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S FEBRUARY 2 _ . P J _ _Of Surplus Food Stocks ; P _ ToFeedUnitedKingdom ewningt ~ Must Be in Position to Replace Raid Losses, f Legislature Is Told We tins o mornteinirmreree ommc EXPECT HEAVY TOLL Development in Canada of surplus food stocks that the United King-- dom may be guaranteed replace-- ment of losses Incurred by U--boat and air--raids, yesterday was advo-- cated by Harold N. Carr (Lib., Northumberland). in moving the address in reply to the sSpeech from the Throne. The Campbellford creamery pro-- prictor warned that the Nazis "are bound to take heavy toll of cargo boats." It was not beyond the pos-- / sibility that British children might go hungry, he told the Legislature. F "Let us wake up before it is too f late," he said. "Encourage the pro-- duction of all food products possible and let us, as:a wartime measure s only, support the markets and pre-- s vent surplus stocks from depressing the prices for farm products. Sur-- * plus food stocks at this time should be looked on as an asset and not a liability." * The member's assertion was made in commending the Hepburn Ad-- + ministration for "assisting Britain through our farmers by encouraging a plentiful supply of bacon and cheese, when prices have been pea-- * ged from other quarters at unprofit-- able levels." Claims Two Counties Hit. In contrast, a critical n»~t~ af the proposal to subsidize cheese pro-- ducers by $2,000,000, bacon producers $ by $1,500,000 and to spend approx-- imately $200,000 in paying part of the freight rates on Western grains to Ontario, came from Dr. Adelard C. Trottier, member for Essex North. The Windsor physician sec-- onded the address and said that Kent and Essex Counties had dif-- ferent problems to the other sec-- tions of the Province. The two counties, he said, for the most part produced field crops $ which were cash crops. In corn, however, they grew 65 per cent of the entire production. "The cheese subsidy does not benefit our farm-- ers," said Dr. Trottier. "The sub-- sidy to the feed consumers in the form of freight rates has actually resulted in a serious setback to the corn producers of Essex and Kent." A § Dr. Trottier estimated that the 4,« / Raps Butter Pog. -- 000,000 bushels of yet unsold corn | Mr. Carr was critical of the Do-- has .been depreciated by approxi-- Iminion Government's order of last meately $500,000 by the Government's December pegging the price of but-- freight assistance plan. 'Therefore, | ter, charged there was no sound he said, his section is asking the | economic reason for establishing a Ortario Government to arrange with !n\axin]un\ price and by implication the Federal Government, a similar | suggested it was because Ottawa freight benefit to the corn grow-- [ was afraid labor would demand a ers. bonus on wages on the one hand The freight rate, Windsor to sea-- and that finance had a control on b(-al"d. was 23 cents per hundl'ed the other. f pounds, only 2 cents under the Fort "Why is the Federal Government William rate, Dr. Trottier said. so fearful of the effect of rising % His presentation of the special | prices that it insists that farm prices case for farmers in the extreme |must not rise?" he asked. "Is it, h scuthwestern part of the Pl'OVinC('. by any chance, because of a strangle-- was the only note of criticism of hold of finance? Are the financial | Hepburn Government policies in ad-- 'imerests of Canada dictating the | dresses which were, largp!.\': a sum-- |policy of the Government as was . | mary of the Administration's activi-- | done in France with such disastrous ® | ties. results to the French nation?" 4