Wheat Stem Rust Seen as Canada’s Top Farm Problem
Former Dominion ceralist and leading breeder Dr. Charlie Saunders warns that wheat stem rust threatens Canadian cereal crops. He calls for rust resistant, high yield, drought tolerant wheat varieties and extensive prairie research stations funded by substantial government investment. Saunders notes seventeen rust types across the prairies and credits Marquis,Prelude, and Ruby as influential varieties, with Garnet and Reward recently tested. He also highlights his return to arts after years in civil service and study in Paris.
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Canada
Charlie Saunders
Dominion
Saunders
Prairies
Prairie Provinces
Dr. Saunders
Paris
Producing Clean Milk Guarding Against A Contamination
A 1924 report from the Dominion Agricultural Bacteriologist emphasizes clean milk via a clean pail covered pail and clean animal. Pails should be washed secured and steam treated if possible and dirt kept from the milk. Manure kept away from animals cows brushed milker hands washed and foremilk discarded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dominion Agricultural Bacteriologist
Sudens
Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
Oil Pollution Clash Over Sea Life Says Reports Differ
The London Sunday Pictorial notes fishermen blame oil discharges for declining catches while a fisheries department report says oil does not injure sea life. It concedes oil pollution is killing many seabirds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fisheries Department
London Sunday Pictorial
Canadian Bond Sales Fall Behind Last Year to September 19
Canadian bond sales for the year to September 19 totalled 415 357 311, down from 505 066 267 in the same period of 1924. By destination, Canada held 194 633 975, the United States 192 745 000, and Great Britain 27 974 333. A stray note mentions differences between med diing and investigating and a quirky fact about the largest insect, the elegant beetle, in Venezuela.
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Canada
United States
Great Britain
Has Commercial Value of the Peanut
The peanut is rapidly becoming a highly valuable commercial article used to make 145 foods and useful products. Peanut butter, peanut milk, breakfast foods, flours, oils, soaps, margarine, inks and glycerine are among outputs. Peanuts grow underground and are harvested with plows and specialized machinery.
Prince of Wales wins special prize at Edmonton
A gold medal was awarded to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales for the best Shorthorn bull at the 1925 Edmonton summer exhibition. The prize bull King of the Fairies earned the medal, which has been sent to W. L. Carlyle of Pekisko Alberta. Japan has bought 150000 tons of Canadian wheat, triple last year’s volume, to run flour mills through December.
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Edmonton
H.R
Prince of Wales
Japan
A. E. Bryan
Canada
British Journalists Laud Canada Tour Observations
A party of ten British editors toured from Atlantic to Pacific as guests of E W Beatty of the Canadian Pacific Railway. They praised Canada’s opportunities for settlers and favorable conditions seen across the Dominion before sailing for England at September’s end. The journalists included Buist, Martin, Renton, Read, Chapter, Jory, Colwill, Sayers, Petersen, and Capt. Askham.
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Canada
Atlantic
Pacific
E W. Beatty
Canadian Pacific Railway
England
Dominion
John A. Buist
Glasgow Herald
Hugh Martin
London Daily News
W. S. Renton
London Daily Chronicle
H. S. Read
South Wales News
Cardiff
James F. Chapter
Westminster Gazette
London
Charles J. Jory
London Daily Telegraph
R. A. Colwill
Eastern Morning News
Plymouth
John Sayers
Belfast Telegraph
F. G. R. Petersen
the Times
Capt. E. Askham
C.B
Morning Post
Canadian Butter Gains Foothold in British Market
Canadian butter quality and grading have improved, with Bristol as a key import hub reporting satisfaction. If Canada continues shipping good fresh butter, it could overtake other suppliers in the English market, affecting competition.
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Bristol
United Kingdom
Department of Trade and Commerce
Canada
Whaling Industry Sees Strong Summer Harvest and Demand
A total of 275 whales were harpooned this past summer by steam whalers of the Consolidated Whaling Corporation of British Columbia. The industry shows improvement with rising demand for whale oil by-products and canned whale meat, valued as a delicacy by West African natives.
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Consolidated Whaling Corporation of
British Columbia
West Africa
Paradox as British goods stamped by non British mail machines
A paradoxical slogan asserts British goods are best yet the postal machines stamping them are not made in Britain. The text notes no British firm manufactures such stamping machines.
Meat and Bone By-Products Knowledge Bulletin Issued
The Dominion department of agriculture published a fourteen page bulletin by Dr. F. T. Shutt and Miss N. Hamilton detailing meat and bone by products. It defines contents such as meat meals tankage bone meal and fish meals and highlights their high nitrogen and phosphate content and use for swine and poultry. The bulletin stresses freshness soundness and guaranteed analysis and notes standards for protein fat and phosphate of lime across product classes.
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Dominion
F. T. Shutt
5. N. Hamilton
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
Insect World Zoo Opens Near Tuxedo New York
The 40 acre insect zoo opens near Tuxedo New York. Dr Frank E Luiz curator of entomology at the American Museum of Natural History created 836 species from his backyard collection.
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Tuxedo
New York
Frank E. Luiz
American Museum of National History
Tree Planting Spurs Prairie Population Stabilization
The Dairy Produce Act amendments empower the governor in council to bar graded butter and revoke grade certificates for misbranding or moulded products. The Canadian Forestry Association reports its tree planting car reached 7,077 miles of prairie rails with 58,500 attendees at 438 meetings, aiding 80,000,000 trees planted by 45,000 farmers, enhancing farm production and home life.
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Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
Canadian Forestry Association
Prairies
Angus G. Gooch
Manufacturing establishments in Canada rise to 22 642 in 1923
A 1923 bulletin from the bureau of statistics notes 22 642 operating manufacturing establishments in Canada, up from 22 541 in 1922. Gross production value reached 2 781 165 614 dollars, a 12.27 percent year over year gain, with province wide totals listed for Prince Edward Island to British Columbia and the Yukon.
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Canada
Bureau of Statistics
Princes Edward Island
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Quebec
Ontario
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
British Columbia
The
Yukon
Apple Crop Yield Forecast for the Okanagan
The year’s Okanagan apple crop is projected at 1 972 300 boxes according to provincial field experts. Last year’s total, including by products, reached 2 160 509 boxes. The Royal Veterinary College in London is a leading institution for animal care and injuries. France freed its enslaved population in 1848, more than a decade before U S emancipation.
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Okanagan
Royal Veterinary College
London
France
United States
Saskatchewan Co op Shipments Reach England Butter Milestone
The Saskatchewan Co operative Creameries report shipments to England totaling more than 4 900 000 pounds of butter this year, according to general manager A P MacLean.
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Saskatchewan
England
A. P. MacLean
Record Grain Car Movement Sets Canadian National Pace
Canadian National Railway reports September 1925 grain deliveries exceed combined totals of 1924 and 1923, with 18,913 cars, 52,207,000 bushels marketed, and 27,878 cars loaded. Weekly peaks reached 6,149 cars unloaded at the lakehead as 60 boats cleared for eastern markets.
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Lakehead
Canadian National Railways
Winnipeg
Canadian National
Canadian National Western Lines
Dress Turkeys Before Shipping Whenever Possible
Dominion department bulletin advises sending turkeys to market dressed when possible. Starve birds for 24 hours before killing, give fresh water freely to cleanse intestines and improve flavor, then thoroughly cool and firmly pack dressed birds for transit.
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Sask Atchewan
Waldron
Minor
Taylor
Sweet Clover Pasture Utilization Reported By Brandon Farm
A Department of Agriculture bulletin notes sweet clover provides high carrying capacity as pasture with no ill effects on cattle. Milk production remains stable and animals show no health decline. The feed is soft when used alone, so access to dry roughage is advised to prevent rank growth. It tolerates pasturing well and may use first year crops. Hogs may be turned on when plants reach nine inches high for good results.
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Brandon
Publications Branch
Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
Alberta Officials Back Plan for World Poultry Congress
Hon Geo Hoadley and J H Hare represented Alberta at a Toronto meeting on organizing the world poultry congress to be held in Ottawa next year. Hoadley urged provincial committees to cooperate with the central team, and the plan won support amid efforts to ensure a successful congress. The report notes the delegates discussed provincial coordination and public involvement.
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Alberta
Geo. Hoadley
J. H. Hare
Toronto
Ottawa
Mr. Hoadley
Central Committee
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Venezuela
Mary Foods
King of Fairies
Shorthorn
Motorist
Trip Acros
Britain
B. C
Pacific Coast
Forestry
Department of Interior
Indian Head
Sutherland
C.N
Vancouver
Turkey
World Poultry Congress
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