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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1959-09-10, Page 9• .1,-.14.•carat,-4aPereg‘4.4t474.. 40404, , • • 4,4ssolswe" lielVW,4e!SS. easseSeaser 7.,.........mfr ......4,. ‘. ,,, VA' """.%Vtiigt .'' - :44; • " ...... •• ,.... ' •'.. ' t' • '..* ' , le ylit 0 :•:' • *Ogre aaperallatasaeg „.. , "'s.• • aasseetersastraers' A.. tilt.4:4•11.! • • .,"41TX *A4gAlAith.W. KIPPEN .8011 -DING COMES DOWN—Jim Kyle, 'son of the former owne4., points to workmen tearing down the store at the Kippen intersection, The building was pur- chased by the Ontario Department of Highways for demolition in order to improve vision at the intersectio.n. Bert Lobb, Londesboro, bought the building at an auction and has hired a crew to tear it down, Photo Sociologist reports Farmers proud of freedom but dislike uncertainty Canadian farmers like their independent way of life, hut dis- like the uncertainty of income that; goes with It,. These are part of the findings of a survey carried out under Dr. Helen C. Abell, rural socio- logist with the Canada Depart - MOM of Agriculture. About 300 people were interviewed in Onta- rio and Alberta on what they con- sidered to be the best and worst in rural living Explains Dr. Abell.: "When these. values are expressed. and carefully considered, it becomes possible to formulate plans to perpetuate and improve the best things and to overcome or, if ne- cessary, accept the worst." The best in rural living: —Closeness to nature, with plenty of fresh air and privacy, --Frie.ndliness and neighborli- ness of the rural community. —Increasing availability of run- ning water, electricity and labor- savitig machinery. —Economic advantages — the opportunity of owning a home and 'farm business, a lower cost of living and fresher food pro - duets. -Special educational service, such. as home economics and other agricultural extension cour- ses, music festivals and. an in- creasing number of consolidated schools. The worst? More than hair o( (hose . viewed mentioned economic fac- tors — -including irregular, uncer- tainor limited income, tncerthin- ty regarding crops, weather or farm labor, long .working hours end .hard physical labor. One-half to one-fifth added: —Starcity or poor quality of community facilities (sometimes both), including some schools and roads, a scarcity of medical doc- tors. and registered nurses, a little fire protection, and a lack of cultural —A lack of conveniences on the farm, particularly an inequality in living standards and the work involved in keeping up an old home, —Certain personal or person- ality characteristics of some ru- ral people such as self pity, in- tolerance and a lack of interest and :participation in community affairs. —Unsanitary andobjectionable environmental conditions —road- side litter and garbage, Eies and mosquitoes, sanitation in some. rural schools and homes, Concludes Dr. Abell: "Today more • .and more rural families are consciously or unconsciously weighing the best and the worst in rural Jiving to decide whether to join the flow to the cities or re- main on the land as part of the small essential farm population of Canada." Second Section e (Exefer EXFTER, ONTARIO, SEPTEMISkR 10, 1959 buocafe < Ps W!, 111' See new .developments Ifl. bei:.. to ralteyiei ds, improve quality, Results of tests with new va- appointing, developments a r e , spread of the difficulty. rieties, fertilizers, fungicides and taking place which may help Fungus spores of antbratInOall Testing on small plots Iherbicicles were viewed by Hu- growers increase yields and irn-i can be spread, by rain splash/Ili ron county bean groth vera al, a prove e quality of their beans. i them from plant to plant, haf sunrise meeting Thursday at the ' One encouraging sign'was the 'implements runriing throngh the ;farms of Jack Peck and Alex announcement that a canning crops and by stubble. He predter gives occurcite results !Me.Murtrie, near Kippen. company has found an experi- ted plant breeders Will be kerp$ Farmers learned that while mental chemical which had busy for 100 years developing "Can't see why you grow these! two rows in a. 4 -row plot. The many of the local tests were .dls-. stopped the spread of blight in a ' anthraenose-free strains. new varieties in such short lit- outside rows acts as a buffer de rows. Wouldn't it be better or guard. For example, they to compare them under 'real farm conditions and grow these new types out in 2 -acre fields or bigger? Seebis to me it would be more 'practicer—more like we grow them at home." Maybe you haven't said that to a researcher when you've been looking over variety test plots, but chances are you've thought it. To some folks it looks as if plant breeders are pampering the plants. Some people even tend to distrust the results until they see how the new variety works out for a neighbour. Don't be fooled. Yield tests have shown a few rows of grain or forage will give just as ac- curate a yield as 5 acres of the crop—maybe more so, explains the Ontario Department of Agri- culture's forage expert, Dr. Tos- sell. "Small plots are needed when we're making a Jot of compari- sons, say 15 or 20 variety trials. If we take 20 varieties and put them nn 2 -acre plots, yee'll. need 40 acres to grow , out all the varieties in tire test, That amount of land is almost impossible to get in every county. And even if we get that 40 acres and one variety is to the left and one to the right of that 40 acres, the chances are there will be an mportant difference in soil be- tween the two sides," "And the difference you see between the two varieties may be due to varieties or It may he due to land; you , can't fell which. To get away from 'land variation' when we're . growing a large number of varieties, we shrink those areas down to' small plots and repeat those, varieties 2 to 5 times. Now you have each variety on a different: land area and the land differ- ences tend to `level out' ". "Then when you•see one vari- ety is 30 bushels higher yielding than another, that means it! really is 10 bushels higher. And the difference. is due to variet- ies, not due to soil." The OAC researcher says that! field plantings are all right if! only 2 or 3 varieties are being; compared. "You can put one! acre in variety A, one acre in! variety 13, and one acre in vari- ety C, and repeat each of them once, so that yot end up with six acres. There probably won't be much land difference on. this size of acreage. These one -acre lots will be no more accurate, han the small plots but they' will show you what the new vari- eties look like in full. stands. What about growing these plots! so close to one another? Won'l! ne plot he affected by another,' ou might ask? "We just harvest the centre n Need fan idairy barn o stop drip on walls Fall is fast coming on and if you had trouble with drip and frost on your barn. walls last winter, now's the time to think about fixing up your ventilation. "A fan is needed in the spring and fall," says Larry Donoghue, Kemptville Agricultural School, one of the Ontario Department of Agriculture's farm building specialists, "We've found that you need a fan rating of 100 rim (100 cubic fee per minute) for each 1000 pounds of stock in the barn. This usually works out to 100 cfm per head in the barn." "Don't buy fans on the diame- ter alone," advises .Doneghtte. t "Buy on the manufacturer's rat- ing efm. For example, a 'barn ;having about 35 head in it would need a fan with a rating of about !35O0 dm. For large barns with lover 40 head, two fans are need- ed: one about one quarter of the total rating and running constant - while the other operates on • *17.---s...." ---"..—,:ii: • ''v:'''""--------':"'I'A.''. ...: •,:i t7:76- ,i tqc •,• Elmo 411 wain yit ;altaviiiipie,: t4i4 - t, acre4.40 4u11). ets :per i,vre Desitoilififfifit6 phosphor- e#*„tyv40)Ss.' ioWeriirf6in the soil. * ae of 8 „tons inamite per acre, only 24 V' 4 14415:0i4peen, S:065. 0§1osph °roils and 32 lbs. P?;,„„hei4tieutNtbe afimiektrie the first year—and then tf only if idea' managerial. contfit4Ons (cii*nute apitred."(tfrect)y Arid . plowed under.) * 4uasit 40014.1. fall wheat kite4r4„,,#te;',13riaite4114)(the r4inerit 'deficiencies" by .effwiti 266 ?IN.', 4;24.12 miwtti14. s (*a ,Aliaviieg414441/fri cfx"t-v".* matt Fkael" .44104yors MeV 'MOD EXETER DISTRICT Nene 2$7 telitti Onside CNR Sfoirion thermostatic control. Single fans of the 3 -speed type or the ther- mostatically controlled shutter type will. also give more even air circulation than the standard type of single fan." Best locations? He suggests placing the :tan on the side of the barn away from the prevail- ing wind, and preferably near the corner of the stable. One idea is to put the 'fan near the box stalls to pull the warm air towards the calves. Donoghue says: " Put the fans p as high in the wall as possible t and set them in a window frame in place of a normal sash. Ducts on the inside of the stable around the fan aren't necessary. They only restrict air circulation. In 0 a two -fan inatallation, keep .the y —Please turn to page 13 Prevent an early oat affecting a late oat next to it. in forage three feet wide and 12 feet long plots we usually harvest a strip from the middle ot a 5 x 15 foot plot, This way we can be fairly certain that the sample is unaffected by other varieties,' answers Tossell. Sometimes the yields reported from plots appear to be a little high. This is often true. Scien- tists look for a uniform area, it won't show the soil differ wires your field does, evert though your soil might be class- ed as same type. "Take alfalfa. If we're testing alfalfa on well - drained soil, we'll pick out an area where every square foot is well drain- ed, A. farm field might he class- ed as well drained but have up to lra of the soil which isn't welt drained. Alfalfa on a field scale then might go out on some of the little water furrows and depressions," says Tossell, "We take this into accoant f when we talk about our hay yields. They're reported on a 2aa moisture. basis Most farm- ers put'having 20^: ; actually be abo up our hay one-fifth more hayyield would t moisture. So if we talked iabout it on a a0ea- ! moisture basis.So if a farmer has a very nnif 01'171 well-drained I, he might find our yieldser soia little low. 11 he has Ni -drained soil, heariable , the yield quite Olose Igl turri-hits ownfind well -drained or too high, he adds. Huron county crop report By D. H, MILES A few fields of grain remain unharvested, hut harvest of coarse grain is, generally, com- pleted. White bean harvest is taking place under ideal weather con- ditions. Both yield and quality is higher (han originally expect -I ed. A great deal of fall plowing and after -harvest cultivation is taking place. Some fall wheat has been sown but most of the crop will go in this week. It would be expected that higher acreage will be sown than in 1958. There was a fairly active movement of finished steers to market last week. Canada's population includes people of .about 45 different ra- cial origins and, including the many language groups into which the Eskimo and Indian popula- tion is divided, there are about 75 different languages spoken in Canada, rom Bin To Bin 0 00 IN BULK The Modern, Low Cost Way Of Feed Handling NO HUFF NO PUFF NO FUSS NO MUSS You can SAVE MONEY by buying youHUR-GAIN food in Bulk—and have savings in libour and handling too. Losses through spillage and vermin, which cam be costly—will be drastically reduced. So For Really Fresh keels .1ro Jost 'Give Us A .Coll LifritTED GRAIN - FEED • SEED EXETER 735 WHALEN CORNERS' 7r=4,..4 KIRKTON ,35121 rea juniors in CNE test Thirteen junior 'farmers from limn county participated in the judging competition. at. the CNE Wednesday. Ag Rep Douglas Miles and his assistant, Don GrieVe„were in charge of the Members from this area eluded Edward, Lorne and Tom Bern, Keith Coates and Gerald Others included !Mac Stewart, Gary and Dennis Jewitt, Bob Broadfoot, Ron Smith, Peter Doig, Jim MeNaughto.n, Keith Woods and Roger Kieffer. Spraying in fall said profitable Generally speaking, the hest time to spray weeds is early in the season, and for annual weeds this means in the spring. But many of the troubJesome weeds are biennials and are in their seedling stage in late summer and early fall. Examples of such weeds are wild carrot. yellow rocket, pasture thistles and many of the knapweeds. The field crops branch of the Ontario Department of Agricul- ture. reports that fall spraying affects these weeds at their most susceptible stage. In pastures and on roadsides, grass growth at this period provides less cover for the weeds. These two factors combine to make it a good dollar - and - cents proposition to use the sprayer in the fall as well as in the spring. In the case of resistant peren- nials such as leafy spurge, Can- ada thistle and sow thistle, a spraying in the spring does only half a job. Fall spraying more than doubles the. effectiveness of spraying as a control mea- sure. In addition to killing or weakening weeds, fall spraying interferes with normal harden - big -off for winter, Many weeds, that would normally survive are! winter killed following a falli spray. The necessary chemicals and: their rates of application are listed in Ontario Department of Agriculture circulars A and 13,! • local field of canning beans. This Bacterial blight winters on the product will he investigated to coat of tile seed or in the :soil, see if it will produce similar re -:Be urged farmers not to so sults with white beans. ibeans in the same fields which While blight has been Tireva- had produced blight - affected lent in the area this summer, erops. its toll has not been as serious • Seed treatments, he said, eat as had been anticipated, it was , help to prevent seed decay or revealed, by Ag Rep Douglas "damping off" but would not be Mlles who was chairman of the too effective if wet weather bolt meeting. One of the most se -lowed seeding. riously affected .crops, owned by Dick Franks, also of WOAI, Earl Soldan, north of Hensel), said his department hoped te yielded. 25 bushels to the acre, ; have one recommendation of I he reported. i herbicide for beans in 1960 but Some experts held out hopes, experiments to date had not that , seed varieties more resta-t been too satisfactory. 47 sea tent to blight could be devel- I quite a bit of weeds in your plied; others foresaw improved beans and they must be cutting weed Control chemicals whieh down your yields." he said. Te would increase yields; while i date, cultivation has proven the still others predicted the devel- mort effeetive eontrol. aliment of chemicals to control Tests have been tried in 'Kent diseases. I county with two commercial One disturbing note was the in- sprays Premerge (Dow) and creasing evidence of the Mexi-!Simax (Chipman), and while can bean beetle which this sum -I, growers reported there was "not mer ruined several ;crops in the i much to look at at first, they Bayfield area. Growers were were surprised at the increased warned that steps may have to, yields which resulted at picking be taken to control this insect time." in future years. Jack Stephens, CIL represeele Wen Snow, of the Western On-; tative, reported that trials with tario Agricultural School, Ridge-! manganese additives in fertilis town, described the new varie- zeros had not proved successful ties of beans grown in test plots but tests will be continued. .Ane on the Peck farm. other representative of this firm "We haven't got any variety felt manganese had been su'e that's very good," he said. "Our cessful in Michigan because. of bean et -ens look like heck, yet the deficiency in the soil there, they always seem to come Ile felt that Huron soils, how - through." He felt the great need ever, had a higher manganese was for an early variety which content. could be combined directly. ; Bill Hardy May and Bake Work is being clone on the Mi-: representative, reported mixed dente and Sanilae varieties ! results in tests with Tubosan, which, he said, have been res- new chemical which was tried ponsible for the boom in the in an attempt to control blight. bean business. Sanilar. lie re- Weed control experiments with vealed, had been rushed into , Eptam, another new produet, ;production to replace Michelite proved fairly successful at the ' which had been "going to pot." rate of six pounds per acre. 013. This haste had resulted in some the farm of Alex McMurtrie. It loss of purity in the aced and had little effect on areal, attempts are being made to sprayed at the rate of two and !build up a pure strain. ' four pounds. Most encouraging results in : Ag Rep Miles warned grower the development of an early not to use 'Eptam, however, uns seed have been obtained by Mi - til further 'tests were made. .At ehigan plant breeders who are present., cost of the chemical le working with a number of new , over .$20 a gallon but this price strains. So is the Central Expe- would be lowered if the market rimental Farm al. Ottawa hut warranted increased production, they are having difficulty over-' Mr. Miles announced that his coming, the problem of thin office is attempting to secure skins in their varieties. 1,000 pounds of new Sanilae The numerous diseases which seed from. Idaho for the 1960 attack beans were outlined by elub project, Prof. C. 73. Kelly, OAC, who des-, The meeting. attended by * crib methods of control. 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