George Morris Center Outlook

[charliep]

[URL="http://www.betterfarming.com/online-news/market-outlook-favours-canadian-farmers-3572"]Outlook[/URL]

[parsley]

charliep, you are busy reading about we're we are headed, and I'm reading about where we've been, from the boxed archives:

Excerpts from a letter written by my Mother as a child, in Saskatchewan, TO her Aunt in the USA dated:

May 1st, 1919:

"We certainly have got some warm weather here, ......

"we do not need any more rain just now..."

"We are seeding wheat down here. It is a rather late spring this year."

"We have got 18 horses and 120 head of cattle and 4 quarter sections of land also 100 chickens, 10 pigs so we are kept pretty busy. We ar going to build a horse barn this summer."

Weather-wishing is a practiced art. LOL May 1st and it's late? LOL Choretime, huh, charliep. Can you milk a cow? LOL Pars

[parsley]

fran, this is for you:

3 pigs shipped to Winnipeg, March 15, 1949, Weiller and Williams

1 grade A pig
Warm Dressed Weight 164 lbs.
Price per 100lbs $29.50
Amount $48.38

2 grade B1 pig
Warm Dressed Weight 345 lbs.
Price per 100lbs $29.10
Amount $100.39

Government premium $4.00

Gross Value $148.77
Condemantion Insurance #0.74
Net Value $148.03
Commission 640@.80cents $5.12
142.91
Premium 4.00
146.91

They listed 14 categories of pigs that could be shipped! All hand written.Pars

[parsley]

Here's an interesting view for you to mull, over your morning coffee:
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[mbratrud]

We are renovatoing our attic. Our house was built in 1905, so we have found many little treasures (No Piles of cash ..) But to add to Pars historical pricing we found a Kern Farm Equipment Catalogue from 1956.

Nuffield Universal Tractor Model PM4 $2345 (Gas) and a DM4 $2952 (Diesel) Guessing these were 40 HP. If you wanted to load them up with lamps seat cusion and a wrap around canvas you were looking at another $250.

41 ft 4" Hutchinson Grain Auger would set you back $289

12 Diomand Harrow would set you back $169.50

A 40 Twin Draulic Sprayer with 200 Gallon tank would set you back $594.85

Its much more fun to look back than ahead.