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.

TOO MUCH GOVERNMENT

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED | MAY 30, 1925 | THE CANADIAN COUNTRYMAN

Allow me space in your valuable columns to express my views on “Too Much Government.” In the first place, we must be a lot of rough-necks or nonlaw-abiding people or else our Government staff is so unnecessarily large they are stumbling over one another. When we stop to think what our Government finds for all of them to do, when we consider that there is one Government employee to

This cartoon first appeared in a December 1944 edition of Canadian Countryman. It depicts an imprisoned man representing “world trade” sitting in his cell,

This is a handheld cast-iron corn sheller in remarkable condition. Designed to shell corn kernels to produce feed for livestock, the corn sheller utilized a simple design

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Special report to you and your family on the H-Bomb

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED | MAY 1955 | BETTER FARMING

The hydrogen bomb has moved the dangers of war right out to your farm doorstep. It also has given you - the farmer - a new and grave responsibility in the defense of your nation.

We don’t want to alarm you, but you should understand the sobering facts recently revealed by the Atomic Energy Commission and how they affect you. First, distance from city targets no longer is a

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 BRACKEN

JUNE 22, 1883 - MARCH 18, 1969

John Bracken led an eventful life in the fields of agriculture and politics which included many high and low points. He was born June of 1883 near Ellisvale Ontario, but is most known for his time spent in the prairie provinces. Before moving west, Bracken attended the Ontario Agricultural College where he demonstrated great academic and athletic success.

Upon his graduation Bracken was offered a job in Manitoba as a seed control inspector at the Department of Agriculture which caused him to travel extensively through the prairies. He was exceedingly skilled at his job and his

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News from our rich agriculture history

TOO MUCH GOVERNMENT

IMPRISONED WORLD TRADE

Handheld Corn Sheller

Special report to you and your family on the H-Bomb

lives lived

YOSHIKAZU “JOE” TSUKAMOTO

JOHN BRACKEN