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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 02, 1955
Page
4
A report from Canada’s Experimental Station at Scott Saskatchewan shows shallow spring tillage followed by seeding ten days later conserves soil moisture and raises yields. Oats gain about 9 bushels per acre. delayed seeding promotes earlier uniform germination and faster maturity by roughly one week.
Research at Beaverlodge Alberta's Experimental Station shows profitable sheep grazing on depleted grey-wooded soils with suitable pasture species and fertilizers. Seeded creeping red fescue yielded four lambs per acre with 85 pounds of lamb gain. nitrate fertilizer increased carrying capacity to eight lambs per acre. legume mixtures and fertilization reached 12 to 13 lambs per acre with higher gains. Rotational grazing prevented overgrazing and improved outcomes.
Canada’s population would have been smaller without preventive measures over decades. Contagious diseases have been conquered with vaccination and modern medicine. Smallpox is wiped out. tuberculosis declines due to chest X ray and treatment. typhoid is obsolete. immunizing every child against diphtheria and whooping cough could remove two more killers of small children.
The Esquimalt harbor in British Columbia was noted by the Spanish Ispaniarde in 1700 as Puerto de Cordova, reflecting early European naming of the harbor.
When HMCS Labrador sails from Halifax on May 25 for 1955 northern operations it will carry the Royal Canadian Navy’s first underwater television system. The portable DRB equipment, used for beach surveys and diver studies in cold water, includes a camera, control unit, and a buoyant cylindrical housing. Lt Cmdr Bathurst will train the diving team before departure.
The piece notes a dieting plan that helped one man lose weight may harm another. It stresses individualized guidance, warns against self experimentation, and suggests cutting rich desserts and second helpings. It cites Canada’s well balanced Food Rules as a safer diet example.
Saskatchewan's Highways Department introduced two new field testing devices this spring for bituminous roads. A surface coring machine with three diamond bit sizes plus a Benkelmann deflection beam will be operated by two crews this summer under Harvey Dishaw and W. E. Winnitey. The equipment will determine soil moisture frost depth density and pavement thickness requirements for traffic conditions and soil types and will measure deflection to guide road bans and surfacing designs.
A historical note states the Soviet Union, lacking colonies, is larger than the entire continent of South America. It highlights geography rather than recent events and emphasizes the vast scale of the USSR compared to South America.
This reader friendly note suggests a leisurely brunch served buffet style with melon, cereals, and make ahead baked hash eggs. It includes a baked Eggs in Corned Beef Hash recipe yielding six servings and a sweet orange loaf bake with brown sugar cinnamon topping.
Fifty-one years ago Will John and Bert Latta became the first to climb both Coast Mountains Lions peaks near Vancouver. They followed the first party’s route to the West Lion, then found a snowbank boost for the East Lion ascent. The brothers left their names on a stone cairn and a red cloth mark at the summit.
Bennett Cerf collects a string of witty vignettes from New York society to working stiffs, including a sighted debutante, a failing driving test, a pilot driving to LaGuardia, and echoes of speechless businessmen. The jokes pivot on vanity, misread notes, and comic misadventures in high life.
The Financial Post reports Canada spent about 1.7 billion dollars on highways and bridges in the five years ending March 1954. About 1 billion funded new construction and major reconstruction. Surfacd mileage rose from 150,493 to 190,997 miles and paved surface from 20,651 to 30,731 miles.
A simple weekly tonic for ferns uses leftover coffee grounds diluted with a small amount of fresh water. Pour the weakened brew around the ferns to nourish them and repeat about once a week.
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