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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1978-09-20, Page 40ALFRED KNECHTEL Spray Painting Ltd. , —SPECIALIZING IN FARM BUILDINGS— FREE ESTIMATES PAINTING PRESERVES AND BEAUTIFIES 15191 669-2638 2 WALLENSTEIN, ONTARIO NOB 2S0. Mired in the mud at Seaforth's IPM in 1966 Horses are still a part of the match SEE US at the International Plowing Match Tent No. 2 Commercial Court on Headquarters Rd. 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This trailer can be closed in for winter. - Now available with an electronic scale sAtern. Read-out box can be easily mounted on side-frame. • IEGLING some dealer areas still available 7 miles West of Lucknow on Hwy. #86. FARM EQUIPMENT LTD For More Information Phone 519-395-5107 — THE PLOWING MATCH SUPPLEMENT Committee sure: horses at '78 IPM Though chairmen of the other 22 International Plow- ing Match local committees have expo-fenced Ontario Plowmen ,;• Association (OPA) reprcs, tai yes_ and committee chairnian from past years to help them, Don Martin is almoSt alone in planning his committee's work. site for horses, providing hay and straw for them, and supplying horses to people who want to compete in the horse plowing competition, but don't have horses. Ultimately, the job of any Mr. Martin, of the Ethel area, is chairman of the IPM demonstrations committee, and the annual plowing match, which is expected' to attract about 250,000 to the Wingham area, has never had a demonstrations com- mittee before. The committee has 'about 205 acres of land in the of the 23 committees organi- zing IPM .'78, Mr. Aitchison said, is "to make things as pleasant as, we can for anybody who comes to the plowing match." There really won't be a horse show at the match in the traditional sense, as most of the 34 to 40 horses expected at IPM '78 will be there for plowing. Some `show type' trophies will be awarded to plow horses. The remaining horses will be at the, match for the huge parade, which will be held daily at 1 p.m., or will be in the tented city promoting 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 rekind16 some memories. "It's really an honor to participate in, a thing like this, in our part of the county," he said. This year's plowing match is the first • time IPM has come to this end of the county in his lifetime "and I don't expect I'll ever see it again" in this area, he said, As chairman, of the Inter- national Plowing Match team and horse show committee this year, Jim Aitchison of R.R.2, Lucknow, sees his committee's job as finding accommodation near the IPM . proximity of the tented city,. for farm equipinent comp- anies and dealers to demon- strate 'how .their machinery works. There will be about 90 acres of grain corn which may or may not be ready for combining during the match, • and there will be grain stubble to till, and there may be some corn silage to harvest. Mr. Martin said machinerY' companies have been less than eager to participate in the demonstrations. "I guess they arc afraid it may turn into a competition,' he said. The demonstrations, he noted, are simply to give plowing match visitors a chance to see the various types of machinery in action. Even the OPA was a little wary .abottt trying the demonstrations, Mr. Martin said because Much of the revenue brought in by the five-day plowing match is the rental of space in the 87-acre tented city. OPA officials didn't want the detrion- strationS to let exhibitors think they Could 'be a part of the match free of charge. Because of the limited space, it is unlikely the demonstrations Will be oil- tiouotts, he said, and will probably be only at set fifties, The demonstrations will likely be- held late in the morning or in early afternoon Mr: Martin said, so some tractors and wagons which Ott used ,to fO take people between the tented city and their cars i can be spared to give rides 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; Torn Penhale, Bayfield; and Arnold Young, Goderich , are all members of the committee, under Mr. Aitchison's leadership. He shows his Belgians at competitions. The committee has secured space for horses in several barns near the match site, and Mr: Aitchison said area farmers, especially Murray Jenkins, have been quite co-operative in provi- ding room for the show and plow horses. The committee provides hay aid 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 st ing in the tented city and wont 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.