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8-Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, August 12, 1987 Liberals would anti-farmer trade deal The provincial Liberals would quash any free trade deal that threatened the livphood of Ontario farmers. Agricultural Minister Jack Riddell told a 1 gathering of Northumberland County farmers recently He told an audience of some 40 farmers just what they wanted to hear. "We're not about to sacrifi^&the agricultural industry" n are going to hold firmX- He said if the trade deal is not in the best interest of Canadian people he, David Peterson, is riot going to sign it. Riddell also attacked Progressive Conservative leader, Larry Grossman for his support of the Brian Mulroney frée • trade initiative. initiative. "1 am alarmed at the leader of the opposition, who is encouraging free trade," said Riddell, who farms in his own riding of Huron in south-western Ontario. Riddell warned that free trade in the agricultural sector would all but sound the death knell for many Ontario Ontario farms, particularly those now protected by tariffs and regulated by marketing boards. Ridd.dll praised marketing boards for their role in preventing oversupply oversupply of agricultural products that now plaque American farmers. "What they are asking us to do is buy a choatic system as in the U.S.;" said Riddell. "We are not about to buy it." Most of the Minister's praise was reserved for his government's record over the past two years. Spending on agriculture has increased increased by 72 percent in that period, he said, with money going to provide provide interest rate , relief, price support, support, research, marketing and other services. Riddle did go on the defensive when asked about proposed new tough restrictions on severances of prime agricultural land. Many rural municipalities apparently apparently have denounced the proposal proposal fearing it would strip powers over planning and development from the local government. Riddell did say that the province was not attempting to take away autonomy from the • local municipalities. He said the proposal does not reflect an ariti- develbpment bias in Liberal policy. Kendal News Ruth 1:22 So Naomi returned and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law with her: and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of the barley harvest. This week the farmers are in the middle o'f the barley harvest. On Friday night August 7 we received 2" of rain. Our church is back on schedule. We had seven in the choir last Sunday Sunday and six today. We appreciate them coming when other young folk are taking a holiday. Mrs. Fern Foster was at the Hammond organ. They sang "When nothing ejse would help love lifted me.'* Although it was a rainy Sunday there was a fair attendance. Mr. and Mrs. Hawkshaw and family who have 'moved into the former Neil Elliott home were with us today. today. Mrs. E. Billings, Mrs. H. Bailey, and Carol Bailey were, with us from Orono. Rev. B. Ransom told the children a story of Pëter walking on the waves to Jesus. He'chose as his sermon sermon topic, "Call out oh the Waves 'of the sea." This is the week of the, Vacation Bible School at Kendal 10th - 14th 9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. . In the Statesman paper last week was the picture of the large barn fire four miles north qf Newtonville on August 2nd. The owner was Mr William Olafsen. , Tomatoes are at their, peak of flavour now. Just full of vitamins from the August sun. Give the baby tomato juice and all the rest of the family too. To can tomatoes, heat in an open kettle to the boiling point. Put in sterile quirt jars. Add one level teaspoon of salt and as much salicyclic acid as will lie on a ten cent piece, seal and turn upside-down. upside-down. However you can, can tomatoes the same way you can peaches, filling the jars with cold tomatoes and heating in your canner. canner. In July 15th editorial it was stated, "long term planning is not a fact, never has been and likely never will be." On the sixth line forty years ago the Council levelled the road bed several feet; They simpjy tunnelled « out the hills between the two fences. Leaving high shoulders on each side. Evefy snowstorm the snow blew across the fields then dropped in the turinel. The snow-plow had to get through each morning before the men Could get to work. At that time the local telephone line was ljip on poles. The bell purchased purchased it and sunk a cable perhaps 3 or 4 feet deep on the north shoulder of the ro^d. The first man to build a home on the north side east of my home sent a bulldozer in to level his front lawn. He severed the cable cutting over 40 lines 1 was told. It took men 24 hours working night and day to restore service. The next man put in gate lights. He cut the service. The man further east decided to level that high shoulder he cut the telephone cable. The telephone people people came last week towered the cable then the roadmen removed the shoulder across, frtipi my house. Now after 40 years no snqw plowing plowing will be needed on that stretch of 'road less than a mile in length. Think of the saving if that shoulder had been removed forty years ago. Another shoulder that should be removed is the one on the south Side of the sixth line where it meets the ' Newtonville Road. I have witnessed two accidents there because it blocks the view to the south. Do you want to get away from it all, the heat, and the work? Want to find, "some place that's known to God alone." Well drive down Orono Main Street rapidly turn right at the War Memorial and take the opening straight ahead. People are funny they take the front of the. bus, the back of the church a»d the middle of the road. I told you on-July 29th of the bumper crop in Saskatchewan in 1915 when 12 million acres yielded 276 million bushels of wheat. In 1914 harvesters were paid $2.00 a day but in 1915 help was so scarce, with the farmer's sons in the trenches, trenches, that pay shot up to six and eight dollars a day. Remember those harvest excursions? Each fall for forty years a lighthearted lighthearted army of farm recruits shuttled shuttled to the prairies, Frank Croft was onè of them. Here's his story of those boisterous - often riotous - days. From 1891 to 1929 the rail-borne harvest excursions were a noisy col : ' ourfuf and important part of the Canadian scene. They were a reminder that ill Canada wheat is king. They were something between a crusade and a binge, durdgery and adventure mixed together. Men packed a three days' grub supply and went to the railway station because the harvest promised gain. But they were also moved by a sense of duty, a patriotic feeline that thev were needed in a national cause. They were. The western wheat grower could seed half a section ■(320 acres) or more, single handed. It took eight or ten men to harvest the results of his spring labours. The prairies didn't have enough people to supply the demand, so they came from the east, and later from British Columbia, in a migration migration unique in this world. Even when the excursions were at their height in the twenties, their doom was foretold by the chattering chattering of the early combines; those and the increasing population of the prairie provinces, made the harvest excursions like the fur-laden York boats and the Red River oxcarts, something for history. And history hasn't taken too much notice of them. No records have been kept by either of the big railways and newspaper files yield a prosaic and fragmentary story. When the excursions were running they were too commonplace to be news. But tens of thousands of men who went on them still have nostalgic memories - jam packed colonist cars filled with farmers, school boys, lumberjacks, factory, hands, roustabouts adventurers, the smell of "Catholic hay," as French- Canadian home-cured tobacco was called and the smell of sweat and socks; the subdued strains of "Seeing "Seeing Nellie Home" on a mouth organ from the other end of the car at night; the talk - cheerful, mendacious, mendacious, foul, enlightening, but seldom boring; the friendships quickly formed and later bonded with the common experience of aching muscles, alkali sickness, violent bunkhouse cast vs. west debates, hard work, sound sleep ' and (gener.ally).good plentiful food. They recall the wonder of men . from the hills and forests of the east at the limitless stoneless prairie soil and the immensity of the burning sky, the feel of damp clothes pulled on before dawn, the welcome taste of the hated alkali water gulped from an earthen jug before the sun was up an hour, the magic of the brief, western twilight when the horizon becomes a deep purple which gathers quickly then races across the land and sky, hauling : after it a swarm of stars like a kid's Christmas Pageant. I stood on the threshold Of the harvest adventure one August evening evening Jn 1924 with a mob of about 1,200 others in the old Toronto Unior Station. I had reachèd Toronto that afternoon by boat from Hamilton, and had killed a couple of hours by seeing Charlie Chaplin's Gold Rush. It was a time when the world was beginning to acknowledge Chaplin as a genius not just a baggy-pants buffoon. The Dumbells Were cocks of the Canadian stage and their posters for the 1924 production were appearing appearing everywhere, women were wearing hats like inverted coal scuttles, scuttles, and the Arctic was still a place for intrepid explorers Canada's population was being pushed past the nine million mark only by a wave of post war immigration. (to be continued) To host walking tour On Tuesday, August 18th at Heber Down Conservation Area, Central Lake Ontario Conservation Authority staff will host a tour along the Springbanks Nature Trail. Come and see the improvements improvements to this old favourite, and see the interesting new aspects as pointed out by your CLOCA guide.. Starting time is 7:00 p.m. from the DayUse Parking Lot. 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