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Wheat Pool vs Wheat Board

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED | APRIL 15, 1922 | CANADIAN COUNTRYMAN

There is an insistent demand at the present time among Western farmers for the restoration of the Wheat Board. Mr. H.W. Wood, for the Canadian Council of Agriculture, while addressing the agricultural committee of the House of Commons recently, said that Western farmers were particularly hard hit by the fall in prices and that something must be one to assist the to get a higher price for their

This cartoon appeared in a November, 1940 issue of the Canadian Countryman magazine. The broad context for the cartoon was the Second World War which Canada had entered on

This is an example of a clothes plunger, used to wash clothes before the invention of the washing machine. This simple device had a number of names that varied across

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PLOWING BEST JOB THERE IS FOR MAN WHO KNOWS HOW

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED | MAY 3, 1924 | CANADIAN COUNTRYMAN

Plowing is the first thing farmers do when preparing for the crop. And I have always said that you are half done when you have a field that is well plowed. On the other hand, the field that is merely rooted around a bit, then sown in the same manner, is never done. The well-plowed field will produce you a good crop, while the poorly-plowed or rooted field will grow you a lot of weeds with

James Thomas Gordon

DECEMBER 24, 1858 - DECEMBER 21, 1919

One of the most well known cattlemen in Western Canadian history, James Thomas Gordon was the cofounder of Gordon and Ironside Company. He was born on December 24, 1858 in Tweed, Hastings County, Ontario to John and Sarah Gordon, who were Irish immigrants. Upon completing his education at Tweed’s public school he promptly took up the career of his parents- farming. In 1879 he migrated to Manitoba where he began working for a local lumber firm, Dick Banning & Company. Through this experience he was eventually able to strike out on his own and forge ahead in the lumber industry,

Monroe Landon

1887 - 1980

Born in 1887 in Norfolk County Monroe Landon was dedicated to his pursuit of knowledge whether the topic be farming and livestock or some other living creature. In fact, his friends would comment that while he was studying at the Ontario Agricultural College he would spend most of his time in the library, more even than the time he spent in the classroom. Upon his graduation from the OAC, Mr. Landon was a farmer and breeder of purebred Jersey cattle which he often showed at the Royal Winter Fair and Canadian National Exhibition.

Aside from being a successful farmer, Mr. Landon

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PLOWING BEST JOB THERE IS FOR MAN WHO KNOWS HOW

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