Water Districts Urged To Rehabilitate Western Canada’s Drouth Areas
T C Main AM ELC Winnipeg outlined a plan to form water districts to provide domestic and farm water, with priorities: home use, stock, gardens, then hay irrigation. He warned drought risks threaten national prosperity and urged comprehensive studies of geology and groundwater before costly projects.
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Canada
T. C. Main
Main
Drouth
Alee
Dreath
Rocky Mountains
Ontario
North Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan
Europe
Summerside Fox Ranch Experimental Aims and Methods
The Dominion Experimental Farms at Summerside P E I report on methods to control external parasites in silver foxes using kerosene oil sprays on kennels nests and woodwork. They test vitamin A and D supplementation and study protein content effects on fur, plus whether dried meat meat meal or fish meal can replace fresh meat and iodine needs in captivity.
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Fox Ranch
Summerside
P.E.I
Dominion
A Wonderful Garden Canberra Blossoms As Planned
Canberra's made to order city grows with two and a half million trees and shrubs forty miles of hedges twenty thousand roses planted. Walter Burley Griffin designed a mosaic like layout with walks gardens and boulevards forming one of the largest landscape gardening schemes attempted.
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Canberra
Australia
Walter Burley Griffen
Chicago
Not Sending Cards But Sending Fifty Cent Christmas Card
A wry remark about a seasonable pest who declines to send a card this year and then sends a fifty cent card after being marked off the list. The Great Smokies are cited as the East’s highest mountains and noted as about 300 million years old in their present form.
Coal beats oil on rails with Flying Scotsman test
A British locomotive, the Flying Scotsman, powered coal over 186 miles London to Leeds in 2 hours 3 minutes, averaging 77 mph for 156 miles and reaching 100 mph at one point. The engine, famed on the Wembley Empire Exhibition circuit, has logged 653,000 miles, with over 44,000 since its last repair. Brig. Gen. Alex Ross urged Canada to rely more on individual effort and voluntary veteran support, praising Australian and Canadian efforts for ex-soldiers. Canada’s 1934 barley sowing reached 3,615,700 acres, below the 1928–32 average of 4,778,000.
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London
Leeds
Wembley
Alex Ross
Yorkton, Sask
Dominion
Canadian Legion
Ottawa
Canada
Ross
Australia
British Empire Service League
Clean Lens Care For Sharper Snapshots From The Guild
The Guild reports many letters about smudgy photos due to dirty lenses. Clean lenses with a soft handkerchief, breathe on surfaces, and avoid pressure. Proper lens care improves enjoyment, with tips for front and rear surfaces and even through shutter openings when necessary. A recommended book, How to Take Good Pictures, offers beginner to advanced guidance.
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Guild
Zoning For Fertilizer Needs For Cereal Production In The Prairie Provinces
The article outlines how Canadian tomato trade shifted and details fertilizer trials across Manitoba nine districts from 1929 to 1931. It notes three response types to phosphate and nitrogen and defines northern and southern prairie zoning for wheat based on soil belts, with local potash needs.
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Prairie Provinces
Manitoba
Canadian
Canada
Wrest
Prairies
Gardener Revived After Surgery Sees Life Beyond
John Puckering a Warwickshire market gardener was certified dead for four and a half minutes on the operating table at Arley. Doctors revived him with heart massage and he returned to health. He reports a vision of thousands of happy souls and two deceased relatives, including his wife, and says earthly life is a training ground for something better.
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England
John Puckering
Arley
Warwickshire
Puckering
Empire press group backs cooperative news exchanges
At the fifth Imperial press conference in Cape Town delegates from Australia New Zealand South Africa India Singapore and Canada carried unanimously a resolution urging co operative news associations owned by newspapers modeled on The Canadian Press to enable empire wide news interchange. E Norman Smith Ottawa Journal chaired the Canadian delegation and Frank J Burd Vancouver Province seconded the move.
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Empire
Imperial Press Conference
Cape Town
E. Norman Smith
Ottawa Journal
Frank J. Burd
Vancouver
Australia
New Zealand
South Africa
India
Singapore
New York Botanical Gardens Plans Banana Exhibit
The New York Botanical Gardens will grow bananas as a new exhibit. Officials finish a cactus house and dedicate part of it to banana plants so visitors may see the source of banana splits. A couple of coconut palms are expected as well.
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New York Botanical Gardens
Ireland Moves to Make Gaelic the Only Language in Early Classes
Eamon de Valera's government pushes a catch 'em young policy to make the Irish Free State fully Gaelic. English will be banned as a teaching medium in infant classes where a competent Irish teacher exists, as teachers gain Gaelic credentials and many attend summer courses. The Church of Ireland opens a Gaelic only preparatory college for teachers.
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Eamonn de Valera
Irish Free State
Free State
Southern Ireland
Church of Ireland
Grains Matured Quickly In North Manitoba Fields
Isolated points in Manitoba near the new north report rapid grain maturity. At Cormorant north of The Pas Reward wheat reached maturity in 83 days, yielding 29 bushels per acre with a 69 pound bushel. Hudson Bay line at Olli yielded 105 bushels per acre with a 49 pound bushel for barley.
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Manitoba
Cormorant
Pas
Hudson Bay
Preventing furniture marks with repair materials
A home care tip advises using a strip of composition or heavy felt under table legs and chair feet to prevent linoleum damage. The composition material or felt cushions the floor, eliminating permanent scratches and scarring.
Sparse pastures yield finer wool grades for sheep
Observations over time show thin sparse pastures encourage finer wool while thick lush grass raises the share of coarser grades. The effect links pasture density to fleece quality in sheep herds.
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South Saskatchewan River
Riverhurst
Vermillion Hills
Moose Jaw
Regina
Weyburn
Prairie
John Bull
Sir Kingsley
Kingsley Wood
News of the World
British Isles
Quebec
British Columbia
Agriculture Situation Bulletin
Empire News Service
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