Resting trees to boost crops in empire gardens
The London Spectator reports on induced dormancy for fruit trees, noting practices in India and Africa. Imperial researchers in Kent collect data on artificial wintering as key to commercial orchards of apples and pears, with Bangalore cited as success. Treatments expose roots, with watering paused, compost packed, and trees rebarked for rest. harvests occur about fourteen months apart, improving yields.
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W. Beach Thomas
London Spectator
India
Sir William
Africa
Ronald Gratton
Imperial Bureau of Fruit Production
The
Spectator
British Empire
East Malling Research Station
Kent
Hatton
Bangalore
Mysore
Greens
New York Sun
Four O'Clock Alarm Lesson At The Farm
A farmer gave a new worker an alarm clock and ordered four o'clock wakeups every morning. The clock failed to ring, making the man late. The farmer explains it can stick and must be shaken to ring, with a reminder to shake if it does not ring by five past four tomorrow.
Forfeits Boost Alberta Election Treasury
Alberta's treasury will gain about 7000 from candidate deposits forfeited in the provincial election on August 22. In 1930 the yield was 4500, by September 7 receipts totalled 3700 from 37 forfeitures, with a further 3300 expected.
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Alberta
Women’s Chief Aim Seen As Targeting A Man
A historical note suggests women’s leadership focus centers on men as the primary target or objective in social dynamics. The framing reflects era-specific gender roles and expectations.
Chinese Remedies Enter Modern Medicine Findings
Henry Lester Institute of Medical Research shows ancient Chinese cures align with modern science. Boiled donkey skin aids mineral and nitrogen absorption while ancient texts note animals used for remedies such as pig liver for beri beri and goitre treatments with seaweed. Modern vitamin links emerge from sheep iris and liver.
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Henry Lester
China
Carnation Legends From Pink Roots to Red Center Folklore
An old legend ties carnations to lovers graves. Italian countess Margharita Ronsecco gives a carnation to her crusading lover Orlando. He falls, a withered bloom stays, blood changes white to red, and the seed yields the first carnation with a red centre.
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Orlando
Margharita
Growth Of Fruit Exports From Empire Nations
The Imperial Economic Committee notes a sustained rise in fruit exports from Empire countries over recent years. In 1933 Canada, Australia and New Zealand shipped above-average apple exports. South Africa and Palestine exceeded citrus exports. South Africa led in grape exports. Australia and South Africa surpassed raisins and currants. Canada Malaya Australia and South Africa topped canned fruit shipments.
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Imperial Economic Committee
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
South Africa
Palestine
Malaya
Dishes Are Dishes
A new maid boasts of Continental experience and claims dishes differ from English ones. Her confident talk among servants leads to a challenge about culinary standards and comparison.
Disposal of Garden Waste and Composting
Garden waste from grass leaves and stems rots to humus, enriching soil with nitrogen and texture. Build a compact pile, keep moist, then spread or dig in after months. burn coarse material and ashes. A better method is composting with manure in alternating layers for faster rotting.
Humor and Racial Parable Recited by President Wilson
The 1913 Trenton dinner featured Woodrow Wilson praising a Princeton Negro janitor in a humorous anecdote about a French student. The article then notes court scenes showing comedic persistence of the Negro mind with a Tennessee case where a man argues about being called a black rascal versus another’s word. It also mentions the Kodiak bear on Kodiak Island Alaska as the largest known bear, with weights exceeding 1,200 pounds.
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Woodrow Wilson
Trenton
Princeton University
Almos
Tennessee
Kodiak Bear
Kodiak Island
Alaska
Roerich expedition uncovers drought hardy Mongolian weeds
Professor Nicholas Roerich leads an anti drought expedition to the Gobi desert, collecting 300 plant varieties in five months. Seeds are sent to the United States for potential use on American plains, with plans to expand to India. Local Mongolians question the project as researchers dig up hardy weeds that endure extreme conditions.
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Nicholas Roerich
Gobi Desert
Roerich
United States Department of Agriculture
Western American
United States
India
Gobi
King George V Jubilee Forest to be planted in Palestine
A Cypress Orientalis sapling from Windsor Great Park will be planted in the King George V Jubilee Forest near Nazareth, Palestine, as the first tree in a project expected to grow fifteen thousand acres with over a million trees. The forest honors Jewish gratitude for twenty five years. It will border the Jerusalem Pines with cypress borders, near the Balfour Forest planted six years earlier.
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Windsor Great Park
Jubilee Forest
Palestine
Nazareth
Balfour Forest
Public See Huge Mosaic Pavement Opened At Woodchester
A Roman mosaic pavement over 1800 years old and valued around 2.5 million dollars is opened for public inspection at Woodchester England before a 30 year reburial. The 48 feet square pavement comprises about 1.5 million stones and has rarely been shown in 150 years. It lies under three feet of soil in Woodchester churchyard and will be guarded while work ends. Souvenir hunters previously stripped pieces when exposed.
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Woodchester
England
Keeping Track Of Tools In The Farm Shop
A farm shop system keeps each tool in its place with wall silhouettes. When a tool is borrowed the silhouette remains to show what is missing and where it hangs. Borrowers place a card bearing their name on a nail. The method is simple to implement at the first stormy day.
Ant destruction material praised as sodium fluoride
The Dominion Entomologist says the most satisfactory material found to destroy ants is sodium fluoride, sold by druggists as a fine white powder. Because sodium fluoride is poisonous, care should be taken to keep it away from children and pets.
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Dominion
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