Thursday, February 29, 1968 But anyway. I don't know just exactly where to start. It's pretty near closing time but, however, let us go back, I'd likek to toy and leave the impression, some of our older Members will remember this, such as my friend, the Minister of Fisheries, because he and I are about the same age. The rest of you are more or less boys, but let us go back about thirty or thirty-five years ago and we have heard a great deal here lately about the family farm. Well, I was brought up on a family farm and during that time it was a secure way of living. We did all of the work with horses at that time. I remember at home we'd always have one or two to sell every spring. With that we'd put a crop in, but today, Mr. Speaker , it is somewhat different. Everything is bought or nearly everything is bought at a very high cost to carry on our agricultural production at the present time. Our horses are gone and now we're living in the machine age but sometimes I wonder if we have bought machinery if we have lightened the farm situation very much because we all seem to be so busy. I would like to take the opportunity, Mr. Speaker , to thank the Minister of Agriculture .... I wasn't going to praise him up at all! I won't praise him up but I was going to ask the Premier that he be replaced but not now. He made a statement yesterday which I was very pleased to hear; therefore, I have changed my mind to you, Sir . He said that the Provincial Department of Agriculture, along with the Federal, about the loans. Now, I ap¬ preciate that very much indeed because a great many farmers are hard up this year and if you can have that deferred for a year, you'll have my blessing, Sir, along with a great many other farmers. Just have it deferred for a year at least because, according to reports, we're living here in Prince Edward Island in what is called a disaster area. Back in 1930, Mr. Speaker , it was never called a disaster area. I started to farm then and I paid off a mortgage during those years which wasn't very much, of course, but it was a lot then but today apparently it's called a dis¬ aster area which I don't coincide with but the worst of it is, farming today is too commercialized. We should still have what is called mixed farming. If one segment or phase of agriculture is not worth very much, then another one comes aolng to take it's place, but the difficult situation they find themselves in today is due to the fact that we have what is called, the assembly line production. Well, Mr. Speaker , you look kind of tired. I'm kind of disorganized at the present time. There's so much to say that I cannot finish anyway so I will call it five-thirty. (Applause; Mr. Speaker , this afternoon I was kind to the Minister of Agriculture, and I paid, as I think, a very nice tribute to him, but this evening I have changed my mind. Several Members: Oh dear!! Frank Myers : After thinking the situation over and the difficult problem that the farmers are faced with he is just no good as a Minister of Agriculture. (Laughter) (Applause) And I will give you some of the reasons I jotted down here. I didn't bother going home for supper this evening, I tried to get something rigged up. Hon . M. Lome Bonnell : You should have something in your stomach, you would feel better. Frank Myers : The seed potato situation. According to the Minister we are unable to sell any down there this year. Now I feel that that is a very unfortunate situation, and you, I feel, are responsible for that. (Applause) Not only that, Mr. Speaker , by the way do you sleep good at nights ? You don't ? Well, I don't blame you. I don't myself, after realizing the difficulties we are in. But anyway in the United States in 1965 there were 46,000 cases of eggs came into Canada . What happened here last year in the first ten months? There were 203,000 cases. Do you know that, Mr. Minister ? Kon. Daniel J. MacDunald : Would you mind saying that over again. Frank Myers : 203,000 cases of eggs came in here to Canada from the United States last year. In the first ten months. Especially at a time like this when the depressed situation in connection with the poultry industry.