Palliser's Triangle drought history and farming hopes
The Palliser's Triangle in western Canada is described as a semiarid region of repeated droughts. Efforts by the Dominion and provincial agriculture departments pursue scientific farming, planting trees, and soil conservation to stabilize crops amid long droughts and soil drift. Historical census data trace population, land use, and crop yields from 1856 to the 1930s, noting dramatic declines and wartime price impacts.
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Canadas Prairie
Dominica
Department of Agriculture
Sera
John Palliser
British Colonial Office
Turtle Mountain
Manitoba-Saskatchewan
Rockies
Old Bow Fort
Calgary
Olds
Alta
Saskatoon
Hudson's Bay Company
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Canada
Pallisers Triangle
Milk Production Records Set in Saskatchewan June
June milk averages show Saskatchewan Guernsey cows leading with 1085 pounds per cow. Across 222 herds, 2394 cows tested in 54 centres, with 427 on the bovine honor roll, Carrot River Valley at 58 on the honor roll. J H Reed Nutana tops butterfat with 53 6 pounds per cow. Martin Braaten Birch Hills tops milk with 1432 pounds per cow.
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Guernsey Association
Saskatchewan
Department of Agriculture
Carrot River Valley Association
J. H. Reed
Nutana
Predicts More Grasshoppers In Saskatchewan Next Year
A government report from Ottawa warns Saskatchewan may face larger grasshopper infestations next year. Sawfly and grasshopper activity have caused severe damage to late harvested wheat and fodder crops, with the infested area possibly expanding into the northwest.
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Saskatchewan
Ottawa
Department of Agriculture
Made It Worse Parishioner’s visitor faces blunt child honesty
A minister and his wife receive a parishioner as their daughter blurts out a crude remark about the visitor being plain. The mother scolds the child and reframes the joke to compliment. The piece ends with a remark on fish digestion.
Has Miniature Railroad Enthusiast Built $8,000 Model World
William Haverly from the United States started a toy train hobby at age 12 with railroad roots and neighborhood support. Skilled craftsmen assisted him to craft a scaled collection valued around $8,000, featuring 865 feet of track, 175 cars, six engines, a passenger terminal, roundhouse, coal tipple, ice house and stock pens.
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William Haverly
United States
William
Not Always Pleasure Resort King Edward Dalmatian Holiday
A News of the World columnist questions Sibenik as a royal retreat. The harbor sheltering pirates, its fortress, marble cathedral, Renaissance houses, and the Kirka river falls are noted as features attracting a monarch during a Dalmatian holiday.
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Edward
Sibenik
News of the World
Kirka
Phrenologist Chooses Two Chefs for Sydney Boarding House
A boarding-house proprietress near Sydney sought two chefs from fifty applicants and consulted a phrenologist on their “bump of cooking.” The scientist picked two men, whose selection earns phrenology new supporters as the proprietor approves.
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Sydney
Australia
Predictions on world flight distance and speed by Leeds professor
Selig Brodetsky professor of applied mathematics at Leeds University England spoke at Rand University in Johannesburg predicting a Croydon to Cape Town flight in one day at 500 miles an hour and a world circumnavigation in two days.
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Croydon
Cape Town
Selig Brodetsky
Leeds University
England
Rand University
Johannesburg
Fun Cut-Work Basket Pattern 5669 for Hair Sets
Delightful pattern 5669 features a cut-work basket edge with floral design using French knots outline and lazy daisy stitches. Includes two motifs 15 by 1 inch and a reverse motif 5 by 6 inches, material list, stitch illustrations, color ideas, and requests 20 cents postage to Household Arts Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union.
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Household Arts Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Measurements in History Show Long Quest for Exact Standards
Centuries of study by scientists global and ancient reveal efforts to fix exact lengths from the yard to the meter. From bronze markers in Trafalgar Square to Egyptian and Babylonian units, accuracy underpins trade and manufacturing, with modern methods reaching near infinitesimal fractions of inch.
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England
Trafalgar-square
Guildhall
London
Stephenson-place
Birmingham
Ottawa
National Observatory
David I
Scotland
H. G Vansell
University of California
Bailly
Historie del Astronomie
Chaldaea
Nile
Ganges Plain
Forecast Of Star Gazers In 1937 Outlook
D M Davidson of Chicago, leader at the All American Astrological Convention, notes 500 astrologers agree on a positive 1937 prognosis. Real estate will boom and the economy will aid the average citizen. No European war for at least a year and Japan will not advance on China before 1940.
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D. M. Davidson
Chicago
Davidson
America
Japan
China
Saskatchewan Farm Expenditures in 1934
Expenditures of Saskatchewan farmers in 1934 averaged 1262 dollars per farm based on 639 farms surveyed by crop correspondents for the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. Living costs averaged 532 dollars for a family of 5.74. operating outlays averaged 730 dollars for farms averaging 604 acres. Living expenses accounted for 42 percent of total costs and operating expenses for 57.85 percent.
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Saskatchewan
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Inventor Promises Fast Peaches Cleaning Method
Norman Bartlett of Hamilton Ontario declares a device to defuzz peaches using soft brushes. He predicts housewives will shun fruit that has not had the "goater feathers" scraped off and says his system can produce 350 baskets of peaches with a "school girl complexion" in one hour.
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Norman Bartlett
Hamilton
Ont
Bartlet
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Palliser
Boy
Alice Brooks
Household
Brooks
Saskatchewan Farm Expenditures
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