Canadian Seed Growers reap rewards from scientific farming
Canadian Seed Grain Growers reap benefits of scientific methods in seed production. Careful parent stock selection and high latitude cultivation boosted pedigreed wheat, oats, and alfalfa exports, with shipments to Argentina, Sweden, and planned exports to Australia. The initiative, aided by trade commissioners, expanded markets and profits for Canadian farmers.
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Malesius
New York
Buenos Aires
Canadian
New York City
South America
Sweden
Australia
United States
Canadian Moose In New Zealand Roaming Wild
Twenty years ago moose were shipped from Canada to New Zealand by order of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt to test if the interior could sustain them. The animals arrived safely, were released inland, and for years were unseen until natives and hunters reported many sightings in wild districts. The experiment appears successful with moose now part of New Zealand’s game list, yet government protection remains and shooting is forbidden until wardens confirm extinction risk is absent.
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Canada
New Zealand
Theodore Roosevelt
Seed inspect and grade program rolls through Western Canada
The Dominion seed branch reports a broad check up across Western Canada as seed inspectors review seed houses dealers and farmers supplies to uphold grades and standards. They focus on clover and grass seed education and encourage farmers to have seed cleaned and graded for a clean crop.
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Canada
Dominion Seed Branch
Grain traffic highlights Western Canada shipments by CPR
The Canadian Pacific Railway moved 5,873,286 tons to the head of the lakes and 733,065 tons to Vancouver, about 51.7 percent of its regional haul over seven months with few delays. In British Columbia, sweet potato farming shows promise beyond Peachland, as Mrs. A J Sparling of Hammond reports 65 pounds from 36 plants after investing one dollar.
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Canadian Pacific Railway
Lakes
Vancouver
Canadian Pacific
British Columbia
Okanagan
Hammond
Fraser Valley
A. J. Sparling
Premier King urges five measures to save Canada’s forests
Ottawa broadcast urges public action during Save the Forests Week. W L Mackenzie King cites forest history and lumber industry growth, warns fires cause by human carelessness account for 90 percent of losses, and calls prevention over control.
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Ottawa
W. L. Mackenzie King
Canada
King
Czech nobleman eyes Canadian farming expansion
Count Thun Hohnstein, a leading Czech industrialist, arrived in Canada aboard the Montrose to study farming conditions. He said the visit aims to verify reports about suitable areas and that if favorable, twelve other nobles would follow, invest capital, and pursue large scale farming ventures.
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Canada
Count Thun Hohnstein
Czecho-Slovakia
Canadian Pacific
Montrose
Count Hohnstein
English Boys To Take Farm Course At Macdonald College
Seventeen Scotch and English youths disembarked from the Canadian Pacific steamship Montclare and head to Macdonald College Ste Anne de Bellevue to work on farms for practical agricultural training before entering the college winter course. The families of the boys are able to provide financial support for the program.
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Montclare
Macdonald College
Ste Anne de Bellevue
Rich Gold Field Near Yale Charts Revival Work
The Hills Bar, a mile west of Yale in the Fraser River, long famed for sluicing, is being worked again by American operators using drag scrapers. The company holds leases on multiple benches once yielding rich gold and aims to revive the old field.
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Hills
Yale
B.C
Fraser River
May Import Deer Meat From New Zealand to Britain and US
A campaign success allows frozen deer meat to be shipped from New Zealand to Great Britain and the United States if trade is established. Proponents aim to curb the deer menace to New Zealand pastoralists and forests while opponents warn of deer farming like rabbits.
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New Zealand
Great Britain
United States
Message to the East Speech by Saskatchewan minister
Hor S J Latta, Saskatchewan minister of education, left a message with Jarvis Street Collegiate students in Toronto emphasizing national unity as western development leads to eastern prosperity and declaring it all Canada.
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Canada
Hor. S. J. Latta
Saskatchewan
Jarvis Street
Toronto
System of Crop Rotation Using Sweet Clover in Prairie Farms
A Dominion Experimental Farms pamphlet by Derick proposes a three year rotation to maintain soil nitrogen. Sweet clover or a clover grass mix is used with wheat and coarse grains, providing pasture and hay and enabling continued grain production on prairie farms.
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Prairie
Dericx
Dominion Experimental Farm
Brandon
Man
Canadian Land Company Founded In Germany
The United States commerce department notes a Berlin founded company The Canadian Land Company with 50,000 reichmarks capital aims to buy sell and lease Canadian land Its founders may receive an option on 25 000 acres of land in Saskatchewan from the Canadian Pacific Railway to be divided into farms for sale mainly to German immigrants.
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United States Commerce Department
Canadian Land Company
Berlin
Canada
Saskatchewan
Opportunities In Canada by Roger Babson
Babson of the Babson statistical bureau says Canada offers better opportunities to young men than any country. He notes Canada has emerged from a four year depression following wartime inflation and postwar years, with all trends upward and basic business indicators pointing to good conditions.
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Roger Babson
Babson Statistical Bureau
Canada
Prisoner’s quip turns sentence into epigram
At the Ohio penitentiary a new arrival is quizzed by a lifer who asks how much time he has. The reply is two years, and the lifer scoffs that it’s not a sentence but an epigram.
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Ohio Penitentiary
Alberta Potato Trials Recommend Early Ohio Gold Nugget Gold Coin
The Lacombe Dominion experimental station reports Early Ohio for early market, Gold Nugget for medium early, and Gold Coin as main crop in Alberta trials. Seeded in drills 30 inches apart with 12 inch row spacing, sets cut to two ounces, planted May 29 and dug October 9. Larger sets yielded more total tubers, but smaller sets offered higher marketable percentages.
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Lacombe
Alberta
Dominion
Ohio
F. H. Reed
B.S.A
Ottawa
Manitoba gold mines promise lead in mining industry
G C Bateman of the Ontario Mining Association, after surveying Red Lake and Central Manitoba mining areas, says Central Manitoba and Northern Ontario are rich in mineral wealth especially gold bearing ore. He stresses Manitoba must build a permanent mining industry.
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Manitoba
G. C. Bateman
Ontario Mining Association
Red Lake
Ontario
Banker plans Canadian farm settlement in Saskatchewan or Alberta
Count Jhun Hohenstein, a wealthy Czech landowner, is in the Dominion seeking a location to take up farming. He expects to purchase a large tract and notes many of his countrymen are migrating to Western Canada to farm.
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Canada
Jhun Hohenstein
Czecho- Slovakia
Dominion
Saskatchewan
Alberta
BC payrolls rise sharply over three years
Statistics from the provincial workmen's compensation board show BC industrial payrolls increasing from 130,000,000 in 1922 to 160,000,000 in 1925, a total rise of 30,000,000 or about 10,000,000 annually.
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British Columbia
Provincial
Workmen's Compensation Board
Settlers in Alberta Find Ready Made Farms
Over the past decade Alberta settlement records show a surge of newcomers aided by ready built farms. New arrivals are well cared for and quickly establishing homes on nearly prepared holdings this spring.
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Alberta
Luther Burbank's horticultural feats and a grim Russia
The piece highlights Luther Burbank as a pioneer whose experimental work transformed crops like spineless cactus and the Burbank plum, while contrasting it with a harsh Russia under Communism. Mrs. Alec Tweedie’s China-Russia journey is cited to depict famine, terror, and poverty in Moscow, portraying Russia as a failed social experiment.
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Luther Burbank
Wizards of Science
Edison
Ford
Marconi
Burbank
Charles E. Saunders
California
Toronto Globe
Alec Tweedle
China
Russia
M. Fedoroff
Alec Tweedie
Homesteading Activity Rises Across Western Provinces
In the first two months of the year Manitoba recorded 63 homesteads, Saskatchewan 317, Alberta 22, and British Columbia 20. Soldier grant applications totaled 7 in Manitoba, 35 in Saskatchewan, 23 in Alberta, and 2 in British Columbia, totaling 119983 acres. Last year homestead and soldier grants covered 82,520 acres. Leaders remain Prince Albert, Moose Jaw, and Edmonton districts.
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Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
British Columbia
Prince Albert
Moose Jaw
Edmonton
Alberta balks at funding Yellowhead Pass highway plan
Hon W H Sutherland minister of public works says Alberta will not fund completion of a Rocky Mountain highway via Yellowhead Pass this year. He states the province lacks the money for such a scheme. BC government will not back the plan.
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Alberta
Rocky Mountains
Yellowhead Pass
British Columbia
W. H. Sutherland
Preventable Illness Share Highlighted by Doctors
About three million Americans are ill at any time with doctors estimating 42 percent of that illness is preventable, underscoring public health opportunities.
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United States
British Schoolboys Start Farming in Canada
A group of British schoolboys is being settled on Canadian farms by the British Immigration and Colonization Association. They arrived at Saint John, New Brunswick aboard the Montrose and traveled to Montreal to meet association officers. The boys adapt quickly to farm duties, and farmer demand for more British youths is high as further placements proceed.
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Canada
British Immigration and Colonization Association
Saint John
N.B
Montrose
Montreal
Forage Car Tour Ends With Strong Manitoba Attendance
Government forage crop and poultry cars completed a six weeks tour of Canadian National lines in Manitoba, visiting forty points with 5 299 attendees and an average of 132 per stop. Six hundred sales totaled 3500 dollars. Cited crops include sweet clover broom grass timothy alfalfa meadow fescue red clover rye grass rape mangles turnips corn and field peas. Cars ran in partnership of the provincial department of agriculture the agricultural college and Canadian National Railways.
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Manitoba
Provincial Department of Agriculture
The
Agricultural College
Canadian National Railways
Trade With Japan Volume Surges in 1925 Canadian exports rise
The Japanese consulate in Vancouver reports Canada Japan trade hit a record 23,125,000 in 1925. Exports from Canada totaled 25,162,278 while imports from Japan reached 7,962,929. Exports increased nearly 2,000,000 and imports more than 1,000,000.
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Canada
Japan
Orient
Vancouver
Birds Travel At Night
Birds undertake long migrations mainly at night to avoid natural enemies. They face man made dangers from bright automobile and lighthouse lights which lure them then blind them causing collisions and deaths due to their speed.
President Coolidge backs Volstead Act enforcement moves
The United News reports President Coolidge does not oppose Prohibition but supports legislative recommendations and budget requests to strengthen enforcement. He has approved measures for additional authority and funds to enforce the Volstead Act effectively.
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Coolidge
United News
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C.P.R
Britain
Sweet Crower’s Place
Germany
Opportunities In
Manitoba Gold Mines
Prairies
Burbank the Wizard
C.N.R
C.N.R. Lines
Europe
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