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Stress hospitality Sop ember 18 and agricultural chemicals displayed alongside booths promoting the sale of kitchen appliances furniture labor saving devices and building systems Three miles of exhibit This year over exhibitors have booked space in the tented city three miles of street And there will be about catering booths concentrated near the centre of the city offering variety of food ranging from hot dogs to full course din It will be the largest tent city in the match year history and as of Tuesday Sept 10 every available foot of space was rented to exhibitors The match Is joint ven between the Ontario Plowmen Association and the Halton Local Committee Each year the match moves toa different county or region and each year a new local committee pitches in to help organ lie and operate the show committee has been at work on the 1974 match for four years and there are over 100 residents involved in carrying out every last detail from parking to publicity ladies programs to lunches bands to billeting A targe number of people have put a amount of work Into this match says Ross of Burlington overall chairman of the committee Jefferson OPA president says without the untold hours of effort contributed by the organizers in we could Just not put on a show this big Big The match covers a total of acres of land on the Field farm and surrounding farms Tent city and some of the plowing will be on the properly but about 15 area landowners have cooperated by loaning their land to the for the week for plowing parking and crop demonstrations Hope tor ZOO Big Last year about people visited the in County near Sarnla and organizers arc predicting a record or more for If only the weather is agreeable location in the centre of the Golden Horseshoe less than SO miles away from six large cities ensures good crowd of urban ilea Anoint match has a large following among farm people some of whom can be expected to travel here from the far corners of the province in theirannual pilgrimage to the Besides the paying visitors parking is SI admission 50 for adults and cents for children there are hundreds of workers officials and exhibitors who ill beat the match each day on passes Big This year has a budget of for man datory expenses If any profit is made the proceeds will Regional Council the it has sunk into the match then will go toward agricultural scholarships and an balance will be dn has been serviced Itlcphoncs water lines and toilets been caned out of the fields and exhibitors space has been staked out for two weeks now Garbage will be collected daily contestants Special plowing classes Include a Queen of the Furrow contest plus special classes or wardens and regional chairmen mayors press representatives and The regular plowing classes include contests for both tractor- drawn and horse drawn plows and over arc Ontario Senior Ctu will be odd Friday Sept A the eld In conjunction with the IPM at next year Dally parades of form machinery horseshoe pit and sheep shearing contests a large display of antique steam engines and gas tractors helicopter rides over the site bands free movies free ladles programs lots of good fooc and even two beer tents are among the other attractions All students and their teachers from grades five to eight will be admitted free in groups and thousands are expected to head for the match for an educational days outing Each class must do a project on some facet of he IPM while at the match Some of Ihe automobile manufacturers will be showing their 1B75 models at the match ConWin Shows will have an avenue of thrilling rides to please alt ages of show goers No gambling or games of chance arc allowed Junior Farmers driving tractors will Iran sport visitors from distant parking lots to and from tent city and out to the plowing fields on wagons Police protection will be provided by the OPP and 24- hour coverage wilt be given by Georgetown Fire Department A big wind up banquet will be held on the Friday evening for about 1 officials and com pctitors The only place in large enough for this gathering was the area at Mohawk Raceway Campbell ville officials report a large variety of exhibitors have booked space this year in tented city They Include churches producers of all types of arm equipment banks manufacturers house and garden suppliers realtors Kress agencies building plus several govern agencies f arms Improved In conjunction with 1PM a farmstead and rural home Improvement com petition was held In and 130 rural homes and farms have been beautified as a result Five top winners were named In each of three classes and everyone who entered the contest received a plaque The idea is to spruce up the rural properties throughout the county or region so the host municipality makes a favorable impression on the thousands of visitors Since 19S2 when farmstead and rural home improvement contests were begun over 1 farms In Ontario have been improved James Snow of nearby Hornby East and Minister of Government Services for Ontario will officially open the 1074 edition at p m on opening day Tuesday Sept The ceremonies will be held at the conclusion of the daily one clock parade at a garden court near the headquarters building at the east side of lent city JAMES is shown at the Plowing Match The team belonged to John Henderson and was named Polly and Nellie This type of plough was used by the Jarvls family for years until the Cockshutt Company made one almost exactly like it Charlie took part in the boys class coming first and James came first for the best finish best crown and best all round ploughman In good old days All they did was plow fall plowing mat which preceded county plowing matches in most parts of Ontario and finally the county plowing match it self Of course plowing matches took place long before 1691 but were not county mat In the good old days a plowing match was a plowing match nothing more No counter attractions no of machines and the stayed at I me Competition was and noncon ran high left their homes to lake in the plowing match and tht plow inn was all they saw To come home without knowing every detail about the plowing would have been unlhlnk The first arranged match in Hal Ion took place November IT 1B91 and was sponsored Tin As It was agreed that anvonc upon payment of be entitled to the privilege of plowing In those days of course the plowing was done horse not tractor and two types of plows commonly us were the Gray plow and iron A John Gray High Cut was imported from Scotland and also popular in this area According to Clarke in her book a Pages of lie Past the prizes donated by public spirited citizens wire a liltle different from the prizes if today There was briar pipe value SI a large lantern a barrel of salt a pair of milts white shirt SI worth of how many hair cuts six cabinet photos and world of oranges for the worst finish Plowing matches within the eounty have been of three kinds spring plowing mat ches in connection with the Agricultural Society HORSE POWER will be in evidence once more when the brings over plowmen to compete for in prizes at the 1974 International Pictured William Rayner of Milton with his beautiful Belgians in show harness IPM fire protection The Georgetown tire Department will moe onto the plowing match site sometime on Sept in preparation for the show which beg Sept and runs through to Sept will prowdo protection the whole time The brigade plans to have one tanker and a pumper stationed at tented city along with three firefighters and one officer The men will work in eight hour shifts and will provide 24 hour a day protection Some of the men will do it outside of their Me have been planning our schedule since last year at this time Fire Chief Ken said All food caterers at the plowing match must have fire extinguisher extinguish their He haven t had a location allocated to us yet but we hope to have a central spot so we can get to all areas of the match with equal case and time said The Georgetown I ire Department will also have a booth set up like the one they have had at other affairs around town where peopk can get fire safe information and other brochures said there are several potential fire hazards because of the tents and abundance of straw at the plowing match He doesn l anticipate any problems since visitors are generally pretty careful about fire They are well aware of the ha tarda and are conditioned to be careful If there Is a big fire in area two of Hatton Hills the brigade from area one Acton win be called In A days plowing How times changed Times have certainly changed since this article by J Harris appeared in American Agriculturalist back in the late lBOOs Mr Hams was trying to find out just how many acres of stubble can be plowed in a any of horses A DAVS PLOUGHING How much land can a man plough in a day 1 have heard men tell of ploughing two ceres ana a half but never saw it done In England where they plough narrow furrows say nine inches wide and six inches deep an acre is considered a fair day s work taking one day with another Here we plough un wisely as I think much wider but do we not lose nearly as much time in resting the horses as would make up for the difference Narrow furrows say ten inches wide and seven inches deep turned over at an angle of dcg is theoretically and practically the best style of ploughing and if we plough wider wo should go deeper and unless we use three horses no or team can keep steadily at such hard work without in- Jury With a team that walks naturally at a good pace it is better to plough narrower furrows and lei them walk at a fair speed than to tax them too heavily with a wide furrow which tales their resting every other bout The time lost in this way is far greater Jinn is generally supposed But am regarded already too much in the light of an novilor anything more than a gradual change I find it better to lot men do pretty much as have been at customed to Still I would really like to know what is about the average rate of ploughing in different parts of the country and what hours are kept By looking at my record 1 found that wc ploughed a thirty acre field corn stubble for barley with three teams in Hours 45 lot and from 1 30 to say ten hours a day furrow slice ten Inches wide it takes about IS and a half miles to travel to plough an acre and a half Inafield200yardalongexperirnentsof the Earl of Mar as given by Sinclair show that over two hours are lost in turning Even then if no time allowed to breathe the hones they would have to walk steadily along at the rate of over two mile an hour to plough an acre and a half I doubt very much whether farmers really plough as much in a day as they think they do They do not keep an exact account of the time or measure the land Manning gate is big job At major event there arc hundreds of behind work hard and long to make the event a success The International Plowing Match is no exception to that rule One of those tasks with very little glamor attached to it is the massive Job of arranging to park thousands of cars daily Bert Stewart and Earl Mc Dowell ore key men in charge of this function for the 1974 match According to Stewart there be some people working on parking facilities and directing guests to park spots on the first four days of the match and up to on the final day Lions Club members have been recruit to handle the parking func Tuesday to Thursday and members of the Hornby Ball Club and Hornby area resi dents will handle the task on Friday and Saturday There will be 14 ticket booths in operation and three points of entry for the guests Those people from the direction of the should enter off the Ash grove I from the direction of guests should enter at one of gates near the Nixon and Schertzt farms and others coming from south of the site should enter at gates on the Ninth Line Stewart said there are revisions Tar guests to be rought from parking lots to the tent city area by tractors and wagons That service Is being offered by the Halton Junior Farmers The feur service will be provided only for those parking areas too far from the site for walk Promoters hope to have more than people pus through the gates during the course of the event