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THE HERALD Atuntin ins Scotland surveys its farm lands agricultural representative Henry Stanley recently returned from a visit to Europe where he received an Insight Into the farming methods of a number of other countries Some of the European methods of con serving the vitally Important farm land could be considered potential safeguards for his part of Ontario By Henry J Stanley During my threeweek tour of Scotland Junel to along with the six Ontario Junior Farmer members I had an opportunity to look at some of the land use planning taking iace in that country As or y 1975 Scotland switched County Councils to nine regional authorities taking in districts Each region Is now preparing a regional report to be com pleted by next May assessing priorities In their region etc After the regional structural planning each district will do its own planning In five to seven years development controls are expected In key areas of that country Soil survey and land In maps are now being prepared forall of Scotland A new Community Land BIB empowers each municipality Co purchase land required for future development from the owners at the agricultural value No development In the future la to be permitted ex cept on land purchased from the local authorities This bill is destined to cut out com petition for the agricultural Land from speculators Profits from the sale of development land will go to the municipality to be used by the community For several years no new bousing Is permitted In the countryside of Scotland After the last war several small holdings of approximately acres were provided to soldiers and others wishing to get Into farming As these are no longer large enough several are being amalgamated Into one farm unit Excess houses in many cases are being torn down In to keep the rural areas free from farm encroac New buildings must be located at least BO feet from a main roadway In some areas there are height controls and controls over the color of the buildings light asbestos roofs are forbidden in some cases In favour of green to blend Into the landscape Buildings only are assessed for municipal taxes while land is free from taxes Wildlife preservation is much more evident throughout Scotland than here In Ontario Pockets of woods or are often managed by the owner or the government to encourage wildlife in many cases for hunting purposes Scotland has some percent of the population employed in agriculture very atmllar to Ontario However about one- half of the farmers are far on rented land tenure system gives hat about as much security as owner ship If the tenant is doing a good Job of farming the land It is almost Impossible to remove him from the property unless the owner can prove real hardship Thus many tenant fanners remain in farming until tbay die and then the farm is taken over by one of the children The target of agriculture In Scotland for the next five to years is to increase annus food production by percent per year It is hoped that by doing this the country can eventually become self At the moment the farmers In Scotland appear to be In the ssme position as Ontario farmers found themselves about five years ago They have death taxes wealth tax which is an annual tax based upon their net worth and capital transfer tax The National Farmers Union the strong farm voice in Scotland Is fighting bard to have some of these taxes removed or lowered but success Is questionable The farmer In Scotland receives considerably more subsunes than his counterpart Canada New buildings have been subsidized at percent regardless of cost However now that Scotland Is part of the Economic Com munity these subsidies are being phased down I was most impressed with the quality of farming in Scotland with yields of bay grain and grass considerably above those in Canada However we in Ontario can boast of considerably higher milk yields from our than Is obtained from their Milk prices in Ontario are also proximately higher than In Scotland GREAT 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