HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1981-03-25, Page 31. into the decision to become a
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• student's performance both
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most suitable candidates for
his or her operation.
Farmers wishing to
.conduct interviews at
Centralia College of
Agricultural Technology,
Huron Park, ' Ontario cart'
contact Don;Orth or Dennis
McKnight. The dairy herd
workers will be ready for
hiring during the week of
March 24 and the swine herd
workers will be completing
their courses March 30 to
April 3.
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Peaveys and pikepoles were well-known words on the lips
of the early arrivals to this country and March was the time
of year when lumberjacks used those tools.
Back in the days when big timber was being cut, the river
crews had to wait for the lake ice to clear before the spring
log drive could begin.
My Irish grandfather and his older sons were rivermen.
They spent the winters in the logging camps. A reconstructed
camp in Algonquin Park can only leave a visitor shaking his
head and wondering hown couple of dozen men could live and
work in such dreadful surroundings for many weeks at a
time.
I'm too young to remember- the big logging drives but I
recall listening to Grampa talk about it. The. drives usually
came in April or May and no power developed to that date
could stop those wild trips down the rivers, across the lakes,
over the falls and through the gorges to the sawmills. •
Not much of that type of logging is done these days. Most of
what is harvested goes for pulp mills and those little logs
wouldn't keep a turtle afloat.
In those days, many farmers spent the winters in the logg-
ing camps and the rest of the year trying to cultivate the
land. Many would have gone broke as farmers if they were
not able to go logging in, the winter.
The river crews were kings during the drives. In the bush
during the winter, the fellers were the important men but
when the drive began, the river crew took over. They rode the
logs as though they were born on them.
They had the responsibility of keeping the logs moving.
When those logs jammed, it was dangerous work. When the
key log was found and the jam was loosened, those huge Logs
would fly like match sticks. The river crew had to run for it
when the jam broke. They were sure-footed as mountain
goats and had to leap from log to log until the jam settled.
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Some died doing the job. If the peaveys and pikepoles
didn't work, they would use dynamite.
Gramps talked about many men standing in freezing water
for hours almost up to their waists yet few of them ever got a
cold. If they did, they wouldn't admit it anyway, he said.
He remembered working in a camp in northern Haliburton
countyone year when the foreman pulled a box from under
Gratna's bunk. In it was the spring supply of dynamite.
"And I was a heavy pipe smoker," he said. "That- box of
dynamite was under my bunk all winter ! "
The most important man in the camp during the winter
months, said Grarnps, was the cook. Men were fed four times
a day and the food had to be goodor they simply left camp.
Any lumber baron who stinted on food could not muster a
crew the following winter.'
Grampa-Lytle was not an articulate man but he must have
had the soul of a poet. I remember him talking about the
evenings in May when the logs were held by huge bag -booms
in the quiet lake waters. When the breeze dropped just at
sunset, he said, "You could smell the sweet stink of scarred
pine and spruce that came strong across the water."
That was back in the days before chain saws, too, and a
man with an axe who could use .that tool properly was
valuable in the camps. I don't rernember my granddad when
he could handle an axe that well but my father told me he
could fell a tree within inches of where it was meant to fall.
He used to keep his axes in a special place and nobody else
could use them.
I guess they were forgotten when he died. My father prowl-
ed the old homestead up near Buckhorn and found them
stashed high up in the rafters of the woodshed behind the
house. By that time, they had rusted badly but my father kept
them foryears. •
I wonder where they are today? And how many people.
would know how to use them if they were found?
Farmers insulate barns
• Homeowners aren't the on-
ly group of people who are
saving energy costs with in-
-.siltation. Many, . Ontario
farmers. • are . insulating.
livestock barns to reduce
heating bills.
To present the most up-to-
date information about the
insulation of farm buildings,
the University of. Guelph and
the Ontario Ministry of
Agriculture and Food are
sponsoring a one -day
seminar April 2. •
"The seminar is aimed at
contractors and suppliers in-
terested 'in insulation, and
particularly at hog, poultry
and dairy producers who
heat livestock housing,"
says Professor Ross Irwin,
program co-ordinator.
The morning sessions will
examine the purpose of in-
sulating farm buildings.
Speakers will address ques-
tions such as why insulate;
what are the best materials
and how is insulation incor-
porated in Canada Plan Ser-
vice buildings..
"One of the highlight
speakers in the morning pro-
gram is Cliff Shirtliffe of the
National Research Council,"
says Professor Irwin. "He'll
evaluate the insulation
materials currently
available and recommend
which products are the
safest and most effective for
agricultural purposes."
The afternoon session is
directed toward insulation
contractors. Speakers,
representing the farm con-
struction industry will ex-
plain how insulation
materials should be applied
for maximum effectiveness.
One session is devoted to the
particular problems of in-
sulating concrete floors and
walls.
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agricultural engineer, to end
the program.
Everyone is welcome to at-
tend the seminar at the
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onel John McCrae Brhnch...
York Road, Guelph from
8:30 a.m. until 4 p.m.
Registration cost is $10 per
person including lunch.
Course prepares
herd workers
"There's a shortage of
trained herd workers," says
Dennis McKnight, . head of
the Livestock Section at
Centralia ' College. of.
Agricultural Technology.
"That's why, at present,
we're conducting a 12 -week
course for swine • herd
workers and dairy herd
workers at Centralia
College."
Farmers can make
arrangements to interview
these trained herd workers
at Centralia College at the
end of March.
"The men .and women in
the course will have had
enoughexperience so they
can start working with just a
minimum of additional
training by the employers",
says Don Orth, co-ordinator
for the dairy herd workers
program.
During the four weeks of
classroom instruction
trainees are taught the
basics of terd management -
- breeding, feeding and care
of the animals – sanitation
and the operation and
management of equipment.
There • are • also seven
weeks of on-farm experience
at three different types of
operations.
"They gain experience
with differing management
procedures," says Orth.
"That way they have enough
background so they can
understand why a farmer
wants- things done a certain
way."
This year seven of the 30
trainees, sponsored by
Manpower, are women.
According to the instructors
these women are among the
top of the class.
McKnight says the women
are more conscientious and
seem to be more sensitive to
the animals, especially the
sick animals. He thinks part
of the reason may be that
women put more thought
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of their study, on Absentee
Land Ownership to the
HuronountyFederation of
Agrici>< ture's monthly
meeting, April 2 at 8:30 p.m.
in Ethel Central School in
Grey Township. This three
phase study was initiated at
the request of the HCFA
because of the concern of its
members about the increas-
ing foreign land holdings in
the county,
Tony Fuller, Director of
the. RDOP, Julius Maage,
University of Guelph and
John Fitzsimmons, Univer-.
siy of Guelph, using a slide
presentation, will present
the results and their conclu-
sions of the Use and Manage-
ment Phase conducted last
August. In this, Shelly
Pauiocik and Ted Gruska in-
terviewed the renters of
absentee owned landand
their neighbors to determine
how the land was being
managed. The farmers were
also given ample opportuni-
ty to voice their opinions and
solutions about the issue, •
The third phase of . the
study, on social and
economic impacts of
absentee owned land in
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