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McKillop Township is the last hour, reflecting the fact that dumped, though; everybody's corn is bushel, depending ori how wet hot air circulating around it the corn is reduced from 30-45% to into corn flakes, corn meal and.
' ,Farmers can either sell their mixed in together. the crop IT.'A cupful of the corn is corn itself, might getasbot as only 14.5%, a I*vel that means corn oil. etc., but for the present
�laGe iii the area where you would yields are down, especially from
FY. expect, t9, see skyscrapers but at last yeaes bumper crop. corn outright to Campbblls or just Oi their way to the ,dryer the tested for moisture content and 140°. The heater burns 50 gallons the corn, can be kept without year, with corn ,not at its'best, it
' ICep' CAmpbellgs, R.R.1, Dublin In a normal year corn yields have it dryed and- take it home loads' of corn pass over a weigh this is recorded, with the weight, of gas an hour. danger of �Spailage. Corn buyers would be -too m4ueh trouble to sort
farm it looks as if the sky scraper should be about 90 bushels to the again. What they take home wont scale and are recorded. Drying The corn is dumped through A' After it is dried, the corn comes reduce their per bushel price if " out the type of corn thbt these
age has arrived. acre; this year the yield is about be the same corn they bring in costs anywhere from 20 - 40c a grate and then travels up'to one of back down by pipe and goes the moisture in corn is more than companids want, Kpn.,gxpllains..
.; A Dost of his corn will o to beef
The sky scraping towers at the 7n. the two corn dr ers in ati elevator throw h a ea er which whirls it 14 5„°o g
,Campbell farm are part of a new Vincent Farm Equipment
automated corn drying plant that - Limited supplied the new corn
was installed by local firms this dryer and Perth Concrete poured
fall. 'They are steel 'fabricated allttie concrete pads that support
,'' elevators, drying and ' stor'age the corn drying apparatus.
,6 bins, that look like something out The dryers operate night and
' of a James'Bond movie or a rocket day during the corn harves ing
launching pad when they are lit season which is, usually about six
d• up at ni h.1t .x weeks. Someone has to be at the
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cage. The corn will sit in the dryer , around and throws off dirt and ' The corn that is dried at farmers up north in the
while hot air blows around it and chaff. Then one --of the elevator Campbells this fall will be- sold for Walkerton, Chesley,apd Owen
takes the moisture out. shafts carried 'the clean dry corn cattle feed. ' Last„ year, when Sound areas, he saga and added
The hot air comes from a into a storage silo. everybody's corn was really good', "We start, selling gorh - about
propane(red "furnace" •that The whole process takes -about it was worthwhile Jo sell corn to Christmas time and Will continue
stays ,at about. 300° F. With the. 4 hours and the moisture in the the foo procesirtxs to be made until April".
The Campbell farms previously dryers M all times checking the Last week 1 wrote that a friend Payment r The finance charges
had a single corn dryer and. three temperature of the propan`b of mine had been fined for driving are high: Investigation Fee - They '
' storage silos. But it was difficult
burners, showing farmers • who on the shoulder of the road to let phone your neighbour about you.
moving a large volume of corn bring in loads where to dump traffic pass by. A'$ a result I got a and you pay two dollars. Penalty
quickly through the dryer and into their ' corn and checking the "call from the chief of the .What it cost you to pay back a
:'Y • storage bins. "We had to move • aerators that constantly circulate Wingham OPP, adivisin-g me that loan before you said you would. ,
the corn with augers and it w'as a cool air through the corn storage thii can't be true-, for there's 'The Credit Union claims to be TO
nuisance", Ken says. ' He bins. One b ig'bin has a capacity nothing in the Highway traffic act more straight -forward.
' designed the new automated, of 40;000 bushels and four that would authorize a ffiolice * * * •„ 1 y ,
elevator system and .added smaller ones hold 13,000 bushels officer to lay such a charge. Kt the Max Satlsman, NDP member of
another dryer because "we'd each,- time of writing i have not been Parliament for Waterloo South,
gone about as far as we could go The. aerators 'keep the newly able to reach my friend for ail, introduced or will introduce a Bill
with the old way". dried corn from spoiling and are explanation. It appeal then that in the House ofCommons making' 1
Otto Tippelt of Huron Canadian absolutely necessary' Ken a farmer driving a tractor is it. • a criminal offence to destroy
KEN C'AMPB,E-.LL
F$bricators %'hose firm did•all the explains. "Have you ever had allowed to go on the shoulder to' .•food as- a protest.This as a result
structural work on the dryers and corn spoil ?" you ask. ''Oh' let faster traffte pass.. I apoligize of the killing of dairy calves in
D'Orlcen Sills of G.A.Sills and ves", he says, "there's not much , inconvenience I may have for an
y Quebec: It shouldn't, but. it stilll
Sons, who did all the wiring on we haven't had go wrong so wV 4aused.: * *'* * Itamazes me every time how much
the job, call the big drying plant know what to expect and can try The National Assoeiation of hot air these politicians have in
one of only a fe%• of its type in the to ,prevent it. Canadian Credit Uni@' ns�.�Isome them. Even Ontario's Ag- GO O U R
area.: Owner- Ken Campbell is In addition to processing Ken's time ago published soriW'telling Minister Stewart jumped op
more modest though and will own 700 aeres .of corn the definitions and here they are: bandwagon, to condemn tho__
admit only that "it's pretty' good Campbell plant does custom' Add - On - You, bc�row $10,0 and greedy Quebeckers, He of all
for a farm." ' drying wo?k.So far this -year, they' you immediately 'owe, $106 .or; people should know that. these
In a•normal year 800 bushels of have dried about, 60,006 bushels. more. Discounted - You only'get milk producers don, It make•much < 1
corn per hour could move through The drying season should, last $94 but V ou owe the $100 'Six
profit., on milk praductign and*
the drying apparatus, according until about the end of Noweniber• wanted- in the first place. Six have for the last five years BEST
WISHES
to Mr. 'Ken Campbell of Ken R. A couple of- McKillop farmers " Percent - A term for true annual depended heavily on the sale of
Campbell Farms Ltd. Bubas all of pull into Campbells pulling two interest rates o f 18% or more. bull calves to Europe.This market. '
us who live in farming corn- wagon loads full of corn and' li'Yte " Refinancing' Your ,golden is closed and the dairy man there. Y
munities know, this hasn't been a up at the dryer. it takes less than opportunity to owe more money can't afford to lose money, on.
normal year for corn. a half hour to dump the corn -and and to pay a higher rate at the them, so he kills them. He has a • •
Ken Campbell says that hN start it into therdryers, n between same time. Low Sefvice Charge - been doipg it, ail,his life. quietly. v On eompletwtn if chis new dryer- plant
dryers have only been processing customer truck loads of corn . That means lyi % each month on. To draw attention he now did' it �,
-ebout -400 bushels of, corn per from the Campbell farms are the balance owing. Low Down publicly.
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WAITING FOR THE CORN DRYER John Henderson Jr., of McKillop waits for "
s his turn at the new corn drying faciliti s at Ken Campbell's farm. The new'dryers f
have processed about 60,000 bushels of o so far this year. (Staff Photo)
...CON GRATU,LATI-0-NS
We Ext6nd Our °
-BEST WISHES to
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new, corn dryer • completion -of `his corn dr er � for' which.. - w
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all -the propane to speed the drying process
F We are happy to have had
- a art in construction n �' We ' wish ;Ken all the Best.
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u • wish Ken all the best.
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