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Page A THE HERALD Thursday December 1MB Problems associated with nonfarm development says report Planners review urban threat TREE HUNT Brendan Bar net and hi son Michael from Brampton look a cold winter plunge Saturday by hunting down and chopping their own mas tree at tree farm In For many families taking the bush and finding a tree the hard way Is a challenging way to the spirit of Christmas Herald photo Started at age 14 At Bill Luff loves butchers life By CHRIS Herald writer Acton Bill Luff has watched more Christ muses come and go from behind a meat counter than any other butcher in town He and his full time butchering days are over But he still comes in tidying up fat In the wake Paul Brlen s flailing knife at 0 Brien Meats in downtown Acton Mr Luff talks with the slightest trace of an English accent He beg an his trade on the northeast coast of Engl and at the age of 14 and retired from his own butcher shop in Toronto when he was felled by a stroke SO years later The good stop ped me one day Mr Luff recalled He put his hand on my shoulder and told me to Bit down 1 brought a new meat counter around and the next thing I knew I was on the floor DOOR TO DOOR When he started as a butcher Mr Luff was In a seven year bond with a cooperative At he had left school and drove twohorse butchers cart around He d travel door to door he explained and peop le would come out with their meat orders to 11 he said The meat was already cut and quartered Into joints and wc d Just prepare what the cust wanted Converting pounds In to dollars Mr Luff est mates that as a young apprentice driving the butchers cart he would sometimes generate as much as Si a day In business In those days pork and beef were the usual Christmas dinners But traditions were differ ent In Canada to which he Immigrated in 1939 He first worked for a butchering chain at the comer of and College Streets In Tor onto Later when he had his own store he recalled having at many as 300 turkeys hanging around CHANGES Things in the meat business have changed that much he mused as he watched customers pick up their orders Tuesday As far as the cuts of meats are concerned they re pretty well the same Mr Luff said But are different behind the counter Wc used to have five people behind the coun ter In the old country We got straight wage no commission which meant about a 90 or six shillings a week with a raise every year He never wants to be fur from his lifelong trade he said adding that he still helps out Recently he went to Toronto and helped a man he trained as a butcher get through a hectic schedule Butchering Is what I know to do he said proudly BY CHRIS AAGAARD Herald writer A report prepared by the regions planning department with sum mer students indicates that agricult ural industry la by leu visible effects of urbanization than the loss of farm land Presented to the re gion planning and pub lic works committee It says that nan farm de velopment In s rural area leads to high er land values higher taxes the Idling of farmland and a range of lost services which trad benefitted the farmer Statistics collected during the study show that of the census farms full and part time farm operations paying taxes In over half of them are less than in The median farm size the total number of farms into two equal halves In which half are larger and half are smaller than the med ian Is acres In Hal ton The median for arto Is 131acres In addition to being gobbled up for residen tial development farm land Is also being lost due to small lot sizes which are less efficient The smaller lots are often left over when part of a larger piece of property Is severed for residential develop RENT LAND Noting that over half of the land farmed in Is rented plan fear this Is pert of the process of convert lannlaod into urban use The amount of rented land In the province It is per cent of the total while in Its per cent Regional planner Peter who presented the report lo the planning committee last week noted that the amount of rented land leads to relatively low rents lower than the provincial average and the average from 12 other counties and re a surveyed In the province Farm revenues from the sale of agriculture products appear to be higher than anywhere else in the province with the average farm generating men of In Halton Nevertheless the average far gross income Is less than Total farm revenue in Halton Is about Ko a year SURVEY Prom a survey sent to farm planners learned that In the last five years control problems for farmers have in creased per cent complaints from farm residences about farm operations have risen per cent vandalism problems have Increased 130 per cent by a ratio of four to one feel farm development In the rural area produces harmful rather than beneficial impacts to the agricultural indus try OPEN BOXING DAY 10 am 5 Tues Dec Exciting Specials SAVE 33 On Many Fashion Items LONG LANE ORCHARDS GEORGETOWN HO Mcintosh Cortland Delicious Idared Mutsu and Greening 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