The Huron Expositor, 1978-08-24, Page 15BRINGING IN THE STRAW — Like hundreds
of farm families in. Huron and Perth, the Arnold
Campbells of McKillop Township are trying to
get all their straw off before the kids go.back to
school. Baling one day recently were Karen
Campbell; driving the tractor, her father Arnold
and Elka Suede of Toronto, a' junior agri-
culturalist who's working at the Campbell..farm,
(E0o6itor Photo)
ne foot in
furrow' bYaita.
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Letters are appreciated by Bob Trotter Eldale Rd Elmira Oni N38 2C7
A trip to China
for the summer.
THE HURO EXP SITOR AUGUST 24, 1970 Grey'se0s. •
railer park plans
Building inspector Gerald Exel showed
GieiToWnship Council, L.D. Beer's plans for
a trailer park on his land on Lot 3,
ConceSsion 1 on Highway 86 August 8. Mr.
Beer wants the land zoned for recreation
insteadeun
Council
lf haagdric.nuo lture
objection to Mr. Beer's
plan. Mr, Beer was unable to attend the
meeting so Mr. Exel presented his plan for
In other council business, John Gillis and
Clitf Bray were appointed to sit on the Court
of Revision at Walton on August 14 for the
McDonald "C" and "D" Drains. John Gillis
was appointed commissioner for the North
McDonald Drain and a meeting was held on
August 18. John Johnston was appointed
commissioner on the McKelvey Drain.
Maitland Engineering Services. ;Ltd. of
Wingham was appointed to survey the
assessment on tots 4 and S, Concession 7
from the Grant Municipal Drain to the Inglis
Municipal' Drain. The Engineer's report on
the'Carvalho-Snip Municipal Drain -1978 was
adopted and the by-taw was given first and
second reading. Johii Gillis was appointed
Commissioner to look after' the. repair and
improvement of the Baillie Municipal Drain.
• Bylaws were passed to undertake the
following drain's: Beauchamp Creek -
$198,563.; Branch 6th Concession-$50,000.;
Chester • Bake0$347833.1 'Love -$10,715.;
McDonald "B" - $29,073:' McDonald "C"
and "D", $16,837. i King- $6,753. for a total
of $346;774. '
Council gave grants of $200 to the Mount
Pleasant Cemetery in Ethel and $740 to
the Grey Township Recreation Committee:
General 'Accounts of $8,959,55 and Road
and Bridges Accounts of $11,435.18 were
passed and paid.
Building permits were granted to Roy
Williamson--grain storage bin; James Riley.
implement shed; 'Maple Leaf Mills, poultry
barn; Nelson Sleightham. bunker , silo;
Edwin Krauter, trailer; Bruce Witbee, mink
barn; Gerrit, Van Keulen, implement shed;
Max ' Demaray. steel 'granary; Murray
Cardiff, steel granary; Thomas Finch,
concrete silo. Demolition permits • 'were
granted to Harry Gillis, silo. feed room, milk
house; Edwin Krauter, house; Martin Baan,
barn; John Baan, barn, hen house, house,
garage, brooder house; and Max Demaray,
barn.; .
k.
NEW CLERK IN MORRIp,,—Mrs. LiQyd (Nancy)
Michie was recently named by Morris Township
Council as their new clerk. She replaces Jane
Badley who is the new clerk of prej, Township.
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Nancy Michie
orns names clerk
By Debbie Ramey
Morris Township has a new clerk, Mrs.
Lloyd (Nancy) Michie was hired as the clerk
at a special meeting of Morris Township
Council' "last -Wednesday.
She replaces Jane Badley who re.
her position and was later named der of
Grey Township. Reeve Bill Elston said. that
Mrs. Michie will be paid $4 and hour. $25 a
month office rent and she will be paid the
fees and mileage for taking the Association
of Municipal Clerks. and Trcasorersq'ourSc
(AMTC) at Fanshawe with, the .stipulation
that she stay on as the clerk of Morris' for two
years or forfeits 'the money for the course.
There were eight otherapplicants.„ for the
position, one of Whom withdrew.
Mrs. Michie had oreviousiV worked at the
Bank ofCommerce for about a yea''' and has
been working in the business .office of the
Winglinin hospital for the past five ,years.
• At the 'hospital she had worked as the
receptionist and on the switchboard and did
.1)ookkeeping and typing.
She said she decided to • apply for the
position of ,clerk becauSe. "I just wanted.
senething I could do at home so I wouldn't
have.t6 go Out every day and I think it would .
be very interesting just because you'd be
'working with the. public." •
' • Mrs. Michie ruin berating up an office in
her home . and Mrs. Badley has offered to,
help .her with any problems. ,
• Mrs. 'Michie will be sworn in as clerk"at
the September I meeting • of Morris
Township Council.
The .Full Time Staff of
Exeter
Pharmacy
Ltd.
To
Dental Plan 7
These employees and their families have good
reason' to smile havethe best preven-
- live dental plan available today. Everybody
agrees gOOd teeth are one of the most iM5'61'L
tant fabtors in good health, The Blue Cross
Dental Plan 7 was designed to provide basic
dental treatment to group subscribers includ-
ing such services as examinations. fillings and
x-rays, through extractions and anaesthesia.
As your ,Ontario Blue, Cross
representative I rnpleased to
add my personal welcome, and
look forward 'to serving you
along with the many others in
this region already enjoying
the protection of a variety of,
4 Blue Cross Plans.-
Phil deBarros •
227 Queens Avenue. London. Ontario N6A 1J8
(519) 439-4431
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Bind weed
bothers farmers
One' of the major weed
problems facing Hu ron •
County fanners is twitch
grass. ,control. Favourable
ktiOditions for twitch hay}'
allowed-it to infest a great
number of fields, over the
past few' years. in order to
control twitch in next y OaV'ti
corn fields, Ire:111110111 may be
started this fall. Applications
of 2 lbs. of 'active atratine •
\vitt allow sonic weed control
this year aS \Well as providing
early control next spring..
The fall application will also
allow you to pick out the
badly infested areas in the
field and. treat only these
areas.
Ploughing Ploughing can follow in 1-4
weeks after spraying. Plough
ing deeper than 9 h inches
should be avoided or the
herbicide will be placed
down too deep to be of
benefit. .
For fields not planned for
corn next year, actively _
growing twitch grass can be
controlled by applications of
Amitrole.T or. Roundup in
late August. Control is best if
applied when the twitch is
‘o4-10 filches in height.
Ploughing can follow in 10-14
days after treatment.
How did yo,ur .herbicides
work this year? If you are like
most Huron County farmers,
sonic fields have excellent
weed control while other
fields arc srpso. Part of poor
weed control is related to
weather but too often it is a
result of choosing the wrong
herbicide or not knowing the
wood There IS no substituc
for walking all fields now and
making a list of the weeds
that are present. This wittier
you can choose your herb-
hides to fit specific needs.
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services for either cars
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6 fully equipped , bays
heavy duty Truck alignment
huge tire & muffler warehouse
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Seed .barley fields, of the
new variety. Bruce. arc
being harvested across
Ontario and growers 'are
unanimous. in their praise.
Yields of 90 bushels per acre
have been reported often and'
quality is very high. • .
Developed by the Ontario
Cereal Project Group at, the
University' of Guelph, this
new cultivar• has exhibited
higher yield and better resis-
tance. to He.tminthosporium
.disease than, any presently
recommended barley' variety
in Ontario. truce is also
resistant to prevalent races
of Mildew and stenosmut and
tolerant to loose' smut .
'Major advantages are high
yield of mid-size kernels oii a
six-row spike: an excellent
quality,' strong. mid-lcogth
straw which miniMiies
lodging; and .genetic resis-
tance to Helminthosporium.
In.addition•Brure has Ough
awns which help create and
maintain fluff\ , swaths for
rapid dry t)on n and easier •••
harvesting. ' Bruce is well
adaptedto \'irtually all barley
growing arras of Ontatio
Genetic resistance.',•to
Helminthiosporium ( Helm-
inthosporium sativum) in 'a
11:di-yielding ''barley is a
major? breakthrough in
'Ontario's cereal program.
Rcsistrtnce to Entzst other,
major discasQs which attack
barley is an 'added bonus in
Bruce. The Helmintho-
spmium organism. (Aises
barley plants to break at the,
top node before maturity.
Low yield and poorly filled
kernels result. The disease is
widespread in 'Ontario.
John And* rson
John Anderson of Hensall, is
one of the many seed barley
growers in Ontario im-
pressed with the per-
formance of the new variety,
Bruce. He harvested 75 acres
of the new cultivate and says
most of his fields approached
80 bpshols.„per acre.
Three men from Canada returned this month from an ex-
citing but exhausting trip to the People's Republic of China.
They came back reeling from what they had learned and
were asked to do.
What China wants of. Canadians could be a great shot in
the'arm for agricultural manufactureriin general and three
'firms in particular. The men represented McKee Bros. Ltd.
of Elmira, Massey;Ferguson'and Iternational Harvester.
,"They treated us royally and wire very open," says El-
wood Groh, a vice-president with McKee Industries, mant
facturers of farm machinery, especially haying equipment,
andsnowblowers. .
'They took ps to the Peking Internal Combustion Engine
Factory and told us, without hesitation, that they had a wor-
king staff of 23,000 people and were only' roducing 20,000 en-
gines a year." • •
NaturallY„, the Gang of Four;werg Wamed,,kr,
China back for 15 years. The delegation was invited by the-
Chinese Agricultural Machinery Society of Peking to come
to the republic. The invitation, couched in general terms,
was not specific. Not until their last day in China were they:
told.the reason for the invitation.
"They. asked us for a proposal to bring their agricultural
methods up te.date," said Mr. GrOh. "Theylire aware that
•their methods are hopelessly outdated. They wanted propo-
sals on how they can manufacture Canadian products under
licence in China„"
Russia, of course, is no longer wanted in China and the
U.S.A. does not have complete diplomatic arrangements.
They likeCanada. They have 2-1/2 .billion acres of land
under cultiVation; They have an additional 2 billion heCtares
of grassland for beef and dairy herds to be developed, They
'have inefficient, cumbersome.machinery, probably of Rus-
sian design but maybe 20 or 30 years old. The biggest tractor
made in China has a rating of perhaps 45 h.p.
They,manufacture a deisel engine which has to be started
with an auxiliary gasoline motor but the gas-powered motor
has a pull-starter!
They grow wheat and corn and cotton in the weStiand
vegetables and fruit and rice in the east:
Mr. Groh believes their lack of know-how stems from
their lack of knowledge in meta) stampings, materials hand-
ling and metallurgy.
Hundreds of thousands of acres of hay is harvested by
hand: cut, raked; loaded and stored, with hand tools. The
roads are clogged with hand-drawn vehicles and especially
bicycles. A worker with a pull-cart will haul a ton of goods
as far as 30 miles a day,barnessed to the cart.
Can you imagine the out-cry in, this province? We can't
even get people to help harvest our fruit and vegetable
crops.
The Canadians flew over the terrible Gobi Desert to a far-
„Ting town of Urunrichi and were the first Canadians ever to
Isg'fiAftln the town. People 'along the roads to-Catch,
a glimpse of them. The town is•abciut 100 miles from Mongo-
lia and a few hundred miles from the Russian border, •
. The Canadians arrived July'23 and left Peking Aug. 6.
"On the road from the airport to Peking - we were taken
' the 20 miles in separate' limousines,- we met perhaps four
•other cars along the route,” said Mr. Groh. "Everybody
travels by friot or by bicycle and those: bicycles cost the
worker about five months pay!" • — . •
Their guides and interpreters freely admitted the back-•
wardness and stressed the immediate need for high-speed,
high-capacity, highly-efficient .combines and seeding 'equip-
ment and for tractors of 100 to 150 h.p. as well as for
chanized haying equipment. They are eager to draw on Wes-
tern technology and design rather than leaning towards
Other Communist countries of the world)
"I came away impresSed with the people and the country -
but not With the system," said Mr. Groh.
The visit, should the People's Republic decide to accept
the proposals, could mean a lot to Canadians.
New
barley is
praised