News from our rich agriculture history

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The Application of Computers to Agriculture

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED | AUTUMN 1965 | JUNIOR FARMER AND 4-H AQUARTERLY

The “electronic computer” has been hailed as having possibly more beneficial potential for the human race than any other invention in history. It has already changed or affected whole areas of society by opening up vast new possibilities by its extraordinary feats of memory calculation. It has given new horizons to the fields of science and medicine, changed the techniques of

This cartoon appeared in the September 13, 1924 issue of the Canadian Countryman. It was intended to be a humorous take on the Canadian government’s nutritional

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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Looking for the Reason

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED | DECEMBER 18, 1919 | THE FARMER'S ADVOCATE

Some almost unbelievable things have taken place in our Province in the course of the past few weeks. A year ago it would have taken a pretty hardy prophet to have faced the ridicule he would have brought on himself by predicting a “Farmer’s” Government in Ontario. It has all come so suddenly and unexpectedly, at least to the majority of us, that we are still wondering how it

Dr. Egerton Gibson Hood

1890 - 1953

A prolific dairy researcher Doctor Egerton Gibson Hood was born in 1890 in Milliken, York County. Dr. Hood attended the Ontario Agricultural College, graduating with his Bachelor of Science in Agriculture in 1913. Hood would always keep his ties with the O.A.C. eventually becoming the Vice-President of the school’s Alumni Association.

Dr. Hood spent the year after his graduation working, first for the Holstien-Friesian Association of Ontario and then for the Laurentian Milk Company in Caledonia, Ontario. In September of 1914 Dr. Hood enrolled in the University of

W.R. Motherhill

JANUARY 6, 1860 - MAY 24, 1943

William Richard Motherwell was born on January 6, 1860 on a farm in Perth, Lanark County, Ontario. The son of an Irish farmer, William’s childhood was typical of most farm boys in his time. During the winter months he attended the local country school, while for the rest of the year he worked on the family farm. An uncommonly bright boy, Motherwell attended the Ontario Agricultural College on a scholarship and graduated with high-class honours in 1881. It was here that William would study the growing field of agricultural science, for which he would become a lifelong

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News from our rich agriculture history

The Application of Computers to Agriculture

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Cradle Scythe

Looking for the Reason

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Dr. Egerton Gibson Hood

W.R. Motherhill