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.

Ontario Dairy Day Provided Education, Inspiration and Publicity

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED | JULY 1953 | THE CANADIAN DAIRY AND ICE CREAM JOURNAL

Ontario’s First Dairy Day on the farm of Melvin Shatnz, Alma, Ont. was an outstanding success and ensured that this event will become an annual feature for the dairy industry of this province. In spite of rain in many surrounding districts, and the prevalence throughout much of the day of that restrained form of precipitation known as “Scotch Mist,” milk producers and their

This advertisement appeared in a 1945 issue of the Canadian Countryman. Sponsored by the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario (HEPC) - the forerunner to Ontario

This milker was designed by the Mehring Company. William Mehring’s major innovation was the inclusion of a foot treadle to power the milker. This type of design was

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A FAIR TARIFF

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED | MAY 30, 1925 | THE CANADIAN COUNTRYMAN

The almost solid demand from the West and the Maritime Province for a low tariff, and the demand from the manufacturing centres of Ontario and Quebec for a high tariff make statesmen in this country no sinecure. The suggestion made a short time ago by the Hon. F. B. McCurdy, who was Minister of Public Works in the Meighen Government, that Nova Scotia should be permitted to control its own

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

John L. Stansell

JUNE 17, 1875 – OCTOBER 21, 1956

John Lawrence Stansell was a model Ontarian farmer and livestock breeder who actively involved himself in the development and growth of the livestock industry. He was born on June 17, 1875 in Haughton, Norfolk County, the son of Joseph A. Stansell, a descendant of United Empire loyalists. He attended public school in Aylmer before attending the Collegiate Institute in the same town, reaching an academic level that was considerably higher than that of the average farm boy of the time. Upon his completion of school, he took up the farmer’s calling, something that most young men of such

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News from our rich agriculture history

Ontario Dairy Day Provided Education, Inspiration and Publicity

Hydro-Electric Ad

Mehring Milker

A FAIR TARIFF

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Dr. Egerton Gibson Hood

John L. Stansell