Western Canada and its Great Resources
The Testimony of Settlers, farmer Delegates and high Authorities

38 WESTERN CANADA. bnil^mav KUtter On farm ’ 1 keeP a number of cows; I put up first class stone bni ’ 7hlCu1SnaSl y d01^e by the ordinary skin of any common farmer. I have n>Pnfn7FSt°ne ku’Idln§s> and earned on my farm by following the rules of the Experi- firJrh? rSl°f^Tada' £By observinS those rules, I have been enabled to make a rst-class article of butter, for which I have received a first-class price. Whilst many buHlT1?Lb°UrS xaVe On in the old-fashioned slip-shod way, and have sold their Dutter to the merchants and taken goods out of the stores in payment for it, I, by tak- fir«f-niPr0^e.+C?U1^e’ better cows, and no better milk, have been able to make “ ai 1C e’ °r which I have got a first-class cash price, and a paying one as well. oft-18 !'kCODtmOn-?1 a11 over the Prai fæ country to see the farmers burn their Hnt 1 GI • reli 1 more suicidal and ruinous practice cannot be followed than he Ste,°ks- Whilst these stacks do “Ot afford as nutritious and ? a food as hay, still for short winters, with an occasional addition of other food, it is oi real value. ’ ■ • cai~in°t do better in this connection than to give my own personal experience in raising beef annnals, the first of which I sold last autumn. , f 1 the "Pring of 1889> I raised 20 calves, 10 of them being steers I raised for -They were only common cattle. I gave them their mother’s milk in its purity for three weeks, then skimmed milk for six or eight weeks more, and after that, j k andj xF pigtgOt the milk- 1 creclited cow in each case with $5 for p ’ , c ia, ye he calf with $5. Each of these steers ate that winter one ton of hay. r which I charged the calf $3. It only cost me $1, but I could have got $3 for it at 1 aon’i lthen pastured them out for $1 each for the season of J890. The winter of ; ’ I [ ran 0Ut the Straw stacks’ ate out of them by day and slept by them at whlCth+^as .n°t the most unprofitable way of doing. But I would have burned nOt eate? it} therefore’ they cost me nothing that season. The • mer oi lb91 1 again paid a dollar for pasture and care. The following winter I again fed straw, but in the stable. The manure was worth the labour. Barley and wheat straw alone were used, which would have been burned had I not fed it to them. l su^™er { again herded them out at $1, thus making in all $11 of a charge against each, and I sold the ten a month before the grazing season was over for $35 each, cash 111 VVi an 2 me. a. net Pr°fit °f on each steer—the outcome of my straw stacks ana tne nutritious prairie grass. I might go into other details, but I may as well say shortly that in my opinion based on a tua experience, it is utterly unlikely that a man going to the North-west, Znn,^tkef afailure’lf ]>e pursues a system of mixed farming and uses any reasonable amount of the most ordinary intelligence and common sense. ‘ On my farm I consider that my dairy and my pork pay all my expenses, and the money that I receive for my beef and my No. 1 wheat, is all clear profit”