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iiir W iVvi Jl it fli CVvJ i a T4r fc S i WRITES W 1 ct a- Letter A weekly the member of fa Tor Mitt The Welcome announcement was made this week that March the United States ban on Canadian live stock and livestock products will be lifted The United States border has been elated to such Imports February when the Canadian government an the outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Saskatche wan Strong and efficient me thod adopted by Canadian of ficials which included quaran tine inspection slaughter of diseased and exposed herds suc cessfully confined the disease to Cement Blocks and plain ORCHARD CEMENT BLOCK CO Meant Albert effective fight against the dread disease is something for which all Can adians and farmers in particu lar be very thankful It has meant a great deal to con tinuing prosperity here Canada will likely have an other prosperous year in Parker agricultural director of the Bureau of Statistics pre dicted here this week at the an nual federalprovincial agricul tural conference He predicted more jobs slightly higher in comes and strong world demand for most of Canadas exports The federalprovincial agri cultural conference is an import ant annual meeting of federal and provincial ministers of ag riculture and agricultural lead ers from all across Canada It meets here in the railway com mittee room of the House of Commons The views expressed are those of men all across our country in closest touch with agriculture its problems and its prospects The conference Is closely followed here and the opinions and representations have assure you the most careful consideration of the gov ernment It is felt defence production will continue next year to stimu late our economy but more im portant and more spectacular will bevaheavy concentration on development of Canada stra tegic natural resources It is ex pected the value of Canadas to tal national production in will equal the peak of and a half billion This all in dicates a strong market for Can adas foodstuffs Meat prices which have been slipping during the last few months will likely decline a little in Barry the agricultural departments live stock chief said the drop may be more pronounced for cattle and calves than for hogs Price Support There has been pretty gen eral appreciation of the Cana dian governments price support policy for Canadian livestock Just how much this has meant to prosperity in our agricultural industry sometimes is over looked Thanks to the Canadian price support program our farmers are selling livestock at the high est prices obtaining In any coun try in the world There is some criticism from opposition speakers who claim we have lost the British market The plain facts are that it is not a case of having lost the British markets but rather that we cannot afford to sell at present prices prevailing in the British market We still could sell our pro duce in the British market if we wished to sell at the prices they are willing t pay However I dont think Canadian farmers would be interested in having contracts at prices which Britain is paying today as the following prices clearly show Department of Trade and Commerce figures given out this week show the following prices being paid by Britain for agri cultural produce The price of bacon in Den mark and Holland where Bri tain is making extensive purch ases is 32 cents per lb In Canada it is Cents per lb Britain buys top- quality New Zealand beef at a price of cents and while Argentine prices are still under negotiation the asking price for all Argen tine beef is less than 19 cents The Canadian prices are good average cents commercial av erage cents cows average cents Britain buys butter In New Zealand at less than cents and in Holland for cents The Canadian price is cents Comparative prices for eggs as at midSeptember were Aus tralia cents Denmark cents Canada 61 cents per Member for Years One of the interesting charac ters in parliament is Jean Fran cois the member for First elected to the House of Commons in he this week celebrated his 28th anniversary as a member and received congratulations from all sides of the House on one of those pleasant occasions when party lines are forgotten The Pouliot family has a long back ground of public service The present members father was a member of the House of Com mons and his grandfather and greatgrandfather were active in different legislative fields law Mr and Mrs Herb Patrick She also attended her nieces wedding Nov Mr and Mrs Bill and family motored to Strathroy last week to visit Mr and Mrs Bart Hunter and family Mrs Kate Cairns went with them and will remain there for the whiter Mr and Mrs Herbert Patrick are spending several days with Mr and Mrs William Blum and family at 4 I SNOWBALL Mrs Frank spent Wednesday in Toronto with her sisterinlaw Mrs who is very ill Mr and Mrs William Tottenham were Sunday guests of Mr and Mrs Mitchell Mr and Mrs Russell and family were week end guests of Mrs Emma Mr and Mrs Howard Morn ing entertained a 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