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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 13, 1955
Page
2
Garden notes describe plant choices for rough slopes or rock gardens with tiny hardy varieties from seed catalogues. It covers shade tolerant begonias and mountain origins for cool corners, sun lovers like portulaca and poppies, and how some tolerate dry soil or damp feet. It notes frost bloomers and broad variety across conditions.
Manitoba warns on 2 4 D damage from herbicides and provides a pamphlet with precautions for sensitive crops like sunflowers sugar beets rapeseed and tomatoes. It advises careful planting schedules double cropping small garden spaces and using tall annuals and climbers to create year long bloom and privacy screens.
The notice describes patterns for a chair with a solid wide board seat and legs, upholstery webbing cushions, and simple assembly by gluing and screws. It details painting guides for life like figures, color mixing, waterproofing with shellac, and pattern numbers. Order forms request 35 cents per pattern and packet price of $1.50 postpaid from Home Workshop Pattern Service Vancouver.
Regina Saskatchewan department of Municipal Affairs processes a petition for La Ronge to become a village. Deputy minister J W Churchman notes Creighton is the first northern settlement to incorporate in 1952, while La Ronge, 180 miles north of Prince Albert, has about 500 residents and 362.9 acres of surveyed land.
Austria and Switzerland are famed for their winter skiing facilities. The note highlights their renowned slopes and alpine resorts as premier destinations for skiers seeking reliable snow and varied runs.
Easy crochet hexagon design for tables and buffets. Pattern 7141 covers an 18 inch diagonal hexagon in No 30 mercerized cotton, smaller in No 50, larger in bedspread cotton. Seven for 50 inch cloth using No 30 cotton, pattern costs five cents in coins.
An advertisement from the Household Arts Department promotes the 1955 Alice Brooks Needlecraft Catalog. It invites readers to send 25 cents for a copy and promises exciting new designs and patterns. The ad lists the department at 60 Front Street West Toronto and asks for plain name address and pattern number.
Sportsmen endorse fisheries branch plans to extend carp control measures in Saskatchewan. Branch meetings heard officials outline restricting the use of minnows and small fish as angling bait to limit carp spread. A 25 000 square mile area already restricts bait use in southeastern Saskatchewan. carp have been found in the Assiniboine River and Round and Crooked lakes in Quillpe lle waterway.
Six year old Bobby explains to his mother that he got a toy car from Johnny in exchange for stopping a facial beating. Johnny asked him to stop the harm, revealing a troubling incident amid a child’s mischief. MAKE CITY GREEN LETHBRIDGE, ALTA. plant over two thousand trees in 1955 across new development zones.
Elm Creek Manitoba group led by J A Halliday wins first prize in the Get-of-Sire Bacon Competition. They marketed 122 hogs from July 1 1964 to January 51 1955, sired by Stoney Oak Mac 3H. Silberfeld Club at Gretna takes second with 64 hogs sired by Nordlight Hansel 2H.
A discussion on walking technique shows that turning feet at ten to two speeds fatigue and increases steps. Walking with feet pointed straight ahead improves balance and reduces strain on foot bones and muscles.
Four one day weed meetings in Manitoba including Winnipeg Brandon Dauphin and Portage la Prairie attracted nearly 800 farmers and experts from the University of Manitoba Brandon Experimental Farm Manitoba Weeds Commission and grain and chemical companies Discussions focused on controlling wild oats with delayed seeding tillage rotation and early barley planting while chemical control remains experimental Experimental results showed wild mustard cutting wheat yields from 42 to 18 and 16 bushels per acre The note also mentions the pronghorn antelope’s sprint speeds.
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