Word: alberta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Steve Crothers, trapshooting champion of Pennsylvania: a shoot against the champions of 40 other states, the canal zone, and Alberta; by breaking 200 consecutive birds, as he had done in winning his state championship; at Vandalia, Ohio...
Reason for the duck scarcity is continuing drought, which has dried up the sloughs and ponds in southern Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, in the Dakotas, Minnesota and Montana, chief North American breeding-places for ducks. Several yards from a marshy place on the prairie, the mother-duck builds her nest, lays in it from ten to 18 eggs. When these hatch, she leads the ducklings immediately down to the water. In ordinary times, duckling mortality is high. Turtles, hawks and even large fish consume many. In drought times mother & brood may find no water at all and so perish...
...Canadian conservation officials gathered twice last month, first at Edmonton, Alberta, then at Bismarck, N. Dak. At the second meeting a resolution was passed urging: 1) that the open season be limited to 30 continuous days, instead of eight or ten weeks; 2) that the daily bag be restricted to ten ducks instead of the present 15 (formerly 25); 3) that ducks in possession be kept down to 20; 4) that all baiting of hunting grounds be prohibited...
Beauharnois. The Committee had been investigating charges made last May by Alberta's M. P. Robert Gardiner regarding the relations of the Government to Beauharnois Power Co., of which Senator McDougald is board-chairman. In 1927 this company obtained permission from the Government to dredge a wide, 15 mi. canal, ostensibly as part of the proposed St. Lawrence Waterway, between Lake St. Francis and Lake St. Louis on the St. Lawrence River, the immediate purpose being to utilize the flow between the lakes for hydroelectric power. Projected cost of the power installations alone: $65,000,000. Projected horsepower...
Dairymen on the Didsbury Jersey farms at Didsbury, Alberta, last week argued that it was a meat diet which caused one of their cows, Waikiki Xenia's Fanny, to produce almost pure cream...