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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1969-09-25, Page 11EAFORTH MONUMENT 'WORKS All Types of CEMETERY MEMORIALS -OPEN DAILY T. PRYDE & SON- InquiriO, are invited Telephone Numbers:. EXETER 235-0620 - CLINTON 482-9421 SEAFORTH: .Contact Willis Dundas Or Bill Pinder 527-1382 Bus. 527-1750. mistulifill(111111111Pilllllilln;1111111111' IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII „, , ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' 1110"""481181P".411111111000=11.1.11111.mallINOWN BURNS CLEANER No Smoke, No Odour HEATING 0:L Walden & Broadfoot Phone, 527.1224 — Seaforth imsalliftimill1.111100011111100011111111Iftrilli Look out sports compacts, here comes the hot new CHALLENGER Challenger is the only new field you'll see this year. It' with stance.that says solid, all the way up to 426 Hemi, entry, in the sports compact s a car that grips the road Engine choices run Eight in all. Six models including convertibles. And they all come with concealed wipers, steering wheellock, deep-pile carpetirig„dual headlights, .and more. .tom •zz.:,,,z,,,N.- • • .44,A...* • f.,•,..!•,N•••••"”, • '•••3i•ii%,..r:AKV:;',•••••.•:i::•••••i:::.'"?" • * Dodge 0 FPN9Y.9,1M •-••••••••••••"'"*". . - • a • Named to Head Veterinary Lab Faerneri:$ .Look for 'Higher. Corn' Yields' THE HURON. Exeosiroit• 5g4Fokri, Olitg EEP7 34, 19691/14. Dr. T.J. Pridhjam has been named as head of the new Vet- ,erinary Services Laboratory , which will open-shortly on the campus of the Centralia College of Agricultural Technology, Hur- on Park, Ontario. "Dr. Pridham has abundant qualifications for this position," said Everett Biggs, Deputy Minis- ter in announcing the appoint- ment, "and we are pleaged that the important diagnostic services to be provided to livestock and poultry producers of the area will be under his direction. He is not only a highly qualified vet- erinarian, but also understands the needs of the industry in that area: He was raised on a farm in Perth County, only a short distance from the Centralia cam- pus, and is well known in'the area." The Veterinary Setvices La- 416 boratory at Centralia wili„br ing a new and important service to farmers in the midwestern On- tario area. The Department al- ready has suck diagnostic facil- ities at Ridgetown, Guelph, Kemptville, Brighton and New Liskeard. The new Veterinary Services Laboratory at Centralia results from conversion of the former Air Force Base Hospital into a highly satisfactory facility. The installation,of necessary equip- .ment has been proceeding on schedule, and it is expected that the Laboratory will be oper for service to the public late in October or early November. When the Minister of Agric- ulture announced the D4art- ment's intention to develop a new Laboratory at Centralia, he said the establishinent of . facilities-was in response to--a to-a---- growing demand for diagnostic and laboratory facilities to serve the general area, He recalled' - that the eight counties of Bruce, Elgin, Huron, MidctleseX, Nor- folk, Oxford; Perth and Lambton, produce one third of the prov- ince-!s cattle, hogs and poultry,- one half of the turkeys, and one, fifth of the horses and sheep and added it must be recognized that the area is vital to the ag- ' ricultural industry. Dr. Pridham was born and raised on a livestock farm in Fullarton Township, Perth County, near Mitchell, grad- uating from the Mitchell Dis- trict High School. Upon graduation from the' Ontario Veterinary College, he Worked for a short time in a large animal practice in St. Mary's, Ontario, as assistant to Dr. G. A. Schiedel, returning to the 0. V. C. to undertake post- graduate studies, leading to a Master's Degree. During this period he took charge•of the fur-bearing animal diseases laboratory at the.. College, where he' conducted diagnostic services teaching and research. From 1962 to 1964 Dr, Pridham stud-, led pathology and virology at the University of Connecticift. ' with particular emphasis on • poultry pathology, While Dr. Pridham is recog- nized as one of Canada's lead- ing specialists in fur-bearing animals and poultry, he has also ha wide experience in dealing with the treatment of all animals, large and small. His specialties will be particul- arly welcomed in midwestern Ontario area where the poultry industry is of major importance, and the province's mink ranch- ing industry is centered. A new era in agricultural history has opened with the of- fering of Individual Service Memberships by the Ontario Federation of Agriculture. It is the first time in the history of the organization that such mem- berships have been available. Charles G. Munro, OFA Pres- ident has described the individ- ual service membership program as "unique in farm organizations today". He emphasized that the individual farmer will not be purchasing simply a membership card in the organization. "The individual agricultural producer will be buying services to fulfil his own particular needs, "the president points out. Services available to individ- ual members now includes Man- agement Digests; Property and Business Protection, Farm and Country Classified Advertise- !pent Service, The Ontario Farm Machinery Agency, Members' Information Service, and Mem- bership in the Canadian Feder- ation of Agriculture, The individual farmer's role as a manager will be emphasized in much of the new program, The OFA Management Digests are designed to assist "in increasing the income position" of members, The Property and Business Protection program is an expan- sion of the present OFA Proper- ties Department. The new pro- gram is described as "an expand- ed range of new and present services available in connection with the protective aspects of property management and busin- "ass transactions. " The expanded program will now deal with such topics as property and capital protection, and ombudsman7type service, business transactions, property development; and miscellan- eous problems. hybrids, soil types, climatic differences and fertility levels. Armed with a new experimen- tal design for test plot experim- ents, Harvey Voldeng, a corn management specialist at the Canada Agriculture Research St anion, Ottawa, this year laun- ched a long-term search for an- swers. As a start, he is testing a range of population densities plus sev- eral inbred lines and crosses am- ong these inbreds. Next year he hopes to expand his experiments to make them both more exten- sive and complex. The son of 'a Saskatoon-area farmer, 28-year-old Mr. Voldeng is eager to apply his new plot design, picked up during four years of study towards his Ph, D. at Oxford,. England, to the prob- lem. By mid-summer, he was al- ready spotting significant differ- ences in yield in test plots here. And, even at this early stage, it appears safe to suggest that different hybrids will produce optimum yields at different pop- ulation densities, Population density ranges from 5, 000 to 55, 000 plants an acre, He should find optimum yield somewhere between these two extreme's. (tact 'Ontario farmers plant at 20, 000 an acre. ) The yield studies will com- pare the ainounr of silage, grain and dry matter content plus a number of more detailed and scientific factors, Because there appear to be different optimum population • densities for the various hybrids. Mr. Voldeng expects that some day management experts will be making individual population density recommendations for each hybrid. Some commercial seed companies already suggest that farmers plant to higher den- sities with more fertilizer for some of their hybrids with more upright leaves, That's only the density pic- ture, There are many other fac- tors influencing yield, and Mr. Voldeng hopes to study some of them.in the future. He would like to discover the relationships between yield and soil type, fertility, moisture and sunlight intensity. "Population density alone is not enough. We should have the total package. For example, the date you plant corn can be extremely important. "We already know that ear- lier-planted corn tends to be shorter.; therefore we can, probab- ly crowd more plants into an acre when we plant earlier, " says Mr. Voldeng, "We may not be able to un- ravel all of the relationships, but first of all we want to find out how important each factor is. Then we want to decide if it's work while to go ahead with ex- periments designed to come up with management rec.olnlliendai." ions, "For example, we .could dis- cover that the' intensity of sun- light is an important factor, but since there's nothing a farmer can do to make the sun shine brighter: there would be little sense"in conducting elaborate and continuing experiments on this factor." If there is a different optim- um population density for var- ious hybrids--and there is no concrete evidence yet to support this hypothesis—the province- wide tests of new hybrids may require some adjustments. Every year a number of re- search centers and farmers co- operate to test dozens of new hybrids appearing annually on the• market as potential replacements for existing hybrids. All are test- ed at'a population density of 20, 000 plants an acre. If, how- ever, one hybrid performs poorly at 20, 000 plants an acre, but much better,.. at, say, 25, 000 plants an acre, the Ontario-wide test is failing to indicate the full potential of the test hybrid. Mr, Voldeng has also learned that environment influences the number of tillers (or side shoots) that will sprout from one seed. It appears that light intensity is one of these factors. He will con- tinue these studies in controlled- environment grOwth chambers this year in an "attempt to deter- mine the stage of growth at which the corn plant will produce tillers, Pitcrhig. fe4ttg.' is alscrParg4.4 corlik.47 led by 4grcicikcy, 4Vaot tkat - doesn't h4vo the pop- to xo44o it tiller Will Hexes pxoclOco_.41, lers, no matter bow radically environment is Juggled, Yet plata with the genes may kg barred from tillering 43, adverse . - environmental conditions. "That's a riddle that should be lots of fun to tackte," says Mr. Voldeng, "When we find • the answer or answers, we could be holding the key to increased profits. " • And, putting more money in farmers' pockets is the aim of Mr. Voldeng's research. Ontario How many corn•plantssTiould be crowded into an acre to pro- duce the highest yield? That's a question more farm- ers are asking every year as the corn boom continues across On- tario and British Columbia and OFA to Offer New Service Memberships THE HOME TEAM • "Just because the pros started training doesn't mean summer's over." moves into Quebec, the Mari- times, Manitoba and parts of Alberta. Research indicates that the answer will not be simple. In fact, there may' be as many dif- ferent answers as there are corn If you've been waiting for new cars that are really new... you could be Dodge material. BIG DODGE Big Dodge is new this year with Torsion-Wet Ride. A solid Unibody that floatspn its un- dercarriage. Big Dodge is new with a stance that's wilder than ever for improved roadability. 131g Dodge ,-A-new-concept in -- luxury in the popular price field. CHARGER A car that's as performance oriented as it looks. 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