopes each. Canadian family that: visits this
tinselled wonderland' will spend $60' in an eight-hour visit.
Cheez! Sixty bucks? 1'. am not, as quoted in the
Maclean's story, against children;" having fun, But $60`
sounds, well, like a ripoff to me.
But l'm just a little old' horse farmer in the back country
crying bitterly as this insidious gobbling up of farmland.
continues unabated. Because it won't just be 320 acres
under this. fairyland.. The surrounding area for 10 mniles.
will be permanently affected by hamburger stands,
motels -hotels, reptile houses and gawd knows what else.
Triple that amount of land will be affected.
And Most of the profits.will go back to Uncle Sam, too.
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BY MURRAY GAf NT, B
Tato firma have beett
charged with.illegally dispos*
ing of about 15,000 gallons :of
liquid industrial wastes on a
site for which the Ontario
Government refused th. at a
dumping licence last year.
The two companies, Craw*
.ford Allied Industries Ltd-
and Superior Sated and.
Gravel, have appealed the
government's licensing
decision and, since Novem-
ber, have been fighting their
case before the provincial
Environmental a1
Appeal,
Board. The hearings probe
ably will be completed some
time in the fall.
The Ontario Environ'
mental Assessment Board.
reSected the firms' proposal:.
to create a landfill operation
on 600 acres of largely
worked -out sand and gravel
pits on Keele Street at
Maple, just north of Toronto,
in. April of ,1978.
Charged, along with Craw-
ford and Superior is another
company, Refluent Invest-
cents Limited. which carries
on business under the name
of A & A. Liquid Waste
Removal Co., andan indiv-
idual; Murray K. Roberts..
Rent review will remain
indefinitely in Ontario,,
although allowable rent
increases could go higher
than the existing six per
cent. under steps taken this
week by a committee study-
ing new landlord -tenant
legislation.
The Cabinet . ;has 'been.
given, the power to raise or
lower the six per cent limit on
Farm magazine asked in 19a5
�o your horses t
BY JANE ALLAN
"Do your horses take a vacation when you need Them'most?"
A half•page advertisement with this• slogan would• appear
entirely out of place in a modern farm magazine, as; would an ad
fen our Moderne equipment in a magazineof fifty years ago..
Whileproviding information and continent, a magazine is also;
a reflection of the lifestyle of the time and region in which it was..
produced.: An old issue of a farm magazine can give a'n interesting
picture of how rural life has changed':.:' The opening quote came ,.
-from the. February' 1935 issue of The, farmer -=devoted. to the `
interests of agriculture in Eastern Canada,
Not unlike today's farmers the farming people of 1935 were
feeling, the effects of rapid industrialization. An advertisement
states. that; .'.`On the farm it is also the.' machine age; New
inventions and larger implements that cover more ground and do
more operations, .all tend to speed up farming in those. seasons'
when every hour counts."
These technical advances. opened up many •new. possibilities
for farmers in 1935. An example of this effect is evident in oneof
the feature articles. It describes an extensive attack planned
against the warble fly, or heel fly 'that had infeatertarirany of
Ontario's cattle. Before 1935 there hadn't been any wide -range
attacks against the warble fly because its life cycle was not
understood, Also, no safe, :effective, easily applied method of
killing the grubs had been discovered . until that date, The,
Farmer, as• a modern magazine would, outlined past successes'
w' the treatment and described the campaign planned to begin•
t February of 1935:
•
subscription to The Farmer was fifty cents yearly, or five
cents a copy. That nickel bought a large magazine with a full
.colour cover picture and,' in February of 1935, :57` pages of
farm -related: material. '
Published during the "dirty thirties", The. Farmer may have
been the only publication corning into some farm households.
Each person in the family could 'hot subscribe to their own
favourite magazine. For this reason The Farmer had to include
something for ;everyone.
The Farmer devoted 16 of its 57 pages in'' this issue to :a
'Women's and Home Section". Along with articles onfamily,
cooking, and sewing, a special message on , the. Women's
Institutes page. is '.dedicated. to "A: young; girland her
. appearance". In the artiste Jairls,are reminded: that everyone,.
loves a natural, yrholeaonte'girl,.'aadthat'lit isnot good taste to
have your lips too red or your nails too vivid: Sitch things fend to
make you conspicuous; and therefore vulgar." Emphasis is also
placed on bathing, as the "Saturday night only", bath is ."a
thing of the past."
A feature that has disappeared from our farm magazines
which may have been replaced 'by,television soap operas is the
fiction serial. Along with its highly emotional series "the
Straight Road", this issue of The Farmer includes '°A Short.
Story of tragedy, born of love, that will stir the deepest human
feelings":
Also included is a regular comedy page called "Chaff From
the Old Mill". Although our language: has changedsomewhat,
humour 'remains' the same. For example: Miss Neverstop,
seating; herself between two much engrossed elderly men
exclaimed: "A rose between two thorns," "No", retorted one,
"say a tongue sandwich."
A large proportion of The Farmer is made up of letters from.
the readers. The 'News, Views, and Opinons section includes a
letter from a woman explaining how to raise tame chickens, and
a letter+that would not be uncommon in a more' recent magazine'
emphasizing' the value of post -secondary education for the:
prospective • farmer,
The magazine takes part in educating the rural youths with a
"farm management' class" and a "home management class".
Each has, a monthly lesson and a questionnaire tobe answered
and mailed to The Farmer.
The magazine was loaned to the Expositor by Lou and Anne
Rowland of Dublin. 'Mr. Rowland's .mother. Mary McIver found
it among; articles she bought at an auction.
F of A meeting July 5,':
The Huron County Shadow" will be shown at
Federation of Aricutture is . this meeting. A speaker from
holding a meeting on July .Oxford County will
5th, at 8:30 at the Huron accompany the film.' It is a
Centennial School, "must" for all Huron County
Brucefield. farmers to see this film.
The Oxford County Film. federation • executive
"Farming in the Urban members say.
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The Minister Of Natural
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Mineral Aggregate Working
Party assubmitted to the
Moister in December,. 1976.
Tice Working party was
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resource managmentpolicy
for the Province of Ontario.
Iyiany of the features of tho
Report and: of this Bill are the
.insult of the experience
gained by the various inter-
ests concerned with The Pits
and Quarries Control Act"
1971 -
The new Act bo.s three
purposes
1. To provide for the man -
dement . . the aggregate
of e
and Crown aggregate re-
d
SHE ,HURON EXPOSITOR, JONES
withs
BY PAT LYNCH &
ALAN SCOTT
That is the questions A
recent study on tillage prac-
tices for field crops; in
Ontario from the University
of Guelph tackled this. prob-
lem, They stated that in most
stuno consistent yiel•'
advdiesantage was obtained b}
scuffling.
When did they get a yielc
advantage? Under two :cir,
can stances, If the•cultivation
• d weeds that her-
bicides
t r-
h
bicides missed. As well,.
sometimesa shallow incor-
poration can improve her-
bicide activity, The' second
time that yield is improved a
occurs when a crust • is %^
present: Under these cases,
.removal ' of a crust helps
emergence. Breaking a crust
also, allows rainfalltoinfil-
trate the tdpsoil.rather than
run across the top,
Can you decrease yields by
scuffling? Yes -p -if crop roots
are _pruned, this can set the •
crop.back. Scuffling also can
bring up more weed seeds.
that germinate later inthe
year. These weeds then. go
on to reduce yield. We can't
help, but think. that some-
times you ` scuffle' to• keep
busy. You don't want the
neighbours to think you are
lazyand have nothing to do.
Under , to -day's ; `conditions
that's not a• good • enough
reason. Each.'time you work.
the soil, you 'breakdown.
essential soil particles. Each
trip through the field uses
" fuel. ' In the future, :fuel
shortages may prevent scuf-
fling. For the present, the
question is --will; that field
benefit . by scuffling-
probably not.
SOMETHING HAS EATEN
THF
W'e've had ten ,caCORN!lls where
cern plants•have been dam-
age() by a worm` feeding at
the base; :of the.••plant. The
culprit is known as,the Potato :.
Stem Borer. It's pinkish in
colour with dark bands
across the body. The insect is
3/4 to 11/ inches in length. It
eveptually changes to an
adult which • lays eggs in.
Augi[st.on twitch grass grow-
ing around, cultivated: fields. •
The eggs hatch nextMay and
le cPr'
sources of .Ontario.
2. To control and regulate
pits and quarries, wayside
pits and quarries and Crown
aggregate pits and quarries.
:3 To require the retiabil-
atation of land from ; which,
aggregate or Crown aggre-
gate hal !been excavated.
This act iso lengthy, and 1
OM sure will be somewhat
».ntrooversial in some of its
provisions. It will not be
passedbefore the summer
break.
not
lbe 04040 Povernalent
should sue Reed Ltd. O.
establish the company'*
responsibility for mercurl!'
pollution frog its. Dryden
pulp and paper mill, a .senior
preadneial sngeSted
this week
Duncan, OM assistant
deputy minister of Industry .
and Tourism, said the action
may be a way to establish #Its
legal liability a prospectbre
buyer `of the plant eouid
eapect
t/'tst for so a.rx�ethin to dog
.• g •
the small: larva •bores into the
stems. '
it possible to control this
pest by. maintaining weed=
free fields, borders and fence
rows. There are two choices-
spray the border areas now
with Atrazine -oil or Odra off
the oldgrass next spring
before the .eggs, .have a
change to hatch.
It's a matter Of eliminating
the egg laying site now
before the eggs are laid in
August or destroying the
eggs next spring. Twitch;
grass. isthe nisi, weed: to be
controlled,
In all of the reported cases,
the damage has been in
border areas of the field* The
newly hatched larva crawls
only a+ -short distance.
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