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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1981-03-25, Page 31. into the decision to become a herd worker. The Centralia College staff is prepared to provide far- mers with evaluations of the • student's performance both in classroom and on the training farms. Also, they'll assist a farmer in finding the 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. B UTLER- Ring Drive Silo Unloaders Big Jim Silo Unloaders. 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R. 6, Goderlch ELDON BRADLEY 528.22.14 Lucknow WE SIOLVE TAX P1tOBLEMS NE. urrow'.in 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. Lette,s a•e auo'e, alert t Buc, R,1 E rm a Of, N 3e : C > ) 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. PIONEER RAY BROWN 529-7260 Your Pioneer Seed Corn Dealer for COLBORNE TOWNSHIP Cash discount ends Mar- ch 27/81. A specialized session about insulating fruit and vegetable storages- will be presented ..by,_Keith Clarke; Onta\rio =-Ministry of Agriculture ,and Food agricultural engineer, to end the program. Everyone is welcome to at- tend the seminar at the Royal Canadian Legion,.Col- 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 RX295&RX2O for 2600 H.U. areas RX 383 for 2700 H.U. areas Cecil Cranston R.R. 2, Auburn Phone 529-7691 Dial toll-free 1800165•04010 For 29 years. Flim Business Consultants have served Canada'sagricultttral community. 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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 GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25,1981—PAGE 9A Huron County .is not yet finished. Prof. John Fitzsim- mons is collecting data on these areas of concern. SEED CORN Performance Proven" NI.W. DURST CLINTON WATER WELL DRILLING . "80 YEARS EXPERIEN['r• . FARM . SUBURBAN • INDUSTRIAL 0 MUNICIPAL o c FREE ESTIMATES G GUARANTEED WELLS FAST MODERN EQUIPMENT 0 4 ROTARY d. 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