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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Nov 08, 1956
Page
6
Halton 4-H programs report 84 percent of 101 rural youths completed projects last spring with three clubs reaching 100 percent. Awards will be presented November 30 at Milton High School with Clifford F. Waite as guest speaker.
Twelve Halton youths will receive Kingsway Kiwanis short course scholarships at Ontario Agricultural College. Each $12.50 award funds enrollment in a December 31 to January 4 course. Winners span 4-H projects from potato chute to tractor maintenance and include David Blume and Glenna Rose among others. The awards will be presented at a December 10 luncheon at Old Mal.
A farm sale near Trafalgar 1 mile west of Bronte on Highway 2 lists power implements including Case VAC tractor, Allis Chalmers, New Holland baler, and many farm tools. Cattle section features Jersey, Guernsey, and Holstein cows and heifers with breeding dates. Dairy equipment, hay and straw, furniture, and stable gear also offered with cash day-of-sale terms. Proceeds go to a farmer giving up farming. Hindley and Elliott Auctioneers handle details.
Portage La Prairie district farmer A I Adams runs a three-quarter section experimental plot in Manitoba. He rotates crops, uses 80 head of cattle on a pasture, and grows alfalfa timothy and red clover yielding 100 tons on 45 acres. The plan includes haying with a 12 foot swather and family participation in tractor baling and haying operations.
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Burlington Mounts a case for two weekly papers in town the Gazette and the Canadian Serbian Defender though distinct in language and focus. The Serbian paper prints in Burlington for about a month with editing at Hamilton and covers world Serbian issues plus Yugoslav affairs including King Alexander’s death anniversary. Also noted: Arthur Stilleman Averill left a $20 000 bequest from a $122 000 estate to a Moral Reconstruction cause.
An extensive farm sale in Nasmagaweya Township lists red and Hereford cows, heifers, young stock, Yorkshire pigs, poultry and sheep, hay, grain, and numerous farm machinery items. Items include tractors, plows, a Ford tractor, disk, grain bins, tools, dairy equipment, and household goods. The sale occurs Saturday November 16 with cash settlement and no minimum reserve. Auctioneer WM A Gibson with clerk W J Hunters.
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