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Times -Advocate, May 2, 1984
Tips on lawn fertilizing
TIME CHECKERS Charlie Smith and Carf Cann check out
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on sale at Thursday's South Huron Hospital •Auxiliary
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Huron farm and home news
Udder health techniciancomin
to MAron
owner. Soil sample testing
kits may be picked up at the
OMAF office in Clinton.
Samples may be taken at any
time, but are best submitted
during the summer or fall to
ensure results are received
early for next year's fertilizer
program.
David McKinley, Udder could be mate in mincing
Health Technician with the equipment, psrformance and
Ontario Milk Marketing milking procedures, Other
Board, is scheduled to be in farms are asking for visits
Huron County from May 18th because they are having pro -
to June llth. blems with high somatic cell
Any producer wanting a counts or with clinical
farm visit with David should mastitis.
leave their name with Ontario Udder health management
Milk Marketing Board is a very important part of
fieldman Orville Shewfelt at overall herd management
396-2319. that can influence the pro -
From the evaluation cards fitability of your farm
that have been returned to the operation.
Ontario Milk Marketing Dennis Martin
Board, the majority of Farm Management Specialist
farmers have indicated that Fertilizing the Lawn
they wanted the technician to To the homeowner, there is
evaluate their udder health nothing more pleasing to the
program to make them aware eye in the spring than the ap-
of any improvements that pearance of a thick green
lawn.
With the warm spring
weather, we quickly bhed our
winter coat, and head for the
storage area to reach out our
rakes, lawn roller, fertilizer
spreader, seeders, etc. to get
the lawn in shape.
With a number of simple
management practices, our
thick green lawn can be en-
joyed all summer.
Most homeowners will have
already applied the first ap-
plication of fertthzer required
in late April. Lawns require a
large amount of nitrogen fer-
tilizer applied several times
during the growing season.
The nitrogen in our first ap-
plication of fertilizer pro-
1el1Ps Pe tpp..n.t.d by sob Lott, Ed.t. AO Elm... Ont N30 2C1
It is difficult to get young
people interested in history.
The "olden" days - perhaps
only a few short years to those
with grey around the ears -
being nothing but a glazed eye
and a bored look.
But younger farmers in this
country should listen to their
elders when marketing
boards are the topic of con-
versation. Some farmers
have grown up with them.
Some have inherited them.
Those who inherited them
take them for granted. And
that is not good for the farm-
ing community.
Regular readers of tbis
deathless prose are aware
that this writer has been a
proponent of marketing
boards for 20 years. Con-
sumer associations have
become less vocal in their
criticism of these boards but
the attacks are coming from
other sources. Unfortunately,
too many young farmers are
unprepared to fight for what
their fathers or older brothers
or uncles or cousins spent
years organizing.
I can remember the terrible
conditions that existed before
the tobacco board was form-
ed. And the chaos in milk pro-
duction before the milk board
came into being.
I remember• a tobacco
farmer telling me about a
buyer coming to his gate and
offering an excellent price for
his crop. The price had one
condition: the farmer's
daughter. Now, you can
believe that story or not but I
knew that farmer to be an
honest man with an attractive
daughter. He had tears in his
eyes when he told me the
story and I still have no
reason not to believe him. He
did not, incidentally, sell his
cropto that buyer.
Mlk producers who go
back more than two decades
are also aware of the dread-
ful conditions that brought
about the formation of the On -
MAKE THE SWITCH
Last year, more farmers switched to New Idea hay and forage
equipment than in any recent year.
The 484 Baler
" Bales Nearly Any Crop
The open throat, fixed
chamber design makes
starting a bale easy in hay
and most crop residues.
* Long -life Belts
Endless (lacing -free) bale
forming • belts have made
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with only minor belt wear.
" Widest Pickup
High capacity starts with a
low profile 70" wide pickup
(the widest in the industry
for balers in its class).
" Convenient Bale Size
Hay bales are an easy to
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bales weigh about 500
pounds.
* Low SpoHage
Bales have hard shells to
resist moisture penetration
and medium density centers.
• to promote internal curing
and reduce spoilage.
There are many good res'sons why farmers continue to make the
switch to top value New Idea field mowers, cut/ditioners, mower
conditioners, rakes, forage harvesters, rectangular balers and
round balers.
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tario Milk Marketing Board,
an organization that has
become the model for other
milk boards around the
world. Only those who believe
in miracles' would suggest
that the milk board has been
perfect in every way but it
has been a solid rock in bring-
ing order into that troubled
area. -
The`peculiar part of all this
is that misconceptions about
marketing boards are now
coming from inside the
organizations, not just from
outside. That fierce in-
dependence that character-
izes the farming community
is now manifesting itself
within the marketing struc-
tures. Young people have
grown up protected by
marketing boards and too
many feel they can get along
without them.
Complacency develops, too,
when top prices continue to
come to producers. I did not
attend the annual meeting of
the Canadian Turkey
Marketing Agency but I
understand from reports of
those who did attend that
complacency ruled. Directors
were in a great mood because
turkeys are selling for good
prices and consumer demand
continues to rise along With
Pe{capita. eottatkmPtie.tl,.,.:. ,
But nobody wanted to talk
about quota and the price of
quota. Supply management
boards continue to get
criticism and warnings every
day about high and rising
quota values. The board's ex-
ecutives can pompously pout
that quota -prices are never
part of cost -of -production for-
mula but consumers are
wondering.
Unfortunately, not one
supply -management -
marketing board in thiscoun-
try, to my knowledge,
anyway, has had the guts to
openly address this thorny
problem.
Yet, politicians and the
public will not let the quest
beg for an answer much
longer.
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No matter how alfalfa
fits into your cropping
program. you want the
most from your alfalfa
acres and that means
quality as well as quantity
Pioneer brand allalfas
are bred to give you top
yields of quality forage in
both early, and medium
maturing varieties.
Ask your Pioneer Sales
Representative about the
alfalfa variety thats right
for your farm
Your Pioneer Sales
Representatives are:
Geo. Sereda
Exeter 235-0273
Wm. Coleman
Kipp. 26 -5031
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I don't have any bright
ideas on how to solve the pro-
blem. In fact, I have heard
precious few reasonable sug-
gestions from any direction
but I am absolutely convinc-
ed that the answers are out
there if farmers have guts to
go looking foo.thOse answers.
If they don't they will find
their troubles about
marketing boards are just
beginning.
motes rapid top growth to
grass. We've come to
recognize this when we have
to mow the lawn frequently
afterwards. The latah also re-
quires phosphorous and
potassium in the fertilizer for
good turfgrass growth and to
build a strong deep root
system. Lawn fertilizer often
contain nitrogen,
phosphorous and potash in a
4:1:2 ratio (such as 20-5-10 or
16-8) although other ratios of
10:6:4 and 7:7:7 are common
and are acceptable fertilizer.
Application of excessive
nitrogen fertilizer to a lawn
will cause excessive top
growth and a shallow root
system. This should be
avoided.
Fertilizer is usually applied
at three or four times during
the growing season depending
on the thickness and colour of
lawn desired, late April, late
May, early July and early
September. After several
years of this program the
April application of fertilizer
can be eliminated to avoid ex-
cessive spring growth. If slow
release fertilizers are used,
less frequent fertilizer ap-
plication will be required.
A soil test is the best way to
determine- the amount and
type of fertilizer required. Soil
tests are available through
the Ministry of Agriculture &
Food at a cost of $1.00 per
sample. Soil samples are
tested at the University of
Guelph and a fertilizer
recommendation is sent to the
Children's event
set for Diocese
The 1984 Children's
Festival for the Anglican
Diocese of Huron will be held
May 12th at three locations,
St. Paul's Cathedral, London;
St. George's Church, Owen
Sound, and the Harrow Arena
in Harrow, Ontario.
The theme of the 1984
Festival is "I HAVE CALL-
ED YOU BY NAME" with the
programmes designed for
children of five to 12 years of
age, with their leaders, and
are nearly identical at each of
the three locations.
There will be participation
in worship, drama, arts and
crafts, games and singalongs.
The day starts with a parade
at 10:30 a.m. to the festival
centres and runs to 3:00 p.m.
Each age group must have at
least one leader and children
will be seated in the church
according to age, not parish
groups.
Interested parents and
youngsters are urged to con-
tact their teacher, leader or
rector for further
information.
A general recommendation
for fertilizer if a soil test has
not been taken is to apply suf-
ficient fertilizer through the
summer to provide 0.5 kg of
nitrogen per 100 square
metres (or 1 lb. nitrogen per
1,000 sq. ft.). A 7:7:7 fertilizer
applied three times during the
season at a rate of 5 lbs. per
1000 sq ft. each application
would be adequate. Another
combination that some
homeowners prefer is a ear-
ly application of 10:6:4 fer-
tilizer, followed by an early
July and early September ap-
plication of 7:7:7. Rates for
this program would be 5 lbs.
per 1000 sq. ft. of 10:6:4, 3 lbs.
of 7:7:7 in early July and 4
lbs. in September per 1,000 sq.
ft.
Brian Hall
Farm Management Specialist
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