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THE GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1979—PAGE 11A
Rabies clinic dates
..
Few people have heard of WSA. It is a new organiza-
tion. It means Women for the SL�,lrvival of Agriculture.
It is one of the best ideas to come, along since the in-
vention of panty hose.
The group is dedicated to its title and was started a
couple of years ago by Dianne Harkin of Winchester, a
small farming community near Ottawa.
She maintains that farmers have been se busy produc-
ing food they have done a lousy public reli,tions job. She
is right on, Durango. •
This corner has been saying the same thing for a do-
zen years. I can think of ,no one better .o promote the
cause of farmers than farniers' wives. Some church offi-
cials maintain that it is women and wo.nen's organiza-
tions that keep the church a great force in many commu-
nitres.
Many service clubs would be•on the rucks without sis-
ter organizations to keep them going. It is also true that
one of the best things that ever happe led to the Cana-
dian Legion was the ladiespuxiliary to that great organi-
zation.
Dianne Harkin knows whereof she speaks. She says
farm wives need not take a back seat to their husbands.
Wives have the ability, the skills, the knowledge to be-
come the best darned pu-blic relations people in the coun-
try for agriculture.
Unfortunately, they are hampered by a negative atti-
tude. For too long, they have listened to --and believed --
the pap that is. pumped over television and pumped out
of the pages of Canada's major daily newspapers. They
have come to believe that farmers ire dumb, stupid
rubes who don't know shavings from shoe polish.
They have laughe' t, uncomfortably, with those clowns
on the boob tube in such shows as Hee Haw which make
fools of farmers.
A hard -sell message must be dispatched across this
country that food is essential; that farmers are essential
tc produce that food; that farmers must make enough
money producing that food to make it worthwhile for
them to remain on the farm; that consumers can afford
to pay more for food.
"U's a disgrace that farmers have to fight for the7•ight
442, produce food here," she told a group of,people in To-
ronto recently.
"What we are really talking about is survival. It's time
for consumers to understand that farmers are our only
defence against hunger."
She has some great statistics to back up the argument
that farmers need someone to shout their story across
the nation.
Whether consumers believe it or not, Canadians spend
less of their disposable income dollar on food than any
other nation on earth with the possible exception of con-
sumers in the United States,
Farmers earltit on a national average, one-third less
than any other segment of the population. Net farm in-
icome has dropped 42 per cent in the last three years. If
food prices had risen -as high as other segments of the
economy during the last 30 years, eggs would cost $4.6.0 a
dozen, chicken would cost $3.90 a pound, milk would be
$1.90 a quart and tea would be $7.20 a pound.
"If all the,` farmers' profits were removed from the
food chain, the price of food would come down by only 23
cents a day and that's not enough to buy a cup, of coffee
or a chocolate bar," she says.
Get in "there and fight, ladies. If any -organization can
help get this story across to the people of this province,
this nation, it is an organization made up of farmers'
wives.
She already has some help.
A similar organization has been set up in Michigan. It
may spread across that nation, too, and if it does, look
out!
• A resource is available to farmers and farm organiza-
tions that can put the public relations aspect of agricul-
'ture right up into the 21st century.
FARM PAGE
Opportunities to learn
Educational events are
being planned for
dairymen throughout the
province at this time of
year.
During 1978 a
significant number of
producers expressed a
concern for handling and
feeding high moisture
corn to 'dairy cows --this
will be one of four topics
covered during a one -day
program being planned in
two different locations
throughout Huron
County. The subject
matter is •identical at
each meeting and all
Huron County dairymen
are welcome to attend,
-In the north --par t of the
county, a meeting will .be
held on Tuesday J
anuary
16 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
New law
helps farmers
Many Canadian far-
mers are taking a hard
look at incorporating.
their farm business,
according to the latest
issue of the Bank of
Montreal's Farm Profit
Management newsletter.
One major develop-
ment in this area, the
newsletter says, was the
recent government ruling
that the transfer of farm
business share's to
children is not subject to
a capital gains tax.
The newsletter lists a
number of ' reasons that
prompt farmers . to in-
corporate, such as a more
orderly and gradual
transfer of the business
between generations;
greater flexibility in how
the owner is paid; a
fairer distribution of
farm _ income among
family members for a
better after-tax position
and a lower tax rate on
corporation income.
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Topics covered in the
morning will be:
maximizing milk quality
and cow care through
sound functional milking
equipment and mastitis
control programs; and
use of prostaglandins in
dairy cows. The resource
people Will be Dr. Ron
Finley, Animal Health
Division, Turo Products
Company, Orangeville
and John Thompson,
Sales Representative
with Tuco Products
Company.
Participants are
requested to bring lunch.
Coffee, milk and donuts
will be available.
Topics covered in `the
afternoon program in-
clude balancing high
moisture corn programs
for high producing dairy
cows,use of feed ad-
ditives and preser-
vatives -hay savor, silo
guard and chemstore,
etc; and a summary. -of
county feed analysis and
feed formulation',
program -1978. The
resource people- will -be
Jack Roderiburg, dairy
cattle speciaiitt, OMAF;
Mike Miller, Associate
Agr. Rep. Huron Co.; and
Dennis Martin, Associate
Agr. Rep. Huron County.
In the south central
part of the county a
meeting will be held on
Thursday, January 18.
from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in
the Clinton Legion Hall.
Topics covered -and the
resource people' will be
the same as the first
meeting.
Need potato -market plan
The needs of Ontario
potato growers can only
be served with the for-
mation of a Regional
Marketing Plan that will
set prices based on cost of
production and fair profit
margins, -and will have
control over imports and
exports, 'Joe' Cassey of
Wallacetown, newly -
elected Ontario 'Co-
ordinator of the National
Farmers Union, said
recently.
Casey was referring to
an "expression of opinion
poll" to be taken among
Ontario fresh potato
growers on January 31 on
a proposal to establish a
promotional"
marketing plan.
"It is similar to a
"promotional" plan in
Prince Edward Island
where, for the past two
years, prices have
averaged approximately
two cents per pound. -
about half the cost 'of
production according to
government 'figures."
Casey said that with
regional plans and
ultimately a national plan
a program of market
sharing among growers
could bring orderly
marketing for producers,
rather than with -various
,provincial plans in
position creating com-
petition between
provinces -pitting farmer
against farmer.
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Reports have been
confirmed that the cattle
in two barns in the Ethel
area have been placedunder quarantine for
rabies.
However„ Dr. W. J.
Thompson of= the Health
of Animals branch,
department of
agriculture at Seaforth,
says there is "nothing
unusual" about the fact
cattle have been
quarantined. Rabies, he
says, are "endemic" in
Huron County, and have
occurred "almost con-
stantly" since 1957.
Dr. Thomson says
incidence of rabies in the
northern part of Huron
County has • increased
recently, but "not
alarmingly so:'.
Listowel veterinarian
Dr. Thomas Sanderson
said that in this part of
theprovince, "we have to
resign ourselves...to the
constant existence of a
low-grade level of
rabies."
Incidence, he 'ex-
plained, peaks every few
years in relation to in-
creases in skunk and fox
populations.
Free vaccination
clinics for cats and dogs
have been scheduled for
Huron County as follows:
Gorrie, Jan. 10, 3 to 7
p.m.; Wingham, Jan. 12,
2 to 8 p.m.; Dungannon,
Jan. 15, 3 to 7 p.m., and
Blyth, Jan. 17, 2 to 8 p.m.
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