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Newspaper
Springfield Leader
Location
Springfield, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 02, 1961
Page
2
The piece explains spring pruning for evergreens to control size and promote denser growth. It notes that trimming now speeds scar healing as new growth begins, with specifics for yews, hemlocks, pines, firs, spruces, junipers, arborvitaes, and retinosporas and timing around active growth periods.
Manitoba plans a 1961 shelter belt drive with 325000 conifer seedlings from Pineland Forest Nursery supplied at $1 per 100 trees to farmers schools cemeteries and institutions. The program includes technical aid from the forest service and extends to erosion control and windbreaks across farms and villages.
An industrial engineer will begin a survey in the eastern irrigation district within two weeks for a Vancouver produce brokerage firm. The aim is to assess forming a new potato packing and processing plant. A senior executive visited Brooks last week to review the area, meet growers, and gather data relevant to the proposed facility.
A newborn typically sheds weight during the initial three days after birth. Medical guidance notes this is common and usually regained in the following weeks.
Printed Pattern 4822 offers a children size dress and panties for sizes 2 4 6 8 with 32% yards of 35-inch fabric. Pattern 4808 covers women sizes 36 38 40 42 44 46 48 needing 3% yards of 35-inch fabric. Send 50 cents each to Anne Adams Pattern Dept. Toronto address.
The Manitoba government proposes amending the Highway Traffic Act to allow car dealers to issue a $1 interim registration sticker valid for five days. This lets buyers hit the road immediately rather than waiting for Monday or a long weekend to purchase plates. Additional changes would permit broader use of dealers' number plates beyond demonstrations or tests for prospective customers.
Twenty patrons of the Big Beaver community pasture formed a co operative to operate the 600 head pasture. Assets purchased from Saskatchewan Agriculture include fencing corrals buildings and watering facilities with one share per head of livestock. The co operative will lease land from the lands branch. Construction began in 1948 and the site has operated as a provincial community pasture since then.
New Guinea's great bird of paradise famed for magnificent multi colored plumes is described as a cousin to the common crow in a concise natural history note.
An acre of sugar beets produces about four times more energy than an acre of any other food, illustrating high crop energy efficiency and potential implications for agricultural planning and nutrition.
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