Farmers!

sawmilling, mining,
industries.

for full information to:

Agricultural Workers!

Men are urgently needed for meat packing
plants, essential construction work, logging and
and other high priority

-All men who can be spared from agriculture
during the winter months are urged to apply

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
REPRESENTATIVES,

NATIONAL SELECTIVE SERVICE OFFICES
OR

PLACEMENT OFFICERS

. OF THIS ORGANIZATION.

NOTE: Men from dairy farms will not be granted
permits to work in any other industry.

Dominion-Provincial
Emergency Farm Labour Service

844 West Hastings Street
Vancouver, B.C.

Ranchers!

Rationing New
Farm Machinery
To Be Continued

Supply for 1945
Greater than ‘40
But Not Enough

“The present system of ration-
ing new farm machinery and
equipment will be continued un-
til more nearly in line with con-
sumer demands,” advises H. H.
Bloom, administrator of farm
and construction machinery,
Wartime Prices and Trade Board.

“This policy has been endorsed
by agricultural authorities and
advisory committees as the best
methods of ensuring delivery of
available machinery to farmers
most in need.

“With this announcement is a
warning to farmers not to dis-
pose of their old tractors or oth-
er rationed farm equipment this
fall unless they have a permit
from the Board to purchase new
equipment next spring. To help
keep the present equipment in

operation there is no limit on
production of repair parts and
such parts are not rationed.

“Although the supply of farm
machinery for Canada in 1945
will equal in tonnage approxi-
mately 102% of the 1940 avail-
able supply, it is not sufficient
to meet apparent consumer de-
mands,” Mr. Bloom continued.
“Even with the early end of the
war an Europe it will be at
least a‘ year before the supply
of farm machinery will meet all
demands. Canadian agricultural
machinery production is limited
by lack of sufficient manpower
and by shortages of certain mat-
erials and component parts, such
as steel sheets, malleable cast-
ings, roller and‘ball bearings and
motors. F

“The Board policy is to take
any line of equipment off the
ration list as soon as the supply
situation warrants. There are
now thirty-five lines of farm
equipment off the list including
métal and wood pumps, pump
jacks, electric fence controllers,
irrigation and drainage equip-
ment, harrow sections and cream
separators” concluded Mr. Bloom.

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Canadian farmer Takes
A Look At Inflation

(As told to Edna Jaques)

I am just one of those’ guys
you see every day of the week,
driving along country roads,
plowing, getting in the hay, milk-
ing the cows.

Up in our attic we have an
old iron “strong box” nearly a
hundred years old. This box
contains the deed to this farm.
A hundred and fifty acres of fine
Canadian land.

Well, what I’m getting at is
this. We're just farmers. We
think with our hats on, our
shirt collars open, and we chew
on the stub of a pencil to do
figgerin’.

Quite a few of us around
these parts remember the infla-
tion during and after the last
War when wheat went as high
as $2.51 a bushel for No.1 in
1920. When it started down it
reached an all-time low of 56c
a bushel. Your couldn’t pay
for seed and labour at that price.

The war that brought these
conditions about was a small af-
fair compared to this one. It
Was over in four years. This
one has gone into its sixth year
and there is no knowing exactly
when it will end.

But let’s get back to inflation
and* see what would happen if
it got away on us.

Suppose you went to town
with a load of hogs. You’d
get a fairly decent price for
them but after you pocketed
your dough you went to a res-
taurant for dinner. That would
set you back a dollar and a
quarter or maybe two dollars.

Your child needed shoes and
you had to pay $10 for them
and $1 for a pair of socks to
go with them. Well, you bought
them—he couldn’t go barefoot
with winter coming on.

Then you’d get out the groc-
ery list your wife stuck in your
pocket when you were going out
the door. Let’s see. Sugar 25¢
a lb—flour $7 a bag—oranges
$1 a dozen—laundry soap 12c a
bar—baking powder 55c a tin—
rice 25¢ a lb—lard 35c a lb.
(Dhese are prides we paid after
the last war, you know.)

Well, it would sure add up to
@ pretty grim figure and even
with a good price for your hogs
you wouldn't have much money
to take home.

Then you had
hired help. Why, I paid my
hired man $90 a month, with
board, in 1918. We used to sort
of joke about it and say we
were working for the hired man,

There are 732,715 farmers in
Canada, a good-sized army in
any man’s country and we're
working hard these days.

If inflation got ahead of us—

to feed the

either now or after the war—

HAYWIRE’S A HELP... BUT

LOANS TO FARMERS

at reasonable rates are constantly

made by The Royal Bank
«.. to buy livestock
... to buy fertilizer

«. . to repair or replace machinery

«.. to buy seed
«.. to buy feeder cattle

++. to meet seasonal wage bills
«.. for any other reasonable purpose.

Rize comes in

mighty handy for many an emergency re-

pair around the farm.

But it won't do when

farm machinery and other expensive equip -
ment breaks down. It’s then that repairs
and replacements can run into real money.

Loans to take care of essential repairs or

replacements are always available at any
branch of The Royal Bank of Canada.

Money spent for such purposes is money
well invested, because a breakdown on the

farm often leads to serious and costly

trouble. When you need cash to repair or
replace machinery, or for any productive

branch.

purpose, call on the manager of our nearest

THE ROYAL BANK OF CANADA

ABBOTSFORD BRANCH - 7» L, CALDECOTT, Manager

all this work would go for little.
A bad runaway in prices and
there just wouldn’t be any farm
for the ‘boy to come back to,
and the old iron box in the attic
‘would be opened and the deed
handed over to some other man,
after we were knocked out.
Make no mistake about it,
mister, inflation can do you in,
just as affectively as a robot
bomb.
common,

They have one thing in
they both

hit homes.

WATSON PORTER ON
FARM RADIO FORUM
The fifth annual series of Farm
Radio Forum programs opened
this past week on the
Trans-Canada network,
The winter series, ‘Building
Communities for the World of
Today”, is divided into five re-
lated topics, with the first,
“Land — Foundation of the Com-
munity”, dealing in a broad way
with the problems of the soil.
This is essentially a series deal-

CBC

Nov. 15, 1944 ABBOTSFORD, SUMAS & MATSQUI NEWS 3

83% OF ALL FRASER VALLEY
FARMS ARE ELECTRIFIED! —

Thus the liberal policy of the B.C. Electric in
extending its lines has brought about one of
the highest saturations of farm power usage.
All this has been done without the aid of
government subsidy. The B.C. Electric has
always been to the forefront in promoting
progress in the communities it serves.

ing with conservation, and the
CBC has selected a chairman
who is well known throughout
Canada for his interest in this
work. He is Watson Porter
who has been editor-in-chief of
the Farmer's Advocate and Home
Magazine since 1918.

In addition to dried eggs,
Britain now requires all A Large
and A Medium shell eggs that
can be shipped during the fall
and winter months, and about
40 per cent of the over-all sur-
plus during the next twelve
months.

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Improved supplies of
and of animal, fish and other
organic substances used for fer-
tilizers have enabled the War-
time Prices and Trade Board to
revoke two orders restricting the
use of these products, announces
.G. S. Peart, administrator of
fertilizers and pesticides.

Board order A-870 has prohib-
ited the use in fertilizer of such
organic products as bone meal,
linseed oil meal, fish scrap, cot-
ton seed meal and bone flour,

potash,

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since their use was more es-
sential in production of feeding
stuffs than in fertilizer. Because
these products are now more
readily available, the order is
no longer required.

Free Enterprise
Joke to Farmers

When you read or hear that
“free enterprise” can be depend-
ed upon to take care of post-war
difficulties, you can depend upon
it that the author is an old-line

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politician, a member of the capi-

talist class, or an opponent of
the C.C.F. program.

Capitalism with its monopolies
and cartels, its booms and de-
pressions, its deflations and in-
flations, has ceased to be popu-
Jar, therefore “free enterprise”

has been coined as a catch-
phrase which can be adroitly
handled to incorporate human

liberty, personal initiative and a
lot of other emotional propensit-
ies which sugar-coat its true
meaning and purpose.

Most amusing is the audacity
of certain politicians and big
business emissaries who “strong-
ly. advise” farmers to cling to

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“free enterprise’. The only thing
free in farming is a lot of gra-
tuitous advise and hard work.
The portals of “free enterprise”
have for a long time been closed
to farmers, and there is no eyj-
dence of their opening. Neither
in the cost of the things he buys
nor in the selling price of the
things he produces has he the
vaguest freedom of action, Al-
though he suffers hardships from
a tariff and enjoys none of its
benefits, he is not free from its
impositions. When markets tum-
ble around him, he takes the
knocks and is often forced to sell
away below production costs, or
starve. When, however, extra-
ordinary conditions would . tend
to give him a premium on his
labor, he is confronted by mar-
keting restrictions and arbitrary
price limits.

Of all the laborers in this Do-
minion, farm laborers (and aren’t

they all?) are the ones whose
very existence is the antithesis
of “free enterprise”. It’s a joke

to ask a farmer to swallow it!
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