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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 07, 1935
Page
5
The dominant oat breeding effort in Canada aims to raise yield quality and disease resistance. Initiated after a wheat mismatch, the program analyzes over 500 foreign and domestic varieties through the Experimental Farms System and the Dominion Rust Laboratory in Winnipeg.
The Windsor Star notes Canada’s political landscape divides along church lines with one prime minister and nine premiers. Four premiers are Roman Catholic, four United Church, two Presbyterians. East premiers Catholic, centre west United Church, west Presbyterians. Names: Macdonald Dysart MacMill an Taschereau Hepburn Bracken Gardiner Reid Pattullo. L. P. D. Tilley is Anglican.
A Canadian National Railways bulletin notes a 3.36 percent rise in average annual sugar consumption from 1926–1930 to 1931–1934, reaching 26,561,000 tons. Cuba’s share falls to 9 percent from 21. The British West Indies remain a key sugar source, with much shipped to Canada via CN Steamships in the Canada-British West Indies service.
Windy City rules the air as Chicago’s municipal airport logs 100 daily arrivals and departures across seven airlines after adding six schedules. Newark trails with 96 flights a day, while Cleveland records eight.
Manitoba wheat graded high last year with only four percent kept for feed and livestock. Approximately 1.5 million bushels out of a total 37.1 million were diverted to non feed uses.
The June issue notes rapid growth of Canada’s commercial feed sector and its potential impact on poultry and livestock. All feeds fall under the Feeding Stuffs Act with annual registration of ingredients and analyses by the Seed Branch. Each bag must show guaranteed protein fat and fibre. Regular inspections ensure conformance, with 71 grain and 74 non grain ingredients listed though common usage ranges about 35 to 40.
Chief White Horse faced a ban from the Connecticut Humane Society over using his three year old daughter Little Fawn in an archery act. He replaced her with his wife Chariciuna Yellow Robe after Nellie Brent noted the society has no jurisdiction over those 16 and older.
A quoted birdman cites astonishing insect-eating feats by birds. A cedar-bird stomach held 100 cankerworms, a cuckoo 150 tent-caterpillars, a chickadee 454 plant-lice, a flicker 1000 chinch-bugs, a scarlet tanager 630 gypsy-moth caterpillars in eighteen minutes, and a Maryland yellowthroat 3500 plant-lice in forty minutes. The note appears in Youth's World.
The earthworm readily lends itself to grafting experiments, yielding freakish specimens. Even two worms joined tail to tail can form a headless worm that may live for months though unable to feed.
After inspection of drought areas where rehabilitation is planned Dr. E S Archibald of the Department of Agriculture Ottawa says the lands are among the most valuable stretches of farming land in the Dominion.
Advice on egg freshness and preservation notes aging eggs to about 12 hours and suggests covering with fat wax limewater or packing in sawdust or meal. Recommends keeping eggs in a cool dry place for longer storage.
Newspaper photographers describe the Prince of Wales as camera friendly during a visit to a Bostonian's home. Police kept crowds back while the Prince rode to the hedge and posed for pictures after confirming photographers were satisfied. The piece compares his cooperation to Prime Minister Baldwin's Ottawa Imperial Conference photo moments.
A historical note observes that roughly half of the locomotives still in service on American railroads date from before the early 20th century, highlighting ongoing infrastructure and equipment challenges.
Covered smut or bunt of wheat remains hidden in standing grain as the seed coat hides spores. Infected plants are shorter with dark bluish green heads. dough stage kernels swell and spread glumes exposing black oily spores. Threshed grain shows black ball spores and odor. Control via resistant varieties or seed treatment. It is impossible to change human mature but possible to change human behavior.
John Van Guilde r offers practical fishing photography tips from the Chicago Izaak Walton League. He explains camera settings for folding and box cameras, stressing proper exposure and timing to capture the catch while avoiding false tales. The lesson emphasizes adapting to lighting and motion, with firm guidance to photograph the moment or stay silent.
A Dominion note explains that red rust and black rust are two stages of stem rust on grain. The red stage spreads via wind during growth, while black spores stay attached and are less infectious. Both stages drain resources and cause damage, with most harm occurring before the black stage appears.
At the Eastern Claim Conference in Atlantic City delegates discussed future freight cushions inside and outside cars. A new spring system between boxcars and wheels aims to reduce rail joint bounce. Tests over millions of miles show high vibration levels and a cushion setup for glassware shipments addressing millions in yearly value and breakage losses.
An August display titled Charting the Seas, run by Lieut Commander D H Fryer, will show chart making from survey to finished map at Portsmouth. The exhibit features charts up to 200 years old and notes frequent corrections for estuaries and tidal channels. The Admiralty issues over 200 notices to mariners and navigational warnings by wireless each year.
A manager questions a small applicant about his last job. The boy replies he was a doer, describing a chain of command where tasks passed from boss to cashier to bookkeeper to junior clerk, ultimately ending with him taking action since no one else was told.
The quote notes Emerson states that a solution exists for every problem, suggesting optimism and resilience in facing challenges.
French oenologist Rene Dage and wine expert Alban Armaud report on grape history in Egypt and beyond. They contend Egyptians made wine by 7000 B.C. while cavemen may have known how, suggesting wine could trace to about 10600 B.C. with grape traces in the cenozoic era.
A minister in Ipswich Massachusetts is presented to George Washington. Washington invites him to remove his hat, but the parson declines to honor his own service. Washington insists the parson did as much as he, and the exchange ends with a playful domestic quip about sewing and speaking.
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