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Home My WebLink AboutTimes-Advocate, 1987-04-01, Page 33(AL•mAR) TALK TURNIPS Area rutabaga growers were given an update on turnip mosaic virus research at a session at Centralia College on. Wednesday. Jim O'Toole, centre, a mem-Ger of the college staff, chats - prior to the meeting with area growers Gerard Cornelis, left, and frank Vanneste. Virus research continues Times -Advocate, April 1, 1987 Page. 13A Bit of good news on turnips After showing a slide of a flooded field, a common sight in South Huron and North Middlesex last fall, Tom Lowery told area rutabaga growers this.week that it had been a very ab- normal season and he was taking some risk in presenting any findings from his research into turnip mosaic virus. Lowery was in charge of some of the field research on the disease, -which has caused extensive damage to the area rutabaga crop in the past two years. After encouraging signs at the beginning of last year's growing season, the virus appeared extensive- ly in many fields in August and September and caused considerable damage. Among the -good news fiWThe three dozen growers at the session, Wednes- day, at Centralia College. was that in- secticide plus oil sprays were quite ef- hirrOWs" Suggesting that maybe -- ,Iasi maybe -- one or two statements in the, Bible -are not true is like knocking motherhood. A few weeks ago I said that !het old - Testantent contains some garbage in support of captial punishment. - The fit hit the shah. Editors ratted • to suggest maybe I had belter•.slick to writing about agriculture. Itea(Iers. from all walks of tile were appalled tl .that 1 tnight have the audacity to question biblical statements. In spite of the facts contained in the- - LIMPS WO rated by Bob bong.' Watt Rd Elmo. ane $3112C2 story, -in - suggestion that capital punishment debates are unnecessary went unheeded. -'There is no evidence that killing one criminal deters others. In Canada, the murder rate was growing in 1960, two years before the last people were hanged. Since 1914, two years before parliament abolished capital punish- ment for murderers of police offices or -prison guards on duty, the murder rate has remained almost the same in Canada al 2.7 per 100,000 people annually. Introductory Prices on Farm King - Allied Grain Augers 2 YEAR PARTS GUARANTEE Examples of Savings Transport Augers Regular 7"x41' PTO drive '2122 8"x51' PTO drive '2632 Utility Augers 4"x11 auger '134 4"x16' auger '169 6"x11' auger '191 6"x16' auger '232 CaII Now: Sale ends April Special '1860 '2370 '120 '152 '171 '208 30/87 GRATA SYSTEMS LTD. call Orad Marsden Days 235.1919 Evenings 335.20111 263 MAIN STREETN. P.0 BOX SSO. EXETER. ONTARIO NOM ISO Let Cook's help you stop this area's toughest .problem weeds Whatever weed control problems you face— broadleaf, grassy, both; whatever spray program you prefer—PPI, pre -emerge, post, spot—Cook s has the products and professionals to help you protect your fields ... and your profits. - A.stop at Cook's is a stop to your weed control problems. "Where you can trade with confidence" I repeat the statement: capital punishrnent is not a deterrent. It is, therefore, vengeance to have the state kill legally. Why should society stoop to the same level as the murderers'' - fioy Jenkins. fornter.Ieader of Bri- tain's Social Democratic Party. said: "The finality of the punishment is too great for the frailty of human judgment". What surprised me more than anything in the fooferaw, though, is the vehemence and vitriol that has - dripped from the pens of so many self- confessed Christians. If what 1 have received and what some editors have received is an example of all Chris- tian thinking -- and I'm sure it is not -- then, the Christian church is in deep trouble. It is losing adherents. accor- ding to national statistics. and it is no mystery why. how can people who believe ,in Christ -who said there were only two grearcommandments -- love (4x!and love shy neighbor -- write with such venom. I could quote at great length from a dozen letters but lel me take one classic example. Wayne Greulich of Drayton. Ont., accused .me of writing erroneously and ignorantly. Ile accused me• of assuming Christ's character and standards. That. dear readers, is er- roneous and ignorant on • Mr. Greulich's part. But- it is statetnents such as this that really make me throw up my hands in dispair: Christ was. is. andwill he the greatest promoter of capital punishment in all of human history. That is right out of Mr. Greulich's letter. And my "warped" standards of morality are the results of a pseudo - intelligence or pseudo -wisdom which accepts only what it wants to out of God's word and rejects the rest. Because of my mistaken beliefs. Jesus Christ will return to earth and Ile will kill many who justly deserve it. me among -em. I do not wish to get into a lengthy argument about the various parts of the Bible and what they mean. I did feel. though. that the cruel God of the Old Testament was no longer real to thinking Christians. Obviously, 1 was mistaken and those Bible -thumpers out there can keep right on scream- ing because they will not get another rise out of me. No matter what they say. capital punishment will again be debated at length in Canada. It should again be rejected, just as it was in 1986. And 1 have as much right to that opinion as Mr. Greulich and those dozens of others who call- ed me names have to theirs; - Cleaning Power One Power Washer COLD does it all! HOT IMICH' STEAM Power Cleaning Systems_ s feetive, although Lowery explained that the material had to be put on at emergence and applications repeated during July. - Ile said there had been an. 80 per- cent reduction in the virus in fields where it had been applied properly and throughout the season. Ile said the -oil spray didn't help once virus was evident on the crop and he said start ing or continuing the application at that time was a waste of money. - - Growers were also told that early planting appeared important ','and if you. plant after mid-June you're in trouble and it looks like you could face a serious problem'. Lowery explained that crops. planted alter June 1 were hit sever,,. 1% by the virus, while those planted earlier were harvested shortly after • the virus appeared and escaped most of the damage. Itis report showed that the -number of green peach aphid. one of the vec- tors of the virus. reached a peak of about t;5 per leaf in early September. after having been low until mid- August. However. he said that while - the -green peach aphid accounted for 98 -percent of all aphids on both rutabaga and canola crops that were monitored, he -speculate•(! that other insects may also be invoked in the spread of Ihe• virus and that will be monitored in 1987. generally independent and "scream In concluding his remarks. Low tvo if you tell them w•hal lo du" - cautioned that the results from one • Ile I/o urged -growers not to:plow_ year's testing, especially during an fields. but to leave residue on top to abnormal year. left many questions freeze- •- still unresolved and e+ en presented There was some good' news tor some new questions to be answered growers tion) Vern :Shattuck. who has as the program continues. leen conducting research on hew "I've told you whit we know and varieties That niav he resistant. or hopefully this year we'll know a little even immune. to turnip nws,uc.+u•u5 more." he added. • :1 couple•hayi already been uk n In a question and answer p erns2 tilieil. but they are fodder rutabagas - Iollow•ing Ins remarks. -one grower - and he said research is continuing on again presented . the opinion that canola was the stain cause oI the in cidcnce of turnip mosaic virus. Uowever. it w:as pointed out that Inc virus .was evident many years ago . before canola was a major crop 1112he crossing those :strains with -the popular I.:nu- nt-iari variety. - Ile said nu result:,'MN(' y4'I been lahldaled as to the storage and cat ing - tur humans qualities of some lit the �:u-ello w11h.++Itich.hr has been area. and-it-wits-noted-that---canola--- workings growers are also concerned over Ihe situation. Grower Frank Vannes' e. who agreed that the virus had been a pro bleu in the earl 1970s as well. told the audience that at that time. growers were advised to not plow down their fields. in the tall, but niftierI I� .progra111 of crossbreeding. t 111 leave artyresidue•onloptobeftuzeit - continue for the nix( two ye:uxand h+n years field te"(ult, at lead in -Ile- said--that--advice hastl'�-lx�en----------- - - - ._. - ------------------ needed . heeded in the past five years . 7 Ihev lend to forget." he said of fellow ulalival "111 s110n be released Ir+ growers the Task force maned h+ Minister ul Lowery agreed: saying that it was Agtieult •e Jack I{uddeli tr. stud+ the imp oreint to get :ill rul:ttx*g., growl r.: .prirt►Icnl ft .s iti-o nwit In cooperate, adding that farmers are date Shattuck also 14)1(1. 2 he growers 11 'IN - Possible,ltial 54,111e55.11ere out in-, urea field is a plan) that may also be resin lain and he Urged them to keep (hal in mind. advising that -such a plan( «nal(! 71w.a $l million plant - fl( Illgs 10 SEMINAR t SWINE Thursday ?ntrolia Schenk, Gerry Glavin Aswine seminar sponsored by Swift's and Centralia Farmers Supply was held ollege. From the left are -Paul Marshall of Centralio Farmers, area farmers Paul and Roy Wilson and Swift's representative Dereck Word. _ T=A photo New research could end the hoe, hoe, hoe One of Ihe few places farriers can still be found hacking at weeds with a hand hoe is among their rows of cole crops. such as broccoli. cabbage, cauliflower and Brussels sprouts. .Chemical weed control is easier and .cheaper. but few effective herbicides exist for cote crops. That 'requirement for manual labor has kept the hoe busy, but slowed the development of a Canadian cote crop industry at a time when vegetables are becoming increasingly popular with consumers. A breakthrough at the University of Guelph. however, could soon make tiresome hand hoeing a forgotten chore. and heighten the importanceof cole crops in Canadian agriculture. Dr. Renald Ayotte, a recent PhD graduate of Guelph's horticultural sciences program. and his super- visors, Dr. Patricia Ilarney and 1)r. Vince Souza Machado. have just fil- ed a patent application for cole c•rOps that are resistant to the popular traizine family of herbicides, which are normally toxic to broadleaf plants like cabbage and cauliflower. These new plants have genetic traits that make them invulnerable to that common herbicide group. Says Ayotte: "This research will find almost immediate application in the field." The secret is the development of a seed with triazine- resistant cytoplasm. By crossbreeding and backcrossing cole crops with spring rapeseed (an established triazine- resistant plant ►. the Guelpfi resear- chers created new` plants hearing the genes of the cole crops -and the cytoplasm.of the rapeseed. The result - is a triazine-resistant cole crop.. Developing lierbicide-resistant plants is a relatively new method of dealing with bothersome weeds in horticultural crops. The traditional chemical approach has been to This is one of the new genera- tion power washers, from the World's leading manufacturer. KARCHER. Rugged, versatile and economical, with a wide range of accessories, it is easily adopted to almost any cleaning challenge. • Cold water, hot water and steam all in one compact mobile unit. Call us about a FREE hands on demonstration u develop new compounds. or merely extend the -use of established her- bicides. to horticultural crops. But with the increasing costs of research and development. the unattractive economics of herbicides for low - acreage crops and the stringent con- trols over registration standards, few horticultural herbicides have been brought onstream Such factors led to this cole crop project. 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