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The Rural Voice, 1982-04, Page 16BUTLER Ring Drive Silo Unloaders &g Jim Silo Unloaders Volume Belt Feeders tbnvey-n-Feed Cattle Feeders Single Chain Conveyors Barn Cleaners Oswalt Ensilmlxers FARMATIC Blender Hammer Mills Blender Roller Mills Blender Mills for Ground HI -Moisture Corn Augers Leg Elevators ACORN Cable Barn Cleaners WESTEEL-ROSCO (rain Bins - 1350 to 250,000 bu. Bulk Feed Tanks ACME Fan -Jet Ventilation Systems HOULE Liquid Manure Pumps, Cleaners, Steel Trusses B & L Complete Hog Confinement Systems SLURRY -SLINGER Liquid Manure Spreaders CLAY Parts and Service for Clay Equipment ALSO Rbre-Funnels Bectric Feed Carts Ritchie Heated Bowls Straw Choppers Hurst Equipment WE HANDLE EVERYTHING - ALMOST Zetwev 74,tot Sotema ,ped. At Ambertey (R.R. 01, Kincardine] Phone 395-5286 Top Quality Bred Gilts Large selection of York/Landrace bred gilts with accurate breeding dates. All gilts guaranteed bred and reasonably priced. Closed herd with mother herd being R.O.P. tested. Herd has a reputation for sound legs and excellent mother ability. Open gilts ready to service also available. All gilts vaccinated. New Addition Gilts bred to Purebred and R.O.P. approved boars designed to be herd improvers for the commerical producer, now available. References and herd health information available on request. Lawrence Vanden Heuvel R.R. #2, Goderich, Ont. 519-524-4350 PG. 14 THE RURAL VOICE/APRIL 1982 RURAL NEWS IN BRIEF Grey county hosts 1987 Plowing Match The Ontario Plowmen's Association selected Grey county as the host of the 1987 International Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Show. The 69 year-old match is held in a different part of the province each year. The host county or region is chosen at the OPA convention five years in advance to allow the time necessary to organize the event. Among the Grey county delegation to the convention, held at Toronto Feb. 15-16, were [from left] - Judy Miller, Grey -Bentinck Queen of the Furrow; Yvonne Pallister, Ontario Queen of the Furrow: Lois Urstadt, Warden of Grey County; Bob Rutherford, Mayor of Owen Sound; Marj Johnson, North Grey Queen of the Furrow; and Barry Tolton, Grey county agricultural representative. Grey county last hosted the International Plowing Match in 1962. [Photo by the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food] Innovative nozzle Wingham area farmer. Jim Armstrong. has obtained the exclusive Canadian marketing rights and inventory of control- led droplet application equipment from the Niagara Chemical Division of Reichold Ltd. These new type spray nozzles used for crop spraying will allow the far ner to maintain the appropriate droplet size for the pest he wishes to control. "This is the first innovation of spray nozzling equipment in the last 65 years," says Armstrong. "and the principle behind it will allow a considerable reduction in water usage, drift and pollution. The spin-off advantage is that the reduced use of water saves the farmer energy and time." Armstrong went on to explain that the old equipment produced random sized droplets and 10 per cent of the droplets at the upper end of the scale contained 80 per cent of the chemical, which gave uneven distribution of the chemical. Then 85 per cent of the droplets dispensed at the lower end of the scale were subject to drift. The new nozzles, called Micromax and Herbi, are both driven electrically, but the smaller Herbi is a hand-held unit driven by eight dry -cell batteries. This new equipment was developed in Britain and now in Canada has only been available in North America for the past two years. Armstrong's new company will be called Micron Canada and the equipment will be distributed exclusively in Ontario and Quebec through the dealer network of Turnco Corporation of Blenheim, Ontario. In other parts of Canada the equipment will be available through the franchise dealer in that particular province. Bankruptcies rise Bankr.' "" les continues to rise in all sectors of the Canadian economy, as they do in the farming sector. The number of farm bankruptcies at the end of this February was 54 per cent higher than it was at the end of February 1981, according to figures released March 11 by the bankruptcy division of the federal department of consumer affairs. The agency says 38 farmers officially went bankrupt last month compared to 25 a year earlier. So far this year 63 farmers have gone bankrupt, compared to 41 in the first two months of 1981. Last year a record 261 farm ers were forced into bankruptcy.