World sheep numbers fall after war but show signs of recovery
Agriculture Abroad reports sheep and goat totals down about 12 percent from pre war, with the Soviet Union hardest hit losing 27 million sheep and goats from 102 million pre war. By mid 1946 numbers may near pre war levels in some regions as recoveries and new acquisitions occur.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agriculture Abroad
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Soviet Union
Asia
Hungary
Europe
South America
Oceania
North America
Argentina
Ration Book 6 Distribution Planned Across Canada
More than 600 local ration boards across Canada prepare to issue ration book No 6 the week of September 9 to 16 announced by Donald Gordon Wartime Prices and Trade Board chair. Volunteers will staff distribution centres while centres operate on limited days and consumers must pick up their own books before the final open day to avoid missing issuance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Donald Gorn
Prices ‘and Trade Board
Gordon
Parasite Service Operates From Belleville Canada
The Imperial Parasite Service may stay in Belleville Ontario where it relocated as a war refugee. Five years of operation show insect collection and pest control research can be effectively conducted there. Climate in Belleville resembles that of the colonies and Antipodes more than the United Kingdom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Imperial Parasite Service
Belle- Ville
Ont
Canada
Belleville
United Kingdom
British seize Canadian prison at Headley Down Hampshire
British military authorities take over the Canadian detention barracks at Headley Down in Hampshire. Canadian detention facilities move to Bramshott as the British assume control of the facility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aldershot
Hants
England
Headley Down
Hampshire
Bramshott
Mouse Trap Ends Bank Robber Plot at Service Station
Stan, a talkative station attendant near Pine Grove, foils a robbery led by a man and a girl after a mouse trap catches a lookout. Patrolman Clancy Burke arrives to find the scene and notes the thieves are captured. Stan jokes the incident saved the country two hundred dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
AN Jackson
Pine Grove
Stan
Clancy Burke
Clancy
Migosh
Princess Elizabeth Walks Through Royal Review At Windsor
Princess Elizabeth reviewed the Auxiliary Territorial Service at the Imperial Staff College in Windsor Surrey. She stuck to the platform and left white footprints on the parade ground as she moved past the ranks.
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Windsor
Surrey
Eng
Elizabeth
Auxiliary Territorial Service
Army
Imperial Staff College
Teen-Ager Pattern 4832 Frock in Teen Sizes 10 to 16
Pattern 4832 offers a simple sewing project for teens with a size 12 frock requiring 2 1/2 yards of 35 inch fabric. Cost is twenty cents in coins, not stamps, and orders go to the Anne Adams Pattern Dept. Winnipeg Newspaper Union, 175 McDermot Ave. E. Winnipeg, Man.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Smiles and Snippets from a Funny Exchange Page
A collection of humorous exchanges and quips from an era, including a judge scolding a defendant, a gag about a new girl, wartime airman jokes, a RAF wife, a black market racketeer, and captions about editors, poets, and sunshine mysteries. Notable lines feature a magistrate fixing a criminal’s abode, a poet editor banter, and a soldier cracking a vitamin joke with soup.
Big business in Canada poultry industry urged to focus on small farms
The Egg and Poultry Market Report from the Dominion Department of Agriculture says Canada’s poultry sector thrives through many small businesses. It stresses careful management and efficient use of natural resources, highlighting grass, earthworms, water, air, light, earth, and exercise as key factors. It notes water as crucial, sun and light for growth, and that poultry should range for part of their ration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Dominion Department of Agriculture
St. Thomas Times-Journal
Rich soil warns on wheat protein decline in Kansas study
The Lethbridge Herald notes that removing soil fertility from wheat land lowers wheat protein, urging growers to restore fertility with more artificial fertilizer. It contrasts Western Canada high protein wheat from rich plains soil with arid belt wheat and calls for soil management to sustain high protein quality.
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Kansas
Canada
Plains
Park Belt
Lethbridge Herald
Switzerland aims to be Europe’s cultural center
A tranquil Switzerland seeks to lead Europe’s postwar cultural revival by hosting major theatrical and musical festivals. Its neutral stance and central location, with French German Italian as official languages and English widely understood, support its bid as a meeting ground for European civilizations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Switzerland
Europe
End of cheap food era warned by dairy leader
R C Smellie president of the National Dairy Council told the Ottawa Rotary club that Canada cannot keep cheap food while paying high wages and prices for farm inputs. He noted wartime controls faded and urged lower costs for labor and equipment to keep prices down as production rises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
R. C. Smellie
National Dairy Council
Ottawa
Smellie
Ottawa Citizen
Unemployed Seek Preferred Work Around Vancouver
The Calgary Herald contrasts Vancouver’s 10,000 unemployed with Fraser Valley strawberry growers needing 5,000 workers for a 3 million dollar crop. Hundreds of prairie women are brought in at government expense while locals wait for the ideal job, highlighting mismatched preferences in unemployment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vancouver
Fraser Valley
Prairie Provinces
Calgary Herald
Bread rationing proposal faces meals and bread limits
The Ottawa Journal discusses possible regulations on bread before meals, allowing at most one slice or roll per customer on request, plus control of flour supply and strict enforcement to curb waste while millions go hungry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa Journal
Groundhog becomes farm pet near Grand Valley
Jack Clegg a farmer near Grand Valley in Dufferin county captured a groundhog and keeps it as a pet. The animal now roams the farm at will, responds to a whistle and plays with the family dog.
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Grand Valley
Ont
Ontario
Jack Clegg
Dufferin County
Potatoes in Canada Forecast 1946 Crop Rise
The 1946 potato crop in Canada is projected to be 23 percent higher than 1945, with expected production of about 74 million bushels based on farmer intentions and average yields. The 1945 crop totaled roughly 59.98 million bushels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
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Charles Butterworth
Los Angeles
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Zoological Society
Willie
Mec
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Kashmir
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Has Og
Wil Macdonald
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