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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 22, 1924
Page
3
The Topographical Survey of Canada reports ongoing classification of unoccupied lands near railways to guide settlers. It splits areas into agricultural and forest reserve groups, explains soil tests, climate, water, routes, and local amenities, and publishes maps and township plans for public and government use.
The University of Minnesota Agricultural College plans summer electrification of twenty farms near Red Wing to test electric plowing and other uses. Experiments will use cable and storage battery current to power grinding, separators, pumps, milking gear, refrigeration, and more, with cost analysis and cooperation from major electrical and farm equipment firms.
The Natural Resources intelligence Service at Ottawa urges Canadians to protect forests from fire. It notes forests supply raw materials for many industries and stresses preparedness as travel increases and northern areas are tapped. The message calls on all ages to participate in fire prevention.
Saskatchewan provincial naturalist H H Mitchell has completed a full list of birds recorded in the province. Game Commissioner F Bradshaw says the list will appear in pamphlet form about May 15. It is a scientific catalogue with occurrence notes and a colored life zone map. No illustrations or descriptions are included.
Mars will be closer to Earth at midnight Greenwich time on August 22, within about 4,500,000 miles. The distance varies, sometimes around 63,000,000 miles, prompting ideas to communicate with potential Martians via wireless light, smoke, or large geometric vegetation patterns.
The Utah Idaho Sugar Company, a major U S firm, may erect a plant in Southern Alberta if farmers join to grow sugar beets. Provincial Agriculture meetings have urged growers, and a factory would be constructed if 6 000 acres are devoted to beet production.
Three carloads of seed grain are shipped weekly from the provincial seed cleaning and marketing plant at Edmonton. Demand is strong with Marquis wheat in short supply. Since opening, about 56 000 bushels have been handled and 26 000 more are expected before year end.
The former barrack boy and preacher turned avowed Marxist, who led Welsh miners, has been formally appointed secretary of the British Miners Federation succeeding Frank Hodges, now civil lord of the admiralty in the MacDonald government.
To Manage Big Farm Douglas Hill, who came to Canada from Birmingham, England at 19, has been appointed manager of the 16,000 acre Hughton farm in Saskatchewan run by the Scottish Co operative Wholesale Societies. He was selected from nearly 100 applicants and will oversee 75 to 100 men. His brother and he previously ran a large Gilbert Plains district farm in Manitoba. Mugh son runs on the Saskatoon Fatlona section of the Canadian National Railways. Latitude and longitude were first determined by Hipparchus of Nice about 162 B.C.
Three hundred dollars will be advanced to each family from the Hebrides brought to the British Columbia coast if the Imperial Government also funds a similar amount. The Hebrideans, fishermen and croft farmers, can pursue their trades on the Pacific coast where land is available near fisheries.
Farmers in Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta earned a combined export income of 381,600,647 from farm operations in 1923. Manitoba reported 86,228,593. Saskatchewan 171,557,750. Alberta 223,814,204.
An estimate states it would require 680000 full moons to match the sun’s light intensity. This comparison highlights the vast difference in energy output between the sun and reflected lunar light.
The article discusses demographic projection that Canada could double its population in twenty years and nearly double again in the following twenty. It compares Canada with the United States, notes immigration’s impact on settlement and urbanization, and highlights transportation progress and regional population shifts. It cites Manitoba Free Press and Moose Jaw Evening Times while stressing deliberate policy and infrastructure to support settlers and prevent urban drift.
Reports from Edmonton indicate a large party of Swedish settlers will reach Northern Alberta this year and be distributed from Edmonton. Most have financial resources and intend to buy farms, with about 5000 settlers anticipated for the region in the current year.
Canada Gas and Electric Corporation will begin work immediately on a new Brandon power plant costing 300000. The plant will use Souris coal powdered for fuel, reportedly inexpensive due to a short hill.
Canada’s National Playground Jasper National Park grows to welcome more visitors with new four 4 room and two 12 room bungalows, a double deck boathouse, an octagonal curio building, and extended kitchens lounges and staff quarters at Jasper Park Lodge to handle near fifty percent more guests for the 1924 season.
Saskatchewan beekeepers number 380 manage 1,529 hives yielding an average eighty pounds of honey per hive in 1923 for a total 12,600 pounds and 36,400 dollars in revenue. Prairie districts averaged 55 pounds per hive from 1918 to 1922 while central and northern bluff districts averaged 100 pounds per hive.
The British Government proposes a compulsory minimum wage for farm workers fixed by wage boards. The agricultural wages bill was read for the first time in the House of Commons.
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