The Rural Voice, 1986-08, Page 30WINTER WHEAT SEEDING STARDUST
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AVIATION INC.
Bob Jamieson. Owner & Operator
519-357.2599
40th PRODUCTION SALE
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 20th at 7 p.m.
90 OPEN GILTS, 80 BOARS, 30 BRED GILTS
Sale being held at the farm of Warren Stein located 1 mile south and 2 miles
west of Tavistock.
We offer you one of Ontario's largest selection of R.O.P. tested and veterinary
approved breeding stock. Our herd is maintained as a closed minimal disease
operation. Ranked "Good" by the Animal Industry Branch.
A good selection of boars & gilts available for sale at all times. Delivery ar-
rangements available at reasonable rates.
We are pleased to congratulate Kristene who showed the Grand Champion Banc+. ,T, she Junior Barrow
Show at the 1986 Ontario Pork Congress, This barrow was a pure York out of 400P, one of our Swedish
Import boars. Sons of 400P sell in our next production sale. Our thanks to Nuhn Industries Ltd of R.R. 1,
Sebnngvdle who purchased the boar.
For further information & catalogues, contact:.
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YORKSHIRE DUROC HAMPSHIRE LANDRACE & HYBRIDS
Richard & Warren Stein
R.R. #6, Woodstock, Ontario N4S 7W1
(519) 655-2942 or 462-2704
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NEWS
ABCA PROMOTES
GOOD MANURE
MANAGEMENT
The Ausable Bayfield Conserva-
tion Authority (ABCA) has co-
operated with the Ontario Ministry
of the Environment and the On-
tario Ministry of Agriculture and
Food for the past four years to
promote good manure manage-
ment practices. Such efforts are
being stepped up this year as the
environment ministry is spending
$400,000 on beach cleanup in-
itiatives aimed at agricultural
pollution in southern Ontario.
The conservation authority is
the front-line agency conducting
the Beaches Impact Study this
summer. It was found that high
levels of bacteria in the water caus-
ed the beach closings of 1983.
Bacterial and fungal disease -
causing organisms that are found
to survive in manure can be carried
some distance in suspension by
stream water. Heavy rainfall
creating surface runoff can wash
animal feces into a stream or drain
from the barnyard manure pile, or
from a field recently spread with
manure. Cattle defecating in the
stream, direct connections of field
tile to barnyards, milkhouse
drains, or septic tank overflows are
other possible sources.
Through the environment
ministry funding for the Beaches
Impact Study, the ABCA has hired
Doug Hocking and Lloyd
Mousseau, under contract, to
carry out the study. "Water sam-
pling and testing done in 1984 and
1985 indicated that the Desjardine
drain had the highest fecal col-
iform bacterial contamination of
the three sub -basins that were ex-
amined in Stephen Township
upstream of Grand Bend, said
Hocking. For this reason, and
because it enters Parkhill Creek
immediately upstream of Grand
Bend, it was selected for the
study," he added.
The ABCA held a meeting with
13 livestock operators and eight
other interested parties on June 18,
1986. "A positive attitude was ex-
pressed by those at the meeting and
a show of hands indicated majority
support for the next stage of the
study," said Hocking.
Hocking will be conducting