Wider Seed Distribution Key to Profitable Farming
The article argues for fewer cereal varieties and better seed selection and cleaning. It highlights that few farmers use the best varieties with best seed-cleaning methods, while many cannot identify their crop varieties or assess merit. It notes seed purity and variety protection as crucial, and cites Canada’s producers and departments promoting Registered and Certified seed distribution.
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Canada
Departments of Agriculture
Unusual Traffic Problem for Peiping Rickshaw Men
Peiping's 30 000 rickshaw pullers faced a new rule requiring them to go around intersections rather than cut shortest routes. Illiteracy hindered understanding, policemen объясн explanations, and most argued about the longer path. White arrows helped, yet confusion persisted for a week.
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Peiping
Kept Her Word at Wellesley Class Reunion
Dialogue recalls a Wellesley classmate Winifred and a convert from school plans, a husband remark, and a surprised reunion. Also notes two Russians climbing Avach volcano in Kamchatka, revealing the crater and its size. Mentions global surplus of oils and fats and states unloaded guns as deadly weapons.
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Avach
Kachatka
Office Boy Delivers Absurd Post Misprint
The story recalls directors arguing over a printed fact from the Saturday Evening Post. In a rush, they summon a nervous office boy who returns with a sardine sandwich in a bag, misinterpreting the task and prompting skeptical remarks about office boys’ errors.
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Saturday Evening Post
The
New Yorker
Canada Rejects Dominion Status Aim in Magazine View
In a British magazine column, Colonel Thomas Polson predicts Canada will become the dominating country of the Americas within about fifty years. Canadians, however, reject dominance, preferring to maintain their own national existence and focus on their own affairs while avoiding imperial ambitions and European war debts. Edmonton Journal.
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Thomas Polson
Americas
Canada
Cana
United States
Europe
Atlantic
Edmonton Journal
Canada Tops Rhodesia Fertilizer and Food Supplies
Canada was the largest supplier of fertilizers to Southern Rhodesia in 19 and the third principal supplier of foodstuffs during the same period, highlighting its dominant role in regional trade.
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Anada
Southern Rhodesia
London Shops Offer Photo Preview of Gowns and Jewelry
Fashionable London shops invite customers to be photographed wearing gowns and jewelry they consider purchasing to study printed images before making final choices.
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London
Butter Creameries Studied By Prairie Provinces Officials
The Dominion Department of Agriculture with Prairie provinces analyzes operations of about 100 creameries in Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta. Study aims to boost plant efficiency by examining costs management financing sales and policies. Prairie butter output totaled 105 851 200 pounds in 1933 with creameries contributing 62 626 200 pounds and Manitoba dominated prize results at the Canadian National Exhibition.
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Canada
Prairie Provinces
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Agriculture Departments
Prairie
Western Canada
Toronto
Drought Injures Prairie and Maritime Hay Supplies
Privation hits regions from the Prairies to Nova Scotia as hay and grain crops fall short. In Guysborough Antigonish and Pictou counties hay is nearly unavailable while Yarmouth and Shelburne face smaller deficits. The Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture plans to help with winter feed.
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Prairies
Canada
Guysborough
Antigonish
Pictou
Yarmouth
Shelburne
Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture
Scientists Convert Wood To Glucose In German Factory
A Mannheim Rheinau plant backed by the Nazi government converts timber into glucose through dilute acid treatment. Dr. Bergius and Dr. Ormandy lead the process turning wood into sugar, yeast, and other products, with Britain eyeing 3 million acres of potential food supply. The glucose reportedly tastes like sherbet and could replace meals in emergencies.
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Mannheim-Rheinau
Germany
Lancashire
Friedrich Bergius
W. R. Ormandy
Wigan
London
Bergius
Dr. Ormandy
Dr. Bergius
Britain
Ormandy
Hitler
Rheinau
Italy Weighs Ban on Car Horns to Cut Street Noise
Italy considers abolishing automobile horns after tests in Milan and England show benefits from night bans. Drivers currently use electric sirens and rubber bulb horns, with a nightly 11 pm no honking rule and a recent week of silence reporting no accidents.
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Italy
England
Milan
Barabarians Advertising Theme Praises Media
Harold Vanderlinder secretary of the Wallaceburg Ontario Kinsmen Club told members newspapers are the greatest advertising medium. He traced ads to cave painters and noted the barbers pole and Roman barbers used similar promotional signs.
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Harold Vanderlinder
Wallaceburg
Ontario
Vanderlinder
Biggest clock to rise on Chiuhua peak in Anhwei China
Buddhist groups plan Asia's largest clock on Chiuhua mountain top in Anhwei with a 35000 pound mechanism. The copper face will bear the entire Buddhist scripture about the Earth God, and the first tower storey will house his image. Six societies fund the project, due to be finished by mid 1936. Also notes England hosts over 200 greyhound racing tracks.
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All Asia
Chiuhua
Anhwei
Canada Not Infested By Japanese Beetle
The Japanese beetle, a highly destructive foreign insect, has not been found in Canada. Traps using geraniol and eugenol were set in the Niagara Peninsula Toronto Montreal Saint John and Yarmouth to detect invasion but yielded no captures. Public interest was high as residents submitted insects for identification, though none were the Japanese beetle.
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Canada
Niagara Peninsula
Toronto
Montreal
Saint John
N.B
Yarmouth
N.S
Philadelphia
United States
Dominion
Prince of Wales and Queen Victoria on equality in Heaven
As a seven year old, the future King asked if kings and queens exist in Heaven. Artist Mrs. Gertrude Massey replied that all are equal there. The Prince noted that Queen Victoria, his great grandmother, might not approve of the idea.
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Prince of Wales
Gertrude Massey
Massey
Queen Victoria
Advertising boosts British Post Office business says Wood
Sir Kingsley Wood the postmaster general told Leicester advertising men that the recent record gains in the British post office trade result from persistent advertising. A new synthetic oil for aeroplane and other motors has been discovered in old-fashioned paraffin.
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Kingsley Wood
Leicester
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Manchukuo
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