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Grain elevators as ‘works for the general advantage of Canada’

By Manitoba Agricultural Museum June 5, 2019

While the “no mixing” rule has long been discarded, a legacy still remains in the form of the 1925 Government of Canada declaration that elevators are “works in the general advantage of Canada.” This declaration is still in force and sometimes rears its head causing bureaucrats, farmers and others in the grain trade to scratch[...]

Country Crossroads, Other

The origin of the ‘no mixing’ rule

By Manitoba Agricultural Museum May 24, 2019

Recent articles by the Manitoba Agricultural Museum on loading producer cars mentioned the “no mixing” rule that was in force in the early days of the western Canadian grain trade. One reader has inquired about the origin of this rule, which is a very interesting tale. The “no mixing” rule meant when grain was graded[...]

Country Crossroads, Other

Second World War-era photos show novel solution to labour shortage

By Manitoba Agricultural Museum July 24, 2019

Photos recently donated to the Manitoba Agricultural Museum may show one farmer’s novel solution to labour shortages during the Second World War. The Dickson Henderson family of the Boissevain area donated several digital images to the museum. One photo shows a pull-type combine set up to allow remote operation of the tractor from the combine[...]

Country Crossroads, Other

Threshing in the Path Head district 1903

By Manitoba Agricultural Museum July 8, 2019

The photo collection of the Manitoba Agricultural Museum contains a photo of the Thomas Hunt outfit threshing in the Path Head district of Manitoba in 1903. The Path Head district lies between MacGregor and Katrime. Thomas Hunt was born at Dunkeld, Bruce County, Ont. in 1862. In 1874, when Thomas was 12 years old, his[...]

Country Crossroads, Other

The McCrindle Sawyer Massey 25-45 gas tractor

By Manitoba Agricultural Museum April 17, 2019

The Manitoba Agricultural Museum’s collection contains a Sawyer Massey 25-45 gas tractor, donated in 1960 by J.M. McCrindle of Foxwarren, Manitoba. James Marshall McCrindle was born in Nova Scotia in 1879 and later came to Winnipeg when his family moved there. McCrindle then moved to Foxwarren in 1897 to work as a clerk in Laycock’s[...]

Country Crossroads

Farm machinery of the past

By Manitoba Agricultural Museum July 7, 2016

Bruce Black of the Brandon area has allowed the Manitoba Agricultural Museum to copy negatives of photographs taken around 1920 on the farms operated by the Black family. This photo shows a grain wagon with tandem teams hitched to it with the evener for the lead team directly hooked on the tip of the wagon[...]

Country Crossroads, Our History

The Massey 101 was one cool machine

By Manitoba Agricultural Museum July 11, 2013

When it came to marrying style with functionality, James Duncan was the Steve Jobs of his day and his Massey Harris Model 101 Senior was — and is — as cool as anything to come out of Apple’s design lab. With its streamlined hood, bright-red paint with yellow wheels, chrome trim, and louvred side curtains[...]

Cereals, Country Crossroads

Producer Cars In The Horse-Powered Era

By Manitoba Agricultural Museum August 11, 2011

It’s a showpiece of Prairie ingenuity – and proof that farmers’ interest in producer cars dates back more than a century.While going through a circa 1906 edition of the Canadian Thresherman and Farmermagazine, Manitoba Agricultural Museum director Alex Campbell found an ad for a “portable elevator” built by the Carberry Wood and Iron Works company.[...]

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Grain elevators as ‘works for the general advantage of Canada’

The origin of the ‘no mixing’ rule

Second World War-era photos show novel solution to labour shortage

Threshing in the Path Head district 1903

The McCrindle Sawyer Massey 25-45 gas tractor

Farm machinery of the past

The Massey 101 was one cool machine

Producer Cars In The Horse-Powered Era

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