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THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Tuesday, October 9, 1956 3 teresting features of the Inter- national Brooklin this week will be com- CONTOUR PLOWING PRACTICAL FEATURE AT MATCH will be held on a hilly field on | ture shows the contour plowing the farm of Heber Down, north | International of Highway No. 7. Above pic- | Match. | | petitions in contour plowing, one of the accepted methods of promotion soil conservation on sloping is competition One of the oractical and in- in a previou Plowing Mateh at -- Complaints Were (reneral [n 1840 Plowing Match At one of the first plowing | editor complained that the judge matches of which there is record|did not follow ths practice ob- in any farm publication, both the|served in all plowing matches in committee and some of the plow-|Europe and state what kind of men were dissatisfied. | plowing was required. He com- This' was the plowing match plained the plowing was judged held in connection with the fair at|by the speed with which it was Rochester, .Y., in 1840. A re-|{done and not its excellence. port in the Genessee Farmer| Some plowmen regarded the says: width and depth of the furrow of The committee deems it proper the greatest importance. to observe that several circum-| 'Had I understood that the stances were quite unfavorable to Prize was to be awarded to the the performance. In the first| workman who could pare the place the land was not suitable/most land in the shortest time, I for the purpose, being stoney and|could have prepared an instru- uneven, although it was said to|ment for this purpose to pare half |be the best obtainable near the!an acre (though not plow it in city. hy Sense of the word) i Jat . 7 1 e time It was accomplished. LACKED INSTRUCTIONS : BE IE Ca oa ios In the second place, the Cir-| sot me right," he said, "I had cumstances by which the commit-| ooneeived that good plowing con- tee were to be governed in giV-|gisted in the furrow being laid at AT THE Plowing Match Visit The Health Theatre TWO FEATURE COLOR FILMS Walt. Disney's "DEFENCE AGAINST PERFORM MANY JOBS In present - day farming one thing which seems thoroughly established is that farm opera- tions and farm work are now built around the tractor. Where 30 years ago the tractor | was a form of supplementary power to that of the horse, re- lieving the horses on the farm of such heavy work as plowing and perhaps such jobs as polling. the corn binder at silo filling time, the tractor now is the draulics are used to good advan-| source of power. tage in this development. Where horses are kept at alllTAKEN FOR GRANTED they are kept as a source of sup- tractor can be used to hold them to proper depth in hard soil. Another ingenious form of trac- which harvesting machines, such as corn pickers, cotton pickers, sugar beet harvesters, loaders for cannery peas and other, similar) equipment is not built on, and car-| ried by, main where roads are not plowed hauling. Such areas are becom- Sr rar ovary rear ing. With the new developments Many Farming Operations Plow Enjoys Built Around Tractors the JEound, but they can be so they will be seen at work soon in regulated that the weight of thetne stonier sections of this and {other provinces. tor mounted equipment is that in| also are now perfected to the point where they will do a good job in making possible essential winter|curator of the agricultural indus- transportation on the farm and between the farmstead and the the tractor. Again hy- nearest plowed highway. {more of a mechanic than anything (else. He must learn to be system- « . |at plementary power, or, in section opment so save ghen vis ot that en le must have ; a fam Shop winter, they are kept fo rwinter| bieY are isiclined do forget te im. and at least the tools needed for general maintenance and overhaul of tractor operated machinery. Small resulted in the {thian plow which contin {manufactured after his the early 1790's "A report in 1867 sl these plows were still Scotland though wi were still being the date T do not know * Kendell, : Some of these plows the United Sates in century but never popular here. 'I don't think that plowing had much to their lack of associate/was a wide-spread pr America to plow to a only three or four said. the 1760's James Small in- the the eh 10 troduced to Scotland his im-|the beam and lan provement of the Rotherham|ywere forged from one plow. 'iron. } FOUND EFFICIENT | Although the rest of "The Rotherham plow had be. is of wrought iron yow come fairly popular in England|th=t the moldboard during the 18th century as alframe are of cast iron, more efficient plow than the one ter was designed to it replaced in certain areas.|an angle of 55 te 65 East Lothian Long History One of the early improvements on the wooden plow is the East Lothian plow. These plows were manufac- tured by hand by iron workers in small factories rather than by blacksmiths around the country- side. Edward C Kendall. in Snow plows and snow blowers tries section of the Smithsonian Institution, haso utlined a history of Ty plow. Today's farmer needs to be ic in the maintenance of equip- land with the other ilities of USE TRACTOR UNITS Ithis versatile power plant, it is] Perhaps the 'most noticeable now possible to do things never] thing in the newer lines of trac- thought of as farm work. tor tillage equipment is the adop-| With such attachments as earth|q, development is not confined to up to the three-plow size. The ad-'making good drainage ditches and vantages are apparent and need even digging trenches for tiling. 3 A {develop hardy, creeping-rooted moldboard and body frame tion of tractor mounted units. Tis) moving blades and drainage plows| pasture types of alfalfa which will|cast iron instead of wood. |the tractor will do a good job of|persist under grazing. There -is| two-plow tractors but is evident road building, grading of lanes, | also a possibility of a type belter the adapted than existing varieties tol shallow or poorly drained soils. Smalls early plow had wooden |the horizon-tal is SEEK HARDIER ALFALFA |heam and handies, wrought iron|with its tip almost tou Plant breeders are working 'o share, and coulter, but had ajpiow point. f 9 BRIGHT LANDM The famous "Go'd ~tatue atop the dome of toba legislature is visible around Winnipeg. A Small is generally credited with invention of the cast iron moldboard. Sub tly improv t by | hardly be enumerated to present- With '"'tumble-bug" scrapers the, Trailing implements are really pond, and, to pay for the attach-| a thing carried over .from the ment, build a few more ponds for} {days of horse farming. The trac-|his neighbors. [tor is big enough and has enough' If this land is of such a nature! (weight to carry implements of|that the fields must be terraced! considerable weight even when to control soil erosion the tractor they are suspended from the and one or more of his standard | {three-point hitch at the rear of the|tillage implements can be used to machine. {do the job. Building terraces | Tractor mounted equipment can|around farm homes also is a much |be built for less money because needed improvement that can| of the absence of running gear to readily be done with the tractor] carry it. It is more easily hitched and simple earth moving attach- and unhitched. Transporting such ments. | implements along highways and. The thousands of farmsteads | from field to field is much simpler| need this kind of attention to help land faster and in the field work-| beautify surroundings and make ing into corners and around ob- possible effective landscaping is istructions is greatly facilitated. gradually becoming recognized by The new hitches on many|their owners. makes of tractors are master- CAN PICK STONES pieces of ingenuity. With them one| Still other jobs which may be {implement can be unhitched and undertaken because of the versa. | connections made to another with-| tility of the tractor are such al-| {ot the operator leaving the trac-| most forgotten jobs as stone-pick- | {tor seat. Many, if not all, of the|ing, a job for which many Ontario| new conven'ences connected with| farm folks have not had time for tractor mounted implements ar e, many years. Perhaps the larger {made possible by hydraulic lifting| hard heads were removed in a |and pressure equipment. quick trip over newly seeded |USE FINGER TIPS fields in spring, but the system- | Instead of adjusting depth of atic trips with team and wagon {plows and other tillage machinery |over hay meadows in the spring | by long levers and expenditure of| have long had to be abandoned be- {considerable energy, hydravlic|cause of lack of help. he! tractor farmers. farmer can build his own farm | equipment makes all manipulation| Today stone pickers are making Kapuscinski"s Restaurant - Groceteria - Fruit Market 2 miles North Whitby HWY. NO. 12 "Visit Us While The Plowing Match Is On' Open 8 a.m. - 11.30 p. [of the implement a matter of fin- thoir appearance and, no doubk ger tip control. It is now possible -- i {not only to lift implements out of the ground and to drop them to a Em ers a) as INVASION" and "COMMUNITY HEALTH IN ACTION" g s y - : > : ; -- = Ral id LW ad he propen pugle. wit) the red|plow was one means by which the ciety and some dissatisfaction o ge a . siralg a S ! at 4 10-/ Scottish people tilled poor land to may have grown out of their de- the i e app ied from he ri 3s 0] obtain a good crop off it. He said| cisions, as some competitors) urrow, shall touch every fur-ithey would starve to death if they |§ seemed to suppose the length of" .. Sd8€- {did all their plowing like that [time employed was of more im-| CITES PROPER AIM : | done at Rochester match. portance than the quality of the Evidently the committee had| Furthermore, he said that plow- work: and on the other hand some the strikeouts made beforehand ing around Rochester was super- appeared to pay no regard to time and this farmer didn't like that! ficial and the aim of any match but were particular to do the either. should be to discountenance such work well. The writer concluded that t h e work, not perpetuate it. At this match each was given one-quarter acre to plow. The quality of the work Is numbered one to eight set up in a schedule. First prize went to a man who completed his land in 44 minutes and did o. 2 quality work. Sec- ond went to a man who finished in 40 minutes and did o. 5 quaj- ity. | | VOICED COMPLAINT A reader writing a letter to the VISIT THE... 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