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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Feb 16, 1950
Page
3
A dated recipe and kitchen trend roundup offers modern homemaker tips with notes on convenient mixes and colorful dishes. It lists baked treats like Candy Apple Pie and Chess Cakes, plus meals such as Owen Stew and Wacky Cake, with step by step preparation details.
Historical note on new strawberry varieties including Fairpeake Suwanee Temple Sparkle Robinson and Rahimson introduced by U S and Canadian programs. Highlights Fairpeake late mid season large fruit vigorous plants heavy crops Suwanee productive high quality Temple similar to Premier Sparkle mid season promising drought tolerant Ottawa trials onward.
Farmers are urged to inspect tractors and all farm machinery before spring work. Check bearings, fasteners, and moving parts for wear and looseness and renew worn components. Even if machinery ran well last fall, test now to prevent delays from spring use.
The column muses on two open winters and lingering winter weather, notes rheumatic pains, warns against patent medicines and self treatment, lists first aid supplies, recalls a dynamite blast near Mattawa, and ends with a bleak eastward snowstorm.
Deputy Minister Tom C. McCall told the Tourist Resorts Association of Ontario that tourism supports farming by boosting demand for farm products. He cited 21,000,000 U.S. crossings into Ontario in 1919 as a major outlet for markets, while noting growth in canned fruit sales and the hotel industry as partners in farm prosperity.
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