Scholarships Offered For New Barley Varieties
The Barley Improvement Institute and Canadian Brewers Association announced scholarships for genetics students to study barley at Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta and British Columbia universities Macdonald College and Ontario Agricultural College. A special $1000 award for biochemistry will be tenable at the University of Toronto. The institute plans barley tests with grain commissions in Winnipeg and seeks development of superior varieties Montcalm OAC 21 and Olli. A hot water loose smut machine will cost about 2200 and be installed at Kelvington Saskatoon.
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Winwipeg
Barley Improvement Institute
Ecke Awa
Canadian Brewers Association
Brewing
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
British Columbia
Macdonald College
Quebec
Ontario Agricultural College
Dominion Experimental Farm Service
Winnipeg
University of Toronto
Montcalm
O.A.C
Kelvington
Bailey
Institute
University of Saskatchewan
E. A. Hardy
Apples as Medicinal Food Said To Boost Health
A Kentville station official notes apples provide vitamins and minerals with modest carbohydrate content. Daily small intakes may help prevent scurvy, aid digestion, and support intestinal health, with potential benefits for rheumatic infections reflected in clinical reports. The old proverb about an apple a day is echoed.
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G. W. Hope
Fruit and Vegetable Products
Experimental Station
Kentville
N.S
Rome
Good Methods Improve Chick Hatch Rates at Harrow Station
A Dominion Experimental Station report from Harrow Ontario explains that raising multiple males per pen reduces biased matings and improves hatch outcomes. It notes the impact of male vigor, comb health, temperature control, and vitamin rich diets on egg fertilization and chick vitality, with good hatch results starting in the hen house and continued by central incubation.
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Dominion
Harrow
Ontario
W. F. Mountain
Unbreakable street light and other curious notes
A spoof of small news items cites an unbreakable street light as boyhood trouble. a German armament maker enters baking, still forging sinkers doughnuts. railroads may paint comic strips on cars. the sun’s distance is pegged at 2,960,000 miles with a playful note on August 2871.
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Berlin
Platform Wins Election Easily
MENSTON England reports a landslide victory for the platform party. The piece notes generous social policies including free ice cream for children and five shilling weekly allowances for each additional child, highlighting a broad appeal to families.
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Menston
England
Winnipeg girls plan world tour by bicycle and work
Amelia Zurick and Nancy Halford, both 26 and 28, quit their Winnipeg jobs and will travel the world by bicycle and thumb. They sail to England in March on the Queen Mary to work in offices and factories for about six months to see distant sites before visiting other continents and returning home. Their aim is to see the world not romance, with families supporting the plan after initial worries.
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Amelia Zurick
Nancy Halford
Winnipeg
Unemployment Insurance Commission
England
Britain
Canada
New Chemical Battle Plan To Fight Manitoba Grasshoppers
Manitoba to use Aldrin a new insecticide this summer to curb a predicted record grasshopper invasion. Chlordane and toxaphene return to aid control with municipal spray rigs and farmers paying portions of chemical and application costs. Preventive steps include early seeding surface cultivation and summer fallowing with targeted spraying in infested fields.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
Agriculture Department
Modern Techniques Restore Function to Dead Teeth
Dr. W. J. Johnston of McGill University notes in Health that advances in surgery and bacteriological controls allow pulpless teeth to be treated and returned to normal function. Diagnosis must be accurate. success is shown by sterility of the tooth, reducing the need for extraction.
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W. J. Johnston
McGill University
In Health
The
Health League of Canada
Johnston
Faculty of Dentistry
Montreal University
Drivers 45 to 50 suffer far fewer fatal crashes than teens
The data show drivers aged 45 to 50 experience only one fifth the fatal accidents of teenage drivers, highlighting greater safety among middle aged motorists.
Report Shows Most Convicts Repeaters
Ottawa report on the federal penitentiaries shows 79 percent of 4225 inmates have prior jail or reform school sentences. In 1949, 1843 were sentenced. 62 percent had previous convictions. Most convicts are Canadian born. production by inmates totaled 1,434,775.11 with mail bags, ballot boxes, cement blocks and bricks for government use.
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Nne
Canada
Federal
Post Office Department
Properly Prepared Sandwiches Refrigeration Guidance
Sandwiches made ahead should be refrigerated or wrapped in protective wax paper and kept cool. If refrigeration is impossible, wrap tightly and keep as cool as possible. Minimize time between preparation and consumption.
Stamp Corner Overview of New Guinea Stamps and Colonial Issues
Stamp Corner reviews Dutch New Guinea stamps on a Nieuw Guinea format with Queen Juliana, noting Indonesia use elsewhere and historic overprints. It also lists forthcoming U S and global issues including DC and California anniversaries, Liberia literacy, Guatemala products, and Colombia revolutions. Ed note invites readers to sell Canadian or British North American stamps to Toronto collector Mr. Pratt Kuhn.
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Dutch New Guinea
South Pacific
Dutch East Indies
New Guinea
Papua
Juliana
Ottawa
Nieuw Guinea
Nederland
Indonesia
Republic of Indonesia
Australia
United States
District of Columbia
California
Liberia
Guatemala
Colombia
George VI
Pratt Kuhn
Toronto
Ont
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Lindsay
George Fanning
Jack Allan
S.N.S
Central Press
Platform
Nancy
Carmack
Christian Science Monitor
James Montagnes
Israel
Universal Postal Union
Philatelic
Maton ©, Ltd
Imperial Stamp Shop
Burma
Poland
Monaco
Charlotte
Prince Kanier
Egypt
Brunei
Sultan
Frederic Chopin
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