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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 21, 1955
Page
2
Follow simple management rules to control egg quality. House only healthy pullets and cull hard before 25 percent production. Provide balanced feed and ample clean water. Confine pullets in fall to reduce disease, maintain clean equipment, and gather eggs at least three times daily for rapid cooling.
Manitoba 4-H members aged 12 to 18 must file essays by October 30 on How We Control Weeds on Our Farm. The NCWCC awards a $300 scholarship to the top regional essay with Manitoba preliminary prizes of $25, while National Grain Company grants $15 and $10. Entries go via Local Agricultural Representative or the 4-H Extension Service in Winnipeg.
A Financial Times report relays Canadian Press notes that global newsprint demand rises faster than supply. Destruction of wartime capacity, slow new capacity, higher machinery costs, and postwar economic growth drive a 1945 output well below prewar levels, with Canada supplying about three quarters of production. North American consumption grows ahead of output.
Amateur builders can craft a white pine stand with a fine finish and adjustable shading. Pattern 440 offers tracing outlines and finishing steps. send 35c for a copy. A 1 1/2 dollar package includes five standard patterns plus the design shown. Pattern 416 costs 35c. add 1 1/2 dollars for the Homestead Improvement Packet. Order to Home Workshop Pattern Service, Department P.P.L., 44383 West Fifth Avenue, Vancouver, B C.
The author urges men past forty to verify their health view with a doctor before continuing strenuous exercise. He notes potential to slow demanding activity after forty to avoid harming good health. The piece also mentions some Vancouver Island Douglas firs felled are over a thousand years old.
John A. Vopni, publisher of The Davidson Leader in Davidson Sask, was elected president of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association on September 14 at the association’s annual Vancouver convention. He is known as a local yokel by his peers and embraces the nickname from city folks who call editors country hicks. Vopni holds a firm faith in weekly papers.
John Vopni, born 1898 in Winnipeg, leads Saskatchewan weeklies as CWNA president and Davidson Leader editor. He also serves as secretary manager of the Saskatchewan Weekly Newspapers Association and a director of Prairie Publishers Cooperative, promoting small town papers and Jubilee era advertising gains.
A parent describes sending a small fragile girl to school in September. The speaker kneels to kiss her, struggles with tears, and seeks to preserve the dignity of her six years as she begins her first days.
The piece notes dogs now average 11 to 13 years due to better food and veterinary care while horses and cattle show size and growth trends over time. It recalls ancient horses were tiny and suggests mammals cannot reach human longevity, citing a 1946 dog age peak of 26 and a cat age of 31 for Methuselah among tabbies.
The verse describes harvest time with personified seasons and notes a Hawaiian woman's weaving of a grass skirt. It juxtaposes summer's brief awakening with a year of rest and mentions Pauline Johnson as the poetic voice and a separate fact about grass skirt weaving.
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