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Area girls do well in ¢-H
Waren Whitmore Clinton II
of R. R. 4, Seaforth received
an advanced honor award at
the 4-H homemaking
achievement day held in
Clinton on Saturday.
The special award was
given to Karen _upon the
completion and perfect at-
tendance for 18 441 club
projects.
Karen along with about 125
other girls from 12 clubs
joined at the Ontario Street
United Church on Saturday
for the final windup of their
spring project Focus on
Living.
Along with the award given
to Karen, eight girls received
e provincial honor award
completing 12 projects.
ose who were presented
were: Carolyn Van Dorp, R.
R. 2, Seaforth; Donna Cole,
Susan Fuller, Barbara Hesk,
all of R. R. 2, Goderich;
Marjorie de Boer, - Karen
Rodges, R. R. 2, Clinton;
Kathy Peck, R. R. 1, Zurich.
As well, girls receiving
county awards for completing
six projects were: Cathy Van
Karen Whitemore
Dorp, R. R. 5, Clinton; Vicki
Mann, Hensall; Janis Chuter,
R. R. 1, Varna; Nancy
Heykoop, R. R. 3, Clinton;
Anne Talbot, R. R. 3,
Bayfield.
Leadership awards were
presented to Mrs. Ken Murch
from the Clinton III club,
Mrs. Charles Fuller of the
Goderich II club and Mrs.
Jim Keys of the Varna 4-H
club. Each lady has suc-
cessfully completed five
years as a club leader or
assistant.
Along with the awards
ceremony the girls and their
clubs prepared skits and
exhibits dealing with the
various topics that were
studied in the program. These
included emergency first aid,
babysitting, saftey, food and
fitness, creative use of leisure
time and learning through
leisure as well as municipal
and federal affairs in Canada.
With the completion of the
project, another club will be
starting sometime in Sep-
tember. The fall club is en-
titled Essential Edibles and
will deal with such topics as
meal planning for breakfast,
lunch and supper. In this,
various types of meals will be
discussed as well as learning
recipes in metric. The
highlight of the club will be a
party for the members at the
end of the program.
CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1978—PAGE 15
Five girls received the county honor award at the 4-H Achievement Day in Clinton
recently for completing six clubs. The girls were, front row, left to right, Anne Talbot and
Nancy Keyhoop. Back row, Vicki Mann, Cathy Van Dorp and Tanis Chuter. (News -
Record photo)
news farm news
Perth Federation concurs on OFA tax reform stand
he Perth County
ederation of Agriculture has
had some second thoughts
about the Ontario Federation
of Agriculture's (OFA) stand
on proposed property tax
reform.
Last month the Perth
federation directors voted to
concur with OFA's proposals
on tax reform but after a visit
from three of Huron County's
Federation members the
Perth farmers were not so
sure they'd made the right
decision.
The Huron Federation of
Agriculture recently voted
against the OFA stand on the
issue saying it just wasn't
,tough enough. According to
the Huron farmers who at-
tended the Perth meeting in
Atwood, the proposed system
of Market Value Assessment
and tax reform would greatly
weaken the local power base
and farmers could eventually
lose control of their land.
The provincial govern-
ment's suggested system
would have farmers pay
taxes just on their houses and
on approximately an acre of
land surrounding the home.
The government would then
pay a grant to the
municipality in lieu of taxes
on the rest of the farmer's
land and farm buildings. The
property would then be
assessed on its market value.
Ontario Treasurer Darcy
McKeough feels this would be
a more equitable taxing
system. OFA disagrees.
The Ontario Federation
says a farmer's property
should be assessed on its
value to another farmer not
its value to an urban buyer or
a speculator. The OFA does
however feel that the grant in
lieu of taxes is acceptable but
Huron's farmers disagree.
The Huron delegation said
they feel that farms should be
assessed on their productive
value but the system must
have the farmers pay taxes
on all of their land, not just
the lot and house. One of the
4rron Federation members,
MacIntosh said if far -
s don't pay taxes on all of
the land then a few years
down the road the govern-
ment could claim control of it.
He said, "the next time
they (the government) want
to put a power corridor or
something like that through
we won't have any say".
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George Underwood, a
Huron farmer, sited an
example of how a farmer
could lose the say over his
land. Underwood said that in
the 1930's, when farmers
didn't have enough money to
pay all their taxes, the
government stepped in to
"help". In a case where a
farmer owned a lake with the
farm, the government
exempted the farmer from
paying taxes on that lake. He
said, today the government
claims "they own the lake".
According to Underwood
there could be identical
situations for land which a
farmer hasn't paid taxes on.
Underwood said that the deed
doesn't mean everything in
such a case.
.The Huron members also
said that if the government
paid the farmer's taxes the
consumer would see it as a
handout. They felt this sort of
consumer feeling could
greatly hamper the
relationship between
producer and consumer in
times of rising food costs.
Perth's past president, Ken
Green, past president of the
Perth federation said he felt
most of the directors
"probably voted in favour of
OFA's stand on the issue
without really understanding
it". Several other Perth
farmers said they were
receptive to the opinion of
their fellow members from -
Huron but felt there .must be
another side to the story.
Others at the meeting said the
new system sounded like
"another step towards
socialism".
As a result of the heated
discussion which followed the
Perth Federation rescinded
its motion concuring with the
OFA's stand until a review of
the issue is made.
This doesn't mean we
disagree with the Federation,
we just want to take another
eat crop harvest should be down
Ontario's winter wheat
crop is expected to yield
about one half of what far-
mers harvested from the
fields last year, according to
Ross Addeman, general
manager of the Ontario
Wheat Producers' Marketing
Board in Chatham.
A, combination of severe
winter kill of the wheat plants
and wet planting conditions
last fall are to blame for the
situation, Mr. Addeman said.
Last year, farmers took
about 30,000,000 bushels of
winter wheat from their
fields.
Because of the planting
conditions last fall, he said,
the board estimated a 1978
yield of 20,000,000 bushels.
That was before the winter
conditions took their toll on
the wheat plants.
Now the board's general
manager expects a harvest of
about 15,000,000 bushels this
year.
That will be enough to meet
the domestic requirements
which amount to about
8,000,000 to 9,000,000 bushels
per year, he said, but export
Rossibilities are questionable.
Mr. Addeman said the
board's predictions are based
on a survey of Kent and Essex
counties where a lot of the
province's winter wheat is
grown. Sometime within the
next week an aerial survey of
the rest of the province will be
done, he said. The board's
directors across the province
are being asked to submit
reports on conditions for their
local areas, he said.
About 18,000 farmers in
Ontario planted about 385,000
acres of winter wheat last
fall, Mr. Addeman said, a
reduction of about 35 percent
from the previous year.
The soft white wheat is
used to produce cakes,
pastries and cereals.
Ontario Crop Insurance
Commission officials have
indicated a high number of
claims are being submitted
for losses of winter wheat
because of winter kill. Not all
producers insure their crops
with the commission.
This year's U.S. winter
wheat crop is estimated at
about 1.28 billion bushels, 16
percent smaller than the 1977
harvest, the agriculture
department said.
Based on surveys May 1,
the new harvest estimate is
down three percent from the
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department's initial forecast
of 1.32 billion bushels last
Dec.22, not long after the crop
was planted by farmers. The
1977 harvest was about 1.53
billion bushels.,
Faced with large grain
surpluses, sagging market
prices and government
acreage cuts ordered for 1978,
wheat farmers reduced
plantings shar6ly last fall.
The department's crop
reporting board said the
latest survey showed farmers
will have about 39.6 million
acres of winter wheat for
harvest this year, compared
with 48.4 million acres har-
vested in 1977.
. Some cutting of 1978 winter
wheat,already is under way in
, Arizona and California. It
accounts for about three-
fourths of the total U.S. wheat
crop.
inion poll
Agriculture and Food
Minister Bill Newman has
announced that an expression
of opinion poll of tender and
fresh fruit growers will be
held June 28, 1978.
Producers will be asked to
consider a proposal to
amalgamate the Ontario
Fresh Fruit Growers'
Marketing Board with the
Tender Fruit Growers'
Marketing Board. Peaches,
pears, plums and cherries for
both processing and fresh
market sales will be included
under the proposed Ontario
tender fruit producers'
marketing board.
Mr. Newman said he has
asked the Farm Products
Marketing Board to conduct
the poll in the Ministry's field
offices throughout the
province.
Letters will be sent to all
producers outlining the
details and the two fruit
boards will hold regional
meetings to discuss the
proposal to include these
growers under one marketing
plan.
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look at it," said Perth
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The executive will be
setting up two information
meetings for the end of the
month where knowledgeable
representatives from the
ministry and the OFA will
speak on the subject. After
various aspects of' the con-
troversial issue are looked at
a referendum may be held to
see how the majority of Perth
County's farmers feel.
Neww ata ark
A new award at the
University of Guelph to en-
courage farm broadcasters
and journalists will also
honour one of Canada's best
known agricultural com-
municators. The Roy Jewell
Award of $500 will be offered
annually to a graduating
student who has shown a high
degree of interest and ex-
cellence in studies related to
agricultural communication
and extension.
The scholarship arises
from a fund established to
honor the retirement of Roy
Jewell from his position as
farm director of CFPL radio
and CFPL-TV in London.
Roy Jewell began his
journalistic career in 1948 as
director of farm services for
the London Free Press and
radio station CFPL. In 1953 he
began the first regularly
scheduled farm television
program in Canada. He lived
until recently on the family
farm not far from London.
In 1974 he was a recipient of
the OAC Centennial Medal in
recognition of his services to
the farm community.
It is the hope of the trustees
of the Roy Jewell rand that
the new award will provide
additional incentive for
students to undertake courses
of study relative to the field of
mass communication and to
follow it as a career.
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