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Shattered glass littered the road as officers from the Wingham
Detachment of the O.P.P. investigated a car-truck collision in
Brussels Thursday morning in the cold driving rain. The two
passengers in the car, driven by Louis MacLennan, Waterloo,
were thrown from the car by the impact. All three occupants of
clip winter wheat
the MacLennan car were injured and taken to Wingham
Hospital. Paul McDonald, driver of the McDonald Lumber truck,
was not injured. Damage to both vehicles was estimated at
$3,500 by police.
BUMPER
STICKERS Don't
. Prospects for a lush top
growth of winter wheat are good
.this fall and farmers may be con-
cerned that these rapidly-
growing' fields are highly suscep-
tible to winterkill.
They needn't worry, accord-
ing to Dr. C.S.Baldwin, head of
the soils section at the Ridgetown
College of Agricultural Tech-
nology. Field trials conducted
in 1971-72 proved that concern
'about winterkill is unwarranted
no matter how•tall the crop, and
that clipping it invites disaster.
The fall of 1971 was a year
with exceptionally good, growing
conditions for winter wheat. By
mid-November, many fields were
showing excess top growth, some
stands 18 incheS high. For their
experiment, the soils section
chose one area near Tilbury, On-
tario, where the wheat was about
15 inches high with some spots
measuring 23 inches.
To stimulate grazing condit-
ions, researchers used a sickle •
bar mower to clip some of the
stands to a three-inch stubble.
'By mid•December
'
the clipped
areas appeared extremely
healthy with a regibwth of about
two inches which had occurred in
the two weeks after clipping. The
Was it you?
Does your Conscience hurt just
a teeny wee bit?
For the havock you caused that
When just for tin, the night
Were
you took that stop sign .away.
"Oh well heck" they just sinashed
their car,
Their bodies just flew every bones,
They only shattered some es;
cut therhaelves
And staggered in bleddy disinay.
E.yep" strangers they were with
a job to go to,
But they no 1311 htiStital lay,
DO you eVer stop long enough to
think,
It COW happen to you some day.
so When itilloWeen comet' sure i
haves your toi
trios hp and visit your friends,
Bat take it freth
• to cause trouble and pain, is'
*beret iiitileWeen fun really(
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44hother
check plots of unclipped wheat
had turned brown and matted con-
But by mid-April, another
side of the story began b appear,
reports Dr. Baldwin. All areas
that had been clipped to the 3-.
inch stubble were by this time
almost totally winter-killed. The
unclipped check plots showed vir-
tually 100 percent survival and,
eventually went on to yield 48
bushels per acre.
Dr. Baldwin theorizes that
it may have been the clipping
that produced such complete win-
terkilling. “It's possible that the
regrowth so depleted the root
reserves that the plants were
easy prey to winterkilling."
Whatever the reason, the field
trials showed Stand should not be
grazed or clipped, no matter how
lush the growth appears.
ARV
The normal move
western feeder cattle to
feedlots has been disru
year. Because of mart
ditions and good weathel
west, Western produce
leaving their calves on t
longer than usual.
Ideally, the cattle sh
in the feedlots now, s
have time to acclimatiz
selves to Ontario con
according to Dr. D. Davi
diseases specialist
Ontario Ministry of Agri
andFood.
The late arrival of t
feeder cattle crop coul
additional health proble
feedlot operators. • As
the normal stress 'eau
shipping, the cattle may
'from bad weather en r
poor weather' condition
they reach Ontario.
Disease control me
on arrival must be the
thorough ever used, Dr.
emphasizes.
Feedlot Operators should
fully clean and prepare the
lot facilities. Isolation pe
newly-arrived cattle and ha
pens for sick animals sho
thoroughly washed' down
disinfected. The ins tallat
squeezes and chutes makes
ling and treatment of
easier.
Shipping fever is pr
the most common problem
feeder ' cattle. Plehty of
good grass hay and ade
water are important.
rested animals are better
to combat stress and resis
eases.
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season, more Ontario
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with birkjer yields in WON'
heat Unit area are changing
the Ontario corn map.
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