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Annucl Twilight Meeting of Durham Holstein Club at Don Welsh's Dairy Farm in Solem A first hand experience of mechànized milking methods was given to four-year-old Scott Bradshaw during the Durham Holstein Club's Open House. Scott found the machine's suction power quite strong but still managed to get his thumb back in time to see some other interesting areas around the Salem dairy farm. Durham Holistein Club Gives Dairy Farm Tour At First 'Open House by Shawn Marshall Anything you could possibly able to anybody who dropped on Friday afternoon, July want to know about the dairy around to an Open House held Inthe evening, the club held farming business was avail- by the Durham Holstein Club their annual Twilight Evening E TIE I1A N5E The 1975-76 Durham Dairy Princess, Cindy Van Camp spent the afternoon welcoming visitors to the Holstein Club's first Open House. Neal Smith, a summer worker at the Don Welsh farm where the Open House was held, also pitched in to show what working on a dairy farm is like. Holstein heifers are almost as playful as pets at the early stage of development as this one demonstrated to Cin y Van Camp and a visitor, Kathy Sheridan. Later, the heifers will grow to enormous sizes, losing interest in any activity except eating. The Holsteins on the Welsh farm are presently producing approximately 50 lbs. of milk a day on the average. and Barbeque with a record number of members and guests in attendance. Don Welsh opened the doors of his farm in Salem to about 100 guests in the afternoon and another 300 for the event at night. During the afternoon, guests were invited to look around and see how a dairy farm operates. There were probably some visitors who were surprised to find that dairy farming has made much progress over the years and has kept up with new developments. The days when the farmer and his workers labored manually to milk the livestock seem to be past, having given way to modern techniques F Mrs. Fred Nimigon received word that her sister in Western Canada passed away on the weekend with burial on Tuesday. Mrs. Nimigon is now the sole survivor of a large family. Sympathy is extended to the Nimigons. A stag was held recently for Murray Finney whose wed- ding to Miss Gail Fallis is to take place this Saturday in Orono United Church. Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Phil Nancekievill (nee Kitty Benford) who were married on Saturday in Bow- manville with wedding dance in Pontypool Community Centre. The newlyweds will be residing in Orillia. Mrs. Linda Fraser and baby Melissa have been staying with Linda's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Youngman for a few days while busband and father - Brian bas been in hospital. Karen Neals and David Fallis spent several days in Kincardine with Elaine and John Van Wieringen. Clarence and Sue Pleadwell have as their guests, Sue's parents and brother from St. Petersburg, Florida. Don't forget the Pontypool Fun Fair and Summerfest in Pontypool this Friday and Saturday. Among those enjoying motor trips recently were Mr. and Mrs. Bart Medd and family and Mr. and Mrs. Jim Cochrane and family. Last Tuesday night a mis- cellaneous shower was held in the Pontypool Community Centre for Miss Betty Bottrell whose marriage to Pat Gal- lagher is to take place in August. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Badluk recently enjoyed a holiday trip to Moosonee. Dennis Joncas has joined the Armed Forces and is presently in training in Nova Scotia. After several weeks there Dennis will continue his training in Gagetown, New Brunswick. Attending a Fisk reunion held recently in Fenelon Falls were Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Fisk and Mr. and Mrs. Dean Fisk. Several relatives and friends paid a surprise visit to George VanDams (Sr.) on Saturday night to help George celebrate his (?) birthday. The members of the Junior Boys ball team. look quite smart in their new sweaters. They recently defeated Beth- that raise dairy farming to the level of an industry. The image of the farmer sitting on a stool pumping the milk into a bucket at 5 a.m. and sometimes earlier, no longer holds much truth in it. The milking machine, as the visitors were shown in the afternoon, bas advanced milk- ing to the stage that the worker just attaches the machine and allows technol- ogy to take it away. The milk then goes up a valve hooked into a pipe that takes it to a large vat where the supply is collected. The younger visitors to the farm watched closely as it took the milk from the cow and into the silver cooling vat at the other end of the barn. DONTYPOOL any but on Saturday lost to Millbrook. Our thanks to Road Superin- tendent Maurice Bradley, and his men for greatly improving the road by the firehall. A culvert has been installed so there should be no more problems with water laying on the road. At the last meeting of the Chamber of Commerce the secretary was instructed to contact the C.P.R. re building new fences on the north and south sides of the track to the east of the crossing and also to get in touch with the Victoria County Roads Dept. re fixing road east of the village of Hwy. 115. A letter has been received from C.P. Rail Superintendent to say that the matter will be looked into and further con- tact with C. of C. will be made. Maurice Mitchell had the misfortune to break a bone in his right foot last Tuesday. We wish him a speedy recovery. Last Tuesday night, our local Cathmar team needed a run by Murray Finney in the last inning to beat Yelverton 6-5 in an exciting game which saw both teams play except- Later, they could think about the whole process as they drank the finished pro- duct provided in ample supply by the Holstein club. During the evening there were other events such as Holstein judging to watch and also participate in through voting for the best of the six cows in the contest. The crowd was also enter- tained indoors in another area of the farm that was jammed for a presentation of slides, skits and a sing-song. With all the activity going on, probably many of the guests were too busy to notice that the weather was also in their favor, giving them a twilight that the evening needed to rnake it the well rounded success that it was. ional ball. George VanDan tallied a homerun for the home team. Richardson Farms defeated Bailieboro Wednesday night 8-2. Gerry Fallis added to his homerun total with a 3-run tally for the Farms team. On Sunday evening Laverne Brown hom- ered as the Richardson Farms team went on to defeat Coombes and Ferguson of Omemee by a score of 4 to 1. Pontypool Midgets won both of their games this week defeating Lindsay 2-1 and Cavan 18-0. Pontypool Junior Girls are playing much im- proved hall this year - Pontypool Ladies were defeat- ed quite decisively by Mill- brook last Thursday night. It is good to see Ed Stoldt home again after several weeks spent in hospital. Pontypool United Church will be closed during August while Rev. Ficko is on vacation. Spray Cans & Insecticides Read carefully and follow to the letter all instructions on spray cans and insecticides, states the Ontario Safety 6 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, July 21, 1976 Host