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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1981-07-22, Page 6r 22, Sin The regular meeting of Kinloss Council was held on July 6 with Reeve. Barry Johnston and all councillors present. Applications for Building permits were approved , on motion of councillors Eadie and Haldenby for Gerald Murray,lot 13, con; 10, to construct a Machinery . shed and for John ';Needham, lot 14, con. ' 3, to demolish a woodshed to be replaced with a storage building. Applicationswere received for amendments to the Zan - By -law from Wm. Hod - to 'change part of lot 11, range 1SDR from A-1 (Agri - cultural) to R-1 (detached residential) and for. , Wayne Bushell, to change part of lot 3, range 1 NDR from M-1 (rural industrial) to special industrial zone for the pur- pose of istablishang a wreak- . ing and salvage. yard, The tender of ExeteeRoof ing and Sheet 'Metal Co. Ltd. was .accepted in the :amount -of $5,900 to tear off and replace the roof on. the Town- ship shed and no tenders were.?accepted for the sale of the 1963 Adams grader. The clerk, was `authorized to purchase a transit level,' tripod and rod from the. Pock- lington..Company of Toronto. General accounts for 501,197.46 and highways ac• - counts ,for $129,978,80 were ordered paid. At the. June 8 meeting, Dennis Wilhelm Excavating was s hired to perform a cleanout of several municipal drains at $50 per hour. The clerk was instructed to notify Ontario Hydro to erect anoth- er street light in front of Bill Pardon's lot in Whitechurch. Council approved a pit lic- ence for Joe Kerr Ltd., north part of lot 56, concession 1, but not for John Cox Con- -struction , for part of ` lot 51, concession 1 as the property to be licenced is presently zoned A-1 and A-2 agricul- ecisi4n on gQ.Jartracing in Ashfield townshtp referred A representative of Can Kart Limited, Rexdale at- tended the Township of Ash- field council meeting July 7 with a request that approval be given to hold \ go-kart races on the former Port Albert airport property over a 15 -year period. No action was taken and council agreed to cone to a decision at the neat regular .meeting. By -Law No. 17,1981, a by- law to permit Peter Penthouse to maintain and Me an' encroachment upon the road allowance for Pine Needle Row in plan 23 was given three . readings and Passed - Building.. ., permits were approved for Ross Taylor, lot 7, plan 27, cottage; Jacqueline Evans, lot 7, plan 28, cottage; Wayne Snyder, house,;: Dungannon; Ralph tlurran, house addition, lot 12, con 7 ED and Tom Uilbert, drive snea, iota, conc. 7 ED: Road accounts of $25,070.03:. and general • accounts of $351,232.30 were approved for, payment. This includes the payment of one half of the 1981 requisition for County and School purposes. An application for severance by Joseph Dgiver plan 24 was approved. tural and is not M-2 (extrac- tive industrial). The read superintendent is to advertise in the Owen Sound, London :.and Kitch- ener newspapers to ask for tenders for the sale of the 1963 ' Adams Grader, On. June 22, <councii,passed by-laws for cleanouts of the Wraith, McDougall,' Ackert, Municipal drains. The Lucknow Tractor `{Pul • lers Association was, author- ized to apply . 'for a special occasion permit in the name of the Kinloss Park and.; that the Havelock Street exten- sion . ` in the township be temporarily closed on Satur- day and Sunday, July 11 and 12 to facilitate the tractor Kraemer, Murray . and- Ross • pull.; Applications for tile drain- age, -loans were approved for avid J. MacKinnon, Boyd arruthers, Leo .Murray, e • L. Fel, ielderCha, WarrenMayes Zinn,and Eric Charles Murray.. W sste. site hours for July, August and September are 9 a.m. to "5 p.m., Saturdays and 4,30 ;p:m- to 7.30 p.m. on Tuesdays, At a special meeting. held July 143, 1981 the tenders were opened on the Crozier Bridge at lot 8, con. 6r7 ED. Lee Authie r, District Engineer Stratford, from M.T.C. and Ken Dunn, from B. M. 'Ross and. Associates, Goderich " were present. Seven tenders, were received fromlow of $187,899 to a high hof $252,051. The low tender of W. G. Kelly Con-. struction• Ltd., RR5 Seaforth was accepted at a price of $187,899. The total cost of the bridge will be approximately $235,000. The meeting was then adjourned. .culture representative sees zncazfciency in corn • by Pat Lynch This mer 1 have seen numerous 'corn fields show- ing zinc deficiency hi some spots., The most common symptr m is light streaking of the leaf, followed by a broad whitish band starting slightly in from the leaf ends and extending to the midrib. The leaf edges, midrib and top of the leaf retrain green. The plants are often short and squatty. Sometimes the leaf edges take on a purplish colour. Generally, the plants outgrow this deficiency. But this year the prolonged lack of rain dramatized the defi- ciency especially on soil with poor structure. The obvious solution then would be to just apply zinc with all your corn fertilizer. This year, Ken Britton near Mitchell, Ralph. Buffinga near Clinton and Ray Brown near Goderich, all applied some .zinc with some of their corn fertilizer.. On all three fauns, the corn is shorter and 1 to 2 leaves behind the non -treated corn. This is pro- bly because the treated areas did not need zinc. This zinc treatment may have set up another micro nutrient unbalance. So back to the drawing board. John Oke, a Soil and Crop Improvement Director in the Exeter area, also had zinc deficiency. After he noticed his deficiencies, he foliar sprayed with zinc but without any effect. He also foliar sprayed with zinc plus magnesium and it seeined to improve the crop. In this case, John was foliar spray- ing only the deficient area of the field, not the whole field. I think this points out the importance of only treating with micro nutrients the areas of fields showing micro nutrient defiency, not the whole field. In the same manner, if you hada penof pigs and one was ruptured, you would only treat the, one -, not the whole pen. So what's in store for the future? We will probably have more micro nutrient deficient areas. Of all the fields I mentioned, John Oke's is probably the only field where we can make im- proverithts for next year. Now that he knows his defi- eiency, he can broadcast micro nutrients on those deficient areas or foliar :spray each year. Purple eon too This past spring we have also had numerous calls about purple cora. A lot of these calls have been Pioneer hybrids but then if one company has the lion's share of the i arket, the odds are there will be more com- plaints with their hybrids ALL ITEMS IN STOCK ,Fralh110001*Ongsmeitknairindadid SALE PRICES IN :EFFECT FROM JULY Kitt to JULY 31st xowuxos•MourAeAn (percentage -wise of acres planted, a small number of complaints). There have been two 7 theories advanced for this purple corn. One theory sug- gests that some corn com- panies have in their breeding lines a gene that gives a pur- ple colour. This gene ex- presses itself under adverse growing conditions such as real wet and cold or ex cessivelydry - or if the soil is in p001' condition. The other theory put forth is that hybrids with good stalk . strength get this strength due to their calcium content. Calcium is used as a cementing agent in plant cells. The more calcium, the, better the cell strength and thus stalk strength. All plants also have a unique calcium to phosphorus ratio. This second theory suggests. that these plants that show purple are good utilizers of calcium, but poor utilizers of phosphorus. The plant takes up phosphorus but doesn't utilize it. Again,' under stress. conditions this phosphorus utilization is poorer. Harvey Wright of the Soils and Crops Branch did some testing on purple corn in Ox- fo d County. 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