Rust and drought plague Red River Valley crops this season
Barley and wheat cutting advance in the southern Red River Valley while northern yields lag. Rust has spread rapidly through wheat oats and barley with heavy losses in durum and overall poor expectations. Straw is abundant but heads are weakened. some crops are badly damaged by heat and rust, though late barley may still yield. Feed crops like sweet clover and alfalfa show vigor despite poor weather and harvest near.
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Red River Valley
Tanitova
Ceres
Creamery Butter Output in Manitoba July 1888
Production estimates show creamery butter in Manitoba for July 1888 ranged from ninety to twenty percent of the July 1934 output, indicating a wide variance in dairy yield between the two periods and suggesting historical fluctuations in butter production.
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Manitoba
New rust resistant wheat seed may be available by spring 1937
Wheat stem rust epidemic in the Prairie Provinces prompts progress update on rust resistant varieties. Dominion researchers report that several promising strains are being tested across western Canada and that by spring 1937 a few thousand bushels of seed may be distributed to farmers in two to four bushel lots.
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Prairie Provinces
Canada
L. H. Newman
Dominion
Dominion Experimental Farm
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Dominion Experimental Farms
Brandon
Manitoba
Indian Head
Saskatchewan
Dominion Rust Research Laboratory
Winnipeg
National Research Council
Western Universities
Departments of Agriculture
Imperial Oil distributes shares to Canadian employees
Imperial Oil Ltd. distributed 208,528 shares worth over 4 million dollars to 3,97 of its Canadian employees through the Fourth Co operative Investment Trust. Manitoba gained 3,458 shares, Saskatchewan 13,170, Alberta 21,849, with many workers becoming part owners. President G Harrison Smith stressed labor fairness and loyal staff as keys to efficient operation.
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Imperial Oil Ltd
Canada
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Tthe Company
Co-operative
G. Harrison Smith
Imperial Oil
Smith
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E. G. Elliott
Kirshner. Rabkin & CO
Gold Standard
Lake of the Woods
H.B
Imperial Oil Company
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