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Newspaper
Springfield Leader
Location
Springfield, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 01, 1956
Page
3
Farm guidance explains alfalfa seeding with a nurse crop like wheat on firm moist soils yields best stands. It covers methods used at Morden Experimental Farm over 33 years, seed rates with nurse crops, inoculation, scarification, and cautions about acid soils, drainage, and 2 4 D herbicides.
Farmers report recurring spring floods across prairie crop lands with varying durations each year. Local expert F. D. Cook of the Soil Department notes the pattern and potential irrigation impacts as spring meltwater covers fields.
The article notes that denitrification in flooded soils wastes nitrates, especially in fallowed land, with temperature speeding loss. It reviews a drought in the 1930s and a wetter recent period on the prairie, citing Geo W. Robertson's rainfall study across 20 stations and the 1954 season. It mentions crop and disease risks from wet weather and outlines land management measures. It also includes local items from Whitemouth about a variety show fund-raiser, births, hospital visits, and community notices.
Whitemouth students are reminded a free chest X ray will be held on May 15 from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Municipal Hall. Mr. and Mrs. Gus Merke are home from a recent outing. The Anglican W A Ladies plan a meeting at Mrs. Richard Jorgenson’s home on Wednesday May 1. A party at Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Melnick’s honored Al Blaney’s birthday on Friday May 1. Mrs. K Kost congratulates on the birth of a daughter. Mrs. Kost is the former Adeline Charney. Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Reggie Charney on the birth of a daughter at Grace Hospital. Mrs. Nick Charney visited Mr. and Mrs. J. Hlady during the week.
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