Bee Keeping In The West Alberta Leads Honey Production
The article notes bee keeping as a lucrative industry across Canada with 500900 colonies nationwide. Alberta leads honey production with 6192000 pounds in 1946, while Ontario, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan follow. Prairie provinces and British Columbia account for 157000 of the 500900 colonies. A cooler Eastern season reduced Canada's 1946-47 honey crop by about 4 million pounds to 39,717,000.
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Canada
Prairies
Alberta
Peace River
Ontario
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Prairie Provinces
British Columbia
New Colonies Each Season
The piece explains that Western Canada winters discourage beekeeping so farmers establish new colonies each season. It notes long Prairie summers boost honey production and that beekeeping illustrates successful mixed farming in the West, praise to farmers and agricultural scientists.
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Canada
Vancouver organizes for unsupported mothers
An association for unsupported and unmarried mothers is forming in Vancouver led by Mrs. Robert Symington. It aims to improve conditions, foster independent single homes, and offer lectures on motherhood and child care. The group has 15 members.
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Vancouver
Robert Symington
Symington
16 Below Makes Animals Friendly
It was 16 degrees below zero at a far northern Canadian weather station 400 miles south of the North Pole. The extreme cold made some hardy district animals friendlier with station staff led by J. R. Lewis. One fox fed on sausages and returned for more.
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Alert
N.W.T
North Pole
J. R. Lewis
Intuition Saves Worker From 70 Foot Fall At Sask Elevator
Henry Walters of Regina a shingler on a Western Grain elevator at Birsay Saskatchewan escaped a 70 foot plunge when he tied a rope around his middle after feeling dizzy at the top. He fainted but was hoisted to safety by colleagues and returned to work hours later.
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Henry Walters
Regina
Birsay
Sask
Walters
Alberta Wheat Reaches High Grade in South
W M Wagler of the Alberta wheat pool reports most No 1 Northern wheat this year likely came from southern Alberta. The Winnipeg board estimated 12,000,000 bushels, with Wagler suggesting 10,000,000 to 13,000,000 bushels may have been produced from the border to Aldersyde, 30 miles south of Calgary.
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Lethbridge
W. M. Wagler
Alberta Wheat Pool
Canada
Alberta
Board of Grain Commissioners
Winnipeg
Wagler
Aldersyde
Calgary
Misread land contract leads to four hearts penalty
In a rubber bridge hand North misread the diamond fit after South opened one heart and North jumped to two hearts. West bid two spades, South moved to three diamonds, and North advanced to four hearts doubled. East returned a club signal, West produced a third trick to set up a second ruff for a 500 penalty.
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Mavers North
South
North
West
East
Funny and Otherwise Sefly: Quick Wits and Pocket Lessons
A compact collection of jokes and quips about gifts, family misadventures, fashion forecasts, college finances, twins, work salaries, nursing care, and the old shipboard farewell. Each anecdote leans on wordplay and everyday irony to land a light laugh.
Record Prices Paid For Grade Stock Cows
At Azure near High River Alberta a Bar U ranch herd of 309 grade stock cows sold at record Canadian prices. Top load of 25 cows fetched 30 dollars per 100 pounds while 155 head of cows and heifers brought 29 to 30 dollars per 100 pounds. Duke and Duchess of Windsor representatives bought 50 head of beef stock cows, and total sales for the Bar U cows and heifers were about 78 thousand dollars.
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Calgary
Azure
High River
Alta
Bar U
Duke and Duchess of Windsor
Near Extinct Whooping Crane Report From Yukon Search
Alberta wildlife officer J. D. Soper spent two and a half months in the Yukon seeking the rare six foot crane once common on the prairie. Indians and Eskimo reported no sightings as only 34 birds remain on the continent, with possible recent records in Grande Prairie Alberta and northern Saskatchewan.
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Edmonton
Alta
Yukon Territories
Canadian
J. D. Soper
Dominion Wildlife
Alberta
Yukon
RCMP Crack Down On Purple Gas Farm Use Rule
Royal Canadian Mounted Police target drivers using purple colored gasoline in Moose Jaw Saskatchewan. The fuel is exempt from a ten cent per gallon tax and designated for farm use only.
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Moose Jaw
Sask
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Saskatchewan
Ban Lifted On Importation Of Dressed Poultry And Eggs
Ottawa announces immediate lift of the ban on importing eggs and dressed poultry or parts. Live poultry importation remains banned after the Newcastle disease outbreak in British Columbia. Industry expects possible future lifting of the live poultry ban.
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Ottawa
Agriculture Department
British Columbia
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