Canadian Cattle Trade Revival Faces UK Quarantine Costs
Canada shipped about 26 000 head to Britain reviving a once large trade. Health observations and the three day quarantine before shipping add costs. Store cattle face six day and near fat cattle twenty eight day holds, discouraging shipments of store cattle. Advocates say lifting restrictions would let Britain acquire more store cattle for fattening.
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Canada
England
United Kingdom
Britain
Birkenhead
Glasgow
British
Ministry of Agriculture
Mulch and Plant Screens Boost Garden Health and Privacy
Gardeners can protect soil with mulch made from paper straw or leaves. Staples, trellises, and evergreen or deciduous screens shield views while supporting roses and annuals. A well prepared seed bed, hoes, rakes, and simple tools maximize growth, moisture retention, and ease of weeding.
Fox Farm Not Farm In Eyes Of Law
In Montreal Superior Court Justice Stackhouse upheld Laval Des Rapides town assessment of the Fox Farms property as non farm lands. The 1931 reassessment raised the value from 2500 to 15481 as farm status was removed. The ruling cites that farm land tax requires cultivation by a bona fide farmer or market gardener living on the produce.
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Justice Stackhouse
Montreal
Laval Des Rapides
Crisis in Diamond Trade Hits London Merchants
The world faces a diamond shortage crisis as over £8,000,000 in unsold stones sits in London vaults. A market dump would depress prices and ruin jewelers worldwide. 1931 sales fell below any postwar year, with demand normal at £12,000,000 and last year’s sales under £2,000,000.
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London
England
Britain weighs cancelling Anglo Russian trade pact
Walter Runciman told the House of Commons the government may cancel the Anglo Russian trade agreement to rebalance trade. He noted Britain buys far more Russian goods than Russia buys British, prompting a move toward more equal commerce.
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Russia
Great Britain
Walter Runciman
Board of Trade
House of Commons
Ice Breaker to Chart Hudson Bay Route This Summer
Government icebreaker N. B. McLean will sail again into Hudson Bay under the Department of Marine. It will likely depart Quebec in June with engineers and nautical experts to mark and chart the waters and aid navigation along the route.
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N. B. McLean
Hudson Bay
Department of Marine
Quebec
Indians on Western reserves build 2000 new houses since 1931
A Department of Indian Affairs report highlights progress toward self support with over 2000 new houses on western Canadian reserves in recent years including 200 built in 1931. Homes use logs on concrete foundations with two doors five windows and often an upper floor and are whitewashed regularly. Furnishings improve, boosting comfort and health, with only two disease outbreaks recorded in 1931 on western reserves.
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Canada
Department of Indian Affairs
To Converse Well We Do Much Talking
A writer argues that much social talk fills time and masks awkward pauses. He urges people to think before speaking, study books and people, observe, read, and reflect. Those who do will gain topics and form intelligent opinions on discussions.
Saskatchewan wheat pool backs western farmers at Ottawa conference
Saskatchewan wheat pool directors endorsed presenting western agricultural views to the Ottawa economic conference. A Regina meeting of Saskatchewan agricultural groups including the Rural Municipalities Association discussed coordinating with Alberta and Manitoba for a united plan, forming a committee to gather information and consider a second Saskatchewan conference.
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Saskatchewan Wheat Pool
Operative Conference of
Saskatchewan
Ottawa
Regina
Saskatchewan Rural Municipalities Association
Alberta
Manitoba
Canada Faces Smaller Wheat Carryover Amid Export Hope
A wheat survey shows a small carryover for Canada at 104,000,000 bushels, the lowest since 1928 and about 30,000,000 less than 1931. World demand remains strong with Europe broader and imports estimated at 225 to 235 million bushels for the balance of the crop year. Canada and the United States likely to supply about 150,000,000 bushels, roughly 75,000,000 each.
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Canada
United States
Hay parcels reach snowbound Silvert on Colorado
Hay mailed by parcel post in early April to Silvert on, Colo., to feed dairy cattle isolated since February 9. A Durango firm could not ship due to snow slides blocking the railroad, so hay was bundled to meet parcel post limits and mailed at a cost of 14 dollars in stamps. Pack mule transport cost the post office five cents a pound, per a State Utilities Commission report.
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Parcel Post
Silverton
Colo
Durango
Post Office Department
State Utities Commission
Russia Expands Grain Sowing As Planting Doubles
Government data show April 20 sown area at 16,106,750 acres halving last year’s date and doubling. Planting plan targets 255,875,000 acres versus 243,712,500 the prior year. A quoted gossip exchange about a woman’s ignorance appears in the text.
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Russia
Silver Fox Leads Canadian Fur Values in 1930–31 Output
The Canadian Government Bureau of Statistics reports the 1930–31 fur season value at 11.604 million dollars with silver fox pelts worth 3.216 million from 71,816 pelts at 44.78 dollars each. Musk rat follows, then white fox, mink, and beaver. Ontario tops provinces by value, with North West Territories and Saskatchewan close behind.
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Canada
Bureau of Statistics
Ontario
Quebec
North West Territories
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Farm Horse In Demand Amid Machinery Era In Canada
Canadian census shows 3,129,058 horses on 728,244 farms, 323,711 fewer than 1921, a 9.35 percent ten year drop. Cattle down 4.52 percent to 7,990,947, while sheep up 12.74 percent, swine up 41.89 percent, and poultry up 51.03 percent. Sugar imports into Manchuria are increasing.
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Canada
Dominion
Must Be Given A Fair Chance To Bay Route
Lieut.-Colonel F. J. James of Regina, vice-president of On to-the-Bay Association, argues the Churchill route could prove economically practical faster than St. Lawrence if given a fair chance. He notes Saskatchewan and the West have developed the north route despite harsh conditions and urges freight-rate study to favor the Bay line. He compares high past Montreal route insurance costs with rail and insurance charges facing northern shipping, urging rates that encourage full trial.
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Churchill
St. Lawrence
F. J. James
Regina
Onto-the
Bay Line
Great Lakes
Col. James
Montreal
Wheat price guarantee to extend to Canadian farmers
U.S. implement manufacturers plan to offer Canadian farmers the same guaranteed wheat prices used for installment sales of farm machinery and tools. The arrangement, to be announced in May, aims to reflect tariff driven price spreads with a probable Canadian wheat guarantee of 80 cents a bushel versus 70 cents for U.S. wheat.
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United States
U.S
New Instrument For Symphony Orchestras
The Cincinnati Symphony featured a carpenter's saw as a solo instrument in a recent concert. Robert Alter, a Cincinnati businessman, played the improvised instrument, with a composition written for it by the orchestra's solo violinist and solo flutist.
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Carpenter
Saw
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Robert Alter
Cincinnati
A Real Runner and a Windy Hat Chase
A brief vignette shows a boastful young runner and his country cousin at a street corner. A gust tears away the hat, prompting a witty exchange about a head start and a delayed chase before a note from Karikaturen, Oslo.
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Trench
Madrid
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Manchuria
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Epward VT Land
Cape Horh
Ross
Martha
Ernest Shackleton
Lincoln Ellsworth
Antarctic
Bernt Balchen
Byrd
South Pole
Framheim
Bay of Whales
Ammundsen
Ross Sea
Weddell Sea
Karikaturen
Oslo
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