National Research Council to Receive Grant for Crop Problem Work
The National Research Council may receive 219000 of accumulated averages from government terminals earmarked for pliant pathology grain diseases and related crop work. Coordinated with the Department of Agriculture and universities, studies cover wheat quality frost resistance field crop diseases wireworms and genetic factors in corn and wheat breeding. A tuberculosis study is also progressing with full results due next autumn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Research Council
The
Research Council
Department of Agriculture
Federal
North American
University of Alberta
Federal Department of Agriculture
University
University of Saskatchewan
University of Manitoba
Robert Newton
Newton
E. H. Strickland
F. H. Roberts
A. H. R. Buller
A. T. Cameron
Canada
A. G. Klugh
E. A. Lloyd
A. E. Cameron
F. J. Lewis
J. R. Fryer
W P. Thompson
E. S. Hopkins
W. Sadler
J. F. Snell
Quebec
F. C. Harrison
G. W. Scarth
How To Order Patterns From Winnipeg Union
Pattern order guide from the Winnipeg Newspaper Union lists address at 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg. Pattern numbers are provided and sizes, names, towns are requested for precise ordering.
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Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
New Marketing Co operative Formed by Eastern Canadian Millers
Smaller eastern Canadian millers form a co operative marketing association after a Dominion Millers Association meeting endorses the plan. The move mirrors the Canadian Wheat Pool’s success and marks a new shift in agricultural marketing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canadian Wheat Pool
Canada
Dominion Millers’ Association
Privy Council Likely To Uphold Canada Duty Ruling
The Privy Council of Canada is unlikely to overturn the Board of Customs decision imposing a 25 percent duty on periodicals that are largely fiction and lack sufficient critical or descriptive content. The Wholesale News Dealers Association appealed the ruling, citing high speed fiction and sensational magazines mainly from the United States, but Parliament would be the only body able to reverse the decision already sustained by the Privy Council.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Privy Council of Canada
Board of Customs
Wholesale
News Dealers Association of Canada
Privy Council
Canada
United States
Customs Board
Parliament
Wheat Pasture Outperforms Rape For Hogs In Saskatchewan
An experiment at Rosthern Saskatchewan Experimental Station compared two hog groups fed similarly. Hogs on wheat pasture gained 17 pounds more daily and cost 5 cents less per pound than those on rape pasture. The 1927 station report notes wheat pasture produced a better finish despite similar hog types.
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Rosthern
Saskatchewan
Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
El Dorado Editor Ponders Married Man’s Candy Gifts
Society editor notes a local man from El Dorado has married three women in nine years. First wedding brought a fancy bonbons box, second a plain candy box, third a sack of popcorn. Editor muses whether love remains as grand or if writeups slip.
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S.e
Vitamins For Growing Chicks Prevents Leg Weakness
Growing chicks can avoid leg weakness with exposure to direct sunlight. If kept indoors for weeks they need feeds rich in vitamins, notably cod liver oil at 1-2 percent of mash. Egg yolks canned tomatoes and feeds like yellow corn and alfalfa hay supplement the vitamin supply.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dominion District
New Brunswick
Pemmican Trade Reaches Eskimos With Buffalo Supplies
A shipment of buffalo from Wainwright boosts Mackenzie District pemmican to 1088 head and is likely the final allotment. Pemmican from a large Alberta packing house is being sent to eastern ports for Eskimo use in the Eastern Arctic, with early consignments reaching Aklavik. A scientist notes coal improves with age, claiming no fuel matches an old coal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wainwright
Mackenzie River District
Alberta
Arctic
Aklavik
Rocky Mountain guides abandon chaps for riding breeches
Guides around Banff Springs Hotel drop the picturesque chaps after protests over a slur labeling them department store cowboys. They now favor plain riding breeches, while continuing to lead tours, protect riders, and manage camps for visiting parties along the mountain trails.
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Rocky Mountains
Banff Springs Hotel
Rocky Mountain Guides
Canadian Educationist praises high life standards in Dominion
Dr. EB A Hardy of Toronto representing 20,000 Canadian teachers addressed the National Education Association convention in Minneapolis. He highlighted Canada’s high material and spiritual standards, democratic government, wide public ownership, and cooperative spirit across English and French communities, noting Canada’s role in the British Empire and the League of Nations.
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Dominion
EB. A. Hardy
Toronto
Canadian Teachers’ Federation
Canada
National Ducation Association
United States
Minneapolis
Cornelia Adair
Richmond
Hardy
Dr. Hardy
Religious Education Council of Canada
Y.W.C.A
British Empire
League of Nations
Assembly of the League
Council of the League
Canada Assists In Building Up Forests
The Forest Service of the Canadian Government operates one of North America’s largest seed extraction plants at New Westminster British Columbia. Cones from Sitka spruce western yellow pine Douglas fir western red cedar and western hemlock are processed and shipped worldwide to aid forest rehabilitation programs begun in 1921 to assist the Imperial Forestry Commission in the British Isles. Canada ships大量 seeds to New Zealand and other nations as it expands seed collecting since 1917.
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North America
New Westminster
British Columbia
Forest Service
Department of the Interior
Imperial Forestry Commission
British Isles
Great Britain
New Zealand
Seeking To Preserve Big Grazing Tracts
Alberta ranchers face dwindling cattle on the prairie as grass vanishes. Dominion field husbandman E. S. Hopkins launches experimental work at Manyberries to restore native grass and identify grasses that will grow when seeded. A deferred and rotated grazing system will be piloted to save three million acres.
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Alberta
Dominion
E. S. Hopkins
Manyberries
Rockies
Building contracts in Canada hit record June total
Can ada awarded building contracts in June totaling 59 926 100 dollars, the second highest monthly total on record behind May. The six month total to June 30 1928 reached 256 257 300 dollars, up 33 9 percent from the first half of 1927. Eight Crusades into the Holy Land were conducted.
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Canada
Dominion
Tele Vision Demonstrates Color and Movement Broadcasts
J. L. Baird shows two advances in his television process. The transmission of movement in daylight and colored views enable broadcasting of action from open air events and color scenes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. L. Baird
If matches are made in heaven the shipping clerk must
A humorous note suggests even celestial matchups need earthly caution as a shipping clerk confronts a string of blunders in securing proper orders and deliveries.
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Jonson
Wong
Oso
W. N. Ue
New Marketing Organization
England
Baffinland
Ethic
North Sydney
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Greenland
Bache Peninsula
America
G. P. Mackenzie
Society
Eskimos
J. C. Sutherland
Transportation Western Lines
Canadian Pacific Railway
E. D. Cotterell
Manitoba
Mr. Sutherland
Calgary
B.C
Holy Land
Vikingen
Oslo
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