HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1988-09-28, Page 15THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1988. PAGE 15.
Townsend brings home IPM Championship
Seventeen-year-old Murray
Townsend of RR 3, Seaforth is one
ofthe reasons that Huron County is
known all across the province as
one of the most prolific - and best --
producers of competition plowmen
in all of Canada.
Just back from four days of
competition at the 1988 Interna
tional Plowing Match and Farm
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Murray Townsend, back right, won so many prizes at the International
Plowing Match at Stratford last week that he had to get his brother
Matt and sister Charlene to help display them. Murray won the
championship in his own class and group, the title of Champion Junior
Tractor Plowman, and the overall Reserve Grand Championship
Plowman at the match, and will compete for Ontario at the Canadian
National Plowing Championships next year. Fifteen-year-old Matt is
also an accomplished competition plowman, and Charlene, 10,
“hopes to start next summer.”
Brussels Stockyards
Weaner prices plunge
The market at Brussels Stock-
yards traded actively on Friday
with a good demand on all classes
of slaughter cattle, with choice
steers and heifers selling steady to
$1 higherthanlastweek.Cowssold
steady and pigs traded under
pressure. The re we re 404 cattle
and 819 pigs on offer.
Choice steers sold at $82 to $85,
with sales to $86; good steers
brought $78 to $82.
A steer consigned by Dennis
Dolmage of RR 1, Londesboro,
weighing 1240 lbs., sold for $86
with his total offering of six steers,
averaging 1175 lbs., selling for an
overall price of $83.52.
A steer consigned by Frank
Dolmage of RR 1, Seaforth,
weighing 1340 lbs., sold for $86
with his total lot of six steers,
averaging 1300 lbs., selling for an
average price of $82.98.
Thirty-one steers consigned by
Ralph and Roger Morrison of RR 1,
Lucknow, averaging 12171bs., sold
for an average price of $82.28. with
sales to $85.75. A white steer
consigned by Bob Hulley of RR 1,
Blyth, weighing 1020 lbs., sold for
$85, with his total offering of four
steers, averaging 1075 lbs., selling
for an overall price of $83.20.
A red white-faced steer consign
Machinery Show at Stratford, the
youth brought home so many
prizes as the result of his plowing
skill that he had to enlist the help of
his younger brother and sister just
to help carry the stuff. Last Friday
night, Murray was crowned as the
Reserve Grand Champion Plow
man at the 1PM, which means he is
now the second-best tractor plow
in * ‘
ed by Doug Simpson of RR 2,
Tees water, weighing 1160 lbs.,
sold for $83.50. Eleven steers
consigned by Jim Howatt of RR 1,
Londesboro, averaging 1204 lbs.,
sold for an average price of $81.15,
with sales to $83.
Four steers consigned by Gor
don Daer of RR 1, Auburn,
averaging 1123 lbs., sold for an
overall price of $81.81 with sales to
$82.75.
Choice exotic heifers sold at $82
to$85withsalesto$86.75; good
heifers went for $79 to $82.
A Limousin heifer consigned by
Alvin Grainger of RR 2, Wroxeter,
weighing 1130 lbs., sold for $86.75,
with his total offering of 22 heifers,
averaging 1129 lbs., selling for an
overall price of $83.37.
A heifer consigned by Wm.
Bennett & Sons Ltd. of RR 1,
Gorrie, weighing 1240 lbs., sold for
$85.50, with their total lot of 48
heifers, averaging 1124 lbs., sell
ing for an average price of $82.85.
Thirty-six heifers consigned by
Lloyd Morrison of RR 1. Lucknow,
averaging 1007 lbs., sold for an
overall price of $79.58 with sales to
$84.75.
A gold heifer consigned by Tom
Wylie of RR 4. Durham, weighing
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man of any age in Ontario, second
only to 15-year-old Carson Brown
of Ayr, who was named as the
IPM’s Grand Champion for the
third year in a row.
In addition, Murray was award
ed thcTel Trade Show Services
trophy as the top plowman in his
class. Class II, Group II, which in
turn qualified him for the win he
sees as the most exciting: Cham
pion Junior Tractor Plowman at the
1988 IPM, the title which has
qualified him to compete for
Ontario at the Canadian National
Plowing Championships in Prince
Edward Island next August.
“That’s the part I’m really looking
forward to,’’ the young champion
says.
Winning at plowing matches is
nothing new toMurray, who began
in competition at the Huron County
match in 1982, when he was only 11
years old, qualifying for his first
1PM at Lucan that same year. He
has never missed a match si nee,
and has been a prize-winner at
most of them, including scoring the
highest number of points in Junior
competition at the 1986 IPM at
Stirling, in Hastings County, towin
one of the two annual $2,500
scholarships sponsored by the
Ontario Plowmen’s Association,
which he has yet to use. In 1987 at
Meaford, Murray was the Reserve
Junior Champion, behind Jeff
McGavinof RR4, Walton, who has
just returned from the Canadian
National Championships at Agas
Farm
4-H champs
shine
at Seaforth
LisaStoreyofRR3, Clinton, a
member of the Central Huron 4-H
Horse Club, was the county’s
Grand Champion Showman in the
prestigious Sweepstakes Show
manship Competition at the Sea
forth Fall Fair last Friday, while
virtually all of the show’s other
major awards came to the north
end of the county.
Sandra Shelley of RR 2, Gorrie, a
memberofthe Howick4-H Beef
Calf Club, was named as top
showman at the Fair’s Champion
ship Beef Show competition, but
since she won the Sweepstakes
Championship in 1987, barring her
from further competition, the Beef
Show’s Reserve Champion,
Dianne Black of Belgrave, compet
ed in the Sweepstakes, winning the
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The son of George and Ruth
Townsend, Murray is a Grade 13
student at Central Huron Secon
dary School where he consistently
gets top grades. He hasn’t yet
decided on his future, but has
considered several options, includ
ing medicine. He says it is a good
feeling to know that the OPA
scholarship is available to him, but
adds that he may not be able to use
it.sinceitmustbeusedatoneof
Ontario’s agricultural colleges.
“ It’s nice to know it’s there, but
1’ m not going to let it decide the
courseoftherestofmylife,’’ he
says.
In addition to being Murray
Townsend’s home county, Huron
has set a record this year as being
the county with the largest contin
gent of competitors ever to go to the
IPM in any one year, according to
Marie McGavin, who worked at the
OPA booth throughout the five-day
show this year along with her
husband, Neil, who is the county
director to the Association, as well
as one of two OP A representatives
to the Ontario Retail Farm Equip
ment Association.
Huron had 15 tractor plowmen
competing at the Stratford IPM as
well as three competitors in the
Antique Tractor Class, Mrs. Mc
Gavin says, in addition to being
represented by 1987 Queen of the
Furrow, Audrey Bos of RR 3,
Auburn, whose roommate at the
University of Waterloo is Jill
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Patterson, the 1987 Ottawa-Carle
ton Queen of the Furrow who was
crowned as the 1988 IPM Queen of
the Furrow in St. Marys on
Thursday.
(Mrs. McGavin also notes that
Sandra Hunt of RR 4, Walton, the
runner-up to 1987 IPM Queen
Jackie Boot, now Mrs. Jeff Bultje,
took over the Queen of the Furrow
duties for eight weeks earlier this
year, while Mrs. Bultje had a new
baby. During that time, Sandra
made a lot of contacts and won a lot
of new friends for Huron County,
Mrs. McGavin says.)
Brian McGavin of RR 4, Walton,
was the Reserve Champion Plow
man in Class II, Group Ill at
Stratford, in which Huron plow
men Paul Dodds of RR 1, Seaforth
and Paul Pentland of RR 6,
Goderich also competed. Other
Huron competitors were as fol
lows: Class II, Group I - Matt
Townsend, RR 3, Seaforth; Dennis
Hallahan, RR 3, Blyth; Jonathan
Hugill, RR 1, Seaforth; and Ken
Bettles and Jeff Gemmell, both of
RR 2, Kippen.
Class II, Group II - Leanne
Whitmore, RR 4, Walton and
William Fotheringham, RR 4,
Seaforth; Class 111, Group 1 - Chris
Maloney, RR 2, Dublin; Class IV,
Group 11 - Robert and Bill
McAllister, both RR 2, Auburn;
and Antique Tractor Class - Paul
Bettles, RR 2, Kippen; Ernie
Talbot, RR 3, Kippen; and Mervin
Dietz, RR 1, Dublin.
Contestants placing below first
and second place in any class and
group at the IPM are not notified of
their actual placings until several
weeks later, when all the scores of
the four days of plowing have been
tallied. Their results will be mailed
as soon as possible, Mrs. McGavin
said.
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