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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1966-10-13, Page 21Howdy Pardnerl Please look us up at our booth at the plowing match. See the many quality controlled veterin. ary products that your local McClelland dealer carries to help you solve your farm stock disease problems. Get your free copy of the McClelland Product Catalogue. Branches at Edmonton, Calgary, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, London, Ont. VETERINARY SUPPLIES ALBERTA LORIMER 111111111111111111111111111111ffi POWER PLUS 11111111111111111111111111111•11/ fROM KLINZING SINCE 1899 SUNOCO SUNOCO congratulates those responsible for this fifty-third annual International Plowing Match in Huron County. We welcome, to, the thousands who will visit this outstanding agricultural gathering at Seaforth. Visit the Sunoco exhibit in Tented City. Learn about the famous Sunoco products — gasoline, oil, diesel fuel, fuel oil, greases, lubricants . . . how these products can aid you and save you in your farm operations. Ross Scott Limited Brucefield, Ontario Wholesale distributors for Sun Oil Co. Ltd. n -r • S • High quality milk production deserves the finest bulk handl- ing . and it's yours with a turn of a switch when a Mueller bulk tank is installed in your milk house. • Choose either "vacuum" or "atmospheric" models in a size that suits your operation . . from 00 to 2000 gallons. We'll be happy to review all our features with yoti . . your conven. ience. On display at the Plowing Match C. RICHARDSON and Company Limited ST. MARYS, ONTARIO FARMERS I Comparative prices, service, and quality blended together spell the nation wide famous words . . . Aero Fertilizers Only at Scotch Fertilizers (Ailsa Craig) Limited is it known that comparative prices do not mean anything if service and quality do not go along with it. We offer you full ser- vice for all your needs on the farm. Fertilizers Granulated, Commercial, Analysed Fertilizers, or mixed to your own requirements. Nitrogen Aero prills in handy 50 lb. bags, Aero urea in 80 lb. bags or in bulk, Anhydrous ammonium, applied by us or by cust- omer, Urea Solution 41%. Insecticides We handle a full line of insecticides for every grub or in- sect. Weed Killer Atrazine 65W, Atraoil, 2-4-D, Eptam, Lorox, etc. Seedgrain, grasseed, cloverseed, hay and pasture mixtures, seed corn, Rosco grain bins, wagons and grain boxes, Kong- skilde fertilizer spreaders, Concord baler twine. Calrea Mr. Farmer, you too, can get faster gain from your beef with less feed this coming winter. "Calrea" is a mixture of Lyrea and agr. limestone for mixing with silage at en- siling time. ,Calrea' is bagged in 50 lb. paper bags for easy handling. Fall Fertilizer Program Think of all the benefits when you apply your fertilizer in the fall: e Lower prices • Faster service • Spread- ing your work load • More planting time in spring • No spreader tracks on your land in the spring. We Offer You Free soil sampling; Free crop consultation; Fast loading, either bags or bulk; 100% reliable spreading equipment; Delivery where it is needed; Pickup allowance; Bulk Dis- count; Quantity discount; Cash discount. USE AERO FERTILIZER and get a top yield from every field. Phone Ailsa Craig 293-3272 or after hours Mr. W.Victor Knip, Manager, Exeter 235-1757 Fieldman for Biddulph, Blanshard and London Twps. Mr. Gordon C. Dann, Granton,Phone 14 Fieldman for McGillivray, East Williams, West Williams and Lobo Twps. Mr. Harold Martin, RR 3 AIISa Craig, Phone 293-3186 SCOTCH FERTILIZER (Ailsa Craig) Ltd. Ailso Craig, Ont. Outlines history, organization of match A FEW FACTS Progress long way since1846 About the International Plowing Match 1, It is sponsored by the Ontario Plowmen's Association and will be held this year in co-operation with the Huron County Local Committee on the Jas. Scott Farm at Seaforth from Tuesday, October 11th to Friday, October 14th. 2. It is considered to be the largest agricultural outdoor event of its kind in Canada, if not in the world. 3. It brings together hundreds of top plowmen from 64 association branches in Ontario, to compete for tro- phies, trips and cash, having a value of over $15,000,00. 4. The name International indicates that some classes are open to competitors from the rest of Canada and from other world countries. Besides, the Association takes its turn with other provinces in being host to the Canadian Plowing Council, sponsors of the annual Can- adian Championship Contest. 5. The popularity of the International, which has drawn as high as 170,000, is largely due to the fact it moves about the province and is held only on invitation from the Council and Agricultural Organizations in the host county. had their block men and dealers look up plows for competitorS, Coupled with this was their In- terest in arranging exhibits at the plowing match of other lines of equipment and the demonstra- ting of same. This brought a- bout the setting up by the Plow- men's Association of a properly organized exhibit area and which is now commonly known as "Ten- ted It was not long until firms with other lines of labour saving devices came in as exhibitors. Today those using the match in addition to the above include banks, oil companies, producers of cars and truck, dairy equip- ment, farm building, household and garden supplies, also live- stock breeders, chick hatcheries, seed and fertilizer companies, real estate agencies, radio, T.V. stations and newspapers. In addition government agen- cies and departments have joined the ranks and each year occupy a large portion of the exhibit area. 6. The International is also popular with companies, firms and organizations desirous of displaying their goods and services before a vast audience of rural people. Practic- ally every type of modern equipment used by farmers is exhibited. The entire space in Tented City is al- ways booked well in advance of the event. 7. In addition to farm equipment exhibits and plowing con- tests, demonstrations of interest to growers of corn for livestock feeding or a cash crop are planned for each day of the Match. Tuesday has been set aside as Corn Land Day. 8. Special Events throughout the week will include plowing for Wardens, Mayors, Queen of the Furrow and Press. Horse Shoe Pitching by teams from plowing branches In Ontario will also be featured. 1946, the site being Port Al- bert in Huron County. In 1926 it was given the title Interna- tional Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Demonstration. The setting up of a provin- cial association in 1911 gave new life to branches all across the province. The number grew until today we have 65 affilia- ted with the parent body. These branch matches have served as the training ground for compet- itors wishing to compete for provincial honours and more re- cently one of the rules for the International Match is that a competitor must have been a prize winner at a local match. with the all new.... meeting and convention of the provincial association with a month or so later. Each branch assumes the full responsibility of carrying on its own program without finanical assistance from the parent body. Provincial board members, on invitation, attend meetings and help wherever possible in the promotion of local match pro- grams. Useful information is gi- ven branch delegates who attend the annual provincial convention. During recent years branches have enlarged their activities by staging other events in con- junction with their plowing match such as demonstrations of farm drainage, brush, stump and fence removal, corn and soyabean har- vesting, the use of newer types of implements including plows. In addition very few branch mat- ches are held without machinery displays of some kind. from O gM OV POND DD LAC, WISCONSIN —041/4164 row I01 INIIMITIC litabt A MEMO TO: HOG PRODUCERS In co-operation with the Huron County Hog Producers' As- sociation we are sponsoring a display at the Plowing Match on the James Scott Farm. Producers and other interested visitors are welcome to drop in. Officials will be on hand to answer questions or discuss problems. Ontario Hog Producers' Association I Top Quality Well Sold ORGANIZATION The provincial Association has a board of 40 directors. Each represents a county or territ- orial district with one or more matches. All board members are farmers or retired farmers. The board also has two junior direc- tors. They are nominated by the Ontario Junior Farmers' Assoc- iation. Each branch, which may either be on a township or county basis, holds its annual meeting in De- cember at which delegates are appointed to attend the annual By F. A. LASHLEY Secretary-Manager Ontario Plowmen's Assoc. Plowing matches have been a part of our Agricultural pro- gram in Ontario for well over a century. In the early days they were sponsored by Agricul- tural Societies, the first farm groups to be established and history records that in 1846 when the first provincial exhibition was held in the City of Toronto a special feature of the event was a plowing match. It took place on a farm on Yonge Street in the vicinity of St. Clair Avenue. These matches not only gave farmers an opportunity to dis- play their skill in the handling of a walking plow but to show the fine teams of horses many of which were imported or were from imported stock. The holding of competitions of this type in conjunction with an exhibition or fair was never very practical as it was difficult to find suitable land conveniently located in relation to the fair grounds, therefore, those espec- ially interested decided to stage such contests apart from the fair and the result was the set- ting up of Plowing Associations on a township or county basis. This plan was quite general by the turn of the century. How- ever by 1911, interest in mat- ches had fallen off so much that a meeting of officers re- presenting the most active mat- ches was held in Toronto for the purpose of assessing the status of these events and what should be the future program. The result of this meeting 'was the formation of the Ont- ario Plowmen's Association. Two years later they held their first provincial match on a farm near the city which is now the site of Sunnybrook Hospital. There were 31 competitors with horse drawn plows but one brave soul entered the competition with a plow drawn by a tractor. It prov- ed to be a real curiosity. The match was so successful in the eyes of the Association that a decision was immediately made for the provincial match to be an annual event. It was re- peated on the same farm the next year but thereafter was rotated throughout those areas in Ont- ario where interest in plowing matches was keenest. The plan of holding the match in the fall season and in a new location each year has never been changed in the 53 years of the Association's existence. The match however was discontinued during the period of the last war but was revived again in JET STREAMER SILO UNLOADER EXHIBITORS From the time the tractor was introduced during the first world war as a labour saving device, farm machinery companies have taken a keen interest in the International. 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