The Goderich Signal-Star, 1979-09-06, Page 284F.
PAGE 10A-r•—G.ODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1979
Will study
potato crops
Agriculture and Food
Minister Bill Newman
has announced the for-
mation f/ of an Ontario
Potato Study. Committee,
consisting of represen-
tatives from the fresh and
processing sectors.
Appointed to the
committee are Wally
VanderStelt of Brantford,
and R.K. Beattie,
William • D. Dorsey,
Clarence Leach, and
Ross Brett, all of Alliston.
Ted Chudleigh of the
Ontario Ministry of
Agriculture and Food's
Market Development
Branch will chair the
committee, and Les
Armstrong, secretary of
the Ontario Potato
Growers' Marketing
Board and the Ontario
Fresh Potato Growers'
Marketing Board, will be
the secretary of the
committee.
The committee has
been formed as a result of
representations made to
Mr. Newman by fresh
and processed potato
growers. Itwill review all
aspects of potato
production and
marketing.
Protein
boosts
milkers
Dairymen can add
dollars to their pocket-
books by feeding extra
protein to milking cows.
Supplying enough protein
at the proper times can
improve milk production.
Studies at the
University of Guelph
indicate that three -year-
olds and elder cows in-
crease their milk
production when fed as
3333.....
muc. as 18 percent
protein. Currently, only
14 to 16 percent protein
supplement is recom-
mended for lactating
cows.
Dr. D.G. Grieve,
Department of Animal
and Poultry Science, has
studied how protein
requirements change as a
dairy' cow's ' lactation
progresses. Several
trials, held during the last
five years, were.partially
,funded by the Ontario
Ministry of Agriculture
and Food.
"We became interested
in the project because a
cow's milk production
usually exceeds her
ability to consume
enough feed during the
first month of lactation,"
says Dr. Grieve: "To
make up the deficit, she
uses her, body ° fat
reserves and loses
weight."
A dairy cow has no
proven protein reserves,
thus protein supplements
are crucial once she
freshens. Concentrated
protein, such as soybean
meal, is an ideal booster.
Pinpointing exact
protein needs could
improve feed efficiency
and milk production
because • the trend of a
cow's ; lactation is
established in the first
few weeks.
Dairymen know that
milk' production usually
peaks about the fifth or
sixth week of lactation.
But Dr. Grieve advises
feeding protein sup-
plements until the cqw's
feed consuinption can
/ sustain high milk
volumes.
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Niney-five beautiful queens from their respective
Agricultural Societies competed for the "Miss
C.N.E. - Queen of the Fairs" crown, the highlight
event of the opening day of Toronto's C.N.E. on
August 15.
Local contestants, left to right, Miss Seaforth
Joanne Rimmer, Miss Exeter Tracy Campbell,
Miss Clinton Mary Lou Lourenco, Miss Howick
Barbara Harkness and Miss Lucknow Sherri
Jerome met before the final judging along with 80
other girls, 10 of whom went on to the finals. (CNE
photo)
tine foot in the
lurrotv' °•
Equine influenza, our veterinarian said. Horse flu.
The buckskin and the appaloosa had been as healthy
as - well - horses until the day after they were paraded
at fall fair time. During the summer, they had been
ridden at least once a day. Sometimes twice a day.
Our 12 -year-old gal has become quite an ac-
complished horsewoman. She was up about six o'clock
on fair day getting both animals groomed. She put
blacker -than -black on all the hooves and had both'sets
of tack gleaming..
She was resplendent in western riding clothes and
her .older sister's cowboy. boots. Never saw a happier
kid. Proud as punch in the parade. Smiling, broadly
with dimples as sweet as rosebuds and freckles'
shining in the sunlight. •
Early Sunday morning when I went to the barn, both
horses ate their oats and then trotted out to pasture.
Sunday afternoon we went for an eight -mile ride. I
thought—they Walked too s1o'w•'1y on tTi way home.
Anyone who has ever had anything to do with horses
knows they walk faster when they know they are going
back to the barn.
By feeding time Sunday night, their -heads were
drooping and the buckskin - a half thoroughbred - was
coughing. Neither animal was hungry and that's the
warning signal.
The vet came. We are fortunate in Elmira to have a
few veterinarians who know horses. In some areas, a
horse is a rarity. We live in Old Order Menonite
country where horses abound. Some of them still use
draught horses on the land and 'four- and five -horse
hitches during plowing, seeding and harvesting are
common. Our vet is also owner of a few horses.
Both horses had high temperatures, about 103
degrees. Horses, he. said have a normal temperature
of around 99.5 in the morning and around 100 and 101 at
night.
We heard later that half the'horses in the parade had
Caught the'same virus. Nobody knew which horse was
the culprit, the horse that was sick at the parade. The
vet said the same flu had gone all through the race
barn at the fairgrounds. For a week, they had to be
"needled" every other day.
The first time, they didn't know what was coming.
From then on, they knew. Have you ever tried to
needle a bucking. buckskin? Once again, the vet's
experience was evident. He had little trouble calming
them down. Want to know a little secret? .When he
approaches the horse, you stared at the atj5mal's head
and just cover its eye with your hand. Then, the un -
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seeing equine doesn't see either the needle or syringe.
We also had to give them a medicine twice a day to
help them get rid of the phlegm in their lungs. That
was a different story.
Have you ever seen a horse turn up its nose? I think
that's where the term came from, coined by a person
who knew horses. They actually grimaced when the
mixture was surreptitiously dropped into their oats.
They ate all around it.
We tried putting a little menthdlatum on their noses
so they couldn't smell the 'stuff. That didn't work
either.. A suggestion to put the mixture in a syringe
and squirt it down their throats worked only once.
Then they knew what the syringe was for:
We finally locked them in their stalls until they ate
. all their oats, starved them into taking it. By the end of
the week, they gave in and began eating their oats
even with the_ mixture spread throughout the feed.
They are better now, thanks to our veterinarian. It's
a strange and sad sound when a horse coughs. They
have huge lungs and the cough sounds like it's coming
from deep within their bodies.
I'm glad, too, that our daughter gained enough horse
sense;to recognize the horses were sick .in good time.
Some .of the other horses • in the parade' had, tem-
peratures around 105 which is most dangerous. We
caught ours in good time.
They both trot out in the morning • making rude
noises now.
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Chatham area
will host '79
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For one week in Sep- Exhibits in the 52-
tember, the Chatham hectare (130-acr-e)
area will experience the Tented City also includes
fastest population growith 1 9 8 0 a ut o m o b i l e s,
in the province. 'Wore recreational vehicles,
than 200,000 people are(/ home appliances, and
expected to arrive in the building supplies., This
area between September temporary city is fully,.
25 and 29.' ' . serviced with electricity,
The reason for this telephones, and
spurt of growth is the washroom facilities:
International Plowing One of the highlights in
Matchand Farm this year's Tented City is
Machinery Show. The the Kent County exhibit.
match, sponsored by . a The exhibit, occupying
different county, region, one hectare (2.5 acres),
or district each year, is features an antique and
being hosted by Kent historical display, a 44.5
County this year. The 'square metre (480 square
match was last held in feet) corn mural, and the
Kent County in 1919. film, "Ice Age to
The event wil be held on Abundance."
a 250 -hectare (700 -acre)
site on the Ian'rMaynard Despite the many st-
and neighbouring farms, tractions offered in the
five •kilometres (three Tented City, the plowing
miles) south of Chatham match ompetitions draw
on Highway 40. hundreds of competitors
When the match began and thousands of
in 1913, the plowing onlookers every year.
competitions were the "`More than 200 entries
major attraction. Now, from across Canada and
the farm 1•nachinery show the United States and
,has taken over the major Europe will compete ler
impact of the show, says $40,000 in prize money in
Art Peppin of the tractors and horse
Agricultural and Hor- plowing classes," says
ticultural Societies Mr. Peppin.
Branch. The International
"The farm machinery Plowing Match and Farm
show features 600 Machinery Show is open
exhibits of the latest farm from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.,
-machinery and allied ' September 25 to 29.
industries," he says. "It Admission is $3: for
is the largest outdoor adults, and $1 ' for
show of its kind in North elementary school
Amcrici,." students. Parking is $2.
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