Growth Of Population Of Western Provinces Reveals Developments Of Last Decade
London Times notes Canada’s westward population shift as census data show Vancouver up over 50 percent and Winnipeg rising to 217 587. Toronto grows 20 percent to 627 582. Winnipeg’s boom contrasts with prairie hard times and falling grain prices.
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Canada
Prairie Provinces
Dominion
Toronto
Vancouver
Winnipeg
Canada West of the Lakes
Prairies
London Times
Revenue From Poultry Farms Boost Alberta Output
Deputy minister A Craig said 70 000 Alberta farms with about 80 hens produced 31 000 000 dozen eggs and shipped 122 carloads last year. Eggs alone netted Canada 81 060 000 dollars in 1930, underscoring poultry as a major farm revenue source.
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Alberta
A A. Craig
Edmonton
Craig
Early Snow Needed for Prairie Soil Moisture
W D Albright of the Dominion Experimental Sub-station at Beaverlodge Alberta says early thick snow gives moisture to unfrozen ground as it melts and percolates. If snow arrives late or is followed by rain that freezes, the surface soil may stay dry come spring.
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Prairies
W. D. Albright
Dominion Experimental
Beaverlodge
Alberta
Fall Rye Distribution Reaches 100000 Bushels in Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan's Agriculture Department reports orders for nearly 100,000 bushels of fall rye. Government seed shipped to Moose Jaw and passed through a cleaning plant with distribution to farmers underway. The cleaning plant runs 24 hours to ensure timely seeding supplies under The Temporary Seed Grain Act. Doctor: You have influenza and I must keep to your room. New rich: Which I have 25 rooms in this house.
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Saskatchewan Department of Agriculture
Moose Jaw
Canadian Wheat Quality Surpasses Russian Produces Stronger Export Outlook
A Globe despatch from Ottawa cites an agricultural statistics report confirming the United States and Canada hold a large share of the world high grade wheat. Canada’s wheat is expected to grade higher than Russian wheat, with a potential export surplus of 90 to 100 million bushels. Argentina’s harvest status is unclear while Australia has begun harvest. Canada has no China marketing plans. the U.S. is selling in the Orient under government credit schemes. Hon. Herbert M. Marler visited Tokyo aiming to find a Canadian market in China but no sales were arranged.
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Western Prairies
Toronto Globe
Ottawa
Agricultural Statistics Branch
Bureau of Statistics
Chicago
United States
Canada
Russia
Argentina
China
Orient
Herbert M. Marler
Tokyo
Candles Remain Major World Trade Item In 1930
Department of Commerce data show candles valued around 18 million dollars with about 35 million pounds traded annually. Great Britain leads exports with 10,743,040 pounds in 1930, followed by France 4,404,350 pounds and Belgium 3,820,572 pounds. United States exports totaled 1,066,354 pounds. Scotland reports record bagpipe players this year.
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Department of Commerce
Great Britain
France
Belgium
United States
Cariboo Gold Fields Seen Riches If Properly Explored
The article notes Canadian and American health officers praising mutual ideas at a Montreal dinner. It cites Dean R. W. Brock's survey showing hundreds of millions in potential gold in Cariboo country and forecasts greater yields with modern methods. Prospectors are active along Fraser and other rivers with renewed bar mining and new energy in old diggings.
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Cariboo
Montreal
Health Officers
American Association of School Physicians
International Society of Medical Health
Hugh F. Cumming
American Public Health Association
William F. Snow
American Social Hygiene Association
New York
Canada
Kendall Emerson
Dean R. W. Brock
University of British Columbia
W. A. McKenzie
British Columbia
McKenzie
Controversy Near End as Grain Boats Reach Harbour
Hon. T. G. Murphy expresses satisfaction with Harbour loading of the first grain boats to Manitoba's new ocean port. As railway completion and harbour tests finalize the Hudson Bay route, a half century dispute moves toward settlement.
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Churchill Harbour
T. G. Murphy
Interior
Manitoba
Hudson Bay
Murphy
Oklahoma plan to reduce cotton and wheat acreage
A move to cut cotton and wheat acreage in Oklahoma is under way. Representatives from wheat and cotton counties, at Governor Murray’s request, agree to confine 1952 cotton acreage to one third and wheat to two thirds of tillable land. Farmers cannot plant cotton on the same land two years in succession and wheat cannot be planted more than three consecutive years on the same land.
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Oklahoma
W. H. Murray
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India
Fleyter
Buen Humor
Madrid
Scotland
Canadian Chamber OF Commerce
Churchill
Prairie
J. T. M. Anderson
Saskatchewan
D. G. McKenzie
Pat Burns
Calgary
C. H. Wright
Halifax
Maritime Provinces
A. E. Warren
Canadian National Railways
Canadian National
Canadian Chamber of Commerce Party
Gaies
Yverdon
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