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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1981-10-07, Page 13Lucan committee working hard on '82 1 PM Last day of one match, By Yvonne Reynolds The end of the 1981 International Plowing Match was the physical beginning of the 1982 match at Lucan. Lucan real estate salesman Mert Culbert and his crew of 15 were poking through the mud at the tented city site near Barrie on Sunday afternoon, pulling up thousands of feet of water pipe that will be installed in Lucan's tented city site next year. Six streets and headquarters row each had 2,000' of pipe buried un- derground, and caterers' row hid another 4,000'. Iron fence poets marking each outlet had to be removed, as did all street signs, 250 45 -gallon -drum garbage cans, 40 ticket booths, hundreds of feet of snowfencing and thousands of plowmen's stakes. Culbert anticipates that he and his team will have loaded three trailers owned by the Ontario Plowmans Association, and three rented semis, by Wednesday afternoon. The three OPA vehicles will be stored, fully loaded, in the county garage in Hyde Park for the winter. Some of the 15 men have already had experience dismantling and assembling at Woodstock and Barrie. Planning for the 1982 match began u soon as Lucan was officially declared the site for the 1982 match. Committee chairmen were appointed for antiques, bands and parades, banquets, billetting, cam- ping, county exhibits, farm- stead improvements, flying LOCALS AT BARRIE MATCH - Marion and Andy Dougall werd two of the many area visitors to last week's International Plowing .Match at Barrie. Above, they check the program befgre starting a tour of the grounds despite very muddy conditions. T -A photo Centralia offering dairy goat course "Its the first time we've ever offered a course for dairy goat farmers" said Don Cameron, Head .of Communications and Continuing Education at Centralia College of Agricultural. Technology, "so we're really looking forward. to it and we hope dairy goat farmers will take advantage of it". The course Is designed to cover all aspects of the dairy goat industry Including Runnerup at Barrie For the second year in a row at the International Plowing Match Bevan, Shapton, RR 1 Exeter and Brian McGavin, RR 4 Walton, won the reserve grand championships in their respective classes. Bevan plowed in class 3, group 1, three furrow mounted or semi -mounted for ages 12 to 19, and Brian was competing in class 2, group 2 for two furrow mounted or semi -mounted plows, ages 17 to 19. They will know in about six weeks, when they receive the of- ficial results, how close they came to top prize. However, plowing con- ditions were less than ideal, and placing second at an international match is a credible achievement. reproduction and selection, nutrition, housing, health and marketing, It will be a very practical program and will give participants a chance to actually see some dairy goat operations as well as discuss the industry with qualified instructors and other dairy goat producers. The course will be held in Stratford at the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food office, 413 Hibernia Street. It will be on Monday evenings from 7:30 p.m. and the first session 1s Monday November 2. "We're excited about it" said Cameron "because of the practical approach being taken". The course will have two tours of different operations built right into the program. These will be on Saturdays. The first one is on November 14 and then the course will end with another tour on Saturday December 12. "There is no charge for this course" Camerson said and it is made possible because of the cooperation of area Ministry of Agriculture and Food personnel and the funding assistance of the Canada Employment and Immigration Commission. If you are interested and would like to register for this dairy goat program contact your area OMAF office or phone Centralia College at 228691. The program is a first and you should plan to attend. MIDDLESEX EXHIBIT — Middlesex County had an excellent exhibit at the 1981 inter- national Plowing Match at Barrie. Above, Andy Stewart who was in charge of arranging the display of vegetables. T -A photo e foot in the 111 byilo► Ad 9.10Il leo... so. /0+ted by gob Trot,., Fees , Canadian farmers are people in the world? Good among the best in the world. 'reason, but why not teach the They have risen to the technological challenges in the last 50 years to a greater degree than moat nations. 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Fen.. 0, 03a 2(7 farmers, gates and parking, ladies' program, lands, lounges, lunches, publicity, special events, team and horse show, tented city, tractors, traffic and wagon trains. Each chairman is responsible for staffing his own committee, and each decides how many people he needs. Tented city• chairman Culbert and his five -man committee from Lucan, Jim Young, Bernie Bean, Jim Scott, Norm Steeper and secretary and legal advisor Bob Benner began meeting regularly over a year ago at the Culbert home. "My wife Muriel always supplies the lunch", Culbert said with a fond glance at his wife. "They met in our home because Mert hates to go out to meetings", Muriel laughed. Culbert took on the added duty of leasing all the land required for the match. He and some of the other geniuses on his committee modified an old sugar beet lifter, hoping to make the task of taking up the water pipes easier. After talking to her husband, Mrs. Culbert passed on the good news: "It worked like a charm." Middlesex Committee Chairman Jack McNamara, a Delaware farmer, foresees no great change in the time of year or design of next year's match. Speaking of the wet weather he said, "You could hold it earlier . and get the same type of problem, we won't tinker with the overall format. Some things could be_ changed; official vehicles are on the streets day and night, and I don't think there Times -Advocate, October 7, 1981 'WB. 13 first day of next compatible with preserving the family farm. So, agriculture in Canada can and should grow but not to the detriment of the land itself. I am too young to remember it but the stories of the dirty Thirties and the dustbowls of that day are enough to remind all of us that over -production is a sin. Only leadership and national goals can prevent the same thing happening as more and more people go hungry in the world. It is a dilemma which cannot be solved in a few lines of type. It will take the best brains in this country to solve the many problems facing farmers. Unfortunately, farmers are too busy making interest payments to address this awesome question. "The futility of wealth is made very clear to us in two places; the. Bible, and the in- come tax form." For Details On WINTER WHEAT Insurance Call: Donald Weigand RR 1 Dashwood 237-3418 Att.r Oct 31 you'n on your own 4 �N..laMr. ..........r STORAGE FOR LEASE — NEW BUILDING — 24 FT. DOOR — 15 FT. CLEARANCE CALL JACK TAYLOR 235-1252 AFTER 6:00 229-6472 should be any after 8 a.m. The committee has registered their official logo for next year's match, an appealing little man with his hand on a plow. To help defray expenses, people who wish to sell souvenirs can pay for the right to use the logo, and return a per- centage of the take. Mr. McNamara has already given Mert Culbert a check for $8,000 for the ex- pected costs of clearing the Barrie site, paying his work- men and transporting the six -truck convoy to Mid- dlesex county. If "skies are blue in '82", as the Middlesex promoters promise, McNamara an- ticipates an attendance of 250,000. "That's not because we'll be putting on a better show", McNamara explains, "but because of location. Cecil R Squire Sales & Service Repair Shop Equipment 92 Waterloo St. Exeter 235-0465 Geography puts us in the centre of a great farming community." All concerned are keeping their fingers crossed that in the future fate will bait au Middlesex County as kindly as it has in the past. 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