see aene eee

Patosie Miss Brig graded just two points short of Excellent_for —_F: Hurry’s Patosie herd at-West Royalty. The young Guernsey cow has all the makings of a real show cow if she de velops as expected.

® to control

Sm pS | est to producers of turnips is the ton by research of- ficers at the Experimental Farm that aldrin and heptachior in- secticides. are rapidly becoming obsolete for turnip root maggot = J | contrel. due to the development of resistance in the maggot to

, |these maternals

~~eewes | The resistance has developed during the past few years and “will probably spread through- out the Island this year and next jim the, qbservation by DiC. Read and CP. Duffy who have been

i¢

; Recommend thimet maggot

{Application is made at a rate of five pounds of 25 per cent W.P. ‘as a drench in the transplant _water. using 200 gallons water pre acre. or apply 10 pounds of '10 per cent granular Guthion in

-the-rowas-a~prepianting band—

treatment

“It is believed that our prob- em with turnips is still largely a problem of marketingand that larger ‘acreages planted by pre- cision planters with insecticide applicators are a necessity if we are to maintatn. and increase

our turnip sales. Growers ing advantage of the date information on y. got control have, over the past yielded higher in tests. a crac several years, produced highly here wide swings of certain resistant lz marketable crops. Our system jn er acreage in Rust cuts off food supplies of smait-acreages is largely out-’Canada during the last 12 years. {rm the’ head of the wheat

the inheritance 4ualities

moded along with the disparity The 1952-61 average was 1,114, Plant.. Damage can range from _

in quality and grade that is in- 999 acres. This climbed ‘o 2,170.- Bil to ‘00 ver cent, depen ~¢ herent under this basis of, pro- 990 acres in 1962, but dropped to upon when the plant is infected. duction. Much our market has | 338.000 acres in .1964.. Durum The disezse normally enters been lost to Ontario producers is a soft wheat used in Maca- Canada from the United States due to the fact that we have lag- roni through southerr Manitobz end ged in adopting modern methods southeastern Saskastchewan and of production and marketing. ~ move © rorthwestwerd

During the same periods the bread wheat acreages averaged

Scientists produce rust-resitant wheat

By BOB TRIMBEE

pounds per acre are required action will be taken in sufficient from this cause. for economic control At the pre- time so that legal requirements % sent time, application has been will be met in 1965 for the effec- made for registration at the tive rate of application.

Scientists pin their hopes on development of !Stéwart 63. a rust-resistant durum wheat. and

23,500,000 acres from 1951 to 1961, climbed to 26,900,000 in 1962 and a record 29.000.000 last -year

the Prairie grain «roo has ma- tured before the wind-borne rust hits the crop.

Council sees flying fists

In bread wheat Cana da’s power,on the internatioaal scene is held by its high maintenance

* of quality. Thatcher wheat, a ‘that they will provide another varus cauatinde to race

: SASKATOON ‘CP)—Canadian decade of protection - against (type) 1 t which caused | Studying the problem created as S . stem rust attacks. — me © ‘Gil = ‘a result of this development. plant scientists once more have Giewart GA the Gat t 1954 disaster, still: is the ; 4 “Experimenta! evidence has gained the upper hand in a cuaas produced in Canada — most popular among producers. BOSTON (AP)—Fists, missiles <4 indicated _that_Thimet_‘phorate) never-ending fizht te produce licensed two years ago and suf- RUST MOVES FASTER ‘and curse words were flung in } would be the most effective re- wheat varieties resistant to ficient supplies of seed to meet Dr. D. R. Knott of the Uni- the city council chimber Tues- placement for aidrin and hepta- stem rust Canadian demand are expected versity of Saskatchewan's crop day during a hearing on a pro- chlor on turnips preeent Fegis- Not since 1954. when damage to be available by next year. It Science department. -:auticnsd posed controversial $41,000,000 = tration of this material is for ‘estimated at $20,000,000 was was produced by the Universisty that Stewart 63 and the new : : : four pounds artive — where | caused by an attack of rust, of Sakatchewan. bread wheat now under scudy| ‘bam renewal project in the HAS THE MAKINGS > _ a R. C. PARENT have widespread losses been How soon sufficient supplies at Winnipeg provide plant sci- City’s Charlestown district. applications of six to eight suffered by Prairie farmers of the new rust - resistant entists with only a respite in .Some 30 policemen restored

Thatcher will -become— available {“‘the-never-ending job- of finding order after ejecting several per- was not known. It was devel-'Varieties able to combat new

oped at the Canada agriculture eee rust which become Ai one stage: spectators in the prevalent.” ‘ '

; a ee : research station at Winnipeg. balcony swarmed coun- 1 higher rate and it is hoped that In Newfoundland, Diazinon on g rust - resistant Thatcher ACREAGES FLUCTUATE. “New races of rust can. be cil floor ‘ellie’ ahext with fate ' 5 3 ! Mr. Salome and Melis Viser, has given satisfactory control of bread wheat. expected to be Stewart: 63 will give Manitoha established faster than we now Yand shouting i at propo- . Gravendeel, Holland a member ” root maggots in turnips when jicensed this spring. The hope is and souther.n Saskastchewan can produce wheat varieties! nents of the measure : EC IRAX PIFOGUCETS wireriim ssi ‘ise miss me Crop INSUTANCe —*7r%e4 25 follows: Diarnon 25x STN SUE TS Dee oe — : crop could bring an added mil- at one pint in 40 gallons of water

see expansion

Approximately 2,000 acres of ,dustry was in the Freetown

Max will be grown in the prov-| Bedeque area, and the process

ince this year if satisfactory fin-

ng plant which was opened

the winter

up at Freetown

lion dollars annually to the province's farm income. T he goal then was 10,000 acres. The crop. nets the farmer $75 io $100 an acre, the men said at that time. =

Mr. Visser rated Island flax slightly ‘ better than anything produced in Europe. He is

gives security

cial) Act was enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and Legis

latiwe Assembly at the 1961 Ses- sion. Tihs Act was passed prim-

at ‘120 gallons per acre. Apply as a drench in a narrow band directly over the row with one treatment as soon as the seed- lings are up and a second after thinning. This is an alternative control but more detailed and less apt to be adopted by Prince Edward Island growers.

ancial arrangements ‘can be during made — a proposition for finan-is <i]! working on the 1964 crop. cial backing was being studied The hope of Zeger Salome, the by the provincia! government man wha pioneered the idea of flax in this province

r 4 arily.to provide some measure — .. : «i member of the Netherlands firm of assurance to the potato grow- wt eat tae chee tae that handles flax among other er that in the event of a crop i. aml aaakaak tages oS things, and the samples ‘sent to: failure they woud receive some — Hective ee

him by Mr. Salome were subjec- compensation for their loss: 2A 18, “arnips both in ae

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+ it was learned late in April producing for proce->sing, reage can be expanded unti! 10,-

Some 92 farmers produced Ap-

proximately 1,000 acres last

is that

the _ac-

me lace es oO ow eC A report of the Arthur D. Little : _ eee ee hb eae me crop are scm ah Tete Come canta: in samen dee of — 1s at Charlottetown to determaine if 4 Centr he fa # Reo designated he managing di-’ other materials migh{,be more — ded a suggestion further study itor This asency is respon- | effective than those pelos mend- footwear needs. We stock work

ted to quality tests before mak- ing that statement Bcd pepe * oe =

sible for carrying out the regu-

of a flax industry here. before lations that are established for

own, with financial backing harvesting season of 1962 when

Edward Island and Newfound- land. Studies on root maggot control in turnips are continuing

ed COLE CROP PROBLEM .

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Keep Your Herd a pees the insuring of the crop..the im | “Im the control of root mag- boots of all the best brand names. rg ; ~ - spection necessary during the gots in cole crop transplants : : f ast year Messrs. Salome. growing season and establishing Guthi is the only i Sr aee ’ Vier and the farmers who any loss that may be incurred . |] were behind the effort fimanced | this whe cone maurene ” Tasammuntad for uso scaly. So we invite you to drop in and look | | : : the first year’s. crop on their In view of the disastrous

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| in their own industry. That was per acre were able to insure-

from a_ banker who said .the 4 large amount of grain was not bank would back the effort if harvested. an amendment was the producers would invest half made to the Act in 1963 whereby of their first - year’s proceeds farmers. for a nominal charge

For All Your

if gram crops and thus be as- acre was agreed on as share ca- sured of some returns for their pital in the industry which the Jabor producers would purchase While the number of farmers The project had a working Msuring either potatoes or grain capital of $130,000, Mr. Salome has not been large. nevertheless said last year, with each of the .each year since the introduction some 90 charter members pur- of this Legislation. the number chasing the shares worth one- has shown an increase each half of their crop. They were to year. : be guaranteed $100 per acre The policy of Crop Insurance for the first year’s crop. is participated in by the Govern- Because the operation was ment of Canada whereby a por- late getting organized last vear, tion the administration costs some of the plantings were late are shareable. Crop Insurance is and this created some concern, Just like any other type of im presumably a much earlier start surance in that it is a means will be made this year whereby the farmer with the as- Flax is sown earlier in the sistance of Governments can in- spring than any other crop. It's sure Ins crop and if a failure

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an oil seed and spring frosts do occurs the farmer will receive not harm it, people who know 4 Measure of compensation. the flax crop explain. “There's a big demand for the these people said, until 1953 product. If we filled the Isiand when commercial production from one end to the other, wed ceased because. even with the still be short of the product”. tariffs and subsidies, it could Messrs Salome and Visser told not compete with European this paper when they were first grown flax. stirring interest in the new ird- Yet the Isiand experiment ustry. has been sparked by two men And this optimistic viewpoint from Europe, and they are op- contrasts sharply with the timistie the industry can be Little survey people who said good for the Island and good for im most countries the industry them. is»heayily subsidized. It was It will be interesting to watch

subsidized in the United States, developments.

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