Twilight beef meet highlights judging and weight guessing panel
Members of the Halton Peel Beef Producers Association held a twilight meet at Reford Gardhouse farm Milton on July 25. Judges included Bill Jackson Bob Merry Pat Patterson and Bill Sheard with Emerson Clarke presenting official reasons. Lloyd Winley of Peel was closest in the weight guessing with Peter Sem mann of Hornby following. Dr McAninch discussed Health of Animals and noted inspections across 338 slaughter plants and meat seizures at Toronto airport to prevent disease. A panel on beef future moderated by Henry Stanley featured Don Matheson Brice eson and Bruce Matheson among others. Gardhouse urged quality purebred stock to meet commercial demand as prices improve.
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Halton-Peel
Bill Jackson
Bob Merry
Pat Patterson
Bill Sheard
Emerson Clarke
Scotadale Farms
Georgetank
Lloyd Winley
Peel
Peter Semmann
Hornby
Chicago
McAninch
Health of Animals Branch
Toronto
Gail Brown
Great Britain
MéAninch
Health
Toronto International
Canada
Henry Stanley
Bruce Matheson
Duffeyio
Don Matheson
Hillsburgh
Reford Gardhouse
Brice’ Eson
Dufferin
Ontario
Reford Gardhoune
Halton County Jail to undergo major upgrades cited
Changes announced in Toronto include 10 reforms at Halton County Jail following prisoner beating. Governor Glen Ryder to retire in August on sick leave, new steel yard screening, revised jail regulations and schedules, brighter interior painting, and hiring a new prison chief. Public complaints cited clogged toilets and poor cell conditions. minister says improvements will proceed under provincial oversight.
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Halton
Toronto
Glen Ryder
Department of Reform Institutions
Hight
Baaln
Alan Grossman
County Faile
Halton 4-H Beef Calf Club Meets at Merrybrook Farms
The Halton 4-H Beef Calf Club held its third regular meeting at Merrybrook Farms on July 10. Doug Gardhouse led the pledge, host Bob Merry was introduced, and members judged Shorthorn cows. John Willmott Doug Gardhouse and Pete Sweetman gave reagons and showmanship with Bob Merry assistance. Juniors and seniors split for lessons on cow digestion and protein-based rations before reuniting to name display committees for Milton Fair. The committee includes Doug Gardhase Dave Jackson Trish Sweetman Pete Sweatman and Elizabeth Norlington.
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Halton
Merrybrook Farms
Doug Gardhouse
Trish Sweetman
Bob Merry
John Willmott
Pete Sweetman
Jim McKay
Dita McKay
Jim Jenkins
Milton Fair
Doug Garidhase
Dave Jackson
Pete Sweatman
Elizabeth Norrington
Halton 4-H Forage Club Meeting Partners Halton and Acton
Rosemary Booth reports a joint Halton 4-H Forage Club meeting with the Halton 4-H Corn Club and Acton 4-H Forage Club at Harvey Nurse’s Georgetown farm on July 23. Hosts outlined weed killer needs and planting, members toured 200 acres of Mr Nurse’s corn, judged a hay class, and gained weed control insights from Burlington Weed Inspector Wr. Harris and Halton Inspector Doug Currie.
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Halton
Acton
Harvey Nurse
Georgetown
Nurse
Wr. Harris
Burlington
Doug Currie
Club Reports on Adjournment and Hospitality
The meeting adjourned and refreshments were served by Mrs. Nurse. Carl Middlebrook, on behalf of the three clubs, thanked Mr and Mrs Nurse for their hospitality.
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Nurse
Carl Middlebrook
Mrs. Nurse
Beef feedlot tour attracts Halton Soil and Crop group
On July 24, 59 members of the Halton Soil and Crop Improvement Association visited Wellington County for their annual trip. They toured C. A. Lamont’s Guelph beef feedlot housing 300 to 500 steers fed on corn silage haylage and barley, then viewed Len McAninch’s new 102 cow freestall barn in Guelph where cattle stay year round, with feed stored in a feed bank supplying corn silage and haylage from two sources.
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Halton
Wellington County
C. A. Lamont
Guelph
Len McAninch
Exchange Juniors tour Essex in agricultural exchange visit
Nineteen Halton County Junior Farmers traveled to Essex County for an exchange visit. They toured Harrow Research Station and the Essex County Vegetable table Co op, viewed refrigerated produce, and visited Rainbow Chemicals Fortilizer Plant. The trip included beach parties at Point Pelee and a swine farm tour at John Dryden’s Perry farm with demonstrations on back fat probing. The University of Guelph Crop Science tours near Elora highlighted ongoing trials on a 900 acre Demonstration Farm and crop production experiments.
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Halton County
Essex County
Halton
Harrow Research Station
Canada Department of Agriculture
Nola
Vegee Table Producers Co-op
Rainbow Chemicals Fortilzer
John Dryden
Peris
Stan Young
Bob Fulkerson
Crop Science Department
University of Guelph
The
University
Elora
Carr Family Reunion Plans in Dundas District
Old Lanarkshire natives the Carra settled in Halton in 1826 or 1827. A Carr family reunion is set for Sunday at Carrswood in Dundas District with Mrs Georgy Howey as the local organizer.
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Carr
Carrswood
Far
Dundas
Georgy Howey
R.ri
Moffat
Carra
Lanarkshire
Scotland
Naltgon Township
Halton County
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