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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1958-07-24, Page 10Page 10- The Tbmea.A .vnat.te, July 24, 1958 e r•,1 mu111m1mlmi111111/t011mIm11m01111011t111 IIImlmlm111 Inmmllllllm 1111 11 ul t 111/1111 mlr�. ■■�■(+,`�'�■ ,�. A 1 lm 14 11i 1 1A 1..11111111 1 II, ,L Dear Hog Producers tt E And Fellow Workers Have your efforts in oiie way or another helped farmers to realize what they would lore u this vote is not a success? • This is a moral question and since this is a profound issue and one involving right and wrong, everyone is expected to do his duty. Vote for Democracy Support the plan which protects farmers' ri h Don't be misled by propogancla 4 VISIT THE. POLL IN YOUR TOWNSHIP AND VOTE EARLY Vote "Yes" On July 25 is HURON COUNTY,HOG PRODUCERS' ASSOCIATION Bert Lobb, Pres. Alf Warner Sec.-Treas. ngg r j'•i1111111111#1111110 llllnlll ill tillil1111tlllllllln111111111111111 m111111It1111111111111111U1111111111N)illllllllllllllnilllllllllm�_ Poi' Your Meg. Producers Marketing Plan Keep your grain INSECT FREE fel' a Whale your( HRR 'O ALL YOUR P0: spray bins with HOWARD BIN TREAT treat new grain vith HOWARD GRAIN GUARD .COSTS LESS THAN 24 A BUSHEL less than it dces !a f •^':;:le. BIN TREAT kills insects in cracks and crevices has prolonged killing action—lasts at least 6 weeks, but does not harm grain. tit oz. a, ala= s 'mo 'CCS B.5-3 . .-- $2 ::5. GRAIN GUARD rnixes easily with new grain as it is binned, —protects it from insects for a whole year. Contains malathion—d, es not herrn grain. t.. o-e:..,t �........< - . • s:. so lbs.- $9.0. fl011'AZD etre TREAT THESE AND OTHER HOWARD PRODUCTS .�- ARE ON SALE AT Exeter= District l ' , h * l t7 ` 1?4e fight not for r for honours, nor for only and alone we filth di�rrt. wliacla no gaRc1 is dere but with fats life This statement franc anion of Scottish Independence sinned at Arbroath a King Hobert 1 and the niatit•e f fourteenth centur ' . but of all free men the world over, in all ages. 1i e have heard the word "free- dom' brandished about quite' liberally in connection with the forthcoming vote on the Ontario Hog Marketing Plan. In the opinion of this writer there are two minimum prere- gausites necessary before it can he termed_,a vote of free men. First, from the time of its in. ception a copy of the act should have been readily accessible to all interested persons. This does not mean an abstraction from nr an abridgement of the act. but the act in its entirety, verbatim et literatim. Second, there should have been a comprehensive fin- ancial statement readily aeees- stb1e to each producer. When I ice contribute to any organize - bon, we expect this right. t These conditions, being unful• filled, we are required to vote in the dark. To expect any man to aches, nor f glory but ot for free- ; can stirren- the 1'teela- r in by his nobles „epitomizess not only n y Scotsmen erre ■ a ii n s in USED FARM EQUIPMENT 1 -7 -FT. GRAIN BINDER In good condition. 1-45 HAY BALER 1—TUD;IDELL HARVESTER 1 -NEW HOLLAND BLOWER 1—JOHN DEERE "13" TRACTOR - 1—FORD TRACTOR 1—W-9 TRACTOR With new rubber. 1—NO. 52 COMBINE With P.T.O. Drive, in excellent condition. 1--36-FT. BALE & GRAIN ELEVATOR L. Becker ft Sans PHONE 60=W DAs} WOOD Canadian Company Initiates Vigorous Expansion Program NEW A EV FFR USON PLANT BUILDS 280 TRACTORS A DAY! 251) world-famous Ferguson System tractors every day .... one in leas than two minutes! A remarkable productions figure that' goes a long way towards proving this new Massey–Ferguson plant at Detroit one of the most ad. vatted industrial facilities in the world! Yet this is the output of only oiie . of sixteen Massey -Ferguson factories that operate in seven countries—in Canada, the't.T-S.A., England, Scotland, France, Germany and Australia. Over 25,000 employees in these factories rnan i ad- lure a complete line of farm and light industrial equipment that reaches markets in over 135 other countries. The Detroit plant is part of a whole new series of developments ranging through product research, inatiufec- tuning and marketing, that have recently been put into effect 1•y this dynainic 110 year old company. The largest manufacturer of tractors and self-propelled combines in the world today, Massey--Ferguson—a Canadians company with a truly inter. national outlook—looks forward to irontinued progress in the mechanizes Boit of agriculture throughout the world. , as ey—r` rgu on Limited t O Pt i fel t Ca do so and call it "freedom" 1s our estimation a patent insult to his dignity as a human being. we have been told that our freedom is nearly gone anyway, so what natter if we lost a bit more'' 'We are most adamant in our disbelief that freedom is nearly goo:, but even if it were, should we give up what remains An analogous attitude wo:ild be that since the ocean covers four-fifths of the earth's surface we should inundate tilt remaining, fifth. in this rather incept meld. drama, the processor has been cast in the role of a monstrous and heneous ogre intent on gob. Wing up the producers; but so far no processor has appointed persons to inspect the premises or books of the producers or to inquire into his financial respon- sibility .or, if they are, it has been the good fortune of this producer to have been exempted from their visitations. What has been set down here is in no way an unqualified con. demnation of collecting market: ing. However. if such a scheme were sound it should by now have proven itself without a resort to force. It is this element of cam - pulsion whiela renders the scheme odious to all free nnen. Yet its supporters presume to call it freedom. Tennyson well described this type of freedom: "Freedom free to slay herself, and dying while they shout her naive," not for riches, nor for honours, nor for glory but only and alone ... for freedom . , . " so runs the Arbroath precept. The pronouncement from the so• called darkness of the middle ages we would do well to con- sider today. Have we so far out- stripped its signatories that we will emulate Eseau who sold his birthright for a mess of potage? Robert B. Cameron Easily Deceived To the Editor: In trying to sell the hog mar- keting plan to the farmer, Mc- Innis and company for years have voiced the grievance of a ptice differential between Toron- to and outlying marketing points. They claimed a hog should be worth as much to the producer in one area as another., Their plan was to establish one price for bogs for all Ontario. Even this idea was not economically sound. Be this as it inay, we now have the astonishing admission by Carl Hemingway in the last issue . of The Times -Advocate that under the board the price of hogs at outlying points has often been different from the price paid for farmers' hogs marketed in Toronto, Thus the hog board, while damning the old differential sys- tem of pricing, has retained this plan and even using this point 111 their campaign to stay in the drivers' seat. 1 ask why should the farmers' hog be worth less in Toronto than on other Ontario Markets? I feel. sorry for Mr. Hemingway in making such a fatal propaganda blunder in a sincere but misguided effort to help the cause of the hog co-op and of the agricultural clique of which he is county fieldman. Just how susceptible are farm- ers to all the catch -words and fancy phrases used in this cam- paign by these fast talkers to put over their various hocus- pocuses? I am afraid many are too trusting and easily deceived. Let us go back a few years and trace the history of move- uierits and schemes instigated to help the farm industry in On- tario. The Farmer's Bank, short- ly after the turn of the century, was high pressured and sold to farmers on the basis that it would give the farmers an hon• est and sympathetic banking in- stitution as compared with the "big interest" bankers who were. exploiting him. What happened? After many farmers had de- posited their small hoard of hard-earned dollars in this 'bank, it closed its doors, the top of• ficials disappeared with the mil- lions of dollars of deposits and the honeymoon was over for the disillusioned :farmer. A. decade later, along came; the U,F.O., to which the rural' people subscribed body and soul.; This group was elected to powr. in Ontario and quite promptly one of its leaders, the provincial treasurer, began looting the treasury of hundreds of thou- sands of dollars. In this he was aided and abetted by a group of cronies who helped put the ti,i+,O, campaign across to the trusting people of this province, Now we come to the present moment in Ontario history. ,There is a huge campaign Under way to sell, various marketing schemes to the farmer. The cur- rent one is the hog marketing plan. This bas been in operation for five years without a vote. It has taken around $3,500,000 out of the farmers' pockets. Are these funds being used to fin- ance this present extensive cam. paign to keep themselves in the gravy? Sotneone is paying the bills, If no private outside par- ties are providing the funds, the hog co-op boys are fighting a large part of the Ontario farmers with their own money. Numerous pamphlets and bro- chures are being mailed to every farmer by this group. !;very farmers' publication is full of hog co-op literature. Most of the statenientt contained therein are downright absurdities to say no- thing of contradictions and para- doxes. There have been whole ltol c spate of press photos lately showing variou groups s g daps and politicians viewing the office e equipment of hog coup in Toronto. The rap tions state this is how they find out ,what the board is doing for the farmer. Well, I was invited by top board officials to wine down to view this equipment years ago for the sante purpose. I declined because I know that this is the last spot p on earth iii which I could get the actual facts and truth about whether they were doing ine, as a hog producer, any good, As a farm colunaaaist pointed nut recently. atiyolie can get the same figures and data free for the asking from a number of government and private institutions. In order to da a comprehensive and in- telligent research on all facets of the ho; marketing requires much more difficult work than merely dropping in at Mr. Mc - Wm.,' headquarters in Toronto. and is'atcha a whole Bost of flun- kies copying figures on a black- board as they came in over shiny new teletype and office vaaelaines. Ina recent pamphlet sent to all farmers by the hag co-op it is stated that transporters 'and packers support the co-op. This is a complete reversal of the hue and ary made by these two bodies in the past. Anyone who hay followed the press and the public meetings held by them knows my statement to be cor- reel . The absurd part •of this angle is thatdost packers do , go along with the hog co-op be- cause ecaii e they can now get their hoes with virtually no bidding. This has been demonstrated all last fall, winter and spring, when the most serious shortage of hogs in Ontario in ao years should have and would have given the fanner two to four cents a pound more for his hogs if the old order would still have been in effect. It was only last fall at an information meeting held by McInnis and Co. in Ex- citer high School that McInnis bnasted that he was, through his hog hoard efforts, able to keep cheaper western pork out of On- larin, yet at the moment he was speaking, various packing houses in this province were unloading huge semi -trailers of fresh west- ern pork at their docks. This de- monstrates just what McInnis is Feeding the farmer and also just how scarce hogs were. In the ahove-mentioned pam- phe let, co-op makes of $2.50 justmnterhog in eases of complaints of yields or dress out of hogs. 'marketed by them. This is a tacit admission of failure of their methods, as such mistakes or occurrences are uncalled for and rarely hap- pened under the old system. Be- sides, who antes up this promised $2.50 adjustment 'payment? Cer- tainly not 'the packing house. They aren't that foolish or soft- headed. Then why should the farmers who sell hogs be eollec- tai ely penalized for 'the mistakes' nr Losses incurred by the hog co-op method of handling hogs? This one clause in this pamphlet is to, ine one very good reason, why I should vote "no" on' July 25. The Times -Advocate .quotes :lir. Mclnnis'at the opening ,of the Stratford' yards 85 saying that there has been pressure brought against the hog market- ing supporters by people who are not hog producers. To date I have not yet inet or heard of these people. But I do personally know of quite a number of people who are nota -producers who are bringing pressure against the opponents of the marketing scheme. Mr. McInnis is further quoted • as saying that "you have heard of huge funds being gathered to curb the activities of the hog pro- adueers and their program," This is more cheap McInnis propa- genda. I have never heard of or seen such funds. I do know as does every nther'fariner who may be interested in the facts and truth that McInnis and other allied farm cliques have been amassing huge funds down through the years which are now being used to run their extensive and expensive campaign so that they can curb any program and activity as a hog producer and thousands more like me through- out the province. I cannot terminate my series of articles without expressing my most sineere appreciation to The Tines -Advocate for giving me free. space to put forth my views and observations on the hog mar- keting controversy, Without one cent of campaign. funds at any disposal, I would have been Forced to remain mute. 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