Acton Free Press (Acton, ON), September 18, 1974, p. 25

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THREE TYPES OF PLOWING spanning a were utilized by Ontarios Minister of Agriculture and Food William A Stewart in pre opening ceremonies at the International Plowing Match site Wednesday Stewart guest speaker at the press and exhibitors day started with a team of Belgian horses and walking plow loaned by Bill Rayner of Milton He plowed a pretty neat furrow too and drew a round of applause from over 350 people watching the ceremony Then he stepped up onto the machine that started to take over the horse work a George White steam engine owned by Wilfrid Leslie of Halton Hills On the back it drew an eight furrow plow And last but not least Mr Stewart progressed to a modern tractor a Massey Ferguson with rear tires as big as the minister Helping him into the cab to draw the four furrow plow are Ontarios Queen of the Furrow Sheila Armstrong and Halton Queen of the Furrow Carol Somerville of Acton

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