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Times-Advocate, 1980-07-02, Page 28TOP SHOWMAN AT HENSALL -- The four winnersin the showmanship class at the Henson Spritig Fair calf club judging pare shown here. From the left are senior and overall champ Bill Kinsman, junior and runner-up best Mark MacGregor, John Colemarf and Brad Falconer. T-A photo 0 erearl SPLENDOR Treasured gift of the sea this summers most popular fashion accessory Lustrous glowing pearls to enhance every woman's loveliness. We will be happy to explain the subtle nuances of pearl value to you and aid you in selecting the fine cultured pearl jewellery exactly right for today s fashions. ANSTETT JEWELLERS LIMITED Clinton Exeter Seaforth Walkerton MEMBER AMERICAN GEM SOCIETY ikonetobin r11,4GRI,SE.RVICE$. AGRICULTURAL g RESIDENTIAL CUSTOM BUILDING PLANS DRAWN BUILDING CONSTRUCTION COST ESTIMATESI PROJECT SUPERVISION; , ACORN BARN EQUIPMENT manure pump, stable cleaner, alley scraper, unloader, bunk feeder, feed conveyor?, ventilation, cow stalls, cattle penning, CALL: • KARL DOUGLAS 430 BLo,N. ST. E., ST. MARYS (519) 284-2306 15tfl Come in and meet your new Supreme Farmstead Equipment Dealer J.E. Welding Kippen, Ontario (519) 262-6268 Look at the line up of products he has to make your job much easier. • ring and surface drive silo unloaders • automated weighers, conveyors, batch mixers and feeders • grain bins and grain bin unloaders • forage blowers • silage spreaders • liquid manure systems and slurry pumps Stop in and see your new Supreme dealer today "f and discuss your equipment needs. urd' Supreme Farmstead Equipment Division of DeMuth Products (Canada) Limited Waterloo, Ontario RESERVE CHAMP Tne.F2effer Shown 'by':Glig Becker was named reserve charripion at Tuesday's calf club judging af11:ie Hensall Spring Fair. Presenting the trophy to Greg is fair director Ray Consitt. T-A photo MF Massey Ferguson FINANCING AVAILABLE , BEST. HENSALL CALF — The top award in the Hensall Spring Fair's Calf Club judging went to Elaine Pym showing a 'calf owned by her sister Margaret. Above, Ross Haugh presents The Times. Advocdte trophy to Elaine. T-A photo jai " We'd like to demonstrate what a big MF 2705 can do on your farm! Buy Now and Save! Right now is the time to consider MF because we have some special factory allowances on our full line of MF 2000 Series tractors Skip in or give use call to get all the details on our special demonstration and factory allowance offer. SHERWOOD (Exeter) Ltd. Wellington St. 235-0743 Exeter 111111111111111111111111111M11111111111111111MIKIIININIMmomsom...-- — ASK ABOUT OUR LEASING & RENTAL PLANS Example - MF 2705, 120 H.P. Rental as low as $1,680 per month CENTRALIA COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY presents "WEED WIPER" DAY Wednesay, July 16 at 1:30 p.m. at the CROP RESEARCH AREA Centralia College, Huron Park See: Actual Field demonstrations of Roller Applicator and Rope wick Applicator Treated fields on display Manufacturers and distributors of equipment Ministry of Agriculture Use and operation techniques and Food for weed wipers - Discuss: Ontario We represent many Trust Companies. We are often ableio arrange for the highest interest be- ing offered on Guaranteed Investment Cer- tificates. filVP Gaiser-Kneale mak Insurance Agency Inc. EXETER GRAND BEND CLINTON 235-2420 238-8484 482-9747 Best Interest * subject to change 1 2 % One in the Wingham- Diingannonarea, one,,i,n the Clinton-SeafOrth area and one in he St. Marys-Exeter ,area. • ,-... 'The'pregram ran site- cesifuliy 'in•°•this. area last- year and we hope to match that record again this year. The cost to the farmer is only $90 for an eight hour day with four young people (one foreman and three crewmembers) arriving at the farm at a specified time in the morning. The crews are responsible for their own transportation to and from the farm and their own noon meal. Agrecrew members are prepared to do almost any 1 Area youth at camp Over 100 4-H agricultural club members from across Ontario attended the 1980 Provincial 4-H Leadership Camp from June 15 to June 22. The island setting of • Moorelands-Kawagama Camp near Dorset, Ontario provided a terrific background for the camp's nautical theme. Attending from Huron County were Elaine Pym RR 1 Centralia, Jackie Brand, RR 3 Clinton, David Townshend RR 4 Seaforth, and Paul Pavkeje RR 2 Centralia, leader. The objective of 4-H is the personal development of young people. In keeping with this aim, the camp program is particularly designed to help delegates develop their leadership potential through a variety of methods. During the week the delegates were involved 'in leadership seminars, program planning workshops, discussion groups, daily program committees, recreation and sports. If that soundS' like aAull week, you're right! •It was also a week of .ledinirig,Iun and ,fellOws,hiP° • The, delegateS were proVided WA an oppoitunity t9'make rna"ny new friends and discover a lot about them., selves„ gas`,, well. Upon returning home, the „delegates are expected to put their newly acquired skills to use in 4-H and community programs. kind of farm labour ex- cluding jobs that would be dangerous to Them. For example', no chain saw work or "second s torey con- struction. Some' of the kinds of jobetliat the crews did last ; year were fencing, painting, ,gardening, haying, .clean-Up grass,. stacking wood, stone'. picking, fruit, picking, wiridoW ''cleaning, and washing equipment and vehicles. Any full-time farmer can hire Agricrew on a daily basis. The crew can work for a minimum of one day and a maximum of five days for any one farmer. Agricrews are also available to Agricultural Societies for preparation and cleanup of community fairs. The three crews will be working over the period of June 23 to August 15. It would be suggested that you book early to avoid disap- pointment. To book a crew or for further information please call your area co-ordinator. In the Huron Perth area the co-ordinator is Heather Boyle. She is working out of the Stratford office at 271- 0280, and „can also be con- More Groups In Can-Farm Five more farm organizations have pur- chased shares of Canfarm Co-operative Services bringing the total number of farm and co-operative groups supporting this company to twenty-five. "This strong tide of sup- port being shown by far- mers' organizations is most reassuring to us as we move forward into our second year of operation since Unfurl became a co-operative," said Jim McKenzie, Can- farm's Corporate Secretary. "The membership of these organizations is an en- dorsement of their con- fidence in Canfarm as a sound company towards its' objective. tatted through the office at 48223428. This past spring the corn suffered a number of set- backs, We thought yon would be interested in our version Of what happened, It won't change anything, but we'll explain it, During the first and second weeks of June, we bad 10 to 14 days of cool, drying winds, During thi$ time the corn plants lost much of the free water in the leaf tissue, In some fields this desiccation was bad enough to kill some corn plants, • especially the plants on high exposed areas, In some fields, her- bicides added to the damage, As the wind blew, it removed the moisture from the plants. The plants tried to compensate by removing more moisture from the soil. As this moisture was taken up, some of it contained herbicides. This herbicide moved into the corn plants. Generally, this herbicide is broken down by the corn plants. However, since the corn plant was not growing, it wasn't breaking the her- bicide down. This herbicide, Clinton instead, started to burn the leaf tissue. If you had checked your fields closely, you, noticed that the plants on the knolls were 'being hurt worse than the plants in protected areas near a bush or around the outside of a field. This was because the plants in these two areas were protected from the wind. Also, the dead plants occurred at random, not one after another as if they were frozen. Then we had two or three nights of extremely cold weather below freezing, We all expected frost damage, In fact, when I got up to Water the garden in the morning the garden hose was frozen, This was right in Stratford. It had to be colder in the country, So why didn't the corn freeze? Because some of the free water in the plant's leaves had been removed, Frost damage occurs when this free water expands and crushes the cell walls in the leaves, However, since this water was partially removed, there was not enough left between the cells to do damage by expanding. The water in the cells was now more concentrated and could. withstand lower temperatures before they froze, This whole process is called `hardening off', The only areas that were frosted were those low areas that had been protected from the wind the past two weeks. The damage in these areas was So can we learn anything from this? I think so. From what I saw, the wind damage was far worse than the cool weather.. It drove home to me the fact that we must establish wind breaks. This is the second time in the last eight springs in this area that wind has caused con- siderable damage. The time before was because of blowing soil. Pat Lynch, Soil & Crop Specialist for Huron and Perth Counties. Dry Cow Udder Health Dry cow udder health should be a part of a com- plete mastititis control program for the herd. California Mastitis Tests (CMT's) should be done on all cows regularly, throughout lactation, and samples from infected quarters sent to a Veterinary Services Laboratory, to identify the bacteria in- volved. This makes more effective treatment possible, since the best antibiotic for the specific type of infection can be used. Teat dipping should be done after each milking, as well as twice daily during the first 5 days after drying off and for the last five days before freshening. During these periods, the teat canal is partially open, leaving the udder susceptible to invasion by bacteria, unless teat dipping is carried out. Dry cow treatment, im- mediately after the last milking, is a must for all cows with a past history of mastititis. Because the in- fused drugs are not removed from the udder by sub- sequent milkings, this has proven to be the only ef- fective opportunity for eliminating mastitis in- fections, If lab tests have been done, a specific antibiotic should be Used. Where' this not possible, one of several excellent, long lasting, broad spectrum dry cow infusions can be selected. Cows without a history of mastitis should not be dry treated. Not only is this a waste of an expensive product, but the needless use of antibiotics may be responsible for an increase in the incidence of coliform mastitis in freshening cows. Your veterinarian and you should set up an effective dry cow treatment program. Dennis Martin, Associate Agricultural Representative , By 4-1 EATH E R BOX Lg 'They eff,',and sworlting ! Agricrew in •liaren-P,,erth have had a taste 'of work already, they began work June 23. We have some challenging jobs lined up for them this summer, but we need more. That is why I am asking for your help-You the farmers. We need jobs for these en- thusiastic young workers. There are three crews in Huron-Perth this summer,. OVER 80' CLUB Mrs. Frank Gollings of Mason Villa Hospital, London will celebrate her 96th birthday on July 15. Huron farm and home news Corn setback outlined Agricrews busy in Huron-Perth ,r3 1