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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 06, 1928
Page
8
The harvest is described as music for the West with favorable weather and a forecasted record wheat yield. Despite hail storms in some areas, overall conditions are excellent, boosting farmer confidence, merchants, manufacturers, and the economy as a whole as the wheat crop could represent about a fifth of the Dominion's primary output.
A report notes a farmer threshed over five thousand bushels of wheat and about a thousand of oats within two weeks. The wheat yield averaged around thirty bushels per acre, with three Northern varieties identified in the mix.
A wartime era digest reports rising prices for registered seed in Canada, with wheat and mink pelts leading gains. It notes the High Commissioner's dinner in London, where two eight gallon tubs of delicacy were delivered, and outlines Canada’s growing seed grower clubs, air courier packages, and a Dominion Day unveiling by the Governor General at Quebec’s Chateau Frontenac.
A ship named Le Moyne, part of Canada Steamship Lines, broke prior load records by handling 28 000 bushels of wheat into the SS Lg Moxie. The Great Lakes vessel, 61 feet long and 12 feet draft, achieved speeds faster than eight hours thirty minutes for similar cargo.
Sunday School Sunday afternoon at par Church with evening choir practice in the late afternoon followed by Reds game and Thursday session at 2 pm.
Tf you used an extra horse or team for harvest.
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