Canada sees surge in British juvenile immigration to farms
Mr. Pym reports 1199 British boys brought to Canada under National Railways and colonial groups, a 334 percent rise from 1923, with 97 percent deemed to have adjusted well. Most come from middle class, educated families. Canada seeks to replace old world notions and offer opportunity.
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Dent
Eytia
Weaeon
Yelex
Mir
Pym
Canadian National Railways
British Immigration and Colonization, ‘Association
Brontress
Farma
Ontario
Canada
Mr. Pym
Juvenie
Variety oats and barley favored in provinces by Department report
The Department of Agriculture Ottawa reports demand for oat varieties Banner and Victory across provinces except Northern Ontario, Northern Quebec, and frost-prone Maritimes where Alaska variety excels. Barley varieties O B C No 21 Trebi and Charlottetown No. 80 perform well on illustration stations with Trebi thriving in Manitoba. illustration stations sold 40 072 bushels seed grain 7089 bushels seed potatoes and 18061 pounds grain and clover seed.
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Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
Gernet
Ontario
Quebec
Trebl
Charlottetown
Sheep and Lamb Fair Set For Bran don October Show
Manitoba Sheep Breeders Association directors fixed October 30 and 31 for the annual show in the Winter Fair Areas at Brandon. Last year 700 lambs entered, with record proportions expected this year due to favorable conditions and increased farm sheep activity in the province.
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Manitoba Sheep Breeders’ Ansociation
Brandon
Manitoba
Dairy sanitation advances with overhead milk pipelines
RF Graves of the USDA Bureau of Dairy Industry explains a Beltsville Md system using overhead sanitary pipelines to carry milk from cow to vacuum tanks. Milk can be cooled or pasteurized and even bottled under vacuum, with a glass receptacle showing actual milking rate and a low bacterial count after four days.
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Wilking
RF Graves
Bureau of Dairy Industry
United States Department of Agriculture
Beltsville
Graves
Bridge Rush Over Damaged Line Sparks Urgency
A burned railway bridge forced rapid action by the division's superintendent who pressed the old master builder for the engineer's plan while the new bridge was already being constructed and trains continued to pass. Seals found along Labrador coast are hunted for leather and fat rather than fur.
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Bis
Buiider
Ansiously
Labrador
Combine reaper threshers promise high harvest with wider cuts
A Saskatchewan study reports that modern combine reaper threshers with 15 to 16 foot cuts can harvest about 600 cars of grain per season, with 2100 foot swath machines handling roughly 400 acres. Results from seven years at Swift Current and other farms advise careful timing to avoid dew and frost issues, suggesting cuts should not start too early in damp conditions.
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Swift Current
Saskatchewan
Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
Women Explorers Plan Far Reaches Across Continents
Three young women led by Baroness Christa von Bradenstein and including Miss Neda de Namur and Misa Margaret d Angeli o depart New York aiming to explore Alaska the Gobi Desert and Australia. They travel with a tent three army cots motion picture and regular cameras a typewriter camp store and a German shepherd. A London water mains note appears as a separate snippet.
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Christa von Bradenstein
Neda de Namur
Misa
Margaret d'Angelo
New York
Alaska
Gobi Desert
Wilds
Australia
Increased live stock production urged across Canada
Canada faces rising meat and egg demand as per capita consumption soars. Officials urge higher production across poultry beef pork and dairy while noting shifts in export markets and growing domestic appetite driven by tourism industry and urban employment.
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W. BR. Motherwell
Toronto
Canada
Department of Agriculture
United States
Paper
Motherwell
Movable Hog Cabins Recommended for Farms
The Dominion Animal Husbandman reports in 1928 that a portable hog cabin with a fifty square foot floor can house five brood sows with yard access. Such structures are inexpensive, often built from farm materials, and preferred over older A frame designs due to hog crowding damage to sloping roofs.
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Sumer
Dominion Animal’ Husbandman
Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
Canada Exports Flour to 83 Countries in Last Crop Year
Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports exports of wheat to all destinations at 354 424 699 bushels and flour at 41 808 775 barrels for the year ending July 31. China received the most flour, followed by the United Kingdom and Germany with shipments of 3 040 881, 2 637 867 and 3 097 289 barrels respectively.
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Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
China
United Kingdom
Germany
New factory methods and ideas vital to postwar era
The article argues for abandoning old methods to revive industry with new factory techniques and salesmanship. It praises clean cuts of old ideas and machinery and notes Australia hosts a variety of so called aviator animals. it ends with a remark on chronic borrowers.
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Lancashire
North
London Daily Chronicle
Importation Prohibited Cattle and Swine from Scotland
A ministerial order signed by J. H. Grisdale banns all permits for importing cattle sheep goats and other ruminants and swine from Scotland to Canada. Exceptions apply to those already embarked on vessels en route to the Dorsinion. The measure, under the Contagious Diseases Act, follows a foot and mouth disease outbreak in Lanarkshire Scotland. Similar restrictions cover shipments from England.
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J. H. Grisdale
Scotland
Canada
Dorsinion
Lanarkshire
Ficotland
England
Winnipeg Grain Exchange Raises Membership to 50000
The Winnipeg Grain Exchange voted unanimously on August 27 to raise membership costs to 50 000. The previous membership price was 28 700. The article recalls a married couple quip about dishwashing.
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Winnipeg Grain Exchange
The
Grain Exchange
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