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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 21, 1944
Page
7
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The article surveys Canada’s wartime issues from a thanksgiving proclamation to household honey coupons and fur trade. It notes coupons for doctor and feed dealer payments, homemakers not surrendering internal honey, fur farming valued at 40 million dollars, rising mink and silver fox pelts, and shifts in markets. It also covers junior farm clubs, national championships in 1944, books shipped to POWs, and a Wartime Bureau report on tech personnel shortages especially among women.
Ottawa reports allied governments will take surplus high grade poultry from Canada, export price set as ceiling for canned poultry. Farmers and poultry growers see hope for steady industry. Marketing of Christmas trees cited as harder due to railway, labor and trucking constraints. Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service celebrates second birthday with 5,000 members and roles from driving to signals. End of August marks domestic refrigerator releases, only 225 new units left for hospitals. Bureau of Statistics notes half 1944 physical volume index at 242.7 up 5.1 percent over 1943. industrial production rose 2.8 percent. national income up 9.5 percent.
New York report outlines a wartime electronic heating method called megatherm heating. It uses high frequency energy to heat food uniformly from within, potentially transforming lunch counters and home kitchens after the war. Early tests show promise for canned fruits and vegetables and quick-service dishes, with rapid serving gains of about 25 percent at lunch counters.
A 1960 harvest spray program uses napthaleneacetic acid and related compounds to slow fruit drop, keeping apples on trees longer and reducing bruised fruit. University trials in Geneva NY show growth substances applied to bindweed caused rapid leaf decline and plant death within days.
WPTE announces revocation of ten more standardization and simplification orders affecting wood and metal products, bringing total revoked to 53 in the last week. The list includes administrator orders A-U31 on furniture, A134 on school furniture, A165 on casket manufacture, A20 amended asbestos products, A306 amended, Venetian wood blinds, A371 wood pencils and penholders, A553 office furniture, and A607 on electrical discharge lamps.
Canadian breeding stock may play a large part in rebuilding Europe’s liverock herds after the war. The coming demand for horses will be tied to restoring farm power as war losses cut horse numbers in many nations. Authorities foresee a tremendous task and sustained demand for Canadian horses.
An Ohio farmer turned Navy seaman nicknamed Red arrives at an Aleutian Island base to start a small farm. A barnyard forms with an Ayrshire cow and about two dozen chickens, while a sow with a mixed litter is expected. Red says he’s better at farming than swabbing decks.
Some poultrymen treat feather picking by adding a tablespoon of salt to every gallon of drinking water. The practice is noted as a deterrent by certain growers.
New Westminster reports E W Johnson on his blueberry farm on Wale Island developed two blue tersien on a single bush this year with berries about one inch across. He says growing from cuttings and post New Year pruning key to success for larger berries. Johnson adds fresh vegetables gain vitamins when properly chilled after harvest.
Australian researchers at Sydney University study decorative hedging vine but find it rapid-growing with extensive roots, low in reber content, and impractical for future manpower needs. The plant is disease free, avoided by Shinestock, and responds quickly to rate.
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