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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 21, 1958
Page
12
Five young ladies compete each of nine nights in the Dairy Queen competition at the Canadian National Exhibition. Ex entries span Ont aria counties from Essex to Renfrew and reach Cochrane and Thunder Bay in the northwest. The event opens Thursday August 21 with 45 participants from 45 districts.
August 1958 report notes semi finals set for September 1 and 2 in the Coliseum main ring. Hazel Reid, Halton's Princess, competes Friday August 8 against princesses from Perth York Northumberland and Precrott. The piece also mentions many vitamins believed vital to human well being.
DBS reports the July price index for Canada fell from 1351 to 1347, driven mainly by a drop of about 1 percent in the food index. Several fresh vegetables and a break in beef prices weighed on overall costs while pork and sugar, coffee, and flour edged lower. Egg prices rose slightly.
Grant Anderson, Secretary of the National Weed Committee of Canada, visits Halton County on August 6 to view idle farm parcels and developing subdivisions. He urges cautious chemical use, promoted crop rotation, and leasing idle land to farmers to reduce weeds and boost yields while warning against overreliance on chemicals. He notes European weed species and the Dutch Firaise threat to elm trees, and praises improvements in equipment and spray programs over five years.
Agriculture Minister Goodfellow announced Ontario will implement new potato grade standards to standardize size and quality. Grades include Ontario No 1, Ontario No 1 large, Ontario No 1 small, and Ontario No 2 for within province sales, with Canada prefix for exports.
A Halton Ontario health notice reports 23 262 cattle under the Brucellosis Control Area rules in Toronto and Halton. Only calves under eight months or officially vaccinated stock may move in without a test if health certificates are provided.
Canada faces a shortage of workhorse breeds after the war with a broad range of heat tolerance among cattle. Dr Leslie of the Livestock and Poultry Production Division notes a growing demand for draught animals and breeding stock. He warns that genetics and geography will keep both Quebec and other regions striving to meet the need, with breeding stock production nearly doubling over seven years.
Report outlines social and economic impact of rising meth use on community figures and markets. Describes alarming drop in numbers tied to substance abuse and resulting strain on local services and institutions.
Reports show Canadian livestock exports to the United States increasing through July 26. Slaughter cattle reached about 54 008, calf entries around 110-, hogs 16 058, and dressed beef totals near 20 million pounds, with beef up 300 percent and pork up around 4 percent. Lamb and mutton weighed 53 446 pounds, up 76 percent.
A Canadian Agriculture survey of eastern Saskatchewan stations shows summer fallow acreage remains near constant over a decade. Individual farmers adjust yearly to weather and prices, but total acreage in summer fallow varies less than six percent, indicating persistence of the practice.
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