Friday, April 14, 1967 on grain. Now in the year of 196ft it was subsidies and freight assistance on grain. In lMtthec was $365,000 paid out in this money, and this, if it was taken up by the farmers m Prince Edward Island , would mean a great thing to them. I think the Gov- ernmnntwould be well advised to try an experimental grain growing in each County of tkrPrjvince, but probably for the first yeargrow one hundred acres on an experi¬ mental bisis. I would say twenty-five acres in Kings, fifty in Queens, and twenty-five in Prince for a start Grow it under conditions which the farmer would be growing under, net under conditions that would be paid out by the Government, not where somabsd) would be trying to make a big pile of money out of the Government, but grow Jhftn under conditions exactly as the farmer would be growing, and see if this could M*done on a paying basis. And another item that might be added to this if the Ministefof Agriculture would like to have a talk to me on this sometime. I have some idea* alow on this line that might be helpful to him. We have a great dampness con¬ tent in tie grain in the fall in this Province, which can be dryed with a homemade, yes I will saj a homemade because it would be made on the Island, grain-drying machine which cai be set up with very little expense and this would save spoilage in the grain. Now, if he Government had wanted to help the farmer further last fall, to get some money, alot of the farmers, due to the poor price of potatoes and the poor market, had to sefl sane grain to get some ready cash in the fall at forty cents per bushel. Now this It rfliculous, forty cents per bushel; you cannot grow grain for forty cents per bushaL myone knows that whether he is a farmer or not, so if the Government in the fall af tie year had good storage houses, it does not have to be frostproof to keep grain, all it has to be is dry. Buy the grain in the fall if the farmers were compelled to safl it, if it was a low price like happened last fall, which $10,000 would buy up a conaweraSle amount of grain. I will hist take this for a figure $10,000. And when the seaaosi rdled around to sell the gram, which is mostly always at a premium in the spring, **1 it back out to the farmer at whatever the going price is. Give to the farm¬ er who «s paid the forty cents or whatever the price happened to be in the fall, give him what the grain made over the winter in this area. I think this would be a great help to tie farmer. I think anything we can do to keep the young farmers on the land is going to be worthwhile. I vill try, Mr. Speaker , to make my remarks as brief as possible, but I find I must goover some of the items in the Speech from the Throne. If you will bear with ma tat afew minutes, I will try to do that. I think it is catting along near to closing tine farto-day and I will not quite finish, but I will go along as far as 5:80 P.M. any¬ way. Nor, "My Government proposes to conduct a potato inspection of all fields"; now this nas been quite extensive in the past, but probably not quite extensive enough because tf the great disease that is ravishing the potato industry in Prince Edward Island at this time. Every year the disease in our potatoes seems to be getting greater and to aleviate this, I think all fields should be inspected. This is a "must" at this time that w» lave all potato fields inspected, and to keep down the disease as much as poss¬ ible or *» will be one of the lost markets to the world of potatoes in Canada . Prince Edward bland will completely lose its market, I think, if we cannot control this disease further bcause this is getting to be a serious problem in the potato industry to-day. Nov, for the need of more technical services in agriculture; I think this is quite important as agriculture has become, instead of a job, a business. A business to the farmer, aid he must to-day keep all records, books, and what have you, to carry on his operation. He has to carry on a greater operation than has been done in the past to make a tarn pay. Any help that the Agriculture Department can give them and I think it ft assistance, to further qualify a person to assist agricultural development, that wffl'ie of a great help to the farmer. Nov, crop insurance policy to cover potatoes and grain. In the past, Crop In¬ surance las not been widely used. Very poor advantage has been taken of Crop Insur¬ ance. Whither we can make it more attractive to farmers or not, I do not know. This seams ttfbe one of the problems of paying out money on insurance that they may never get anythng back; but if the crop is lost, then we hear the howl of not having any in- suraaeafWhen the insurance is available, I think the farmer should make every effort to take advantage of the Crop Insurance Policy. Nov, I see something in silos, silo construction subsidy. Now, this may be a good thfag; it may not; I am not quite sure. Silos are a very expensive commodity to