HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1978-09-14, Page 60a t. IPM '78
— THE PLOWING MATCH SUPPLEMENT
Comniittoe-stair orses
Though chairmen of the'
other 22 International OtoW-
ing Match local committees
have expe-lenced Ontario
Plowmer A S. .S0 at it)ii
(OPA) reps' s, f.ia ive:- and
committee , chairman from
past years to help them, Don
Martin 'is almost alone in
'planning his committee's
work.
Mr. Martin, of the Ethel
area, is chairman of the IPM
denionstiations committee,
and the annual plowing
match, which is expected to'
attract about 250,000 to the
Wingham area. has never
had a demonstrations l-
Mittec before. -
The committee has about
205 acres of land in the
con
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,proximity of the tented city,
for farm equipmeiit comp.
anics and dealers •to demon=
straw how . their machinery
works. There will be about 90
acres of grain corn which
may or may not be ready for
comhinin'g during the match',
and there will be grain
stubble to till, and there may
be some corn , silage to
harvest.
.Mr. Martin said machinery
een less companies, litive• 'b
than eager to participate in
afraid it
the demonstrations.
"I guess they are
may turn into a competition,'
he said. Thedemonstrations,
y to give he noted, are simpl
plowing match visitors a
chance to see the various
types of machinery in action,
s a little
ng the
Martin
of the
by the,
• Even the OPA wa
wary about tryi
demonstrations, Mr.
said -because much
revenue brought, in
five-day plowing mat the
e 87-acre
officials
rental of space in th
tented city:. OPA
didn't want the demon-
strations to let e
think they could be
the Match free of Charge.,
limited
ely the
Because of the'
space, it is unlik
demonstrationg !.will be con-
and will.
et times,
ns will
the
tinuous, he 'said,
probably be only at s
The demonstratio
likely be held late
morning or in early a
Mr. Martin said,. so some
fractorS_and wagons _vvhichart
in
used• to take people between
fternoon
the tented city and their cars,
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"It's really an honor to
participate in a thing like
this; in our part of the
county," he said. is year's
plowing match i the first
time IPM has come to this
end of the,, county in •his
lifetime "and I don't expect
ever see it again" in this
area, he said. '
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horse show at thip, match in
the traditional sense, as most
of the 54 to ' 40 horses
expected at IPM '78 will be
there for plowing. Some
'show type' trophies will be
awarded to plow horses.
The fe*big -horses will
be at the match for the huge
' parade, which will be held
daily at I p.m:, or will be in
the tented city pronioting
products and services, Mr.
Aitchison said.
Plowing with horses is just
as pop ular with spectators
as plowing using tractors, he
Said. On a nice 'day, he
noted,-there-is- a-whole field-
full of retired farmers who
used to do farm work with
horses and want to .rekindle
some memories. •
All seven members of the
team and horse show
committee, either show
horses at competitions, or
have shown them, Mr.
Aitchison.said. Glenn Johns-
ton, Fordwich; Sam Pletch,
Belgrave; Bob Aitchison,
Lucknow; Tommy .Leiper,
Londesboro; Tom penhale,
, Bayfield; and Arnold Young,
Goderich , are all member's
of the committee, under Mr.'
- Aitehison's leadership. He
shows his Belgians at
competitions.
The committee has
seSured space for horses in
several barns near the match
site, and Mr. Aitchison said
. area . farmers, especially
Murray Jenkins, have been,
quite • co-operative lin provi-
ding room for, the -show and
plow horses. The committee
provides hay and stray for
plow-horses, he noted, and
makes hay .and straw avail-
able to owners of horses at
the match only for promotion
or the parade.
Some horses will be stq-
ing in the tented city and won t
need accommodation at a'
neighboring barn. A number
of feed and seed companies
use horses in their displays
in the tented city, Mr.
Aitchison said.
As ,chairman of the Inter-
national Plowing Match team
and' horse show committee.
this , year! Jim Aitchison of
Lucknow, sees, his
committee's job as 'finding
accommodation near the IPM ,
site for horses, providing hay
'and straw for them, and
supplying horses to people
who waist to compete in the
horse plowing competition,
but don't have horses.
Ultimately, the job of any
of the 23 comrni ees organi-
zing• IPM '78, . Aitchison
said, is •"to in' e things as
pleasant as we can for
anybody.,.who comes to the
plowing match."
There really won't be a
Mired in the mud at Seaforth's iPM in 1966
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