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Perth wants ag labs
to get more money
Members of the Perth County Feder-
ation of Agriculture don't want to see
services provided by veterinary labor-
atories at Centralia Agricultural College
become the victim of provincial govern—
ment spending restraints.
Federation members decided at a recent
meeting in Mitchell to pressure the
ministry of agriculture to provide the
veterinary department with more money so
it can meet the farm community's
increasing demands for its services.
Some federation members said they
would be willing to pay more for the service
if they could get their test results back
faster.
The college laboratories, which are
funded by the provincial ministry of
agriculture, study and diagnose animal
diseases for farmers in Huron County and
bordering counties.
Dr. Ernest Sanford, a pathologist at
Centralia College, said demand for ser-
vices has increased by more than 100 per
cent in the past 21/2 years. He said
autopsies on pigs, for example, have
jumped to more than 1,000 from 240 in the
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past four years, but the laboratory staff has
remained the same for the past nine years.
The college lab employs two doctors,
three laboratory assistants, one post-
mortem assistant and one secretary.
The federation members voted to
petition Agriculture Minister William
Newman to "urgently consider" providing
more money for extra staff and apparatus
at the laboratories.
Farmers now pay from $2 to $5 for tests
at Centralia but Ron McKay, a Mitchell
area farmer said, "It's worth much more to
us to get the results back in three days than
three weeks."
A delegation from the Perth County
federation will meet with MPP Hugh
Edighoffer to discuss the situation and
have it raised in Queen's Park. The matter
will also be forwarded to the Ontario
Federation of Aericulture.
B of E votes no on
farm safety course
Farm safety will not be a course taught
next year in Perth County schools.
At the June 19 meeting of the Perth
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County Board of Education trustees voted
against a motion that would bring itinerant
instructors into the schools to teach the
course.
In spite of the recent Listowel accident
the board reasoned the subject of safety
was being adequately dealt with in their
health and physical education courses and
therefore saw no need to incurr the
additional expense.
Superintendent of Program, Keith
Thompson, in his report to the board
suggested that certain modifications be
madeto the present lectures without the
addition of further courses. His
suggestions included the upgrading of
teachers' awareness of farm safety by
having special workshop sessions set up by
the Farm Safety Association; that
university co-operative students be
considered to teach the course; that video
tapes on the subject be made up as
teaching aids and that a catalogue of Farm
Safety Association information be
packaged and supplied to the resource
centres of individual schools.
In considering the motion the board
agreed with Trustee Bob McTavish that
both urban and rural schools should
receive the lectures because of the many
urban students who are regularly visiting
the rural areas of the county.
THE RURAL VOICEIJULY 1979 PG. 46