Saskatchewan University Expands Research With Surplus Wheat Pool Funds
President Walter Murray announced at convocation that Saskatchewan will use surplus Wheat Pool funds to create an agricultors' research foundation providing about $15,000 yearly. Grants support plant and animal disease research, marketing studies, scholarships, soil surveys, and new departments, with partnerships from Canada Cement and the Dominion Research Council.
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Walter Murray
Te University of
Manitoba Free Press
Saskatchewan
Mn Record Ae
Canada Cement Company
Dominion Research Council
Delury
University of Manitoba
Universiy
Trees On the Prairies Shipments Grow Across Provinces
The Dominion forestry staff at Sutherland Saskatchewan shipped millions of baby trees for shelter groves in Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta. Since inception the station has delivered over 17 million trees by fall 1923 with 1924 and 1925 totals around 2 million each year and 3.355 million shipped this year as government aid fluctuates with conditions and settlement movements.
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Dominion Forestry Farm
Sutherland, Sask
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Department of Agriculture
Sutherland Station
English humor in wartime strikes noted by Tribune
The Chicago Tribune remarks on scenes of joy among volunteers, ladies cooking sausages, dukes and warrants guiding locomotives, strikers cheering soldiers, and police watching a football game with bobbies. The piece contrasts British humor with American restraint.
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United States
Chicago Tribune
May Enlarge B C Pulp Plant Under Pressure to Expand
Lawrence Killam president of the British Columbia Pulp and Paper Company says successful chemical research on hemlock cellulose could lead to doubling or tripling the plant size. He spoke to the Foreign Trade Bureau of the Vancouver Board of Trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence Killam
British Columbia Pulp and Paper Company
Foreign Trade Bureau
Board of Trade of Vancouver
Toads Bats and Snakes Longer Without Feed Than Others
A report notes that toads bats and snakes extend their length more than any other creatures when deprived of food. The observation highlights adaptive changes in size during fasting periods observed in various species.
Canadian Dairy Farmer Beats New Zealand in Cheese Market
Investigations by the Dairy and Cold Storage Branch show Canadian cheese exporters earn higher prices than New Zealand. Canadian milk producers receive about 14 percent more of the selling price in Britain, and Canadian farmers get 3.22 dollars per dollar of cheese sold in London versus 68.73 cents for New Zealand. J F Singleton notes Montreal buyers and country boards help secure good prices for Canadian cheese.
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Department of Adventture
Ottaw
New Zealand
London
Great Britain
J. F. Singleton
Montreal
Dominion Supplants U S as World Wheat Granary
The International Institute of Agriculture in Rome reports total exportable wheat for the period August 1 to July 31 at 135,800,000 bushels, with import needs at 625,000,000 bushels and carryover of 116,000,006 bushels. The United States falls to fourth among five leading exporters, behind Canada, Argentina, Australia, and India.
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Dominion
International Institute of Agriculture
Rome
United States
Institute of Agriculture
The
Republic
Canada
Argentina
Australia
India
Minerals Essential For Heavy Producing Cows On Pasture
Breeders' Gazette advises mineral supplementation for winter-depleted cows going to pasture. Salt is essential and a palatable mix of steamed bone meal lime and salt self fed should meet needs, with added potassium iodide in goitre regions. Dose: two grains per head daily mixed with feed, via a solution sprinkled on feed.
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Breeders’ Gazette
Seed Testing Labs Support Canadian Agriculture
The seed branch of the Dominion Department of Agriculture runs seed testing laboratories in Quebec Ottawa Toronto Winnipeg and Calgary. In the year ending March 31 1925 they handled over forty thousand samples of seed feeding stuffs and fertilizers. Tests verify purity and germination while analyses expose misrepresentation and adulteration to protect honest trade and improve quality of commercial feeding stuffs and fertilizers across Canada.
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Dominion Department of Agriculture
Quebec
Ottawa
Toronto
Winnipeg
Calgary
Canada
Interesting Canadian facts from government statistics
Compiled by K H Coats shows Canada’s population near 364.20 million with 1901 population of 5 371 000, a 75 percent rise in 25 years. Homes total 3 001 512 with 62 percent owned, 38 percent rented, average family 4.62, male to female ratio 163 to 10, crime low, education spending over 120 million yearly. Natural resources rank high as a national asset and Canada remains a “new” continent. Agriculture arable area at least 200 million acres with half unoccupied, quarter improved. Canada ranks twenty fifth in population but sixth in trade with US and exports per capita second. Nearly half of Canada’s trade is with the United States.
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K H. Coats
Canada
United States
Saskatchewan Poultry Pool Plans Flock Cull and Ship
The Saskatchewan Eeg and Poultry Pool will offer a calling service to weed out flocks and ship culled non profit hens. A carload will require about 2000 hens with live shipments from country points. A substantial initial cash payment at delivery is planned.
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Saskatchewan Eeg and Poultry Pool
Prizes For Bacon Type Sow At Brandon Summer Fair
The Brandon Summer Fair adds a farmers competition prize by Swift Canadian Co. Ltd. to judge bacon type grade or purebred sows over one year with at least four spring litters. Pigs must be sired by a pure-bred bacon type boar and may join the six pigs group from recognized Joys' and Girls' Club if regulations are met.
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Brandon
Swift Canadian Co., Ltd
Aay
Joys
Almost Too Perfect Donald Brown Cake and Cookie Expert
Almost Too Perfect Donald Brown, one year old, son of Mr and Mrs Clifton Brown, stars in a home baking routine as he makes cakes and cookies for his mother and handles frosting. He cleans his room and helps with house chores and outdoor tasks. Ottawa builds new exhibition halls for the World Poultry Congress 1997 with floor plans ready for exhibitors to apply via Ernest Rhoades, Congress Secretary.
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Donald Brown
Clifton Brown
Ottawa
Ernest Rhoades
Congress
Experimental Farm
Sickle Found Deep Inside Elm Tree in England
Working men at Wolverton sawmills uncovered a complete sickle buried in the heart of an elm dated about 80 years old. The tree, grown in Bedfordshire, likely hid the tool for around seven decades, indicated by roughly seventy rings outside the artifact.
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Wolverton
England
Bedfordshire
Young Leghorn Won Egg-Laying Contest
Records from Buenos Aires show a young White Leghorn pullet won the Argentine egg laying contest with 162 eggs in eight months. The best Wyandotte hen laid 231 eggs. a team of six Wyandottes totaled 614 eggs.
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Pullet
Department of Commerce
Buenos Aires
Scouts Plant 85000 Trees in New York State Forests
Boy Scout troops in New York state planted no less than 85,000 trees last year with about half that number in Pennsylvania. Where the minimum age limit of sixteen was met, the scouts also patrolled forests and helped fight fires.
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Boy Scout
New York State
Humber
Pennsylvania
Swans Flourish Along Mid-Atlantic Coast After Ban
Over ten years since the hunting ban, researchers count more than 15 000 swans islanding waters along Maryland Virginia and North Carolina.
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Maryland
Virginia
North Carolina
Early Hudson Bay Exploration Documents Unearthed
Ulster Record Office papers from the Dobbs and Carrickfergus collection reveal early Hudson Bay exploration aids. Henry Kelsey’s 1683 1722 Hudson Bay Company journal details voyages to Hayes River and Northern Manitoba. Dobbs campaigns against the Hudson Bay Company influenced Admiralty action and Churchill River explorations. Regina Leader.
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Lebastie Tegraph
Hudson Hay
Hudson Bay
Ulster Record Office
Dobbs
Art Carrickfergus
Arthne Dobbs
North Carolina
Hudson Bay Company
Pacific Ocean
Belfast Lough
Henry Kelsey
Hayes River
Nelson
Prairie
Manitoba
Kelsey
Hudson Uas Company
British Admiralty
Kings Furnace
Churchill River
Mminster
Bobbs
Regina
Weed Menace Tackled at Alberta Convention
More than eighty municipalities attended a weed supervisors and inspectors convention in Olds Alberta to plan a vigorous summer campaign. The meeting highlighted strong cooperation between municipalities and the provincial department of agriculture and expected further progress in clearing the province of the weed menace.
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Olds
Alberta
Department of Agriculture
Vanderbilt loses fortune trying to start three newspapers
The Brantford Expositor reports Cornelius Vanderbilt lost about a million and a half dollars as he attempted to launch three newspapers. It also notes Kingston Standard warns fruit growers not to spray trees in full bloom to protect honeybees essential for pollination.
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Brantford Expositor
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Kingston Standard
Victoria Tower Largest Square Tower in the World
The Victoria Tower in Westminster London stands as the biggest and highest square tower. It measures 75 feet square and rises 336 feet tall, a notable feat of imperial architecture.
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Victoria Tower
Westminster
London
C P R Leaders Depart for England to Plan New Ocean Liners
E W Beatty president of Canadian Pacific Railway leaves Windsor Station Montreal aboard the Empress of Scotland for England and the continent. The trip aims to finalize plans for two new Atlantic ocean liners with support from a large group of CP directors and officers.
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E. W. Beatty
Canadian Pacific Railway
Windsor Station
Montreal
Quebec
England
Continent
Beatty
Atlantic
Canadian Pacific
Windsor
Mr. Beatty
W. R. Mecinnes
Traffic
Sir Herbert Holt
F. W. Molson
Ross McMaster
F. E. Meredith
K.C
A. D. MecTier
J. J. Scully
W. A. Wainwright
Canadian Pacific Steam
Old Timer Discusses Bill's Career Change
In a chatty exchange from the Iowa Green Gander the Old Timer recalls Bill studying mechanical engineering and reveals he now works for the railroad. The second timer notes Bill assists the wheel-tapping inspector checking each car for safety.
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Bill
A Min Quirky Rivalry over Collecting Bills
A min seldom meets an other map who has a fad for collecting bills. The line hints at a playful clash between two characters over money collecting interests.
Preservation Of Eggs Through Guaranize Process
The Guaranize method dips eggs in a boiling wax and oil solution for storage. An experiment in a cellar shows Guaranized eggs remained in better condition after fifteen weeks and tasted better, while non processed eggs developed a musty flavor after ten weeks.
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Dominion Poultry Husbandman
Enormous Flower Grows In Sumatra
A Sumatra bloom reaches one yard across with five large creamy petals and a purple center. The single fully developed flower weighs fifteen pounds and would be unwieldy to carry home for a bouquet.
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Sumatra
Waiter Pressed for Order as Pair Dines
A waiter asked a pretty girl and her companion about the lobster. The florid middle‑aged man urged no constraint, and she replied that he could order whatever he liked. The moment highlights a tense dining scene.
Marquis wheat grown on vast lands from a 1903 hybrid seed
The Marquis wheat variety, now covering about 600,000 acres, traces its origin to a single head produced in 1903 through hybridization.
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Marquis
Uncertain priorities shape perceived importance
The statement suggests that perceived significance varies with context, favoring what feels more impactful in a broader scheme. It hints at relative value judgments and the subjective weighting of events or ideas.
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University of Saskatchewan
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Sutherland
B.C
Saskatchewan Poultry
Vermiont Boy
Leghorn
Hudson Bay Area
F. T. Shutt
C.P.R
Ernest Alexander
W. M. Neal
J. K. Savage
C. E. E. Ussher
EF. de H. Panet
W. Maughan
W. G. Annable
Wm. Ballantyne
J. T. Walsh
R. McInnes
Meredith, KC
Canadian Pacific Steamships
Iowa
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