The Rural Voice, 1987-04, Page 30�
HALLMAN
FENCING SYSTEMS
spacing
- 17.14'
Droppers:
Droppers
Droppers
Droppers
cows
it
bulls
'Poet
5'
5
Heavy livestock pressure
Light livestock pressure
Open Range
Eight Wire Fence
and Sheep (can
To be used as
By insulating one
will turn away predators
and horses off
Without
With Angle
- 20'-30
• 30'0'
land- 40'-60
for Beef,
be raised
a pasture
or more
the fence.
droppers
-groove
use 1-3
use 1-3
use 2-5
Dairy
for horses).
sub -division.
wires
or keep
replace
through
6'
5' —
--
Past spacing
Without Droppers - 10-14'
Muni -groove Droppers - 20-30
Wire Fence to
& barb wires for
dairy cows. Used tor
heavy pressure areas
corrals.
and thread the wires
s'
5.
-
5'— With
Modified 10
woven
horses, beef &
boundaries and
such as lots and
You can also drill
the posts.
contain
recommended
exist.
This fence must be used will a high-
voltage. low inpedanoe energizer.
i 1P _
Electric fence posts
i 50-150'. 1-3 Multi
. placed between posts to
Use a cut-out switch
bottom wire when
Four Wire Permanent Electric
Fence for pasture sub -division
cattle, sheep and goats.
as a boundary
when tall grass and brush conditions
Excellent for the control
_
placed every
-groove Droppers
keep separation.
10 disconnect the
snow or tall grass
reduces voltage.
to
Not
fence
of dogs.
Dealer or Fence Installer
Inquiries Welcome
F.M. BRUBA
MANUFACTURING INC.
BOX 47 HAWKSVILLE, ONT.
NOB 1XO
519-699-4231
28 THE RURAL VOICE
OF OLD FRIENDS
AND OLD TRUCKS
I've always enjoyed good farm
journalism. Writers such as Harold
Dodds, Dave Wreford, Terry Hockaday,
Frank Jacobs, and John Schmidt of the
Calgary Herald all come to mind. And
when reading their final articles before
they have left one medium for another,
I have always wondered what their
thoughts were as they hammered out
their fmal work.
This too is my fmal column for
The Rural Voice. On March 16 I
started as Director of Sales, Crop
Production Specialist for Green Leaf
Farm Supply Ltd. of Three Hills,
Alberta.
You can bet Ill sure miss the
working relationship I've had over the
years with The Rural Voice. It's hard
to believe it's been five years. And no
doubt I and my family will miss the
many friends, neighbours, and custo-
mers we've come to know. And to
the overwhelming number of you
who stopped by or phoned with best
wishes, thank you.
But making a career change may
not be all that bad While visiting
the Three Hills and Olds area back in
February, I met farmers just like those
in Ontario. They want to find more
profitable crops than the traditional
hard red spring wheat, barley, and
canola. And farmers in Ontario are
looking to hard red spring wheat,
barley, and canola instead of the un-
profitable corn and soys. It may be a
different province and a different time
zone, but the concems, the questions,
and the desires are no different.
The fertilizer business is certainly
different in the West. It's wide open
and free -wheeling. It's nothing to see
growers travel 35 to 65 miles to their
fertilizer dealer. Massive amounts of
custom application and delivery equip-
ment are almost unheard of. There
have been tremendous advancements
in the tillage and seeding systems in
Western Canada and the U.S. in the
past seven years. Huge air seeders can
cultivate, fertilize, and plant all in one
pass. Seed and fertilizer placement is
all the rage and agronomic advice, soil
testing, tissue sampling, and crop mon-
itoring are only a couple of years old.
And so it was, with my fascination
for Alberta, its wide-open beauty, and
the very fine folks at Green Leaf Farm
Supply, that I decided to make Alberta
my new home.
The really hard part of packing up
was cleaning out my pick-up truck.
There may be some who don't under-
stand an attachment to a junky old
truck. But I come from a long line
of farmers who knew the true joy
and value of having a junker as part
of their farm equipment.
The really hard part
of packing up was
cleaning out my pick-
up truck. There may
be some who don't
understand an attachment
to a junky old truck ...
Let's look at the typical pick-up.
It is equipped for farm work. The
dashboard serves as a combination
book-keeping department and veter-
inary supply house. In front of the
steering wheel are feed bills, scale
tickets, and repair -parts receipts for
the past seven months, as well as five
or six pens courtesy of the feed, seed,
and fertilizer salesmen. On the pas-
senger side of the dash are the vet
supplies, which include two or three
disposable syringes with bent needles
that are "just fine if you do it right."
An empty horse vaccine bottle
is way over in the comer against the
window and serves as a warning signal
when chasing cattle through pastures.
If the empty bottle comes rattling ac-
ross the dash and falls onto the floor,