Plant Breeding Progress and Feed Regulation in Canada
Canada has sustained a fifty year plant breeding effort starting with a wheat variety mismatch. Oats rank as the second valued field crop, with ongoing breeding for high yield, disease resistance, and quality. The Dominion Agriculture Department oversees oat improvements, with a 500-variety collection studied for Canadian adaptation. Canada's commercial feed industry is expanding rapidly under Feeding Stuffs Act rules, requiring ingredient listings and annual registration, with official inspections ensuring product conformity.
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Canada
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Canadian Society of Technical Agriculturals Review
Division Fairly Even Of Canada's Prime Ministers and Premiers
The Windsor Star notes a division with four Roman Catholics, four United Church, and two Presbyterians among Canada’s top leaders. Eastern premiers are Catholic, central leaders United Church, western premiers Presbyterian. named premiers include Macdonald, Dysart, MacMillan, Taschereau as Catholics. Bennett, Hepburn, Bracken, Gardiner as United Church. Reid and Pattullo as Presbyterians. L. P. D. Tilley noted as Anglican after defeat.
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Canada
United Church
East
Centre
Middle West
Macdonald
Nova Scotia
Dysart
New Brunswick
MacMllan
Prince Edward Island
Taschereau
Quebec
Bennett
Hepburn
Ontario
Bracken
Manitoba
Gardiner
Saskatchewan
Reid
Alberta
Pattullo
British Columbia
L. P. D. Tilley
Windsor Star
Sugar Use Rising Says CN Railways Bulletin
A Canadian National Railways bulletin notes growing sugar demand in 1931 04 with annual average consumption of 26,561,000 tons up 8.96 percent from 1926 1930. It reports global sugar output rising with Cubs at 9 percent versus 21 percent in 1925 and highlights the British West Indies as a key source shipping to Canada via CN Steamships in the Canada British West Indies service.
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Wongs Sweet
Canadian National Railways
Cubs
British West Indies
Canada
Canadian National Steam
Chicago terminal tops world air traffic with 100 daily flights
The Chicago municipal airport surged to a record 100 daily arrivals and departures as seven airlines added around half a dozen schedules. Newark ranked second at 96 daily flights, followed by Cleveland with eight enough to note in related figures.
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Chicago
Municipal
Newark
Cleveland
Wheat Grade High End Borrowing 0
A historic wheat grade report shows the 0.4 percent retention for livestock feed last year. About 1.5 million bushels were fed from a total 37.1 million bushels, indicating limited livestock use.
William Tell tale halted by Connecticut Humane Society
Chief White Horse faced opposition from the Connecticut Humane Society over using his three year old daughter Little Fawn for archery display. He substituted his wife Chariciuna Yellow Robe after society guidance. Nellie Brent, temporarily in charge, said the society has no jurisdiction over persons aged 16 and older.
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William Tell
Connecticut Humane Society
White Horse
Little Fawn
Hartford
Chariciuna
Nellie Brent
Birds Aid Man by Eating Insects, Says Youth's World
A Youth's World item extols birds as helpers to humans by consuming pests. It cites multiple examples such as cedar birds swallowing cankerworms, cuckoos eating tent caterpillars, chickadees with plant lice, a ficker feeding on chinch-tugs, scarlet tanagers preying on spegmoth caterpillars, and a Maryland yellowthroat devouring plant lice, highlighting the insects they destroy in short times.
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Maryland
Strange Cartsworm Experiments Create Unusual Creatures
The article describes cartsworms used in grafting tests producing bizarre results. Scientists join tails to form headless worms that survive for months yet cannot feed, illustrating extraordinary lab outcomes.
Valuable Farm Lands in Western Dominion Highlighted
Dr. E. B. Archibald of the Department of Agriculture Ottawa lauds rehabilitated western rought areas as among the most valuable farming lands in the Dominion. Contains miscellaneous notes on egg preservation using fat wax limewater sawdust or meal and storage tips.
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E. 8. Archibald
Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
Dominion
Prince of Wales Charms Camera Men with Photographs
Newspaper photographers recall the Prince of Wales being popular with cameramen, posing willingly at a Boston host's home after a ride through the grounds. He signaled photographers over the hedge to ensure they captured him, then rode on once satisfied. The piece notes presidents and prime ministers often yield to photo requests, citing Baldwin at Ottawa. Also mentions many locomotives in American railroads are over twenty years old.
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Prince of Wales
Hhouse
Baldwin
Great Britain
Ottawa
Detecting and Controlling Covered Smut of Wheat
The article explains how covered smut or bunt in wheat is hard to detect on the standing plant. It describes visual clues during head development, dough stage, and threshing, noting shorter plants, dark bluish green heads, plump spores, and the oily black spores that can be seen when kernels are pinched. It attributes control to resistant varieties or seed treatment.
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Rand
Angling Snapshot Rules Told by Chicago Walton League
John Van Guild offers fishing photogra phy tips stressing honesty in catching tales. He explains camera settings for folding and Vox type cameras, advising wide open diaphragm and slower shutter speeds for action on rivers, cautioning against motion blur and obstructing trees.
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Guise John van Guildaa
Red And Black Rust Are Different Stages In Life Of The Same Organism
A Dominion agriculture report explains that red and black rust are two stages of the same stem rust disease in grain. It notes red rust spreads via red spores during the green to ripening period, while black rust involves dark spores and follows the red stage. Both stages damage crops, with most harm occurring before the black stage.
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J. H. Craigie
Dominion Rust Research Laborators
Winnipeg
Cushions For Fragile Freight New Spring System
At the Eastern Claim Conference in Atlantic City experts described a new freight system using springs between boxcars and wheels and interior cushions to reduce rail joint bounce. Tests over millions of miles showed high vibration, prompting designers to adapt automobile spring tech for fragile shipments including glassware saving millions in claimed losses.
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Atlantic City
Charting the Seas exhibition during navy week at Portsmouth
British experts present a feature titled Charting the Seas at Portsmouth in August. Lieut-Commander D H Fryer organizes the display for admiralty surveys on the south coast. The event shows chart making from survey to final article with 200 year old examples and stresses frequent corrections for rivers and channels. Notices to mariners and navigational warnings keep shipping informed, with over 200 notices issued yearly.
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Navy Week
Portsmouth
England
D. H. Fryer
Admiralty
Admiralty Hydrographic Department
Doer Answers Manager’s Question in Job Interview
A young applicant explains his work style, saying he carries tasks from boss to cashier to bookkeeper to junior clerk. The manager probes what a doer is, and the exchange emphasizes clear communication gaps in old job processes. Emerson notes a solution for every problem.
Wine history pushed back to ancient times says experts
French oenologist Rene Dage and wine specialist Alban Armaud challenge Noah and Bacchus dates and argue Egyptians made wine by 7000 B C while cavemen could have learned it earlier. Fossil grape traces from the cenozoic era date vines to ancient forms similar to modern American varieties. No 7000 B C vintages survive, only dusty clay residues.
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Noah
Rene Dage
Alban Armaud
Egypt
Bacchus
Washington and the parson at Ipswich town meeting
Fach Dians nest At Ipswich a minister was presented to George Washington. Washington and the minister debated hat etiquette, with Washington insisting on respect and the parson replying with practical humor. A companion exchange about sewing adds a domestic aside.
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Ipswich
Mase
George Washington
Washington
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Catholic Presbyterian
United
Wile
Arrow
Joan
Smith’s Weekly
Sydney
Australia
Che Snapshot Guild
Izaak Walton League
News Atches
Wisconsin
Walton League of
Tenting
United States
Emerson
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