Moisture Needs For Wheat Growers Revealed By Experiments
Experiments at the Dominion experimental station Swift Current by E S Hopkins and the late S Barnes show wheat requires 30 to 80 tons of water per bushel. They note average western rainfall, summer fallow moisture, root depth to five to six feet, and that crops exhaust soil moisture by harvest. Rain moves downward. moisture movement upward is negligible. Evaporation losses and weed competition reduce yields. heat and wind alone don’t injure wheat without moisture. Wheat uses little water until four to six inches high, then consumption soars from late spring to July 30.
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E.S. Hopkins
Dominion Field Husbandman
S Barnes
Dominion
Swift Current
Prairie Tree Planting Effort Expands Across Prairie Provinces
In April 1936 the Tree Planting Division of the Dominion Agriculture Department supplied over 767000 trees free for rehabilitation plantings in the three Prairie Provinces. About 460000 trees supported field shelter demonstrations and 166000 went to Agricultural Improvement Associations. Municipal projects at Kindersley and other centres received thousands of seedlings as part of the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation program launched in 1935 to combat drought and soil drift.
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Dominion Experimental Farms
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Prairie Provinces
Conquest
Sask
Porter Lake
Alta
A 90 year old Australian Scotswoman completes 67th Australia Britain voyage
Mrs. Robertson Bull, 90, has made the Australia to Britain route 67 times in 64 years since migrating from Scotland in 1872. She notes sea travel keeps her fit and expects to visit Scotland one last time, recounting the shift from sail-powered ships like the Great Britain to modern steam.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Robertson Bull
Australia
Britain
Great Britain
Bricks From Waste Discovered in England by Lyndall Forse
Yeovil inventor Lyndall Forse develops a process to make bricks of all colors from slag and mining waste. Government departments back the method as a plant planned for Radstock in Somerset coal fields.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lyndall Forse
Yeovil
England
Radstock
Somerset
Navigation by Dead Reckoning and Radio Direction Finder
An article notes navigation has advanced to near exact science with captains steering liners across the Atlantic by dead reckoning aided by radio direction finding. The piece emphasizes precision and the role of technology in long sea voyages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Southampton
Liverpool
Wheat Scarcity Fears Rise From Poor U S Harvests
A Vancouver Province synopsis notes three poor U S wheat crops and a drought threatening a fourth. Winter and spring yields may total 607 million bushels, below domestic needs, with world surplus at a nine year low. It warns scarcity would raise prices and harm broader prosperity, urging shared progress.
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Egypt
United States
Republic
Canada
Vancouver Province
Secret Roman Mint Found Along Danube Frontier
Archaeologists uncovered a secret mint near the lower Danube on the Hungarian frontier where counterfeit silver coins were produced nearly two millennia ago. The site reveals a hidden Roman underworld and suggests many coins in collections are forged rather than genuine.
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Lower Danube
Danube
Remarkable Advances in Disease Resistant Cereals
The Dominion Department of Agriculture reports major progress in breeding disease resistant cereals and oats. Cereal Division notes include rust and smut resistant wheats, stronger straw lines, and barley suited to regions, with ongoing provincial breeding at Branch farms and stations.
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Dominion Department of Agriculture
Canada
Charlottetown
Dominion Rust Research Laboratory
Winnipeg
Canadian Seeds Growers’ Association
When Man Gets Melancholy Its All About Small Pains
A passage from Atlantic Monthly argues melancholy is a severe, unheroic response to minor hurts. It claims people feel powerless against small pains and cannot find nobility in everyday annoyances.
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Atlantic Monthly
A Lawyer Quip About an Elderly Husband
In a courtroom barbed exchange a lawyer asks about the client’s husband and the client quips he is so old he gets winded playing chess. The witty line underscores sharp courtroom banter.
Open Air Crochet Blouse and Skirt Patterns
Crochet blouse and matching plain skirt patterns advertised for sizes 16-18 and 38-40. Instructions, illustrations, and stitch details included. prices 20 cents each or 40 cents for both. Requests to Household Arts Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union, 175 McDermot Ave. Winnipeg. No Alice Brooks pattern book published.
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Household Arts Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Alice Brooks
Problem Of Education College Principal Critiques Teaching Methods
Dr G W Kerby principal of Mount Royal College Calgary criticizes current exams as detrimental to pupil development. Speaking in Toronto after attending a Canadian National Federation of Home and School Associations convention he argues education should develop life personality and thinking not just rote parroting. He warns democracy hinges on whether education remains a rigid system or a vehicle for living.
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G. W. Kerby
Mount Royal College
Calgary
Toronto
Kerby
Canadian National Federation of Home and School Associations
Midget Tree Bears Apples at RHS Exhibition
An unusually small bearing apple tree from the Royal Horticultural Society in Westminster stood at 1 percent inches high. The one year old specimen, grown from a seed, produced four apples with a total weight of 614 pounds.
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Royal Horticultural Society
Westminster
England
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