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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Apr 12, 1951
Page
12
A homemaker column offers printed recipes and kitchen tips for cookies bars and pastries. It includes methods for chilling mixtures and assembling crumb crusts with dates figs coconut and graham wafers, plus guidance on preserving freshness and using pantry staples like marshmallows walnuts and butter. Also features practical tips on cheese lettuce and bread storage.
The writer notes signs of spring with blossoming plants and a lone asparagus stalk, plans to work the land, and a spring cleaning mood. Cattle calved during daylight, with identical twin Ayrshire heifers among them, while neighbors enjoy radio hockey and contemplate buying a TV. They reflect on rising living costs and Ottawa statistics, joking about what a housewife would report.
J W Wilson directs a public auction on lot 14 con 5 Nassagaweya township near Haltonville Speyalde for April 17 at 1 00, listing dairy cattle including multiple Red and White Durham cows and calves, reg Yorkshires hogs with litters, and power farming equipment, dairy gear, grain and hay stock, with numerous farm implements and furniture. cash only and sale to highest bidder as owner retires due to ill health. Auctioneers Hindley and Elliott, clerks Milton & McMillan.
Public auction by Jas. W. Hindley at Let S on the 6th Line Eramosa on Saturday April 6 at 1 30 pm, selling horses and harness, cattle and hogs, sheep, poultry, farm implements, hay grain fuel and furniture. Goods include roan cow calf at foot, Red cows, purebred ewes, Shrops, Southdowns, Deering binder, Cockshutt moulder, iron finisher, and general household effects. Cash with clerk. no reserve. farm sale. Windley and Elliott auctioneers.
Experiments at the Department of Agriculture's Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa over four years show highest yields for crops like wheat oats barley rye buckwheat corn beans and soybeans when seeded at one inch. Deep seeding reduced yields, while shallow sowing benefited red clover alfalfa timothy.
The hair style has changed with top knot fashions in vogue for ladies who avoid short fluffy looks. Long neat coifs sweep back toward the neck with soft waves above the face, while chignons may not outlast long smooth styles as hair grows.
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