Long Term Farm Credit Plan Reviewed by MBAC Board
The MBAC board reviewed Sinclair’s study from the University of Manitoba proposing a new division of the Canadian Farm Loan Board to provide loans above 60 percent of farm value. The plan emphasizes borrower participation local supervision appraisal and prepayments to handle year to year income fluctuations. The study, dated January 9, will be considered at the Western Agricultural Conference and the Canadian Federation of Agriculture in Edmonton.
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Sinclair
The
University O Wer
MBAC
Canadan Farm Loan Board
Joan
Western Agricultural Conference
Canadian Federation of Agriculture
Edmonton
Home Workshop Patterns for Sewing Stand and Shelves
This piece promotes do it yourself patterns for a sewing machine stand terrace and storage drawers. It notes easy to follow lines and interlocking joints for weekend cabinet makers and offers pattern copies by mail with price details. The article also mentions decorative shelves and a hurdy gurdy from Germany briefly.
Record year for passenger steamships
The trans Atlantic steamship lines operating regular passenger services between Atlantic and Gulf ports and European ports carried about 839000 passengers in 1954. Joseph Mayper, chairman of the Trans Atlantic Passenger Conference, announced that 62 percent of Atlantic travelers crossed by ship. The 1954 total topped 1953 by over 5 percent, marking the largest postwar year for member lines. Eastbound 402000 and westbound 537000. Ottawa. HMCS Ontario three month Pacific cruise sent 11 house keys home. 11 seamen forgot to leave keys with wives when departing January 5. Navy unsure if wives locked doors.
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trans-Atlantic Steamship Lines
Atlantic
Gulf
United States
Canada
Joseph Mayper
Trans- Atlantic Passenger Conference
Ottawa
Hmcs
Ontario
Naval Headquarters
Navy
Northern Jubilee Observed In Saskatchewan Schools
Plans are underway for Golden Jubilee celebrations in Saskatchewan's 26 northern area schools. Jubilee materials for pageants plays and singing were prepared for over 2 000 pupils. The May 26 official jubilee holiday will vary by location and history with Cumberland House and Ile a la Crosse cited as examples of historic northern settlements.
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Princs Anbrit
Saskatchewan
Cumberland House
He A la Crosse
The
Pas
Cumberland Lake
Ile A la Crosse
Saskatchewan fights timber wolf in fourth winter drive
Prince Albert Saskatchewan presses its four winter anti-wolf campaign to protect caribou and big game. A game branch crew has set 51 poison bait stations in northern areas and officials plan at least that many more as 1080 replaces strychnine for the first time on timber wolves.
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Prince Albert
Saskatchewan
Natural Resources Department
Harold Read
Canada
Game Branch
Read
Yukon
North West Territories
Alaska
Calgary
Alberta farmer leader forecasts 1955 wheat market improvement
Roy C. Marler of the Alberta Federation of Agriculture said in Edmonton that prairie marketing problems should lessen in 1955. He cited stronger foreign demand and higher-quality grain as key factors, with potential prices holding or rising while moving up to 150 million bushels of low-grade wheat from the 1954 crop.
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Roy C. Marler
Breroner
Alberta Federation of Agriculture
Edmonton
Marler
Fishermen's Show Opens In Winnipeg With Trout Tie-in
The second annual Canadian Northwest Sports Travel and Boat Show runs February 26 to March 5 at Civic Auditorium Winnipeg Malopa. The Greater Winnipeg Game and Fish Association sponsors the event with a 600 pound brook trout waiting to be caught and taken home. The show centers on conservation and features the enlarged Fish-Yourself-Tank among other outdoor attractions.
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Winnipeg
Malopa
Greater Winnipeg
Growth chamber aims to speed wheat breeding at Saskatchewan
In Saskatoon a below ground growth chamber within the University of Saskatchewan’s husbandry department allows five cereal crops per year. Temperature water and light are controlled to accelerate development and cross breeding. Seeds are sown in pots with test crops including spring and durum wheats.
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Saskatoon
University of Saskatchewan
de Detigias K Knott
Knott
The
Canada Department of Agri
Kitchen Meditations By Jane Dale
A lyrical meditation on fence posts sold to farmers. The speaker recalls sturdy tamarack posts valued for durability and compares them to trees in a forest, imagining their straight, columnar form resisting decay while evoking a quiet forest panorama.
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Jane Dale
Personal note from Churchill thanks war veterans group
Winston Churchill writes from London to the Saskatchewan branch of the South African War Veterans Association thanking them for their congratulations on his sixth birthday. The note mentions ice from the first commercial ice plant measuring four feet by two feet by one inch thick.
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Prime Musume
Winston Churchill
London
Saskatchewan
South African War Veterans’ Association
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Tamarack Posts
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