Seed mixtures and grain seeding advice for late season
Agriculture department outlines recommended grain blends for late seeding due to heat and dry conditions. It covers Alaska oats Cartier oats and OAC 21 barley, seeding rates, and yields from a six year barley oats trial. Also notes buckwheat, duckwheat and poultry breeding advances with rising approved chick sales across Canada.
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Ly Ding
Waant Sarronen
MacLeod
Alaska
OAC
Cartier
G.A.C
O.A.C
Agricultural Supplies Board
Canada Farm Implements Sales Seen Varied in 1939
Census figures show a 63 percent drop from 1938 yet a 102 percent rise from 1937 in farm equipment sales. Domestic wholesale: 33,937,654 dollars in 1939 versus 36,213,382 in 1938 and 30,775,188 in 1937. Tractor sales totaled 13,410 in 1939, up from 13,230 in 1938.
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Canada
Sacha Guitry on love and marriage in Detroit Sunday Times
In the June 16 issue of the Detroit Sunday Times the American Weekly adapts epigrammatic philosophy of Sacha Guitry, famed French actor, noting his four marriages and his witty take that one woman is adorable but two are terrible.
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American Weekly
Detroit Sunday Times
Monsieur Sacha Guitry
John Barrymore
France
Cucumber beetles are fast workers in gardens
Striped cucumber beetles, about a quarter inch long, feed on cucumbers squash and melons attacking young plants from the moment they break through the soil. Entomologist Alan Dustan advises monitoring and dusting leaves with a arsenate gypsum mix to control the beetles, with multiple applications as needed.
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Alan G. Dustan
Dominion Department of Agriculure
Chrysanthemums for Early and Late Market Tents
A 1930 report from Ottawa outlines shading and daylight manipulation to manage chrysanthemum blooms for early and late markets. It details cloth house shading starting July 15 to August 22 to force earlier buds, timing for benching June 1, and staggered bloom from mid September to November, with notes on frost protection and limited value of late-bloom production.
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R. W. Oliver
Division of Horticulture
Central _Bogier
Parm
Ottawa
Canada
Iad
Legion Convention Endorses War Services Work
Canadian Legion in its eighth Dominion convention unanimously endorsed War Services for armed forces at home and abroad. Major John Roper cited vital welfare work and future value in troop rehabilitation through education. Lieut Col D E Macintyre and Col Wilfrid Bovey highlighted efforts to standardize school courses for enlisted men and to record military education achievements.
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Canadian Legion War Services
Dominion Convention
Canadian Legion
British Empire
League
John Ro+per
Halifax
War Services
Canada
D. E. Macintyre
DBE
Wee
Wilfrid Bovey
D.iLitt
McGill University
Legion’s
War Services Fund Appeal Receives Public Praise
Appreciation flowed from officials and readers alike for the daily and weekly press support of the War Services national appeal for funds as the wartime effort continued.
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Demic
Ie Ceeies Aren
War Services
Production Problems Hit Canadian Industry Demand
The piece describes how rapid industrial growth amid wartime demand strained production. Company A expands its plant and orders parts from Company B, whose workloads balloon. Delays arise not from shop slackness but from shortages of raw materials, revealed during a confrontation between the two firms’ presidents.
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Company A
Company B
Co A
Company K
Young Roland Seeks Help From Chemist
A young man named Roland visits a chemist asking for a bottle for something. The chemist offers to charge one penny or give it for free if Roland wants anything inside. Roland responds with OX and a cork idea.
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Roland
Life Secret: Like What You Do Not What You Like
The saying urges embracing duties over pursuing preferences, suggesting fulfillment comes from adapting to tasks rather than just choosing favorites. It frames work as a path to contentment through attitude rather than circumstance.
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Jone
Keep Orchards Free From Virus Diseases
Canadian horticultural report from 1939 notes several virus diseases in fruit trees such as apple mosaic, cherry mottle leaf, and prune mosaic. Recommendations urge destroying affected apple, plum, and cherry trees when identified, allowing production only until yield declines, and prohibit using diseased stock for grafting to curb spread.
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Division of Botany and Plant Pathology
Science Service
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Weeds of the Week Small Seeded Pulse Flax in fall wheat fields
John D. MacLeod of the Ontario Department of Agriculture notes Small Seeded Pulse Flax is a winter annual weed seen in fall wheat across the province. It overwinters, flowers with pale yellow blooms, and produces up to 40 000 seeds per plant. Control relies on thorough autumn cultivation and light plowing after harvest, with frequent harrowing to curb seedlings.
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Ploce
John D. MacLeod
Ont
Dept. of Agriculture
Toronto
Des Moines Man Shares Home with Ex Wife and Her New Family
In Des Moines Iowa a man lives as a boarder in his ex wife home with her second husband. The dwelling also houses their son from the first marriage and two children from the second. All appear to live together amicably.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Dark days ahead as war escalates across Europe
The speaker warns that whether France falls, Mussolini joins the fight, or Britain holds, dark days loom. He stresses no effort or sacrifice is too great to win the war and restore peaceful days, though the gentle era may not return.
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France
Mussolini
England
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