Milling Value Of Western Wheat Varieties In Saskatchewan
A University of Saskatchewan field husbandry report by Manley Champlin and Cyril H Goulden classifies wheat varieties by milling quality. It identifies seven groups from high to poor milling, notes durum varieties, and emphasizes the premium for genuinely high quality Saskatchewan wheat if growers and marketers promote it effectively.
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University of Saskatchewan
Manley Champlin
Cyril H Goulden
Dean W J. Rutherford
Saskatchewan
Saskatoon
Baskatoon
Marquis
Red Fife
Kitchener
Taylor's Wonder
Prelude
Pioneer
Chelsea
Preston
Club
Redstone
Alaska
Kinley
United States
Early and Late Layers in Ottawa Farm Experiments
Do minion Poultry Husbandman reports on Central Experimental Farm tests in Ottawa showing hens starting to lay before November outperform later starters. Data compare November January and February starters with summer yields 14.8, 11.5, and 21.75 eggs in winter months and 2.3, 30.1, and 27.5 eggs in the four summer months respectively. He notes earlier layings yield higher year totals and heavier late fall layers tend to be best.
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Dominion Poultry Husbandman
Central Experimental Farm
Ottawa
Planting Potatoes and How to Maximize Yield
The best planting time varies by Canada due to climate. Early planting yields larger crops. soil should be loose, not firm, and spring ploughing is advised. Green manure requires additional tillage, sets should have at least three eyes, coating with sand plaster or lime boosts yield, and planting depth for good loamy soils is four to five inches.
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Canada
Dominion Horticulturist
Ottawa
United States L Type Zeppelin Project Under Navy Plans
The article notes no air ships larger than navy craft exist in the United States. It reports a U S Navy project to have a Zeppelin of the L type built in Germany with Allied cooperation, tracing wartime Zeppelin successes. It recalls Germanys Zeppelins harrying London in the war and mentions Armenia as the first Christian country.
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Army
Navy
United States
London
Alled
Zeppelin
Germany
Dr Harlow Shapley proposes space dust shifts tied to Earth's climate
English scientist Dr Harlow Shapley theorizes long climate cycles linked to Earth's motion through dusty nebular regions. He says cooling occurs when dust clouds block the sun and warming when the solar system travels through clearer space, with Orion’s dark pockets cited as a past example.
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Harlow Shapley
Earth
Shapley
Orion
McGill Dean Attacks Popular Magazines
Dr J Gordon Lang of McGill University denounces popular magazines as destroying taste for literature. Speaking to Suburban Schools Principals and Teachers, he says schools follow trends and chase financial success, adapting courses to popular demand.
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J. Gordon Lang
Faculty of Arts
McGill University
Principals
Teachers’ Association of
Silk farming takes root in Ontario and Quebec farms
Five hundred mulberry trees suited to silkworms were planted in Middlesex County Ontario last autumn. A tree adapted to Canada US climate, seedless and grown for leaf, results from grafting mulberry cuttings on osage orange roots. Athol Harris imported 500 trees from New Orleans and planted them, with 500 more ordered for five acres. Trees cost 1.25 each at 1000. Harris aims for 100 per acre this year.
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Ontario
Quebec
Middlesex County
Canada
United States
Athol Harris
Berry
London Township
New Orleans
Harris
Former Kaiser Stands For National Anthem at Privileged Preview
The former Kaiser Wilhelm in full dress uniform with medals stood as the orchestra played God Save the King during a Count Bentwick private motion picture showing Shackleton’s South Pole expedition. The court invited a select audience to view the film and the former ruler maintained a proud, haughty bearing.
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Kaiser Wilhelm
Count Bentwick
Kaiser
Ernest Shackleton
Great Britain
Alberta Farmers Erect Silos Across Province
S. G. Carlyle livestock commissioner traveling with the livestock demonstration car reports one hundred silos will be erected in Alberta next year. Farmers see better feeding quality from silos and construction is spreading widely across the province.
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Province of
Alberta
S. G. Carlyle
Demand for B C land spurs Board of Trade to expand
The Buy B C Products bureau reports strong outside interest in establishing new industries and securing farm lands in British Columbia. To handle the demand, two new sections will be added to its organization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
British Columbia
B.C
Bureau of the Board of Trade
Butter Prize Echo Sylvia Laura Saniro Wins Canadian Championship
Two year old heifer Captures Butter Prize Echo Sylvia Laura Saniro owned by Wallace D Wright of Brockville Ontario. The animal produced 34.26 pounds of butter in seven days securing the Canadian championship in a butter test.
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Echo Sylvia
Laura Saniro
Wallace D. Wright
Brockville
Ont
Ice Industry at Banff Promotes Western Ice Supply
Banff Alberta hosts a sizable winter ice industry on the Bow River two miles long leased for ten years. About 60 workers produce 30 thousand tons per season with 44 ton railway cars to the Canadian Pacific line, delivering ice to Okanagan Valley Kamloops coast cities and refrigerated cars.
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Banff
Alberta
Selkirk
Manitoba
Bow River
Canadian Pacific Railway
British Columbia
Okanagan Valley
Kamloops
C. G
Silage trench silo offers economical storage for dairies
G H Hutton at Regina dairymen's convention describes trench silos as a low cost method to store silage especially sunflowers. He cites yields, moisture loss, and strong feed quality with potential 20 to 30 percent reduction in dairy production costs across Western Canada and a nine million six hundred sixty six thousand dollar potential saving.
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Regina
G. H. Hutton
Agriculture and Animal Industry
C.P.R. Department of Natural Resources
Calgary
Silo Association
Canada
Prairie Provinces
Invention of the Modern Safety Match
The text recounts how early matches relied on flint steel and tinder. It notes phosphorus knowledge since 1677, the danger of phosphorous yellow causing phossy jaw, the shift to red phosphorus, and Swedish innovation that kept ingredients apart until striking, yielding the modern safety match.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Axel's odd ailment perplexes Fort Jay doctor
Axel, a Swede in uniform at Fort Jay, wakes with a desire to loaf. The doctor at the dispensary checks his pulse and temperature and finds no illness. Axel answers, stating the doctor has done his job and nothing is wrong.
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Axel
Fort Jay
Doc
American Legion Weekly
Saskatchewan Leads in Field Crop Values Across Provinces
Saskatchewan topped last year's provincial field crop values at 265,520,000 dollars. Ontario trailed with 236,907,000, followed by Quebec 192,773,000, Manitoba 93,128,000, Alberta 88,985,000, New Brunswick 28,501,100, Nova Scotia 33,992,500, British Columbia 20,062,009, and Prince Edward Island 16,520,500.
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Saskatchewan
Ontario
Quebec
Manitoba
Alberta
New Brunswick
Nova Scotia
British Columbia
Prince Edward Island
The Amphitheatre Collapse in Rome Under Tiberius
An account recalls the catastrophic collapse of Rome's amphitheatre during Tiberius era triggering mass casualties, as fifty thousand spectators were crushed.
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Rome
Tiberius
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Country
The
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