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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1980-08-13, Page 19PUTTING UP TENT — Brenda Collins and Kim Pfaff had little difficulty in setting up their tent as they settle in for a couple of days of camping at the Pinery provincial Pork with their Ailso Craig Explorers group. Photo by Sckeifele Super Summer Savings DUMP OUR CLEARANCE RIDING MOWER AND GARDEN TI LLERS• szogemv,:, 2 ONLY 1050 • 5 Horsepower Riding Mower 2 ONLY $600 • 5 Horsepower Garden Tiller I ONLY '319 • 3 Horsepower Garden Tiller 2 ONLY $219 EXETER DISTRICT CO-OP 2354081 Hours: Mori. to Fri. 0:00 a.rn, to 5:00 part. Sat. 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 Noon No Saturday Deiivery Choose the fabrics and the styles you want and Barb. Whiting will' custom make your drapes for you. You can also choose matching bedspreads and pillow shams. WHITING'S WAREHOUSE Main St. Exeter 235.1964 Best interest 21140/0 We represent many Trust Compdnies. 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Hurtyl While Stock Lasts including pod and installation ... Crediton people enjoy fiddle test RELAX AT CAMP — Ailsa Creig Explorers Christiiie Phillips, Tammy Frisak, Susan Ingham, Valerie Parkinson and Carrie Sutherland take a moment to relax in front of their Ailsa Craig Explorers tent at the Pinery Provincial Park. Photo by Scheifele Bowitilhouuminumituunoimui Times-A(11'0;n le, August 11, 1990 Pop 7A tiaumo11111.111111liiiiiuliunuoi01usi1111.1111lilluoimlinlillii101111101110.111.1111111111111,111,1111111111.411111111111101011011111111411M11li00101illi Jack's Jottings Study fuel alcohol Relatives. and friends gathered at the home of Mrs. Eldon -Smith to share a bridal ShoWei' for Miss. Jane ' Dudek, bride elect of August 23-, Mrs. Kenneth MacGregor read the address of WelcoMe to all, Miss Anne Griffith gave a 'reading '"Growing Up" and Mrs, Ron Griffith, hostesS, conducted several- games and contests. Carol Ann Smith handed the gifts to the bride,. After opening all the beautiful gifts, Jane thanked everyone and. invited them to her open reception at Len- don. A lovely lunch tollewed, I Decorate your hom e with beautiful At ,E kV no _Contest Mr, and Mrs., Harvey Hodgins, Mr. and Mrs, .Glen liosigins And Mr. And Mrs. Peter Martin enjoyed a weekend of .camping and fiddling at the 30th annual. Sheitnitne Open fiddle conteSt over the weekend. Saturday evening' they attended the finals of the dontest and. njwed the live taping of Country music prOgrarn shown on.. Global Ty. Guests stars were Charlie Farquharson, Graham and Eleanor Townsend and Les and Mitch Lapage. Harry Brown: of - take 3Q was M.C. for the program, Sunday morning they attended the sixth annual chureh service which has grown from an attendance of 200 to 3;000, The weather was fine and the 'music was constant, ,Personois Congratulations to Rev, and Mrs. Arthin Schlenker who became proud grand- parents to two more grand- children born this weekend, Philip Nellis son of Mr. and Mrs, Carmen Schlenker, Kitchener was born Friday and Monica Irene Howard daughter of Ella Mae and Max Howard, Chatham was born Sunday, Miss Ruth Ann Martin visited her cousin Lesley Adams, Exeter on the weekend and Miss Lisa Martin visited with her aunt and uncle Mr. and Mrs. Steve Pertschy. 4Ar You too can measure up Back home from west By MRS. HAROLD DAVIS KIRKTON Mr. and Mrs. Norris Atthill and Murray have returned home from a motor trip to Vancouver, visiting with Mr. and Mrs,Walter Muscraft, St. Albert, Alber- ta, Mr. and . Mrs. Jeff Massicatte, Calgary, Mr. and Mrs. Don Atkinson and family, Regina and Mrs. ~Bernice Hervieux, Algoma Mills, Mr. and Mrs. Lorne Wat- son of Parkhill Were Sunday visitors with Mr. and Mrs.Clarence Switzer. Mr. and Mrs. Art Julian, Largo, Florida were Friday and Saturday visitors With Mr. and Mrs. Harold Davis and Mr. Miller McCurdy. They also called on Mrs, Delmar Johnston. Mrs.Hiram Hanna of Stratford has been visiting with Mrs. Westley Doupe. A family dinner was held Saturday at the home of Mrs. Albert Bickell to honor the .50th wedding anniver- sary of her daughter and husband Mr, and Mrs. Harold Loughleen of Toron- to. Friends and relatives called in the afternoon. ' Mr. and Mrs. Burns Blackler were hostesses to a Fly-In Sunday morning at their home. Mr. and Mrs. Lorne Mitchell, London were Tues- day visitors with Miss Ethel Copeland. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Stephen, Owen Sound visited Saturday with Mr. and Mrs. Rae Stephen and visited at' the Bickell Residence. in the afternoon. Jeremy and Sherra Westerveld spent the past two weeks with their grand- parents while their parents were holidaying in Western Canada. • potential in field tests at the Elora .Research Station, near Guelph, not as a human food crop but as an excellent winter cereal crop for, feed grain," says Rob McLaughlin, University of Guelph crop scientist. The university has been testing triticale since the early 1970s. But the development of a new winter triticale variety, OAC Wintri, has sparked new interest by Ontario farmers. The university research, supported by the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, and the Provincial Lottery, also released a spring variety, OAC this year for the specialty food market, "We see two primary uses for this crop;" says Professor McLaughlin. "It is a good high-yielding grain crop for some of the less favorable wheat growing areas. Triticale also offers us new hope in developing new winter Wheat varieties, We breed the disease resistance and hardiness triticale inherited from its rye parentage into the wheat varieties." The new crop looks promising to farmers because it offers yields equal to or better than winter wheat. And because it is more winter hardy, it will fit into areas where conditions ate too risky for winter wheat. As a winter crop, it provides excellent erosion control. Tests at the Elora Research Station show triticale has three to four percent more protein than wheat. Yields of wheat and triticale are similar in a good year, but when the con- ditions are poor, the gap between the yields gets wider, and the triticale comes out on top, "Another advantage is the potential for improvement," says Professor McLaughlin. "Since it is a cross between wheat and rye, it can be genetically Modified to in - elude nearly all wheat traits or nearly all rye traits." The triticale available now is 15 percent there winter hardy than 'Winter wheat. That Means it can adapt to areas where Winter tOrlat, is Many people associate triticale with crackers, but this is only the tip of the iceberg for this new cereal crop. "Triticale, the genetic cross between rye and wheat, is showing great CUSTOM DRAPES By JACK RIDDED. MPP Huron,Middlesex In this country, we are heavily dependent upon foreign oil suppliers. However, prices are rising• and there is considerable uncertainty about security of future supplies. There has, as you knew, been much discassion about 'possible alternatives, Earlier this year, the Ontario Liberal. Party released a study Which we had commissioned on fuel alcohol. Recently about 200 economists, engineers, scientists, researchers and farmers attended the Canadian National Power Alcohol Conference in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Generally it was agreed at the Conference that power alcohol could, be of tre- mendous importance in helping to solve this coun- try's future fuel problems, Although there were ob- viously divergent opinions on the viability of alcohol as a vehicle fuel, speakers in- dicated that research ac- tivity on many fronts is well underway throughout North America. Because this is such a new industry in North America, technical breakthroughs are expected to overcome 'current problems very soon. For example, work is well advanced in the United States to produce enzymes which will produce Ethanol from wood and municipal solid waste. Also, research is continuing to modify diesel tractor engines to use alcohol. Agriculture was one of the industries selected as being particularly suitable for the use of alcohol fuel - specifically ethanol. This can be readily produced by the agriculture industry, and is similar to the spirit made by commercial distilleries from 'grain. In fact, any crop con- taining starch or sugar can be used to prodece fuel, Corn can be used, as can potatoes (especially culls which are, of course, relatively inex- pensive), grains and Jerusalem artichoke, Many questions have been raised in connection with various alternatives to petroleum for transportation purposes. Just how effective are they? Will they prove to be price competitive? Are there problems about large- scale and economical production and distribution. The general view is that fuel alcohol is probably one of a number of possible alternatives. Others include propane, compressed natural gas, electricity and hydrogen. • Incidentally, the Provincial Government has announced the establish- ment of a policy committee to study the role of energy in agriculture in Ontario to the year 2000 and beyond. Presented to the Con- ference was an 85-page report prepared by R.D. Hayes and G.E. Timbers of the Engineering Research Institute in Ottawa. It suggested that alcohol has significant regional em- ployment, environmental and energy impacts. A production potential of 50 million litres by 1990 was envisaged, using forest wastes and muncipal solid wastes in Canada, Agriculture wastes could, it seems, supply between 541 and 918 million litres of alcohol by 1990. Included in thOse concerns are financing; market demand for alcohol; the impact of alcohol blends as a fossil-fuel extender; the ecological effect of har- same baking quality. However, as a cash feed crop' it looks better than spring oats or barley," Ontario farmers will be able to purchase seed of the new Wintri variety in the fall of 1981. More new varieties should become available in the next two or three years. vesting crop residues; land use, and seed licensing of specially developed crops to produce ethanol, Tbe report suggests that, Canadians "have a great advantage of being able to learn from both the sue- eesses and pitfalls of the gasohol and farm-scale ethanol production programs in the U.S. and other countries," It also,suggests that small- scale farm operations have special opportunities such as using part of the field residues, as, process energy, using culls or eliminating the drying charges by feeding wet or dry spent mash directly to livestock. There are, however, both advantages and problems to using alcohol blends with gasoline, such as water tolerance, and, blends with diesel fuel don't work unless special emulsification techniques or separate dual fuel injection systems are used, There are special alcohol engines in other countries, but so far not in Canada, A farmer could modify his farm equipment so that straight alcohol, with perhaps up to 20 percent water, could be used, but would be doing so with a certain amount of risk at this time. Opportunities, other than mobile use, do, however, exist for the far- mer in the meantime. The Province of Manitoba has recently dropped provincial road tax on gasohol that contains alcohol made from farm crops in Manitoba. This incentive was enough to prompt Mohawk 'Oil to take over a distillery at, Minnedosa, which is located near Dram:Ion,. to produce alcohol to be blended with gasoline. The distillery was .ap- parently built by Gooderhems and WAS, on, the verge of bankruptcy. Mohawk Oil has 12 SAS stations in Manitoba and output, from the distillery at Minne-dosa will be sufficient for four stations. The representative from Mohawk At the Conference said that the company, which has statens in Nor- thern. Ontario,. considering snaking gasohol available to the outlets in this province depending on tax measures. finally adopted by .our provincial government, In Manitoba, the gasohol is to be sold for the same price as unleaded gasoline. rj11111111111111111111111111111111111111$11111111 R • OMA) = • • • gheating & Cooling Heating Systems! of All Types ' INSTALLED, MODERNIZED - and MAINTAINED pl. General Sheet Metal Work i• Air Conditioning ?-1 • Humidifiers rio Ventilation = 235-2187 133 Huron St., East, Exeter Inunnumununnununnunounin=