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Hoo, boy
The itt hit the shan. The ex-
crement was poured into the
mechanical draft -making
machine.
We humbly suggested
earlier that farmers could
hold back their produce for a
week or so just to bring the at-
tention of the people of the na-
tion that farming is in a
precarious position.
You would think 1 was a
Communist. You would think
I was related to Joe Stalin or
Trotsky, simply because my
name starts with the same
syllable. I was called
everything but a Canadian.
And I happen to be a Conser-
vative, provincially, anyway.
I have no major arguments
with Bill Davis' Big Blue
Machine although I have
never hesitated to disagree
with some of his policies,
notably land use and
agriculture.
But to suggest that farmers
should stop sending products
to markets was treasonous to
a number of readers of this
deathless prose.
I suggested that the Farm
Credit Corporation t FCC)
should have been given more
money, up from the paltry
$250 million allotted by
Finance Minister Marc
Lalonde to at least $500
million.
I said maybe farmers
should take a leaf from the old
farmers union book and
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Huron County Library and
the Royal Ontario Museum
are sponsoring the "Discover
the ROM" series of exhibits at
Goderich Public Library
from September 22 to
December 13.
This is a unique opportuni-
ty for the people of Huron
County to see some very in-
teresting exhibits. Pick and
choose the ones that interest
you the most and bring your
friends or children. Viewing
times are library hours ex-
cept on Thursdays between 10
a.m. and 3:30 p.m. when ex-
hibits change and school lec-
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The exhibit schedule is as
follows: 1. "Lock, Stock and
Barrel" - Ontario gunsmiths
and firearms, 1850-1880.
September 22 - October 5.
2. "War of 1812" - October
7 - October 19.
3. "Fluorescent Minerals"
- October 21 - November 1.
4. "Pipes of the Iroquois" -
November 3 - November 15.
5. "Gods of Ancient Egypt"
- November 17 - November 29.
6. "1ligh Stepping" -
December 1 to December 13.
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withhold their products for a
week or two so that the public
would get some idea of just
how ingrained the habit of
eating has become in our
society.
I got letters! One from Mar -
mora, one from Madoc,
Listowel, Stratford, Elmira,
New Dundee, Exeter,
Lucknow, North Dumfries,
Dresden, P.E.I., and even
Saskatchewan.
"flow do you tell a cdw to
turn off the tap?" they
queried.
How do you tell cattle to
quit putting on weight? flow
do you tell pigs to quit eating?
}low do you prevent chickens
from getting to market
weight'? IfoW do you stop corn
from growing or wheat from
growing. or grain from
harvesting?
You can't.
The suggestion was made
in a whimsical moment.
If farmers quit shipping
their goods for a week or two
or three, half the farmers in
Canada would be broke.
They would be out of
business.
That is how close to the line
many farmers are today. One
week without an income
would be so drastic that the
agricultural sector would be
bankrupt except for those
who depend on sales at
various times of the year.
Even then, too many opera-
tions would be in jeopardy.
Farmers cannot go on
strike. .
Which 'is another reason
why farmers are different
from any other sector of the
economy. They withhold their
services and THEY go broke:
It is not like industry.
Workers go on strike and the
company can either
capitulate to scaled-down
demands or close its doors
and go someplace else, which
is what has happened many
times.
But farmers cannot go
"someplace else." They are
stuck on their land and they
have perishable products
which must be shipped at a
certain time.
They are damned if they do
and damned if they don't.
So they go right on produc-
ing at rock -bottom prices so
the rest of the country can
maintain the eating habit.
Well, anyway, it was a
screwy suggestion but, at,
least it brought some mail,
almost as much as a column
written a few years ago which
suggested that Canada is
right spending money on
nuclear power plants.
But that's another story.
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