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The Rural Voice, 1983-09, Page 62IrARALAN CORPORATION Your #1 Crop Consultants David Dann Box 1059 MITCHELL, ONTARIO NOK 1NO 519-348-9929 riir /GAVCO 01 m"NEW IDEA -,Te. EASTERN Used Augers 6 x 36 with motor $ 300. 6 x 32 PTO, like new $1,000. 7 x50 PTO, like new $1,700. 6 x 51 $1,000. Combines 1 H 303 $3,000. Gleaner A-11, three heads $6,500. Swathers MF 34 $4,000. I H 210 $4,500. Used Specials 600 -bushel Grain Buggy $6,500. Gravity Box $ 300. Innis 4 -row Bean Puller $2,200. Several used windrowers McGavin FARM EQUIPMENT LTD. Walton 519-527-0245 519-887-6365 PG. 60 THE RURAL VOICE, SEPTEMBER YOUNG FARMER J.F. Exchange : Farming by comparison by Mary Lou Weiser "I've had a really smashing time" is how William Hamilton of Northern Ireland describes his recent exchange visit to Ontario. Hamilton is one of ten Young Farmers from the United Kingdom who have been staying with Junior Farmers throughout Ontario as part of the United Kingdom Ex- change. There are seven zones of Junior Farmers in Ontario and the group has spent a week in each zone, recently staying with Junior Farmers in the Zone 7 counties of Huron, Perth, Grey, and Bruce. This has given the delegates the opportunity to see a wide variety of agriculture and the many different crops grown throughout Ontario. Hamilton was impressed with On- tario's vastness and "tremendous abundance of land", with the average size here much larger than at home. He felt that Canadians "don't have efficient use of land and don't have to because there is so much land". Such is not the case in Northern Ireland where land is at a premium and every bit must be utilized. "Because our farms are really small, we have to be efficient in order to survive," Hamilton said. Hamilton lives on his father's 70 cow British Friesian dairy operation near Ballymena in county Antrim and 1983 is employed full-time as a general foreman to a building contractor. The dairy operation is supported on a total of 125 acres, 32 of which is own- ed and the remainder rented. Hamilton noticed a difference in land prices between the two countries with prices in Northern Ireland of $4,000 TO $5,000 per acre. Land is sold by private treaty whereby interested buyers phone in their bid to an auc- tioneer who then determines the pur- chaser by the highest bid received. The Hamiltons have recently in- stalled an Alfa -Laval computer feed system as well as a new herringbone eight aside walk through milking parlour with automatic cluster removers and vacuum gates. Each cow has a transpondor attached to a strip of nylon around her neck which transmits a signal to a computer whenever the cow enters one of the three feed stations. Each cow is pro- grammed according to milk produc- tion and feed is administered accor- dingly. Dairy cattle in Northern Ireland are not fed concentrates while on pasture during the summer as our Canadian dairy herds are, Hamilton noted. Milk production averages about 1,300 gallons per cow per year with the farmer receiving 16.7 pence (ap- prox. 33.4¢) per litre for milk. The