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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 09, 1951
Page
3
The narrator describes harvesting wheat with a combine and baler, weighing hourly versus per acre rates with a paid thresher. They note wheat in the bin, straw in the mow, and mixed opinions among farmers about the best method. A daughter learns tractor work, and daily rural life blends chores with small adventures and reflections.
New yellow fleshed Solo peach has been developed at the Experimental Station Summerland BC and is recommended for trials in Canadian peach producing areas. It is well colored firm and good to above average for dessert quality and promising for canning. Officials say firmness should cut waste in orchard packing house and cannery.
The Financial Post reports a new device to stop skidding by cars. It attaches to the rear cross member and uses counter centrifugal force to balance weight distribution and harmonize motion.
A Trafalgar town farmer, Charts Pickering, aged 68, was fatally struck by a car on Monday evening while walking home along the Dunedass Highway east of Trafalgar. The driver, William Logan of Toronto, 20781, remained at the scene. An inquest was planned by Coroner W. M. Watkingon.
The Financial Post remarks that fruit and vegetable reports are highly perishable and must be fresh and quickly processed to be valuable to growers merchants and consumers. It adds governments should delegate such timely tasks if unable to speed up. It also notes Canadians invested 338 million in housing in 1944 and 753 million in 1949.
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