National Research Council Drives Crop Disease Study Reorg
The National Research Council plans to reallocate 219000 dollars of accumulated elevator surpluses to fund plant pathology and grain disease work in cooperation with the Department of Agriculture and universities. Researchers in Alberta Saskatchewan and Manitoba study wheat quality field crop diseases frost resistance and the genetics of corn and fungi while tuberculosis research yields a forthcoming full report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Research Council
Department of Agriculture
Federal
North American
University of Alberta
Federal Department of Agriculture
University
University of Saskatchewan
University of Manitoba
E. H. Strickland
F. H. Roberts
A. H. R. Buller
A. T. Cameron
Canada
A. G. Klugh
E. A. Lloyd
Robert Newton
A. E. Cameron
F. J. Lewis
J. R Fryer
W. P. Thompson
E. S. Hopkins
W. Sadler
J. F. Snell
Quebec
F. C. Harrison
G. W. Scarth
Eastern Canada millers form new co operative marketing group
At a Dominion Millers Association meeting Eastern Canada millers endorse a plan for a new marketing cooperative inspired by the Canadian Wheat Pool. The move marks a new departure in cooperative marketing for farm products.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canadian Wheat Pool
Canada
Dominion Millers’ Association
Privy Council Likely To Uphold Canada Duty Ruling
The Privy Council of Canada appears unlikely to overturn the Board of Customs decision imposing a 25 percent duty on periodicals that are largely fiction and lack substantial critical or descriptive content. The Wholesale News Dealers Association appealed, but Parliament is the only body that could reverse the ruling, as the Council has already sustained the board.
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Privy Council of Canada
Board of Customs
Wholesale
News Dealers Association of Canada
Privy Council
Canada
United States
Customs Board
Parliament
Wheat pasture outperforms rape pasture for hogs study
Rosthern Saskatchewan Experimental Station reports hogs fed on wheat pasture gained more per day by .17 pounds and cost 8 cents less per pound than rape pasture hogs. Finish favored wheat fed hogs in the 1927 station report from Ottawa.
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Rosthern
Saskatchewan
Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
El Dorado Editor Wonders About Love After Three Marriages
Society Editor puzzled by a man in El Dorado who married three women in nine years. First wife received a fancy box of bonbons, second a plain box, third a sack of popcorn. The column wonders if love has changed or if writeups are slipping.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S.e
Vitamins For Growing Chicks Prevent Leg Weakness
Growing chicks may avoid leg weakness with sufficient direct sunlight and proper feeds rich in vitamins. Cod liver oil is widely used at 1–2 percent of mash to prevent or cure advanced cases, alongside egg yolks, canned tomatoes, yellow corn, green feeds, and immature clover and alfalfa hay.
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Dominion District
New Brunswick
Pemmican and Buffalo Shipments to Eskimos Boost Arctic Supply
A shipment of 1088 buffalo heads from Wainwright raises the Mackenzie District quota and pemmican made from park abbatoir meat is being shipped to eastern ports for Eskimo communities. Congruent consignments reach Aklavik with favorable reception as coal improves with age, a scientist notes the enduring value of old fuel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wainwright
Mackenzie River District
Awerta
Arctic
Aklavik
Rocky Mountain guides drop chaps for riding breeches
Guides near Banff Springs Hotel abandon their shaggy sheep skin chaps in favor of plain riding breeches. Once praised for protection while tending long horned steers, the bronco-buster look endures in films, yet fashion shifts toward simple gear. Guides continue to lead tours, camp, and ensure visitors stay safe on trails.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rocky Mountains
Banff Springs Hotel
Rocky Mountain Guides
Prominent Canadian Educator Expounds on Canada's Life Standards
Dr. E A Hardy of Toronto, president of the Canadian Teachers' Federation, addressed the National Education Association convention in Minneapolis, praising Canada’s high material and spiritual standards, democracy, and cooperative spirit. He highlighted resource wealth, cultural achievements, and Canada’s role in the British Empire and League of Nations. He noted widespread public service and international engagement as key national traits.
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Dominion
E. A. Hardy
Toronto
Canadian Teachers’ Federation
Canada
National Education Association
United States
Minneapolis
Cornelia Adair
Richmond
Hardy
Religious Education Council of Canada
Y.W.C.A
Dr. Hardy
British Empire
League of Nations
Assembly of the League
Council of the League
Canada Aids Reforestation Through Seed Plant
One of North America’s largest seed extraction plants operates at New Westminster British Columbia under the Canadian Government Forest Service. Since 1921 the plant supplies Sitka spruce Douglas fir western red cedar and other seeds to Great Britain New Zealand and other countries aiding imperial forestry efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North America
New Westminster
British Columbia
Forest Service
Department of the Interior
Imperial Forestry Commission
British Isles
Great Britain
New Zealand
Preservation of Alberta grazing tracts under experimental farming
Dominion field husbandman E. S. Hopkins launches experiments at Manyberries to save three million acres for ranchers whose cattle are dwindling on the prairie. Experts aim to restore native grass or secure viable seeded varieties and implement a deferred grazing system to revive the plains along the Rockies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alberta
Dominion
E. S. Hopkins
Manyberries
Rockies
Building contracts awarded in Canada reach near record totals
June 1928 building contracts in Canada totalled 59 926 100 dollars, the second highest monthly total on record, with May the peak. The six month total reached 256 257 300 dollars, up 33.9 percent from the first half of last year. Eight Crusades were conducted into the Holy Land.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Dominion
J L Baird Demonstrates Color and Movement Televison
J L Baird shows two advances in his television process transfer of movement in daylight and colored views. These developments enable broadcasting action scenes of open air events and colored scenes to viewers.
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J. L. Baird
If matches are made in heaven the shipping clerk blunders
A concise note reflects on mishaps by a shipping clerk when divine matches occur. It hints at irony between celestial plans and earthly errors, using a wry tone to critique routine logistics.
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National Research Council
Reorgian
Jonson
Tong
Vikingen
Oslo
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
TafRony
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
New Marketing Organization
England
Baffinland
Boothic
North Sydney N.S
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Greenland
Bache Peninsula
America
G. P. Mackenzie
Society
Eskimos
North
J. C. Sutherland
Transportation Western Lines
Canadian Pacific Railway
E. D. Cotterell
Manitoba
Mr. Sutherland
Calgary
B.C
The
Holy Land
Peter
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