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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 27, 1920
Page
6
The article argues Canadian rural life needs broader education beyond farming basics. It endorses Denmark style agricultural schools and dormitory life to train young leaders, relieve college congestion, and prepare students for higher study in agricultural science.
The annual meeting of the Okanagan United Growers in Vernon reports a total business of 2 179 979 dollars, up 500 000 from the prior year. Apple export tonnage surpassed 1918’s crop, with shipments to New York Eastern Canada and abroad to New Zealand Australia and Britain. Crab apples found a ready U.S. market, and growers expect a larger crop next year if conditions remain favorable.
A Chinese girl must wait four months after marriage before visiting her mother. After the initiatory call, it becomes socially proper for her to visit her parents at any time.
A reflective line urges self awareness of limits and potential. It counsels listing abilities and focusing effort with determined vigor rather than dreaming beyond reach.
Entries are arriving for a two day purebred cattle sale in Saskatoon on June 2 and 3 under the Saskatchewan Cattle Breeders Association. J W Durne of Calgary will attend along with R S Hamer of Ottawa to purchase stock. Shorthorns lead entries with Aberdeen Angus and Herefords following. Red Polls appear for first time.
Fishermen from the Atlantic coast join fishing magnates for a three day convention in Vancouver beginning June 3 with June 4 and 5 sessions. The event promises to be the largest fisheries gathering on the American continent.
Ottawa reports to the House of Commons that Canada shipped four million one hundred fifty thousand eight hundred forty seven bush els of potatoes to all countries from August 1, 1918, to July 31, 1919.
Saskatchewan’s livestock commissioner J G Robertson says the province has far fewer sheep than desired but notes a thriving, thrifty industry. Small farm flocks have expanded from north to south, boosting purebred sales as prices stay strong, despite past barriers of low prices and costly wire fencing.
Eight hundred thousand bushels of seed oats had been supplied up to April 23 and demand remained strong says Calgary seed grain official. Delayed seeding will push more land into oats and barley, with seed oats of high quality from northern Alberta available in large quantities and little risk of short supply.
The USDA presented a practical model showing grain dust blasts from a lamp and powder in a miniature elevator. The test demonstrated the need for cleanliness and proper ventilation to lessen the risk of grain dust explosions in grain handling plants.
Statistics from the department of conservation show last year a new dairying record with total Canadian dairy product value around 250 million dollars. Export trade reached 65 million, compared with 24 million in 1910, marking a rise of over 150 percent in nine years as producer and consumer prices posted new records.
A January tally shows US and Canada fire losses exceed 37 million dollars, compared with 269 million last year. The speaker argues these losses reflect national waste and mockingly notes that half a century ago losses would dwarf national debt.
The annual global wheat output before the war stood around 100 million tons. Russia produced about 22 million tons, making it the leading producer, while the United States contributed nearly 19 million tons.
Mr. Jock Miner spoke at an Ontario Education Association meeting on The Ways and Intelligence of Our Birds. The naturalist, founder of Point Peelee Bird Sanctuary, argues birds are essential to farms as pest control and advocates sanctuary over harming them.
The article explains how to adopt creamery techniques on farms to maximize cream recovery. It covers using a cream separator, chilling and ripening cream, precise churning temperatures, duration, and stopping at wheat-grain butter granules, followed by washing, salting, working, and proper packaging in prints with parchment and paraffin cartons.
Small quantities of butter were preserved by wrapping two-pound squares in parchment and submerging them in a twenty percent salt solution. Butter in stone jars remained good for eight months at 50 deg F, while warmer storage reduced reliability to three or four months per the California College of Agriculture and Experiment Station annual report.
India and Ceylon tea are graded by leaf position on the plant with the lower leaves considered of poorer quality.
A quip contrasts the appeal of immortality with endless preaching, suggesting comfort over constant exhortation. The remark frames a preference for tangible rewards over ongoing moral lectures.
A historical overview praises Canada’s bulk handling system from farm threshers to tidewater elevators. It contrasts Canada’s modern, efficient flow with Australia’s still-buggy bagging methods, detailing the network of barns, elevators, railroads, ships, canals, and machinery that move grain from prairie farms to global markets with improved grading, cleaning, storing, and shipping processes.
Saskatchewan's Army District No 12 reports 25 million dollars paid since 1916. Of this 15,000,900 went to soldiers in training, over 5,000,000 as gratuities, about 25,000 men discharged, peak strength 9,000, total enlisted 35,000. Present strength 150, expected to fall to 70 in weeks.
A tract of land along the Banff Windermere highway has been transferred by British Columbia to the Dominion government and established as a Dominion park named Kootenay Park. The park includes part of the railway belt lands nearby and covers about 687 square miles.
A hatter weighs social standing by fit and form as customers seek the right lid and impression. The craft blends craft and character with careful sizing and discreet judgment.
From August to April 10 the Saskatchewan government helped farmers obtain free transport for 10 429 carloads of feed and 825 carloads of haying machinery. Hay sells for 100 per ton in northern areas while Eastern Canada offers delivery at 45 to 50 per ton, prompting talk the agriculture department may enter the feed business temporarily.
Manitoba has about 3,000,000 acres available for wheat this year. The average yield over the last ten years is 17 bushels per acre, implying about 51,000,000 bushels if the full area is harvested. In 191 the total wheat production was 40,975,300 bushels, averaging 15 bushels per acre.
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