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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1967-06-08, Page 101O TH HURON Ax.rosiroR, EAFORTkli QIV't`4 441 alwelys 4e/Ier with� 89% of urban Canadian housewives prefer Butter to any other spread talk The Dairy Industry has always played an important role in the affairs of Huron County! The dairy cow, provides many fine foods .for our tables' and a source of income for many people. + When you use Butter, 80c out of every dollar goes to the farmer ' who produces the cream 1 This provides farmers vvith:more purchasing power and helps make Huron County more prosperous! Whether Butter is used on bread, Nast, vegetables, or in cooking, it makesgood food even better! HURON :COUN7`Y CREAM COMMITTEE RAE HOUSTON, President ROY WILLIAMSON, Vice-Presiden MRS. FAYE FEAR, Secretary d Canand When the Department of Ag- riculture was organized . in the year of Confederation it was charged with .responsibility for nine major fields of activity. In addition to agriculturet the Department was given jurisdic- tion over such diverse matters as immigration and Emigration; Public Health and Quarantine; the Marine and Emigrant Hos- pital at Quebec; Arts and Man- ufactures; Census, Statistics, and the Registration of Statis- tics; Patents of Invention; Copy- right;. and Industrial Design and Trade Marks. Truly the Fathers of Confederation envisaged an active life for the employees of the new Department, which •in the beginning, boasted a total staff of only 27. Apart from -its name, the De- partment had little association with, agriculture in the early. years. Officers connected with the •`immigratio'h',• service made reports from time to time eocn- cerning• agricultural. conditions in their .districts but except for these andi some early legislation respecting the control of ani- mal diseases, there is very little of record concerning agricul- ture. Just how meagre was the at- tention given to purely agricul- tural activities is revealed by the annual reports ,of the Min- ister of Agriculture. For the year 1870, for example, agri- culture is disposed of in one short paragraph. The following year the Minister reported: "This department although charged by the Act constituting it, with the subject pf agricui= • ture, has not hitherto, except incidentally, dealt with it, nor completed the necessary organ- ization to make it one o the branches of its organization." Two years later a new Min- ister,obviously a cautious type, said: "It is better to delay 'a little than to rush into a rash t ian A flouttur� organization, the lamentable re- sult of which would be sure to exert an evil influence over many years." No doubt these attitudes reflected the delicate relations between the provinces and the new central government for in another comment the Minister said that the subject of agriculture " ... - is also dealt with by the Provincial Govern- ments. Hence great care is to be taken to secure harmony of action in any steps that niay°be adopted." But if. agriculture .was receiv- ing little attentions other mat- ters under departmental juris- diction were certainly active. Dealing with quarantine, the re- port for 1870 gives this informa- tion concerning thearrival at Saint John, N.B., of a ship from Trinidad: "Sixdays after sail- ing, yellow' fever broke out on board — -nine cases — and three deaths. occurred during the passage here. The said vessel was detained in quarantine.. nine days, under rigid purification, and discharged free from infec- tion, the crew in good health, every precaution having been used with both the ship and the ballast." International - E x h ibitions loomed large ` in . the' early ac- tivities of the Department. The report for 1873 gives a detailed account of the Great Industrial, Exhibition in Vienna—The fol- lowing •year. the Minister , ore - cast that the Universal Exh» (tion at Philadelphia would af- ford another good opportunity to.' bring Canadian products 'he - fore the eyes ,of, the whole world. The sum of $100,000 was voted for the purpose. Again a few years latera Me- tropolitan Exhibition held in Sydney, Australia, claimed the attention of the ,Department. "Two hundred and eight cubic tons of exhibits were sent from Montreal and three hundred, and ,forty -o -tie cubic tons from New York." Orte curious subject dealt with.by the 'Department in the early years was'- the .compiling An Expositor Classified will pay you dividends. Have you tried one? Dial. 527:0240. TASTES BETTER WITH AN EXCELLENT :SOURCE OF --VI-TAM-in."47 FOOD COOKING MEANS COOKING WITH BUTTER gutter June end -:Every .Month is Month the Department of, Trade and Commerce. Then in 1918 responsibility for Patents, Copyright and Trade Marks was transferred to the Department of Trade 'and Commerce while International Exhibitions and Public • Health and Quarantine went to the De- partment of, Immigration and Colonization. From that - time onward, the Department has concerned itself solely with ag- ricultural matters. Although these transfers were made half; a century ago, it was rs eletWal al ting in Canada comes under -the Criminal Code. The Department a long time .before the public became adjusted to the fact, For• many years the,Department- carried ,on a brisk correspon-. dense with persons •who,wished to register copyrights or take out patents for their inventions. Indeed; even yet an occasional enquiry along these lines finds its way . to the Department of Agriculture. Perhaps one of the strangest of departmental activities • and one which' is still being carried on is the supervision of betting at racetracks. Control of bet - of statistics on insolvencies. Of this work the report says: ". . delays, extra labour and annoy- ance created' by the negligence and • supineness of many ass-ig:. nees has rendered the task of compiling very arduous." Then there. were the health statistics. In 18l2 Parliament voted money for the collection of health- statistics and there- after for Many years such mal- adies as bubonic plague, small- pox, dysentry, leprosy and beri beri were' mentioned frequently. in the records. Still anothernon-agricultural activity .was that of -operating the archives. Accounts of this. work 'appear regularly during the 1870's and 1880's. In 1883 the Minister. said: "The collec- tion and arrangement of His- torical Archives has, been ac- tively continued and valuable additions have been made since My : last r,report." ' But immigration' was the big thing. Ninety per cent of all the early reports of the Depart- ment' are given to aceounts of the activities of immigration Agents at Many points in • Cani ada as well • as in nunterous cities Mooed. •. , R'ecognitioil' ityy the Depart= ment of „the importance of ag- riculture. as such, was slow in conning. As late as 1885, Jahn Low, departmental: secretary and later De$uty Minister. said; "The first • in order in the en- umeration of functions is agri- culture.' There has, however, been no general votes for par- ticular branches, for example cattle quarantine and inspec- tion, the gathering of statistics, and also grants to exhibitions. Hitherto these have -comprised the' whole functions of the De-, partment in relation to agricul- ture." Even before Mr: Low's time, however, the difficulties had been recognized. The first move to tidy up the Department of Agriculture Caine in 1878 When, an Order in Council was passed, transferring the Marine and li Emigrant • Hospital at Quebec tis• the' Department of Marine and Fisheries. Then in 1892 gin-' inigration ea Emigration were' strlptied Hatay att'd turned oven' to the Oepartnient of the Inter - lot Not until 1912 was the $ttnlent rr Te�'ett . Yf" rly� other off, the> ndYtYagileiiltitrel. aeti +; ties l ti try'ear the Ceii'at it 4 Brandt • Offieer,, "< 'M ift0ei �O -4 d 1; 1 -- , of Agriculture became involved. as early .as 1920 when an amend- ment to the Code restricted the responsibility for supervision td an officer appointed by the Minister of Agriculture. Later amendments broaden- ed the terms, under which a racing association Might secure betting priviledges, .- extended pari-mutuel betting .to trotting and pacing races, and provided for a levy against each'associa- tion to cover the most of super • vision. Additional services pro- vided by, the Department now include a photo-fintsli camera serviee, film patrol, .and a sal- iva aliva and urine teat..service. The sntpervisory activities of the De- partment are carried out by specially trained officers of the R.C.M.P. who are appointed as representatives of the 'Minister. They are' responsible for the proper distribution of all • mon- ies wagered and for ensuring that operations !are carried out in accordance with the regula- tions. wan mi' The: • u • r • co • 0 s • 0 A