HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1978-09-07, Page 14placed third.
In the second class which
was an Open class the team of
Art Werner of RR1, Ayre and
Elgin Kipfer of Dashwood
placed first and the team of
Ed Davies of Auburn and
Marg Consitt .and Marlene
Bell both of Kippen placed
second.
The team of Grant and
Harry Snell of RR 1,
Londesboro placed first in
class 1 of the cross blade log,
sawing competition., The
team of Ken Campbell of
RR1, Dublin and Ron Driscoll
of Seaforth placed second.
In Class 2, with two men
on the same saw, the team of
Ken Campbell and Ron
Driscoll placed first, the
team of Graeme. Craig of
Walton and Tom Consitt of
RR 1 V.arna placed second
and Edgar Howatt and Ken
Duncan of Kirkton placed
third.
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Rev. Ken limes of Brussels
plowed the straightest fur-
tows at the Huron County
Flowing Match in McKillop
Township on Saturday. —
His skill with the plow,
learned on his father's farm
near Stratford. earned the
Presbyterian minister the
over-all senior champion
honors for the match.
The reserve champion was
another Brussels' resident,
DonaldPerrie.
The junior champion of the'
match was Bevan Shapton,
15, of R.R,1, Exeter and
Brian McGavIn of Walton
was the junior reserve
di am pion.
Bill Leeming, of Walton,
the Huron Plowmen's As-
sociation president, said the
weekend match, held on the
Ken Campbell farm in
McKillop Township. at-
tracted alinost 100 entries,
setting a record for the
event.
Mr.. Leeming said it was
the largest turnout he re-
membered, and he's been
going to the plowing matches ...
all-"his life.
Part of the, success of the
-county- -match can —be 'at-
tributed to the, fact Huron
County will be playing . host
to the International Plowing
Match near Wingham 'later
'this month.
Brussels tesiderits
Wiri at Huron Match
John Little of Monkton and
Cecil Desjardine of R.R, ' 1,
Grand Bend, won in the
businessmen's class.
Ivan Hodgins of R,R. 3,
Parkhill, won the "on the
land" class in multi-furrow
plowing, `
In the visitors competition,
Parry cordon of Glencoe
defeated other competitiors
from Bruce, Perth, Middle-
wx and Lambton counties.
Nail driving, log sawing
and horseshoe pitching also
played a part in the Huron
County Plowing Match.
Winners of the special nail
driving class in the women's
class were Phyllis Hickey,
first; Beatrice
Nevins, second, and Kathy
Pentland of RR6, Goderich,
third. Winners in the men's
class were &in Driscoll of
Seaforth, first; Francis Hunt
of Winthrop, second,...and
Local plowmen used the
Huron County . match to
practise sonic of the skills
For the past year, I have been a member of one of the
public panels discussing pollution in the Great Lakes.
Because of other commitments, I have not been able to at-.
tend all the meetings hula recent report from the Interna-
tional Joint Commission on land, use and rand practices has
me .deeply concerned about the future of farming in this
province.
,Urban development in the Great Lakes basin will con-
sume 2.5 million acres of farm land in the next 40 years.
That is a disturbing figure, a distressing prediction'. Not
only that, the report predicts that 7.5 million acres will go
out of farming in the next four decades. In other words, 2.5
million acres will be lost under concrete and asphalt and an
additional five million acres just simply will not be farmed.
Tlfe decline in farming will occur, mostly in Ontario, the
report says. Urban development in the province will in-
crease by 48 per cent in 40 years compared with 35 in the
U.S.A.
The Great Lakes basin, on both sides of the border, is one
of the fastest-growing industrial and urban complexes in the
entire world. It is also one of the largest in the world. Four-
.- teen per-cent-of-the population- of the United States live in
the basin and 33 per cent of the Canadian people live in the
basin.
...._W_e_are,..in.Ontario, acutely a-ware -tha-t-t-he-g-rea te-st -
growth will- be around Lake Ontario and Lake Erie where
the country's best farm land' is located.
. well aware that a-great many reports in years gone by
have not been totally accurate and I'd be willing to allow a
10 per cent error factor in this report. Nevertheless, those
'are important acres and, it would seem, little action is being
taken to prevent the loss.
Bill Newman, Ontario's agriculture. minister,,huffs and
puffs 'but. gets little support from cabinet in making any
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definite strides to preserve farm land:
The recent cabinet decision to allow 300 acres of farmland
north of Toronto to be developed as a family fun park made
me so mad I had to be scraped off the:ceiling.
It is not, as I have said before, just the land for the Park, It
is what will happen to a feW thouSand acres in the vicinity of
the pleasure park, the land for hotels, motels. fast-food out-
lets and everything else that goes with a huge development
such as that envisaged.
Provincial officials talk glibly about more acres being
farmed now than five years ago in Ontario. And their statis-
tics can look most convincing.
It sounds good but in all 'of Canada, there are only eight
million acres of land suitable for farming, They are the
same acres where most of the dvelopment and urban
growth is occurring. This trend already has forced a lot of
farmers to marginal land farther north. How can an agricul-
tural operation compete when land prices start soaring?
Farmers are forced off the land by the.inevitable dollar
increases in property values.
That is what happens when a big development begins.
'Growth follows growth. Highway 400-between Torentia and--
Barrie will become one long development, A great many
people alive today will witness this happening just because a
few jobs-will-be-created in an-amusement-park; —
The land will be lost forever. Those beautiful, rolling
fields of grain and hay and corn will be covered with empty
paper cups, napkins, ticky-tacky motels, circus rides and
phoney fairylands.
Wheh the good land 'is gone. it costs more to produce less
qn poorer land which leads to higher costs .and higher food
prices.
There is no choice. Farmland must be preserved in this
province for future generations.
they'll be demonstrating in
the international 'match in
the last week of September.
Also, the members of the
two 4-H Sod Buster Clubs in
Huron County partkiOated in
an achievement iray at the
Huron County match on
Friday an&then competed in
the open- competitions on
Saturday.
The Queen of the Furrows
(=petition drew four fodr
competitors, who earned
points both for their skill with
the plow and their public
speaking.
The winner was Anne
Stewart, 22, of R.R.5,
Seafor,th who will represent
Huron County at the Inter-
national Plowing Match.
The runner-up was
Elizabeth Datars of the
Exeter area,
The two,other competitors,
were Patti Downs of R.R.1,
Hensall and Kathy Pentland
of R.R.6, Goderichs.
The judges in the speaking
competition were Keith
Ro-ulston, editor of The Rural
Voice; Sheila
Arinationg, a former OntariO--
Queen of the Furrow and
Mrs. John Stevens, director
tom Perth County • to -th-e-
Ontario Plowmen's As-
saci at ion.
In other afternoon events,
the open class was won by
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DRIVING HOME THE POINT — Mrs. Mildred
Perrie of Brussels demonstrated she's no
stranger to the art of pounding home a' nail in,
the nail driving contest held at the Huron
County Plowing Match on Saturday.
(Brussels Post Photo)
Ron Pentland of RR6,
Goderich, third.
In the horseshoe
competition class 1 which
involved Huron County
ptayers only the team' of ,
Lloyd' Venner of Hensall and
Keith Lovell of RR 2, Kippen
placed first, the team Of_
Harold Carter of Goderich -
and Court Kerr of •RR 4,
Goderich placed, second and
the team of Ray Consitt and
Robert Bell, both of Kippen,