necessary for farmers to till the land in the 

 best possible way. More harm might be done 

 by the use of too much water than too little. 

 Excessive irrigation would cause their land to 

 become water-logged. Just a sufficient quantity 

 of moisture should be kept in the soil at all 

 times to keep the plants growing without being 

 stunted. 



He asserted that those who had irrigated 

 farms could not expect to farm rightly and 

 properly, large tracts of land; nor could they 

 expect to farm profitably under irrigation with- 

 out alfalfa and livestock to put back into the 

 soil the organic matter that was taken out of 

 it by plant growth. 



L. C. Charlesworth, Chairman of the Irri- 

 gation Council of Alberta, explained the work 

 of that body and the reasons for its creation. 

 Its functions were to supervise the construction 

 and operation of the large co-operative irri- 

 gation districts that had been formed, or were 

 being formed in Alberta, whose bonds, by 

 which the funds for the construction work 

 had been or would be obtained, would have the 

 guarantee of the government. The credit of 

 the province had been pledged to the extent 

 of $4,400,000 by the sale of the bonds of the 

 Lethbridge Northern Irrigation District, the 

 first of these large systems organized. Con- 

 struction work on this system was now underway, 

 and it was hoped to have water flowing through 

 the canals and ditches in 1923 to irrigate about 

 105,000 acres of the most fertile land in Alberta. 



The Need of Reservoirs 



Another important subject that was dis- 

 cussed was the necessity of reserving reservoir 

 sites. William Pearce, who brought this matter 

 before the convention, said that there would 

 come a time, in the not very distant future, 

 when it would be considered a crime to allow 

 any water from our mountain streams to go 

 to the sea if it could, by reasonable outlay, 

 be utilized for irrigation and domestic purposes. 



Very valuable addresses were also given 

 by W. F. Laidman, Vernon, and A. Griffin, 

 Brooks, on " Irrigation District Problems;" 

 R. H. Helmer, Summerland, B.C., on "The 

 Growing of Forage Crops under Irrigation;" 

 Professor Barss, University of British Columbia, 

 on "Frost Protection in Orchards;" Professor 

 Wyatt, University of Alberta, on "The Action 

 of Water on Soils;" A. S. Dawson, chief en- 

 gineer, Canadian Pacific Railway irrigation 

 systems, "Wood Stave Pipe Construction;" 

 A. C. R. Yuill, Vancouver, on "The Construc- 

 tion of Dams and Spillways;" Lionel Stevenson 

 on "Overhead Irrigation as Practised on Van- 

 couver Island;" and G. M. Stewart, Calgary, 

 on ' ' Growing Alfalfa Seed for Market. ' ' 



Others who addressed the convention were 

 E. F. Drake, Director of Reclamation, Depart- 

 ment of the Interior; the Hon. E. D. Barrow, 

 Minister of Agriculture, British Columbia; the 



Hon. C. R. Mitchell, late Financial Secretary 

 for Alberta; G. R. Naden, Deputy Minister of 

 Lands, British Columbia, and H. S. Carpenter, 

 Deputy Minister of Highways, Saskatchewan. 



The convention was opened by the Lieut.- 

 Governor of British Columbia, the Hon. Walter 

 C. Nichol, and Mr. J. A. McKelvie, M. P. of 

 Vernon, and Senator Hewitt Bostock, of Ducks, 

 B. C., acted as chairmen. 



About two hundred and twenty delegates 

 and guests from British Columbia, Alberta and 

 Saskatchewan, as well as from Eastern Canada 

 and the United States, attended the convention, 

 and their comfort and entertainment was 

 looked after magnificently by the people of 

 Vernon. 



The Prince of Wales Ranch 



By Elizabeth Bailey Price, Calgary, Alberta. 



Beyond the first range of the foothills of the Rockies, 

 in the valley of the Highwood River, in the sunny Province 

 of Alberta, is an unpretentious, typical, low ranch house, 

 surrounded by cattle sheds and log corrals. Nestled 

 in the guarding hills of the river valley it has a superb 

 setting. Behind it, westward, rise the snow capped 

 peaks of ihe Rockies, while on the north and west directly 

 sheltering the house is a grove of Balm of Gilead trees. 

 By this grove flows the Highwood, which, as it races 

 past, never freezes Ihe year round. This stock farm 

 bears the simple name "The E. P. Ranch." . 



But to Albertans, to Britishers, in fact to the livestock 

 world in every part of the globe these initials have deeper 

 significance. When translated they mean "The Edward 

 Prince Ranch," and this property is, as the name implies, 

 owned by Edward, the popular young Prince of Wales, 

 who purchased it while on that memorial visit to Canada 

 in 1919. 



Not a Mere Whim 



It was not the mere whim of royalty that caused 

 Edward, Prince of Wales, to purchase a stock farm in 

 Canada. He had a constructive motive. It was the 

 investment of an experienced stockman, for the Prince 

 is the owner of some of the finest breeding farms in 

 England and might well be termed "The Farmer Prince." 



The most famous of his English farms is che Stoke 

 Climsland, located seven miles from Tavistock and the 

 headquarters of his Shorthorn breeding establishment. 

 Another is Tor Royal at Princetown, Dartmoor, founded 

 by George IV, whom history chronicles as being Prince 

 of Wales for sixty years, and who in the interim devoied 

 his activities to the breeding of stock. This is the head- 

 quarters of the famous Dartmoor ponies. 



As Duke of Cornwall the Prince of Wales inherited 

 the Duchy of Cornwall, to which belongs a large number 

 of farms, other real estate and varied industries in Devon 

 and Cornwall, these farms being mostly rented. The 

 Prince has purchased recently the Marsh farm situated 

 on the Bristol Channel, Cornwall, where he has established 

 another herd of Shorthorns. 



Reasons for Purchase 



There were two inter-dependent reasons for the 

 purchase of a stock farm in Canada. The first was 

 that it would serve as a distributing point for the surplus 

 stock from the English farms, and the next that it would 

 assist, stimulate and improve the great industry of stock 

 raising in Canada by the importation of new and high 

 class strain. 



And because the hills about the Bar U ranch, owned 

 by George Lane, appealed to the Prince while on a visit 

 there, and because they reminded him of the hills around 

 Balmoral, he chose a similar location for his own farm. 



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