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Home My WebLink AboutTimes-Advocate, 1986-08-27, Page 181 Times -Advocate, August 27, 1986 ON FARM TOUR — The Huron Water Conservation District sponsored a tour of the Clinton area form of Gordon Lobb, Wednesday. Summer wanes and it isn't even September. The equinox is more than three weeks away yet even the most op- timistic lover of the sun -- as I am -- is aware that autumn is almost here. 1 hate winter. The fall is a favorite time of year but my delight in its ap- proach is tempered with sadness because snow will soon be swirling and I hate snow. I walk along our road in the twilight and watch those wonderful fliers, the swallows, dipping and diving to catch the harvest of bugs in the still air of August. Without swallows, the flying bugs would take over the world. Flocks of migrating feathered folk have been gathering along fencerows and hydro lines for two or three weeks. They are all getting restless. The robins cease to sing but still scold. The saucy -looking bobolinks will soon disappear along with the half-dozen orioles in the hardwood bush behind our house. Those who suffer allergies are well aware that goldenrod is shedding. On- ly a few wildflowers are still in bloom, a few daisies, perhaps; and Queen Anne's lace. A few huge milkweeds, missed by the haymakers have form- ed big pods, still closed but almost ready to burst and spread tufty seeds across the meadows. The smart birds that go south have either started their long journey or are gathering. When that happens, the more hardy, wintering birds come back to the homestead. The brown creepers are most noticeable as are the nuthatches and the juncos. But you know summer is almost over because the blue jays get mouthier and bolder. They have been flitting through the bush all summer, scolding only when necessary. Now, they get louder. And louder. Already, one of my favorite birds, the haughty kingbird, seems to have followed the sun south. I miss this bold fellow who will attack a crow many times bigger than he is. I have even see a couple of kingbirds put a hawk to shame. The sumac shows some flashes of red in August, a warning of a much better show a few weeks hence. It was at this time of year when we were kids in Victoria County that trips to the bush were organized to pick chokecherries. Have you ever tested chockecherry jelly made from berries you picked before the birds got them all. Ah, my mouth waters just remembering. I never liked elderber- ries but the rest of my family did and I can see my sister licking her lips in the old summer kitchen back home so many years ago. One thing I also miss living in this land -locked part of Ontario is the wonderful, crazy, haunting laugh of a loon on a lake. Next best thing to listening to the lap of waves or a loon on a lakeshore is to listen to a brook talking to itself on a summer night. September cometh, I'm afraid, and, although I truly enjoy it as a most blessed time of year, I am already missing the heat of summer. I will love watching the fall colors come and go. I will- enjoy with something close to ecstacy the glorious autumn nights to come when the northern lights bring God's energy back to earth. The rapture, the exultation of maple, birch, poplar and larch leaves splashing color across the horizon fills this old soul with joy. But winter cometh and my old bones start to stiffen just thinking about it. CONSERVATION TOUR — The Huron Conservation District held tours on the Clinton area farm of Gor- don Lobb, Wednesday. Shown discussing the program from the left are long-time Huron conservationist Norm Alexander, Conservation District chairman Bert Visscher, member Bob Trout and Huron Soil and Crop president Ray Hartman. 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That payment, along with an in- terim payment made by the board in June, of $5.00 per tonne, plus the in- itial payment made to producers when they delivered their wheat, brings the average total to 8142.82 per tonne, or $3.89 per bushel, for the 1985 white winter wheat crop. Producers sold a record 900 997 tonne of 1985 crop white winter wheat compared to 789 548 tonne the previous year, which returned a total average price to producers of $154.17 per tonne, or *4.19 per bushel. In addition, Walcarius said pro- ducers in the red winter wheat pool will receive a final payment of $25.68 per tonne, also to be made by the board by September 15. Ile said that payment, plus an in- terim payment of $44.00 per tonne made in March, plus the initial pay- ment of $121.00 per tonne, will bring Beef night at Kirkton The annual Beef Information Night will be held at the Kirkton-Woodham Community Centre on Tuesday, September 9. The program includes a social hour from 5:30 - 6:30, a beef dinner from 6:30 - 7:30 and three speakers between 7:30 and 9:30 n.m. Topics include: • The Cattle We Like to Buy - Richard Heleniak of Norwich Packers. • Using Options to Reduce Risk - Chris Gaston of International Farm- ing partners in Waterloo * Current Issues in the Cattle Business - Charlie Gracey, Executive Vice President, Canadian Cat- tlemen's Association. The program is sponsored by the Huron, Middlesex and Perth Cat- tlemen's Associations m conjunction with .the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food. The meeting and dinner is $9. per person. Reservations should be made at the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of- fice in Clinton, 482-3428 or •1-800.265-5170 by Friday, August 29th. John Bancroft Farm Management Specialist for Huron County the total average price to red wheat producers, to 8189.68, or $5.16 per bushel. Producers $old 6 428 tonne of 1985 crop red winter wheat, compared to 2 944 tonne the previous year, which averaged $197.08 per tonne, or *5.36 per bushel. The board chairman also reported producers sold 1 058 tonne of utility type wheat for which they received an initial payment of *120.00 per tonne, which is the total payment on that pool. There were about 15,700 producers in Ontario who sold wheat during the 1985 crop year, July 1, 1985 through June 30, 1986. Centralia crop day is scheduled toda The 1986 Crops Update at Centralia College will be held today (August 27 ) from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Wagon tours start at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. There will be eight different wagon tours with presentations by crop specialists and researchers at each stop. - Red Wheat Production - Spring and Winter - Jerry Winnicki - Corn - Production and Varieties - Dave Morris - Soybean Varieties - Bob Forrest - Canola - Spring and Winter Pro- duction - Virus and Insect Vectors - Carol Thompson, Joan McKinlay - White and Kidney Beans - Row Width Trials and Techniques - Jim O'Toole - White and Kidney Beans - New Herbicide Evaluations - Jim Shaw - Tillage and CompactionY ies - White Beans - John Ileard, Brent Kennedy - Production Problems and Highlights - 1986 - Hugh Martin A noon hour program will include market forecasts on red wheat, corn, soybeans, white beans, wheat, canola. A hay bale compactor will be on display. Lunch will be available on the grounds. 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