Canada Dairy Output Nears Mineral Production Value
A 1928 Canadian government report shows dairy production valued at 289.6 million dollars, with butter and cheese leading. Per capita butter consumption stands at about 2.04 pounds, the highest globally. The dairy sector traces to Champlain in 1608, with early exports starting 1861 and the first Ontario cheese factory in 1864. Canada has 2,833 dairy factories, including creameries and cheese plants, powered by over 286,000 milk suppliers.
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Cenedie
Bureau of Statistics
Canada
Dominion
Samuel de Champlain
France
Colony of
Quebec
Acadia
Nova Scotia
United States
Ontario
Insect War Resumes Fatemuologists Against Crops
Dominion Agriculture experts plan intensive campaigns for 1930 against field crop pests including grasshoppers wheat stem sawfly wireworms and cutworms and against forest pests such as aphids spruce spidermill and the box elder leaf roller The Publications Branch offers bulletin form pest information Henry resigns as Deputy Minister of Railways to become VP and GM of Beauharnois Light Heat and Power Company while remaining on the CN Board of Directors
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Dominion Department of Agriculture
Department of Agriculture
Beauhammois Light. Heat and Power Company
Henry
Canadian National Railways
Minster of Railways
National System
Trial Garden Plot for Floriculture Novelties
Consider reserving a small testing space in your garden for new flower varieties. Test three or four promising novelties each year by buying small seed packets from reliable firms and following culture directions. Monitor bloom onset and judge which introductions merit permanent use.
Young Billy Missing Playmate After Spanking
A neighbor recalls Jimmy sitting on the porch and explains Billie is alone after a spanking this morning. He is usually good for a while after discipline, so now Jimmy must play by himself.
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J Jimmy
Billie
Father in Water Tragedy Cited Life Insurance Doubt
A mother warns her child about deep water as the father goes far out. She reveals a life insurance policy as a motive or concern, suggesting insurance factors in the family’s risk, while the child notices the distant father. The exchange frames a potential peril with financial implication.
Spring jacket dress pattern for versatile wear
The pattern showcases a long bodice dress with an inset eggshell crepe panel, black bows, and piping, with jacket lining and collar in eggshell crepe. Options include sleeveless or short sleeve, tweed sportswear in brown and white, and several spring color prints in silk crepe and jersey. Size ranges 16 to 42 inches bust. pattern price 25 cents.
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W&h
Independence
How To Order Patterns Address Winnipeg Newspaper Unions
Pattern order details appear for a Winnipeg address at 375 McDermot Ave listing Pattern No coew Bis8 0. The snippet specifies contact or ordering steps for patterns through a local newspaper union office in Winnipeg.
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Winnipeg
McDermot Ave
Mummified Wheat From Egyptian Pyramids Held by Kansas Professor
Professor Melchers of Kansas State Agricultural College says he possesses genuine mummified wheat from the pyramids, claimed to be about 5,000 years old. He warns that some colored seeds marketed to tourists are fake, while the ancient grain in his possession is red from oxidation and crumbles to red dust under pressure.
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Melchers
Kansas State Agricultural College
Nile Valley
Ministry of Agriculture
Pyramids
Pyramid of
Sakhara
Live fox shipments rise across countries in 1929
Prince Edward Island saw a surge in live fox exports to foreign markets in 1929 with 2,558 animals shipped, up from 907 the previous year. Germany led imports with 759 foxes, followed by Sweden 669 and the United States 379 among others, while Canada as a whole purchased 2,731 foxes, Quebec alone 2,249.
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Prince Edward Island
Canada
Garden Island
Germany
Norway
United States
Sweden
England
Russia
France
Holland
Finland
Belgium
Scotland
Czech
Slovakia
Labrador
Quebec
Experimental farms under Dominion Government by province
The Dominion Government now administers 28 experimental farms with distribution across provinces: six in Quebec, four in British Columbia and Alberta, four in Saskatchewan, three in Ontario, two each in Manitoba Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, and one in New Brunswick.
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Quebec Province
British Columbia
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Ontario
Manitoba
Nova Scotia
Prince Edward Island
New Brunswick
Coke Production In Canada and Alaskan Coastline Fact
Canada produces coke mainly from coal with some by petroleum distillation and is widespread across provinces. The Alaskan coastline exceeds the earth’s circumference in length.
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Canada
Dominion
Alaskan
Traveler's Tales: Outlandish Travel Notions From Inns and Outs
Wm. M Myers, famed for the New York Evening World column Inns and Outs, shares a list of curious traveler beliefs. He claims Bologna predates Rome, Lake Lucerne resembles a broken stem, the lyre bird can bark, Aleppo sits atop an ancient city, the Gulf of Lyons bears a lion name, and San Diego is the oldest California city. He also cites Pitcairn Island's tiny size, marshmallow root origin, the lynx as cowardly, Vevey’s triangular plan, the strawberry’s rose lineage, flamingos fading colors, Innocent as pope name, Kansas surpassing New York and Maine, and Holland's small dimensions.
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Bologna
Italy
Rome
Lucerne
Switzerland
New South Wales
Aleppo
Syria
Gulf of Lyons
Mediterranean
India
San Diego
California
Philippine Islands
Pitcairn Island
Pacific
Australia
South America
Vevey
Zoological Parks
Lousiana
Florida
Innocent
Kansas
New York
Maine
Holland
Ignorance of England and Canada Revealed by Tourists
The author laments English readers rarely visiting national monuments like the Tower of London Westminster Abbey and St Pauls while foreign tourists plan such pilgrimages. Proximity breeds indifference and the pattern similarities extend to Canada as well.
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Rudyard Kipling
England
St. Paul's Cathedral
Shakespeare
Stoke Poges
Gray
London
Glasgow
Canada
County Health Unit Plan Aimed To Protect Rural Canada
An editorial advocates federal and provincial subsidies for County Health Units to shield rural Canada. It argues the plan will save lives and money, citing Quebec’s rural health success and the need to extend public health coverage to farmers and small towns nationwide. The piece warns of preventable diseases and praises nonpartisan support for health reform.
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Rural
Canada
House of Commons
Dominion
Quebec
Saskatchewan
British Columbia
Beauce County
Would Be Easier to Preach When I Grow Up
A small boy asks if he can be a preacher when grown. His mother encourages him, and he decides that going to church all his life is harder than standing and shouting.
Canadian Record Of Performance For Pure Bred Dairy Cattle
The twenty first report covers 1927 1928 and 1929 issued by the Dominion Department of Agriculture livestock branch. It lists animals on the honour roll up to November 1929 and provides class group records plus an index to owners with full standards registration rules and regulations.
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Canada
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Not Much For Surplus
A 1929 analysis of the Frisco lines shows the average dollar earned is divided among labor at 43.43 cents, fuel 5.9 cents, materials and supplies 14., taxes 5.65, interest 13.61, and other costs including rentals injuries loss and depreciation totaling 7 cents leaving 10.98 cents for dividends and surplus.
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Frisco
Prince of Wales in Bechuanaland Hunting Grounds Visit
The Prince of Wales stops at Maha Lapye Bechuanaland on a tour headed to hunting grounds. He chats on a platform with friends as white onlookers greet him and native vendors shout hoping for purchases of skins neck laces and carvings. Grandmother and Little Betty exchange a lighthearted farmhouse joke about a kitchenette.
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Prince of Wales
Mahalapye
Bechuanaland
Sunday School Lesson on Bearing False Witness
A Sunday school scene features Nettie, seven, defining bearing false witness as when no one is doing anything and someone tells it.
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Nettie
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Rk. A. C. Henry
Eric
Gutierrez
Madrid
Annebelle Worthington
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
Traveller's Tales
Wm. M Myers
New York Evening World
Central Experimental Farm
Ottawa
Guterrez
Carl Ben Eielson
Siberia
Betty
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