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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 01, 1928
Page
5
Practices for curing prairie hay emphasize color and aroma checks, leaf retention, and dust control. Guidelines cover timing for alfalfa and sweet clover, windrowing for sweating, and careful binding for sweet clover to ensure high quality feed under semiarid conditions.
The Indian Head Dominion experimental farm tested grasses alone and with white and yellow sweet clover and alfalfa for three years. Results show lowest yields from grasses alone. alfalfa mixes prove profitable yearly. Palatability and proper moisture in curing hay are crucial to preserve feeding value and prevent moulds.
The Bureau of Statistics reports seventy plants in the Dominion engaged in the cotton textile industry with a capital investment of 60,209,854 dollars. About 20,000 people are employed and the industry shows a production value of 30,289,131 dollars.
The Canadian ministry of immigration, aided by Sir Eames Howard and Lord Byng, will route medically cleared tourist third passengers from Europe to Rouses Point for inspection before entering Canada. Inbound third class aliens via the United States must still pass Ellis Island medicals. The policy targets British, German, Dutch, Belgian, Norwegian, Danish, and Irish travelers.
An Ontario study by Dominion experimental farms tested feeding cod liver oil to laying hens over two periods in May and June. Results suggest no significant rise in egg weight or shell weight, though daily egg weights varied widely across birds.
A long legal footnote notes a 1770 French statute still on the books forbidding women to beguile men into marriage with rouge powder perfumes false teeth hair corsets or high heels. Prosecutions for sorcery could nullify such marriages though enforcement has faded. The 1840 Civil Code left the clause active under fraud in merchandise.
Mrs L H Reilly of Buckingham Women's Institute claims English wives are the worst cooks. She criticizes misuse of sauces and bones, noting French cooks turn scraps into nourishing soups and stock while English households waste food.
The royal family shows varying interest in racing. Princess Mary is described as the sole outright racing enthusiast among royals. The King focuses on sailing and breeding horses, while Queen Mary attends major races for official duties. The Prince of Wales and Duke of York prefer hunting and endurance activities.
A historical snippet describes Puritan flappers and their cosmetics as priceless. An old manuscript claims young girls could only embellish their complexion by washing with snow, a cold tingling method bringing a healthy glow. The tale notes the storyteller often enjoys the joke most.
A lyrical account describes Iceland poppies thriving along Lake Louise slopes near the Chateau. It credits Mr Krook a Canadian Pacific Railway horticulturist with introducing the flower after sourcing seeds in Northern Europe and planting them in Wolseley Saskatchewan. Two thousand plants were shipped in 1912 and propagated into a famous Lake Louise feature. Artist Robert Holmes painted the poppies, drawing broader attention at a Toronto exhibit.
A Youth's Companion note explains a monthly minded Chinese festival the Day of the Kitchen God on the twenty third day of the twelfth month. Families honor the kitchen god by smearing his image with molasses to prove sweetness before burning it and sending the god’s report to heaven. A week later they welcome the god’s return with rejoicing and firecrackers, then set up a new image.
The inaugural 1840 volume of a London periodical ran 460 pages with about fifty tales and popular sketches. It reprinted nearly all notable American fiction before 1840 except Washington Irving works, whom editors deemed European in style, shaping early American short story literature.
Juveniles in Japan and America exchange letters under League of Nations guidance. Over five hundred letters from grammar school children aim to foster mutual understanding and world peace. In Tokio M Kokawa leads the boys section, noting growing popularity and cross cultural curiosity.
A sixty day Alaska Peninsula hunting party reports unusually plentiful bears this summer. Big brown bears with multiple cubs were observed, with many litters including three or four cubs. The hunters noted mothers guarding cubs and feeding on salmon, and E L Garrett of Seattle killed the largest bear at eleven feet two inches.
Vancouver grain exports for the first half total 52,155,414 bushels, up from 23,765,325 last year and 55,218,902 the year before. June sales show 1,927,000 bushels with none to the Orient, all to the United Kingdom. Bookings through July total 374,000 bushels for the UK and 109,000 for the Orient.
Vatican employees from towtiers to sacred college members are to receive notable pay raises to cover living costs. The item is reported amid broader talk of inflation and, in a humorous aside, a dinner-table joke about spring lamb is noted in the text.
Manitoba hunter Barney Magnusson warns the Canadian caribou herd faces extinction within years due to hunting in Northern Alberta. He urges government action like buffalo protection, noting past declines at Cariboo Island near Fort Smith and describing shifting migration, park protections, and interbreeding with plain buffalo.
Springfield couple lose and recover $1,260 after junk man buys bag containing shoebag with cash. Mrs Audaim’s recall of a blue mattress key leads detectives to a whiskered junk dealer, where the missing money is found intact.
The Detroiter airship won the Elks national balloon race and was claimed to have set a world distance record after landing in Jennings Florida about 51 miles from Chicago. It was the last of four balloons in the event to report.
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