The Brussels Post, 1975-06-04, Page 13MANAGED FOREST
TAX REDUCTION PROGRAM
- The Ontario Government has set up
a program of tax reductions on
forest land. The purpoSe is to
encourage proper management of
such land, and to ensure its fullest
productivity.
Qualifying forest land owners will
receive grants equal to 50% of the
1973-74-75 municipal and school
taxes levied on their forest property.
This program will be of interest to
anyone owninglorest land that is not
assessed as part of a farm. it is for
the relief of landowners who manage
their forests for the production of
wood and wood products, and for
the provision of wildlife habitat,
water conservation, and prevention
of erosion.
For further information and an appli-
cation, phone (416) 965-3500 01
Subsidies Branch
Ministry of Treasury, Economics
and intergovernmental Affairs
56 Wellesley Street West
Toronto, Ontario
Ministry of Treasury
Economics and
interovernmentat.
Ontario Atratit
Honoura ble :Lea Bernier
Minister :Of 'Whitt(' ,A etbtirdeg
Hbiioutable W.:•darcy:Mdi<ebit§ft
Treasurer OtOilIatio
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A9 office says
Farmers o wont .summer kids
It is sometimes 110,0 to glean
the truth from remarks made* in
the House of Commons.
it must have surprised many
farmers in the area when this
paper carried a report which said
the Ontario Agriculture Ministry
is unable to expand its program to
send city teenagers to farms for
the summer because not enough
farmers are willing to take them,
Agriculture Minister William
Stewart said this in responding to
a question from Murray Gaunt
during a debate on the 1975-1976
budget estimates of the ministry.
Len MacGregor of the Ministry
of Agriculture and Food said he
was surprised to read this in the
paper since the deadline for
applications was on May 12,
although it was extended to about
May 16.
Dave Gordon of the London
branch said the junior
agriculturalist program was only
designed for 200 and a little over
300 farmers have already applied.
He said this means they will
have to weed out about 100
farmers unless they extend the
_program.
Over 837 kids applied to work
on farms the majority from
Toronto, but the program was
limited to 200 since university
students administer the program
and can't handle more, he said.
This was the same number in
the program last year which was
its first year in operation, he said.
Since the statement made by
the Agriculture Minister was
made in the paper, Mr.
MacGregor said he had a number
of calls from farmers willing to
take students.
He has given a few farmers
applications even though the date
has expired he said, because they
are sincere in wanting to hire a
student. Then he said he gets told
. by the co-ordinator for the area
'that they, can't take anymore.
It may seem amazing that so
few farmers want to hire boys
aged 16 to 17, since it's a common
complaint that there is a shortage
of farm labor especially from
spring to fall..
Mr.Gordon said there may only
be 200 suitable teen-agers and
employers since this is a training
program rather than just a cheap
labor program.
The teenager who get hired is
like a government employee and
gets $11 a day plus room and
board, The farmer pays $5 a day
and the rest is paid by the
Ministry, Mr. MacGregor said.
Mr. M acGregor said Huron
County has probably the largest
number of host farmers in the
'province, and 'about 25 to 30
farmers applied.
He said most the kids who
come to work in Huron County
come from. the Windsor-London
area.
He said the teenagers are hired
on the basis of their interest in
agriculture, whether they want to
make it a career, whether they are
physically able to handle the job
and their enthusiasm.
The farmer is chosen on
whether he has experience with
,teenagers and what type of
operation he has (since many
' kids want to work on dairy farms,
,Mr.lvlacGregor said.
The farmer is chosen also on
his attitude and whether he will
eitpect too much of the student,
Mr. MacGregor said.
Mr, Gordon said the teenagers
learn to milk cows and operate
machinery during their nine
weeks on the farm which" runs
from the third week in. June to
the end of August.