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Times-Advocate, 1980-05-14, Page 28Agricrew con work for formers Agricrew is available for its second year to farmers in Huron and Perth Counties. After .a very successful summer last year, we hope it will be just as successful or even more so now that it has had a good start. The program provides farmers with additional workers for limited periods of time when their requirements for help are at a peak, A crew consists of four young people, three, crewmembers and one foreman, These, crews of young, energetic people are ensured varied agricultural experience as they work on different types of farms. The tasks that they will be prepared to do will range from painting, fencing and general cleanup to haying, cleaning pens and har- vesting. For a limited fee, a farmer can have the help of these young people on a daily basis starting. June 23, Farmers are encouraged to call their local • Agricultural Office as soon as possible in regards to Agricrew as the program is based on a first-come-first- served basis. To hire an Agricrew or for more information call Heather Boyle, Huron-Perth Co-ordinator in the Stratford Agricultural office at 271- 0280. greoadfirfflb 4^ to /ram Sok/ • 41,. • • We are now a Westeel Rosco Dealer Grain Bins, Aeration Systems, Hopper Bottom Bins Will pour bases and erect bins if required. For more information Contact BRINTNELLCONSTRUCTIQN LTD. R.R. 1 Granton Phone 229-8244 Great Savings During The GREAT FORD MOWER GIVEAWAY •With A Lawn Garden Tractor FREE 42" ROTARY MOWER * * * • With A Lawn Tractor FREE ,34" ROTARY MOWER • With A Riding Mower FREE GRASS CATCHER Hurry... Offer Ends May 31 I SERVICE DEPT. SPECIAL ON ALL OIL FILTERS Buy 3 Get 1 Free Whge Supplies Last Better Farming Starts At EXETER FORD Equipment Sales Ltd EXETER 235-2200 Cayx-c7) Tractors Equipment ADVANCED 4-H HONOURS — Huron Home Economiit Grace Bird presented Advanced Honours certificates to Kathy Cooper, Elinwille and Wendy Beaver, Dashwood at Satur- day's Huron 4-H Achievement Day held in Exeter. Wendy Beaver completed her final project while attending college in Welland. Junior agriculturalist program in ninth year T-A photo regular activities relative to the farm operation. In ad- dition, the Junior Agriculturalist willf have an opportunity to develop an appreciation of rural life through living with a farm family and through par- ticipating inlocal 4-11, Junior Farmer, and other rural programs and activities. A Junior Agriculturalist will be assigned wherever possible to a farm with the . type of enterprise in which he or she is most interested. The duties involved will vary considerably depending on the individual farm operations and the demonstrated ability of the Junior Agriculturalist. The program's work period commences when the Junior Agriculturalists arrive at their host farmer's home on June 16th, and lasts nine weeks. Host farmers are required to pay $6.00 daily for the number of days which a Junior Agriculturalist is employed. In the past, this program has been very successful and is launched province wide in the spring of each year. This year we haVe recived tremendous response from young people willing to take on the challenge and responsibility of farm life. However, we are' in need of more farmers who would like to participate by acting as a host farmer. Farmers are encouraged to call their local Agricultural Office as soon as possible in regards to the Junior Agriculturalist host farmer position, as the program's success depends upon their support, For a host farmer ap- plication form or more in- formation call Barbara Moore, Junior Agriculturalist Program Co- ordinator for the counties of Waterloo, Huron, and Perth, in the Stratford Agricultural Office at 271-0280. Vegetable growers accept resignation Valurnee-Belite cattle feeder by BUTLER® SUBSURFACE DRAINAGE BENEFITS FACT No. 3. , • LONGER GROWING SEASON A major benefit of improved drainage is increased crop yield. Subsurface drainage leads to better plant growth by ensuring a good root system to carry available nutrients fo• the plants: Healthy plants are stronger, less susceptible to disease and can withstand severe weather conditions. Yield increases will occur also because good drainage allows for earlier planting and a longer growing season. Good drainage permits crop rotation, which can result in higher overall average yields. For more•information on how yoO can benefit from subsurface drainage, contact: Plastic, Clay or Concrete Hodgins and Hayter Limited R.R. #3, Parkhill, Ontario (519) 238-2313 Allan Hayter P.O.- Box 970 Exeter, Ontario NOM 1S0 (519) 235-0870 P000; 1.2A Times-Ad.voCqtO, May 14, 1080 The Junior Agriculturalist Program celebrates 1980 as its ninth year running! At first, this program went under the title of the Urban- Rural exchange. The Junior Agriculturalist Program is designed to provide a practival learning ex- perience for young people from a non-farm home who have a serious interest in agriculture, and who have had no experience working on a farm, As a Junior Agriculturalist, the in- dividual will be placed on a selected commercial farm, where he or she will perform Harry Dougall, Chairman of the Ontario Vegetable • Growers' Marketing Board announced Wednesday that they have accepted, with regret, the resignation of Mr. Tim Carroll, their Secretary- Manager. At a meeting May 5, the directors were in- formed of Ivir, , Carroll's decision to leave this position effective July 31. He has held this position for four years. Carroll, age 29, told directors that it was with reluctance that he made the decision to resign from the board and accept a faculty position in the Department of Business Administration at St. Francis Xayier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. "This career change represents a degree of risk, but from a personal point of view, I must take these risks now or risk being too late in ou've been waging the war on wild oats for years, But it will take a powerful force to make a dent in the enemy's armour. This year Uniroyal Chemical has committed Wypout to the fight and this hard-hitting herbi- cide is going to make its presence felt very quickly. Wypout is among the most economical post- emergence wild oat treatments available in Canada. the future. Mycareerwiththe Vegetable Board has been an exceptional experience for me, without which I would lack the confidence and ability to accept this new challenge," said Carroll. Dingell summed up the feelings of the board by saying, "It will be difficult to have someone fill Tim's shoes, because of our very ambitious programs. "He cited the research fund, the promotional activities, the moving of the office to London, and the contract security policy, as new actions of the board that worked with Mr. Carroll's guidance. "We will be advertising the position shortly, and plan to have the new ,appointee work along with Mr. Carroll to assure continuity of the Vegetable Board business," explained Dougall. It provides growers with effective control before there is a chance of yield loss. Mpout is effective on wheat, barley, lentils, rapeseed, Mustard, fababeans, sugar beets, sunflowers, flax and peas. wort form and home news Shoot before seeing "Ei;n't shoot until you see maximum is 5,000 hogs per Agriculturalist Program? the whites of their eyes, partner for no more than The program,is an em-" This Command was corn- three partners. Application ployment opportunity monly given in battle many forms are available by designed to give urban young years ago., Some of the older writing to the Agricultural .people with no farm ex- guns had poor accuracy and Stabilization Board, 9th posure a chance to ex- if a soldier didn't fire his. Floor, Sir Wm. Logan. Bldg., perience farm life and to weapon until he could see SU Booth St., Ottawa, understand and activities "tho whites of the eyes" of Ontario KM 0Y9, Hog within a rural community, his enemy, he increased the grading slips must sub- So far, we have had chances of killing him. The mitted with the application tremendous response from soldier firing, also got a good , in order to establish proof of students interested in this close-up of a dramatic end to sale and show the pounds of summer Opportunity, but his foe, pork shipped. we're still looking, for host there are some old ideas Just like that old saying; Soils gicropsDPSaopetnLpcilnaliciehsnr Succ essf ul Mf anly e1s rtsheadline even os tit tougsf farmers One about. spraying spring grain: One of these notions is to Agricultural Representative applicants will receive a delay spraying until the Milk Fever tied to Minerals high calibre young person. In weeds are high. This way Although tie precise cause return, the farmer must pay . you can have a very -of milk fever remains $6.00 daily, Plus room and' dramatic kill. This is unknown, much has been board. The farm family is referred to as ‘ "revenge learned in recent years expected, to help the young' person develop • farming' spraying" i since the weeds about the disease and have already done most of skills. The support of host the damage. methods of prevention. Milk fever occurs generally in farmers is essential to the It is the early weeds that early lactation, when a cow success of the program, do the most damage. You cannot mobilize calcium If you (or your neighbour) have to get rid of them early from the bone or absorb it as are interested in acting as a to reduce this early com- fast as it is being secreted in host farmer, application petition. As well, the grain is the milk. Blood calcium level forms and additional in- more tolerant when it is drops and the cow will die if formation can be obtained by small and the weeds are calcitun is not given to her by contacting Barbara Moore, easiest to kill when they are who is located at the , the blood stream. small. Your grain should beDurin Stratford 0.M.A.F. office -. cow stores calcidm • in her 271-0280. sprayed when it has 5 to 6 g the dry period, the leaves (about 4" high). bones..At calving, the bone Barb Moore, p,4,,.............., Wild Oats - can only be must release this calcium JuniorAgriculturalist controlled in pure barley. and consequently "milk Program Co-ordinator. There is still no chemical fever" develops. that will control wild oats Iowa State University and not harm tame oats. suggests feeding a low Wild oats are controlled 'by calcium diet 14 days spraying with Carbyne when previous to calving. The low the wild oats have two calcium diet apparently. leaves. This product controls causes the release of bone wild oats but no other weeds. • calcium into the bloodstream. You can control wild oats thus enabling the cow to be plus the main broadleaved ready for the demands on weeds by using a tank mix of blood calcium that occurs Avenge plus MCPA ester: Of with calving. This research course Avenge, by itself, pOints out` once again the controls wild oats. If annual importance of separating.the grasses and wild oats are dry cow from the milking your problem, then Hoegrass cqw and feeding a--ration to will control this corn- meet her special needs, bination. Another new For those cows with a product is Stampede CM. It history of milk fever, an controls foxtail plus the injection of 1 million I.U. of commpn annual weeds. Vitamin D3 per 100 lbs. of Plough Down Red Clover - body weight should be given can be sprayed with MCPA. in the rump 2-4 days before .The;recommended rateis 4 to calving. If 8 days after in- 8 of acid, depending on the jection the cow has not formulation. I read a calved, provide a second number. of labels and it dosage of Vitamin D3, appears that the sodium salt Dennis Martin, 48 is safer than the Amine 80. Associate Agricultural At least I assumed this, since Representative some labels recommend • up Junior Agriculturalist to 1 pint of MCPA sodium Proaram 1980 salt 48 (6 oz. active acid). Yes, the Junior The same cbmpany's label Agriculturalist Program is only reconitnend 2/5ths of a once again underway! What pint of MCPWAmine 80 (4 oz. exactly is the Junior active acid.)' Again the critical point is to spray early when the weeds are easy to kill, "Applying fertilizer Without a soil test is like feeding a 601b. producing cow the same as a 401b. lb . producer." Pork Stabilization 1979-80 The Federal Government has announced a pork stabilization payment for the period April 1st, 1979 to March 31st, 1980. The payment is $2.46 per cwt. with a maximum of 5,000 hogs per owner. Hogs must index 80 or better in order to qualify. Partners who can show. equal investment, labour, management and urisk or profit sharing may claim on a share of total sales. The Let Wypout become your formidable ally in the war on wild oats. Lasso' herbicide by Monsanto is usually surface applied before the crop emerges. Some farmers, however, prefer to incorporate their herbicides, and Lasso fits the bill. "Shallow" is the key word. Lasso should be shallowly incorpo- rated, prior to planting corn or soybeans. First, broadcast Lasso; then thoroughly incorporate it into the top two inches of soil. To make sure the incorporation is shallowr.set your disc or cultivator to work the soil to a maximum depth of four inches. Shallow incorporation of Lasso plus atrazine suppresses yellow nutsedge in corn. To suppress yellow nutsedge for six to eight weeks, shallowly incorporate Lasso plus atrazine (mixed at new labelled rates) before planting. SUppressing yellow nutsedge with Lasso plus atrazine gives your corn the chance to become established without nutsedge competition that can hurt your yield. Wypout" declares war on wild oats UNIROYAL CHEMICAL Div. of UNIROYAL Ltd., Elmira, Ontario Surface application 71rn` (..!..P) UNIROYAL ‘\!_or!!' missa -Trademark r,f UNIROYAL Ltd Wypout is available from W.G. Thompson & Sans Ltd. Blenheim, Rodney, Granton, Mitchell, Kent Bridge, and Hensall. J LM-111:4/80 Simply better Designed with fait, quiet, dependable—and low cost—feeding in mind. Volume-pelt cattle feeder Is simple ... has no cables, no chain, no traveling electrical motors or parts. Belts out big-capacity feeding on a weather-protected belt. For single lot, multi-lot or In-barn set-ups. See us for systems and service that help make the good life bitter. GLENDINNING FARM EQUIP., LTD. Route 2 Lucan, Ontario • • Canada NOM 2,10 Phone 519-227-4593 -or 519-294-6574 519-345-2723 Shallow incorporation Whether you surface of ply or shallowly incorporate, you get outstanding grass control with Lasso. Lasso consistently controls annual grasses in corn and soybeans. With excellent crop safety. And no carryover. And you can surface apply Lasso or shallowly incorporate it. Because it's your choice, with Lasso. Monsanto Canada Inc. Montreal, 'Ibronto, Winnipeg, Regina, Calgary, Vancouver. Always read and follow the label directions for Lasso. Lassos is a registered trademark of Monsanto Company. ©Monsanto Company, 1980. Lasso I.-...••••••••••••••••••••, IS