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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 08, 1935
Page
4
A long standing Ada breeding program focuses on improving stem rest crown rest and vigor. It highlights development of disease resistant varieties with stronger skewed traits, quality yield, and enhanced adaptation. Over 500 varieties from semi foreign countries are studied for breeding potential and improved verte qualities for cultivation.
The report lists Canada’s prime minister and nineteen provincial premiers by church affiliation. It notes four Roman Catholics in the east, two United Church premiers in the center, and two in the west, with Macdonald Dysart MacMillan and Taschereau named. It also identifies Bennett Hepburn Bracken Gardiner Reid Pattullo as United Church or Presbyterian, and Tilley as Anglican.
A Canadian National Railways bulletin notes higher annual sugar use from 1931 to 1934 at 26,541,000 tons, up 3.34 percent from 1926 to 1930. It highlights Cuba’s share shrinking to 9 percent from 7 percent in 1926, and calls the British West Indies a key sugar source for Canada via CN Steamships.
Windy City’s municipal airport claims the title of world’s busiest air center as seven Chicago airlines now average 100 daily arrivals and departures after new schedule additions. Newark ranks second at 96 daily flights, followed by Cleveland with 85.
Manitoba wheat grading shows 0 per cent rated high last year with only about 1 per cent allocated for feed for livestock and poultry. The total crop reached 37.3 million bushels, of which roughly 1,000,000 bushels fell into the feed category.
The Canadian commercial feed business is expanding rapidly and rooted in domestic agriculture. The June issue of the Canadian Society of Technical Agriculturists Review highlights strong development potential and the sector’s role in poultry and livestock growth, under Feeding Stuffs Act regulations. Feed manufacturers must annually register ingredients and analyses, with guaranteed protein fat and other values printed on packaging.
The Connecticut Humane Society barred Calef White Horse from using his three year old daughter Little Fawn in a bow demonstration. Chief White Horse then substituted his wife Chauncluna Yellow Robe while Nellie Brent noted the society has no authority over individuals sixteen and older.
Newspaper photographers recall the Prince of Wales posing from a hedge as guards kept distance around a Boston house. He rode up to the hedge after a request by hosts, then complied until photographers were satisfied. Similar scenes noted with Prime Minister Baldwin at Ottawa.
The article explains signs of covered smut in wheat before harvest and in threshing, noting shorter plants with dark bluish green beads, plump dough stage kernels exposing black spores, and loose glumes with spore presence. Control relies on resistant varieties and seed treatment. It ends with a quote about changing behavior.
The Snapshot Guild extols anglers to photograph their catch rather than recount tales of the one that got away. It offers camera tips for folding and box cameras, advising exposure settings and timing to capture action, while warning on light conditions and focusing distance.
A birdman cites studies showing cedar-bird stomachs containing 100 cankerworms, a cuckoo with 150 tent caterpillars, a chickadee with 454 plant-lice, a flicker devouring 1,000 chinch-bugs, a scarlet tanager consuming 630 gypsy moth caterpillars in eighteen minutes, and a Maryland yellow throat eating 3,500 plant-lice in forty minutes to prove birds' value to man.
The earthworm readily lends itself to grafting experiments and has produced unusual laboratory specimens. Even when the tails of two worms are joined, a headless worm can form and survive for months despite lacking the ability to feed.
Dr KE Archibald of the Department of Agriculture Ottawa says the western drought areas slated for rehabilitation represent some of the most valuable farming land in the Dominion.
Advice on egg preservation notes that an egg should be at its nest around 12 hours old. To extend shelf life cover with fat war timewater or pack in asedust or meal. Store eggs in a cool dry place.
The piece explains that red rust and black rust are two expressions of the same stem rust disease in cereals. It notes the life cycle, with red stage spreading infections via wind before ripening and turning to black rust, which remains attached and inflicts substantial ongoing damage. Both stages cause loss, not only the black stage. The article also touches on new Canadian pig identification rules under the Pedigree Act requiring tattoo or tag by eight weeks and the need for proper recording through Ottawa livestock registers.
At the Western Claim Conference in Atlantic City researchers describe cushions and a spring system to reduce vibration in freight cars. Tests on millions of miles of travel show significant bounce and damage, prompting design inputs from auto engineering. A special cushion will protect glassware shipments worth millions, reducing breakage losses.
An August feature in Portsmouth England titled Charting the Seas will showcase the complete chart making process from survey to finished product. Lieut Commander D H Fryer of admiralty surveys on the south coast organizes the exhibit with 200 year old charts on view. The display emphasizes chart correction for rivers and tide swept channels and notes notices to mariners and navigational warnings issued yearly.
A short applicant explains chain of command in a prior job, saying he completed tasks when no one else was told. Esmereus notes 8 million for every problem, implying a bold claim about resources.
French cenologist Rene Dage and wine expert Alban Armaud present a dated timeline of grape and wine origins. They place earliest grape traces in the cenozolec era with fossil leaves matching modern American vines, suggesting Egyptians brewed wine by 7000 B.C. and potential caveman winemaking, with a 6000 B.C. year highlighted as favorable.
In Ipswich Massachusetts a town minister met George Washington with hat in hand. Washington urged him to wear his hat, but the minister insisted he could not while thinking of Washington’s deeds. They argued kindly, each praising the other’s modesty and effort.
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