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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Aug 26, 1944
Page
2
Agricultural radio address explains how weeds reduce yields and raise costs. It categories weeds as annual, biennial, and perennial, detailing control methods such as deep ploughing for perennials, shallow sun exposure for shallow roots, crop rotation, buckwheat as a smother crop, and careful seed sourcing to avoid weed introduction.
The article notes that eradicating the worst weeds costs labour time and machinery and can hinder crop rotation. Weeds mar land value, attract pests and diseases, and weedy stubble promotes worm breeding and winter disease spread. Weeds are annual, biennial, or perennial, affecting treatment choices.
The article advises readers to save time effort and money later by preparing now. It emphasizes proactive measures to reduce workload and costs as the season progresses.
The Labrador fire swept miles of coastline after breaking out on July Sib, threatening the Mission side of Cartwright Settlement. Graphic pictures were in Corporal Clarke’s report from ten trying days as the blaze flared and subsided. Majr Martin of the Newfoundland Ranger Force endorsed the account, disclosed in an interview with Forestry Division official Cahill.
On Sunday July 9 a severe electrical storm sparked a blaze at Birchy Cove with a patrol boat crew led by Corp Clarke racing to the scene. The fire raced toward the shore, threatening William Coombes salmon station and nearby mission property. By Monday the blaze widened to one and a half miles of shoreline, unstoppable in places as Dr Forysth Rev Kirby and Hudson Bay Co. manager watched from a boat. Villagers feared the fire would breach Cartwright’s mission side while smoke rose as the inferno consumed timber and coastland.
Hospital gear moved to the wharf as nerves frayed in town, Ranger aid mobilized with a fire pump from the vessel Glad Tidings and support from the M V Moyles crew and the Silver City to combat a spreading blaze. A Congo plane surveyed, Goose authorities mobilized aircraft, and heavy rain finally drowned the flames, leaving smoldering embers.
A historical note states that General Douglas MacArthur's father served as a United States Army colonel at age 20, highlighting an extraordinary early leadership rise and family military lineage.
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