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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jun 19, 1920
Page
2
An editorial praises local gardeners and prairie farmers for steadfast optimism amid a harsh growing season. It notes cold springs, cutworm damage, and drought but credits gardeners for resilience, comparing their spirit to early settlers and highlighting their contribution to community prosperity.
A veteran author argues against hastily settling returned soldiers on small ten acre farms. He cites higher costs on small plots, the need for skilled farming, and risks of creating impoverished communities rather than viable livelihoods. He warns against utopian schemes and notes examples from Canada and Texas.
The author argues for assigning returning soldiers to land-based work near population centers, highlighting hort iculture and small holdings as viable, profitable futures. He cites New Zealand as a model with government dairies and canning factories, and urges experienced planners to tailor land settlement to veterans' realities, avoiding unsuitable menial roles.
A Bellevue reader recommends readers cut out and index notes as they appear weekly to save time. The writer notes many inquiries arrive weekly and replies by post cause delays. A correspondent already has a nearly complete indexed set and can quickly provide needed information.
A well with a capacity between 74 000 and 80 900 gallons per day was discovered on the water works property at St Thomas. The find is described as substantial and tied to the site's ongoing inspection.
A historical note explains American Blight or Woolly Aphid as a greenfly pest that coats infested trees with white cottony secretions, spreads by wind, and endangers orchards. It details life forms on stems roots and recommends sanitation, winter spraying with caustic soda and potash, paraffin emulsions, careful root treatment, and soil fumigation with allyl phide of carbon for severe cases.
Severe winter weather highlights the value of windbreaks around houses farms and public buildings. Plant trees on the windward side with mixed species and evergreens in several rows to block wind provide shelter shade and conserve heat for fuel efficiency.
Over the last three years a large rise in small fruit plantings has occurred as lines of tendency suggest this will continue. War time garden development has spurred a shift to vegetarian diets with fruits such as strawberries currants gooseberries and possibly arapes substituting for tree fruits. Smaller fruits are cheaper easier to grow and often more plentiful than tree fruits.
Guidance notes explain that peas needing support should be provided early in their growth. If stems fall over or break, peas struggle to climb and yields drop. Providing support reduces damage and stabilizes the crop.
The article notes that fruit names reveal origins across regions. Cherries trace to Ceragus Pontus, peaches and Persian apples to Persia, pistachios to Syria, chestnuts to Castagna in Megea, and plums from Damascus.
City residents are urged to start fruit gardens to ensure ripe quality fruit and save costs. The text notes common low quality of market fruit due to green picking and highlights home gardens and small farms as a solution. It emphasizes the economic and practical benefits of cultivating small fruits at home.
A fruit grower debates using commercial fertilizer to supplement stock manure. He argues balance of plant food with manure boosts yields and profits, noting land under cultivation requires fertilizers to reach high production without full reliance on manure. He also stresses plowing under crop refuse and humus-making crops to maintain soil organic matter.
The piece frames failures as heavy crops of weeds or droughts that can still enrich the soil. It urges perseverance, learning from past mistakes, and embracing untried possibilities rather than discouragement.
The author notes common sloppy labeling in gardens and suggests making neater labels from split sticks or old box lids. A thin coat of white paint improves visibility and many gardeners prepare and write labels in advance for a tidier, clearer planting layout.
Growers face the green fly damaging roses and nearby roses. Treatments include spraying with heroisene emulsion, massin solution, or nicotine to eliminate the pest without harming tender growth. Syringing with water or soap solutions provides only palliation.
A correspondent asks which vegetables best aid food shortage. The answer favors crops that store well, naming potatoes onions cabbage turnips carrots parsnips beef beans and peas. Tomatoes aid canning and pickling but are less reliable than the storers.
In answer to a query you can grow and bloom these in the outside border but they must be kept in the greenhouse during winter until danger of frost passes. Old plants can be put into the border and will bloom all summer. Varieties good for outside blooming include Brittania May Day Carola Euchaptress White Wonder.
The notice notes that want ads in the daily issue attract broad readership among readers and advertisers, highlighting the newspaper’s reach and the expectation of wide visibility for classified listings.
The article discusses marketing poultry from small farms, noting varying practices, the shift toward organized systems, and the importance of proper processing. It covers killing, shaping, packing, and fattening, including guidance on turkey fattening, feeding, housing, and water, with emphasis on maintaining quality and an attractive presentation.
During moulting hens stop laying. A hen may lay eyes and moult together but it harms health. Feed sparingly for two weeks as old feathers shed, then switch to a nitrogen rich diet. Include hemp seed at night and a pinch of sulphur in soft food each morning. Add a stomach strength supplement in drinking water.
A historical note argues poultry products are a human necessity not a luxury. It cites high feed costs uncertain markets and reduced production causing a deficiency in poultry supplies.
A reader shares how feeding chickens with boiled potato parsnip cabbage and garden scraps yields about thirty two eggs per week from eight birds. The note highlights using small gardens to support poultry and reduce waste.
The article warns against placing fowls on high nearby roosts, noting repeated vertical drops as birds descend. Each floor contact jars the birds and may injure their delicate egg producing organs, reducing productivity.
Guidance on perch height for animals states heavy breeds require no more than six inches above the floor while lighter breeds may have a maximum height of two feet.
The article explains natural phosphates in soil as the slowest plant food to become available. It notes roots must contact dissolving phosphate particles directly to access nutrients, emphasizing the challenge of uptake from solid phosphates in soil.
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