Long term farm credit plan examined for Canada
A report urges a new division within the Canadian Farm Loan Board to provide loans exceeding 60 percent of farm value. Local farmer committees would approve borrowers who face variable land values and income. The plan emphasizes borrower participation, appraisal challenges, and prepayment options to cover poor years. The idea will be considered at the Western Agricultural Conference in Edmonton.
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Canadian Farm Loan Board
Western Agricultural Conference
Canadian Federation of Agriculture
Edmonton
Ramsay Company Offers Free Patent Information
The Ramsay Company of Ottawa announces an offer to every inventor. It lists inventions and provides full information at no charge, urging interested parties to contact 273 Bank Street, Ottawa, Canada for details.
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Ramsay Company
Bank Street
Ottawa
Canada
Home Workshop Patterns for Furnishings and Shelves
A pattern package describes building a portable sewing machine stand with a terrace surface and storage for one machine plus a shelf and two drawers. It notes interlocking joints needing no brads or screws, and that shelves can decorate walls. Patterns mailed for 35 cents each or 60 cents for chair and desk.
Record year for passenger steamships
The Trans Atlantic Passenger Conference reports 1954 saw about 939000 passengers on regular Atlantic and Gulf to Europe routes, the largest postwar total for member lines. Eastbound 402000 and westbound 537000, up 5 percent from 1953. Joseph Mayper chairs the conference.
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trans-Atlantic
Ines
Atlantic
Gulf
United States
Canada
Joseph Mayper
Trans- Atlantic Passenger Conference
Keys Lost on Pacific Cruise Leave Wives to Lock Up
The first batch of mail from HMCS Ontario on a three month Pacific training cruise included 11 house keys. Naval headquarters said 11 seamen forgot to leave keys with their wives when leaving port January 5. The Navy could not confirm if the wives had secured all doors before the sailors departed.
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Ottawa
Hmcs
Ontario
House Keys
Naval Headquarters
Navy
Northern Schools Observe Jubilee on May 26 Jubilee
Plans are under way for Saskatchewan Golden Jubilee celebrations in 26 northern area schools with over 2 000 pupils. Jubilee activities including pageants and singing are being prepared. May 26 will be a school holiday and celebrations vary by area. Cumberland House and Ile a la Crosse cited as examples of northern settlements with long histories.
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Prince Albert
Saskatchewan
Cumberland House
He A la
He A la Crosse
The
Pas
Cumberland Lake
Ile A la Crosse
Saskatchewan presses on with timber wolf control plan
A Saskatchewan game branch team flown to northern regions set out 51 poison bait stations as part of a four winter effort to curb timber wolves. Harold Read said wolf predation reduces caribou herds, with barrenland caribou declines cited from 1,750,000 in 1900 to about 670,000 today. The 1080 poison is being tested in place of strychnine, with costs halved and no secondary poisoning expected after spring break-up.
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Saskatchewan
Natural Resources Department
Harold Read
Canada
Read
Game Branch
Yukon
North West Territories
Alaska
Calgary
Alberta farmer leader sees 1955 wheat marketing relief
C Marler of Bremner, president of the Alberta Federation of Agriculture, told Edmonton that prairie farmers may see reduced marketing problems in 1955. He cited stronger foreign demand lifting wheat sales to about 300 million bushels by July end and noted high quality wheat demand should rise as crops were poorer. The main challenge could be moves of roughly 150 million bushels of 1954 low grade wheat. He said prices could hold or improve slightly in 1955.
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Tor C. Marler
Bremner
Alberta Federation of Agriculture
Edmonton
Marler
Fishermen Get Jump On Spring At Winnipeg Sports Show
The second annual Canadian Northwest Sports Travel and Boat Show in Winnipeg offers 600 pounds of brook trout for visitors to catch and take home. The Greater Winnipeg Game and Fish Association sponsors the event running February 26 to March 5 at the Civic Auditorium with a conservation theme and attractions like an enlarged Fish-Yourself-Tank.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
Greater
Growth chamber to yield five cereal crops yearly at Saskatchewan
In Saskatoon a soil-free growth chamber advances plant breeding at the University of Saskatchewan. Under Dr. Douglas R. Knott, researchers control temperature water and light to accelerate development of spring and durum wheats. The system may yield five crops annually and cut breeding time from five to three years.
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Saskatoon
University of Saskatchewan
Douglas R. Knott
Canada Department of Agriculture
Fence Posts in a Forest Themed Meditation
The poem describes sturdy tamarack fence posts sold to farmers and valued for strength and durability. The speaker recalls fence posts as trees standing straight with branches near the top, imagining columns marching on a mountain side and competing with fir trees. The imagery links fence posts to disciplined forest rows resisting decay.
Churchill thanks Saskatchewan SA War Veterans on 80th birthday
London note from Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill expresses gratitude to the Saskatoon branch of the South African War Veterans Association for their congratulatory message on his 80th birthday. The report also notes cakes of ice from the first commercial ice plant measuring four feet by two feet by one inch.
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Winston Churchill
London
Saskatchewan
The
South African War Veterans’ Association
Frutti Fr Latte Raisin Ring Bake
A recipe describes mixing fruit and nuts with dried raisins red and green cherries and orange rind. The dough is formed into a 30 inch rope placed in a greased pan then baked after brushing with butter and sprinkling cinnamon sugar.
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Home Workshop Pattern Service
West Fifth Avenue
Vancouver
B.C
Germany
Indianapolis
Roger Wolcott
Herb Porter
Mr. Read
Jane Dale
Tamarack Posts
Loprichl
Fleischmann
Peggy
Chuck Thurston
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