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, THOMPSON
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Mr, LitticjOhns said the
Thompson company has had
ills .eye oe the Michigan
market as well and hope to
have seed there as soon as
next year.
As well as field tests on the
new lines of beans, Mr.
Littlejohns said there is a
great deal of correspondence
and' discussion with• the
canners "to make certain
they're happy with, genetic
lines before they .go on the
market."
High Yields
Mr, Littlejohns said his
staff is looking for lines with
high • yields, a bust type
growth to hold the pods off the
ground and an earlier breed-
ing time, since beans have
moved' north and east in,
Ontario as well as into
southern Manitoba where
growing seasons are shorter.
In the fall, Mr. Littlejohns
said researchers will
each individual bean plant,
saving only seeds from the
better plants for further
experiments next year.
-Mr. Littlejohns said the
reseal-eh station is also
running a series, of co-
. operative soybean trials with
the University of Guelph..
Soybeans in these trials are
also being tested in southern.
Manitoba and Europe.
Tile...research. program on
the-site employs three plant
breeders, three technicians
and eight students who work
during the growing season:
After a stop for lunch in
Frieau, the bean producers
visited the Research Canada.
test station- in Harrow.
A Leader
Dr.. 'John Aylesworth,
breeder at the station, is one
of the leaders in white, bean
research in Canada.
Dr, Aylesworth explained
the Harrow program is• look-
ing for higher yield varieties
of cwhite beans with better
disease resistance and a
higher coning quality.
New lines of white beans
are being tested at a number
of locations across the
province.,
Dr. Aylesworth said in the
past Ontario 'growers were
dependent on bean varieties
developed by American
researchers, but with the
new lines, Ontario e is filially
able
He said disease resistance
research to anthractiose is
already well along with the
Kentwood and Fleetwood
-lines of .white beans.
The research station is alSo •
cc/fidgeting a number of
experiments on the, delta
Strain of anthracnose.
This strain was first
'discovered two years ago on
beans- growing in the
Thomas area. , „;„
Agricultural research has
been conduCted on this site
for 69 years.
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nature.
He said his tests have been
concerned with hew 'little
producers can put on the
land in the way of fertilizer
while still maintaining top
crop production,
Just as High
He said in one college test
plot,where crops have been
grown both with and without
phosphorous and potash
maintenance during an eight
year period, some of the
acreage where the nutrients
weren't added to the soil
produced just as high a crop,
yield.
Dr. Baldwin warned ther;
may be problems if growers
overfertilize in -order to
increase soil yields.
Following the tour of ,the
Ridgetown College, the bean
growers visited Hyland
Farms Research Station,
operated by W.G. Thompson
and Sons • .Ltd., near Blen-
heim. .
The Thompson company,
one of the two main buyers
for Ontario white beans,
started. into the research,
business in 1975 .When they
started research plots on
their 80.0 acre -farm.
The test station is used for
research . on hybrid corn
crops, yellow-eyed, kidney
and' white beans as well as
soybean crops.
The company operates a
second, test plot outside
. Don Littlejohns, research
co-ordinator for the company
said the station can grow'
• three generations of• beans
annually 'by using green-
house facilities during the
winter.
He said a number of the
lines being grown on the site
are strictly experimental.
In' Ontario, a new :variety
of bean must be licensed by
the government before it can
be sold to growers. In order
to meet government stand-
ards, the new lines must be
superior in'yieldsQ the lines
they replace. 1.
The white bean experi-
ments at the Hyland Farm
site were started in March,
1977 with the co-operation of
bothAmerican and Canadian
breeders.
"!,. • vo,.
authentic English double decker bus, took
sightseers ,around the 800 acre plot where
experiments are being conducted with hybrid
corn, white and yellow-eyed beans and
soybeahs. (Expositor Photo)
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BEAN DAY TOUR—Joe Miller, of the Ontario
Bean Marketing Board and a Zurich area bean
grower . and other -growers pnd media
representatives toured the W.G. Ttiorpson
Hyland \ Farms research . station 'outside
Blenheim last Wednesday.' The bus, an
Hogtown's big exhibition is 100 years old. this month. The
Toronto Ex' has become the Canadian National Exhibition
since I was a lad. •
If you check the bands playing this year, you'll find they
are called the Kelowna Secondary Jazz Ensemble, the Sar-•
Ma Central Minutemen Jazz 'Ensemble and the Vanier Colle
Band.
It just ain't like it used to be.
My personal memories of the Ex always lead to the big
band tent. Every year, the "name bands" would play in that
tent and all of the best big bands of . the 1930s and forties
played.
I can recall waiting-patiently for Tommy Dorsey to come
onstage. I was disgusted with the antics of a skiruay singer
who came out and peeked at the audience in a foppish man-
ner from behind the greenery on the, wings of the stage.
He sang duets, too,, with one of the best and most under-
-rated girl singers of te day, Jo Stafford. He had taken Jack
Leonard's place in the band and was finding it a little tough
at that;time to fill Leonard's shoes.
He went on to greater things, of course. Frank Sinatra
was his name. At that time, it was tough to distinguish him
from the microphone stand, he was that skinny.
My:home town was Lindsay, -Ont., and 'we would hitch-
'hike to Hogtown to hear those famous orchestras.4 first saw
Woody Herman, Jimmy Dorsey— and wasn't Helen O'Con-
nell a sweetheart? — Count Basie, Lodis Armstrong, Shep
Fields, Sammy Kaye when the beat of the big bands were
"being heard all over North America. •
One year Fats Waller and his small group played at the
old Brant Inn near Burlington and we used our thumbs, four
of us, to hitch-hike from Sturgeon Lake'where-we Were cam-
ping* the summer to Burlington. ,
When we got to the Brant Inn,. they wouldn't let us in
becatise we were not wearing a tie. We borrowed ties from
some youngsters on the street. I think we paid theni 50 cents
,to run home and get one.-- probably stolen from an un-.
suspecting father's tie rack:
' 'But we got to see Fats Wailer and I will never forget his
' •
4-H Kids vie
for silver .
dollars
A picked group of .more
than 90 senior level 4H calf
club members will represent
their counties in the annual
4H Silver Dollar Competition
at Erin fairgrounds Sept.
2nd. Fifiteen counties are
involved, from LambtOn
through to Peterborough.
United Breeders of Guelph
sponsors the show, which is
unique because it
emphasizes the competitor
more than the calf.- Each 4
.h"er writes an essay and
answers a senior level quiz,
then receives points in the
showing for showmanship
ability and finally for the calf.
Terry Smith of R.R.I , Walton
is one of two Huron com-
petitiors in the show.
There are two corn-
petitons, with the beef calves
going into the ring at 10
a.m., the dairy calves at 1
p.m.
Each division winner
(quiz, essay, showmariship,
calf) will receive 25 silver
dollars. The champion com-
petitor with the highest total
points gets 75 silver dollars
on a silver tray. The runner
up and honorable mention
win SO and 25 silver dollars
respectively, also on silver
trays.
Until this year the Silver
Dollar Competition has been
limited to dairy calf club
fr embers.
i he 41-I Beef Silv• er Dollar
Competition is new this year,
the result of demands for a
setilofievet show based on a
beef heifer Calf project. All
. -other' top level beef shows
are based on a steer calf
project which ends when the
steer goes to market. The
heifer calf has the advantage
that the 4Wer can keep her
to form the nucleus of his
hitrit6 herd.
pudgy fingers tinkling that grand piano. It was a memorable
night; believe, me,.. to hear in person such favorites as Ain't
Misbehavin', Your Feets Too Big, The Jitterbug Waltz and a
dozen others. At that time, both Waller and Louis Arm-
strong seethed to surround thernSelves with second-rate mu-
sicians for. some reason 'unknown to me. The others in
Waller's group were quite forgettable. But not Fats. Years
later, Fats died on a train between playing date's.
When I got home from these escapades at the Ex, my Dad
would always ask about the farming and floral exhibits, the
winners of the ribbons and the champions -in the liveStock
shoWs. I. would tell him I (ergot the names and he Would 'nod
his head, knowing all thetime I had never ,been near 'the
agricultural exhibits. " -
It is difficult to convey to young people today what it
meant for a teen-age music buff to see and_hear those great
musicians of yesteryear. Kids today are.ngo steeped in per-
sonal appearances and the immediacy of the boob-tube that
they become sophisticated quite young. But.for me, then, to
hear those bands, thosecmusiCians, those siegers,' those
.great artists, in person, was a thrill never to be forgotten.
How do you explain to your kids that it was great to be
among the, 10,000 people swaying gently to Glenn Miller's
Moonlight Serenade or Artie 'Shaw's Frenesi? And we
danced; we actually danced although a young punk like me
joined,the, jam around the bandstand most of the. time
I was too shy.and too young to get off my butt and -ask
a girl tett-ante.
They were great days as Archie Bunker says. Mind you, I
don't live back there and call them the good old days be-
cause they weren't that good. The war had begun and many'
young men were going,, some never to return.
It was just great to hear Benny Goodman with Gen Krupa
.playing Sing, Sing, Sing. Or Duke 811ingtOn or, Earl Hines; or
Bob Chester or Bob Crosby not Bing Crosby but his
brother Bob who had 'an excellent swing band or Harry
James or Ray McKinley.
And they did itall with a. couple of microphones and
maybe three' or 'four speakers because it was great music
and didn't have to be electronically controlled...
By Alice Gibb
There was a time when
White beans were. a..etnurnon,,„,
clop in both Essex and Kent
counties. But ozone damage
has meant.the crop •is more
likely to be grown in Huron
and Perth Counties today.
Although' white beans
hiVe gradually been moving
north, this year's Ontario
Bean Pay tour, sponsored by
the Ontario Bean Producers
Marketing Board, visited
three "'research stations in
Kent and Essex counties.
The general. feeling
expressed by researchers at
all three stations is that they
were sorry to see the crop
Move north.
The annual tour, held for
bean growers, media
representatives and other
interested. observers last
Wednesday; was joined' by a
busload of Michigan bean
growers and their wives.
Bean Day started with a
visit to the research 'plot
areas, at ..Ridgetown College
of Agricultural Technology..
Researchers at the college
.are conducting•a -number of ..
experiments with white
beans, One of their major
projects is disease trial
research on root 7,,rot
phenomenon; andiracnose,
the bean fungus which sur-
faced again' two years ago;
and white mold.
Too Dry
. One of the researchers told
growers that this summer's
dry . temperatures have
meant researchers haven't
seen as much of the anthrac-
nose .fungus on their field
plots as they might have
liked for testing purposes:
1 he researchers are also .
carrying out a .number of
colored bean trials with
mung beaas, redcote kidney
beans and a number of other
varieties.
Charles Baldwin, aribtlier
, researcher, has been con-
ducting a number .of exper-
iments testing soil fertility.
Dr. Baldwin told the bean .
producers that increasing
soil fertility may be creating ,.
amore diffictdi situation than