If you wanted good value in a grain crusher, you could visit your local co-op for either an eight- or 10-inch size of this model advertised in our Oct. 1, 1946 issue.
That week, farmers in Alberta and Saskatchewan were still on a strike that had begun Sept. 7. It was led by the Alberta Farmers Union, which was calling for a system of parity pricing. It had called for a 30-day non-delivery of cereal grains, livestock and dairy products except milk. We reported that hundreds of pickets had been on roadways stopping trucks, and that there had been some violence.
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Nearby canola futures slipped further back during the week ended Sept. 4, as they approached C$600 per tonne. The most-traded November contract lost C$15.50 on the week, that brought it down to C$620.20/tonne.
The issue contained much Manitoba Pool news, including the passing of Colin Burnell, its first president in 1924. He had earlier been in charge of the campaign to organize the United Farmers of Manitoba in 1920. It signed up 15,000 members of the new political party, which was later to lead the province under Premier John Bracken.
The directors of the Stonewall Elevator Association had passed a resolution supporting the policy of hiring returned servicemen. MPE had 60 veterans on staff in the country, 12 of whom had been elevator agents before the war. Other veterans had been hired at head office and in terminals.
An embargo had been placed on barley shipments to the Lakehead — terminals were full due to a shortage of lakers.
But shipments of another kind had resumed. After five years of German occupation of Holland, Dutch tulips, daffodils and hyacinths has arrived for fall planting.
