Report Advocates Some Farmers Should Move Into Other Fields

arougs the Danes uB- der the Farm Improvement | Loans Act. Here again with some minor tidying up the ser- vice is satisfactory.

It is in the short term credit field which largely supplies op- erating capital that the situation becomes complicated and the | cause of concern. Here credit is | being supplied by machinery dealers, feed déalers, | small loan companies, bag ks, erdtt unions, private indiyi- duals and probably others which | do not occur to us. It is for op-

| By J. LINCOLN DEWAR leave agriculture to the benefit|improved acres had achieved grating capital that many farm-

a was commis- re to make a report on Eas-

_been widely circulated ~ Possibly some reference to it

; ‘way be te oxder. would be better et ; . » in| TL cee. cagitica, “that” tee cmne ining | pression that small, and low-in- Smith MacFarlane of Harring-|

the has had fairly wide cireu-| addition, farmers in the study| portunity of succeeding:

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: i . “Relatively vey suggests that debt on the keep him company in | Gitaating citytont colt tee tarmere ay ofthe sy | Rot-commerealtarme. hs Hic BUA, There erably training required for it, could| areas who owned less than 100

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farms, while smd@il and unecon-' from the long term approach of By NEIL A. MATHESON omic contributes to and at the man who puts his faith in - Provincial-Farm Editer times —— surplus produc- | livestock. tion. imereases the need for This type of commodity group TALK was buzzing here this week with the an- price supports and farm subsi-|difference is an fac- | Ee ee Se tn a Gn | Gaatien.” tor in farm organization today. I heard suggests om kee, Justice | The foregoing are random ob- Even in bibical times in the retire on pension, that J Watson Mac- | ¢vations from &@ report that Holy Land where there was =| and Island member in the federal | ‘els extepsively with the eco- scarcity of land strong feelings | Justice’s office, and that Alex | 20mic factors related to low developed between those who Justice Campbell will move in as the |farm income. It should, of |tilled the soil and grew in the House of Commons. Of course, be pebiied est ‘thet| and these whe owned the Muske to win the Liberai-nomination first, but | while economic considerations | and herds and needed grazing missed by a single vote getting the | are the ones that will determine land. le the same Mr. MacNeught;-~- whether “the farm lives or dies To go further back when Cain’ to win election but the Liberals are | there are still social conditions and Abel brought their offerings | eet, a ie oe ee and a way of life that are of to the Lord, Cain's fruit of the seat that has been a importance to maiiy people on field Was rejected and the Lord it for the Tories in 1904, with non-commercial farms. accepted Abel’s offering from from 1967 to 1963. It should be pointed out that! the flock. Here was the original ee oe ;_ oo, = generally most agricultural po-| division in the two types of ag- Wied. chould the Chief Justice les designed to assist the far- riculture and it led to the death | five years to go?—he will not be ‘mer have had very litle effect; of Abel at the hands of his bro- judges do not automatically retire on the low-income operator. ther | ‘ } ——| Jt-is- —the--ARDA-— pro-| After disappearing for 17 days | picture, the rumor makers reply, » | 6rem Teally Meaningful | the sun got back on the job om for hie capable young son to begin | in the low-income | Tuesday. All in all it was an in-/i career in polittes. areas and in people to | teresting period. First of all the/| for me is to make. it easier to | improved income through acti-| snow disappeared completely | site 5 om vities which supplement farm and replenished the water ie "Tl be greatly amprised Wf he te | CREDIT Trend wth ae eel 3 ; replaced with ice pellets} — ee. ae As farms become larger and| which when mixed with mud pF tal aay ei gd + require greater amounts of ea-| make about the worst possible | > be Me. ee anes ae at mare | combination so terse whesied | nn necessary to seek this “cupital is concerned. As the git- colleague, Hf the current | trom outside sources. Long term| uation now stands there is no a to discuss such eee ee gees emer aes Wy | Nest td the ground add gull. fe jon 0 few off the Doom, an. 3. | S08" oP provincial ma a rumor. was . Dobody mas more id pe by ment Boards and here the situ-| We have now reached the Justice and charming | ation is reasonably satisfactory | time of year when there is a no- ee _: | a8 practically all credit worthy ticeable lengthening of the ev- friends into details | farmers can obtain money on enings, this has actually been copueniy to publicly, seutae toad ater ine cewe Se BR ot De . In the (twa ter sun is still staying -in | five years) credit field most of| bed and it will bea few days be- the service is being provided| fore he turns to earlier rising

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ment means that nearly half of! cial pa the farmers in the survey group) ance, old

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are not| off- | free agents in making business | and from such 50 decisions.

as. family allow- pension, welfare PRESIDENTIAL BREAK

The President of the P.E.I.| Agriculture, |

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that profitable enter-| this sort of mishap prises will result. In sharp con- 'y with the annual trast, on economic farms in- the Island Federation creased debt. might be justified 2 aoe ris lige dondh and readily iced -f II | ti meeting coming up td exeaneion iim the month the President

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on balance a higher proportion; ANCIENT DIVISION of the high income farmers; The many divisions of agricul-| have debts. ‘‘The standard of! ture have in a number, of cases living on the 50 per cent non- over.the years failed to see eye commercial farms is currently to eye. Very often the viewpoint very low. Production on these of the cash crop farmer

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