The Rural Voice, 1997-11, Page 54People
Bruce woman wins Ontario
Queen of Furrow competition
You might say there were two
winners when Bruce County's
Queen of the Furrow, Cheryl
Hammell repeated her victory at
the International Plowing Match
in Simcoe County in September.
As well as being the Bruce
Queen of the Furrow, you see, she
had also won the Miss Ontario
Midwest competition in
Walkerton in July. She'll be much
too busy as Ontario Queen of the
Furrow to carry the second title so
she relinquished that crown to
runner up Kathy Goodhue. She
officially handed over her title to
Goodhue at the Ripley -Huron Fall
Fair in late September. Goodhue
is the 19 -year-old daughter of Joe
and Bev Fry, R.R.1, Ripley, and
attends Conestoga College in
Kitchener in the registered
nursing program.
Hammell is a student of radio
and broadcasting at Fanshawe
College in London. She won her
Queen of the Furrow crown over
32 other contestants. "I really
enjoyed the week," she told the
Walkerton Herald -Times.
Judging was based on a three-
minute interview with the judges,
worth 200 points; a two -to -five-
minute speech on agriculture
worth another 200 points; plowing
ability, judged out of 100 points,
and appearance and deportment,
worth another 200 points.
As Ontario Queen of the
Furrow Hammell will be
travelling the province to
represent the Ontario Plowmen's
Association. To help out, she
received a new car to use for the
next year. Her year will end when
she reigns over next year's IPM in
Frontenac County, in eastern
Ontario.°
Prominent swine breeders part of
new AI supplier
Several western Ontario swine breeders have joined forces to form a new
Artificial Insemination service called National Swine Genetics Inc. Bob
Matheson, Allan Faris, Tim Small, John Gough and Joe Kolkman were
already partners in Swine Genetics Ontario Inc., a breeding stock company.
They announced in September they would build a new AI unit in the Strathroy
area. It is scheduled to open its doors by December 1 and will offer purebred and
commercial semen as well as other swine AI services.
The partners plan to encourage and promote the supply of top quality boars
for AI from a variety of sources. "Our goal is to provide an industry-leading
product combined with superior customer -oriented service," said Mike Day,
General Manager of Swine Genetics Ontario Inc. 0
Perth companies build Hamilton elevators
A trio of Perth County companies "I have a long working relationship
are currently building the largest, all- with both Milverton Millwrights and
commodity elevator facility in the R. J. Burnside and Associates," said
Hamilton area. Stephen Cooper, president of Tacoma
Tacoma Cooper Structural Cooper Structural Engineers Inc. R. J.
Engineers, which has been in Stratford Burnside and Associates is located in
for five years and specializes in Stratford. Milverton Millwrights
designing industrial and agricultural operates from Milverton.
structures such as silos, grain towers The elevator, to be completed in
and liquid storage tanks, is lead mid-1998, will serve local producers
company in the project for James and customers as well as a large
Richardson International Limited. world-wide market.°
Oxford livestock
painter named to
Agriculture Hall
of Fame
An Oxford County man famous
for his paintings of animal breeds is
one of two people who will be
inducted to the Canadian
Agricultural Hall of Fame at the
Royal Winter Fair on Sunday,
November 9.
The late Ross Butler was, during
his lifetime, recognized as the pre-
eminent authority on farm animal
portraits and was instrumental in
creating the first true -type pictures
and models of both Holstein and
Jersey breeds of dairy cattle as well
as for the American Percheron Horse
Assoc. In later years he painted and
sculpted a broad range of animal and
bird models in addition to publishing
a History of Breeds book and being
active in Oxford County agricultural
organizations.
Also named to the Hall is William
(Bill) James Small of Craven, Sask.,
a livestock breeder, judge and
prominent agriculturalist and
community leader. He was a charter
director of the Canadian Western
Agribition Assoc. as well as a past
president of the Canadian Simmental
Assoc. He was instrumental in
organizing the Canadian Farm
Progress Show.
There are now 200 prominent
agriculturalists in the Hall.°
Top pumpkins
grown in southern
Huron
Maybe it's the southern (Huron)
air but two of the top pumpkins at the
Port Elgin Pumpkinfest came from
the Hensall-Kippen area. Grant
McGregor of Hensall grew the
second biggest pumpkin, weighing
785.5 pounds while Matt Klaver of
Kippen was third at 772 pounds.
Another Kippen grower, Steven
McGregor placed in the top 10.0