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Accounts payable, totalling
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Blyth Business Association
presents
The Good Time Music Hall
"OLD FASHIONED CHRISTMAS"
featuring
Dave Hoy and
The Music Hall Performers
Sunday, November 15, 1998 7:30 p.m.
Advance Tickets $12.50 At the door $15.00
Tickets available at: Luann's Country Flowers, Grand View Restaurant,
Olde Village Accents, Blyth, Brussels Variety, Crossroads - Clinton.
Nifty Korners Gifts & Radio Shack - Seaforth
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PAGE 22. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1998.
Specialist says manure producers, users need link
Agriculture needs to find a way
to bring together large livestock
operators who produce a surplus of
manure with cashcrop farmers who
could use the manure to fertilize
their crops. This was the message
from an expert in nutrient manage-
ment to the poultry producer update
meeting in Holmesville, Oct. 28.
Don Hilborn, by-product and
waste management specialist with
the Ontario Ministry of Agricul-
ture, Food and Rural Affairs, said
the traditional link between keeping
livestock and growing crops has
been broken in modern farming.
Most poultry producers no longer
grow their own feed, he noted. Yet
manure is a valuable commodity
even if it is a big problem for large
livestock operations.
"The economics are here to make
it (brokering manure to cash crop
farmers) viable in the future,"
Hilbom said. He said the day could
come when "I could call up some-
body and say I need fertilizer and
get a choice of manure or chemical
fertilizer."
Society would be more accepting
of large livestock operations if they
knew there was a system in place
for handling surpluses of manure,
Hilborn said. Dry manure from
chicken farms would be the easiest
to set up a brokerage system for, he
said.
Looking at the components of
manure from a broiler farm,
Hilbom said the accumulated value
of the manure is about $32.85 a ton
for nitrogen, phosphorus and
potash applied to a rotation of corn
and soybeans. The corn would
make use of the nitrogen in the first
year at a saving of $8.75 in nitro-
gen purchase needs. The phospho-
rus is worth $9 each year for two
years while the potash is worth
$6.10.
The phosphorus, not the nitrogen,
is the limiting factor Hilbom said.
It can't be used up by the crop in
one year so the most broiler manure
that could be applied is four tonnes
per acre every two years. That
would mean a broiler producer with
50,000 birds would need 110 acres
of corn to take the initial applica-
tion and 110 acres of other crops
like soybeans to use up the residual
phosphorus.
If a farmer doesn't have that
much cropping acreage, or if he has
even more birds. then some way of
getting the manure to cashcrop
farmers who could use it would be
valuable.
Farmers must begin to look at the
usefulness of nutrient management
plans instead of just looking at
them as a restriction to get passed
in order to build a large new live-
stock operation, he said. "Nutrient
management planning will not be
successful if farmers just do it to
get a building permit. If they do
that, we've failed." Rec board reviews percentages
Contribution percentages were
reviewed by the Brussels, Morris
and Grey recreation board, Oct. 14,
to better reflect usage.
According to board policy, the
levy percentages are reviewed
every two years.
To that end, Morris Twp. Coun-
cillor Edna McLellan, Brussels
Councillor Mary Stretton, Board
Chair and Grey Twp. Deputy-
Reeve Alvin McLellan, Brussels
Clerk-Treasurer Donna White and
Board Secretary Rhonda Fischer
met earlier for the review. '
To reflect minor sports registra-
tion over the past two years, it was
recommended the Brussels levy be
43 per cent; Morris Twp., 24 per
cent and Grey Twp., 33 per cent.
The recommendation will go to
all participating councils for
review. If approved, each council is
required to pass an amending
bylaw for the joint agreement.
A report for the pool showed it
had lost $5,295.62 this summer, an
improvement over the $11,559.63
loss from 1997. Pool committee
Chair Paul Gowing said increased
admissions and lesson revenues
along with several donations helped
reduce the deficit.
Jim McDonald and Abi Corbett
of minor hockey met with the board
to discuss a refund arrangement for
ice time. As was the case last year,
if total ice season rental costs
exceed $22,000, 10 per cent will be
refunded to minor hockey.
A motion was passed agreeing to
the arrangement.
Several residents attended to dis-
cuss the possibility of a Year 2000
New Year's Eve dance. If a dance
is organized, minor hockey, the fair
board, women's curling, the curling
club and the Legion would like to
participate.
Ken Fischer was hired to blow
snow at the arena for the 1998-99
season at a cost of $50 per hour.
Heather Blake will be paid $8 per
hour when working in the booth.
Advertisers will be contacted
about placing signs on the ice
resurfacer for the season.
Arena Manager Murray McArter
reported that the heat pump was not
working properly. It could be
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around old injuries.
"Regular massage sessions can
help decrease your susceptibility to
injury," Hallam said. "Massage also
helps reduce stress, allowing you to
feel better both physically and
mentally."
For more information on
massage therapy, contact Tanya
Hallam at 523-9387.
repaired for $200 to $300, but it
would not provide cooling. The
cost to replace would be $2,000.
The board agreed to budget for a
Ghosts, goblins and ghouls
With scary creatures of the night, gross foods on offer and
ghostly music, children attending the Walton Halloween
party, Friday night were treated to a great time. Janet
Mitchell fills the role as just one of the ghouls waiting to
frighten passersby in the haunted house.
Howick Mutual Insurance Company and the Wingham
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INTIMATE AFTERNOON —AN WITH--
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2:00
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Wingham & Goderich and D.'s Variety
THE BARRA MACNEILS - Nov. 20th
Home for Christmas - Nov. 29th & Dec. 3rd
Lawrence Gowan - Dec. 4th
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What are your Christmas Plans?
Bring your employees, groups and friends to
celebrate Christmas as a community.
Saturday, December 12, 1998
at the Blyth Community Centre
Social Time - 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Roast Beef & Black Forest Ham Dinner
- Entertainment -
Live Band Suzie Q & Mister B
Price for Dinner & Dance -
$32.00 per couple paid before Dec. 1st
or $37.00 per couple paid after Dec. 1st
To book your groups please call
Alex Blair 523-4964 Darren Richmond 523-9751
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