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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 02, 1928
Page
8
The first Highland Gathering at Banff, held last year, returns this year as a likely annual event. Scotland’s culture peaks in scenery pipes tartan dances and sports drawing Highlanders and Canadian Scots amid Rockies atmosphere.
A joint Alberta project by the University of Alberta Calgary Power Co and UFWA will test electrifying two farm homes for one year. One home will be in the north and the other in Southern Alberta to measure general costs of operating electrical appliances.
The piece weighs the auto as a desirable luxury and practical aid versus the strain on finances. It notes that even fit for business use some cannot afford cars due to unemployment or low salaries. It ends with a social quip about new neighbors and a humorous exchange.
Segur Bests ly Saskatchewan oil and Climate Favorable To Beets Dt Geld Gualiy. The Rosthern Experimental Station reports sugar beet varieties yield well with high dry matter, suggesting potential for a beet sugar industry in Saskatchewan. Yields ranged 127 to 164 tons per acre with sugar content 12.86 to 14.75 percent.
A Rosthern Saskatchewan station report shows cattle changed from brome to sweet clover pasture after initial grazing. Sweet clover provided excellent aftergrowth for dairy cows and heifers, with the 1927 findings noting preference for the forage. Then a note on US aviation officials inviting English airship R 100 and Zeppelin to use a mooring mast at Scott Army Field in Belleville Illinois if needed.
The Dominion Department of Agriculture through the Northern Saskatchewan Experimental Station is expanding poultry breeding in the province. The station has built a large high record flock, producing setting eggs and young birds for demand. Superintendent reports hens reaching 300 eggs in a year and strict care to maintain health and production.
The New York Sun notes that Canada and the United States maintain neighborly relations through blunt honesty. Nations with clear speech can do business with mutual understanding, while mentioning Japan teaches children to write with both hands.
Outdoor fishing writers promote barbless hooks for river and lake catches at Nipi gon River Bungalow Camp and nearby venues along the Canadian Pacific line near Ottawa. The hooks allow nearly painless release, reduce injury, and encourage repeated catches, with notable advocates like Clark Mipley and Striking Bil Jamieson contributing to their spread.
Professor James Shotwell of the Carnegie Endowment argues that postwar recovery in Europe and the United States outpaced expectations. The piece notes improved wages and living standards despite extensive destruction, driven by reform in industry, management, and production. It warns recovery depends on continued modernization and moral resolve.
Preliminary estimates show Canada's wheat crop at 23,405,000 acres, up nearly one million from 1937. Sown area reaches 18,287,000 acres, barley up and rye down. Wheat condition at 102 percent of 1927 levels, with Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta as key global supply sources.
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