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Newspaper
Springfield Leader
Location
Springfield, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 13, 1956
Page
7
Jim Thomson attends a chambers convention. Whitemouth Lutheran Ladies' Aid meets with 22 present. Visitors from Lac Lu and Mani toba. TV and new Calgary move noted. Hospital convention attendees listed. Local residents and birthdays celebrated. Jorgen sons visit, Beausejour move, Vancouver hockey future noted. Anglican W A holds meeting. annual date set. Winnipeg wedding attendance. winter residence shift described.
Farm Facts from the Faculty of Agriculture reports on a 1955 Manitoba study of 112 sugar beet producers. It notes prewar hand labor of 70 to 80 hours per acre, with thinning using about 30 hours and harvesting 45 hours, and that by 1955 average thinning labor dropped to about 24 hours while harvesting fell to 5 hours, due to mechanization beginning in 1940s and 1950s with 75 percent of beets harvested mechanically.
The article notes mechanical harvesting and thinning, with 112 producers averaging $22 per acre in sugar beet equipment and $36 per acre total machinery cost. Per ton costs ranged from about $19 at 4–5 tons per acre to $7 at 11–12 tons. If price is $12 per ton, 7–8 tons per acre cover costs, with yield the key cost driver. high yields lower costs per ton, while external factors like rainfall and pests also affect costs.
The Meat Packers Council of Canada notes October weekly hog runs averaged 112,300, about 10,500 below the prior year’s October. The month saw a 14 percent rise from September, but this uptrend is expected to remain below normal with the hog production cycle in a downward phase.
The Brokenhead Agricultural Society with provincial and dominion agriculture departments sponsor the Seed Fair Bacon and Dressed Poultry Show at Beausejour Town Hall on Friday November 23 1958 Entries must be in by 10:30 am judging begins 11:00 am and the afternoon program starts at 1:00 pm with films talks by agriculture officials The dressed poultry auction sale begins at 4:00 pm All welcome to attend
Grand Marais residents report winter prep plans as families leave for bush camps and northern work. Charles Forster returns home for the weekend from Willard Lake while Carl Orvis and family head north for winter fishing preps. Ladies maternity and wedding notes, travel to Winnipeg, and local schedule changes appear among community items.
Mr. I Stone travels from Vancouver to visit relatives while ill health brings Mr. and Mrs. T J Powell to the city for the season. Powell intends to serve as Justice of the Peace, visiting regularly to perform duties. A 4 a.m. callout with Bozek and his tractor pulled a car from a ditch on a slick Victoria Beach highway, a recurring winter hazard warned to neighbors to avoid building homes near the road.
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