1936

Ingersoll Tribune Wednesday 5th August West Oxford Council meeting in the township hall Beachville at 8 o'clock p.m.

A grant of $50 was made to the East and West Oxford Plowmen's Association to aid in the plowing match to be held on the George Innes farm this fall (Jim Innes father).

Tuesday 6th October Council meeting of West Oxford at Beachville

Ten dollars was granted to the Ingersoll Jr. Farmer Plowmen's Association to assist in procuring prizes for their match to be held October 20th at the Walter Wilson farm on the Culloden gravel road.

IPM held at South Branch Road Stormont, Grants Corners, 5 miles north of Cornwall Tuesday October 6th, Wednesday October 7th, Thursday October 8th, Friday October 9th

136 aspirants competed for 53 trophies in eight classes of stubble plowing.  One entry came from Nappan, Nova Scotia - name of Archie McMillan.

Tuesdays opening contests were restricted to residents of Eastern Counties Glengarry, Stormont, Dundas, Grenville Carleton, Prescott, and Russell.

Twelve Indians from as far west as Georgian Bay entered.  Indians have been noted plowmen for years.  The reasons, said Elliot Moses of the Six Nations Reserve near Brantford are their keen eyesight and love of competition.  Moses was OPA President in 1933.

Sentinel Review October 8th Thursday reported that Harry Blackman Ingersoll placed 5th in a stubble class.  The top 8 placings are listed:

Class 1 (horses), former prize winners not eligible:

1 Donald Greenlees, Mount Chesley, also won the Hon. Mitchell F. Hepburn trophy

2 Dave Tran, Claremont (Canadian Wm. A. Rogers Ltd. trophy)

3 Robert Greenlees, Mount Chesley (Canadian Bank of Commerce trophy)

4 Algie Wallace, North Gower

5 Harold Carter, St. Marys (Hon Cairine Wilson trophy)

6 Rod Rochon, Clarence Creek

7 Grenville Stinson, Kars

8 Gordon Smith, Lombardy

Class 2 (horses), open to those who never won in first class, or first or second in an IPM prior to 1936:

1 Clifford Cox, Wanstead (T. Eaton trophy)

2 Jack Taylor, Freeman

3 Ray Montague, RR2 Jarvis

4 Marshall Deans, Paris

5 Harry Blackman, Ingersoll

6 Alex Harrison, RR7 Galt

7 Foster Snider, Kitchener

8 R.W. Marquis, Sunderland

FOR NEW CONTESTANTS Class 3 (horses) open to those who have never plowed at an IPM prior to 1936:

1 Donald Ross, RR3 Port Dover (Hon. T.A. Kidd trophy)

2 Craig Reed, Georgetown (Acme Farmers trophy)

3 Dave Atcheson, St. Pauls

4 Aurel Joly, Sarsfield

5 James Collins, Keene

6 George McCormick, Freeman

7 P.A. Casselman, Finch

8 L. Queeneville, Summerstown

Class 4 (horses) boys under 18 years:

1 Ronald K. Marquis, Sunderland, also won the Hon. Duncan Marshall trophy, a $40 gold watch

2 William Allen, Ida (Kelly Feed and Seed trophy)

3 Ross Creighton, Agincourt

4 Rys Bacher, RR2 Cayuga and the Hon. N.M. Rogers trophy

5 William Gemmel, RR2 Ayr

6 Melbourne Emmerson, Stouffville

7 Geo. Hagersville (C.A. Cameron trophy)

8 Geo. Hay, Alexandria

In the final competitions on Friday when champions are crowned, Alex Black of Guelph, won top honours for the second successive year.  John Hargreaves placed second, and Richard Jarvis of Milliken, third.  All three were previous champions.

Hon. Duncan Marshall, Minister of Agriculture for Ontario expressed gratification at the pride young farmers took in their plowing.  The Inter County competition, open to one team of three plow boys from each county drew the greatest number of entrants - 16 teams.  Perth County placed first in this class to take the Hon. J.A. Faulkner trophy.

Sentinel Review, front page Wednesday 21st October Humble Ploughing Match is Becoming Big Business Toronto, October 21st Canadian Press Despatch

The annual IPM is drawing more attendance than football games.  The recent IPM at Cornwall drew close to 100,000 spectators and left a quarter million dollars in the area.  Sponsored by the government, it has reached a point in affluence where Ontario cities and counties are bidding for it.  Elgin County, home of Premier Hepburn, himself a farmer, seeks the next show.  Guelph posted $1,250 for the 1937 IPM and got it - it was held at Beattie Bros. farm in Wellington Co.  Prize money totals $4,000.  The sport, which pays $40 for the top award in any class is not going to make anyone wealthy from winning, but the farmers bear down with zest and pleasure.  A speedy fellow has no better chance than a lagger who plows a clean straight furrow.

October 20th, the Ingersoll Junior Farmers held their second annual plow match on the farm of Walter Wilson Conc. 1, Lot 22, Dereham township on the Culloden gravel road with perfect weather.  Entry fee 75 cents.  IPM rules apply.  Anyone who has won a first or second prize at the Provincial match (IPM) not eligible to enter.  Prize money in each class ranged from $4 for first down to $1 for 6th.

Ingersoll merchants put up specials:  for the best plowed land by a Massey Harris plow - goods to the value of $5 donated by J.R. Barnett (won by Harry Blackman), best plowed land by a McCormick Deering 407 plow - Bronze shield, donated by W.S. Ashman (won by Arlington D. Robinson).  Judge for the event was Frank Bell of St. Paul's, Perth County.  Placings were:

Junior:  Class 1:  Stubble, Boys under 19 years:

1 Ross Hargreaves, W. Oxford

2 Waldo Dunn, North Oxford

3 Fred Williams, W. Oxford

4 Murray Budd, W. Oxford

5 Donald Smiley, Dereham

6 Kenneth Wade, W. Oxford

7 Wilfred Anscombe, Dereham

Senior:  Class 2:  Stubble, Boys 20 years and over:

1 Mervin Cuthbert, West Oxford

2 William Northmore, Dereham

3 Donald Crawford, North Oxford

Open Sod:  Class 3:

1 Harry Blackman, W. Oxford

2 Arlington Robinson, W. Oxford

3 Howard Chilton,  W. Oxford

4 George Jakeman, W. Oxford

5 Harry Ellery, Dereham

A horse pulling contest was held.  The teams were required to haul a steel stoneboat loaded with gravel filled sacks.  Harry Ellery of Verschoyle was the final winner, his team of greys moving 25 sackloads of gravel and two boulders piled on the stoneboat and estimated at more than three tons.  Everett Quinn was second.  Jack Anscombe won third with his team of small wiry mules who out hauled much larger teams of horses.

An amusing feature was the tug-of-war with Harry Ellery's team on one end of the rope and 12 husky farmers on the other.  The horses won easily.

Several hundred farmers, whole families, attended to witness the competition.

Committee in charge were:  Cecil Riddle, Gordon Sandick, George Jakeman, Harry Ellery, and CecilWilson.  A refreshment booth was operated by the Ingersoll Junior Institute.

Friday paper October 23 Chairman Cec Riddle reported the Barnett trophy should have been Mervin Cuthbert instead of Fred Williams.  A recheck of points revealed second prize for best plowed land for residents of W. Oxford should be Geo. Jakeman and third Fred Williams.

Sentinel Review 21st October Wednesday City and District

At the Waterloo township annual plowing match held yesterday at Breslau, J.R. Hargreaves, former Dominion Champion came first in the single plow open class; also won first for best finish.

Sentinel Review 22nd October Thursday City and District

J.R. Hargreaves came first yesterday in the jointer plow contest at the Norfolk county match near Simcoe.  In the high cut plow competition, Marshall Deans, Paris was first; John Hall, Ayr, second and H. Blackman, Ingersoll, third.

Sentinel Review 26th October Monday City and District

At the Wellesley township match held near Crosshill on Saturday October 24th, Hargreaves came second in the open event.

Sentinel Review 27th October Tuesday Front page

A bitter cold wind did not deter 400-500 people from attending the East and West Oxford Plow Match held October 26 Monday on the George Innes farm south of Woodstock.  Some 50 plowmen competed.

Alex Black of Guelph was champion, taking first in the open class, with R.G. Brown of Galt and John Hargreaves placing second and third.

Harry Blackman of Ingersoll, in his first year of competitive plowing took first place in the "open to Oxford sod plowing class" as well as winning five special prizes.  His uncle was J.R. Hargreaves.  Harry's nickname was "Bus".

Open sod:

1 Alex Black, Guelph

2 R.G. Brown, Galt

3 John Hargreaves, Beachville

4 Roscoe Buck, Princeton

5 R.J. Brush, Warwick

Open to Oxford county sod:

1 Harry Blackman, Ingersoll

2 Gordon Masson, Woodstock

3 Charles Williams, Ingersoll

4 A.D. Robinson, Ingersoll

5 Russell Masson, Woodstock

6 Lorne Richardson, Oxford Centre

7 Fred Howard, Golspie

8 Fred Bertrand, Woodstock

Open to East & West Oxford under 19 years:

1 George Jakeman, Beachville

2 Harry Ellery, Mt. Elgin

3 Howard Chilton, Beachville

4 Murray Budd, Beachville

5 Don Crawford, Beachville

6 A.R. West, Morland

7 Mervin Cuthbert, Curries

Open to East & West Oxford, under 16 years, in stubble:

1 Ross Hargreaves, Beachville

2 Fred Williams, Ingersoll

3 John Masson, Woodstock

4 Stan Smith, Oxford Centre

Tractors:

1 George Hawstrawser, Malton

2 W. Kennedy, Agincourt

3 Arnold Stevens, Wanstead

4 Alex Walker, Strathroy

5 Edwin Taylor, Woodstock

Members of the United Farmers' Young People's Club, in stubble:

1 Norman Shelton, Woodstock

2 Russel Karn, Woodstock

3 Leslie Curry, Woodstock

4 George Thomas, Woodstock

5 S. Oakley, Woodstock

Affording some refuge from the cold was a large tent on the grounds where the Women's Association of Oxford Centre Anglican Church provided a hot dinner at noon and served hot coffee and other refreshments for the remainder of the day.

Bathroom facilities provided no comfort from the cold wind - a long trench in the ground with cut open jute bags tied on to vertical steel posts for cover to the moat.  This information was not printed in the paper, but provided by locals who attended.

The East and West Oxford Match continued until 1942 in name only.  From 1937 to 1942, it was called the Oxford Match organized by Lorne Richardson and John Hargreaves with John Hargreaves as President.

At the Annual meeting of December 1942, it was officially named the Oxford County Plowmen's Association.

The judge of the 1936 match, Clark Young, was strong in his approval of an all-Oxford county match in 1937.

Ingersoll Tribune 29th October (Thursday's edition) reported the results of the Annual livestock judging competition held on Tuesday, October 27th, sponsored by the Ingersoll Junior Farmers.

The committee in charge were:  Joel Leslie, Frank Caffyn, Roy Rose and Mervin Cuthbert.  There were 26 entries in the junior class, 6 men in the senior class.

Contestants met at the town hall in the morning, visited farms in the district and judged Holstein and Jersey cattle, Brood sows, Draught Horses, Southdown ewes.

Prizes donated by Ingersoll merchants were displayed in Ingersoll Tribune office window and awarded to the winners at the Orange Hall Tuesday evening.

Milne Hart won the Senior Championship and CNE shield.  Miles Shantz won the Junior Class and shield donated by the CNE.

Sentinel Review 29th October Thursday City and District

Oxford Plowmen Win

Three Oxford plowmen took the major honours in the open sod plowing event yesterday (ie. October 28) at the Elgin County plowing match held on one of the farms of Premier Hepburn, south of St. Thomas.  John Hargreaves, runner-up this year in the IPM at Cornwall, came first, Harry Blackman, Ingersoll was second and Lorne Richardson, Woodstock, third. 

1932

1932 IPM at Experimental Farm Carleton, Ottawa

Sentinel Review of Thursday, 20th October, 1932 page one

The Governor General opened the IPM, 1932 Tuesday 11th October at the Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Carleton County, grasping the handles of a walking plow.  Lockie Wilson said he ploughed "a fairly good furrow".

On Thursday, 13th October, Ag Minister Robert Weir and Prime Minister R.B. Bennett attended.  Bennett was so impressed that he donated $150 to provide prize money for a whole class in next years IPM.

Attendance was reduced because of:  1) Gale force winds on Day One - some tents were blown down, 2) Rain on Wednesday, 3) Damp cold on Thursday, 4) No sweepstakes class - The glamour that surrounded the annual champion (Grenzebach) was missing.  No Oxford plowmen attended.  R.G. Brown won the Massey Harris trophy to take the championship of Ontario.  Due to its location, the plowmen who did attend were treated to a banquet in the Chateau Laurier.  J. Lockie Wilson and his new bride were presented with a silver tray by the Association.  The outstanding feature of the last day, Friday, was the Inter County competition.  14 counties were represented, each with a team of 3 plowmen and York County won for the third consecutive year - the trophy would remain permanently in the ag reps office at Newmarket.

The Farmers Advocate, owned by Watson Porter, published every other Thursday in London, Ontario, reported the winners of an inter county class for junior plowmen (under age 20 on October 1 of 1932) won by Middlesex team of Ed Wills and Andrew Forbes (Thorndale) and Ralph Woods, Dorchester.  This October 27th issue of 1932, kindly sourced from archival and special collections of the McLaughlin Library, University of Guelph.

FOUR WINNERS OF FREE TRIPS ARE ANNOUNCED

Princeton Boy Heads Junior Farmers of County in Judging Meet

Winners in the annual Junior stock-judging competition sponsored by the department of agriculture, and held yesterday (Wednesday, 19th) at the office of G.R. Green, district representative, and on a number of farms, four boys have won the right to a free trip to the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto.  The winners out of 28 competitors, were as follows: 

1. Clifford Cunningham, Princeton

2. Walter Scott, Princeton and William Carter, Innerkip, tied

3. Cecil Heal, Woodstock

In the senior stock judging competition, which was also held yesterday afternoon, there were 39 competitors, among whom were a number of those who had taken part in the junior class.  The results were as follows:

Holstein class:

1. Bert Somers, West Oxford

2. Donald Spencer, Ingersoll

3. Roy Wilson, West Oxford

4. Jim McDowell, East Oxford

Jersey class:

1. Bert Somers, West Oxford

2. Clifford Marshall, West Zorra

3. Milne Hart, East Zorra and Jim McDowell (tied)

Swine class:

1. Harold Sims, East Nissouri

2. Bert Somers, West Oxford

3. Donald Spencer and Gordon Sandick of North Oxford (tied)

Sheep class:

1. Gordon Sandick, North Oxford

2. Cyril Smith,  South Oxford and Clifford Marshall (tied)

3. Willard Parkhill, South Norwich

The high man was Bert Somers, who won the purebred Holstein calf presented by the Oxford Holstein Club, while second place was taken by Jim McDowell who won a Yorkshire pig presented by Harold Sims.

Sentinel Review Friday, October 21, 1932 page 5 City and District

WON AT LAMBTON

John R. Hargreaves of Beachville placed first in Class 1 at the annual Lambton County ploughing match held near Warwick village yesterday (ie. Thursday, October 20, 1932)

Sentinel Review of Wednesday, 26th October, 1932 page seven

PERTH CHAMPION IS GRENZEBACH

Oxford Plowman Leads in Open Class - Results of Sebringville Match

STRATFORD, October 26 - Under ideal conditions the annual Perth County plowing match was held Tuesday afternoon at the farm of J.C. Smith, on No. 8 highway, near Sebringville, with approximately 1000 persons in attendance.  The judge was Clark Young of Milliken.

Frank Hamilton, 19, of Cromarty won the special Eaton Cup for the best plowed land in sod, open to Perth farmers, and also the Royal Bank Cup for the best finish in the boys' classes.  He also won first place in the sod plowing, open to boys under 20, residents of Perth.

In the open class in sod, W.O. Grenzebach, of Woodstock, won first place, and in the open tractor class in sod, Gordon McGavin, of Walton won first place.  The youngest plowman competing was Elmer Armstrong of St. Paul's, age 14, and the best team on the grounds was owned by Russell Scott, of Cromarty.

Results in the various classes were:

Plowing in sod, open - W.O. Grenzebach, Woodstock; W. Harrison, Galt; Frank Dewar, Wellesley.

Plowing in sod, residents of Perth - James Hogarth, Cromarty; Russell Scott, Cromarty; Roy Packham, Stratford.

Plowing in sod, open to boys under 21 - Frank Hamilton, Cromarty; Norman Chaffe, Mitchell; Austin Nairn, Munro.

Plowing in stubble, boys 16 and under - L. Pridham, Cromarty; Harold Carter, St. Mary's; Howard Pinder, Munro.

Best crown in boys classes - Frank Hamilton, Cromarty.

Best finish in boys classes - Frank Hamilton, Cromarty.

Tractor plowing in sod, open - Gordon McGavin, Walton; Orval Wassman, Mitchell; Walter McKenzie, Mitchell.

Tractor plowing in stubble, open - W.J. Perrie, Brussels; Paul Armstrong, St. Paul's.

Best crown in tractor classes - Gordon McGavin.

Best finish in tractor classes - Gordon McGavin.

1933

Sentinel Review 10th October, Tuesday

The IPM opened on the farm of Vernon Barber at Owen Sound, Derby Township.  Day one was restricted to local Grey and Bruce County.  Nine events were scheduled for the day with prizes totaling $1000 to be divided between more than 100 entrants.

Friday's paper, October 13th reported that verbal warfare broke out the previous day when 30 plowmen from a class of 56 entries were disqualified for taking too long to finish.  Some of the plowmen were certain prizewinners.  They had been warned in the morning and when it became evident to the directors in charge that they could not finish on time, they were given another hour.  The hour passed and still the plowing was not completed and the disqualifications followed.

Later, the board of directors met, and confirmed the actions of the judges.

Still another disqualification was recorded when the judges found Richard Jarvis, Milliken, who was recorded as a winner of a trophy presented by Hon. J.R. Cooke, chairman of the Ontario Hydro Electric Power Commission, had allegedly competed as a boy in an international plowing match:  The event was confined to those who had not so competed, and Reg Barber, Owen Sound, was given the trophy.  R.G. Brown won the Massey Harris trophy for the best plowed land.  He used a team.  He claimed the Ontario Championship for the second year in a row.

In the class for men over 65 years of age, the trophy was an oil painting by E. Wyly Grier, president of the Royal Canadian artists.

Saturday's paper (October 14th) reported that nine year old J. Sholtz of Chatsworth won the J.J. Duffus special over 6 other boys, all three years older than him.  509 plowmen competed at the IPM in 1933, the largest in history.  700 people attended the Friday night banquet to hear T.L. Kennedy, Ontario Minister of Agriculture.

Monday's paper (October 16th) - Hitler to be Supreme Head of Germany Sentinel Review 19th October.  At the Brant County Match held yesterday at the farm of Gordon Mackenzie, St. Georges Road, W.O. Grenzebach won over R.G. Brown and J.R. Hargreaves.

Sentinel Review 20th October, Friday - At the Waterloo Township Match at Oscar Martin's farm near Waterloo, Grenzebach lost to R.G. Brown.  Third was Glen McFadden, Millbank; 4th G.E. Dedman, New Dundee; 5th W. Harrison, Galt.  There were 28 entries.

Sentinel Review, 25th October, page five reported:

W.O. GRENZEBACH WINS ONCE MORE

Again Gains Decision Over Provincial Champion - Hargreaves in Third Place

Galt, October 24 - With a record entry of 64, the 26th annual North Dumfries plowing match at Branchton proved the best event ever held.  All events were filled, but the feature was the single plow event in which 10 competed, including R.G. Brown, North Dumfries, Ontario Champion, and four ex-champions, W.O. Grenzebach, from Woodstock, who has won 65 matches in the past 12 years, was declared winner in a close contest.

Sentinel Review, Monday 30 October 1933, front page

BEACHVILLE MAN PLOWING WINNER

At the Ohswekin (Six Nations Indians) Match, Hargreaves defeated W.O. Grenzebach and R.G. Brown.  The paper now in italics referred to these men as the premier champions of the Province.  In a colorful ceremony preceding the banquet at Ohswekin, Minister of Agriculture, Hon. Thomas L. Kennedy the principal speaker, was proclaimed Indian chief, and carry the name Ba-yo-ron-whta-he (clear sky).  A.J.H. Eckhardt, also of Toronto and one of the province's most outstanding supporters of plowing matches, was hereafter known to the tribe as chief Ra-we-ya-so-wa-neh (big heart).

1934

Reforestation of Ontario had made great gains under the government of E.C. Drury (1919-1923), Howard Ferguson (1923-1926), Geo. S. Henry (1926-1930).

Edmund Zavitz devoted his life to forestry.  He was a naturalist, jack of all trades, dropped out of school at age 14, returned to school, completed grade 12 and 13 at Woodstock Collegiate when he was 23 years old, McMaster University when he was 28 in 1903.  He encouraged landowner participation (of reforestation) by picture and story, giving addresses at Rotary, Lions, and Kinsmen Clubs.  He stated "healthy forests control run-off by helping the snow to melt slowly and equalize the flow of creeks and rivers throughout the year by making the low flow stages higher and the high stages lower.  He wanted foresters to be loyal to the organization of which they are a part.  He stressed that such men are not plentiful.  His legacy, compiled in the book "Two Billion Trees and Counting" by John Bacher relates this story.  Page 122

E.C. Drury was the leader (Premier) of the United Farmers of Ontario (1919-1923), a man of deep Christian faith.  While walking near his farm, Drury was saddened to come upon a dried up spring, which in his childhood had been "bubbling up" like "a boiling pot".  As a child, he had delighted in leaning down against a moss covered tree to drink from the pure spring water.  As premier, when looking around, he noticed that the hillside that had nourished its water was "devoid of trees".  He saw much evidence of human abuse of the earth.

Hepburn became Premier of Ontario in 1934 (June 19).  He removed Zavitz who was the Deputy Minister of Forests and replaced him with a veteran lumberman who had limited experience in forestry and administration.  Hepburn implemented his campaign promise to slash the costs of government by firing civil servants.  Game wardens and forest rangers were dismissed.  But Zavitz was regarded as a hero in rural Ontario, especially in areas devastated by spreading deserts.  183 beekeepers (inspectors) lost their jobs - a keeper for every bee in the province quipped the premier.  This was judged, in hindsight, to be the worst defect of Hepburn's administration - the treatment of the civil service - the wholesale firing of many faithful government employees. (authors comment -- sounds like the Trump administration).

The displacement of Zavitz by an unfaithful forester who favoured the logging interests of timber agents soon came to the attention of Hepburn, who despite his eccentricities and policy reversals, was still, like Drury, a farmer premier.  Hepburn fired him after only 10 months in office.

IPM Tuesday 9th October at O'Connors farm and Maryvale farm in York County.  100,000 attendance

Sentinel Review Monday 15th October City and District

J.R. Hargreaves won on Friday, October 12 first prize in the open class for jointer plows and match championship in sod plowing.

Sentinel Review Wednesday 17th October City and District

Hargreaves second in jointer open class at Brant County Six Nations Match held yesterday (October 16)

Sentinel Review Thursday 18th October City and District

Hargreaves wins two more firsts for best finish in trophy match and in jointer class open (Six Nations in 1934 held a match separate from Brant).

Sentinel Review 22nd October Front page

Kenneth Howard Embro Resident Fractures Skull 

PLOWMAN LOSES THROUGH PROTEST

J.R. Hargreaves Award at Galt Thrown Out - Grenzebach Winner

Galt October 23 -- 1200 attended the North Dumfries plowing match west of the city despite rain and dull skies.  There were 57 entries in 9 events and the plowing in the single open class was pronounced by visiting plowmen as better than anything at the international match because of the perfect condition of the sod.

The protest, in the open event, which had nine entries, included J.R. Hargreaves, provincial champion, and four ex-champions.  When the match was finished, William Harrison, North Dumfries, was adjudged winner and J.R. Hargreaves, the champion, second.  The four of the contestants protested on the grounds that the rules called for furrows of nine or more inches.

In rejudging, it was found only four bits of work qualified and Glen McFadden was pronounced the winner.  The results were:

Class 1 single plows, open, 9 entries:

Glen McFadden, Millbank;

N.G. McLeod, North Dumfries;

Alex Black, Guelph;

Ed Timbers, Milliken;

Crown:  W.O. Grenzebach, Woodstock; Finish:  Black

Class 3 boys under 19, open, 9 entries:

Wilbur McFadden, Millbank;

Grant Eby, Breslau;

Walter Brown, North Dumfries;

Foster Snyder, Kitchener;

J. Dafoe, Drumbo;

Jack Taylor, Beachville;

Stanley Fuller, Hornby;

Donald Taylor, North Dumfries ( in future years Don became ag rep in Oxford).

1935

Sentinel Review Friday 4th October page 5 City and District

J.R. Hargreaves wins four first prizes at the Middlesex County Plow Match at Ailsa Craig (horse plowing)

The IPM opens at Caledonia, Haldimand County on Tuesday, October 15th.  105,000 attendance in 4 days, 544 competitors.  The R.B. Bennett trophy and jointer plowing championship went to Alex Black of Guelph.  The Hydro-electric trophy for tractor plowing was won by Fred Timbers of Ringwood, and the Imperial tobacco trophy for the 3 furrow tractor class went to Harry Pugh of Stouffville.

October 21st Galt - The North Dumfries Match was held, rated as one of the best in the province.  It drew 62 entries and a crowd of 2000.

Dry soil conditions proved a handicap and work was not up to the usual standard.  Alex Black got off to a bad start and finished 6th.

Class 1, single plows, open:

1. J. Hargreaves, Beachville

2. W.O. Grenzebach, Woodstock

3. William Harrison, RR7, Galt

4. R.G. Brown, RR7, Galt

5. Glen McFadden, Millbank

6. Alex Black, Guelph

Crown:  Black, Finish:  Hargreaves

Sentinel Review, 30th October

The Ingersoll Junior Farmers, organized by G.R. Green March 1st, 1929, held their first match October 29 on the farm of Freeman Oliver, North Oxford.  J.R. Hargreaves was judge and showed his finesse by a demonstration at 4 p.m. when the event concluded.  Placings were:

Class 1 (all over 21 years of age):

1. George Jakeman, Beachville

2. Howard Chilton, Beachville

3. Jack Taylor, Woodstock

4. Mervin Cuthbert, Curries

5. Lawrence Patterson, Rayside

6. Harold Haycock, Foldens

Class 2 (all under 21 years of age):

1. Harry Blackman, Beachville

2. Harry Ellery, Verschoyle

3. Donald Crawford, Beachville

4. David Smiley, West Oxford

5. Norman Oliver, Dunn's

6.James Brown, Ingersoll