Selecting Hogs for Select Bacon From Present Stock
Mr Brerens analyzes the campaign for greater bacon production. He weighs season risk, farmer packer relations, and breeding choices. He names Yorkshire and Tamworth as favored sires for Western Canada and explains fat cover and skin factors for bacon quality.
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Western
Canada
Yorkshire
Hampshires
Berkshires
Wiltshire
Berkshire
Hampshire
Duroe
Jerseys
Poland
Chinas, Or the Shorter Type of Berkshires
Packer
Odessa Shows The Decay Of Soviet Rule As Described By Mail
A London Daily Mail correspondent depicts Odessa under Soviet rule as a ruined port city with empty harbors, idle workers, and decayed industry. He notes smokeless chimneys, neglected quays, and officials failing to authorize loading, illustrating a paralyzed economy and pervasive tyranny.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Odessa
London Daily Mail
Black Sea
Russia
Fewer Auto Fatalities Mark Toronto 1921 Progress
Safety League figures show 45 automobile deaths in Toronto from January to November 1921, down from 64 in 1920, a 30 percent drop despite more cars. The record notes more blind persons and adds a stray estimate about Spaniards among European races.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toronto
The
Safety League
King of Denmark Regrets Kind Action
The royal yacht nears Greenland and a solitary Eskimo in a small cayak boards. The King welcomes him with a cigar and a prized rifle. Danish Commissioner then reveals the man is an escaped convict who broke prison yesterday and stole a canoe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenland
Prairie ministers meet at Regina on farm price study
A conference of agriculture ministers from the three prairie provinces in Regina discussed marketing conditions for farm products and price spreads. They noted western farmers do not receive a living wage and planned further winter meetings to pursue better farm prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prairie Provinces
Regina
Legislative Assemblies
Imperial fruit show prizes awarded to New Brunswick
At the Imperial fruit show in London New Brunswick competed with other Canadian provinces and Empire dominions. New Brunswick won first prize and gold medals for McIntosh and Fameuse and bronze medals for Golden Russell and Princess Louise.
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London
England
New Brunswick
Canada
Empire
McIntosh
Fameuse
Golden Russell
Princess Louise
What Is a Good Farmer
Liberty Hyde Bailey lists four requirements: the ability to earn a full and comfortable living from the land, to rear a family carefully and well, to be of service to the community, and to leave the farm more productive than it was when taken.
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Liberty Hyde Bailey
New Brunswick Tops Canadian Potato Production
New Brunswick leads Canada in potato production with about 217 bushels per acre last year. The province also planted 284,728 acres of oats, yielded 1,146,000 bushels of buckwheat and 441,000 bushels of wheat.
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New Brunswick
Canada
Circulate as much truth and as few words as possible
A concise maxim urges minimizing extraneous detail while maximizing factual accuracy. It frames communication as measured, direct, and purpose driven for clear public discourse.
Canadians Win Honors at Chicago Fair
Several Canadians received high honors at the Chicago Fair led by John W. Lucas Cayley Alberta holder of the grand championship oats sweep stakes for his Victory variety weighing 46.4 pounds per bushel. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland won hay and wheat prizes from Alberta ranch and hard red spring wheat. Robert McEwen London Ontario led Southdown sheep judging, horses Principal and Wee Donald won their classes, and H L Thomson Ottawa displayed flint corn with other Canadian prizes noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John W. Lucas
Cayley
Alberta
Sweden
Canada
Ottawa
Duke of Sutherland
Brooks
Duchess of Sutherland
Robert McEwen
London
Ont
Principal
Wee Donald
H. L. Thomson
Germany To Build Zeppelin For U S
The council of ambassadors grants permission for the United States to contract with Friedrichshafen Germany to build a Zeppelin of the L 70 type. Negotiations with the allied powers end and construction may start in January in Germany after five prior dirigibles were destroyed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Council of Ambassadors
United States
Friedrichshafen
Germany
Manitoba Bee Population Doubles From Last Spring
Manitoba now hosts 14 721 bee colonies up from 7 593 last spring, with honey output this year estimated at 1 000 000 bushels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manitoba
Giraffes View Behind Themselves Without Turning
Biologists note giraffes possess wide peripheral vision allowing them to detect movement behind them without twisting their necks. This surprising trait aids predator awareness and social interactions in the herd.
Canada Leads In Wireless Speed And Farm Soil Improvement
Canada shows record wireless transmission from Glace Bay Nova Scotia at 82 words a minute. On prairie farms, soil faults due to weeds low humus and moisture loss reduce yields. Manure ploughing and green crop rotations improve wheat oats and barley yields, with six year data from Scott Experimental Station showing significant gains and lasting soil benefits.
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Canada
Glace Bay
Nova Scotia
Atlantic
Scott Experimental Station
Scott
Saskatchewan
M. J. Tinline
Sagk
Alleged Belgian War Traitor Armand Jeannes to Face Trial
Armand Jeannes, suspected German secret service agent nicknamed No. 27, faces trial at Mons soon. He used aliases including Cacar Blangies and Le Petite Belge and allegedly earned £30 monthly with perks for arrests and expenses. He helped probe Nurse Cavell's organization and Germans reportedly left 300 reports by him from a Louvois factory. Jeannes was infamous for brutality toward women during the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Armand Jeannes
Belgium
Mons
Jeannes
Cacar
Blangies
le Petite Belge
France
England Never Forgets A Service Rendered
An ex foe was honored when Britain awarded a German sea officer a silver loving cup and medal for a daring 1914 rescue at sea. In February the County of Devon capsized en route from Norfolk to Rotterdam. Captain and 24 crew survived by leaping into the waves as the Deutschland crew, led by Ernest Hartmeyer, rescued all. England never forgets a service rendered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
County of Devon
Norfolk
Rotterdam
Ernest Hartmeyer
England
New Colour Coding System Analyzed In Popular Mechanics
A new method assigns colors with numbers after matching and records them for exact future replication. The colori meter shown in Popular Mechanics Magazine aims to aid factory and laboratory work in matching colored materials and liquids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Popular Mechanics
Pledges 5 Million to Develop Oil Shale in Nova Scotia
The oil organization of Great Britain and the Petroleum Executive of the British Government pledge £5,000,000 to develop oil shale fields in Pictou County Nova Scotia. The source notes continued faith in Canada’s natural resources.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Pictou County
N.S
Oil Organization of Great Britain
Petroleum Executive
Owen Sound Sun-Times
The Bishop's Explanation Recalled by Brooks Dialogue
A Boston Transcript excerpt recalls Philips Brooks remarking that atheists may seem moral because they lack a God to forgive them if they fail. The quip highlights the moral impulse independent of belief.
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Philips Brooks
Boston Transcript
Barbers' Banter as Gas Attack Rages
A weary customer asks if he should go over the top while a talkative barber readies his scissors. The barber’s quip about waiting for the gas attack adds a dark, tense moment reflecting wartime bravado and fear in the Boston Transcript account.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Transcript
Wealth concentrated: 360 hold one third of England's riches
A report notes that one third of England’s total wealth is controlled by 360 individuals. The statistic highlights stark inequality and has implications for policy and taxation debates in the period.
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England
Canada Rises to Second in World Wheat Output
Official figures revise Canada’s wheat production to 323 335 3 bushels, moving it to second place behind the United States at 704 655 000 bushels. Canada also ranks second in oats with 510 093 000 bushels.
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Canada
Dominion
United States
Dairy herd prospects urged by Western Canada union speaker
Alexander Davie Ladner of Ladner B C told the Western Canada Livestock Union convention in Regina that prairie provinces possess good material for dairy herds in their ordinary grade breeds provided purebred reliable sires are introduced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Canada Livestock Union
Regina
Alexander Davie Ladner
B.C
Prairie Provinces
Brazil Rich In Minerals
Brazil possesses vast mineral wealth with extensive areas yet to be explored showing strong potential for future mining development.
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Brazil
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W. F. Brerens
Mar
Denmark
J. J. White
Outlook
Outlook, Sask
U.S
Jon Bain
Italy
Japan
Baltimore
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