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The Rural Voice, 1989-04, Page 47Easy Cut® c ,3 SICKLE BAR SYSTEM ,..,,.art•..' -~°.. THE BEST MOWER-CONDRIONER, SWATHER OR COMBINE IS ONLY AS GOOD AS RS "CUTTING SYSTEM" • No hold down clips • No shims - no adjusting • No plugging - reduce guard breakage • Increase groundspeed - cut cleaner • Bolts, heavy tungsten hard faced section $550 — $600 Patented 1988 Change over kits are available for most combines, swathers arid hay machines: SUPER SPEAR SUPER SPECIAL — handle% from 800 to 3000 Ib. bales $245 to $452 • Fence Gates • Mineral Feeders 20" Coulter Blades $19.80 Distributor for Super Bowl and Stock Tanks Disc mower parts priced right eg. VICON blade $1.26 MANUFACTURING INC. ST. JACOBS, ONT. (519) 664-2232 Bolt & Nut $1.63 A RG I5 Ltd Box 154, Hwy. 86 E. Listowel, N4W 3H2 519-291-4205 HYDRAULIC — pumps — valves — controls — cylinders — hyd. hoses to order Telescoping cylinders made to order • Sales • Service • Repairs Parts & Heavy Hardware For tractor, tillage, hay and harvest equipment Machine Shop Custom Broaching (splines keyways & hexagons) • Heavy press work, to 150 ton • Shearing & bending, to 10' x 1/4" • Bulk chrome shafting, in stock to 2 1/2" BWM BARFOOTS WELDING & MACHINE SHOP Wiarton 519-534-1200 MACHINERY GIANT VACUUM SUCKS UP PESTS A new system of pest control for strawberries is blurring the distinction between housework and farming. Growers in California arc using a giant vacuum to suck pests off their plants much the same way as the house- hold vacuum sucks dust out of carpets. The "Bugvac" is allowing growers to use less insecticide and preserve the predators and parasites living in the crop. Its inventor, Edgar Show, got the idea from a hand-held vacuum sampler commonly used by entomologists. He approached an equipment manufacturer and arranged to have an upscale version built to mount on a tractor and cover four rows of strawberries at a pass. The insects sucked off the upper leaves accelerate to speeds of 50 kph before hitting the fan inside the vacuum, reports the January issue of New Scien- tist magazine. The insects are killed and then blown back onto the field. The process is keeping lygus bug populations down to a "manageable level" without insecticides. Predatory insects and mites, freed from the pres- sure of insecticides, can then keep the remaining pests in check.0 Ian Wylie-Toal ORTHMAN MARKETS AUTOMATIC GUIDE The Orthman MP 111 Tracker is the first guidance system to use a microproces- sor. Models are available for 4 to 16 rows for drawn or moun ted planters and cultivators. THE AMAZING HAY AVER c ,3 ,..,,.art•..' -~°.. Keeps bales off the ground — No spoilage, entire bale is consumed, feedlot tested for three years — rugged 2" angle iron and 1 1/4" high tensile steel tubing, wood floor optiotal._ Sizes for 4' or 5' bales`:-_ : One Piece or Knocked Down. $550 — $600 Patented 1988 THE SUPER SPEAR Canada's best value in bale spears — fits most loaders — handle% from 800 to 3000 Ib. bales $245 to $452 • Fence Gates • Mineral Feeders • Pen Partitions • Cattle Oilers Distributor for Super Bowl and Stock Tanks • MANUFACTURING INC. ST. JACOBS, ONT. (519) 664-2232 APRIL 1989 45