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 Magic of Wireless

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED | MAY 6, 1922 | CANADIAN COUNTRYMAN

Scientific invention is rapidly changing the conditions on the farm. The farmer of to-day can have, if he wishes, all the conveniences which formerly were only enjoyed by the city man. Running water, both hot and cold, can be had for comparatively little expense. Farmers in most sections of Ontario now get their mail delivered practically at their door. They can talk to their friends living

This cartoon, published in the October 11, 1924 edition of the Canadian Countryman magazine, expresses one of the main complaints of the United Farmers movement in Ontario

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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Canadians Should Remember April 9th

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED | APRIL 11, 1925 | THE CANADIAN COUNTRYMAN

April 9th is an anniversary, the significance of which Canadians do not sufficiently realize, or if they do, they give little heed. Eight years ago to-day Canada’s best blood was poured out like water and a deed accomplished that filled the world with astonishment and returned its fading hopes.

Vimy Ridge! How that name will swell the breasts of Canadians yet unborn. What

Freeman Boyd

OCTOBER 7, 1952 – JUNE 22, 2017

Farmer; outdoorsman; passionate local food advocate. Born Oct. 7, 1952; died June 22, 2017 in Meaford, age 64.

A foundational figure for local food in Grey and Bruce Counties, Freeman Boyd died suddenly following a cardiac event at his home in late June.

Raised on a Guelph-area poultry farm, Freeman and his wife, Marion, acquired their own farm near Walters’ Falls in the 1970s.

“We travelled a bit and … wanted to buy some property in Ontario somewhere (but) didn’t have much money,” Marion said in a recent interview,

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

The Magic of Wireless

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Cradle Scythe

Canadians Should Remember April 9th

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Freeman Boyd

John Ruthven “Blondie” Wilson