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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 28, 1929
Page
3
The article urges farmers to sow pure seed free of weed seeds and smut, with high vitality and proper treatment. It notes the Morden Experimental Station practice of cleaning grain after freeze-up and sending samples for grading and germination tests, and stresses early seed preparation to avoid spring delays.
Canada’s Interior Department advances northern development by reserving game preserves for natives, sending investigators to study wildlife, testing new animal species, and enforcing controls on predatory animals.
A humorous vignette shows Shirley at age three insisting on a game where she is the child and her mother the mother while spinach is demanded. Other quips include a soda fountain joke and a mistaken fizzician punchline. The piece ends with the line about compensation from a dead man from Lustige Blatter in Berlin.
Live Stock Markets reports swine feeding tests show pigs outdoors gain as well as indoor fed hogs but use less feed. Outside pigs required 391 pounds feed per 100 pounds gain versus 425 inside, and earned $1.02 more per head over feed costs. John M. Evward notes sunshine boosts late-w season gains. midwinter feeding indoors recommended, with alfalfa to supply vitamin D. As days lengthen, outdoor feeding pays.
A charming Parisian style shirted model features English print with white pique collar and cuffs. It lists fabric options including navy wool crepe tan linen and chambray, Design No. 503 in sizes 2 4 6 and years, with yardage details and bloomers pattern, price 25 cents.
Instructions outline pattern orders from the Winnipeg Newspaper Union at 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg. Pattern No Neme Town ee appears as a reference code in the listing.
A Nova Scotia agricultural study at Nappan Experimental Farm identifies Alaska as the top pea for canning, yielding 7 865 pounds of marketable seed per acre and producing uniform ripening. Horsford Market Garden, Lincoln, and Advancer also show notable yields but with issues in uniformity or blight sensitivity.
C Rice Jones formerly vice-president of United Grain Growers retires from the board to start C Rice Jones and Co Limited. He helped form United Grain Growers and will operate a Winnipeg based investment service in stocks and bonds with underwriting of new securities.
Mr Julius Rosenwald argues that wealth does not buy wisdom and that many fortunes come from luck rather than superior ability. He suggests that material riches do not elevate a person’s true understanding or judgment.
At end of 1928 Canada’s chartered banks held savings deposits totaling 1 399 062 201 dollars. This amount yields a per capita deposit of about 140 dollars for the Dominion.
A humorous dialogue shows a wife recalling her late recognition of her husband before their son’s marriage. The other wife responds with a witty claim of ignorance, highlighting social irony and mistaken familiarity.
The Great West Silver Fox Farm four miles from Princeton BC shipped 24 silver foxes to New Westminster recently. The farm now houses over 100 foxes and thrives as a commercial breeding venture.
W A Wilson of the Canadian Agricultural Products Representative in Great Britain says quality satisfies the British trade but production is the key. He notes that higher hog numbers and steady yearly increases attract British buyers. The piece ends with a quip about counting legal holidays.
A 1927 report from the Rosth ern Saskatchewan Experimental Station details oat varieties Banner Victory Gerlach Gold Rain and Liberty and one barley feeder barley tested, with turning-cut hay yielding best. Gerlach led three-year averages. Liberty produced the finest hay quality. The article also notes the London area museums and their practical scientific utility in industry and research.
Federal figures show about 4 700 country grain elevators in western Canada with capacity near 150 million bushels, up from 4 437 in 1927 and 147 million bushels. Terminal elevators at Port Arthur and Fort William expanded in 1928 from 73 to 86 million bushels.
The Art Crafts Guild of Chicago with Canadian Pacific Steamships launches Collegiate Tours for students and others of limited means. Departures from Montreal and Quebec feature Atmosphere aboard tourist third cabin to England France Italy and more with deck tennis dancing and river voyage before the Atlantic.
Mrs Smith, recently returning from Rome, tells Mrs Jones she cannot bear the ruins in Italy as they make her homesick for her husband. She adds, in a light note, that Henry has fallen arches.
A playful note from Strix, Stockholm, comments on a numbering mix up. The piece cites a swapped figure 66 turned upside down to spark a change.
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