Trees framework builds prairie farming resilience
At the Canadian Forestry Association annual meeting in Montreal, J J Van Camp reported 27 years of shelter belt planting on the prairies totaling 250 million trees. He noted homes and buildings gained wind protection while soil improvement enabled about 6,000 fruit and vegetable gardens supported by shelter belts.
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Canadian Forestry Association
Montreal
Prairie Provinces
J. J. Varn Camp
Prairies
van Camp
Lecture Car Toured West and Trees Save Soil
The Forestry Association led a mobile lecture car across the West travelling over 7,000 miles to teach prairie residents about trees and soil and moisture conservation. Prairie farmers access trees through the Forestry Association and federal Forestry Farms with hundreds of thousands already planted to beautify homes and support gardens.
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Prairies
The
Forestry Association
Garden Notes on Plants Fit for Any Location
Garden guidance covers choosing flowers vegetables and grasses for diverse soils and light. It stresses selecting Canadian-condition varieties, planning soil with amendments, and proper lawn practices including seed blends, shading, and mower maintenance.
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Britain
United States
Log cutting doubles in Kootenay export area in February
CRANBROOK British Columbia Kootenay Boundary sawlog scale for February compiled by the Nelson forest district totals 15 269 305 feet board measure More than double the February 1949 figure as a mild snow free month followed heavy snowfall last year The two month total for 1950 reaches 34 811 783 feet board measure up 23 percent from the same period in 1949
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Cranbrook
B.C
Kootenay
Nelson Forest District Office
Cold Morning Teeth Freeze In British Columbia Tale
In Quesnel British Columbia a man named Blackie Blackburn found his false teeth frozen solid in a water cup at 18 below zero. He chose to eat out and a startled waitress defrosted the molars for him.
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Quesnel
Blackie Blackburn
Vermilion Couple Celebrate 65th Wedding Anniversary
Vermilion Alta Mrs. James Cavil and her husband marks 65th wedding anniversary. He is 93 and she 85, both hearty and active and residents since 1906.
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Vermilion, Alta
James Cavil
Shot From Guns Builds Houses Fast In California Foothills
In Southern California foothills a gun drives sprayable concrete to form two bedroom houses in about 40 hours. sectional steel forms support the structure while reinforcing steel and conduit placements are set. cost runs about six dollars and fifty cents per square foot, a third cheaper than standard methods.
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CPC
Los Angeles
California
Museum Receives Phones From Saskatchewan System
Swift Current residents now have cradle type telephones supplied and the Saskatchewan Government Telephone System donates one old type wall phone and an old type desk phone to the Swift Current museum for display.
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Swift Current
Saskatchewan
Swift Current Museum
Plebiscite Sought on Fast Time In British Columbia
Vancouver Junior Chamber of Commerce urges daylight saving province wide for the same period as last year. Advisory Council of Farmers Institutes of B C asks legislature committee to approve a resolution for a plebiscite on fast time to decide the issue democratically.
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Victoria
Vancouver
Advisory Council of the Farmers’ Institutes of B.C
Standing Committee On Agriculture
Gas Exemption For Saskatchewan Fishermen Passes
Regina reports gas used by commercial fishermen in Saskatchewan will be exempt from the provincial gas tax under a bill third reading in the legislature. The amendment adds the exemption to the Fuel Petroleum act alongside existing exemptions for weed poison production and certain industrial uses. Lorne Blanchard thanked Treasurer C. M. Fines for the measure, noting northern fishermen will welcome it.
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Regina
Saskatchewan
Lorne Blanchard
L— Cumberland
C. M
North
Lacombe Farmer Wins Barley Growing Championship
CALGARY Lacombe district farmer Hans J. Mueller wins the barley growing championship of Canada in the competition sponsored by the barley improvement institute. Nosology is noted as the branch of medicine relating to classifying diseases.
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Lacombe Farmer
Calgary
Lacombe
Hans J. Mueller
Canada
The
Barley Improvement Institute
Western MP fears farm labor shortage this season
Ottawa reports rising industrial defence output spreads unease among western farmers about securing adequate labor for spring. Deputy minister Arthur MacNamara notes about 635 percent of immigrants in farm group moves remain, yet few spring requests have arrived. Senators compare prairie need for skilled mechanics to eastern industry amid group plan figures. Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta totals listed.
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Ottawa
Senate Committee On Immigration and Labor
Arthur MacNamara
Department
Byron Horner
Blaine Lake
Sask
Canada
Ontario
Quebec
Prairie Provinces
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
M. F. Gregg
Labor
Moose Jaw Scout Chosen For Jamboree
Moose Jaw youth Ron Spalding 15 son of Mr and Mrs L V Spalding has been named one of two Saskatchewan representatives at the world jamboree in Austria this summer. Canada plans a contingent of about 40 scouts for the international event.
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Moose Jaw
Sask
Ron Spalding
L.V. Spalding
Redland Avenue
Saskatchewan
Austria
Canada
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Moone
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Province
Campbell River
Jack Ryan
George Vanstone
Ryan
Central Press
Western MP
Lo Ati
Vani
Minard
Peggy
Chuck Thurston
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