Farming In Canada

Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 July 1910, Page 4

Farming In Canada

THE FIRST DAIRYING COUXIIIY IN THE WORLD. j

A .report containing much praotieal knowledge has been isjued by Messrs William Blackwood find Sons, of Edinburgh uud London- ol the Scottish Commission on Agrt-ul-tnro <il Canada. Tho was composed oil twenty-two mi'itibers. including thirteen farmers, ,ind Principal Patrick Wright, E.R.SI'!., of the West of Scotland Agricultim-sil College, Glasgow; .Mr Angus Mmlciiiitosh, of Portree, Skyo, Land Manager for the Congested Di.strhfs (Scotland) Commissioners; Mr l{. 3. Greig, E.R.S.E., Lecturer on Ayiiculture at Marischal College, A'hetdoon, and .Mr William Bruce, Seniiir Lecturer to tho Edinburgh and East of Scotland College of Agrieul'tuni. Tire report acknowledges tlho persoiial courtesies and fine hospitality cxteiulod the Commissioners by the Hon. Erank Oliver, Minister of thi> Interior; the Hon. Sydney Fishei, tho Dominion Minister ol A gricu Itim\ and various Mavors, Tow:) Councillors and Presidents of tl:o Boards of Trade.

Tho Commissioners declare that Canada is pre-eminently suited for tho breeding of .good draught ilmrscx, and tho conditions are also .favnrrablo for the |) rod net ion of good innttou and wool. Eo-r poultry-keeping tho Dominion affords iinif|Uo opportunities. There was no Province in the Dominion where the con' would not thrive and give a return, or where one would not lind cheese factories and creameries.

The (> Coinmis.'oioiiers ass( rt that Can ndu will ultimatelv bccone tho

EIRST DAIRYING COl'Nfflh' in the wrold. and that the iV'ellent reputation of Canadian buth-r ami cheese reflected the greatest « 'credit on the makers and on the g<i;jf-? work done by the Government As to the health of the cattle, the Commission could find no two of the ordinary infectious 'diseases in tho animals they saw, and eaw-e to the conclusion that there were, probably nol so many bad thrivens and tuberculosis cattle in Canada in the Old Country. In the i®rthwest of the Dominion turkeys gained to thrive so well that it iniglpb; profitable to specialise in them. \ EX PER I MENTAL E A H.MS J" Perhaps one of the most .striking facts brought out in the report is tho parental care of all the Canadian Governments far the agricultural industry. Ender the care of th" Dominion Department of Agriculture experimental farms have been established in Jill the Provinces, tie first definite step in their establishment being taken in 1880. A central larin was located just outside Ottawa. a branch farm for tho Maritime Provinces (Prince Edwa'd Island. Nova Scotia : .one for Manitoba at Bran-don, another at Indian Head was assigned to what wero then known as the North-West Territories. and one at Agassiz for British Columbia. Rapid development-* in tho West, however, speedily outgrew the arrangement there, and lour years ago the southern part of the North-West Territories was divided into the two great and. now prosperous fanning Provinces of Albirta and Saskatchewan. But the Department of Agriculture in the Dominion was equal to the occasion. Indjan Head fell to Saskatchewan, and there are already two fully equipped branch experimental farms in four-year-old Province of Alberta. The ou-e at Le-thbridge is grappling with problems of

GROWING CROPS by irrigation and the difficulties of "dry"' farming, which aie of such importance to tho thousands of settlers who are trooping into the Province, and rapidly bringing jt s fertile soil into .subjection. The oilier larm i.s in the northern part < !' Vlberta. at L.acombe, about ;

miles south of Kdinoiiton, wiiei-! "li'r (■oncMtion.s differ con^itluial>ly from those around Lethbi idge, and a different set of problems confront: the st'ttler.