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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 04, 1945
Page
4
A Ginger Farm diary recounts hens roosting in odd places from tree branches to a straw mow while twenty five chicks perch high in a cheernut tree. Rain delays harvest and worry over wheat, clover, and kitchen chores grows as outcomes hinge on time zones. A hospital visit and shopping trip mix with family notes as a grape simmer spills.
An official report says total tree fruit production in Canada this season will be well below normal. British Columbia shows good prospects while eastern Canada suffers from adverse weather reducing apple crops by about 52 percent from 1944, pears and plums also shrinking though small fruit crops rise above average.
The Maple Leaf Gardens hosts Col Holt Morton’s three ring circus for a week with afternoon and evening shows. Proceeds benefit crippled children and other charities via the Shriners Temple, plus 40 of proceeds go to Sick Children's Hospital. Featured acts include AL Robins the banana specialist, Alfred Court’s trained animals, Milas Viry the cannon shooter, La Tosca on a rope, and other aerial and animal acts.
COPA agricultural experts visited irrigation areas in southern New South Wales and praised Australia’s rice growing techniques. They noted 52 week water management, four year rotational farming, and a 15 000 acre Wakool project as a green oasis. The visitors cited yields of 1½ to 2 tons per acre and Leeton Cannery’s year round operation as impressive evidence of efficiency.
The Saskatchewan government will construct 34 rental suites in two buildings that were part of the former RCAF airport near Swift Current as a housing relief measure according to CP dispatch.
D Wo Shand of Armidale New South Wales proposes two hemispheres with reverse seasons to send fine fresh blackheart cherries to North America in December and again midwinter. He studies soya beans pyrethrum and opium poppies and imagines a 400 youths farming exchange between Australia Canada and the United States.
The article outlines a program by the Tobacco Division of the Experimental Farms Service to promote remunerative tobacco farming in Canada. It highlights breeding new varieties, testing promising strains, soil and fertilizer practices, harvesting, curing and warehousing, disease and pest control, rotations, and cover crops with key production centers in Ontario Quebec and British Columbia.
London reports a government program to place service personnel and others in six to twelve month farm training schemes. The plan covers non-disabled men and women with no farming experience and offers instruction in specialized farming and related duties. Trainees completing the year receive continuing education and salary supplements.
In Hoderich Ontario a trapper who captured a skunk pursued a court claim for a bounty but was denied. The country treasurer paid the trapper’s costs out of pocket before the man returned to court with renewed perseverance.
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