Pooling Wheat in Canada, Volume 25

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Graphic Publishers, Limited, 1927 - 275 páginas
 

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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 243 - tis a common proof That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber- upward turns his face : But when he once attains the utmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend : so Caesar may ; Then, lest he may, prevent.
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 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 260 - Company, and their successors, the sole trade and commerce of all those seas, straits, bays, rivers, lakes, creeks and sounds, in whatsoever latitude they shall be, that lie within the entrance of the straits commonly called Hudson's Straits, together with all the lands and territories upon the countries, coasts, and confines of the seas, bays, lakes, rivers, creeks, and sounds aforesaid...
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.
Página 146 - In this measure, however, these provisions are all completely subordinated to the main objective, which is to have the government dispose of exportable surpluses at a loss and make some farmer taxpayers foot the bill. This is not a measure to help co-operative marketing. Its effect, on the contrary, is to eliminate the very conditions of advantage that now induce farmers to join together to regulate and improve their own business. That there is a real and vital agricultural problem is keenly appreciated...

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