World Wheat Growers Aid War Effort and Global Grain Outlook
Canadian Seed Growers' Association members support the war effort through the Crop Testing Plan by selling registered cereals and vegetable seeds to the United States, earning dollars for Canada to buy more munitions. The report notes rising grain prices due to bumper crops and shipments, with Greece buying Australian wheat and France's crop noted as poor.
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Canadian Seed Growers’ Association
Canada
United States
New South Wales
Greece
France
Experimental Farm Notes on Winter Vegetable Storage
The article advises drying vegetables thoroughly before storage and maintaining cool, dry chambers. It emphasizes 83 to 35 degrees Fahrenheit as a safe range, darkness for potatoes, and using sand or earth for storage. It notes that waxed vegetables require careful handling and that pumpkins and squash need dry, airy conditions.
Canada faces wheat surplus storage crisis in war years
Editorial notes Canada's 1940 wheat glut with elevators packed and markets limited by war. Government price guarantees and five bushel per acre advances fail to cover harvesting costs. Proposes diverting surplus into chemurgy and new uses for wheat to stabilize prices and aid farmers and the nation.
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Canada
West
Hitler
Europe
United Kingdom
Cecil Lamont
North West Line Elevators’ Association
Mr Lamont
Hamiota Charities Drive Seeks Wheat and Cash Donations
The Hamiota and District War Charities Fund announces a four day drive October 28 to 31 to raise funds for the Canadian Red Cross Society Salvation Army Red Shield War Service Fund YMCA War Service Fund Canadian Legion War Service Fund and Knights of Columbus Canadian Army Huts Fund. Donations may be cash or designated to a specific charity. wheat donations must come from farmers' quotas. Local expenses are covered by Army and Navy Veterans. The fund is registered and audited. Farmers donating wheat for the charities are assured it is not counted against quotas.
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Hamiota and District
War Charities
Hamiota Sod
Inet
Fond
The
Canadian Red Cross Society
Salvation Army Red Shiel War Service
Young Men's Christian Aserociation War Service
Canadian Legion War Service Ford
Knights of Columbus Canadian. Army Huts
Ad Fond
Army
Hamiota
Seed Time and Harvest Column Opens for Farmers Debate
Phces and SSEEDTIMES and HARVEST oe KW Droedter Agrreteral Department North West Lane Elevators Association announce a biweekly agricultural column. The aim is to spark discussion on field crop production among farmers and the public, with topics like black paint and kernel smudge in wheat to follow and later dormancy seeds seed treatment fibre flax and moon phases affecting fall frosts.
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Agricultural Department
North-West Line Elevators Association
Winnipeg
Victoria Winter Resort Star For Canada Seaside Sports
Victoria on Vancouver Island draws Americans with ten percent dollar incentives as a premier winter resort. Empress Golf Tournament runs March 9 to 15 at Oak Bay, while Christmas at the Empress Hotel highlights social life with traditional treks and carols. Roses bloom in February, while year‑round recreation includes yachting and golf.
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Anada
Victoria
British Columbia
Vancouver Island
United States
Oak Bay
Empress Hotel
Canada
Canadian Rockies
Empress
Glad to see Dick Mugridge's return after operation
Notices report Dick Mugridge out again after an operation and a month in hospital. M W Coldicott will sell household effects on Saturday November 2. A local Echo Office finds left items including baby shoe glove and milk bags. A drug store window displays an old German Bible from 1866 along with old prescriptions. Cowan left for Calgary after two weeks visiting relatives. The picture show runs three nights this week with no family night.
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Dick Mugridge
Gems of Thought on Gentility and Self Control
A compact collection of maxims on gentility and charity. Quotes from Calvin Eddy Cyris Publius Syros Goethe urge judging others with mercy, loving friends, bearing faults, and finding courtesy in moral depth. The ideas center on self discipline and humane regard amid social friction.
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Mary Baker Eddy
Cyris
Publius Syros
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the World Wheat
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Out
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Hamiota and District War Charities Fund
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F. C. Francis
Mrs. W. J. Francis
Elkoorn
M. W. Coldicott
Alex. Cowan
Calgary
Echo Office
Anow
Calvin
Goethe
Namiota Echo
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Toothills
Hamiota Echo
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