Farm machinery research expands at Lacombe station
Don Dew named agricultural engineer at the Lacombe Experimental Station to direct expanded studies in farm machinery buildings and water use. Research will cover tillage equipment including subsoilers and plows, deep tillage at Vegreville, harvest gear like self propelled combines, swathers and straw cutters, hay and forage harvesting gear, and soil erosion prevention shaping broader western farming improvements.
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Don Dew
Lacombe
Mr Dew
University of Saskatchewan
Internatonal Harvester Company
Saskatoon
North Battleford
Edmonton
Vegreville
TRY AND STOP ME! By BENNETT CERF
A wry collection notes catty actresses and celebrity mischief in Las Vegas and Hollywood. Jokes about spelling, lunching seniors, Pangloss’s travels and domestic brawls mix with hotel rules and quirky etiquette from old hotel days. Insanity as a legal ground is noted.
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Bennett Cerf
Global Wheat Outlook Mixed As Stock Piles Anticipated
Crop prospects vary as Canada predicts near record grain output while the U.S. and other exporters share rising shipments. Canada eyes high acreage yields despite lower planted area. Serbia Italy Germany and Turkey show strong or optimistic reports. End-year stock forecasts approach historic highs near 975 million bushels with carryover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Italy
Germany
Turkey
Bureau of Statistics
Howe
Commons
Canada
Insect Emerge Tricks Help Fight Pale Western Cutworm
Entomologist P E Blakely studies how the pale western cutworm moth hatches from a soil cell. The moth splits the pupal shell and bores through earth using mouth fluids and leg motion, tunneling to the surface while the cell protects the pupa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P E. Blakely
Science Service Laboratory
Lethbridge
Mr. Blakely
Blakely
Grain stocks on hand by country June 1
June 1 stocks on hand by country with last year figures in brackets show Canada 513 million bushels (628.2 million), US 1.0018 billion (921.3 million), Argentina 137.6 million (121.6 million), Australia 132.9 million (131.6 million).
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United States
U.S
Canada
Australia
Argentina
Mushroom Stuffing Fried Chicken Skillet Dish
A vintage recipe shows mushroom stuffing baked around fried chicken in a skillet with rich giblet gravy. It uses instant nonfat dry milk in both stuffing and gravy, noting economical broilers and fryers and a one pound milk package making five quarts. Giblet gravy and stuffing recipes detail diced giblets, onions, mushrooms, bread crumbs, spices, and poultry seasoning for a complete meal.
New Stamp Marks Scout Jamboree in Canada
On August 20 1955 Canada issues a commemorative stamp for the 8th World Boy Scout Jamboree at Niagara on the Lake Ontario designed by Laurence Hyde of Ottawa. The green and gold horizontal 1 by 1 inch engraving by the Canadian Bank Note Company will be sold at principal post offices and via the Philatelic Section Ottawa with panes of 50 stamps.
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Designec
Canada
Niagara-on-the-Lake
Ontario
Laurence Hyde
Ottawa
Canadian Bank Note Company
Boy Scout Movement
Philatelic
Financial Branch
Post Office Department
Fresh In St Louis bathing beau ties attract riders
In St Louis a novelty promotion places bathing beau ties atop buses to lure passengers. An unrelated quip notes saving for rainy days. a NY appeal seeks to curb sulfuric fumes harming nylon clothing. a Sicily couple loses life savings to animals, not banks.
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St. Louis
Amato Galli
Syracuse
Sicily
West Side Wall Holds Heat Secret for Summer Comfort
A Reader’s Digest note explains the west side of a house becomes the hottest in summer as the sun angle drives intense heat onto the west wall in the afternoon. The south side receives slanting rays, while the west wall stores warmth for hours after sunset.
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Farm Machinery Research
Colony
Las Vegas
Johnnie
Pangross
Pangloss
Pey
Pittsburgh
The
Dorothy Maddox
Strictly Fresh
New York City
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