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A large number of Huron
ounty farmers attended the
nual meeting last Thursday
;fight of the Huron Soil .and Crop
improvement Association and
'eard about crop methods in
European Countries.
The guest speaker was. Terry
aynard of the . Crop Science
epartment of the. University of
uelph. Dur ing the summer of
975, Mr. Daynard visited the
gricultural areas of France,
ialy, Yugoslavia and Hungary.
The farms' he visited ranged
pin • a low of 10- acres in
ugoslavia to 80,000 acre
i mmune farms in Hungary.
tockyards
market
is steady
The market at Brussels Stock-
ards was steady Friday on fat
the •with all classes of feeder
attic and pigs selling at stronger
flees.
Choice Steers - 41.00 to 43.00.
Good Steers - 39.00 to 41.00.
Two steers consigned by Dan
ichty of Brussels averaging 1130
bs, sold for 42.90.
Thirteen steers consigned by
tuart. Strong of Gorrie averaging
1001 lbs. sold for 42.90 with his
offering of 26 steers averaging
1013 lbs. selling for 42.60. ,
Twelve steers consigned by
George Adams of Wroxeter
averaging 1173 lbs. sold for
42.50.
Ten steers consigned by Frank
Voisin of Formosa averaging 1067
lbs. sold for 42.10.
Choice Heifers - 38.00 to 40.00
vith sales to 41.50. '
Good Heifers - 36.00 to 38.00.
A heifer consigned by Jan
Visscher of Wallenstein weighing
970 lbs. topd the market at
41.50 ,his offering, of 15
heifers averaging 965 lbs. selling
for 38.10.
Twelve heifers consigned by L
B Farms of Wallenstein
averaging 1011 lbs. sold for 40.70
with their 29 heifers averaging
964 lbs. selling for 39.60.
Choice Cows - 23.00 to 25.00
with sales to 27100.
Good Cows - 21.00 to 23.00.
Bulls traded to a high of 27.25.
30 to 40 lb. pigs traded to a
high of 41.75.
40 to 50 lb. pigs to a high of
50.00.
50 to 60 lb. pigs to a high of
55.00.
60 to 70 lb. pigs to a high of
57.00.
Several loads of western calves
will be arriving at Brussels
Stockyards next week for private
sale.
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At the present time, Terry
Daynard is doing research at
Guelph to develop a system for
handling corn stalks. hi
Yugoslavia he discovered small
pockets of corn scattered along
the hillside where farmers picked
their corn by hand and then went
back to harvedst the stalks. The
management practice has been in
use in Yugoslavia for 400 years.
The, Guelph researcher was
amazed that Europeans harvest
corn much wetter than Canadians
do. He brought some seed back
and grew it at Guelph. Last fall
they were able to combine it quite
successfully at 50 per cent
moisture.
Many of the Europe corn
hybrids appear to thresh much
easier than Ontario hybrids.
In France fuel costs are about
50 per cent higher than Ontario
and consequently they are also
trying to make their corn dryers
more efficient. Much of the corn
in. France is stored in cribs but
they are never more than two feet
wide.
Mr. Daynard believes the
Europeans have done a great deal
• more experimentation with tillage
equipment than the Canadian or
American farmer and research
personnel in these countries have
studied the effects of various
tillage implements. on• the soil
structure.
In France farmers literally hate
dead furrows and almogtall of the
plows were reversible moldboard
on reversible disc plows. Slides
were shown to the Huron farmers
of the various chisel plows,
reciprocating harrows, rotators
and deep tillage instruments in
action.
Corn planters used in many of
the European countries also had
interesting features which Mr.
Daynard would like to see
adapted to work on Canadian corn
planters if they can be made to
work under North American
planting conditions.
Many of the. European concepts
are presently incorporated into
the research 'program at Guelph
as growing conditions in the corn
areas of Europe and Canada are
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