Canadian Farmers Face Need to Produce More for Growing Population
Dr H L Patterson of Ontario forecasts expansion in fresh vegetables small fruits and tobacco plus feed grains and roughage as grain surpluses grow and exports strain. He notes rapid industrial growth reshaping farming with more machines fewer workers and larger farms, urging shifts in skills and cash incomes to meet a 60 percent population rise over the next two decades.
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Toronto
H. L. Patterson
Ontario Department of Agriculture
Canada
Dr. Patterson
Freedom in a Free Enterprise Community
An editorial argues for open business practices and neighborly engagement. It warns against unfair treatment eroding public trust and urges people to support free enterprise through honest dealings, accountability, and community involvement.
Virden considers liquor bylaw allowing five new outlets
Electors in Virden will vote on November 20 in the Legion Hall to determine whether five additional liquor outlets may operate in town. Licensing will require high standards and a slow grant process by the Manitoba licensing board, with voters deciding if new outlets are legal and what type they may be.
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Virden
Legion Hall
Manitoba Licensing Board
Western grain groups urge shift from bushel to hundredweight
At Altona shareholders of Co op Vegetable Oils Ltd passed a unanimous resolution favoring adoption of the hundredweight as the official grain measure. D G McKenzie noted the change is technically possible and would reduce conversions, aligning records and exports with pound and hundredweight usage.
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United Grain Growers
Calgary
McKenzie
Board of Grain Commissioners
Beet Sugar Factory Suiting Alberta Growers
E I D notes beet growers around Lethbridge received 4 million dollars as the first payment for autumn beet deliveries. Revenue covered 1 583 growers harvesting 465 000 tons on 36 210 acres with anticipated 17.2 percent sugar content in 1956, yielding about 3 000 annually. The district laments missing a factory and pledges a future Alberta plant with competitive bids.
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Lethbridge
Eastern
Alberta
Eastern Irrigation District
Greenland acts to guard musk ox from extinction
Greenland faces a threatened musk ox population in northeast Greenland as warming conditions reduce available vegetation. calves are scarce and counts show skewed bull to cow ratios. authorities consider tighter hunting limits, from six to five per year, to help save the species. contagion health notes follow unrelated point on malaria control in Ceylon.
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Greenland
Danmarkshavn
Canadian Arctic
Ancient drying oven uncovered near Husum in Germany
Archaeologists reveal the remains of an 1800 year old drying oven used by villagers near Husum Germany to save grain from harvest weather. Heat from a fire was channeled over grain laid on a bed of pottery fragments, similar to later grain driers.
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Husum
Germany
Police vehicle fleets in 1955 urban forces leader report
Municipal police forces across urban centres district towns over 4000 population in 1955 owned 1071 radio cars 143 non radio cars 490 motorcycles and 125 other motor vehicles in total.
Future of the Sunflower Crop in Western Canada
E D Putt of the Morden Experimental Farm says sunflower varieties will yield economically outside northern Prairie areas. Since 1943 sunflowers moved from wartime Manitoba Saskatchewan to the Red River Valley and westward. With breeding progress sunflowers can fill a row crop niche, tolerate frost and drought, and extend rotations, though late maturing Advance is the only safe Red River Valley variety and rust resistance remains key.
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Western
Canada
E. D. Putt
Morden Experimental Farm
Department of Agriculture
Prairie Provinces
Western Canada
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Red River Valley
Bird House Pattern Pack For Winter Garden Decor
A SNACK BAR for birds is offered with Pattern 208 giving actual-size cutting guides mailed for 85c. Five patterns in Bird Houses and Feeders Packet No 1 sell for $1.50, with two patterns at 35c each. Address orders to Home Workshop Patterns Department P.P.L. 4433 West Ltd Avenue Vancouver BC.
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Department P.P.L
West Ltd Avenue
Vancouver
B.C
Autos Boost Tin Industry with Oil Can Boom
Tin Lizzie once a playful nickname for early cars. now autos boost tin industry as two billion motor oil cans were used in 1955.
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Sarily
the Saw
Swift Current
Sask
the Record
Rimbey
Empire Advance
The
E.I.D
the Bulletin
Brooks, Alta
Ually
William Ferguson
Ax Oystel
Marge H
Bronson
Laahe
Recen
Ceylon
Department of National Health and Welfare
Gt Canada
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