Kamiota Echo Fronts Veals and Josey Publisher Note
The Kamiota Echo lists W Venables and W H Josey as publishers with a September 15 1944 date in the masthead. The notice highlights the paper's leadership and publication timing during wartime.
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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 13, 1944
Page
4
The Kamiota Echo lists W Venables and W H Josey as publishers with a September 15 1944 date in the masthead. The notice highlights the paper's leadership and publication timing during wartime.
A concise installment in a series titled The World of Wheat discusses agricultural science and farming practices. H. C. L. Strange presents an overview likely addressing wheat varieties, cultivation methods, and market considerations.
Farmers urged to perform light fall cultivation and deeper tillage to manage annual and perennial weeds after a wet season. Cerealist G E DeLong of Dominion Experimental Station Lacombe supports light fall work and fall ploughing where perennials abound to protect prairie yields. News notes mention visitors F Miller and W Hedley, coal stocks, a railway crew dining at L Campbell’s, and a Thatcher wheat plot yielding 57 and a half bushels per acre.
Old grain should not be abruptly replaced with new for poultry feed as some newly threshed grains carry toxins. Affected birds show bowing, dark head color, rapid breathing and fever. Epsom salts in a wet mash provides relief. If unchecked, enteritis and deaths occur. storage reduces toxicity after about a month.
McConnell and Gloria Arbuthnott with Mrs. Arbuthnott visited at Killarney over the week end while Harry Nichol and Arthur Arbuthnott are home on a short leave. W. J. Atkinson spent last week at Hamiota. Walter Nichol of Brandon visits the Nichol home. Mrs. Irwin returns from Brandon to spend winter with her daughter Mrs. J. C. Richardson.
The Late Wilbur Thomas Johns of Crandall Manitoba died at his residence on Sunday September 3 at age 63 and was laid to rest September 5 in Crandall Cemetery after a funeral at Crandall United Church led by Rev. Wm. Bill. Born in Exeter Ontario he moved west, married Helen Davidson of Banff in 1911, and is survived by three sons Alvin Elmer and Lyle a daughter Mrs Stan Leland two sisters in Ontario and a brother in Saskatchewan. He was a member of the Canadian Order of Foresters Court Arrow River with ritual led by S R Berridge Brandon.
W. D. Albright of Dominion Experimental Station Beaverlodge Alberta warns the current rabbit cycle is off. Rabbits were scarce last winter overall but plentiful in some spots. Protection for next winter may be needed to safeguard long cared for fruit and ornamentals.
Farmers discuss methods to guard trunks and shrubs from rabbits. Techniques include repellents, wrapping in paper, poison with hazards, and fencing options such as collapsible bottomless boxes, heavy-gauge poultry netting with posts and barbed wire, or board panels. Persistence of rabbits and snow drifts affect effectiveness.
Mrs George Ingram of Kenton Manitoba celebrates her birthday born September 19 1858 in Gamrie Banffshire Scotland. A pioneer of 1882. Dr Leishman of Fort Francis visited Dr Hudson for a few days last week.
Ratepayers are notified that the General and Personal Property Assessment Rolls are filed with the Secretary-Treasurer and open for inspection until September 23. Appeals must be filed with the Secretary-Treasurer by September 23. The Council.
An assessment examination and hearing of complaints is scheduled for Wednesday October 4 1944 at the Council Chamber in Hamiota. The notice is issued by WM. T. Andrew Secretary Treasurer with the date September 4 1944.
An Ottawa bulletin reports on a survey of 59 barley smut specimens finding 410 ordinary loose smut and 18 false loose smut. False loose smut is more common in Manitoba and Saskatchewan than Alberta, likely due to seed treatment practices.
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