Canadian Seed Growers reap rewards from scientific methods
The Canadian Seed Growers' Association reports rising export demand for pedigreed seed grain after two years of worldwide demonstrations. Shipments to Argentina, Sweden, and Australia underscore growing sales. oats and wheat fetch FOB New York prices of 1 and 2.40 dollars per bushel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Malesius
New York
Barnos Aires
Canadian Seed Growers’ Association
Moose Jaw
Saskatchewan
Iain Corporation
New Y York City
South America
Sweden
Australia
United States
Canadian Moose Arrive in New Zealand Twenty Years Ago
Moose shipped from Canada to New Zealand under Colonel Theodore Roosevelt sponsorship reached shore safely and were released inland. After years of silence, natives and hunters report many moose in wild districts. Government protects the species and bans hunting until stability is assured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
New Zealand
Pnrnner
Theodore Roosevelt
Nwherty
Seed grading work underway across Western Canada
A general check up on seed quality is in progress in Western Canada. The Dominion seed branch reports inspectors are surveying seed houses dealers and farmers supplies to uphold grades and standards. Education efforts accompany the inspections as farmers seek cleaner seed to ensure a clean crop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Dominion Seed Branch
Grain Transport and Sweet Potato Grower Leads British Columbia
Canadian Pacific Railway moved 73,286 tons to the head of the lakes and 733,065 tons to Vancouver in seven months, accounting for 51.7 of the territory’s tonnage with few shipment complaints. In British Columbia sweet potatoes, once confined to Peachland and the Okanagan, thrived in Hammond thanks to Mrs. A J Sparling who planted one dollar worth of slips and harvested 65 pounds from 36 plants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canadian Pacific Railway
Lakes
Vancouver
Canadian Pacific
British Columbia
Okanagan
Hammond
Fraser Valley
A. J. Sparling
King's plea urges forest protection during Save the Forests Week
Premier W. L. Mackenzie King broadcast from Ottawa calling for five preventative measures to preserve Canada’s forests. He noted historical impact, forest-fire devastation, and that ninety percent of fires result from human carelessness, stressing prevention over control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
W. L. Mackenzie King
Canada
King
Czech nobleman tests Canadian farming potential
Count Tom Hohnstein of Czecho-Slovakia arrived in Canada aboard the Montrose to study farming conditions and verify reports on suitable settler opportunities. He said if conditions are favorable, twelve more Czecho-Slovak noblemen would follow to invest capital and farm on a large scale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Count Hohnstein
Czecho-Slovakia
Canada
Tom Hohnstein
Montrose
British Immigration and Colonization Association
Saint John
N.B
Montreal
English Boys To Take Farm Course At Macdonald College
Seventeen Scottish and English youths disembarked from the Canadian Pacific steamship Montclare and headed for Macdonald College at Ste. Anne de Bellevue. They will be placed on farms to gain practical agricultural knowledge and then join the college winter course. The boys come from families able to provide financial support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montclare
Macdonald College
Ste. Anne de Bellevue
Bors
Gold Field Near Yale Reopens For American Scraper Operators
Rich gold field known as the Hila Bar, located a mile west of Yale, British Columbia in the Fraser River, is to be worked again. Americans will operate drag line scrapers, with leases secured on multiple benches and bars that previously yielded rich gold values.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yale
B.C
Fraser River
Cleaning task leaves rings and bracelets
A maid reports completion of cleaning brasses except for the rings and bracelets worn by the lady, indicating only jewelry remains.
May Import Deer Meat Faces Global Trade Debate
Nations debate shipping frozen deer meat from New Zealand to Britain and the United States as a solution to NZ deer overpopulation harming pastoral land and forests. Opponents warn the export could spur large scale deer farming similar to rabbit industry practices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Zealand
Great Britain
United States
Message to the East Campada prosperity remark to students
Hon. J. Latta Saskatchewan minister of education told Jarvis Street Collegiate students that western development benefits the east and stressed that east or west it is all Campada. He delivered the message in Toronto during a visit to the school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hon
J. Latta
Saskatchewan
Jarvis Street
Toronto
System of Crop Rotation with Sweet Clover for Prairie Farms
Article discusses a rotation plan from Dominion Experimental Farms Brandon Manitoba. It advocates integrating sweet clover with grain to fix nitrogen, outlines a three year cycle—summer fallow, wheat with half seeded to sweet clover, and half field coarse grain with sweet clover—and notes adaptation for pasture, hay, and extended forage including early spring seeding with oats for midsummer to autumn pasture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prairie
Devices
Dominion
Brandon
Man
Derick
Dominion Experimental Farms
Mr. Derick
Canadian Land Company Founded In Germany
The United States commerce department reports the Canadian Land Company with a capital of 50 000 reichmarks has been formed in Berlin to buy sell and lease land in Canada. Founders will receive an option on 25 000 acres in Saskatchewan from the Canadian Pacific Railway, to be divided into farms for German immigrants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Commerce Department
Canadian Land Company
Berlin
Canada
Saskatchewan
Canadian Pacific Railway
Opportunities In Canada
Roger Babson of the Babson Statistical Bureau says Canada offers the best opportunities for young men. He notes Canada has emerged from a four year depression after wartime inflation and the postwar era, with trends clearly rising and basic business barometers indicating fine weather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roger Babson
Babson Statistical Bureau
Canada
Inmate Remarks Total Time As Epigram Joke
At the Ohio penitentiary a new arrival faces a lifer who taunts him about his two year sentence. The lifer quips that two years is not a sentence but an epigram.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio Penitentiary
Alberta potato varieties show Party Obto best early yield
A Lacombe Alberta station trial finds Early Northern pink potato strongest early yielder though less valuable commercially. Party Obto recommended for early market Geld Nupeget for medium, Geld Coin as main crop with certified seed produced locally. Planting dates, spacing, and eye counts affect yields and marketable proportions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lacombe
Alberta
Deaminion
F. B. Reed
B.S.A
Manitoba poised for mining lead says Ontario official
G C Bateman secretary of the Ontario Mining Association concludes a survey of Red Lake and Central Manitoba mining areas. He states central Manitoba and northern Ontario are rich in mineral wealth especially gold bearing ore and Manitoba needs to put the industry on a permanent basis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manitoba
G. C. Bateman
Ontario Mining Association
Red Lake
Ontario
Foreign Banker Seeks Prairie Farm Lands for Settlement
Count Jhun Hohenstein, a wealthy banker and landowner of Czecho Slovakia, visits the Dominion seeking a farming location. He is likely to buy a large tract in Saskatchewan or Alberta and notes many compatriots are moving to Western Canada to farm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prairies
Canada
Jhun Hohenstein
Czecho- Slovakia
Dominion
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Industrial payroll rise in British Columbia 1922 to 1925
Statistics from the provincial workmen's compensation board show British Columbia’s industrial payroll climbing from 130,000,000 in 1922 to 146,000,000 in 1925. The three year rise totals 30,000,600 dollars, averaging about 19,000,000 annually.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
British Columbia
Provincial
Workmen's Compensation Board
Settlers in Alberta Colonization Records Shattered
Alberta records for ten years of settlement are said to be broken this spring as newcomers receive favorable treatment and move onto nearly ready farms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alberta
Luther Burbank and the horticultural giants cited
The piece extols Luther Burbank's science driven horticulture with achievements in spineless cactus plum revolution and fragrant varieties while contrasting with harsher depictions of Soviet Russia. It cites Mrs Alec Tweedie and a report on Moscow poverty and terror, portraying Russia as a misery ridden state under Communism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burbank
Charles F. Saunders
Southwest
California
Luther Burbank
New World
Toronto Globe
Alec Tweedig
Chiesa
Russia
Naess
M. Fedoroff
Alec Tweedie
Homesteading Surges Across Western Provinces
In the first two months, Manitoba 63, Saskatchewan 317, Alberta 226, British Columbia 20 homesteads were taken up. Soldier grants totaled seven in Manitoba, 35 in Saskatchewan, 23 in Alberta, and two in British Columbia, totaling 110,983 acres. Last year’s period saw 82,520 acres. Heaviest activity centers in Prince Albert, Moose Jaw, and Edmonton districts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
British Columbia
Prince Albert
Moose Jaw
Edmonton
BC Government Won’t Back New Highway Through Rockies
Alberta seeks completion of a highway via the Yellowhead Pass this year but the British Columbia Government will not support the project. Minister W H Sutherland said there is no funding available for such a scheme.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alberta
Rocky Mountains
Yellowhead Pass
British Columbia
W. H. Sutherland
Illness Preventability Highlighted by Doctors
In the United States about 3,000,000 people are affected by the illness discussed. Doctors estimate that 42 percent of this illness is preventable, underscoring a potential focus for public health measures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Forage Cars Tour Ends On Manitoba Run
Canada National Railway forage and poultry cars wrapped a six week Manitoba tour visiting forty points. Attendance reached 5 299 with 132 per stop on average. six hundred sales totaled 3500. Crops list includes sweet clover broom grass timothy alfalfa meadow fescue alsike red clover and more. Cars run by province agriculture department with the agricultural college and CNR.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manitoba
Provincial Department of Agriculture
The
Agricultural College
Canadian National Railways
Trade With Japan Surges Over Three Million in 1925
The Japanese consulate in Vancouver reports Canada Japan trade rose above three million dollars in 1925, the highest foreign trade between Orient and Canada. Total trade reached 33,125,000 with exports from Canada at 25,162,278 and imports from Japan at 7,962,029. Exports rose nearly 2,000,000 and imports by over 1,000,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Japan
Orient
Vancouver
Birds Travel At Night Endangered By Lights
Birds that migrate long distances mostly travel at night to avoid natural enemies. However man made dangers, such as bright automobile and lighthouse lights, attract and blind them causing collisions and fatal impacts due to their speed.
Coolidge backs stronger Volstead Act enforcement
President Coolidge opposes any weakening of the Volstead Act and has approved legislative recommendations and budget requests to enhance enforcement. The United News reports the administration seeks increased authority and funding to uphold Prohibition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coolidge
United News
Boss Relocated to Europe, Employee Says Relations Fine
A brief quip notes the boss is now in Europe while an employee comments that their working relationship remains fine. The remark hints at a geographic separation without changes to daily duties.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Merci
C.P.R
Britain
Sweet Clover
Germany
Opportunities In
Manitoba Gold Mines
Burbank the Wizard
Wizards of Science
Edison
Ford and Marconi
C.N.R
C.N.R. Lines
Europe
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!