Zurich Citizens News, 1974-05-02, Page 11THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1974
ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS
Agri -nates
(By Adrian Vos)
Phil Durand, the chairman
of the bean board has been
much in the news lately. He •
opposes a new power station in
bean growing areas because the
inherent pollution causes dis-
eases like bronzing in the beans,
resulting in greatly reduced
yield and hence reduced in-
come for the producer.
When some consumer group
wanted the consumer to have
representation on marketing
boards, Phil said• "When the
big corporations, like G, M let
their customers sit on the board
of directors, we will do the
same. Until then, nothing
doing."
When Mrs. Plumtree, of the
food prices review board singled
out the bean producers and ask-
ed for a two price system for
beans, Mr. Durand asked why
the farmer would have to subsid-
ize the rest of society when no
other industry is asked to do this,
IN LIGHTER VEIN
The girl had just broken off her
engagement with the young
doctor.
"Do you mean to tell me,"
exclaimed her girl friend, "that
he actually asked you to return all
his presents?"
"Not onlythat," she replied,
"he sent me a bill for 53 house
calls."
GU
I have to agree with the bean
board chairman oe all counts
and since it's so reasonable, one
wonders why some people even
dare suggest some of it and I',ul
sure my urban readers will agree
also,
Those public relations people
of the big corporations are very
adept at shifting the blame for
increasing their profits on the
farmer. For instance Kellogg's
Mr. Robinson. His figures of
course can't be challenged. 1-1e
stated that the cost for corn in
cornflakes went up by 73. E.
True, but at the highest
price paid to producers corn
was only slightly over 5 1/20 per
pound. A pound of cornflakes
however costs 641„.. How much
then of this cost increase can be
blamed on an increase of about
30 a pound of raw corn? You
can see how misleading those
statistics can be.
Canners are canny people.
They are the vertical integrat-
ors who try to put the vegetable
producer out of business. Now
they grow all their own prod-
uce except the high risk crops.
The result could be that once
the farmer has got rid of his
specialized equipment and is
thus unable to,return this low
risk crop, the price of the
canned food will go up, because
in effect the canner has a mon-
opoly.
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(by Adrian Vos)
This time I will lift some
sentences and farmers' views
from the report on farm class-
ification presented to the Orn-
ario government, that 1 think
will he of interest to the con-
sumer,
"The production of plana and
animals useful to than must he
of paramount concern ro every
consumer, for with chronic
food shortages, the consequence
is not merely inconvenience and
cost, but eventual hunger for
many."
"Concern was repeatedly exp-
ressed at the (public) Meetings
that municipal and/or regional
plans to rend to give develop-
ment priority over agriculture
areas have been defined for
industrial, commercial and
residential zones, for parks,
golf courses, raceways, hiking
trails and other recreational
uses, with the left over being
considered farmland,"
Farmland has been continu-
ously treated as an endless re-
source. Tt is obvious that farm-
land is nor unlimited in total
quantity and is particularly
limited in productive quality,"
Farmers urged to " prohibit
or control the entry of non -
family corporate owners whose
prince activity is not the prod-
uction of agricultural products,
but which may he a method of
marketing their prine1pa1 prod-
ucts through a system of conver-
sion into agricultural products."
Subsidies help
Tuckersmith tax
Public school supporters in
Tuckersmith Township will pay.
$77 in taxes on each $ 1, 000
of assessment and separate
school supporters $81.40. The
rates represent a $2A0 drop for
pulic school supporters on each
$1, 000 of assessment and a
$2.60 drop for separate school
supporters.
The tax rate was approved
last Tuesday by Tuckersmith
Township council.
I luron County has levied a
20-111111 tax on the township
(representing a decrease of 3.4
mills) to raise $90, 710.
Township clerk lances Mc-
Intosh said the decreases are
due to increased provincial
subsidies ro the county, and the
savings are being passed on to
the townships. The county re-
ceives $67, 742 this year from
the provincial government.
The township has to raise
$92, 268 for its own expenses.
Council set the township rate
at 20 nulls for farm and resid-
ential, the sante as last year,
while the cornrnercial and bus-
iness rate is 24 mills, down one
mill.
The township will pay Ilurnn
County elementary school hoard
21 mills for farm and resident -
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