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b FEEARuARY 9 \___ # % Dr. Harold Weish (Con., East Hastings) who brought to the com-- mittee authoritative information on the associated disease, undulent fever, affecting human consumers s of unpasteurized milk, believed that tgrmers should receive compensa-- tion for affected animals, as in the T.B. program. Mr. Darlington , stressed that the immediate need | _ was Provincial technical assistance , ' involving blood testing, in farmer s t | _cc--operative attempts to establish Mmss disease--free areas. 1 * I. B. Whale, livestock editor of ' Provu.\ce |$ Asked. to the Farmers Advocate, London, and j & EXOI'C!SQ Supervisnon: manager of the Advocate Farm, § Shiop: claimed that the greatest individual ipping llis Rampant farm problem was lack of money, Wiiecommiminmeemmmmng unless an income on a parity with that of urban dwellers was ob-- WORK OUTLINED tained soon, he claimed, farmers, as | @ :Iepressgd class, would have to re-- I Strict control, under Government ceive legislative assistance. 7 | a@uthority, of the "trafficking" of ; sick hogs from diseased herds, and & plan of assistance to farmers in | controlling hog disease under the I war stimulated production program, was urged upon the Legislature ; | _ Aagriculture committee yesterday by Harry Wilson, Kent County farmer | _ and a member of the advisory com-- | mittee to the Canadian Bacon 1 | -- Board. : i' "We need from oune million to a million and a half more hogs_to t meet our quota on the British : ermmitt in endergprtiees market," said Mr. Wilson. '"There| k a s q are disease problems. We can't af--| Lakeshore Application fa ford to take a chance. We must # ts Sepply this bacon quork" * _ to Ontario Municipal He described to the committee| Board Expected Soon the dangers from "shipping levrr hee a disease with a high mortality P ! rate. Farmers, he claimed, once the FAVORED BY M.L.A. ' symptom of illness appeared, tried often to get rid of their sick and threatened hogs before the entire One or more of the Lakeshore ens were affected. The disease, he municipalities will make almost im-- e i is er :;Ild- ";":; ';I;;:'l'('ll:"h'l:'e"" :';':":_m' mediate application to the Ontario ;uatn):}xcil'gtru('ks from "one year's Municipal Board for leave to amal--| end to the other." gamate New Toronto, Mimico, Long "This is a national emergency," Branch and a section of the Humber said Mr. Wilson. "\V: ;\:ii:dm:';: Bay area, it was forecast yesterday hogs and as more ar , the + dafiger of losses rises proportion-- at Queen's Pa'jk' ; J ately. It is high time that this The move, it is expected, will trafficking in sick hogs _'lS stopped. bring to a head years--long controv. How on earth are we goclingl:tf) stthci's' ersy over the amalgamation issue up hog :,:-?'ductlon an and may give leadership in solving thl'?}fegzom;nittee struck a sub-- the wider Metropolitan Area prob-- committee to consider the problem. lem. Members are: W. G. g'x?'n :II:;:;' W. J. Gardhouse (Lib., York West) ae.z:;f:::msfi)u'tfi' I;; M?cczmpbel.l' who for many months has been (L'ib. i(mg Easn: W. J. Gardhouse working on the amalgamation plan, (Lib., York West), F. R. Oliver admitted that he anticipated ap-- (U.F.O., Grey South), and Col. T. L. $ plication would be made within a Kennedy (Con., Peel), former Min-- few days Agriculture. y ' i . lst';;tth"t:th of animals subject "Under the act," he explained, was éxtended by Joseph Darlington, "any one of the municipalities has York County, who reviewed the the authority to apply to the board. work in eliminating over large areas I am very much in favor of it and 1 tuberculosis in cattle and who will do anything I can to .hrmg it stressed that the problem of con-- about. I hope that it --will be a tagious abortion (Bang's disease) reality and will be ready for ratifi-- u:'ilenfiy required attention. cation by the Legislature at the He believed that the Federal De--| next session." f artment of Agriculture was not in | Once the board gave its approval, P osition to extend its work. "I Legislative approval would have to m p't think we have any hope of be obtained through a private bill. do:'t'n Federal assistance and if In this instance, the bill wouid be ge tlhl'nz is going to be done in On-- introduced by Mr. Gardhouse, in -- :::;o we will have to do it our: whose riding the municipalities lie selve's." said Mr. Darlington. |