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Newspaper
Rossburn Review
Location
Rossburn, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 31, 1949
Page
3
The Rossburn Review announces it is printed weekly from the Review Office in Rossburn with R. Hodge as editor and publisher. Subscriptions cost 2.00 per year in Canada and 2.50 in the United States.
The United Emergency Fund for Britain announces a new fundraising drive beginning Friday April 1 to boost food aid to Britain. H. J. Daly reports meat rations are low and lists powdered milk, tinned meats, fats, biscuit mixes, and rice as urgently needed gifts. The Ontario UEFB office is at 90 Richmond St West in Toronto.
Edward W. Bradley of Portage la Prairie Manitoba and Donald R. Carlyle of Blackfalds Alberta each won $1,000 in the two competitions of the National Barley Contest. Bradley captured the Farmer's Competition with Ern est A. Dyke as runner up. Carlyle won the Seed Growers division with J W Bussey as runner up. The four top prizes were split among Alberta Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
Dr. F J Greaney of Winnipeg urges farmers to unite with municipal and provincial authorities to avert crop losses from a potential grasshopper invasion in 1949. He promotes early seeding, stubble management, trap strips, and the use of Chiordane as the primary control, with poison trials for sparse growth areas.
Stanley Yanick advertises auctioneering across locations promising to maximize proceeds. Contact number 141-21 and location Cakburn.
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