Sunflowers for oil seed gain interest in Western Canada
Western farmers in southern Manitoba study sunflowers for 1966 planting amid grain market pressures. Eric Putt of the Morden Experimental Farm notes revenue near wheat but higher than oats and barley. Varieties Beacon and Advance suited to different regions. careful cultivation, deep planting, and cross harrowing key to weed control and yield.
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Canada
Manitoba
Eric Putt
Morden
Township 13
Red River Valley
Loss of Nitrate from Flooded Soils on the Prairies
F D Cook of the Soil Research Laboratory Swift Current Sask advises cropping 75 to 100 pounds per acre of 16 20 fertilizer at seeding on spring flooded areas. Excessively wet soils affect nitrate breakdown and productivity through biological changes.
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F. D. Cook
Soil Research Laboratory
Swift Current
Sask
Lavenham Social Notes Highlight Travel and Loss
Lavenham residents reported visits and from Winnipeg to Portage and Brandon with many trips and dinners. The community mourned the sudden death of Miss Elizabeth Funk, a former local teacher, at Elm Creek after living with Hugh Henry’s family.
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Lavenham
Winnipeg
Elizabeth Funk
Hugh Henry
Elm Creek
Farmers Surprise Ailing Oak Lake Neighbor
Friends from Oak Lake Virden Routledge Griswold and Alexander plowed harrowed and seeded 55 acres of Peter Thiessen’s Oak Lake district farm about 34 miles west of Brandon while he recovers in hospital from surgery.
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Oak Lake
Peter Thiessen
Thiessen
Virden
Routledge
Griswold
Alexander
Oak Lake District
Brandon
Early London Children's Hospital Opens in 1852
An historic milestone notes the opening of one of the work's first children’s hospitals in London England in 1852.
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London
England
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