Milling and Baking Qualities of Spring Wheat Varieties
A Canadian study on 25 spring wheat varieties analyzed milling and baking performance across Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta from 1928 to 1930. Reward and Marquis lead in quality. Garnet shows poor baking traits and tempering issues making it undesirable. report dated April 4.
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Commons Committee On Agriculture
National Research Council
J. G. Malloch
University of Alberta
W. F. Geddes
University of Manitoba
R. J. Larmour
University of Saskatchewan
Canada
Dominion Experimental Farms
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Reward
Ceres
Marquis
Pioneer
Triumph
Axminster
Parker's Selection
Brownhead
Huron
Kitchener
Preston
Marquisio
Can a Farmer Profit With Low Prices
The Strafford Beacon Herald questions the practical path to profit for farmers amid very low prices. It notes that while precise agronomic figures can be given, unlocking earnings from milk sold under two cents a quart or pork sold at four dollars and twenty five cents per hundred remains doubtful.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Strafford Beacon-Herald
Work Under Handicap in Soviet Railways
A Moscow message says the Transport Union blames wristwatch shortages for railway disasters and delays. Trains suffer from poor coordination as staff lack time signals. past trials of issuing watches failed due to care issues. The Union now urges the Commissariat of Supply to accelerate watch production for all railway workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Transport Union
Moscow
Commissariat of Transport
Union
Plants Think On Seeing the Light Scientist Says
Smithsonian research claims plants possess brains and eyes and bend toward light as if perceiving. A doctor studying plant response to light states the tip of a coleoptile acts as an eye and the bending resembles walking, signaling complex sensing in vegetation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smithsonian Institution
Washington
New Potato Digging Machine Unveiled Near Montreal
Joseph Moran of Ville St. Pierre near Montreal announces the completion of his own potato digging machine. Moran claims federal and provincial authorities have inspected it and pronounce it the only machine today to dig potatoes without injuring them. The 200 pound device has twenty parts and can be hauled by horses or a motor truck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Moran
Ville St. Pierre
Montreal
Witch Children Report Among Cherokee Indians
A scientist reports that witch children exist among the Cherokee Indians of Canada. Dr Frans M Olbrechts, a Belgian ethnologist, says 20th century witches are manmade not born. Twins are selected and initiated to gain supposed supernatural powers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
Canada
R. J
Frans M. Olbrechts
Smithsonian Institute
Navigators Fear Fog as Hidden Dangers Rise
A sea captain fears thick fog more than gales and high seas, slowing his ship and listening for foghorns to avoid hidden rocks and dangerous shores, while noting that the U S army and navy use 12 standard flag sizes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S. Army and Navy
Wheat carryover expected to be smallest since 1928
Canadian and world wheat outlook highlights a likely carryover of 104 million bushels, the smallest since 1928, with exports and imports set to balance. Herman Trelie warns prairie rust risks, urging northern seed varieties, while seed rotation and northern Saskatchewan crops are discussed as rust defenses.
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Herman Trelie
Wheat King
Edmonton
Peace River
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
United States
Bureau Review
Watermarks in Paper and Stamp Forgery Safeguards
Watermarks arise from the dandy roll in paper production creating translucent patterns. Many stamps are printed on watermarked paper, but a specimen can still be genuine even if unmarked, as some countries do not use this safeguard against forgery.
Oldest Official in Queen's Household to Retire
Sir Edward Wallington, long serving private secretary and treasurer in the Queen's household since King George's accession, will retire. Born in 1834, he was once private secretary to several colonial governors and earned the nickname Letter Not Wallington for turning away unwelcome visitors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Wallington
Queen’s Household
George
Royal Household
Wallington
Manion cites financial depression as wartime lesson
Hon. R. J. Manion, Federal Minister of Railways and Canals, tells the Liberal Conservative Businessmen's Club in Toronto that the nation suffers a head ache from de bauch. He warns of undue pessimism echoing 1929 optimism and urges wartime spirit to restore prosperity quickly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. J. Manion
Toronto
Liberal-Conservative Businessmen's Club
Japanese War Minister Warns Over Manchuria
General Sadao Araki war minister warns the League of Nations and Soviet Russia to keep hands off Manchuria in a speech to the Kokuhon sha patriotic society in Osaka.
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League of Nations
Soviet
Russia
Manchuria
Sadao Araki
Kokuhonsha
Patriotic Society of
Osaka
Dentists Urged to Expand View Beyond Mechanics
Dr. Walsh of McGill University urged Montreal Gyro Club that dentistry should be seen as more than skilled mechanics. He noted one dentist per 3,300 people and predicted a shift toward dentistry addressing overall mouth health, not just individual teeth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quebec
Walsh
Dental
McGill University
Montreal
Hoe
One Mission That Shaped Labrador Relief History
It marks forty years since Sir Wilfred Grenfell's Labrador mission establishing five hospitals seven nursing stations two schools cooperative stores orphanages trading centres and children's homes helping distressed natives. The article quotes two contrasting statements about love of war and peace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sir Wilfred Grenfell
Labrador
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Inset
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London
Mollison
Grenfell
Madrid
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