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educational activities, promoting soil
conservation and good management
practices. The OPA also organized
plowing competitions at the local and
international level with a great deal of
success. Their focus today — the
International Plowing Match and Farm
Machinery Show — is Canada's
largest outdoor farm equipment show
and the premier showcase for plowing
in the country. Many world champion
plowmen have come from Ontario and
have plowed at the big Match and at
their county matches."
For better than eight decades, the
OPA has continued to be instrumental
in encouraging the development of
good soil management and plow
practices. Even during the difficult
years of the 1940s when publications
such as Edward Faulkner's Plow-
man's Folly generated international
debate over the perceived dangers of
moldboard plowing, the OPA chose to
defend established agricultural prac-
tices by "increasing the search for the
most practical and best methods of
soil treatment for the areas served by
each local branch."
The wisdom of that response to
one of the most challenging agricul-
tural issues of the century set a prece-
dent. Demonstrations and information
about conservation and zero -tillage
equipment appear annually at the IPM.
As plow design and technique
have grown — and will no doubt
continue to grow — in Ontario, the
furrows of Perth will reap the benefits
from caring, innovative plowmen who
with sweating brow and calloused
hands turn their art and their love to
the land.0
"The object of the plowing
match is to encourage good
plowing on the part of the young
men ... All really successful
farmers are good plowmen. The
craftmanship that is inseparable
from good plowing manifests
itself in every manual act of the
farmer. It has been observed that
the best plowmen in the com-
munity are not only the best
farmers, but, generally speaking,
the best and most influential
citizens."0
-The Agricultural Gazette, 1915
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