HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1979-07-19, Page 1818•THE HURON ',EXPOSITOR, ,AMY 19, 1979
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BY DEBBIE RAMEY
"It's,* really gocad experience," Veron-
ica (Ronnie) Coughlin of Lontlen says of he*
partidpetlen in the junior agriculturalist
Pregrarn.
The junior aericulturalist program S one
in which city teenagers get a chane to try
life tel the farm and, while Rennie is trYing,
her hand at it,,shes staying en the farm of
Mervin Smith of RR 1, Walton. She started
working June 21 and will be there Until
August 21 -
Although she has never had too much
involvement farm work.. Ronnie's intert seems natural because when her
grandmother was alive, Ronnie always
went to visit her out in the country.
She had beard of The *Mot ,agricult-
uralist program through a bey in her seheol
who had *tied t the year before arid she
decided: to apply for the program herself.
Laura HanSen. the ee-ordinator for the
program in Huron ourity came to inter-
view students at the high setools who were
interested in the program to see if they
were capable ef %viol% on a farm.
RonMe is interested in being "out in the
toUntry atmoSphere" and thought she
would like to try farm work for about a Year
or so. Although She will only be Staying at
the Smith farm for nine weeks tthe le.ngth
of the programshe thought she mieht
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work on another farm in the M.
In the tante. She topes to go. to
,Cootratia ;College possibly to take a
business management eourse.
But for now, the Smiths have enoegh,
farm work to keep her busy as they have
three :farms. One farm .has pigs, another
beef eattle and another' .mostly sows,
Ronnie's hores include feeding, bedding:
and talking to the anintals, •
Ronnie recommends the junior agricult-
uralist ,prograin highty
Jts a really good experience fer
anyone, Fveryoneeven if they're not:
interested in 'farming should come out and
its it. I think they would learn a let." she
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Farmers most get irritated by the empty -headed
accusations thrown at their marketing .boards.
Big circulation: magazines have joined. the chorus
coming from metropolitan newspapers decrying the death
of free enterprise, killed by marketing boards, they say.
They also say that quota -setting boards have too mueli
power and that these boards can hold up the entire nation
with exorbitant prices, '
WheneVer discussion on inarketing baords- and
controlled production.: arises, the two terms private
enterprise and free enterprise are bandied about. Most
consider them to mean the same thing.
They don't,
Speaking against .free enterptiSe in this social-
' democratic society is like speaking, against motherhood,
the flag, little girl$ and horses, It is time everybody got a
clear idea of what these terms mean.
They are not interchangeable. Private enterprise is easy
to explain. .
• Every farmer who isn't tied to government has a private
'- • Butwhat about free enterprise? .1 submit that free
enterprise is a. myth. It does not exist. It is an idea, a
faneiful &earn that wept out With button shoes and -wing
collars. There is no such thing as complete freedom in any.
business.
Whether yoU are producing something, manufacturing
. something or selling anything from elephants to elbows,
you are' not free to do as you please. In the early days of
laisse7.-faire policy Was in- votue. The
gernt'eht' �f ;the day adopted' an alinoit..,,bands-oft;
• policy.',Big business and little business; too -- milked the'
'.• : people for every pOssible cent mostof the time.
As mass production techniques were developed and the
large. rporate struetures NS ere doised. it became
appatent that gevernments had to intervene. If left to its
on n hig business monopolirecieliminated
competitien by fair means or foul and created trusts,
cartels and other forms of nionopolities to gouge the
Waite,
.So antetrust laws were passed. 'settle as long as 100
• years agoto keep priVateenterprise honest. These laws
• are vonstantly - enlarged., '
(iir::Trinterits. had to:intervene in many ways such as
oriel -polo) merit insuranee -payments, pension payments,
health insurance payments, pension payments,
health insurance, payments; pension payments, Corn-
penstation payments. Security, regulations were adopted to
protect the investing public. Hundreds of government laws
and regteations hove been enacted to curtail the excesses
of the business and industrial community.
•They are not free. They may be engaged in private
enterprise but they are not engaged in free enterprise.
Private enterprise is alive and well and flourishing even in
agriculture and even in prodects which are controlled by •
quotas.•
Marketing beards are simply a method whereby farmers
can get together to market their produce. -Members are
made up of private enterprisers who tan get abetter deal •
.for thettiseR es most of the time by taking advantage of the
legal procedure open to them:. •• •
Those who think marketing boards kill free enterprise
are .probably right. But free enterprise hasn't existed in
this cotintry for 60 or 70 years.
Private- enterprise is as 'healthy as ever.. •
Marketing boards, in feet,. are simply an extension of
private enterprise, perhaps even a. Protection for'private
enterprise, •
HLJ lett plans reassessment
•
Hullett taxpayers may soon be feeling the
effects of tax equalization if council approves
reassessment figures to be later presented to
them.
At a special meeting July 5 council 'met
with Ken Feagan and Don Tofflemire to
discuss the proposed reassessment of the
township. •
Council passed a resolution to have the
Ministry of Revenue implement a reas-
sessment and present the findings to
council. The reassessment will not change
the total tax revenue but will adjust where
necessary lands that are under or over taxed.
In other business council agreed to
appoint an engineer to look into repairs for
the Veenstra. Drain. Notification will be sent
to the Conservation Authority.
Council confirmed a meeting in Ilibbert of
the area fire board on July 11.
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/Owe astimorized firiCerviiidosior
lakeitwast Ara Erik wadi al
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said.
She haS learned a lot about the different •
attitudes of city people and farnt
As an example, she said that everything in
the city is fest. and hectic and while farming
is a lot ef Werk YOLVre doing something a II.
the time and net wasting much] time.
—you've reall:„, got a purpose an the
farm, " she said, although ste wasn't
forgetting that people who have to be to
work.
at 9 in the city have a purpose too.
This is the third year Mr. Smith has
participated in ti ior e junagriculturalist
program.
"We have a lot of chores, odds. and
ends to do, Jobs that one finds hard to do
oneself," he said.
As he has always been involved with
agricultural organizations he says he saw
settled the need to get some pf the story
on farm life back to the city people.
He said that Ronnie had a kind of idea
about farm life when she came, but that
some of the junior agriculturalists were
pathetic in their knowledge of farm life.
The junior agriculturalist; program is one
m which the government PaY*6 a day' and
the farmer pays $O a day. The Sb, from the
farmer goes towards, room and board for
the student staying there,
Laura Hansen said this is the seventh
year the program] has been operating in
Huron COOnti, She hired /4 students from
Toronto, 1.8 from 'Leedom two •from
Tivertan; One from i.ucknow; two front
Hamilton and one from Kitchener, She has
Only. had three drop out So let due to
uneontrallable circentStances. In her
search for the right.people for the
Junior Agriculturalist program she hired
21 females and 17 males..
A lot of farmers ask for girls, Laura says,
because some of them seern tO feel girls
work better and. are gentler with the
anintals,
"f nt ,pleased with the way Ws running
so far," Laura said.
, A HELPING HAND — Junior Agriculturalist Veronica (Ronnie) Coughlin.
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(fourth from left) is helping out at the farm of Mervin Smith until August
21 as part of the Junior Agriculturalist program --a program which
involves city students in farm work. Standing with Ronnie beside the
• Charolais cattie.are Darryl Smith, Mervin Smith, Marilyn Smith and at the
extreme right of the picture is cherry!. Smith. .
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