World sheep population declines after war impact
Postwar analysis shows global sheep and goat numbers fell about 12 percent to roughly 88 percent of prewar levels. Heavy losses hit the Soviet Union with 27 million sheep and goats gone from 1024 million prewar flocks, while Europe except the USSR preserved about 76 percent. Argentina drives gains in South America with 114 percent of prewar flocks due to ample pastures.
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Agriculture Abroad
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Soviet Union
Asia
Hungary
Europe
South America
Oceania
North America
Argentina
Canada to issue ration book No 6 in Sept across 600 boards
More than 600 local ration boards across Canada prepare to distribute ration book No 6 during Sept 9 to Sept 16. Donald Gordon, chairman of the Wartime Prices and Trade Board, says continued rationing aids world relief. Volunteers will staff centres. local boards warn centres open only on certain days and late pick ups will delay books to Sept 30.
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Canada
Donald Gordon
Prices and Trade Board
Gordon
Parasite Service May Stay In Belleville Ont War Refugee
The Imperial Parasite Service using insects to fight pests may remain in Belleville Ontario where it relocated as a war refugee. Five years of operation in Canada show that collecting insects and studying control methods can be effectively done from Belleville due to climate conditions closer to those of the colonies, antipodes, and the United Kingdom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Imperial Parasite Service
Belleville
Ont
Canada
United Kingdom
British seize Canadian military prison at Headley Down
British forces officially took over the Canadian detention barracks at Headley Down Hampshire. Canadian detention facilities are now relocated to Bramshott as part of the takeover.
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Aldershot
Hants
England
Headley Down
Hampshire
Bramshott
Mouse trap saves two hundred dollars in service station robbery
Stan Jackson runs a Pine Grove area station and mocks a plan to catch a mouse until a daytime robbery ends with Stan and Highway Patrolman Clancy Burke stopping two thieves. The mouse trap becomes proof that Stan’s work kept two hundred dollars from being stolen and saved the country two hundred dollars.
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Tan Jackson
Pine Grove
Stan
Clancy Burke
Clancy
Princess Elizabeth Reviews Auxiliary Territorial Service Arrival
Princess Elizabeth visited the Imperial Staff College and reviewed members of the Auxiliary Territorial Service. The young royal stuck to the painted platform and left white footprints on the parade ground as she walked past the formations.
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Windsor
Surrey
Eng
Elizabeth
Auxiliary Territorial Service
Army
Imperial Staff College
Pattern 4832 Teen-Ager Sewing Treat For Beginners
A teen aged sewing pattern 4832 invites a young beginner to start now. It offers Teen-age sizes 10 12 14 and 16 with size 12 needing 20 yards of 35 inch fabric and requires twenty cents in coins.
Smiles and Snaps from a Busy Life in Verse and Prose
A collage of humor and social quips from a bygone era. Jokes about judges, airmen, sailors, a runaway wife, a fixed magistrate, racketeers, editors and poets. Light anecdotes on sun rays, concerts, debt, happiness, soup, and a private finding flies.
Big Canadian poultry sector relies on small businesses
The Egg and Poultry Market Report from the Dominion of Agriculture stresses that Canada’s poultry industry, though composed of many small businesses, will dictate future outcomes. It urges strict management and full use of natural resources, highlighting grass, earthworms, water, air, light, earth, and exercise as essential.
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Canada
Dominion of Agriculture
St. Thomas Times-Journal
Soil Fertility Affects Wheat Protein Across Regions
The Lethbridge Herald notes that ongoing removal of soil nutrients from wheat fields reduces grain protein, urging farmers to restore fertility. It cites Kansas experience and western Canada’s plains high protein wheat, calling for better soil management and possible fertilizer use to meet miller demand.
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Kansas
Canada
Plains
Park Belt
Lethbridge Herald
Switzerland Aims as European Cultural Centre
Switzerland pursues a role as Europe’s cultural center by hosting major theatrical and musical festivals. The country offers a calm prewar lifestyle and a strategic location with French German and Italian as official languages and English widely understood.
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Switzerland
Europe
Potato Crop Outlook Canada 1946 Planned Increase
The 1946 potato outlook in Canada points to a crop about 23 percent larger than 1945, with farmers intending to plant broadly and yield averaging high. Projected output reaches 74,000,000 bushels versus 59,976,000 bushels in 1945.
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Canada
End of cheap food era warned by dairy chief
R C Smellie president of The National Dairy Council told Ottawa Rotary club that the era of cheap food in Canada may end as production costs rise. He warned higher wages and prices for farm inputs would pressure food prices unless labor and equipment costs fell.
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Canada
R. C. Smellie
National Dairy Council
Ottawa
Smellie
Ottawa Citizen
Unemployed Demand Mismatch Delays Fraser Valley Berry Crop
Calgary Herald notes Vancouver's 10,000 unemployed workers fail to meet Fraser Valley strawberry pickers need. Growers require 5,000 laborers for a 3 million dollar harvest, prompting use of prairie arrival labor funded by government fares. Vancouver jobless await preferred work and conditions.
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Vancouver
Fraser Valley
Prairie Provinces
Calgary Herald
Bread rationing proposal targets plates and portions
The Ottawa Journal discusses possible bread controls amid meatless days, including limits on bread or rolls with meals and rationing to curb home waste. It calls for strict enforcement to prevent food waste while many go hungry.
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Ottawa Journal
Groundhog Becomes Pet On Ontario Farm
Jack Clegg of Grand Valley Ontario kept a groundhog as a pet after catching it. The animal now roams the farm at will, responds to a whistle, and plays with the family dog.
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Grand Valley
Ont
Ontario
Jack Clegg
Dufferin County
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