News from our rich agriculture history

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Calls for Officials to “Crack Down” on Careless Corn Growers

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED | OCTOBER 5, 1940 | CANADIAN COUNTRYMAN

The season of corn harvest is again at hand, and apparently we have quite an increase in corn borer infestation.

It is probable that weather conditions prevailing during the growing season will be blamed for this increase in borers. However, here is one farmer who believes that weather conditions are not the only cause of increased damage by this voracious insect. In many districts

This cartoon appeared in a March 18, 1944 issue of the Canadian Countryman. By using the old idiom of the wolf in sheep clothing, the cartoon is warning against using feed

This artifact is a milk strainer, separator or “cream harvester”. The device’s function is to take raw milk and separate its cream and skimmed milk

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What Scotsburn Means in Nova Scotia Dairying

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED | AUGUST 5, 1920 | THE FARMER'S ADVOCATE

The word “Scotsburn” in Nova Scotia is the short for good creamery management and large production, while in the produce trade it is a synonym for butter of the highest quality. In 1912 Dr. Cumming took W.A. McKay from the little creamery that was fast becoming famous, and commissioned him to “Scotsburnize” Nova Scotia, and for almost eight years Mr. McKay has been

YOSHIKAZU “JOE” TSUKAMOTO

SEPTEMBER 12, 1925 - NOVEMBER 2005

Yoshikazu “Joe” Tsukamoto, born in New Westminster BC in 1925, dedicated much of his life to agriculture. After the death of his mother at the age of six, his father moved the family back to Japan where Mr. Tsukamoto studied at the Nagahama Agricultural School. When Mr. Tsukamoto graduated at the age of 16 in 1941 his father sent him back to Canada to avoid the imminent conflict in the Pacific.

Luckily, Mr. Tsukamoto came to Canada on the last boat to leave Japan before the war began. He lived with his aunt and uncle in southern B.C., working on a fruit farm that they

John Ruthven “Blondie” Wilson

AUGUST 23, 1892 - 1969

Ruthven, as he most commonly went by, was born in Glengarry County, Ontario, in 1892. His father, James Lockie Wilson, would go on to achieve agricultural prominence during Ruthven’s youth. James served as Secretary of the Ontario Vegetable Growers’, Horticultural and Plowmen’s Associations. The later employment James attained as the Ontario government’s Superintendent of Agricultural Societies provided Ruthven with excellent educational opportunities.

Ruthven graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture from the University of Toronto in 1916. The

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News from our rich agriculture history

Calls for Officials to “Crack Down” on Careless Corn Growers

A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

MILK STRAINER

What Scotsburn Means in Nova Scotia Dairying

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YOSHIKAZU “JOE” TSUKAMOTO

John Ruthven “Blondie” Wilson