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Now you can switch to whitebeans or kidney beans without switchin herbicides. Stay with Lasso®. Now registered for grass control in whitebeans and kidney beans. Lasso® herbicide by Monsanto, the herbicide you can count on in corn, is now registdred for whitebeans and kidney beans. So you can switch crops — and stay with the unbeatable grass control of Lasso. Lasso delivers consistent control of many tough annual grasses. To apply Lasso in. whitebeans or kidney beans, just broadcast it before planting, then shallowly incorporate into the top two inches of soil. For extra clout against broadleaves, follow Lasso with Patoran' 50W. You can count on Lasso to get the job done right. With excellent crop safety. And no carryover. So when you switch to white- beans or kidney beans, stay with Lasso. The proven winner in the fight against yield- robbing grasses. Monsanto \ Monsanto Canada Inc. Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Regina, Calgary, Vancouver. Always read and follow the label directions for Lasso. Lasso" is a registered trademark of Monsanto Company. 'Patoranis a registered trademark of Ciba Geigy Corporation. (c)Monsanto Company, 198e). LN-WK-4/80 Nip 1044 Tim•ImAdVitOltet,MOY 7, 1900 avis prom iises act ion to reduce rural rates LEADER AWARD — Doris Spence, RR 6, St. Marys received a 10 year 4-H leader certificate at Saturdays achievement Day in Kirkton. Making the presentation at the left is Perth Home Economist Nancy Ross. Staff photo Huron junior elected —.111•"t" heron farm and home news Ontario ministry.af Agriculture end. Food Lloyd Larriport RR 2, Crediton 234-6286 Paul Coates RR 1, Centralia 229-6411 Vern Alderdice RR 2, Kippen 262-5988 A commitment to reduce rural electrical rates by bringing them more into line- With those paid by urban residents of Ontario was announced recently by Premier William Davis. Mr. Davis said: he has instructed Ontario Hydro to come up with new rate proposals, hopefully as early as this fall. "It is quite obvious that under the new proposals, the. lower rates will not recover all of the coats of the rural, power system", ,said, the Premier. "However, the current. inequity between urban and. rural residents in the pur- chase of electrical power is going to become in, creasingly burdensome to our rural people and justifies, the change in policy", said the Premier., The rural power district serves an area Of some 250,000 square miles where there are an average of 14 customers per mile of distribution line, In the Municipal system, there are more than 100 customers per mile. "With the increasing trend. toward urbanization, over the next few years, there will simply be fewer and fewer people in our more sparsely settled areas of Ontario sharing the rural cost bur, den", Mr. Davis told the Legislature, For example, in the last 10 years, some 80,000 customers who were for- merly supplied with elec- tricity directly by Ontario Hydro became customers of municipal utilities. Agriculture and Food Minister Lorne C. Henderson said the Premier's an- nouncement is: "Good news to our rural community - especially at this time with our rural residents un- dergoing such increasing costs because of inflation and high interest rates.""The differential in electrical power rates • has been a real in electrical power rates has been a real concern by our rural residents for a long time and. I am pleased that the Government of Ontario is taking this important step in bringing about a more equitable situation", said Mr. Henderson. At the present time, Ontario Hydro's "rural" retail system or rural power district serves more than 770,000 retail customers or 27 per cent of the electricity customers in the province. These are in addition to the more than two million retail customers served through the 324 retail municipal electric utilities which obtain their bulk power at cost from Ontario Hydro. "The percentage of Ontario electrical con- sumers served by municipal utilities is increasing steadily, Government policy continues to be aimed in that direction. But the con- sequences of the com- paratively higher rates for those not served by municipal utilities are ob- vious. Therefore, I have directed that ways be found not only to avoid this rate trend but to reverse it," said Premier Davis. ••1, By MISS JEAN COPELAND Mrs. Ordell Webber spent last week with Mrs. Hazel Webber of Warren, Michigan and attended the wedding of her great granddaughter, Debra Webber to Mike Waters. Guests with Mr. and Mrs. David Wheeler, Steven, Bobby and Craig on Sunday were Mrs. Robert Corsaut of St. Marys, Mr. and Mrs. George Wheeler, Mr. and Mrs. John Rodd, Pamela and Calvin, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Copeland, Cynthia, Ellen and Deanna, Mrs. John Butters and Miss Jean Copeland. The members of the C.G.I.T. and their leaders, attended the church service at the First Baptist Church, St. Marys on Sunday mor- ning. Visitors with Mrs. Ordell Webber for the weekend were her brother J.C. McAlister of Stoney Creek and his son, Dr. and Mrs. J. McAlister and Rachael of Sudbury and daughter Mrs. R. McLean, John and Brian of Melfort, Saskatchewan. Herbicide Recommendation Update The present, edition of Publication 75 "Guide to. Chemical Weed Control" has some major deficiencies. Some of these are misprints, some are new registrations that have been issued since the hook was published, I will try to clarify these points- Nutsedge in Corn - Sutan; Eradicane and Dual p.p.i. all have an equal rating for nutsedge. They are all rated as giving better control than Lasso p.p.i. Corn pre emerge , Bladex and Dual plus Dicamba (Banvel) are two new tank mixes that have received registration. Morgard is a new com- bination being promoted by Niagara than can be used pre emerge on corn. Morgard contains 26.6 per cent technical Atrazine; 26.6 per cent technical Prometryne and 26.6 per cent technical Terbutryn. Post Emerge on Corn - Laddok is a combination of Basagran plus Atrazine that can be applied post emergent in corn. Bindweed Control in Corn - Publication 75 rates Kilmore as Good - this rating should be Excellent. White Beans - Hoegrass is not registered for use on white beans, Misapplication of Pesticides costa) Billion Nebraska to study the ac- A survey was done in curacy of herbicide ap- plication, One of the engineers was quoted as saying, "We have met the enemy - he is us," The mistakes in over and under application were conservatively estimated to be worth about $8 on average for every crop acre in excess herbicide used or in weed problems due to low rates. On the acreage involved in the U.S. and Canada, the total cost would be over a billion dollars. The survey did a detailed study of 133 herbicide ap- plicators. Of these only 40 percent were applying close to their estimated rate of chemicals (close being plus 10 per cent); 35 per cent were applying rates too low and 25 per cent were well over the required rates. Part of the problem was traced topoorlypreparedand maintained equipment. Most of the errors were just poor calibration and mistakes in mixing of chemicals. The resulting misap- plication hurts in two ways; one is crop damage either from the escaped weeds or the chemical overdose. The' other is the dollar wastage on chemicals applied but not delivering the desired results. For farmers applying large acreages of herbicide, recently introduced elec- tronic controls and monitoring systems would be a wise investment. For smaller acreages a $2.00 calibration jai and measuring tape could earn a man $500 per hour or more for time spent on calibration. Clearly the agricultural chemical age is beyond storing the sprayer in . the fence row and measuring the chemicals by the number of "glugs" from the jug. Staff from this office will assist farmers with sprayer calibration on a first-come, first-served basis as time permits . Don Pullen Ag.Rep.HuronCounty P. Lynch, Soils & Crops Specialist Cancer, can. be beaten Ltilinitmonmettlitjultle1111,111111itil.. =Heating & Cooling le Heating. Systems! ▪ of All Types INSTALLED, MQDERNIZED • and MAINTAINED • General Sheet , Metal Work Air Conditioning • Humidifiers Ventilation 3 235-2187 • 133 Huron St., East, Exeter 1"7 • Twitinninnottnintui iiiii muumuu?: The goal of Tom Callaghan, the newly-elected president of the Junior Farmers' Association of Ontario is to motivate Junior Farmers across the province. The 26-year-old Junior Farmer from Victoria County was named president of the provincial organization at a recent annual conference held in Toronto. Mr. Callaghan was raised on a century-old dairy farm in Reaboro, Ontario. He was actively involved in the 4-H program before helping to start a Junior Farmers club in his area. A graduate of the farm mechanics course of the University of Guelph, Mr. Callaghan now operates a farm equipment dealership in Lindsay in partnership with his brother. "Junior Farmers has a lot to offer young people in Ontario," he says. "It provides an opportunity to meet people, earn travel scholarships, and learn more about agriculture and leadership. It has been a very important part of my life since I first became involved. The training I received in Junior Farmers has helped me achieve many goals in my life." The organization is geared to rural youngpeople aged 15 to 29, and has about 8,000 members in 121 clubs across the province. Most members come from farms, but farm background is not a requirement for mem- bership. Although' satisfied with the Junior Farmers program as a whole, Mr. Callaghan hopes to encourage more members to participate in activities at the local, county • and provincial levels. He believes, too, that more emphasis should be placed on activities for older and married members. "I would also like to see more 4-H club members continue their involvement in rural youth organizations through the Junior Farmers program," he says. Other officers of the new Junior Farmers executive are: past president Jim Phelan, RR 2 Blyth, Huron County; vice-president Douglas Peart, RR 3 Hagersville, Haldimand- Norfolk region; and secretary-treasurer Janet Horner, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food. For All Your Farm & Industrial L Buildings Contact Agri Urban Buildings luxe . A FAMILY RIDE — More than 100 took part in Sunday's Ride for Cancer from Lucan to Granton and'Granton to Lucan and back. Above, Tony Giesen rides with his children Greg, in DebbraneRaymobd: T-A photo