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Plowing Match plans underway
The International Plowing
Match and Farm Machinery
Show is still four months
away, but Huron County is
already humming with ac-
tivity as plans are finalized
for the event.
This year's edition of the
Plowing Match is scheduled
for September 26 to 30 on the
Jim Armstrong and neigh-
bouring farms near
Wingham. Easy to locate, the
site is on Highway 86 one mile
east of Wingham in an area
where cash cropping and
livestock operations com-
plement each other perfectly.
The 1978 site is the largest
in the history of the show,
encompassing over . 1,000
acres. The tented city has
grown too. There is space for
500 exhibitors this year and
much of it is already booked
as participants look forward
to the best "International"
ever.
Displays will feature the
latest farm machinery,
agribusiness advances and
even the 1979 automobiles.
There's something for
everyone with ladies'
programs, county antique
and historic exhibits, steam
Bonnie Van Riesen, 18, of
Clinton, is one of the can-
didates for the Queen of the
Fair. A grade 12 student at
Central Huron Secondary,
she is sponsored by the
Clinton Kinettes. (News -
show, rides for the children,
and of course, the plowing
and Queen of the Furrow
competitions. Over 50
caterers will offer a -wide
choice of meals and refresh-
ments to the crowds.
Various committees are
meeting almost daily now to
finalize everything to the
smallest detail to ensure this
year's show will run
smoothly. A good example is
the traffic' committee which
works to plan traffic flow in
the area, providing the most
efficient routes to and from
the site. Involved are
members of the local com-
mittee, road authorities and
Ontario Provincial Police
traffic specialists, working
closely with officials of the
O.P.A.
If you plan to exhibit, act
quickly as space is going _fast!
For more information,
contact E. A Starr, Secretary
Manager, Ontario Plowmen's
Association, Ministry of
Agriculture and Food,
,Legislative Buildings,
'Toronto, Ontario M7A 2B2.
CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, THURSDAY, MAY 25,1978—PAGE 9
Lori Biggin, 19, from Clinton is getting first hand experience this summer with her
position at the Clinton Police office. Lori, who is studying Law and Security at Niagara
College in Welland, is using the summer months as her work term field placement.
(News -Record photo)
news farm news
Marchand stresses heat conservation
Mary Lou Lourenco, 19, of RR
1, Ilrucefield is one of the Fair
Queen candidates. A grade 9
student at Seaforth District
High School, she is sponsored
by the Clinton Kinsmen.
(News -Record photo)
Canadian industries are
wasting heat that could be
used to heat Canadian cities
and support greenhouse
winter agriculture, according
to Environment Minister Len
Marchand.
His remarks came in a
Record photo)
Mosquito control program on
The Ontario Government is
continuing its mosquito
control program in co-
operation with municipalities
in southern and south-
western Ontario to curb St.
Louis encephalitis,
Environment Minister
George McCague and Health
Minister Dennis Timbrell
announced recently.
After an outbreak of
mosquito -borne encephalitis
in 1975 affecting 67 Ontario
residents, Health and
Environment officials
designated the area south of
an imaginary" line between
Toronto and Sarnia as a high-
risk area and began
municipal mosquito control
anti public education
programs to reduce the
threat from the virus.
"Last year, weather
conditions, provincial -
municipal programs, and
protective measures taken by
concerned citizens reduced
the mosquito population,"
said Mr. McCague.
"Homeowners have con-
tributed substantially to the
decrease."
"The number of confirmed
cases of St. Louis encephalitis
was greatly reduced from 67
and five related deaths in 1975
to four cases and no fatalities
in 1976, and no reported cases
in 1977," said Mr. Timbrell.
"Municipal assistance in
the high-risk area is required
again this year to minimize
the potential health hazard.
Direct action by homeowners
is even more important."
Mr. McCague said that
mosquito control around the
home should begin im-
mediately.
A pamphlet available from
local Health and Environ-
ment Ministry offices and
through local health units
explains how to control
mosquitoes at home. The
publication offers advice on
eliminating insect breeding
sites, using repellents artd
insecticides, and tips on
avoiding mosquito bites.
To assist ss st loca 1
boards of
health and their
municipalities in mosquito
control programs, provincial
subsidies are provided by the
Health Ministry.
Environment Ontario's
pesticide control section will
again be training and
licensing municipal staff to
use pesticides in controlling
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this program is devoted to the
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Turf field day planned
What better way to
spend a lazy summer
afternoon than by wat-
ching the green grass
grow,
That's exactly the way
120 people will spend
June 8, Turf Field Day, at
the Cambridge Hor-
ticulture Research
Station.
The annual field day is
held primarily to bring
sod growers and . golf
course managers up-to-
date on turf research,
says Jack Eggens,
Department of Hor-
ticultural Science at the
University of Guelph.
Turf research at the
Cambridge Research
Station combines the
efforts of experts from
various disciplines in-
cluding soil science,
environmental biology
and horticultural science.
These scientific experts
are investigating thatch
control, dollar spot, snow
mold, growth retardants,
herbicides and
fungicides, and also are
testing new varieties of
turf grasses on 10 acres of
turf plots.
Professor Eggens says
results of the research is
very useful to nursery sod
growers and golf course
managers who must
maintain turf under
stress.
"Homeowners will find
their grass will grow
almost in spite of them. It
is far more difficult to
maintain turf for a fine
putting green on a high
traffic golf course."
Turf research, spon-
sored by the Ontario
Ministry of Agriculture
and Food, hasp., been
conducted at the Cam-
bridge Research Station
since 1969.
For more information
about Turf Field Day,
contact Professor
Eggens, Department of
Horticultural Science,
University of Guelph,
Guelph, Ontario NIG
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September 26 - 30, 1978
HURON COUNTY
speech prepared for an in-
dustrial conference.
Mr. Marchand suggested
that a great deal of the heated
water used in industrial
processes is wasted by being
discharged right back into the
environment. This is not only
a waste of the energy the
heated water represents, but
it poses environmental
dangers for aquatic life.
He called upon industry to
develop innovative
technology which would do
away with the environmental
hazard of waste heated
water, while opening up
opportunities for conserving
the energy expended to heat
the water.
He noted that in Sweden,
which has a climate similar
to Canada's, some cities use
waste heat from generating
stations to supply up to 80 per
cent of their heating
requirements.
Mr. Marchand pointed out
that industrial facilities in
communities on Lake Ontario
use water as a coolant and
discharge it back into the
lake. The available waste
heat from these power
stations and plants could be
piped into greenhouses,
allowing winter agriculture
and Lessening Canada's
dependence on imported
fruits and vegetables, which
cost Canadians more than $1
billion in 1977.
He also noted that closed -
cycle cooling systems which
re -use water after passing it
through cooling towers or
cooling ponds could not only
eliminate environmental
hazards, but could do away
with the need for siting in-
dustrial plants near large
bodies of water.
This would make industrial
development possible in
regions of the country that
would benefit from new
development, he said.
Although many
manufacturing operations
use water for cooling in their
plants, thermal power
generators are by far the
major users. By 1980,
Canadian thermal power
plants will need -about 1,500
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second ; by the year 200, the
figure will have climbed to
8,000 cubic metres per
second.
"That's as much as the
entire flow of the St.
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He said that the federal
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NFU prepares brief for
stable, farm economy
BY GRACE AUSTIN
The National Farmers
Union says that the federal
government is following an
agricultural policy of un-
derdevelopment. The N.F.U.,
in a brief submitted in
February for the Food
Strategy Conference, listed a
series of solutions if Canada
is to have a stable farm
economy and a sufficient food
supply.
The list includes farm price
stabilization, an energy and
transportation policy geared
to regional development and
a Land Use and Tenure policy
which protects farm land
from urban and industrial
sprawl and keeps land out of
the hands of corporate and
non-resident land owners.
"Consumers are afraid of
farmers'demands," says the
N.F.U., "because they blame
farmers for the rising costs of
food. We sympathize with
their fear of rising food prices
and we know the price that
the consumer pays is
disproportionate to what the -
farmer gets for producing it.
But the blame must be
levelled at the processors,
distributors and large retail
chains. They are . the ones
who cause the increase. Don't
blame the producer who is
having a hard time making
ends meet."
In summary the N.F.U.
wants the federal govern-
ment to counteract the
current drift toward un-
derdevelopment in
agricultural production. Food
production is among the last
of Canadian controlled
resource industries. The
production potential of
Canadian farm families
should be regarded as a
positive factor in our
economy.
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