Greatness Of The Wheat Pool
F. J. Carland of Bow River Alta speaks to a Montreal service club praising wheat pools. He notes lower operating costs, with nine twenthieths of a cent per bushel provincial pool and one fifth of a cent for central selling agency. He says pools stagger supply, avoiding flooding markets and boosting farmer confidence.
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Canen
Rathways
F. J. Carland
Bow Paver
Alta
Montreal
Dominion
Common Animal Myths Debunked and Real Facts Revealed
A survey of popular beliefs explains porcupines cannot shoot quills though they pierce attackers if attacked. Cats see in dim light but need some illumination. Earwigs are named for wing shape resembling human ears. The legend of the Hon King of Beasts is unfounded as lions are not the largest or strongest. Lion tamers find lions easier to manage than other big cats, and hunters consider leopards more dangerous.
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Lon
Uger
How Your Mind Works When You Sleep and Wake
The article notes waking fresher after early sleep is unlikely and deeper sleep delays recovery. It cites tests showing higher night scores, then says morning rain is fresh but mind is restless. Later fatigue poisons aid concentration, making late afternoon to midnight ideal for sustained work. It also urges speakers to soliloquize to hear themselves better.
Astonishing Daily Walking Distances Revealed in Households and Professions
An investigation for the Boston Traveller shows diverse daily walking totals. A housekeeper reportedly walks a yearly distance equal to Boston to San Francisco while a tired businessman may walk farther than Boston to New York each month. Weekly totals include a salesman at 75 miles and a stenographer 43 miles. Even a hospital doctor averages about 18 miles daily, though he uses a car outdoors. Dancers and chorus girls rack up high daily mileages.
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Boston Traveller
Boston
San Francisco
New York
Cleveland
Chicago
Old Chair Exhibit at Cairo Museum
Dr. George A Reisner of the Boston Museum Harvard Expedition sent the carrying chair of Queen Hetepheres to Cairo for exhibition. The ornate gold case and inlaid hieroglyphics illustrate Pyramid era craft, about 5,000 years old, built for Cheops mother. The chair's reconstruction required nearly two years of careful work by the expedition.
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George A. Reisner
Boston Museum
Harvard
Hetepheres
Cheops
Great Pyramid
Museum
Cairo
Neisner
Egypt
Gracious Diet Prompts Comic Weight Misfire
A stout woman seeks help from a Harley Street doctor who prescribes a strict diet. After a month she returns heavier, revealing she followed the plan exactly but ate nothing but her usual meals.
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Harley Street
Canada Exports Seed Products in 1927 Totals
Canada exported seeds valued at 5 051 388 dollars in 1927 with flax and clover as the main varieties. The United States purchased 7 290 838 dollars worth of Canadian seeds last year. Small sales went to the British Isles New Zealand China Denmark France Japan Folland Australia Sweden Czecho Slovakia and Russia.
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Canada
United States
British Isles
New Zealand
China
Denmark
France
Japan
Folland
Australia
Sweden
Czecho-Slovakia
Russia
Best Time To Plant Flowering Bulbs in Autumn
The Ottawa Department of Agriculture Bulletin 95 urges autumn planting for tulips daffodils and hyacinths to yield finest blooms. Bulbs benefit from deep six inch planting three inch spacing in loamy soil and can be left undisturbed for years. Daffodils may be followed by annuals. remove old leaves only after they yellow.
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Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
His Lucid Interval
A benevolent elderly man spent spare time addressing inmates in a lunatic asylum. During a talk a saner inmate challenged the lecture and a governor asked permission to continue. The lecturer warned that the inmate only has one lucid interval a year, then resumed.
Amendments to the U.S. Constitution Reach Nineteen
The Constitution of the United States has now been amended nineteen times reflecting additions to its framework and rights through formal ratification by the states and the national government.
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The
United States
Farmers Learn Seed Cleaning On Provincial Car Tour
More than 3,000 Saskatchewan farmers attended the second forage crop car tour operated by the provincial government with CN rail aid. The program visited 34 points to showcase seed cleaning machinery and fanning mills, traveling from Prince Albert to Aberdeen. The tour sold over 14,000 pounds of approved seed and drew strong interest from New Canadians between Arran and Kelvington.
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Saskatchewan
Natonal Railways
Prince Albert
Hudson Bay Junction
Aberdeen
Arran
Kelvington
Dominion Seed Branch
Department of Agriculture
Canadian National
Grows Flowers Without Soil Discovery by Gericke
University of California professor W F Gericke reveals soil-less plant cultivation at Berkeley. He says flowers grown by the method are sturdier and more delicately colored.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. F. Gericke
University of California Experiment Station
Berkeley
Gericke
Father of a Bright Son Believes in Duty
A succinct rule of character notes that men who raise capable sons hold steadfast to the belief in duty, implying moral formation through fatherhood and example.
Sheep Age Slow, Goats and Pigs Live Longer Than Sheep
The piece notes that sheep are old at twelve while goats live longer and pigs endure even longer, contrasting lifespans across livestock species.
Canada’s Water Power Powers Pulp and Paper Boom
Canada’s water power is well distributed with only 11 percent developed and the pulp and paper industry leading world production. Abundant pulpwood and low cost motive power promise vast prosperity, aided by reforestation efforts and patrol systems guarding against forest fires. Mills near logging routes leverage cheap power, reducing need for long transmission lines. From The Monetary Times.
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International Paper Company
Canada
Monetary Times
Rules For Dairymen Certificates of Cleanliness and Free
Canadian dairymen exporting milk and cream to the United States must obtain federal government cleanliness and tuberculosis free certificates. The Lenroot Taber Import Milk act becomes effective June 1, replacing temporary permits. The measure, passed last year, will render pending permits void. A proverb warns that borrowed trouble brings high interest, and a man fully contented has outlived usefulness. A barrel of flour needs 4.7 bushels of wheat.
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United States
Methods to Control Cereal Smut At Rust Research Lab Winnipeg
Tests at Winnipeg and collaborating stations in Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta evaluated seed treatments to destroy oat smut including Longfellow and Leader varieties. Formalin emerged as the only reliable option with spraying favored. other treatments reduced but did not control smut. A gas paraformaldehyde method for wheat was ineffective and damaged grain.
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Rust Research Laboratory
Winnipeg
Brandon
Manitoba
Indian Head
Scott
Saskatchewan
Lacombe
Alberta
Leader
Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
Porcupine Eats Dynamite At Tioga Forest Tower
District Forester Paul H. Mulford reports a porcupine dined on two sticks of dynamite in a forest fire tower 60 feet high in Tioga district Pennsylvania. Ranger fled down stairs as the animal followed. Emerick warned the dynamite could poison the porcupine more than threaten nearby people.
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Tioga State Forest
Pennsylvania
Paul H. Mulford
Wellsboro
R. Lynn Emerick
State Department of Forest and Waters
Terra Firma
Emerick
Mulford
Absent Student Reveals Note Passed to Teacher
A hesitant pupil answers a schoolmaster by pointing to a noted message on the table. The note reads Please, sir and hints at an unknown content, explaining the prior day’s absence without a direct reply from the student.
Longest and Shortest Names at New York Hotels Reported
A visitor to New York with the longest name was Fred Featherstonhaugh of Toronto, registered at the Hotel Commodore, his surname containing fifteen letters. The same day, Vincent Ka of Chicago, registered at the Roosevelt, had the shortest name.
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New York
Fred Featherstonhaugh
Toronto
Commodore
Vincent Ka
Chicago
Roosevelt
Old Superstitions and Quarrels Reported by Sussex and Pengland Folks
The text notes Sussex folk warn that shared water or towel fates those who do such acts to beg together, while Peng land belief links the same act to a quarrel. It mentions foals seating six as a fragmentary aside.
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Sussex
Pengland
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