Garden Club and Hort Show Notes Saturday and Week Events
Agricultural representative notes two public events in late August. The Portage and District Horticultural Show runs Thursday and Friday at Island Park with evening hours and daylight saving times. An Achievement Day at MacGregor Hall features a public program and garden plot judging following a dry season. remarks congratulate local Garden Club members on well kept plots despite poor germination in some cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Soming
MacGregor Hall
Portage and District
Island Park
Portage
Garden Club
Extension Centre Adds Short Courses for Swine Producers
The Agricultural Extension Centre Brandon expands the 1961-62 winter program with a new swine production short course. Fifteen short courses plus meetings fill the schedule from October 30 to March 21, with open enrollment for farmers over 18 and $5 per course. Instructors come from provincial and federal agriculture departments, the University of Manitoba, Brandon College, and other bodies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brandon
Extension Service
Manitoba Department of Agriculture and Conservation
Departments of Agriculture
University of Manitoba and
Brandon College
RE. Forbes
Agricultural Extension Centre
Teach at Home Victim. 2. Casting teacher appointed for homebound pupils
A casting teacher will be appointed to teach basic subjects in grades 1 to VI to children confined at home by illness or infirmity. Most aided children are recovering hospital patients returning home for extended convalescence.
Norland Potato Tops Pontiac in Manitoba Taste Test
Norland, a newer Manitoba potato, ranks high in consumer preference over Pontiac due to yield, smooth skin, shallow eyes and uniform size. A 1959 survey showed Norland preferred for eye appeal frying and baking, while Pontiac remained favored for boiling. Norland now accounts for over one third of Manitoba potato acreage with Norland, Waseca and Warba on local markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norland
Manitoba
Pontiac
Shirley Helms
Department of Agriculture and Conservation
Norlands
Varieties Meet Regulation Size With Slightly Smaller Specimens
A report notes that varieties are slightly smaller than later types but still meet the regulation minimum diameter of 1 percent inches. The detail emphasizes compliance while noting subtle size differences among varieties.
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Free Mid. West
A. Leet
Boniface
Paural
Seid
THE
Macgregor Herald
Babe
C. W. Sloik
Portage LA Prairif
Herp
Malcolm E. Mackinnon
Austin
J. S. Thomson
Portage LA Prairie
Harry L. Trump Optometrist
Clement Blk
Erle R.george Gee
Optometrist Eyes
Hoalye, OC
MacGregor
Roland Dann
Connie’s Style Shop Gents
Austin Credit Union
Ssers
Mnscents
North Norfolk
Gam
Doris Randall
Stanager
Earnsley
Portage Carberry Areas
Sovemper
Manitoba Horticultural Association
Western Canada Farm Safety Conference
Rossendale
Springbrook
Pathead
Rossendal
Lindsay Lyal
Billy _Lyal
Dorothy Robinson
Terry McLennon
Bernice McLennon
Bruce McLennan
Ronnie Cruickshank
Barbara Wright
Bil Wright
Percy Bachelotz
Gerald _Frizzley
Brian Wojtowich
Wally Henry
Normie Tait
Randy Henry
Allan Lewis
Cara Tabalotneyathy Winterbottom
Randy Kowalchuk
Gail Lowe
Anne Lowe
Barbara Bull
Linda Bull
Donald Evenson
Lynne Anderson
Inda Evanson Pathead
Heather Thompson
Alan Rodgers
Marlene Alderson
Dennis Smith
Brian Hodge
Joanne Thompson
Garry Hodge
Garry Thompson
Gloria Martin
Linda Grove
Pat Grove
Donna Grove
Bob Taylor
Doug Holliday
Lindsay Lyall
Weather Thompson
Denwal Pharmacy
Dennis P. McMahon
Dodge
Plymouth
Chevrolet
Austin Motors
K. KX
JEDEL
Moose Jaw
Sask
Antigonish
Nss
CBC
Waseca
Warba
Hammond
the Dangerfield Hotels
Winnipeg
Man
Montrea
Tmne
Voyageurs
Redborne Busters
Brandon and District Boating Club
Shoal
Pelican
Redborne
Labai
Manitoba Brewery Limited
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