Prairie farmers urged to protect topsoil fertility and learn from past
Saskatchewan and Manitoba farming communities face renewed warnings about topsoil loss as expert guidance from the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration stresses sustainable practices. The piece details tillage shifts from deep ploughing to disc farming and strip farming, the role of leaving stubble, and the need to balance grain with hay to preserve soil health amid dry cycles and rising prices.
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Saskatchewan
Prairie Provinces
Alberta
Manitoba
I. C. Nollet
P.F.R.A
Saskatchewan Ag Plan Aims to Regrass Abandoned Farms
Government unveils five year plan to re grass 499000 artee of abandoned farms and sub marginal lands as part of a wider program to restore pasture productivity across 36 large community pastures where Ti head of stock grazed.
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Gu Miser
Saskatchewan
Britain to cut newsprint and imports to save dollars
Chancellor Hugh Dalton announced a program to return Britain to four page newspapers to save on dollar newsprint, with cuts planned in tobacco and gasoline imports. He warned of severe dollar shortages and said duties on films may be used, with restrictions on consumer goods and a push to increase textile exports.
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London
Reuters
Hugh Dalton
House of Commons Today
Britain
Dalton
Mennonites Plan Manitoba Exit for Paraguay This Summer
Between 3 300 and 5 140 Mennonites will leave Manitoba for South America this summer. B B Dublen aki, their counsel in New York, arranges passage to the Chaco district of Paraguay. They will join existing Mennonite colonies there and are joined by upwards of 1 000 Hutterite colonists from Alberta. The exodus reflects religious non violence beliefs and dissatisfaction with wartime government actions. Land from southern Manitoba communities such as Niverville Sommerfeld Steinbach Gretna was bought by fellow faith farmers.
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Regina
Canada
George Spence
Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administiration
Farmery
Winnipeg
Manitoba
South America
New York
B. B. Dublenaki
Chaco
Paraguay
Alberta
Hell
Europe
Waterloo
Ont
Simon Menno
Niverville
Sommerfeld
Steinbach
Gretna
Garson urges higher freight rates in Ontario Quebec first
Manitoba Premier Stuart Garson told the board of transport commissioners during regional hearings that freight rate increases should target Ontario and Quebec before prairie rises. He argued a 30 percent prairie increase would burden the west most and worsen long haul costs and consumer prices.
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Winnipeg
Stuart Garson
Manitoba
Board of Transport Commissioners
Ontario
Quebec
Prairies
Garson
Prairie Provinces
West
Editors say world not yet One World after 13 day flight
Fifteen leading American editors and publishers, finishing a 13 day round the world trip aboard the Pan American Clipper America, arrived in San Francisco and said the world is not yet One World. Erwin D. Canham of the Christian Science Monitor noted interviews with leaders in war torn nations showed democracy remains vital. The plane is set to land in New York at 7:15 pm CDT.
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San Francisco
Erwin D. Canham
Christian Science Monitor
Honolulu
Canham
New York
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