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FEDERATION NEWSLETTER

Tamers Look For Good Grain. *

Crop Following Recent Rains

3y .1. LINCOLN DEWAB Once again we move towards the grain harvest. already a few fields have been bound with the binder and the sheaves stand in orderly rows among the golden stubble. We have the impression that generally the grain is ripening quite slowly and that combining will not become general until mid

September. Recent heavy rains will ensure satisfactory filling of the "grain and guarantee a good crop.

About the harvest there is a romantic quality that goes back into Biblical times with one 01 the most touching stories in Holy writ centered about Ruth. 4 We are inclined to regard the

combine as the common way of

lEGION MEETING

The regular monthly meeting of the Charlottetown branch Royal Canadian legion, will be held In the branch home on Thursday evening, August 27th at 8.00

pm. agenda - general business

harvesting the crop. actually over the entire world there is probably more grain harvested with the sickle and scythe than any other method. While the grain binder was a great ad- vance in harvesting methods it may have held u for m a ny years the development of the combine and actually retarded progress.

REWARDS

Probably it can be assumed that most of the population in North America took it granted that their daily food will be available as a matter or course. We have had an abun- dance of food because for many years there has been a large proportion of farmers to urban

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However, this proportion ts changing steadily and the pre- sent ob ems related to agri- culture suggest that unless farming becomes more reward- ing that so many people will leave it that our food supply will be endangered.

It needs to be recognized that much of the world’s population goes to bed hungry every night and wakes up with rather poor prospects of a square. meal.

It would be incorrect and dan- gerous to assume that farmers will automatically go on pro- ducing in spite of loss. poor re turns and better opportunities in other areas. Many farmers are realizing that living stan- dards and rewards are superiot in other occupations, they are

damaadtag their place in In sun and it would be well for so- ciety to be sympathetic to these demands.

The farmer has a rig-ht to ma maXimum in the way of re turns and cannot any longer be

left exposed to every type at economic predator. ORGANIZATION

The statement by Alex F.

Laidlaw that Island farmers are about the most poorly organiz- ed in Canada and losing a great deal of money thereby may well be disagreed with by many

Certainly our own knowledge establishes the fact that tarm- ers in most other provinces have paid much more attention LO developing organizations a to updating their marketing practices.

The investment by farmers buying and selling arrange- ments is certainly much great- er over the Dominion than II the case here. Whether or noo Mr. Laidlaw has over stated the case it would seem th t we should pay some attention to what he has said and if neces~ sary, certainly try to improve the situation.

It would not appear to be an unrealistic belief that even though many farmers feel the necessity of improvement their efforts in this direction have met with opposition from among their own numbers, from business community and with a generally indifferent attitude on the part of Governments which do not appear to under- stand or have at heart the solu- tion of the problems which con- cern the individual farmer. .

CANADIAN CHAMPION In less than three weeks the Canadian Champion Plowing Match will take place at Bru- denell Park on Sept. 15 and 16. This gathering should be one of the major agricultural at- tractions of the Centennial Year. Associated with the Match

will be, of course, a variety of

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Matias iaohdtu on In lag of Wednesday. Sept. is invitational dinner in the tague High school. Among the visitors will Miss Christine Ann Hewett the Dairy Queen of England and Wales. The setting for the Match is both beautiful and historic look-

ing over the Brudenell River:

where in 1803 the early settlers

first landed. In connection with this Match it is, of course, a matter or

great satisfaction to Islanders that on this Centennial Year Canada will be represented at the World's Champion Plowing Match in Austria by our own Stanley Willis. DAIRY PRINCESS

Leaving for Toronto on Sept. 2 will be the Island Dairy Prin- cess Miss Elaine Bryenton of Buckley. On Sept. 4 the com- petition for the title of Canada will.be held and the winner will leave the next morning for Lon- don, England for Britain's Food Fair is being held.

NEW URGENCY

For those who accept the idea that farming is a relaxed open ation, a look at the harvesting of

will probably «bring about a change of view- point.‘ThIs is a crop which must be harves thin ife short space of time if prime quality is to be obtained.

For this reason the job goes on night and day rain or_ shine. The sight of harvesters and trucks going about the fields in the midnight hours is quite contrast to the accepted situa- tion where people work by day and sleep by night.

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Charlottetown, Thurs. Aug. 27. 1964.

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While the term "labour sav- ing" is usually applied to large farm machinery there are new pressures developing in agricul- ture which have a tendency to place new demands on the (ar- mers and force many changes from the traditional.

POTATO MARKETING

During Old Home Week We met a number of potato farmers who asked the question, “What happened the plebiscite? will anything be done potato marketing?" The answer to the last question would ap- pear to depend upon a suffic- iently large number of potato growers showing real concern and interest if enough influ- ence is to be developed to bring about change.

Certainly the Government

can disregard what appears to be a few voices crying in the wilderness but the potato growers show sufficient volume of agreement then disregard be- comes another matter entirely.

The future of the in- dustry depends upon the ability of different segments to work together, marked divisions of opinion, fighting over them and attempts to maintain a particu- lar advantage can only serve to retard improvement.

India Educationist Warns Of Politics In Universities

By RUSSELL ELMAN OTTAWA (CP)—A warning

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vigilance must be exercised to see that universities do not be- come political instruments of governments.

Prof. Samuel Mathai, vice- chancellor of the University of Kerala, told reporters the rate of increase in the number of universities in e on- wealth is largely due to the

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the White House Wednesday to leave Democratic conven- tion in Atlantic City and go to

Washington to discuss the vice presidential nomination with President Johnson.

pressure of demand for higher education.

A keynote speaker at the third Commonwealth education conference. he said the demand was an expression of the awak- ened mind of the common peo- ple. Until recently everywhere in the world university educa? tion was the privilege of cer- tain sections of society.

“But there is always need for very careful vigilance that, as governments come into the pic. ture by providing funds for the expansion of facilities, educa- tional institutions are not made

policy," he said.

Sometimes there was only a: thin line between what a gov-a eminent considered social pur-l poses and national policy. SUGGESTION MADE ‘ 1

Sir Willis Jackson, head of the > electrical engineering depart-

ment at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, sug- gested government spending in education be tied more closely to the needs of industry.

Sir Willis, also a keynote speaker. said at the press con- ference it was important to re- spond to demands for formal education but it was equally im- portant to meet educational and training requirements at other Iev

e .

An underlying theme in his address to the 200 delegates from 33 Commonwealth coun- tries and territories was that technicians deserve better place under the sun. It was necessary to give such people, who did not have university de- grees, a' boost in status and a sense of belonging.

Prof. Mathai said the tradi- tional British concept university is undergoing change.

“I feel we may have ex- pand our universities to include the kind of work done in poly- (multi-purpose tech-

Sir Willis concurred there is a snob value associated with a formal university education.

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Nikiia's Farm Policy 0 Be Probed In Nov.,

By GEORGE SYVERTSEN

MOSCOW (A-Pi—Soviet Pre- mier Khrushchev's new meas- ures for solving Russia's agri- cultural problems will be dis- cussed at a meeting of the So-i

Whally instruments 0‘ national viet Communist party’s centraltcan do that, he insists. Contin- ' juous cropping is called for un- Tuesday_

committee in Novem

The Kremlin chief has de- parted this year from the usual practice of unveiling his plans

ionly at the plenum opening. He; idiscussed them in public during { mig-it seek an increase in agri-i

his two-week tour of Soviet farm districts this month.

Tie most far-reaching of the premier’s list of remedies is a plan to overhaul the system ofI paying collective and state farmi

Without going into details. hei has been 'ng about creating complex brigades or work teams. assigning them a parcel of land. and paying them not for what they do, but strictly according to the amount they raise.

This variation of the "material incentive' ’or piece- work rate system most Soviet factory workers have. , IS A SPUR It appears to be designed to ur Russia's kollchozniks (col- lective farmers) to greater ef- forts by making their salaries contingent on production in- stead of work units put in.

Khrushchev has not discussed

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Canadian IGA Changes Hands

TORONTO (CP)—The Cana- dian operation of the Indepen- dent Grocers‘ Alliance of Cal- cago has been bought from the U.S. firm by its Canadian share- . . holders in an exchange of stock. fallowing permitted in the So- . viet Union. He has said that Katalin; of the transaction was not leaving Grimes pres. for .a. whole summer can't badent, and Ray D. Wang pres]. justmed by. afgul‘lems Ehatdgjs l dent of Oshawa Wholesale Ltd.. restores SOII. ertility. C emic si IGA supplier in central Ontario. made the announcement jointly

iless there is a

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. 1 Effect of the transaction wil mrbldd” m'be to give ownershhip of Indo- gpendent Grocers' Alliance Dis- ltributing Co. Ltd. — the former

lcultural investments to buildiCanadian IGA "Wrath" " t°

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A major bottleneck in SOViei‘ thigh: Milling-:1 and the H Y harvest work is the transpor-iLouj'e C0. of Vancouver tation of millions of tons of ﬁrms “‘36 been IGA su‘pplie” grain from the combine to state No cash was “waved in u“: grain elevators. Thousands ofgtransamon' The e” m“ “'9 59m“! 0“ highway! .5 changed stock they held in the from “"103”? and 9°" y'IU.‘S. firm for full ownership of conStruCteaisotiI‘ucfo: the presentimeaganadjan C%r1np:ny'

, . , I was esta is ed in Can- :izi“ statisticsfiai: :3an ,2; mg Inge ., " . ..'asm . e anaian gig“ Eggs: hg‘ﬂlgglkhmmkvsamgaicpmrzanies are essentially sup-

~ . 1py irms, providing oods to every :8“ bILShel tbr9uhgtht éntoiindependeni grocers banded to- State, grammes 5 “"3 0m} gether under the IGA name. To- thfrhgelgzﬁet premier has also ‘ ial sales of the voluntary chain

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come up with ideas for letting'pnecggnatga behl;05;.eeartha:res36eoxl: the collective farms sell theirlooo‘ooo' Mr. Wolfe said. . and Vegemmes in: Headquarters of the firm will their own city stores instead of]. be in Toronto‘ and a ﬁvewem. dealing with inefficient middle-icomract has been signed with men- ithe U.S. firm for the exchange

to ust pay scales to. fertility or productivity of that land assign to various workl teams. Neither has he clarified what will be done when circum- stances beyond the peasants' control, such as drought, floods or blight. kill or damage the cm s.

Khrushchev has served notice that he intends to call for lim-i

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Hamilton Falls Proiect Seen Above Politics

HALIFAX iCPi—Newfound- land Opposition Leader James .I, Greene says the proposed Hamilton Falls power project in Labrador can be “a tremen- dous scope of cheap power" to Newfoundland and the Mari- ti

mes.

“Hamilton Falls transcends: politics. and that's saying something." Mr. Greene said in an interview here nesday.

He said if the power from the project is shipped through the Atlantic provinces it would mean more industry and man- nfacturing.

Turning to the politi al scene In Newfoundland. r. Greene said a Progressive Conserva- tive government would have to cope with two major problems —the lowest per capita income in Canada and the highest rate of unemployment.

He did not predict a date for a provincial election. but said his party would have to win 22 seats in the that house to gain power.

" ut we're shooting for big- ger things than that."

Asked about Premier Small- wood’s appearance in Goobies, Nfld.. to start a 90-mile cattle drive to Marystown. the oppo- sition leader said “he (Premier Smailwood) has been ding herd on the Newfoundland peo- ple for 15 years."

TREE-PLANTING

Ontario's spring planting of 24,000,000 trees in 1964 is an ~all-tints high. the department 0 and

lands forests has an- man-d.

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