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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 07, 1928
Page
4
The article notes prairie agriculture driving Canadian progress and reviving trade with the United Kingdom. It cites a thirty year shift where UK purchases of Canadian wheat and flour exceed its total imports, illustrating the Empire’s growing economic tie to Canada and the prairie’s pivotal role in commerce.
A 19th century shift shows Canada’s commerce with the Motherland stagnating until the 1890s, then exploding with settlement and wheat development. By 1897 Western wheat growth linked Britain and the Dominion with a durable economic bond unseen a generation earlier.
A new drill plow combines plowing and seeding in one operation. Inventor Peter Isaac, a Russian by birth, demonstrates the machine to Western Canadian farmers. At Manitoba Agricultural College the device proves satisfactory, promising time and labor savings and earlier crop growth.
Four winter trials at Kapuskasing Ontario experimental station compare sunflower silage with oats peas and vetch silage in lamb rations. Over four years average daily gain per lamb was 0.24 lb with sunflower silage and 0.17 lb with oats pea and vetch, while feed cost per 100 pounds was £10.37 versus $15.63.
After five years for grand larceny, Atwell Austin leaves the Kansas penitentiary with patent rights to an electrically operated railroad crossing gate. Another convict supplied the $100 to secure the patent and push the invention forward.
The Dominion and its Botanical Division promote disease free seed through field and tuber inspection. Pamphlet S4 from Ottawa outlines rules for Canadian certified seed potatoes with a three percent disease allowance on second inspection and no mixed varieties at tuber inspection. It explains how to obtain certification and grow, store, and handle certified seed.
A Scotsman asks a marine about the grenade on his cap. The marine, surprised, explains it is a turnip. The scene unfolds as the Scotsman insists he is not asking about the headgear. Canada exports for the year ending October 21, 1927 show 4 en gallons of fresh cream and 3,012,000 gallons of fresh milk valued at 8,131,002 dollars, mostly to the United States.
A pithy adage notes that many people claim to have launched successful men, while the majority who attempt to claim credit remain unsuccessful themselves. The saying emphasizes cautious judgment of origins and support.
Saskatchewan farm researchers report sunflowers as the most dependable silage crop at Scott Station. Oats and corn suffer in dry seasons and frost. sunflowers provide higher green weight and better drought tolerance, and are recommended despite potentially lower subsequent yields.
Illinois agricultural scientist Harvey J. Sconce has bred corn varieties in hues such as purple green bronze yellow lavender and pink. Based on his work at a 2 500 acre farm near here he began breeding in 1962 after graduating from the University of Illinois agricultural school. He developed codless corn padded corn and chrysanthemum corn with some varieties valued as curiosities and others having practical use.
The North German Lloyd liner Stuttgart used a new sea sickness mask developed by its surgeons. Report says 80 percent relief on the voyage with a device described as a mask carrying the scent of earth. A fragment notes Fire Prevention Week triggers and office chatter about a boss.
An Lacombe Experiment shows removing hulls from oat chop boosts pig gains and reduces cost. Over 127 days, hulls removed cost about 0.44 per hundredweight less than whole chop, while non sifted oats required extra weeks on bagley to finish.
A Lincolnshire man reports his hen, struck by sunstroke last year, has laid two eggs at a time four days weekly and even three eggs on two occasions. The other hens retaliated by laying eleven to twelve eggs weekly, indicating a dramatic change in egg production.
Dominion Department of Agriculture reports over 1,000,000 acres sown to fall wheat in Canada up to October 31 this year. Ontario accounts for nearly 900,000 acres while Alberta totals about 4,100. The note recalls Edison’s first electric lamp forty eight years ago and the enduring idea behind it.
The Department of the Interior reports large scale free distribution of broadleaf and evergreen seedlings from Indian Head and Sutherland stations. Since 1901 shelterbelts and orchard planting have transformed prairie farms in Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta with increased vegetable gardens fruits shrubs and lawns.
A Dominion bulletin outlines winter care for breeding turkeys. Select only well matured birds with vigor in fall, keep them housed minimally, allow daytime roving, and provide shelter from weather. Feed once daily with hard grain, oats wheat buckwheat, oats, and bran mix added in March with sour skim milk.
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