Experimental Work Leads to Improvement Of Our Wheat Crops
Government experiments since 1886 at Dominion Experimental Farms sought hardy high yielding varieties. India Russia and Australia lines were tested with crosses such as Marquis Ruby Prelude and Early Red Fife. Marquis wheat added significant value while selections like Early Red Fife improved yield and grain quality across Canadian districts.
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Canada
Dominion Experimental Farms
Corn Exchange
London
England
India
Calcutta
Indian Red
Indian Club Calcutta
Government of
Russia
Australia
Preston
Stanley
Huron
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Beaverlodge
Farflung
Bishop
Fort Vermilion
Chase Saunders
Dominion
Marquis
Ruby
Ottawa
Prelude
Ottawa No. 135
Dominion Government
Bank Adopts Telephones After Long Resistance
One of Wall Street's oldest banks installs a telephone, initially with a single line. The firm had avoided phones for years, fearing confidential business could not be managed over a line. The old bank's quiet, colonial atmosphere remains, with a bearded bass-voiced operator chosen for the first line.
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Wall Street
March of Progress
Nonsense as a Philosophical Catchphrase
A short reflection on how what passes for sense can differ between minds. It discusses relative rationality and the idea that perceptions shape judgments across cultures and eras. The piece treats language as a tool that can mislead or illuminate depending on context.
Publications for Farmers in Ottawa List 350 Agricultural Bulletins
The Department of Agriculture in Ottawa releases a catalog of about 350 bulletins circulars and pamphlets covering dairying crops livestock horticulture plant diseases farm buildings machinery and related topics. Subjects are alphabetically organized under general titles and available from the Publications Branch.
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Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
Two New Dominion Park Orders Gazetteed in BC
The Yoho and Kootenay Parks in British Columbia are proclaimed as Dominion parks. Yoho covers 476 square miles, while Kootenay spans 87 square miles.
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Dominion Parks
Yoho
Kootenay
British Columbia
Fertility and Water Power in Inland Resource Use
The article argues that inland waters offer multiple uses beyond power development. It emphasizes soil fertility as the essential natural asset, with water conservation needing priority only when considering overall resource permanence and human needs. It notes interdependence among forests coal soil and water in sustaining nourishment and livelihoods.
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A. V. White
The
Conservation Commission
Turkish Women Embrace Freedom and Public Life
Turkish women, once cloaked in seclusion, now frequent streets with veils raised. Women head to women only events, join hospitals and relief work, and engage in politics aided by war experience. Leaders include educated Turkish women abroad and in foreign schools, shaping nationalist efforts.
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Constantinople
Turkey
Moon vegetation described by Prof Pickering shocks readers
Prof W H Pickering, noted astronomer, says lunar flora would appear grey like sage brush and some cacti, and black like Schexs, based on surface observations. The remark highlights a dramatic view of the moon’s terrain and colors.
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W. H. Pickering
Canada Crop Areas Reported By Dominion Bureau of Statistics
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics released the first May 3 crop estimates for 1920 showing spring wheat at 16,180,700 acres with 740,300 for fall wheat, oats at 15,291,000 acres, barley 2,257,900, rye 730,100, peas 219,065, mixed grains 900,800, hay and clover 10,497,900, alfalfa 220,800, and an preliminary 802,400 acres planted or to be planted for potatoes as of late May.
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Canada
Market for Sugar Beets in Canada 1918 19
A 1919 bulletin from the department of trade and commerce reports 204017 tons of sugar beets used for sugar manufacture in 1918. Beets at the works cost 2593738 dollars, about 12.22 dollars per ton. Canada had 18000 acres in 1918 yielding ten tons per acre valued at 10.25 per ton. In 1919 acreage rose to 24500 with 9.8 tons per acre and price to 10.85 per ton. sugar at about 11 cents per pound then, granulated sugar at 23 cents per pound, with potential rises ahead.
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Department of Trade and Commerce
Canada
Egg-Laying Contest Leader 903 Eggs at Indian Head
At the Indian Head Experimental Station Dr Merkley’s pen of white leghorns leads with 903 eggs after 32 weeks, about 200 more than J McCheane’s pen from Borden, the next closest. Official standings show the totals.
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Indian Head Experimental Station
Discovery of Radium Ore Near Algonquin Park
Reports indicate pitchblende ore rich in uranium oxide found at Algonquin Park borders. New York assayers estimate value at 4500 dollars per ton. Work on claims continues and major development funding is expected, potentially making Ontario a leading radium producer.
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Pitchblends
Algonquin Park
New York
Ontario
Prison Warden Tries Trade Talk With Aviator Guest
An old wartime prison scene shows a model prison den being used as a setting for dialogue. The warden asks a guest about his trade and hints at assigning work to his specialty. The guest reveals he is an aviator, prompting the warden's response.
Labor Shortage on Farms Could Drive Change in Agriculture
The Oklahoma census chief notes eight of ten farm boys leave for cities after school. Capper's Weekly cites only ten percent of farm boys returning after military service. USDA studies show 72 percent of normal labor supply, urging improved machinery to boost output with fewer workers. Modernization may shift farming toward skilled, machinery‑driven work and wage structures tied to product value.
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Oklahoma
Capper
United States Department of Agriculture
United States
Department of Agriculture
Department
Saskatchewan Farm Products Value Climbs in 1919
The Saskatchewan Bureau of Statistics reports agricultural products and provincial livestock valued at 636,415,107 dollars for the fiscal year ended April 30, up 50,681,750 from 1918. Grain shares show Saskatchewan supplying major portions of spring wheat oats barley flax and rye to Canada. The province rose to second in 1919 among the twelve U S states for grain production despite a 200,000 bushel drop from 1918 and a 163,000,000 bushel gap from 1915's record.
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Bureau of Statistics
Department of Agriculture
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan farmer Bellamy expands holdings and livestock
The Bellamy farm at Stranraer Stranraer Saskatchewan has grown from 320 acres in 1910 to 7,000 acres under crop this season, with a 12,000 acre Turtleford ranch. He shifted from grain to livestock, fattening 2,000 wethers for 100 percent gross profit in 1919 and selling hogs worth about 10,000 dollars the same year. Last winter 2,000 cattle were run on the Turtleford ranch, including 1,200 high grade Hereford cows bred for spring calving. He spent nearly 25,000 dollars on registered Herefords at Orchard Lake Farm and added 21 head worth about 37,000 dollars.
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Saskatchewan
Bellamy
Stranraer
Turtleford
Orchard Lake
Alberta to market briquettes from lignite coal
Alberta plans to place lignite briquettes on the Manitoba market within a year. Government experts will extract tar from Alberta sands to use in briquette manufacture, aiming to sustain coal mine operations year round.
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Alberta
Manitoba
Air Express Links London and Paris With Fast Airships
London to Paris service introduces Airco aircrafts cutting travel to about four hours total including road transfers from Piccadilly to Croydon and from Paris outskirts to the Opera. Two daily runs depart Croydon at 9 30 am and 4 30 pm with identical Paris schedules. Officials expect actual aerial leg to drop to about two hours.
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Airco
London
Paris
Piccadilly Circus
Croydon
Place de l'Opera
Air Express
Crowdon
Dinner guests puzzled by infant likeness
A couple shows their infant to a bachelor friend and asks whom the baby resembles. The guest replies that the child is wonderfully like both parents, noting that intelligence has not yet dawned in the infant’s countenance.
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Mellowby
Public Improvements Publicized Resignation Sparks Outcry
A furious citizen storms the city editor’s office demanding why his resignation from a political office was printed. The editor retorts that the subject released the notice himself, prompting the citizen to admit the act.
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Public Improvements
New York Globe
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Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Tom Gibbs
Moose Jaw
S. Merkley
W.L
J. Beatty
Kerrobert Ce Ees
Sask
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