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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 15, 1952
Page
13
Scientists from the Department of Agriculture report para dichlorobenzene vaporization as key to eradicating clothes moths and carpet beetles in closets. Two vacuum-based methods—warm air vapor saturation and fine-dust crystal dispersion—achieve full control within three hours. Canada’s forests total 712000 square miles, with under 300000 square miles currently occupied.
Ken Ella of Hornby, Halton Jersey Club president, reports four silver medals and one gold in a year from 12 cows, including Rockwood Glance with 13 007 pounds milk and 868 pounds fat. The piece discusses embargo effects on Canadian dairy cattle, market ideas, and culling strategies for purebred and grade herds to adapt to price declines.
The county faces a dry period with farmers fearing insufficient grass and clover for silage and hay. The column advises sowing corn for silage or harvest as a plain crop when a good corn year can compensate a poor day year and notes corn yields deliver digestible nutrients per acre.
Canada and Britain join with New Zealand and the United States in a limited exchange of beef and pork. Canada will export a portion to the old country in return for New Zealand frozen beef, which Canada will resell to the U.S. The move eases Canadian storage pressures and signals active efforts by L. W. Pearsall and federal authorities to find alternative markets for meat amid the U.S. embargo.
The Century design places wardrobe space in bedrooms and others at entryways to ease movement. A large closet stores card tables, sewing machine, chairs, and equipment. Hall confined traffic, full basement, three bedrooms, dining area, wood fire, picture window, recessed tub, exterior wide siding, asphalt shingle roof, 36 by 36 feet, UT square feet, WABT4A cubic feet.
Auction notice from Hindley and Elliott listing power machinery cattle and hogs to be sold by public auction at Stanley Jay’s farm near Kilbride Ontario on May 21 1852 at 2 pm. Equipment includes Allis Chalmers tractor and mower cattle include Mercedes Antonia Nettie Alcartra Echo Mercedes Ray Apple Keyes and others with reg papers and federal blood test. 14 Berkshire hogs 11 weeks old 75 cedar posts also listed. Cash with clerk. no reserve.
Windsor Daily Star notes a circulating verse criticizes public schooling and teachers for unprepared pupils. Parents and principals respond with blame while lamenting lack of proper training across grade levels.
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