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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1991-07-24, Page 12PAGE 12. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1991 fl Starting early The effort to prevent young people from drinking and driving starts early as members of the Arrive Alive program speak to youngsters at the Blyth summer recreation program Monday afternoon. Arrive Alive brings a message from teens to their contemporaries that it isn't cool to drink and drive. Tips provided forAugust seeding 5 new plays get airing at Festival workshops BY BRIAN HALL FARM MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST FOR HURON COUNTY A number of alfalfa fields are showing the effects of serious thin­ ning from winter kill and frost heaving last winter. Often this was not noticed until after the first cut of hay. You may be thinking of an August seeding. An August seeding sown in good time, has the poten­ tial to give three cuts the following year. If you are planning to August seed, here is a recipe. August seedings fit best in the rotation after winter wheat or spring cereals. It can also work fol­ lowing a forage stand that has run out, but this is second choice. The biggest problem after cereals has been from volunteer grain. To con­ trol volunteer grain, there are two methods. Plow the field and com­ plete secondary tillage and pack quickly after to conserve moisture. The other alternative is to disc or cultivate after harvest, and leave for a week to 10 days until the grain has germinated. The final working will kill this volunteer cereal. All fields should be packed after seeding unless on clay loam soil if soil moisture is unusually high. The target date for seeding is August 20. In short season areas, aim for the early end of this range. A good rule of thumb, is that you want to have a lap root on alfalfa seedings the size of a pencil for good winter survival. Perennial weeds, like dan­ delions and twitch, arc a major threat and must be controlled before seeding. Good fertility lev­ els, especially of phosphorous, gets stands off to a fast start. Unless you have a high soil test reading for phosphorous, drilled in fertilizer is preferable to broadcast. The suggested seeding rate for alfalfa is 12-14 lbs./acre. Higher seeding rates will give you more alfalfa plants per square foot this fall, however, there will be little difference in stand thickness by the end of next season. In selecting an Make your move. panricipacriDn alfalfa variety, the most important considerations will be yield, winter hardiness and resistance to the dis­ eases phytophlhora root rot and verticillium wilt. Should you grow a multi-leaf variety? Multi-leaf varieties have more leaves than standard varieties, yields are similar, but there is no difference in the feeding value of these varieties. Don't plant a multi- leaf variety just to boast to your neighbour that your alfalfa plants have more leaves than theirs do. Be sure to look at the other factors mentioned above. 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Pointing out that this year's main stage schedule includes five world premieres he points out that selecting plays from the 200 scripts received each year is a long, labour intensive process. "Everybody sends us scripts from the most experienced and frequent­ ly-produced Canadian playwright you can think of, to high school students who thought they'd give it a try. As you can imagine, there is quite a range of topics and quality. All of these scripts get read and responded to, and if anything grabs our interest - themes, story, or character - we start to pursue that play." Some of the country's top play­ wrights will have their work devel­ oped this summer. Robert Clinton, author of The Mail Order Bride will have his new play My Last Wife workshopped. The play was commissioned by the Festival. James Reaney, one of Canada's most famous playwrights and poets (author of the Donnelly trilogy) will present a new piece of musical theatre called Terrible Swift Sword. He'll be working with composer Peter Denny, musicians Jane Hysen and Bob Hughes and Festival actors. A public reading will be held Friday, August 2 at 2 p.m. Check with the Festival box office for location. Admission is free. Anne Chislctt, author of Quiet in the Land and The Tomorrow Box will be working with director Damir Andre on her play Yankee Notions a story set in the aftermath of the 1837 Farmers Rebellion. Keith Roulston, author of His Own Boss and The Shortest Dis­ tance Between Two Points will workshop A Matter of Minutes a dramatic investigation of the Truscott case. The final play is a collective cre­ ation tentatively called 7 Can Sell You Anything" based on the experi­ ence of actor Neil Foster when he was a "carny" travelling with a booth on a midway. The script will be improvised and created by Mr. Foster, Alan Williams, Kate Lynch, Peter Smith and Bill Dow. "Here arc Blyth, we have devel­ oped a routine of two workshop sessions, one late in the summer and one in Novembcr/December," says Bill Dow. "At these work­ shops the writer comes together with a director and a full company of actors for one week. They meet every day to work on the play. This is extremely valuable time for the writers, often the first time they will hear their words aloud in dif­ ferent voices than their own. The actors and the director ask ques­ tions of the writer. They try differ­ ent approaches and start to rehearse the play. The writers are often rewriting every night and imple­ menting changes during the day. This is the first time that the truly collaborative nature of theatre has a chance to flourish.