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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 26, 1944
Page
4
McConnell sends birthday wishes to Mrs A M Paterson born in Hamiota on July 29, 184? Family notes the milestone with warm regards from neighbors and friends in the community.
Thirteen of sixteen Illustration and District Experiment Substations cooperating with the Bran don Experimental Farm raised 832 pigs in 93 litters in 1943. 158 deaths before weaning plus 1 percent between weaning and market. Average seven pigs per litter. Causes include crushing by sow, weakness, bronchial troubles, and one case of poison from the sow's milk. Poor doers linked to unbalanced postweaning diet, intestinal worms, erysipelas, and bronchial troubles. Six farms kept rail grade records: of 280 pigs, 37 percent A, 39 percent B1, 17 percent B3, 3 percent C, 4 percent heavy, 1 percent ridglings. About 25 percent reached market weight.
Various visits and travel notices describe residents of Souris to Clear Lake including Miss Marjorie Foxton Mrs Snowdon Joan and Wayne, and others from Quill Lake Cornwall and Toronto visiting local homes. The community picnic July 13 and annual school meeting July 17 are reported along with new trustees. A wartime poem honors soldiers and expresses gratitude for service and sacrifice.
A historical snippet notes growth benchmarks by age, indicating 43 percent before seven months and 85 percent before eight months, emphasizing infancy weight progress documented in the period.
Dear Editor recounts Canadian wartime service beginning in 1939. The author praises Hamiota youths who answered the call, highlighting their bravery and sacrifice as the nation joins the war effort.
Poem praising young servicemen from all backgrounds who answer the country call. It honors their sacrifice and asks citizens to send letters and parcels, especially to those homesick or in danger. Written by Jane Dale of Hamiota on July 23 1944.
The North-West Line Elevators Association will be represented on the B class fair circuit by an agricultural exhibit. The exhibit emphasizes water supply as a key agricultural problem with side displays on wheat stem sawfly seed by products industrial uses of wheat and barley seed germination and disease.
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