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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 30, 1926
Page
6
Canadian grown seeds enjoy high standing under the Seeds Act as Canada develops a standardization system. Seed crops are graded and inspected, with No. 1 and extra No. 1 grades sold domestically and for export. Alfalfa and other crops show rising production. efforts to boost home seed production continue after wartime disruption.
Discoveries at Canadian Government experimental farms lead to Marquis wheat from Ottawa Central Farm and Garnet wheat from the same system. They promise earlier ripening, rust resistance, and expanded cultivation northward. Also noted are 200 apple varieties bred and the Agnes rose earning ARS honors.
A report describes the hagfish found near Monterey Bay California as blind yet highly perceptive through touch and smell. The purple bluish eel like fish measures eighteen inches to two feet and possesses three hearts one in the main body one in the tail and an extra heart for the portal system of veins.
At the new tube station under construction beneath Piccadilly Circus an area of 15 thousand square feet will be used for the booking hall. Removal of London clay totaling about 16,000 tons will be required. The completed station will handle about 50 million passengers a year.
Lumber from Vancouver for South Africa has increased this year with five ships loaded carrying about 4,500,000 feet each and departed. Within six weeks two more ships are due to sail with lumber bound for South Africa.
A Paris group forms to rediscover land lost for 11 600 years. They believe a continent once linked Europe and the New World in the Atlantic Ocean. They are collecting related rocks and stressing the topic to bolster their case.
More than 4 000 western farmers test Garnet wheat this year with about 160 000 bushels expected for next season. Brandon reports 46 bushels per acre on summer follow and 26 on stubble. Garnet outperforms Marquis under dry and even favorable conditions and matures earlier aiding risk avoidance in frost and pushing cultivation northward across prairie provinces.
The Edmonton Journal argues for expanded Canadian coal use and inter provincial trade. It notes limited anthracite for U S markets and urges government support to boost domestic exports, predicting Canadians will rely less on American shipments.
Dr W R Ormandy told the Congress of Chemlets in London that a sawdust to sugar process has reached a stage with commercial potential. In one experiment 65 pounds of sugar came from 100 pounds of dry sawdust. He noted that about 25 percent of global timber cut becomes sawdust.
The Thuy Valley Oil Company reports a 52 gravity oil strike 15 miles northwest of Unity Saskatchewan. Production estimated at 20 to 5d barrels daily from a well spudded June 16 with 12 inch hole, drilling aimed at secondary sands. first off well brought in in Saskatchewan.
Reports from Germany show increasing infantile paralysis with 84 children struck and five deaths at the Catholic orphan asylum in Hanover. Additional cases appear in Hanover and two in Spandau near Berlin.
Manitoba Free Press reports from 304 correspondents across Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta that the western crop area increases point to a field size similar to last year. Analysts expect better yields and a crop outlook improving Canadian totals despite past high outputs in the prairie provinces.
A party of British former service officers sails a 666 ton river steamer for Bolivia to establish a settlement on the Paraguay River. They plan to grow Brow cotton and market timber. Bolivia opens Port Gaiba to provide water transport to Buenos Aires and Atlantic access, aiding the expedition, with members experienced in tropical work.
The Lethbridge Northern Irrigation tract, opened for settlement a few years ago, shows strong farming prosperity per a Provincial Government report. 1925 production valued under 400000 dollars, with 1926 forecast at about 2006000 dollars as new towns arise along the railway expansion.
The French president refused to back a proposal to erect a skyscraper on Paris’s border, arguing it would mar the city landscape. The Woodstock Sentinel Review notes the American view favors bold business over regular urban form.
A new nonrusting wheat variety has been developed at Winonipas and researchers now turn to breeding a potato variety resistant to pests. The effort focuses on durable crop traits to reduce losses and improve yields for farmers.
The report estimates American visitors will spend about 190 million dollars in Canada this year while total American tourism expenditure abroad nears 690 million dollars. It notes 1925 Canadian arrivals and the broader outbound travel boom driven by lower steamship rates and favorable exchange.
In July this year the Canadian Government interior department registered 658 homestead entries versus 403 in July 1925. U S settlers made 100 entries, Edmonton district leads with 192, Prince Albert 85, Moose Jaw 113. 160 acre free grants are available in Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta and certain BC areas for a $10 registration fee, with intent to become British subject if not already. Land near railways can be bought for 15 to 20 per acre despite distance from markets.
Census figures as of June 1 indicate an average population gain of about five percent across twenty Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta districts since 1921. The total population reached 800,820 compared with 725,308 in 1921, highlighting notable growth.
A Bellcate motorist explains his wife refused to brake due to nervous squeaks. The woman quips it seems the fault lies with the policeman as he asks why brakes were not applied. The exchange reflects a local street incident and the humorous tone of the page.
A group of over 40 husky lads from Wye Agricultural College Kent England and Oxford University, arrived by train from England to take harvesting roles in the Canadian prairie. They were arranged by the Women's British Emigration League and photographed with two of its representatives. They come from families across the mother country and will return to their schools in October.
The article discusses plant life and a scientist Sir Jagadis Rose ate. It mentions a sixth sense in certain species detecting minute changes in the environment. It notes a plant’s daily cycle and a device that questions and records plant responses hourly.
Rain prayers of Hopi Indians at Flagstaff Arizona were followed by heavy rainfall turning desert depressions into raging torrents within two hours. The annual snake dance closes after days of preparation and prior rains have been reported in past years with similar damage to motor vehicles in the vicinity.
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