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.

Keeping Boys on the Farm

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED | JUNE 21, 1924 | CANADIAN COUNTRYMAN

The Countryman is a welcome weekly visitor with us, and is very instructive and interesting. The page, “Practical Discussions by Practical Farmers,” always gives first-hand experiences of farmers in different lines of farming, and in various localities. We may argue with some views, and not with others, but all have beneficial ideas.

How are we going to keep the boys,

This cartoon, appearing in the September 27, 1940 issue of the Canadian Countryman depicts Uncle Sam and Johnny Canuck standing together resolutely, pledging to keep

This machine is a seed drill, or seeder. The seed drill essentially gave farmers a faster and more efficient method to plant their fields, which would require copious

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If Farmers go on Strike

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED | JUNE 10, 1920 | FARMER'S ADVOCATE & HOME MAGAZINE | LONDON

A female farmer who wanted to highlight the importance of farmers to food production and stability wrote the following poem. In particular it focuses on how in 1920 the production of food did not meet the needs of the population. As of 2017, this issue continues to be a problem not only in Canada but worldwide. It is thus necessary to reflect on the important of farmers to human life and

Wilfrid J.R. Fowler

1878 - 1955

Dr. Wilfrid J. R. Fowler was a well-known horse veterinarian and livestock judge who played an instrumental role in developing the Ontario Veterinary College. Throughout his life he had always demonstrated a deep interest in the advancement of the livestock industry. He was born in 1878 on a farm in Seaforth, Huron County. As his community was a centre for high-class Clydesdale breeding, he grew up with a fascination with and admiration for the breed. His childhood love for Clydesdales ultimately influenced his decision to pursue a career in livestock.

He attended public school

MARTIN BURRELL

OCTOBER 15, 1858 - MARCH 20, 1938

Martin Burrell was not the first Federal Minister of Agriculture. But he was, importantly, the first Minister of Agriculture to be a farmer himself. Burrell was born in Faringdon, England and immigrated to Canada in 1883, intending to work as a fruit farmer in the Niagara Peninsula.

Burrell lived in the peninsula for a short time and then settled down outside Grand Forks, British Columbia. He did, however, achieve his occupational goal. Burrell’s fruit farming enterprise was quite successful and he became a member of the B.C. Board of Horticulture as well as the

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News from our rich agriculture history

Keeping Boys on the Farm

Dictators Keep Out

SEED DRILL

If Farmers go on Strike

lives lived

Wilfrid J.R. Fowler

MARTIN BURRELL