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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Sep 03, 1908
Page
5
A Washington dairyman describes two satisfactory round barns built on a slope with silos centers and multiple floors. He notes labor savings, 40 percent more space, better light, stable temperatures, and tornado resistance, urging hiring a proven builder familiar with round architecture.
Experiments at the Mississippi station show alfalfa pasture alone yields little more than maintenance for growing hogs. Adding 1 to 2 percent of hog weight in grain improves gains. Cowpeas without grain outperform other crops, with one acre producing 350 pounds of pork on thin hill land and 48 pounds on a rich valley farm. Hogs began grazing when peas were about nine inches tall.
J J Vernon notes feed alfalfa to pigs in a slatted rack above a flat trough with 2.5 inch spacing and eighteen inch extension beyond the rack. Coarse stems can be fed to stock cattle. D H Otis reports dairy trials showing alfalfa can replace at least half of dairy grain, lowering milk production costs.
At a special Collegiate Board meeting in Moose Jaw the Navin Bros tender for the Collegiate Institute was accepted at 93713 dollars. Six bids were received from Navin Bros Moose Jaw W H Ellis & Son Moose Jaw Smith Bros & Wilson Regina S A Covert Moose Jaw Davidson Pros Winnipeg Thos Kelly Winnipeg Carter Hall Co Winnipeg. Smith Bros & Wilson offered a 6000 savings if Bedford stone was supplied for Tindal stone.
Hon W R Motherwell Saskatchewan agriculture minister wed Miss Nate Gillespie in a noon ceremony at File Hill School. Only close relatives friends and pupils witnessed the event, marking seven years of bride’s teaching and missionary work at the school.
The first rain in nine weeks fell today in Cranbrook and ended nearby fires. A violet storm swept Fernie last night, wrecking several shacks and tents. No injuries or accidents were reported.
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