The Goderich Signal-Star, 1977-04-14, Page 26RAGE 1QA—GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, APRIL 1977
Letters are appreciated by Bob Ttonet Eldele Rd Elmira Ont N38 2C7
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Suppose you are producing shoes in Ontario You make
good shoes. Tong -lasting. stylish.
But your labor costs are about S10 an hour
Maybe you're producing television sets Your labor
costs are even higher.
Or maybe it's clothing.
You also have high labor costs
Your shoes hit the Canadian market and they are com-
peting with shoes from India where labor costs are 30
cents an hour Or your television sets are competing with
units (roti Taiwan where labor costs are less than a dol•
lar an hour. Or your shirts are competing with goods
from Indonesia where labor costs are 25 rents a day. not
$5 an hour
You are not going to compete It is an utter impossibil-
ity
What happens'' You quit making shoes or shirts or tel-
evrti ion sets
nonunion Electrohome plus a dozen shoe manutacturers
plus hundreds of textile industries in this country have
been torced to the breaking point by these simple mathe-
matics of big business and labor.
Electrohome. one of Canada's quality electronics man-
ufacturers. has been forced to massive layoffs because
of toreign competition.
What can be done'' The best defence is to set up border
tariffs and controls to keep Canadian goods competitive.
But whenever this is done, the consumer starts to scream
I suppose. if Canadians want their own industries to be
forced out of busmess. nothing will be done. But what
strikes me as asinine is letting food imports put sections
ot our agricultural ecahgmy out of production...
Rig,(rt,now. ('anad't is becoming" dangerously dependent
on some Mood imports. If we become totally dependent
on imports of peaches, just as a for instance, we may
pay as -much for peaches in the future as we pay for
coffee today.
I'm just the same as you when it comes w buying food.
1 scream as loud as the next guy but I'm beginning to
think I had better swallow my indignation. •
The -consumer nu y" suffer a little in the short run if
the federal government sets up tariffs and import quotas
but. in the long run. we'll all be better off for it.
:\ classic example ul what can happen when an indus-
try is allowed to die is that of sugar beets. imports of
sugar were open at the border. The sugar beet industry
in Ontario just could not survive under the pressure of
cheaper sugar made from sugar cane Partners got out
ot sugar beet production
And when the price of sugar went sky high not long
ago. Canadians had to pay tor it or do without.
think food is in a distinctly different category than
shoes. shirts or television sets. :end 1 think it is about
time the federal government revised its tariffs to protect
Canadian food producers
It. for instance. a staggering drought hit the Crated
States and food stocks in that country became dangerously
low. do you think the Excited States would see to it that
Canadians got fed it the beef industry in Canada had,
been forced into bankruptcy"
Not bloody likely
A hungry man is a desperate man and any government
will look after its own desperate men first.
I'm not suggesting that Canada should produce all food
that is consumed in this country. For one thing, we can't
because of climate and the short growing season What
1 am saying is that Canadians should be ready, willing
and able to preserve the ability to produce the foods we
are now producing.
It is my understanding that every other nation in the
world has set up trade barriers against food imports
while increasing subsidies to keep farmers in business
in their own borders.
I do not think Canadian, farmers are, as a group, in
favor of increased subsidies but 1 think they are ripe now
for import barriers to protect them. It is unfortunate that
other countries are using those same, barriers and those
same subsidies to ship their products to Canada to under-
cut the Canadian farmers..
If something isn't done to revise Canada's archaic food
import policies. the agricultural industries involved will
go the way of the textile industry and the coming demise
of the electronics industry.
In another 25 years, world population will outstrip food
production. By that time. if something isn't done to. pro-
tect farmers, it will be too late because we will no longer
be able to depend on imports.
Deer destroyed by dogs
Conservation officer Bob Pegg examines the carcass of a deer he found near the Maitland
River just east of Goderich. Pegg said the deer was heavy with fawn and had been run
down and killed by three dogs. He said the dogs suspected of making the kills are farm
dogs and warned that under the Game and Fish Act it Is unlawful for any person to allow
their dog to run at large during closed season for deer. He said any dog found running deer
may be shot on sight by any officer. (staff -photo)
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Wheat producers ree ect
Irving Kas chairman
In a purchase and sales million bushels or
l; report, Mr. Addeman advised, tonne.
imcoe, b that producer sales t o the end Completed board
chairman of the Ontario of March totalled 22.5 million sales to date am
Wheat Producers' Marketing bushels, or 612,000 tonne out million bushels (incjnt
Board. p Peter
of an estimated crop for 1976 million carryover) or
was made following h of about 24 million bushels or tonne. ]n addition
g 653,000 tonne. million bushels or
board's inaugural
tonne has been
sold for
He said board sales to date delivery, -leavin
to domestic millers and proximately l 5 t
processors and feed and seed bushels or g1,0pptonae
utilization total about nine at the present titre,
Irvin Kleiman, RR1
S hasbeen reelected
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Announcement of the
election
the
meeting held in Toronto April
5 and 6.
RRI Inwood, who replaced
Robert Henry of Blyth.
There is one new member
on the twelve man board this
year. James McWilliam of
Pickeringreplaced e er
MacKinnon of RR2 Bath.
Other members of the
board are Harvey Eves, RR5
Wallaceburg; James O'Shea,
RR3 Granton; Morris Taylor,
RR8 St. Thomas, and William
Brander, of Mississauga.
Board general manager, L.
R. Addeman, said the
question of ' board
representation previously
reported up for recom-
mended change to a nine man
board was recently turned
down by the Ontario Farm
Products Marketing Board,
resulting in the usual twelve
man board being elected for
the coming year.
Mr. Addeman said the
question rests with the
Ontario Farm Products
Marketing Board which is to
conduct a study concerning
the matter.
This will be the second year
for Mr. Kleiman as chair-
man, and it will also mark the
second year for Russell
Rogers, RRI Kingsville, to
serve as first vice-chairman
resulting from his re-election
to that position.
Fergus Young, RR1
Ennismore, remains on the
board's five -man executive
committee as immediate past
chairman.
Robert Butler of RR2
Croton was newly elected a
second vice-chairman,
replacing Bruce Clark of
RR3, Caledonia, Fifth and
also new member of the
committee is Euclid Martin,
1 0 ways to save
1 Check the insulation in
ceilings and attics. Use in-
sulation with a minimum
resistance to heat transfer of
R28 for ceilings. Insulation in
the walls of , farm buildings
and residences should be a
minimum of R12,
2. Check ventilation
systems in animal housing
buildings. The ventilation
system shduld be tied in with
the heating system. Make
Attention Farmers
A. For sale
BARLEY grown from Cer-
tified Laurier, either cleaned
and treated or from the bin.
Contact George Wraith, 524-
7351 or 524-
7002.-10,11,12,13,14,15ar
SERVICEABLE AGE'
Hampshire boars. ROP
tested and commercial. Also
York, boars. Bob Robinson,
RR 4, Walton 395-2317. —14,15
TAKE
NOTICE
CLINTON LIVESTOCK
EXCHANGE SALES
START
Friday, April 15
7:30 p.m.
With the usual consignments
of hogs, calves, stockers and
dairy cattle.
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A. For sale
ONE tractor International D-
414 diesel. Front hydraulic
loader, 3 point hitch and live
power takeoff. Good tires.
Phone 524-7632.-13tf
TWO furrow plough, discs
and cultivator, reasonable.
Phone 524-6227.-15
JOHN DEERE Model M
tractor with plows. Phone 482-
9247.-15
C. Wanted
WANTED to Rent pasture
land, for ten to forty head of
cattle from 300 to 500 pounds.
Apply in writing to Drawer 14
Clinton News -Record. —14-15
P. Livestock
SELLING. OUT: peacocks.
doves, pigeons and Arkona
chickens (blue eggs). Phone
524-6227,-15
sure you are not pumping
purchased heat outdoors
unnecessarily.
3. Light only necessary
areas.
4. Keep light bulbs clean. A
clean 60 watt bulb is more
effective than a dirty 100 watt
bulb.
5. Install dimmer light
controls where practical or
install timer devices to switch
lights off and on
automatically.
6. Localize heat and light.
Don't heat or light a whole
area when part will do, Put up
a curtain to keep heat and
light in one section of the
building.
7, Reduce heat in farm
buildings to the requirements
of the animals or birds. Many
farmers are over -heating
buildings for personal
comfort. For dairy cattle
temperature's of 7 degrees C
or 45 degrees F are sufficient.
8. Use proper wiring. Ten
percent of the production .of
an electrical device on a farm
can be lost through too -small
wiring.
9. Check the accuracy and
location of thermostats. Make
sure the thermostat is located
where it will not be unduly
affected by a nearby animal.
Use a thermometer to check
the accuracy of the ther-
mostat.
10. Make sure taps aren't
dripping hot water. One drip
of hot water per second can
mean that 175 gallons of
water are wasted per month.
"Although some of these
energy saving ideas may
mean spending more money
now, they will result in
substantial savings in the
near future and greater
savings in the years to
come," says Mr. Webber.
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