The Huron Expositor, 1976-12-09, Page 21);!
already been sold at an.estimated
net return of approximately $17
per cwt.
Mr. Broadwell said that the
1975'crop should 6e all sold by the
end of January with the ftpal
payment to producers about 30 to
40 cents per cwt.
SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, THURSOAY, DECEMBER 12 1976 SECQN.P SEPTIQN PAGES 1A
ncreased fee ok cl at annual meeting a§
producers to pus
for more share of mar
V.
WESTERN ONTARIO CHAMPIONS — At the W.
Ontario Championships held in St. Catharines,
Saturday, Lorrie Beier, Mitchell and Lloyd Eisler,
Seaforth, won a gold medal as Novice Pair
Champions of Western Ontario. Lorri and Lloyd also
each won a Silver Medal in the Novice Singles thus
qualifying for the Divisional Championships to be
held in Guelph January.19, 1977. Lloyd is the son of
Bev and Lloyd Eisler of Seaforth.
A declining domestic market
and increasing competition
abroad have put the Ont ario
white bean industry in a
vulnerable position, Huron
County bean producers were told
Friday.
"The market for beans isn't
increasing so if production goes
up we're going to have to go for a
larger sh are of the present
market," Ontario Bean
Producers' Marketing Board
manager Charles Broadwell told
the annual meeting of Huron
• County producers in Vanastra.
Mr. Broadwell said that more
money has to be put into reserach
and into developing new products
in order to keep Ontario farmers
competitive. He also outlined a
five year marketing strategy
aimed at gaining a larger share of
the European market from -
Ontario's chief competitor,
Michigan.
Huron producers approved the
plan, agreeing to up the grower's
licence fee from six cents per
hundredweight bag to 16 cents to
help cover the costs. The
increase, which Must be approved
by other bean growing counties as
well, will also cover the present
operating deficit the board is
„faced with.
The election of directors to the
board saw two directors voted off
the board and two retained.
Joe Miller and Phil Durand
were elected to another one year.
term while Richard Erli and John
Hazlitt failed to hold onto their
seats.
Replacing theqwo directors are
Murcay Cardiff who will be a
director for the first time and
Robert Allen, who had been
director before but lost in last
year's election.
Named as committeemen to the
board were Victor Hartman, Bev
Hill, Nick Whyte, Don Moylan
Glen Miller, Jake Van Wonderen,
Glen Hayter, John Paul Rau,
Murray Dennis, Glen 'Ribey _and
Ken McConan.
Director Phil Durand voiced
sharp criticism of the Bean Board
telling the packed meeting that
"if the". Board of Directors were
not prepared to change the
marketing system, you are not
going to have it very long."
Mr. Durand said that the Bean
Board was much too lenient in
dealing with the dealers and was
willing "to bail them out" when
the dealers accepted lower grade
beans than they were supposed
to. Mr Durand also cited figures
from a confidential consultant's
.study of the Boards operation
which he said showed that
Michigan producers were getting
a higher price for their bean s.
"If this marketing system is not
returning at least equal to
Michigan we had better • be
prepared to improve it or dissolve
it," he 'said.
Lloyd Taylor, • chief executive
officer of the Bean Board, said
that the fi gures used by the
consultants did not tell what the
actual return was to the farmer
and therefore were n ot valid.
r Several farmers demanded that
",i,the report presented to the Board
-Jast spring be made public.
Glen Miller was the most
persistent telling the Board
officials that "it really makes me
imad to vote for a report and then
can't see it."
Lloyd Taylor replied that the
report contained confidential
information that could not be
-made public and that a person
could not understand the full
meaning of the report unless he
. sat down two days with. a
, consultant and went over it.
Mr. Miller asked if the Board
of Directors understood the report
and when Mr. Taylor said he did,
asked if he could see the report if
he sat down with a director and
Went over it with him for two
days,
"That would have t'o be a
decision by the Board," Mr.
Taylor. said.
• Board officials were also
questiimed about a story in the'
Huron Expositor which quoted
market analyst, Allan McGrath,
as saying that farmers Who
smuggled beans to the United
States were. "lousy farmers".
• One Board official suggested
that the story might have
misquoted Mr. McGrath, but the
Chairman of the meeting, Gordon
. Hill, interjected saying "I think
any farmer who sells beans over
the border to the States is a lousy
farmer. The question is are we in
an Ontario system or not."
Producers were informed that
66 percent of the 1976 crop had
Voting day in Seaforth
HERE'S YOUR BALLOT — Marjorie Phillips hands a ballot to Bill Pinder. at .the
polling station in the library basemenA for Monday's municipal election in Seaforth,
as Viola Taylor looks on. There was a big_ ballot in town with two candidates, for
mayor, 11 for council, five for PUC and tw.o for school board. ( Photo by Oke)
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Remembering .
4
The beautiful scenery that is Canada
By W. G. Strong
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever;
Its loyeliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness but still will keep
A bower quiet for us and 'a sleep
Full of sweet dreams."
(Keats)
.Memory iS a capricious and arbitrary creature.
You never can tell what pebble she will pick
up from the shore of life's stream to keep
among her treasures or what inconspicuous
flower of the field she will preserve as.,..ttre"
symbol of thoughts that lie too deep for words.
She has her own scale of values for these
mementoes and knows nothing of the market
price of precious stones or the costly
splendour of a rare orchid.. The thing that
pleases her is the thing to which she will hold
fast. Doubltess the most important things are
always the best remembered by their
meaning, their intimacy with the human
heart. When we find a little token of the past
very safely and imperishably kept among our
recollections, we must believe that memory
has made no mistake. It is because that little
thing has entered into our experience most
deeply so that it stays with us and we cannot
lose it.
Half Forgolten'
You have half-forgotten many of the famous
scenes you travelled far to see. You cannot
clearly recall the sublime eggfrein peaks of
the Canadian Rockies, the roaring cataqract of
Niagara or the slender shaft of the Peace
Tower. You dimly remember a nameless
valley among the hills where Stott saw a
rushing freshet, the fdam-bells floating on the
pool below the bridge, the long reeds
wavering in the current or a small flower
trembling On its fragile stem in a hidden nook.
Somehow the changing years never seem to
wither these sights and fortunate is the one
who captured them through the magic eye of
the camera. Coloured slides and motion
pictures stimulate the mind and gladden the
heart of: the beholder.
"To him who in the love of nature holds
Communion with her visible forms, she
speaks
A various languagei for his gayer hours
She has a voiee of gladness and a smile,
And eloquence of beauty and she glides
Into his darker musings with a mild
And healing sympathy that steals away
Their sharpnesg ere he is aware."
(Bryant)
Bewitched by the beauty of our Ontario
autumn, we may finer that it is only a part of
a glorious picture stretching across Canada.
There are the forests and mountains of the
West Coast with orchards tucked away in the
valleys; the foothills and spacious ranges of
Alberta; the great tetritOrids of the Nortth
opening to mines, farming and oil; prairie
wheat fields and st ubbley pure gold under a
suminer sun and a sense of stir and progress
everywhere; Ontario's rolling countryside
with industries and housing developments
springing up; the tall church spires and thrifty
farmsteads of ancient Quebec; the Maritimes
with their orchards and mines and fishing
fleets and the tides coming and going; the
gabled-white houses anxt the red clay of, The
Island and Newfoundland, oldest and newest
of all, chilly' under fog at. times but with a
hospitlity as warm as the fires in the
fisher folk's cottages.
What a fascinating project photography
would be for the hobbyist if he endeavoured to
make a 'cycle of the year' set of pictures
catching the beauty of objects large or small.
To those brought up in rural communities
many fascinating pictures reflect the
simplicity and the quietude of the countryside:
- creeks boiling over in the spring freshet;
fresh ploughed fields; Mennonites. working
their Idnd with horse-power in its original
form; white trilliums in a woodlot; marigolds
making a splash of gold in a roadside ditch; an
orchard in bloom or a thorn bush standing
alone by a rocky pasture fence.
New born farm animals have an unfailing
appeal for a farm audience or perhaps for any
audience; - lambs just .old enough to put on a
playful performance; goats bunting heads
exuberantly; colts on spindly legs trying to
keep up with the mares. Over in the barnyard
there are ten pink piglets to be admired; eight
grey goslings wavering after .Moother Goose
and a pompous white gander; ducklings afloat
in a puddle; a .mother hen and her brood of
downy yellow chicks. Near the barnyard gate
across the lawn is a child's deserted swing and
beyond a shady lane meanders through fields
whet:ye split-rail fences hold back brown-eyed
Susan in the tall grass.,
You may be fortunate enpugh to catch a
glimpse of the sugar shanty amid the maple
grove. Leg barns and sheds, often house
carriages and implements of a by-gone age
but worthy of a place in the county museum.
Patchwork
Many have stood on a hill-top with summer
fields spread out below li kc a patchwork quilt
enclosed by their feather-stitching of snake-
rail fences - yellow wheat fields, blue-green
oats, grey-green barley. What a panorama for
slide or film! One may want a picture . of
haying or harvesting operations though the
baler and the combine have taken away a lot of
the glamour as well as the hard work. If you
can find a field of stooked grain you had better
photograph it, too, before it disappears
altogether.
What other country has The blazing fall
colours of our treeS? What a prospect for
picture-takingl At the Meal fall fair there ate
animals on parade, children on the merty-go-
round and horse-vans everywhere. You had
better photograplf.these animals for they are
for show purposes solely and the day may
come when heavy draft horses will become
obsolete. Light horses, saddle horges and
ponies have pretty well taken over the entries
at the fair. At Thanksgiving time plump
pumpkins amid yellowing corn-stalks add
colour f6,7the landscape. Happy is he who can
catch the brilliant plumage of a cock-pheasant
or a flock of goldfinches on a sunflower at
feeding time.
Most of our winter pictures show the-
countryside after a snow or ice storm. There •
are views of farm houses snuggled
comfortably in the snow with sum on the :3:1
window-panes and smoke curling upward
from the dark chimneys. One never tires.
somehow, of the rugged lines bf bare trees
against a background of a wintry sky at
sunset.
It has been said that God made the count
but man made the town. Josh Billings once
commented, "All Nature's works are a part of
the perfection of a plan. She makes no
mistakes. creates no vacancy and guesses at
nothing."
-Pictures shoail never appear tote cluttered
but reveal a , feeling of serenity and
peacefulness. Knowing what to photograph is-
as important as the actual photograph itself.
Glimpses of beauty at any time last through a
lifetime and Are revived by . slides and films.
Colour imPr -essions Seem to be especially
lasting - the whiteness of a pear tree in bloom
flaming colours of sunsets, the
Indian summer afternoon,
winter wonderland. All these
priceless heritages of country folk,
of beauty we love to. recall.
at mid-day, the
smoky haze of
the ecstasy of a
are the
things
an