The Rural Voice, 1988-04, Page 48GRAIN ROASTING
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Avonbank Farm Equpment
Granton (519) 225-2507
Bole's Feed Ltd.
Thunder Bay (807) 623-7311
Ctarkhill Feeders Ltd.
Goderich (519) 524-4367
Cochrane Farm Equpment
Cochrane (705) 272-4008
Nelson Giles Sales 8 Service
Powassan (705) 724-5406
HAM. Silo Structures
Putnam (519) 269.3506
Huron Dairy Equip. Ltd.
Seaforth (519) 527-1935
Ilett'sEqupment Ltd.
Paris (519) 753-8131
Ontario Dealers
Norman R. Koch Agri. Sales
Earlton (705) 563-8325
Laffin Farm Equip.
Thornloe (705) 563-2854
Mebourne Farm Auto
Mebourne (519) 289-5256
Moorefield Equip. Ltd.
Palmerston (519) 343-2122
H. Nicholson 8 Sons Ltd.
Tara (519) 934-2343
Rix Equpment Sales
Carnpbelllord (705) 653-1875
Claire Snoddon Farm Machinery
Sunderland (705) 357-3579
Valmetal Inc. Farm Equipment
St. Germain P.Q. 819-395-4282
Ontario Region, Atwood 519-356-2818
Suurd's Feeding Equipment
Cavan (705) 277-2992
Tri County Farm Systems
New Hamburg (519) 656-2021
Wellandport Farm Supply Ltd.
Wellandport (416) 386-6262
R.B. Farm 8 Dairy Equpment Ltd.
Alexandria (613) 525-3691
Lavoie Farm Equpment
Bourget (613) 487-2946
Len's Farm Equipment
Martintown (613) 528-4205
Plante Farm Equipment
Brinston (613) 652-2009
Fernand Pregent & Son Inc.
Alfred (613) 679-2200
46 THE RURAL VOICE
NEWS
PERUVIAN INSECTS
HIGH ON COCAINE
It appears that even the might of the
Peruvian drug barons cannot ensure that
their crops remain free from insect pests.
A report in the magazine New Scien-
tist says that larvae of a butterfly found
in Peru are eating their way through the
illegal coca -plant crop. They've con-
sumed nearly 20,000 hectares of the
plants to date — and counting. The loss
so far adds up to an estimated $37 mil-
lion (U.S.).
The insect is Eloria noyesi (com-
monly called malumbia), a small white
butterfly whose larval stage feeds exclu-
sively on coca plants. Until this year,
malumbia has been very rare. Now, for
some reason, its numbers have ex-
ploded, and the Peruvian government is
hoping that it has found an unexpected
ally in its fight against the drug trade.
The agriculture department has
asked entomologists to try to rear the
insect in numbers large enough that it
can be dropped into the jungle to eat the
coca crops. But there are obstacles. The
first is that, because very little is known
about the insect, no one knows if the
project is really feasible.
Second, field trials will have to take
place in military installations at the edge
of the jungle. To prevent reprisals from
drug traffickers, this location will have
to be kept secret for more than a year
while the trials continue.
Third, while the target crop is illegal,
there are 20,000 small farmers in Peru
who grow coca legally. There is no way
to guarantee that the released insects
would not eat this legal crop as well.
In the end, the Peruvian government
may be in the paradoxical situation of
both creating an insect problem and
trying to solve it at the same time.0
Ian Wylie-Toal
EDUCATION BOARDS
WIN SAFETY AWARD
Ron Hill and John Mann, of the
Bruce and Grey County Boards of Edu-
cation respectively, have received Merit
Awards from the Ontario Farm Safety
Association.
The awards recognize their leader-
ship in the development and promotion
of farm safety in elementary schools.0