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But I do not believe that we should confine our attention 

 entirely to cattle in stock husbandry in this country. There is 

 a great demand at the present time, as you know, for horses. 

 We need horses to work on our farms, and I believe we can 

 economize very much by using larger and stronger teams. I 

 took a little trip up through our Canadian Northwest, and if 

 there was one thing that impressed me more than another it was 

 the amount of work that one man would do, with modern imple- 

 ments and plenty of team power. One man with a six-horse 

 team would plow two furrows at a time in prairie sod ; he could 

 plow two furrows with three horses on old land. Then they 

 were using wide cultivators for stirring the land, wheel cultiva- 

 tors, putting plenty of team power in front of them and one man 

 doing the work of two or three with small two horse teams. I 

 believe that on our farms which are of any extent we can greatly 

 economize in the amount of human labor that we put onto the 

 soil by increasing our team power, raising heavier horses and 

 using them in our farm work, and always having a good team 

 to sell for the city truck teams or to go into the woods. You 

 know it is almost impossible now to get horses to supply the 

 demand. 



I will not stop to refer to sheep and swine. I believe swine 

 should go hand in hand with the dairy because I do not think 

 there is any way in which we can utilize the by-products of the 

 dair}^ so well as by feeding them to swine. The bacon pig is 

 quite a distinct animal from the pig raised in the corn belt. The 

 bacon pig will bring fourteen or fifteen cents a pound in the 

 English market, and you can make him cheaply on summer pas- 

 urage with the by-products of the dairy. 



Another thing that struck me in connection with this dairy 

 business was the suggestion dropped by Prof. Hills last night 

 when he spoke of the supply of cows needed for the milk centres 

 near the large cities. I believe with him that you would find it 

 a profitable business to raise cows for the market ; and I know 

 of no cow that will suit that market better than the cow from 

 which the dairyman can get a good supply of milk for six or 

 eight months and then have her ready for the butcher. He will 

 get much more money though he may get less milk. That is 

 the kind of cow that is netting the best return to the dairymen 

 around Toronto. 



