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Huron County Welcomes
Visitors To Plowing Matc
Tented City where more than 300 exhibitors will sh ow the latest in Agricultural Machinery.
Huron Host in '66
Huron County, the site of the 1966 Interna-
tional Plowing Match, has a proud history of
progress since the first white settlers arrived
through the virgin forests nearly 140 years ago.
It was John Galt, the founder of the Canada
Coznpany, who, in 1827, conceived, the Huron
Road which cut across what- was to become Huron
County, and on to Lake Huron at Goderich.
The new road encouraged settlement, and
among those first settlers were those who cleared
the area which this year is the site of the Inter-
national Plowing Match, in McKillop Township.
The first wheat to be harvested in the district
was that planted a short distance west of Sea-,
forth by Col. Van Egmond, the builder of the,
Huron Road, now No. 8 Highway. The settlers
early realized the necessity of developing and
sharing their agricultural knowledge, and within
a few years had organized associations to .this
end.
Typical is the report of a plowing match held
101 years ago, • about three miles from Scott
Farms, the site of this year's International,
which .appeared in an issue of The Canadian
_Farmer, dated February 18, 1866. The names of
many of those mentioned in that early report are
to be found today among those Huron people
3vho are acting as hosts to the 1966 event.
A visit to Huron at any time is a re-
warding experience; during the activity of the
Plowing Match such a visit will be a particularly
pleasant and long-to-be-reniembered occasion.
While Huron has a mainly agricultural econ-
omy, there are a wide variety of manufacturing
enterprises, and in recent years the county has
become one of Canada's 'main sources o salt.
Most of the farms—there are over 5,000 farms
in Huron—are engaged primarily in livestock;
with about 33 per cent in dairy. operations.
Huron has the most cattle and poultry of any
county in Ontario, valued in 1965 at over $35 mil-
lion. Cash crops are increasing rapidly in.volume
and value, and now total in excess of $1,000,000.
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Huron farmers are mechanized t� a high degree,
with more than 95 per cent using electric power,
and 90 per cent with tractors and automobiles. -
With nearly a hundred miles of shoreline along
Lake Huron and with a variety of scenery and
picnic facilities, Huron each year is the mecca of
an increasing number of tourists.' '
The International Plowing Match i the largest
outdoor agricultural event of its kind in Canada
—if not in the world—and each year attracts
daily Attendances, of up to 50,000 people.
Located in McKillop Township, on the north-
ern limits of Seaforth, activities will be centred
on the 400 -acre Scott Farms and adjoining
farms, a total area of nearly 1,000 acres being
reserved for match activities.
The Tented City, featuring more than 300
exhibitors, will occupy nearly 1,00 acres. Laid
out in- fully -serviced streets, the Tented City will
feature displays of every conceivable type of
farm machinery, as well as all sorts of farm
supplies. In addition, the Tented City will in-
clude Match headquarters and catering facilities
for the thousands of visitors.
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This is an aerial view. of the match site in McKillop, with Scott Farm buildings in the foreground.
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• Planning Receptions.,
Parties or Dinners
during the
International Plowing Match
October 11 — 12 — 13 — 14, at Seaforth?
Call the '
Seaforth Branch 156,
Royal Canadian Legion,
for reservations and use our modern ,-hall
and facilities. '
We Invite Veterans who may be in Seaforth in Connection
with The Plowing Match, to Visit The Legion Hall.
D. Sills R. S. MacDonald
President Phone 527-0210
Secretary
Morley Storey
Treasurer
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READY TO HELP THE.
EXHIBITORS
AT THE 1966
INTERNATIONAL
PLOWING MATCH
and
Farm Machinery Demonstration
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
October 11 — 12 — 13 —.14
AT .SEAFORTH.
Joseph 1. Hugili
GENERAL CONTRACTOR
'Phone 527-1265 Seaforth
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