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Crowds expected
Plowing Match opens
The 1978 International Plowing Match and
Farm Machinery Show, located just east of
Wingham in Huron County, started Tuesday
and before the gates close Saturday at 6 p.m.
an estimated 250,000 people are expected to
be part of the largest farm machinery show
and plowing match in North America.
The newest tractors and farm implements
from Canada, the United States, Europe and
Japan will be there, as well as entire homes,
barns and silos. Programs for ladies will run
continuously from 9 each morning to 6 p.m.
in three 50 by 100 foot buildings, featuring
crafts, floral dispalys and seminars, fashion
shows, cooking exhibits and more. There
will even be a midway for youngsters.
The 'tented city at IPM '78 is the biggest
ever. A seventh street has been added to the
layout of the tented city, which is the world's
largest. One hundred and twenty acres are
covered with the tents, permanent buildings
constructed' ust for the five-- day show, and
with fully-serviced streets.
Growth of the plowing match has been
phenomenal, organizers say. When the site
was chosen in 1974, plans were for a tented
city with four streets. Now there are almost
800 exhibitors and caterers in tented city,
with almost five miles of road frontage.
A total of 176 Huron County people have
combined to form the local committee to
work with the Ontario .,Plowmen's As-
sociation and present IPM 78. The work of
these people provides not just the huge
tented city, but the planning behind parking
for 20,000 cars daily, wagons trains t0
transport the thouS'ands of visitors to IPM
from parking 40 the ,tented city and, from
tented city to the plowing competitions and
farm machinery demonstrations, and dozens
of other huge projects.
The demonstrations are a new feature of
the International Plowing' Match, as farm
machinety manufacturers, distributors and
dealers get a chance to show how
their tillage, harvest and other equipment
performs in the field.
Plenty of Plowing Too
Though many people who visit the
International Plowing Match don't get past
;the huge tented city, there is plenty•to be
seen beyond. Plowing competitons are held
daily, featuring both horse-powered plows
and tractor drawn plowing classes.
Special plowing classes in this year's
match feature • Queen of the Furrow
contestants, mayors of Ontario
municipalities, wardens and regional chair-
men of municipalities, and members of the
media.
A. list of the classes plowing and the
plowing location is posted each morning in
front of the , IPM Headquarters Building
along Headquarter Avenue at the west edge
of the tented city.
Winners of the plowing competitions and
the Queen of the Furrow contests will be
announced Friday night at the prize
presentation banquet at the Howie Com-
munity Centre between Gorrie and Harts
riston. Plowing champions will display their
talent Saturday at 10:30 a.m. in a special
plowing demonstration.
It is the third time in the 65 year history of
the International Plowing Match that it has
been held in Huron County and the first time
its has been held in the Wingham area.
The tented city site is located one mile
east of VVingham on. Highway 86. Routes to
the match and parking areas are clearly
marked with plowing match signs. The main
parkitig.reas will be to the west and north of
the tented city, with special parking for
buses and bicycles.
Anyone who wants to see the whole tented
city should take more that one day to visit
the farm implement displays, the feed, seed
and fertilizer, company exhibits, silo and feed
handling shows, the ladies programs,
household displays and all the other
attractions.
The finesse displayed by experienced
plowmen takes some time to appreciate as
well ; as competitiors from all over the world
,compete in the International Plowing Match
and. Farm Machinery Show, agriculture's
largest showcase
RYAN DRYING LTD•
WALTON, ONT.
We are now receiving
* White Beans *
(as a satellite dealer. for)
Henson Co-op
• • Honest Weights
• • • Courteous Service
We now have
a phone at the Mill
Phone 887i-9261
ATTENTION FARMERS
DON'T PLANTIN .
WINTER WHEAT
Have us custom apply your wheat
and fertilizer with our
'Big A' floatation applicator
DRILLvs. BROADCAST OF WINTER WHEAT - R.C.A T.
20kg.
Purina
Land
Preparation
Disk -
Field
Cultivator
Seeding
Method..
Fert.
Seed Mix,
Fert &
Seed Mix
Subsequent.
Incorporation
Disk .&
Harrow
Field
Cultivator
1977
5059.1
75.2 buf A
5257.2
78.2 but A
Yield kg. / ha.
1978
4948.4
73.6bu I A
5108.1
76 bufA
Average
-5003.7 A
74.4 bu/ A
5182.7 A
77.1 bu/A
Field
Drill
5780.4 -- 5225.8 '
5503.1 . A
Cultivator
86.0 Bu/A
77.7 bu /A
81.8 bu/A
COMMENTS: 1) Statistically there is no difference in the above yields. Ridgetown
suggests that either grain drill or broadcast with fertilizer will give satisfactory stands
and yieldsof wheat. It is necessary to incorporate the wheat with a disc, harrow or
cultivator after broadcasting.
2) Use a 2 bu/ A seeding rate, Lower yields will occur With a lower
Seeding rate.
PURINA '1.00 off per bale
DOG CHOW cliso
purina
•CAT PURINA
DOG CHOW CHOW
1000 off per bale
MILTON J. DIETZ LTD.
Phone 527-0608 R.R. (Seaforth o Ont.
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HENSALL: MITCHELL
262-2527 3-48.8433'
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LLOYD WNITtSELL