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Agriculture
Big wins for area
4-H club members
Seaforth area 4-H members
excelled in the Huron County
competition held recently at
the Seaforth Fairgrounds.
Novice class winner was
Crystal Salm, Goderich.
Junior winner was Crista
Vanden Hoven, R.R. 4
Seaforth. Intermediate winner
was Melissa Wallace, R.R. 4,
Seaforth. Senior winner was
Janet Vanden Hoven, R.R. 4,
Seaforth. She was also top
overall judge. The winning
team was Clinforth calf club.
Crista Vanden Hoven and
Melissa Wallace along with
Sandra and Irene Schuttel,
Goderich are the members.
Judging classes included a
quiz, quilts, chinchillas, intar-
sia, barley, dairy cows,
miniature horses, breeding
beef, market swine and cauli-
flower.
Many beans
For the first time in history
there are likely more than
2,000,000 acres of soybeans
planted in Ontario.
The Ontario Soybean
Growers' Marketing Board
says it is a new record, and
recent figures indicate soy-
bean plantings in this
province are up seven per
cent from 1995.
Hullett accounts
At its Aug. 6 meeting,
Hullett Council approved,
passed and paid township
accounts for July totalling
$62,045.18. A bylaw zone
amendment for part of Lot.
24, Conc. 10 was passed - for
"agriculture small holding -.
special provisions."
Photos by a regor Campbell
Museum fundraiser says talk's cheap
"We're not going to clear a
way to' preserve a museum by
just talking about it," says
George Underwood, chair-
man of the heritage commit-
tee trying to come up with
funds to run the Ontario
Agricultural Museum at
Milton.
Ontario s government
announced late last year pub-
lic funding for the museum
would stop at the end o
March in 1997.
The committee is holding a
fall festival fundraiser at the
Milton museum from ld a.m.
to 5.p.m. on Sat., Sept. 14.
"Look for draft horses
doing field work, threshing
demonstrations, a farm toy
show and sale, open hearth
cooking, clogiand line danc-
ing, antique tractors, steam
and gas engines in operation,
old time baseball, and
antique car display, spinning,
Ag minister speaks at Varna
BY AMY NEILANDS
VARNA - Federal Minister
of Agriculture Ralph Goodale
was special guest at Huron -
Bruce MP Paul Stecklc's fifth
annual barbecue in Varna on
Wednesday evening.
Since being appointed as
minister of agriculture in the
fall of 1993', Goodale, from
Regina, .said one of thc joys
of the job is being able to
"travel the country roads of
Canada" and visit with the
farmers and people involved
in the industry.
"But along with this joy
comes frustration," he said..
"The frustration of finding
out there arc some Canadians
- too many - who do not fully
appreciate, grasp or fully
understand thc true size and
importance of the agriculture
and food industry in this
country."
He said many look at farm-
ing as an activity out of the
OFA president visits
Ontario Federation of
Agriculture president Tony
Moms is in Huron and Perth
counties this week for
"kitchen table forums" on
farming concerns, visiting
local farms and agri-husincss
and meeting with arca pro-
ducers.
Yesterday he was scheduled
for appearances at the Boot
Dairy Farm west of Clinton
on Highway 8, the Brusselt
Livestock Sales Barn and
also in the Exeter arca. He
was scheduled for three stops
around St. Marys today.
past, that farming is depen-
dent on some form of subsi-
dization, that it is not really
important nationally, that it is
"grunt work" without a great
deal of sophistication.
"These myths need to
explode," he said.
See Goodale, next page
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