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Home My WebLink AboutTimes-Advocate, 1988-12-14, Page 34LUCKNOW SNOWBLOWERS FEATURES: • Extra heavy augers and shafts .• Special auger sprockets prevent chain icing 2 - • Tapered roller bearings on fan shaft r • Greasable 1-7/16" bearinOt on auger shafts (except S40) • Heavy duty gearbox'with heat treated gears. •:Farrand augers protected by,shear pins - • Heavy duty P,T.O. with needle bearings •All double auger blowers equipped with 4-bladeJan. • OPTIONAL. 'EQUIFIMENT. - • • Hydraulic rotator control utiliies remote 8"stroke cylinder to. turn the chute a full 180° - • Hydraulic manual spout deflector - . 13 models avallabte .(42" = 108") Priced from MIMED emmars Rest Bulletin - Exeter Lions Club bulletin editor Paul Anstett received a Trophy recently for producing the best newsletter in the. district. •Club piesident Ross Mathers (left) is shown presenting the trophy. • The environment and agriculture .Fanning practiccs have changed ministries in Toronto receive more drastically in recent years. That hog than 1,000 complaints a year aboet, .farm up the way expanded rapidly farm practices. Oen the farmer took his son into Most of these complaints come, the business; with him. From one from people.4w.tio have recently small hog barn to,tw.o huge barn Moved into the country.,was. a big change. Although we It is easy forfarmcrs to brush Off never complained; 'we 'certainly the complaints with remarks like fount] the odors from that ahog,op= "Well, that's what ydu.get for mov- erasion 'much intensified with the ing into, the country" .but it seems expansion. When those ventilating to me_fariners can no longer ignore -fans 'clicked on, the odor came ` complaints with such cavalier re -.sweeping across our neighborhood marks.. s-• • - • like a -a fog in St. John's harbor.. Some good public relations by - The settlement of a dispute in.:- :fariners and farm families can, and ..;thc Niagara fruit -belt is anothe? will, prevent many of those corn- case in point. Warren Saunders, a plaints: Urban sprawl is a reality .; grape -grower, was charged with that has been with agriculture in a making excessive noise by using a: big way since the. - late 1940s.�1t-is propane-powcred,gun. to frighten not.going to stop. Suburbanites arc birds.. away `fromhis crop. Al- , meeting farmers at fence lines in though the dispute dragged through ever-increasing numbers. It is a dc= the courts and to the Envirotimen- -- light for many people who move -to sal Appeal "Board: it was settled - -the country to sec.,a herd of Hol- when the farmer agreed to erecta .. Stein' peacefully grazing a few hun- . sound shield and topoint the can - • dred wds from the kitchen window: . non away from the homes of those Until, --01- course;- those- cows—who-complained. ' break through- the fence. Or until The case was expected to provide - the nfanure pile gets offensive or' ' a test of provincial legislation iiiNa entertainment - Providing museial entertainment prior to the grain dryer roars all night Or'. •. Citristrnas dinner at they/ilia in Exeter were Sondra Classens. --the-dust from-vrther's p yin or 4 -•armed, at -2- - eting face .. from P g° el, Jo Lene Cronin and Loh Stapleton: _sib_ �cUrrttTTa�� k�n mail - Watch your1arm ml carrying on "normal" operations. - • Times -Advocate, December 14, 198/. Page 17A Huronart�c� ates in SingSwingp p CLINTON - Huron County was well represented at the Junior.Farm- ers Association of Ontario's Sing Swing Competition held November 26 in Cornwall at St. Lawrence College. The Competition includes modem and old time square dancing, jive, polka, waltz, ,step dancing SATB choir, vocal -group, vocal group: 'a. ccapella', duet, male and female solo, solo whistling, and the ever popular gong show. Approximately 201} Junior Farmers from. across the ,province competed. Comrpeting fond-luron County its old time square dancing were Linda Axtmann, Wingham and Jack Met- calfe, Bruce County Sandra Regele, Dublin and•John Van Wieden, Perth . Co., Lisa Rammcloo,. Blyth and Robert Flunking, Auburn, caller was Lloyd Drummond, Perth coun- ty and spares were Al Pennington, • Joanne Kieswetter and Joyce Lane, all from Bruce county. • Karl Morrison, Lucknow, per- formed in the piano recital and ac- companied the Middlesex Co. vbcal group in which Rob Esscry, Cen- tralia, was a member. 1 -Mon Coun- -ty's vocal group consisted of Linda Axtmann, Anne Alton and Lynn Compensation for beef TORONTO - The majority of beef producers who submitted claims when the Brussels stockyard defaulted in payments will be- re•i c civ ing. cornpensation: "About 80 percent of the claims submitted- to the Beef Financial • Protection Fund Board have been approved,. and the cheques arc.in the mail today, rtao. Minister of Agriculture ofopd Jack Riddell, announced .Monday. "-1 am pleased the board has been able to move so- quickly to resolve this situation," he said. • Total pa-ymcftt will be nearly S500,00E.-_. There were approxi- mately 100 claims, totalling less than S800.000. . The livestock community sale in . Brussels began to default on pay- ments for oaulc from Ontario and western Canada in late October., At .that time,ministry investigators took claims froin producers. who • had not been paid. . - Eac)t claim, including those sub - mitred by 441 members, was re- viewed by members of the protec- tion fund board earlier this week "on its own merits" and, payments - should be reaching the producers soon, fjnancial -protection unit ad- . ininistrator Gill Shaw said. - ' -The Bcef Financial -Protection Fund Board, administered by the ministry,. is.madc up of beef indus- try rcprescntat:ves. Sufrday's• • Lon Brux- plowing seeps into every room in calls for, aboard to hear complaints the house. Or the pig marline- per- and decide whether the farmer is mortes ,the washline on. a Monday morning. We lived in the country -for neatly. It seems to me, though, that 40 yearswith a chicken stable down many of these complaints could,bc the road, a beef feedlot not far away handled right at the local level; be - and a hog.farm on the next conces- tween the farmer and his neigh- sion. The only time we actually bours. Which isn't to say that leg - complained 'is when the owner of islation is not needed, -It -i But .the chicken stable started raising farmers could be better' neighbors some guinea hcns. They wandered in most cases, I'm sure, if they . all over the place. • simply*tbok the trouble to talk and it is most disconcbrting to be explain and do,as much as possible • awakened with two crazy guinea to prevent the complaints. owl screeching under your bedroom-- Too 'many of them ,simply shrug window. We - suggested that we their shoulders and suggest that it ' liked the chickens as .neighbors -but is all part of country living. the- noisy, crazy guinea fowl, left In Ontario, farmers make up running free, was too much. They.: only aboutfour percent of the pop - were soon penned in. - ulatioh. Any legislation from the We recently moved from, the province will work only when .countryafter selling our horses and farmers and suburbanites come to razing the horse barn. • the conclusion that they -live in the - We had little else to complain sant community and -must learn to . about until the last year or' two. communicate. CLINTON - We would encourage catidnal actrvities..lf, for some ma - nn [turbo County rural farm fami- son, you do not receive a copy via Heti to watch their mail the latter .. ?household mailing, please let us know and we will send a brochure directly. - - Don Pullen Agricultural Repr=esentative for • . - Huron County part of the week of December 12. During -this week, you should re- ceive' a copy of your 1989 Educa- tional Programs and Services bro- chure. This green -coloured brochure will contain a summary of tipcom ing educational meetings,- services available and a list of agricultural organization annual meetings. Programs begin. in January and many require advanced registration. Please look the brochure over and return the interest reminder card. The,Huron OMAF office staff will be pleased to enroll .you in the event of your choice or pass on re- quested information. We do hope this brochure will be Most useful in planning winter cdu- Parrish & Heimbecker is pleased to welcome Cook's to the family. On December 31, 1988. Cook's - %%i11 become part of the. Parrish & Heimbecker group of companies. At P&H. we're delighted with the acquisition: Cook's has developed an excellent reputation with farmers in southwestern Ontario based on over 100 dears of fair frading.in crop inputs, gain and bean handling. The are a world leader in processing andexportof edible beans. Cook's is committed, as we are at P&H. to serving agriculture . its Canada. Their -people will add new strength and expertise to ol•ir organization. • • \ou may not notice a great deal of t_CoQQ.;.s; The Ccx & T - -- '- wi remain on facilities in Centralia, Kirkton and Walton. as well as at head office in Hensall. Ontario. You'll find the same people serving farm customers. dealing ith export buyers, and managing Cooks'. operations. And most importantly .you'll still find Cook's to be the place where you can.trade with confidence. • . To Cook's employees, customers and trading partners .:. welcome to the P&H family. • ratnah R Ilrtmt:etiMr 1imrtcs.' ct� Von Streth Toronto. 7ntan.-' \l' l :115 Aton, Lucknow, and were accompa- nied by Linda Hearn, Clinton. Jeff Hearn, Clinton, sang in the male solo competition accompanied by Linda Hearn. Lynn -Alton competed - in solo whistling. Jack Metcalf, Steve 'Dow and .Rob Gordon, all members from Brncg County Junior Farmers competed in the Gong Show. Linda Axtmann designed the winning cov- er used on the Sing Swing`Show- case Program. • Huron County Junior Farmers with help from Bruce and Perth County Junior -Fanners came away with many second and third place finishes in the competition. Sing Swing 1989 will be hosted by -the Perth County Junior. Farm- ers in Stratford: Sing Swing. is one of•many activities organized by the 'Junior Fanners' Association. of On- tario for its members.• aRg FARM EQUIPMENT -1:M Exeter Sales, Service & Rentals Dashwood 235-2121 since '1932 237-3242 j gg-es and the Best No finance charges - until next spring It takes a lot to be the '• Western World's biggest tractor manufacturer. it starts. with the best lineup of tractors we've ever offered:.the 38 to 90 hp' M -F 200/300 Series "value -leaders" plus 60 to 155 h p • M -F 3000/3600 Series "high-tech'; tractors. d it takes a choice of, ways y, •twice mincing c arges until•May 1�8 (•1 1989 on M -F 3000 Series tractors). Or you can choose. , low -rate M -F financing or special factory discounts. Stop in today and drive home yotir biggest savings on our best tractors ever. But hurry, offers end January 31, 1989. . 15th Anniversary Sale - Super Specials MF - 360• 2 WD 50 H.P. 16,900 M.F: - 398 M.P. 80 H.P. '23,950 M.F.-Y1010Diesel 16 H.P. 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