HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1978-08-24, Page 14PAGE 14—CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1978
Parade group must be alert
by Dave Dineef : • •.. .
Because the giant
parade to be held daily at
this year's International
Plowing Match isn't a
highly organized affair,
the local bands and
parades IPM committee
and the Ontario
Plowmen's Association
(OPA) have to be that
much more alert to keep
it running smoothly.
"The parade is an
impromptu thing," bands
and parades committee
chairman Fred Lobb of
Clinton said recently.
Exhibitors at the match
line up each day to show
cars, farm implements,
teams of horses, or to
promote future plowing
matches or community
groups. No one knows
who will be in the parade
until 1 p.m. when the
parade starts.
Thousands of spec-
tators line the parade
route to see gargantuan
farm tractors, $50,000
grain combines, bands,
floats, the Queen of the
Furrow, all the latest
farm machinery from 10
Beef dray is
Ridgetown College. of
Agricultural Technology
(RCAT) will host Beef
Day today.
"Beef day-wwill provide
information to south-
western Ontario cat-
tlemen," says Don
Luckham, head of the
livestock section, RCAT.
The morning program
will feature a panel
discussion on the han-
dling of $500 calyx
These expensive animals
will arrive from western
Canada this fall.
After lunch, the outlook
for the Canadian beef
industry will be described
!by Dr. Gordon Burton, an
authority on agricultural
marketing and Alberta
rancher.
Cattlemen should enjoy
the talk on the future of
beef in the fast-food in-'
dustry. •
furrow plows to elec-
tronic milking machines,
and of course, examples
of the equipment farmers
used to work with.
Though the parade
seems to fall together in a
haphazard way, OPA
officials and the local
committee must do a lot
of work each day before
the parade, making sure
the bands fall into the
lineup at the right spots,
that an oxen team isn't
too close to a firetruck
with a shrieking siren,
that fire routes are left
open and that the whole
thing fits together quickly
at the edge of the beehive
of activity of the tented
city.
The match starts each
day at the plowing match
headquarters at the west
side of tented city.
"It looked kind of
simple at first," Mr. Lobb
said of his committee's
job, which is to book
bands and to help OPA
people fit the parade
together. But booking
bands, especially during
weekdays is difficult, he
today
Housing systems and
the effects of growth
promq,tants on feedlot
cattle will bexliscussed.
A discussion by a panel
of farmers on their use of
rumensin, a growth
promotant that improves
fed efficiency, will end
the afternoon program.
Mr. Luckham says
cattlemen from across
the province are welcome
to attend the beef day,
organized by RCAT, an
Ontario Ministry of
Agriculture and Food
extension office, and the
Southwestern Ontario
Cattlemen's Association.
Registration begins at
10 a.m. Fee for the day is
$5 and includes lunch.
For more information
contact David Murray,
beef specialist, RCAT,
Ridgetown, Ontario NOP
2C0 or phone (519) 674-
5456.
found out, and piecing
together a large parade
each day is no easy task
either.
The daily parade will
feature at least two
bands, though not the
same two each day, Mr.
Lobb said. Some bands
that will play include a
band from Chesley, the
Seaforth girls band,
bands from Oxford and
Kent counties, which are
the host counties for the
next two plowing mat-
ches and the band from
Wingham's sister city,
Standish, Michigan.
The Wingham
Canadettes will also be a
featured group in at least
one parade, Mr. Lobb
said.
John Wise of Clinton is
the only other member of
the bands and parades
committee and was
chosen by Mr. Lobb
because he is active in his
community and likely to
do a good job.
The committee has
been actively working
since early spring,
arranging for bands for
the parades but Mr. Lobb
was named committee
chairman almost a year
ago and has been plan-
ning the parades since.
A farm equipment
dealer in Clinton, Mr.
Lobb is a director of the
Ontario Farm Equipment
Dealers' Association so
he ,knows what kind of
entries farm machinery
companies and dealers
will be displaying in the
parade.
But because the parade
each day is made up of
the exhibitors in the
tented city who show up,
the exact makeup of the
parade will change from
day to day.
Mr. Lobb noted that he
has had some experience
with band bookings but
from the other side of
negotiations. He played
with and was business
Manager for the Blue
Tones, a dance band and
earlier played with his
high school band.
John Anderson of Hensall is one of the many seed
barley growers in Ontario impressed with the
performance of the new variety, Bruce. He
harvested 75 acres of the new cultivar and says
most of his fields approached 80 bushels per
acre.
news farm news
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uron tops in ag statistics
Huron County main-
tained its position as the
leader in many
categories •as detailed
recently in the 1977
agricultural statistics for
Ontario.
Huron farmers had
518,940 acres under crops
and 1,822 farms sold
products valued at $25,000
or over during the year.
Another 946 had sales of
between $1Q,000 and
$24,999 and there were 777
with sales ander $10,000.
Despite unfavorable
weather conditions,
production was above the
five-year average in
many crops.
The county was sixth in
winter wheat production
with 1,800,000 bushel,
valued at $4,320,000. The
average yield was 50
bushel per acre. Oats
averaged 55 bushel per
acre and- in the county
production was valued at
$601,000.
Huron tops the
province in barley
production with 38,000
acres. The average yield
was 58 bushel and the
crop value in 1977 was
$3,747,000. Mixed grains
Corn support price
The Farm Income
Stabilization Commission
of Ontario has announced
a support price of $2.38
per bushel for corn sold in
the crop year September
1, 1977, to August 31, 1978.
The Ontario support
price is based. on 95
percent of the average
market prices for the
previous five years, plus
an adjustment for cash
production costs.
Establishment of the
Ontario price follows a
recent announcement by
the federal government
of a $2.26 per bushel
support level under the
federal plan.
The average market
price for the 1977 crop
year will not be deter-
mined until the middle of
September. If that price
is less than $2.26,
however, producers
enrolled in the Ontario
plan can expect a net
payment of at least eight
cents per bushel.
The Ontario ' plan, is
funded one-third by
producers and two-thirds
by the Ontario govern-
ment. The producer's
share will be deducted
from the payment. More
than 11,500 corn
producers enrolled in the
1977 Ontario corn plan.
Two plowing matches for Huron
Huron County is not
only the host of the
International Plowing
Match this fall, but on
September 1 and 2 the
annual Huron County
Plowing Match will be
held.
Although there seems
to be some confusion
between the two matches,
which is which and when
they will be held, the
Huron match has been an
annual event for the
county over the past 50
years. Meanwhile, the
Iihternational Match to be
featured just east of
Wingham this year, is a
much larger match, the
largest outdoor
Rabies decline in Huron
Reported cases of
rabies in Huron County
has declined sharply
since last winter, Dr. W.
Thompson district
veterinarian said Mon-
day.
Late last winter there
was increase' in the
number of rabies "-cases
reported but since then
there have been very few
reports, he said.
Thompson said skunks
and foxes are the major
spreaders of the disease.
If someone suspects a
rabid animal has con-
tacted a person or farm
animal they should
contact the Health of
Animals Branch in
Seaforth, he said.
"We are only interested
in specimens with which
other animals are in-
volved. It costs a lot of
money to process
specimens. If someone
comes across a dead
animal they suspect has
rabies,
but 'hasn't con-
tacted
tacted anything else the
best thing they can do is
bury it," Thompson said.
Another 'disease which
has plagued Huron
County in the past,
Brucellosis, is also on the
decline the district
veterinarian said.
The disease, known as
undulant fever in man,
causes abortions in
cattle. If a farmer has a
positive case on his farm,
his livestock is
Cauliflower
Huron County's first
commercially grown
crop of cauliflower is now
being harvested near
Exeter.
Len Veri, whoP lanted
175 acres of the crop this
spring said the crop is in
excellent condition.
The grower had hired
50 workers to help har-
vest the crop and
package it for marketing.
Mr. Veri said the
deamnd for the crop is
good.
The grower also started
harvesting his pepper
crop last week but some
cool nights mean the crop
hasn't done as well as the
cauliflowercro�
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animals are tested. If the
disease can't be
eradicated, the entire
herd may have to be
slaughtered.
"We are down to only
eight infected herds from
a high of one time of 23. In
the province we are down
to 300 herds from over
1,000".
agricultural event. in the morning coaching, the
world. junior match will be held
While the International in the afternoon.
Match which will be held The Huron Plowman's
at the Armstrong Farms Association are spon-
in Morris Township on soring two Sod Busters 4 -
September 26 to 30 may H Clubs, one in the north
draw daily crowds of over with John Clark and W.J.
50,00.0, the Huron Match Leeming as"'leaders and
will deal more on a local ' Allan Walper and Allan
Turnbull as the leaders in
the south.
On Saturday, Sep-
tember 2 the match
events will be held,
starting at 9:30 a.m. with
10 classes in competition
including the Queen of the
Furrow contest. Prizes in
money, goods and
trophies will amount to
$3,500.
Along with the plowing
events other special
contests will,. include: a
horse shoe pitching
contest, one class for
Huron players and a
level.
It is hoped , however,
that the county match
which will be held on the
Ken Campbell farm, lot
15 concession 6 McKillop
Township will prepare
Huron for the big match
two weeks later. —
For the Huron match,
the coaching for the plow
boys and girls will begin
at 9:30' a.m. • on Sep-
tember 1. •
The chief ;`ud e for the
Ontario ,'Plowman's
Association and his
assistant, will be on hand
to give advice about second for all comers;
plowing , to the young '. nail driving class, a class
people who are just for ladies and one for
learning. As well as the men; log sawing contest,
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International Match at
the end of September.
The International
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over 1,000 acres of land in
Morris Township.
with an average of 63
bushel were' valued at
$6,303,000. The county is
third in that category
behind Perth and
Wellington.
Farmers had 143,000
acres of grain corn,
fourth highest in the
province. It yielded 92
bushel per acre for a
value of $26,312,000. The
county leads the
production of fodder
corn, which averaged 15
tons per acre, for a value
of $13,552,000.
While Huron continues
to lead Ontario's white
bean production, the wet
fall of last year
drastically curtailed
yields. The average on
Huron's 02,000 acres was
5.3 cwt, compared to the
five year average of 13.4.
The crop last year was
valued at $4,935,000 at a
price of $15 per cwt.
Farmers had 209,800
dairy and beef cattle with
a value of $65,152,000, ,
which is second only to
Bruce county's total of
247,300 animals. Their
190,500 pigs, valued at
$13,033,000 was second
only to Perth with a'to,tal
of 222,600.
Huron had 5,300 sheep
and lambs valued at
$212,000, which is sixth
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