News from our rich agriculture history

The Farms.com farm and rural history website is dedicated to celebrating and digitizing the last 150 years of success in the Canadian agriculture and food industry. The agriculture and food industries in Canada have a rich heritage of innovation, and have laid a foundation of excellence upon which we continue to grow. We celebrate Canada’s food and agriculture innovations on these pages.

THE FARM TRACTOR

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED | JULY 8, 1922 | THE CANADIAN COUNTRYMAN

The relative merits of the tractor and the horse for doing farm work is a question which could be argued until Doomsday without arriving at a conclusion that would be satisfactory to all concerned. The tractor enthusiasts can quote figures to show that the tractor performs work more cheaply than horses, and those who back the horse can produce figures equally convincing to prove that for real

This cartoon originally appeared in the January 8, 1944 issue of Canadian Countryman. It depicts a giant empty bowl representing “The world’s food needs”

The Cradle scythe, also known as the grain cradle, is a modification to a traditional scythe. The traditional scythe, used in the harvest of grain, had the disadvantage of

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CANADA’S FISCAL POLICY: NO. 17 - THE LAND ROBBERS

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED | JANUARY 17, 1920 | CANADIAN COUNTRYMAN

In the last article we discovered that the real strength of Protection lay in the fact of unemployment, wherefrom anything that will “make work” is taken to be a blessing. Similarly the effects of machinery, and of labor-saving inventions, have frequently been looked at with dismay by those whom these things ought to benefit, because, as a matter of fact, the benefit did not often

Morley Weatherall

APRIL 11, 1930 – JULY 17, 2012

Born in 1930, Morley Weatherall was, in many ways, the epitome of a good Canadian farmer. Weatherall ran a symbiotic system of properties. He owned Ontarian farms in Honeywood, Dufferin County as well as Badjeros, Grey County. The latter included a large feedlot that Weatherall supplemented with his third property, a grain farm in Manitoba. But what made Weatherall exceptional was not what he did, but how he did it.

In 1975 Weatherall became the Ontario Cattleman’s Association’s representative on the board of the Farm Safety Association. In 1982 he was promoted to

Stewart A. Brown

1898 - 1966

Stewart A. Brown was born in 1898, Southwold, Elgin West, Ontario. His parents, Mary Brown and Duncan Brown, were of Scottish descent. One of the premier men in Canada’s cattle industry, Stewart Brown was a remarkable breeder, exhibitor, exporter, and judge who left an undeniable impact on the industry. Throughout his career he dedicated himself to the improvement of the cattle industry, demonstrated by the various positions he held.

Brown’s career in the farming industry began early in his life. His parents were both farmers and he was born and raised on the farm. In

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News from our rich agriculture history

THE FARM TRACTOR

The World's Food Needs

Cradle Scythe

CANADA’S FISCAL POLICY: NO. 17 - THE LAND ROBBERS

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Morley Weatherall

Stewart A. Brown