Shelter belts urged for prairie farming amid drought fears
The article argues that conservation in agriculture hinges on planning and moisture management. It highlights shelter belts of trees and hedges, windbreaks, crop rotation, and small dam projects as key strategies, citing the Canadian Forestry Association’s evidence and Alan Beaven’s remarks on self sufficiency and home food supply in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canadian Forestry Association
Forest and
Prairie Provinces
Alan Beaven
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Queen’s Grapes Prompt Witty Gardener Remark
A Scottish gentleman sent hothouse grapes to Queen Victoria as she traveled to Balmoral. The Queen praised the grapes in a letter, but his gardener Sandy quipped that she did not say anything about returning the basket. Also noted are three pineapples found in Torquay and a Capetown man with a pet ostrich.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Balmoral Castle
Sandy
Insurance Desk Policy Sparks Clerk to Earnest Rant
In a bustling office a manager confronts a junior clerk over issuing a policy for a 90 year old. The clerk cites census data to justify the choice while a joke about aging women and long builds follows. A note on the Morman Temple timing and a 1936 statistic about German youth hostels closes the bit.
Egypt Eyes Vast Desert Irrigation to Feed Population
Egypt plans a massive irrigation push spanning over 3000 miles of desert swamp and jungle to restore 1.4 million acres of fertile soil. A dam at Lake Albert Nyanza could store billions of tons of water, but only if the Sudd swamp is canalized to make the Nile usable for Lower Egypt and the Sudan. The project aims to accelerate year-round irrigation critical for cotton and other crops, with the Nile system expanding into the Sudan.
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Egypt
Lake
Albert Nyanza
Albert Nile
Assouan
White Nile
Sudan
Lake Albert
Lower
Egyptian Irrigation Department
Ludd
Nile
Fire Hazard Education Urged To Cut Fire Losses
The Woodstock Sentinel Review urges better public education on fire hazards. It notes that careless disposal of burning matches and smoking material causes costly losses and that most people give little thought to preventing fires.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodstock
Seagulls Linked to Typhoid Warning by Beale
Dr J F Beale at a Folkestone inquiry warns that seagulls may carry typhoid amid Croydon Surrey epidemic concerns. Britain remains the world’s top egg importer with 151 eggs per person annually and other brief notes on Belgian Limburg cheese and U S lighting mortality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. F. Beale
London
Eng
Dr. Beale
Ministry of Health
Folkestone
Croydon
Surrey
Great Britain
North West Passage first through Bellot Strait by Gall
Ernest J. Gall, from Fraserburgh Scotland, becomes the first to traverse the Bellot Strait by ship linking the North West Passage end to end in one season. He connects with the Nascopie from the east and helps establish the Hudson's Bay Company Fort Ross station on Boothia Peninsula. The feat echoes earlier explorations from Aberdeen and Sir Leopold McClintock's 1857 Fox voyage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest J. Gall
Fraserburgh
Scotland
Bellot Strait
Nascopie
Mr. Gall
Hudson's Bay Company
Boothia Peninsula
Fort Ross
Aberdeenshire
Aberdeen
Sir Leopold McClintock
Fox
Sir John Franklin
McClintock
Russia and Britain clash over consulate parity
Britain closes its Moscow consulate to gain parity with Russia which has two in the Soviet Union and one in England. Soviet officials in Moscow must now travel to Leningrad to obtain British visas, a 600 mile rail trip. The Russians now face the next move.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Great Britain
Soviet Union
Leningrad
Moscow
England
Britain
Princess Frock and Trim Jacket Make Slimming Ensemble
Pattern 4697 offers a princess line coat-frock with a button front youthful collar and bow. The versatile two piece set suits spring wear with or without the box-type jacket and fits sizes 34 to 48. Includes illustrated instructions and a 20 cent pattern order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnpeg
Big Business Warns Against Attacks on Scale
Sir Edward Beatty warns the Montreal Junior Board of Trade against dividing big and little business. He calls attacks on size a longstanding trick and cautions that harming big business could lead to a system of private enterprise replaced by self appointed authority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sir Edward Beatty
Montreal Junior Board of Trade
Canadian Pacific Railway
Water Conservation Prairies Drought Targeted in Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan public works minister George Spence tells Canadian Club in Toronto that droughts must be beaten by conserving every drop of rain and snow water. He notes thousands of small irrigation sites could transform the landscape when farm owners use water rights, with both summer and winter runoff conserved. Maize unfit for human consumption used as locomotive fuel in Kenya Colony. The real name of Lewis Carroll is Charles L. Dodgson.
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George Spence
Public Works
Saskatchewan
Canadian Club
Toronto
Kenya
Lewis Carroll
Alice In Wonderland
Charles L. Dodgson
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Comider New Method
I.e
Torquay
Capetown
South Africa
Beryl
Ethel
Pamela
Morman
Salt Lake City
Ove Prisday
Canada
Eggypt
Limburg
Belgium
Germany
United States
North-West Passage
Royal Bank
Montreal Star
By Anne Adnan
Edward Beatty
Tom
Teller
Jack
Bayer Company, Limited
Windsor
Ontario
Bayer
Ramsay Company
Bank Street
Ottawa
Pplefoul Paper Products
Hamilton
Ont
Calgary
Regina
Winnipeg
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