Pooling Wheat in Canada, Volume 25Graphic Publishers, Limited, 1927 - 275 páginas |
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66 July 66 Sept Aaron Sapiro acreage Acres agriculture Alberta Alberta Wheat Pool average grower bushels Canadian Pool Canadian wheat carloads cash Central Selling Agency cents per bushel cheques co-operation co-operative marketing contract costs cotton country elevator crop-year delivered deliveries dollar Dominion economic effort fact farm farmers Field Service figures flour Fort William grade hand handling head office homes Hudson Bay Railway interests interim payment Ivory Soap Manitoba milling million bushels Northern wheat November October operative orderly marketing organized grain trade organized growers Pool and Non-Pool Pool Elevators Pool grower POOL TERMINAL Pool wheat Pool's Port PORT ARTHUR Prairie Canada Prairie Provinces pre-Pool Prince Rupert route rural Sask Saskatchewan Pool Saskatchewan Wheat Pool September TERMINAL ELEVATOR thousands three Pools tion to-day UNIV unorganized urban Vancouver West of Canada Western Canada wheat crop Winnipeg
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Página 15 - There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
Página 233 - Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that. You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house ; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Página 145 - Another difficulty will be in making proper estimates of the amount of products and the amount of the equalization fee. It is improbable that this board could do any better in this respect than has been done by the Department of Agriculture. In spring wheat the estimates of the department have been 78,000,000 bushels too small and 90,000,000 bushels too large ; in winter wheat, 126,000,000 bushels too small and 140,000,000 bushels too large; in corn, 430,000,000 bushels too small and 657,000,000...
Página 236 - Fear, Craft and Avarice Cannot rear a State. Out of dust to build What is more than dust — Walls Amphion piled Phoebus stablish must. When the Muses nine With the Virtues meet, Find to their design An Atlantic seat, By green orchard boughs Fended from the heat, Where the statesman ploughs Furrow for the wheat ; When the Church is social worth, When the State-house is the hearth, Then the perfect State is come, The republican at home.
Página 145 - The main policy of this bill is an entire reversal of what has been heretofore thought to be sound. Instead of undertaking to secure a method of orderly marketing which will dispose of products at a profit, it proposes to dispose of them at a loss. It runs counter to the principle of conservation ,which would require us to produce only what can be done at a profit, not to waste our soil and resources producing what is to be sold at a loss to us for the benefit of the foreign consumer.
Página 143 - Bill to establish a Federal Farm Board to aid in the orderly marketing and in the control and disposition of the surplus of agricultural commodities.
Página 143 - The measure discriminates definitely against products which make up what has been universally considered a program of safe farming. The bill upholds as ideals of American farming the men who grow cotton, corn, rice, swine, tobacco or wheat, and nothing else. These are to be given special favors at the expense of the farmer who has toiled for years to build up a constructive farming enterprise to include a variety of crops and live stock that shall, so far as possible, be safe, and keep the soil,...
Página 149 - A political victory, a rise of rents, the recovery of your sick or the return of your absent friend, or some other favorable event raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. Nothing , can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace \. but the triumph of principles.
Página 49 - It takes great strength to train To modern service your ancestral brain ; To lift the weight of the unnumbered years Of dead men's habits, methods and ideas ; To hold that back with one hand, and support With the other the weak steps of a new thought.