Doubling Wheat Yield via Sulphur Dusting Prediction
Professor H R Whetzel of Cornell University predicts wheat yields could double within ten years through a new sulphur dusting method to wipe rust parasites. He cites Manitoba tests showing 4 50 bushels per acre with dusting versus 10 20 without, and notes rust typically cuts 20 30 percent. future machines may dust swaths 50 feet wide with two to three applications per season.
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America
Hr. Whetzel
Cornel University
Manitoba
Whetzel
Windbreak Tree Varieties Thrive in Prairie Climate
A Department of Agriculture report notes nineteen ornamental varieties tested at Swift Current Saskatchewan with thirteen weathering winter without loss. Species include Gin valian Maples Siberian Pear Tree Lilac Villosa Lilac and others. Plant eight feet apart for horse-drawn cultivation access and weed control. Poplars elms maples ashes spruces and pines grow well. cuttings reach 15 to 20 feet in four years.
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Praire
Swift Current
Saskatchewan
Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
Bermuda flag presented on maiden Bermuda trip to Lady Somers
The Bermuda flag flew aboard the R N S Lady Somers when she called at Hamilton on her maiden voyage this month. Admiral Somers founded Bermuda in 1609. The Bermuda Chamber of Commerce president said the fleet’s visits aid the island’s agricultural industry.
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Bermuda
R.N.S
Lady Somers
Canadian National Steamships
Hamilton
Admiral Somers
Bermuda Chamber of Commerce
The Ideal City Life Favors Neighborliness Over Big Cities
The piece contrasts life in large cities with smaller towns. It recalls a Detroit car found with a dead woman inside, illustrating dangers of anonymity. It argues neighborly ties enhance sociability and that life in smaller cities offers richer human contact and easier friendship.
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Detroit
Sweet Clover Varieties Yield Across Swift Current Trials
The Swift Current Experimental Station compared seven sweet clover varieties on fallow ground. Zeouage reached 27 inches and yielded 1.85 tons per acre in 1927, Dwarf averaged 1.5 tons, Common White about 1.5 tons, Grundy County 4.3 hundredweight per acre, Maccor 1.29 tons, Yellow 1.23 tons, and Arctic 1.19 tons over three years. The report from the station superintendent was published in Ottawa.
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Prairie Provinces
Swift Current
Grundy County
Acre
Swift Current Experimental Station
Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
The Value Of Resistance And Growth Through Difficulty
The passage argues that a flawless world would be easy but worthless for training. It asserts that resistance from reluctant matter educates and strengthens workers. The author wishes others enough difficulties to keep them learning and capable.
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Henry van Dyke
Cream For Buttermaking Shows Ice Water Storage Benefits
An Ottawa pamphlet reports that storing cream in ice cold water, rather than in a farmhouse cellar, keeps cream sweeter longer and reduces acidity. Experiments show cellar storage at 64.5 F produces higher acidity than ice water at 53 F, with water storage preserving flavor for butter quality. Frequent deliveries also matter to avoid old cream flavor.
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Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
Minute Calculations Anchor Hair and Stamps on Scales
A Seattle chemist with precise scales reports that a strand of hair long enough to circle the world weighs 759 pounds. He notes a domestic pin weighs .0247875 ounces, a 2-cent stamp .01297324 ounces, an airmail stamp .03565 ounces, and a one inch hair weighs .00002 grams or .000007665 ounces.
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Seattle
Ring returns and mistaken mail sparks tense exchange
Over the phone Jack asks for his ring to be mailed back but Jacqueline warns that glass breaks easily in the mail. The caller asks to change places, confirming no one is in the way as the conversation tenses around a fragile item and a promised recovery.
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Jack
Jacqueline
Old Fashioned Method For Hatched Chicks By Natural Brooding
The article discusses using multiple hens to incubate eggs naturally, testing and removing infertile eggs, and shifting setting duties among hens to expand brood capacity. It covers selecting hens, nest setup, cleanliness, feeding, dusting for broodiness, and maintaining hens for several hatchings.
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F. C. Elford
Dominion Poultry Husbandman
Saskatchewan Egg Pool posts record annual sales and prices
The Saskatchewan Egg Pool marketed 1,498,183 dozen eggs worth about 400,000 dollars in the past year. President Mrs. John Holmes Asquith reports prices paid reached the highest averages, with direct shippers netting 25.5 cents extras, 23.6 cents firsts, 19.6 seconds, and 15.5 cracked eggs. A separate humorous dialogue fragment follows with character banter.
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Saskatchewan Eggewand Poultry Pool
John Holmes Asquith
Two Preachers Debate Roles and Specifying Sermons
In Har ret a Strelser overhears two colored preachers trading jokes about preaching power and being a prayer focused speaker. One quips he is a preachin preacher, noting the congregation wanted a prayin preacher and that isn’t in his line.
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Harret
Strelser
Humorous Snippets From a Student Exchange Dialogue
An admiring friend praises a man’s honesty while a friend dismisses the pin test. Miss Cayenne remarks skeptically and Alice questions college enrollment. Geoffrey quips there are about ten students for every hundred.
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Miss Cayenne
Alice
Geoffrey
First authentic freight stone from Churchill to Winnipeg
A stone from Fort Prince of Wales ruins, the first authentic freight shipped over the Hudson Bay Railway from Churchill to Winnipeg, was presented by W G Manders of Canadian National Railways to the Winnipeg Board of Trade for its 50th anniversary on April 20. The fort, begun in 1733, completed in 1747, demolished in 1782, once housed 46 cannon, with 32 remaining in ruins.
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Fort Prince of Wales
Churchill
Hudson Bay
Winnipeg
W. G. Manders
Canadian National Railways
Board of Trade of Winnipeg
Board of Trade
Canadian Nattomai Railways
London Taxi Drivers Are Very Reliable
London taxi drivers are portrayed as seasoned, city-knew veterans of the horse-cab era now driving mature mechanical cabs. They navigate London with familiarity, follow consistent routes, avoid delays, and provide a comfortable ride despite noisy roads and busy traffic.
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London
No Substitute For Walking In Open Air Health Advice
A health column extols habitual walking as essential to longevity. It criticizes excessive driving and car use, arguing that regular six to eight mile daily walks build fitness, with walking rooted in active posture and purposeful steps rather than dawdling.
Opening Last Frontier by Air in Canada
The article describes how northern Canada is opening as the last frontier with aviation. It notes aerial surveys explorations fire patrol and transport expanding rapidly as pilots adapt planes to winter conditions and push beyond canoe and dog-train methods. The piece commends Canadian flyers for breaking into the frozen North.
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Canada
Actors reunite after hiatus with stage exit joke
Two actors meet after a long interval. One explains quitting the stage due to a feeling of not being suited. The other jokes about title birds and hatchling hints, delivering a light wordplay exchange.
League Doing Great Work and Its Global Impact
The League is presented as the greatest fact of modern times. It has prevented wars saved lives repatriated exiles and binds nations while preserving liberty. With continued popular support it will continue to do more for world peace and humanity.
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League
Preventor Of Ills Doctor Of Future
Sir William Arbuthnot Lane predicts preventive medicine will be the supreme human science of this century. In a Mayfair interview he praises natural sunlight and ultraviolet rays for disease prevention and cure, and stresses dieting for longevity. He cites his Golden Health Library project and argues the physician should be seen as the preventor of illness, not only a healer.
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William Arbuthnot Lane
Mayfair
Arbuthnot
Golden Health Library
Exchange Farm Youths Aid German Canadian Farms
An agreement between the Canadian National Railways colonization department and the German Students' Co-Operative Association places three German youths on large western Canadian farms and three more in eastern Canada. Six Canadian youths will gain similar exchange in Germany. All are graduates of German agricultural colleges and may study at an agricultural college in Canada after harvest or continue on the farm for the remainder of the term.
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Colonization Department of
The
Canadian National Railways
German Students’ Co-Operative Association
Germany
Canada
Ship Eggs To California From British Columbia Hatchery
A record shipment of 26 000 pedigreed White Leghorn hatching eggs was sent by the Poultry Breeders Association of British Columbia to a Petaluma California hatchery. The eggs, valued at 5000 dollars, were laid by pedigreed stock and are to produce pedigreed cockerels for distribution to California farms supplying the hatchery.
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Poultry Breeders’ Association of
British Columbia
Petaluma
California
Exchange Between Audience Lecturer Lawyer and Actress
A fragment shows an audience member accusing women who advise on childrearing of neglecting their own. The lecturer retorts she has no children. A lawyer asks about grounds for divorce, and the actress claims she has a husband.
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Jove
Brummer
Berlin
Phyllis
Algy
Eoow
Metropolis
Last
Af Canada
Exchange Farm Youths
U.S
Pages Gaies
Yverdon
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