Canada To Play Key Role As Population Grows
An analysis based on Harvard professor Fast Bach notes world population rising daily with a net gain of about 16 000. Canada, with 900 000 inhabitants, is expanding rapidly as birth rates exceed death rates and immigration shapes growth, impacting food supply for a sparsely cultivated land.
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He Werd
Merreay Bach
Harvard Uiversity
Vietory
Bast Seys
Fast
Saya i Ban Tore Tan
China
India
E&st
United States
North American
Canada
Gast
Milking Machine Cleaning Urged By Expert
A bacteriologist advises rapid cleaning after milking to improve efficiency. Teat cups should be drawn through the unit with air and water passing, hot water and dairy cleaning powder used, then final rinses. Weekly, tear cups and tubes must be disassembled and brushed with cleaning powder, reassembled dry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A G. Lockhead
Dominion Barcteriolecist
Norwegians Consider Western Canada Settlement Plan
Arne Kildy of the International League of Norsemen proposes diverting Norwegian immigrant farm labor to Saskatchewan and Alberta. On return from a survey, Kildy says Norway faces surplus rural workers and that Canadian prairies offer farming opportunities. A Norwegian Swedish delegation, led by P Myrveld of the Canadian Pacific Railway, studied land, employment, and cooperative grain marketing for potential settlements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Arne Kildy
International League of Norsemen
Norway
Kildal
Canadian
Sweden
Winnipeg
Canada
P. Myrveld
Canadian Pacific Railway
Oslo
Moon Not Cause Of Rain Wet Or Dry Moon Fact Declared
The weather bureau states the old belief that the moon governs rainfall is false. Investigations show no lunar influence on wet or dry conditions, and crescent orientation does not affect weather patterns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weather Bureau
U. S. Weather Bureau
Equator
Desirable Two-Story House Advertised in Kobe Paper
An advertisement in a Kobe paper promotes a desirable two story house with basement. Rent is 65 yen with a deposit equal to three months rent and refundable when tenancy ends. The listing cites layout details and a telephone contact for inquiries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kobe
Greand Foer
Sanpemiya
Prince of Wales at Qaxford a Lucky Chap Says Cavalier
Readers remark that during the Prince of Wales visit to Qaxford he was always considered a lucky chap and did not face exams, challenging claims about exemptions and examinations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prince of Wales
Qaxford
Rmark
Insurance Plan Covers Tuberculin Test Losses in Wisconsin
In several Wisconsin districts a cooperative creamery driven arrangement insures cattle logs reacting to tuberculin tests. Non tested cattle owners contribute 1 per head to a fund, used to cover the gap between appraised value and salvage indemnities. Surplus prorates back to contributors. pure-bred cattle pay double. A creamery committee administers funds and collections are made through the creamery in one or two payments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wisconsin
Co-Operative Creameries
Prairie Provinces Rise as Dairy Powerhouses in Canada
Canadian government figures show prairie provinces Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta joining leading dairy producers. Exports to the United States and 21 other countries reach 7.5 million dollars in the year ended June 1936, with record creamery butter and cheese production totaling hundreds of millions in value.
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Prairie Provinces
Dominion
United States
Uncle Sam
Canada
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Immigration to Canada up in first half of 1926
Canada reports 70 253 immigrants in the first six months of 1926 up from 43 241 a year earlier a 62 percent rise. British immigration climbs to 27 849 from 20 452 United States 10 037 up from 8 036 and other countries 2 367 up from 1 473. June total 12 191 a 50 percent rise from June last year. British June 2 177 up from 1 501. Other immigration 4 074 up from 2 052.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Department of Immigration and Colonization
United States
Pretoria Council to Buy British Buses Over Cheaper American Models
The Pretoria Town Council plans to purchase three British motor buses. Each will cost £300 more than an American vehicle, but the trading committee chair said the British buses have a longer life and better fit the council’s needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pretoria
South Africa
Stubble Treatment Yields Vary by Spring Ploughing and Burning
A Scott Saskatchewan experimental station study finds spring burning of stubble yields best wheat, with spring ploughing close behind. Ten-year data favor spring ploughing over fall by 2.7 bushels per acre. Fall tasks that destroy snow reduce yield. deep fall cultivation beats shallow. Oats show spring ploughing outperforming fall by 8.8 bushels per acre over eleven years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scott, Sask
Dominion
Language Landscape Shifts in the Philippine Islands
The text notes eighty seven distinct dialects are spoken in the Philippine Islands and that English has become the dominant language, having supplanted Spanish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philippine Islands
Breathing Tests Aid Fruit Research At Covent Garden
A new facility at Covent Garden London linked to the Cambridge Low Temperature Research Section uses “breathing” tests to assess fruit vitality. The facility reports progress on diseases in apples and other produce, with stored fruits remaining fresh for extended periods in cold storage. Cauliflowers stay fresh for two months, pears from September look recently picked, and apples two years old retain flavor.
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Covent Garden
London
Cambridge
Strawberries Grow as Northern Saskatchewan Industry
Nipawin district reports strawberries now grown commercially north of latitude 53 after 12 years of trial. Transport improvements with the 1924 CPR extension unlocked shipments, with several thousand 24 quart cases sent to Winnipeg and Regina. 1926 production expected to nearly double last season.
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Province
Nipawin
Prince Albert
Canadian Pacific Railway
Winnipeg
Regina
Important Discovery In B C Promises Major Chemical Output
W A Laming of Rotterdam is in British Columbia inspecting dia tomaceous earth at Quesnel. He cites large deposits with shallow overburden and strong grade. The earth has uses in paper making stucco plaster deadening and various products.
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British Columbia
W. A. Laming
Rotterdam
Holland
Quesnel
Laming
Vacation Spending Represents Six Percent of Income
The American people spend about 3,000,000,000 dollars annually on vacations, accounting for roughly six percent of the national income.
Vancouver private elevators seek new tariff to fund operations
Private elevators in Vancouver claim current tariff prevents viable operation and hinders development of grain handling facilities at the port. They have petitioned the Grain Board of Canada for a new tariff resemble the one at the port head, asserting revenue shortfalls under existing rates.
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Vancouver
Grain Board of Canada
Inkes
British Nursing Leader Dame MacCarthy Arrives in Canada
Dame Maud MacCarthy GBE of London England, who led British nursing forces in France during World War I, has landed in Quebec aboard the Empress of Scotland. She will attend the Canadian National Association of Nurses meeting in Toronto and speak in Ottawa at a memorial unveiling.
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Maud McCarthy
G.B.E
London
England
France
Quebec
Scotland
Florence Nightingale
Canadian National Association of Nurses
Toronto
Ottawa
Murees
Wang
Queen Alexandra
Imperial Military Nursing Service
Qalmins. War Office
QALM
Territorial Army Nursing Service
Dame MacCarthy
Lana
Oblique remark on marriages of fat people
A humorous observer notes it is rare to see two overweight individuals wed, joking that one often gains fat from cheerfulness while the other loses weight from shouldering life’s worries.
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Jene
Potential Wheat Yield Rise From Acreage Limits
A Dominion survey discusses land use maps for Alberta Vermilion township areas showing cultivation status topography and settlement. Agriculture official F S Archibald says wheat yields could rise ten to forty percent without more land, boosting revenue by about 160 million dollars if five bushels per acre are gained.
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Dopographical Survey
Department of the Interior
Canada
Alberta
Topographical Survey Department of the Interior
Ottawa
Dominion
F. S Archibald
Dominion Experimental Farms
Archibald
Controlling the Red-Backed Cutworm with Poisoned Bait
Ottawa entomologist Kenneth M. King outlines field and garden mixes to combat the red-backed cutworm in prairie provinces. Field mix includes bran white arsenic or Paris green molasses and water. garden mix uses bran arsenic molasses and water. Warns on safety, storage, and disposal of poisoned bran and bags.
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Prairie Provinces
Kenneth M. King
Ottawa
Department of Agriculture
Sugar and Salt Use in Canadian Vegetable Preservation
The Natural Resources Service notes that nearly 400 tons of salt are used yearly to preserve Canadian vegetables for commercial sale and about 5 000 tons of sugar are used in the same process. These amounts accompany other household usage in the old fashioned kitchen range.
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Natural Resources Service
Department of the Interior
Self awareness and advice among unsure minds
A reflective moral musing on how people who avoid giving advice to themselves often recognize the proper path for others to take. The piece ponders inner guidance and the contrast between self doubt and applying correct conduct to external situations.
Man Makes Living Topiary Dragons From Trees In Barnet
Old Barnet craftsman Mr. Cutbush spends decades shaping box and yew into animals. He has created dogs birds peacocks and more, but a dragon and a lion elude him due to the mane and proportion. He plants for eight to twenty years before training, clipping, and transplanting to finish a living green sculpture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Travis Teer
Mr. Cutbush
Old Barnet
Mr Cuttbush
Apple shipments from Okanagan export markets expand reach
Export shipments of apples from the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia show wide reach with 65 cars to Scandinavian nations 29 cars to Germany 42 to New Zealand 55 to the United States 195 to Great Britain and other figures to China Newfoundland South Africa and MOS cars to Ontario and Quebec. Distance is no barrier when premium fruit sells.
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Ontario
Quebec
Okanagan
Okanagan Valley
British Columbia
Scandinavian Countries
China
Germany
Newfoundland
South Africa
New Zealand
United States
Great Britain
British settlers to occupy Western Canada farms
Major F J Ashton, commissioner of the soldiers settlers board, says eleven hundred and seven hundred farms will be required next year to house incoming British settlers. This year the organization placed 1,430 families on prairie province farms.
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Western
Canada
F. J. Ashton
Soldier “Settlers’ Board
Prairie Provinces
Rhig Organization
Swiss Loan Secured by France with Zurich Bank
A ministerial decree approves a contract between Raymond Poincaré premier and minister of finance and the Swiss Credit Bank of Zurich for a sixty million Swiss franc loan. The current Swiss franc value is about 19.50 cents.
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France
Switzgerland
Raymond Poincare
Swiss Credit Bank of Zurich
Pool Elevators On Pacific Coast Secure BC Incorporation
In a coast wide development the Alberta Pool line obtains incorporation under British Columbia laws after the Prince Rupert terminal elevator. The move follows rising activity along the Pacific coast as new facilities come under BC corporate status.
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Pacific
Prince Rupert
Alberta
British Columbia
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Willi Gome
Japan
T.B
Immigration
B.C
Dane McCarily
Vermilion
Apple
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