Summerfallow was still a common part of the rotation in 1961, but for those seeding into stubble, this ad from our March 30 issue reminded them that they needed nitrogen and suggested they leave an unfertilized check strip to confirm the difference.
An article quoting Manitoba Department of Agriculture specialists reinforced the advice. It said that an added fertilizer cost of $2.20 per acre would return an extra 5.9 bushels or $7.08, a net benefit of $4.88.
At the annual meeting of the Manitoba Dairy and Poultry Co-operative, a speaker from Canadian Poultry Sales told members that “the small country egg station has no more service to perform” and that egg production would become concentrated among larger producers. He said Canadian egg production needed to decline to improve prices. “The answer to our egg-marketing problems is controlled production and it is possible we may have developed a degree of marketing intelligence on the part of a sufficiently large percentage of our growers to voluntarily control production to a volume which would assure producers a fair net return.”
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A letter from a reader in Glenboro commented on a Winnipeg MLA’s request for legislation to allow colouring of margarine.
“The wiles of some women are inexplicable. Does it ever occur to them that the artifice in colouring margarine is dishonest — tricking the unwary into thinking they are eating butter… they will go to any length to obtain the purest white sugar, white skin, white washing and what have you, but they abhor white margarine. How funny!”
