This stock trough heater advertised in our November 3, 1960 issue could burn almost anything — straw, paper, refuse, wood or coal.
A story in the Nov. 9 issue reported the final figures for payments under the Prairie Farm Assistance Act for the previous year. Payments had been higher in only four of the act’s 20-year history. The payout of $20.4 million was mainly for large acreages of unthreshed grain in 900 townships across the Prairies the previous year.
According to another story, two analysts working for the provinces of Manitoba and Alberta had disproven CPR claims that the Crowsnest freight rates were not profitable.
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Feeder lambs were apparently in short supply — a Manitoba Department of Agriculture representative said supplies were only available in Saskatchewan and Alberta, and that names of suppliers could be obtained by writing to the Departments of Agriculture in those provinces.
Speaking to the annual meeting of Saskatchewan Wheat Pool, newly appointed Agriculture Minister Alvin Hamilton said the pressure for increased incentives to produce commodities was “suicidal” and while the government would assist with finding wheat markets, farmers would have to trim production to reduce the surplus to manageable levels.
At the Ontario Federation of Agriculture annual meeting, a rural sociologist said there would be an increased future role for women on farms. Farm women were handling field work as well as bookkeeping and other management roles, and the future held even more responsibilities.
