Mixed Farming Praised as Path to Prosperity for Western Farmers
The Moose Jaw Times notes Prof. Shaw of the University of Saskatchewan urging mixed farming as the royal road to prosperity for farmers. Saskatchewan and Saskatchewan seed wheat win praise at Chicago exhibitions, while western Canada shows mixed farming could balance lean wheat years with hens, cows, and pigs. Official counts for January to October show 3,144 homesteads and 437 soldier grants across Western Canada, with declines from prior year, and notable activity at Edmonton and Prince Albert.
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Chicago
Soteworthy
Sackatchewan
Montana
Canada
Saskatchewan
Wester Provinces
Prof
Shaw
University of Saskatchewan
Moose Law
Prof. Shaw
Moose Jaw
Manitoba
Alberta
British Columbia
Edmonton
Alta
Prince Albert
Sask
Turing
Up-to-Date Logging Camp by Ford
Henry Ford’s Sidnan Michigan logging camp provides recreation rooms reading spaces bathrooms sanitary mess halls cement walkways motion pictures electric lights steam heat and hot and cold water for axe boys. Former lumber jacks mock the new conveniences recalling harsher days under a full moon and cheap liquor.
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Henry Ford
Sidnan
Mich
Ford
English Workers Leaving Farms
Agricultural returns for England and Wales show 803 287 workers employed on June 4 1925. This is 3 176 fewer than in 1924 but 30 900 more than in 1923. Men employed on June 4 1925 were higher than 1924, while numbers of boys and youths fell.
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England and
Wales
Cannibal Spiders Confined in Glass Jars at Zoo Exhibit
A Zoo insect house hosts cannibal spiders described as big bird eating tropical Rabicants that occasionally reach England hidden among bananas. They feed on cockroaches but prefer each other, so each spider is kept in a separate glass jar.
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England
Tropics
French Railwaymen Color Blind Study Cites Health Defects
A French Academy of Science report links railroad wrecks to health and physical deficiencies of workers. Oculist M Schaff of the Alsace Lorraine Railway notes ten of every 3160 railwaymen in France are color blind for red and green. The text also includes a stray moral reflection about the golden rule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
French Academy of Science
M. Schaff
Alsace-Lorraine
France
Iodine in Foods and Sea Sources in Nutrition
The article notes iodine is scarce in soils of the Great Lakes and the far west and advises coastal people to consume sea air and abundant seafood to prevent thyroid disease. It ranks seaweed, lobster, cod liver oil, clams, oysters, shrimp, and several fish as top iodine sources and mentions natural sea salt as iodine rich while refined salt lags. Iodized salt serves as partial substitute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Lakes
Belize
Manitoba Dairy Courses Five Announced By Agricultural College
Five short dairying courses are offered by the Manitoba Agricultural College for the spring term. The Dairy School runs Jan 4 to March 19 and covers creamery butter making, dairy product testing, ice cream making, cream separators, cheese making, judging dairy products, bacteriology, refrigeration, forage crops, engineering, chemistry, dairy care and arithmetic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agricultural College
Manitoba Agricultural College
Spurgeon quips on Bible and tobacco in Valley of Baca
The tale recalls a sermon anecdote where a fervent follower cites no tobacco in scripture. Spurgeon replies with a playful biblical reference, noting Psalm 4 6 mentions passing through the Valley of Baca to imply change. The exchange humorously links tobacco forecasts to ancient text.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. H. Spurgeon
Ba‘ca
Different Cubits and Early Measures in History
A historical note compares cubit lengths across cultures and eras, noting Noahs ark measurements in 2448 B C. It cites Arbuthnot on the Hebrew cubit about 22 inches, the Roman cubit 1744 inches, and the old English cubit 18 inches. It also mentions a weekly bread allowance for nine year old Michael Faraday during the 1832 Jamize period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arbuthnot
Michael Faraday
England
drastic measures urged to halt foot and mouth outbreak
Government backs continued slaughter policy to control foot and mouth disease after outbreaks in the countryside. Cures from Holland Belgium France and Germany are deemed ineffective, with isolation and slaughter seen as the safest option despite high costs. The piece warns of severe dairy and meat shortages if the disease spreads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ministry of Agriculture
Holland
Belgium
Franece
Germany
MacDonald Calls for National Land Settlement Plan
Ramsay MacDonald, former British premier, warned that Britain’s land is running to waste and urged a comprehensive home soil revival. He supported emigration only if allied with overseas Labor parties and proposed a fifty-fifty funding model for families, arguing to settle half the population on the land and restore civilization and cultivation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ramsay MacDonald
Britain
Dominions
MacDonald
Danish Farm Methods Studied at Elisnore College
British agricultural students study Danish farm methods at the International Peoples College in Elisnore Denmark. Started in 1921 with 24 students the college grew to 60 last year attracting students from Britain Germany and Scandinavian countries. The curriculum covers folk schools cooperation Danish agriculture study circles and Scandinavian labor movement topics.
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International Peoples College
Elisnore
Denmark
Britain
Germany
Icludes
Scandinavian Labor Movement
Lterature
Training daughters to share in fathers business affairs
Lady Rhondda advocates daughters educated to understand and actively participate in their father's business, urging parents to include daughters alongside sons. Mrs. Sidney Small praised this view in Toronto during a speech on English women's roles in political life at the Business and Professional Women's club.
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Rhondda
Sidney Small
Toronto
Elevator Screenings From Western Canada Grain Crop
Feeding stock feeders should consider the grades of screenings offered by elevator companies at the head of the Great Lakes. Screenings contain 51 percent or more chaff and weed seeds, but recleansed material yields feeding value. Recovins include standard recleaned screenings and oat scalpings, with oat scalpings weighing 35 to 40 pounds per bushel in 1925.
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Western Canada
Great Lakes
Geo. H Clark
Dominion
Manitoba Wheat Pool Announces Winter Meetings Province wide
Manitoba Wheat Pool will hold about four hundred meetings across the province this winter. The programs will focus on education and promotion of cooperative marketing with entertainment. Six field men cover districts arranging four meetings per area. R A Hoey will visit a central meeting. Carberry Neepawa and Minnedosa report large crowds with attendance around 400.
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Manitoba Wheat Pool Organization
Wan
R. A. Hoey
Manitoba Pool
Carberry
Neepawa
Minnedosa
Hoey
Manitoba Tubercular Free Zone Portland Carman District
Manitoba reports its first tubercular free area in Canada centered on Carman comprising fourteen townships. The Gray municipality with ten townships also cleaned up. Ten inspectors tested 6414 cattle, 391 reactors shipped, 6.1 percent. One hundred forty one herds infected, compensation paid to reactor owners totaling 10 909.
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Manitoba
Canada
Carman
Gray
Provincial Department of Agriculture
Dominion Health of Animals
London Population Surpasses Australia in Scale Claim
A claim compares London’s population to Australia’s overall population, stating they are equivalent. The remark centers on population size and urban scale in a comparative sense without specific data.
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London
Australia
Leeds man reels in 17 1 2 pound rainbow trout at Sicamous
Mr. W A Wade of Leeds hooked a monster rainbow trout at Shuswap Lake near Sicamous British Columbia after a forty minute battle. The fish weighed 17 1/2 pounds and measured 61 inches long with a 24 1/2 inch girth. It set a regional record and earned Wade a $36 fishing trophy from the Shuswap Lake Club now sent to him in the Old Country.
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Leeds
England
Shuswap Lake
Sicamous
British Columbia
Wade
Dominion Express Company
Montreal
Old County
Shuswap Lake Club
Barren Lands of the North Seen With Great Potential Value
Alberta rancher A E Cross topped the Chicago market with Canadian bred range steers selling 33 head at 11.50 per hundredweight. The herd, raised near Nanton, Alberta, roamed open all winter with no grain while weighing about 1395 pounds each. The article notes regional exploration and describes the barren lands as a potential future resource area with minerals, water power, and wildlife.
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A. E. Cross
Alberta
Chicago
Nanton
Alta
Chicago Commission
Cross
Mr. Cross
British Columbia
Natural Resources Intelligence Service
Department of Theterror
Ottawa
Swann
Samuel Hearne
Hudson's Bay Company
Arctic
Coppermine River
Franklin Back
Simpson
Dease
Canada
G H Blanchet
Department of the Interior
Mr. Blanchet
Plains
Western
Western Plains
Heifer Sets New World Record for Jersey Breed
Farleigh St Mawes Retta a senior yearling Jersey heifer from Dominion experimental Station Summerland British Columbia set a new world record under Canadian rules. At one year 345 days she produced 9013 pounds milk and 24 pounds fat in 305 days, surpassing the previous champion Golden Lad's Josephine nd from Sherman Nursery Co Iowa by 17 pounds of fat.
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Jersey
Farleigh St. Mawes
Golden Lad
Josephine Nd
Sherman Nursery Company
Iowa
Canadian Pacific marks record grain and car loadings in November
The Canadian Pacific Railway's western lines report unprecedented November marketing of all grains totaling 69,310,786 bushels and 34,522 car loadings. This pace implies a loaded car every 1.2 minutes during the working days. Through November 27, Western crop movement to the head of the lakes and Vancouver totals 142,958,957 bushels, compared with 165,259,508 in the same period last year.
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Canadian Pacific Railway
Western Lines
Canada
Western Canada
Head of the Lakes
Vancouver
Canada issues first domestic war loan warns interest halted
The department of finance warns holders that interest ceased December 1 and repayment is due upon presentation at chartered banks and receiver general offices across Canada. A large portion of the issue has been cashed. The original $50,000,000 offering was increased to $100,000,000 by over-subscription.
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Department of Finance
Canada
Pioneer Publisher Warren Lambert Dies in Winnipeg
Warren Lambert a pioneer publisher and printer from Chatham Ontario died November 27 in Winnipeg at age 5. He helped launch Canada's early newspapers including work on the Victoria Colonist in the 1860s and assisted in bringing a press over the mountains to establish The Cariboo Beacon BC.
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Warren Lambert
Chatham
Ontario
Winnipeg
Mr. Lambert
Canada
Victoria Colonist
Cariboo B.C. Beatinel
Seed Grain Associations Grow in Western Canada
The rise of registered seed grain production expands beyond eastern growers. In recent years three prairie provinces formed organizations. in the west two new groups emerged: the Kemptville Seed Barley Growers Association focusing on barley and the Fredericton District Co operative Seed Growers Association focusing on Banner and Victory oats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Togal
Prairie Provinces
Canada
Kemptville Seed Harley Growers’ Association
Bredericton
BC Seed Potatoes Shown To Attract European Trade
A BC potato show selected a sample batch of seed tubers to be sent to London and other European buyers. The effort aims to boost international interest in British Columbia seed tubers and develop export trade with Europe.
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British Columbia
Honce
London
England
Europe
B.C
Mennonite families profit from prairie land lease
Seven Mennonite families arrived in Western Canada in poor condition but cleared a profit of 26000 dollars by leasing 2089 acres of farmland at Projuet Alberta. This fact is reported by T. O. F. Herzer, manager of the Canadian Colonization Association. Canada can have no better advertising than the publication of the facts.
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Canada
Projuet
Alberta
T. O. F. Herzer
Canadian Colonization Associaion
Financial Post
Doctor predicts electric needles to replace scalpels
Dr. Howard A. Kelly of Baltimore predicts delicate electric needles will soon part the tissues before touching them, replacing many scalpels powered by surgeons.
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Howard A. Kelly
Baltimore
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London Zoo
Spurgeon
Elisnore College
Manitoba Wheat Pool
W. A. Wade
Heifer
Summerland
C.P.R
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