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aly by Ron Jones In the Great Canadian Food Price Hullaballo, few consumer purchases have received the attention that has beef. Mrs. Beryl Plumptre investigated the beef business and found that heifers should sell closer to the prices being paid for steers, (Well, Why not, Beryl?) Consumer Association of Canada in- vestigator Dr. Forbes from B.C. concludes that farm product marketing boards add to the consumers' cost, so boards are not good for the shopper. Dr. Forbes' academic mind might havejalso found that farm fencing contributes to beef prices, so logically farmers should not build fences. The shoppers scream rip-off when they view the prices; the producers insist they are losing money on every steer that leaves the yard (some recent studies reveal losses in 1974 of $30 per hun- dredweight of beef produced on the farm). Retail stores and processors'claim they only take enough to stay in business. This spring the federal government established a Commission to Inquire into Beef Pricing which will hold at least two dozen hearings in major centers across Canada. The commission will consider all aspects of the beef marketing structure that in any way contribute to the price. The commissioners reportedly are competent (they aren't M.P.'s). The study should be interesting, to say the least. Chainstores, packing plants, farm organizations and, hopefully, restaurants, as well as interested individuals and a myriad of associated commercial en- terprises that somewhere along the line get a piece of the marketing action, will tell their tale to the commission. Eugene Whelan, a strong proponent of producer marketing boards, has charged recently that too many fingers are in the beef marketing pie. He may well be right. The beef steer which has almost become the epitome of the free enterprise system often follows a long, complex trail on his way to market. A possible route could be: born this spring on a western Canadian ranch; trucked to and sold at an auction which is the first non-producer cost; an order buyer for a fee buys for an Ontario market (2nd cost) - rail freighted or trucked to Ontario (3rd cost); probably insurance while in transit (4th cost). Possibly then the calf is unloaded at Ontario Public Stock Yards in Toronto or one of many community. auctions throughout the province. Beef beefs part of price Hullaballoo It is sold once more, trucked to a farm and stays put for a while. Once at an Ontario farm the animal can be handled in a number of different ways but generally it is either grown for a year, sold, trucked again to be fed to slaughted weight, or fed on the farm to slaughter. When the animal is ready to kill, it usually (in this part of Ontario) is trucked to Ontario Public Stock Yards where several additional charges are levied against the seller, including a licence fee for the producers' commodity organization, the Ontario Beef Improvement Association. If the nursery rhyme had been written, "this little beefy goes to market"', it could have turned into a full-length novel. Of course in many cases the calf is born and fed to slaughter right on an Ontario farm. The Canadian Cattleman's Association, a western-dominated beef commodity organization and many people who now feed off the present marketing system are insistant that beef doesn't need a marketing board- "a_ disaster" prophecizes CCA president, Gordon Parke, a B.C. rancher. He claims marketing boards mean "'a loss of freedom to make our own decisions."' A Simcoe County beef animal marketed at Ontario Public Stock Yards leaves the farm and is trucked to a privately - operated commission firm which attempts to sell it along with all other offerings for the day by auction to the highest bidder. This service costs the producer ap- proximately $10-15 per hear depending on size of the animal. In a highly technical business world it seems incredible that cattle are still being sold on eyeball appeal of the live animal - what the buyer sees is a few bucks worth of cowhide. The real value of the purchase isn't revealed until after the sale and the carcass is hanging on the rail. In comparison, a market hog sold under the Ontario Pork Producers' Marketing . Board is delivered to an assembly yard generally in the county of origin. Both selling and buying are done by teletype in offices often over 100 miles from the product. When sold, the hogs are delivered direct to the purchaser's processing facilities. For this the pork producer pays his own board approximately $3 per head. The true value or producer price of the carcass is not determined until it has been graded and weighed under government supervision. It would seem, considering the two systems, that the cattleman's "freedom" is of dubious value at best. Mrs. Plumptre's published report on beef trade a few months ago has had little effect on beef pricing. Hopefully the fin- dings of the Pricing Inquiry will result in streamlining of an ancient and un- trustworthy beef marketing system. Ron Jones is a Tay Township farmer and a freelance writer with Markle Com- munity Newspapers. 'fe rants awarded French day care Grants anywhere from $20,000 to $28,000 have been ap- proved by the provincial ministry of Community and Social Services for three French Day Care nursery schools operated by Le Centre Frangaises d'Activités totalling year, grant money is to be percentage during the next school The total amount of the not definitely known because grants are based on a basis meaning that the final grant figure depends on the number of children addition to 'Les Petits who enroll in the three Angels" which currently schools. operates out of the basement of St. Ann's Approval of the grants, Church i kn Penetanguishene. The other two nursery schools which are retroactive to May 5, means that the French Centre will be will be located' in abletoopentwomoreday Lafontaine and care nursery schools in Perkinsfield. y a ae a | by Ray Baker Around six months ago the bad weather set in, not bad for snowmobiles and skiing, but bad by comparison to, say, a nice 80 degree August day with a cool beer in the garden. Our two boys, stil! in grade school, began to go out more and stay in less. This was unusual as summer is the time they spend outside the home, and winter is spent indoors unless they are out tobogganing, skating or messing about in snow. But this was different. No clothing soaked to the skin, just polite requests for more money. "'Our allowance goes nowhere with inflation and all," but it was going somewhere as we soon found out. We have two local billiard parlours or poolhalls and sure enough they had tried them out, finally giving their loyalties to one particular hall. "Well, what do you think?" said mom. 'Do you think we should encourage them, discourage them, or what?" Looking back in anger I thought back to when I was a boy Oh deary me. Our local billiard hall was a bad, bad, place. My mom and dad told me so. Full of drunks, smoking, swearing, gambling even. The police raided it on one occasion because people were laying wagers on the results of a game. Boy did I get a lickin' just for being in there watching So I thought for a while and said "Well, we won't encourage them, and we won't discourage them either, let's see if it's a passing phase. It wasn't. They began to talk of 'side' and 'racks', 'banks' and 'fishing 'em in'. The toboggans were forgotten, the skates discarded, even phone callers with sweet feminine grade eight voices were told "sorry, I'll be busy tonight. I'm going out with the gang." Sitting quietly at home last Saturday the boys approached me with 'Hey Dad, what are you doing?"' I told them "nothing, just sitting here worrying about you guys." "Well," they asked, "how coming down to the poolhall playing a game with us?" about and CO-OP has the solution to all your weed problems Everything you need for the things you don't want to grow Students As the result of two government grants, in- stitutionalized senior citizens of this area can look forward to a summer fillea with activity designed for their par- ticular needs. Two university students whose homes are in Midland have already started working from a headquarters _ provided for them at the Mental Health Centre, Penetanguishene. Jo- Anne Cheatley and John Parker will be operating under direction of Garry Westgarth who is president of the Simcoe County Recreation This was accompanied with winks and looks at each other, as though to say "'boy are we going to take him to the cleaners." I looked at mom, who nodded im- perceptibly. "OK," I said '"'but take it easy on me." Which is how this forty-two-year- old teenager came to be shooting pool with his two sons on a Saturday. The deep end of the pool The green baise table lay clean and bright, the balls were set up. I rolled a cue to check for distortion in a professional manner, finally choosing one. After all, you never buy a used car without kicking the tires do you? The first red I sunk was a fluke, out and out, but nonchalantly playing on I beat them by a narrow margin, "Let's play 101', they said. This involved using balls with numbers on them -- one to fifteen or something. You have to get exactly 101, so my last ball had to be a three. Full length along the table and into the pocket. Sorry boys, you can't take me to the cleaners tonight, I'm just getting into my stride The hall itself was well run, well lighted, and clean. Coffee and donuts were available. There were no drunks, no kids old enough to drink even, no gambling, no bad language, no police raids There was plenty of action at our Dad, the pool shark bridges gap table as the boys led me through all kinds of games. I had to remember that some balls with numbers on had a solid colour, while others had striped colours. Either the boys had memories like computers or they made up the rules as they went along. Whatever, I thoroughly enjoyed myself. The shark Although it's called a billiard parlour, nobody plays billiards, so I began to teach the boys how to play. Once they mastered the basic moves like standing back and freezing in position when their opponent takes a shot -- "I've seen men killed for moving during a shot" -- they caught on fast. Billiards, a gentleman's game. They played like gentlemen and I just managed to scrape home All Thad to do was pick up the tab for the three of us and go home to mom 'Dad's a pool shark," the boys said. I hadn't told them I played for two years in the army. Guess I've still got the touch The generation gap had been bridged The communication gap as well. I was pleased the boys had invited me into their world for a while. It was a com pliment. But I'm dreading next Friday night. Hope they don't ask me to go out with them. It's a teen dance.. Ray Baker is a manager at RCA's Midland plant. He and his family live in Penetanguishene. organize senior activities Association for Institutionalized Senior Citizens. Seven additional high school students will her Jo-Anne has completed first McMaster University and is aiming for a career in aiming at starting some activities in the Barrie and Collingwood areas which have not been as year at join the group when their -- social work. fortunate as our own classes terminate. locale. He expects to Jo-Anne Cheatley has John Parker has __ organize one joint activity been awarded an Ontario Ministry of Health grant under the SNAP heading. This is interpreted as the Student Nursing Activities Program. Jo- Anne will later be joined by four high school students to head up social and recreational ac- tivities for the residents of Huronia Nursing Home in Penetanguishene and Villa Nursing Home in Midland Citizens and programs pA received a federal OF Y grant to work in CHIMO. Involvement Motivational ation. He will be joined by three secondary students to provide social recreational for all in- stitutionalized citizens in the area which includes those in hospitals and nursing homes. John said he will also be for the area each week during this summer. In Huronia addition, if he is suc- and cessful in sparking Organiz- programs in the other centres, John says he school hopes to be able to schedule some back-to- back events between the areas. 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