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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1974-10-10, Page 10I A PRIMARY CHOIR PRACTICE — Grade one, two and three students at Stephen currently engaged in choir practices preparing for upcoming programs. 'rc-hAooplhoatroe Central in 100 pound bags * Sand & Stone * Gravel * Stone for Weeping Beds EARL LIPPERT TRUCKING Crediton 234-6382 OM SAFETY Gabian Stone * Calcium, Chloride BIG HORSEPOWER * Farmall 1256-0 like new * Farmall 1206D with new engine * ferprotatil-430697-74-4-eo7telititrrr SOLD * Farmall 10660 with roll guard * IHC 656-D, excellent * Mini Mo U302 Gas * David Brown 1200D * IHC 624D with loader * IHC 574D with loader N. T. MONTEITH EXETER LTD. 235.1121 ' "The best in service when you need it most!" TROAN seed J core is now growing in Ontario. See your local Troian seed corn specialist for the best selection of quality hybrids. EXETER PRODUCE & STORAGE CO. LTD. TROJAN SEED DIVISION EXETER 235 -0141 PFIZER COMPANY LTD., Sarnia. Ontario There's a Royal Bank desk ""-"4 .- in every warm kitchen. When it comes to offering specialized financial services to farmers, Roger Dowker, Mana&er of Exeter's Royal Bank, is as comfortable doing business in your kitchen as he is in his own office. (More often than you'd think, the farm kitchen is the best place to get Roger's banking expertise fully concentrated on helping you achieve a worthwhile project.) What's more—and this is important—Roger Dowker has the full facilities and expertise of our Agricultural and Credit Departments to back him up. In addition to Farmplan Credit & Counselling he can tell you how to protect your farm and family with Farmplan Creditor Life Insurance. We'd like you to give Roger a call, to see just how effectively he can use his , experience and judgment to offer you sound advice .. . backed up by some pretty sound and sizeable dollars if your growth plan makes agricultural and economic sense. If you'd like to have that talk with Roger Dowker, call him at 235-2111. 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M5 gas with power steering COMBINES Ford P.T.O. combine 11—Massey Clipper with engine drive and pickup 1—IHC 91, self-propelled, with straw chopper and grain head 1-111C 101 self-propelled with grain head 1—Ford 630 with grain head and straw chopper and 4 row corn head 1—Ford 642 with cab, grain head and straw chopper Cockshutt 422 PTO combine Better Farming Starts At EXETER FORD Equipment Sales Ltd, , Exeter 235-2200 Times-Advocate, October 10, 1974 Page 19 ..„, A sad prediction from review ..board Ask return of egg levy Hill talks to F of A BY ADRIAN VQS Fwd prices are expected to be up by 15percent at the end of this year, over the last 12 months, This is the rather sad prediction of the Food Prices Review Board. You house wives shouldn't assume that the farmer has a raise of his income of that per- centage, for at the first of July the farm input was up by 18 percent. Where did the difference come from? The supermarkets granted a hefty wage increase to their workers, so their costs are up too. Guess who is the loser, it's not very bard. Both the consumer on fixed income and on one end and the farmer-producer on the other end. So what's new. Texas dairy men and ranchers are not taking it any more. Earlier this year they killed their chickens because they refused to subsidize the public any more. Now I see in the paper that they Huron is strong group also refuse to subsidize the public with meat. They figure it is cheaper to knock their calves over the head when they are born than to go on and lose a hundred dollars a head by feeding them. Actually it's no different than what Studebaker did a few years ago. They lost money on the cars they made, so they quit producing them. People in under developed countries could have made a good use of Studebaker trucks to improve their living. The same people could make good use of meat to improve their nutrition. Is the farmer supposed to bear the cost any more than Studebaker was? Some way should be found to encourage the farmer to produce as much as he possibly can. Do you have a solution? If you have, come forward with it and the world will be grateful to you. Or would they? There was one Man who had the solution. He said to share even your coat. But He was crucified for his solution. MacArthur, the famous Canadian writer wrote 60 years ago in the "Farmers Advocate" that wealth should be distributed by the contribution people made to society. This means that the farmer, as producer of food should have the highest income, followed by labour for they are the ones that produce. The speculator should be at the bottom for he is only a parasite.Alas, it's the other way around. Centralia Farmers Simply Ltd. Grain • Feed • Cement Building Supplies Coal 228-6638 Egg producers who are members of the Committee commenced an action Thursday against the Ontario Egg Producers' Marketing Board to obtain the return of levies taken by the Board from the producers' egg cheques. The producers are taking this action because they believe the egg levies are unlawful. The levies have been a concern to the producers for some months because the levies have absorbed the producers' profit and at the same time have resulted in higher prices to the consumer. In effect, the Ontario and Federal Ministers of Agriculture have, through the levy created by Cabinet decree, taxed the Ontario producers and egg consumers with the costs of a regional development programme to transfer employment from Ontario to Quebec and for a national farm income stabilization programme, The Reform Committee believes that these programmes should be financed from revenue collected by the general taxes of both governments, including corporate income tax revenues that are to be voted on by Members of Parliament and the Legislative Assembly, not by Order-in-Council. The Reform Committee at the same time has today called on the Ontario Minister of Agriculture and the Federal Minister of Agriculture to remove the levy immediately in the belief that both the consumer and the producer will benefit from such a move and because both need help today. Pending a decision in the litigation the producers are taking all steps possible to withold the levy. Recent statements about borrowings by the Ontario Egg Producers4 Marketing Board have given the producers serious concern about the long-term financial stability of the Board and its ability to meet any judgment that may be obtained. It appears that the British Columbia and Newfoundland Egg Boards are following the same practice with regard to the National Egg Agency. gently for the eggs were broken inside the cartons. Mr. Hill cited this as proof that a deliberate onslaught is being made on farm and farmers. Now a Committee to Reform Egg Marketing has been formed. This committee is formed by the same integrators and egg graders who opposed the forming of the Ontario Egg Board from the beginning. Now they see a chance and want to reduce the Ontario Board to a promotion agency. They circulate a document to egg producers for those changes. These people want a hold on the industry, Mr. Hill stated, and any producer who signs this document signs for the digging of his own grave. Farmers have to be very careful about suggestions for change. They all say that they are not against the farmer, until the farmer insists on the right price for his product. Then they are not for the farmer anymore. Of Professor Forbes who was commissioned by the Consumer List field crop results Gordon Hill, president of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture was the guest speaker at last week's meeting of the Huron Federation of Agriculture at the Hensall public school, He commented that the Huron federation is one of the strongest both in membership and representation in Ontario. The Ontario Federation is greatly concerned about the public at- titude to farming and to farmers, he stated. They don't realize the greatly increased cost of far- ming. For instance, the cost of some fertilizers is up by 300 percent, machinery up 30 percent, cost of money, labour and building materials are all up, but sale prices are not keeping pace. Livestock men are hardest hit, especially cow-calf and sow operators. Steers are selling now for less money in some instances than was paid for the stocker calf, so the farmer loses all his cost for feed. The press furore about marketing boards are symptoms of the publics' attitude, he said. We can expect more attacks on farming in the future, As an example he cited the attacks on CEMA. Not one good word was said in the big city press about CEMA. No one said anything about the lower prices the con- sumer enjoyed last year com- pared with US prices. No one said anything that the eggsthat spoiled were for sale or the failure of the government to buy eggs for welfare people or for the world. No one said that the eggs were offered to the breaker trade, or said anything positive about CEMA, only the negatives. CEMA was blamed for the shipment from Newfoundland to B.C. but nobody said anhthing about the railroads who took seven weeks to ship them across the country and on the way found it necessary to reload them into another boxcar and none too Results of two divisions of the field crop competitions held in conjunction with the 1974 Exeter Fall Fair have been released by secretary Garnet Hicks. Edwin Miller was the winner in the grain corn section with Robert Down in the runner-up spot and Ray Cann finishing third. Following in order were Lorne Hem, Gerald Dearing, Winston Shapton, Allan Rundle, Don Dearing, Howard Pym and Elmer Powe. Winston Shapton's entry proved to be best in ensilage corn with Howard Pym placing second and Robert Down third. Next in line came Edwin Miller, Tom L. Hern, Lorne Hem, Lorne Passmore, Allan Rundle, Gerald Dearing and Ray Cann. marketing boards, Mr. Hill said that Forbes has been a lifelong foe of marketing boards. Mrs. Plumtre of the Food Prices Review Board is being used by the anti-marketing forces, Mr. Hill claimed. When chain stores were found to be profiteering Mrs. Plumtre said that they wouldn't do it again, and she defended processors, saying that they made no undue profit. Mr. Hill, himself a bean producer said that bean prices to the farmer are 27 cents per pound. Another 48 cents is added between farmer and consumer. The farmer has to plow,cultivate, apply fertilizer and herbicide, harvest and deliver for 27 cents. The consumer pays an additional 48 cents for washing, sorting, packing and retailing. When Mrs. Plumtre finds out, what will she do? The big city press attacked farmers as a whole because a few isolated cases of farm labour abuse. Marketing boards are in real jeopardy, Mr. Hill said, Huron county has always been a strong supporter of marketing boards because they realized that without them we have no means to put a price upon our products, If we are caught in lower prices and spiralling costs, we know what happens. The farmer is the only one who has no control over supply. Everyone else has, be it labour or manufacturing. The federation president would like to see legislation changed to production control from marketing control, In other business before the meeting, Jake Van Wondern of Varna was elected as ISM director for West Central Huron Region, with James McIntosh Seaforth, Ivan McClymont, Varna and Bert Branderhorst of Hensall delegates. Alternate elected was Richard Kooystra of Clinton. For South Huron Alan Wolper , Grand Bend was returned as director with Albert Erb of Zurich as delegate. Attention Dairymen! 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