This resulted in the purchase of what was known as 

 the Beddington farm, located some twenty-five miles 

 south and west of the town of High River. 



The farm comprises 1,400 acres of deeded land and 

 2,600 acres of leased land. There is little broken, and 

 in crop forty-five acres in oats, twelve in sunflowers and 

 two in turnips. All the rest has been left for grazing 

 and meadows. 



First Importation of Stock 



The first importation of stock arrived in October, 1920, 

 having been 112 days en route, due to the fact that they 

 were quarantined in Scotland for sixty days because 

 of the foot and mouth disease, and an ocean trip of twelve 

 days. In Quebec they were kept thirty days while 

 being inspected and then eleven days of a rail journey 

 to their destination. 



Professor Carlyle, the manager, states that in the 

 first importation there were twenty-six Shorthorns from 

 the Prince of Wales' main home farm, Stokes Climsland, 

 all young stock and practically all of his own breeding; 

 eleven Dartmoor ponies from the Tor Royal farm; three 

 racing thoroughbred mares with racing records, and 

 sixty-five head of Shropshire sheep. 



Locally there were purchased five purebred Percheron 

 mares from the Earl of Minto Ranch, that popular breed 

 of draught horses for work in this country and bred 

 originally by George Lane, and forty head of commercial 

 cattle, forty steers and forty heifers. This was done 

 not only to give an impetus to the rearing and feed 

 industry of commercial cattle in Alberta but because 

 grass and fodder were plentiful, and owing to the "foot 

 and mouth" disease the importa'ion of purebred stock 

 is difficult. 



Some Special Animals 



Among the fine imported animals are two herd sires, 

 one bull (a Shorthorn), Climsland Broadhookes, from the 

 Home Farm at Climsland, a splendid dark roan specimen, 

 two years old last January, and another bull, Golden 

 Demonstration, of one of the best Scotch families, bred 

 by James Durno of Scotland, an excellent type. 



There are also two particularly fine specimens of 

 Shorthorn females, being Shenstone Colleen, three years 

 old, bred by Sir Richard Cooper and of the famous Jenny 

 Lind family. This animal took second place as a yearling 

 at the Royal Show in England in 1919. Climsland 

 Crocus, the other one, is a beautiful two-year old roan 

 heifer and a winner at the Royal County Show. She 

 belongs to the famous Scotch Crocus family, one of the 

 most popular in England today. 



Other famous British families represented are Lady 

 Dorothies, a two year old heifer of the Butterflies family; 

 and the most perfect specimens of Bridesmaids, Gracefuls, 

 Matildahs, Missies, Browith buds and Jealousies. 



Their First Winter 



The stock-world watched with keen interest how 

 this purebred stock would stand the first Alberta winter. 

 They have all done splendidly, running out all winter; 

 all came through fine and fat without the loss of a single 

 head. 



That the Prince's ambition for the improvement of 

 Canadian stock is already arousing interest is shown 

 by the fact that a recent visit was made to the royal 

 premises by the Shorthorn Breeders' Association which 

 held a picnic there. On this occasion the stock was 

 examined, and so successful was the whole affair that 

 the Association decided to make it an annual one. 



The Dartmoor ponies, too, have created a wide in- 

 terest, and Professor Carlyle states that these have been 

 the most productive of enquiries of all the stock. He 

 is constantly receiving letters, and visitors who ride them 

 about the place are eager to purchase; the most frequent 

 question asked is, "Why did the Prince import Dartmoor 

 ponies?" 



The reason was a mpsc unselfish one, states Professor 

 Carlyle. When the Prince was en route to the Bar U 

 Ranch he noted the distances between the various ranch 



houses and the homes and the schools, which brought 

 to his mind the Dartmoor pony. These he thought, being 

 tough, spirited and yet gentle and economical to keep, 

 would make ideal ponies for Alberta school children, 

 and no doubt the school child to-day, who has become 

 possessed of one, blesses .he name of the Prince of Wales. 



Increase of Stock 



In the spring, there was an increase of eleven Short- 

 horn calves, forty-three Shropshire lambs, the ewes lamb- 

 ing 115%, and two Percheron fillie foals, while eight 

 more cows are expected to calve before January. 



In securing the services of Professor W. L. Carlyle 

 of Calgary, Alberta, as manager of this ranch, the Prince 

 has indeed been fortunate in securing a man with wide 

 experience, Professor Carlyle having been twenty-four 

 years in agriculture and live stock work. 



Historians of the future may well refer to Edward, 

 Prince of Wales, as the "Farmer Prince," for his practical 

 interest in the world's greatest industry is demonstrated 

 well in the co-joined letters "E-P" which riband the 

 royal stock of Alberta. 



The City Man as Farmer 



Among the host of people considering immigration to 

 Canada and contemplating sertlement upon the Domi- 

 nion's fertile lands to follow the pursuit of farming, two 

 distinct classes, with diametrically opposing views, loom 

 up noticeably. The one comprises a great number of 

 men who regard farming as an occupation which can 

 be followed casually without regard to study or training, 

 the only profession which requires no preliminary learning, 

 the last resource for the failures of other trades and 

 businesses. The other is that group of sceptics who, 

 going to the other extreme, believe that, having spent 

 all their lives in cities or urban centres, it is impossible 

 to enter with any hope of success or profit upon a farming 

 career in the conviction that a life training, beginning 

 with the earliest years, is imperative, and a constitution 

 inured to physical hardships necessary for what they 

 consider the highly laborious operations of the farm. 

 Both views, so widely divergent, are radically erroneous. 



Agriculture in Canada has the status of a profession 

 which both its high standard of operation and the prime 

 place it occupies in national life justify. The days 

 when land was casually filed on and farmed without 

 any intelligent understanding of agricultural processes 

 are going with the dwindling availability of the land, 

 and rapidly passing is the epoch of the destruction of 

 soil values, and the abandonment of farms which have 

 been rendered unproductive. Clearer and clearer has 

 become the realization that farming is a specialized pro- 

 fession requiring special training, and in the place of 

 this spoliation there is an intelligent system of crop 

 rotation, preservation of the virtue of the land, a dis- 

 covery of the nobility of the farmer's calling and a de- 

 termination to secure and achieve the best possible in 

 everything. 



The Education of the Farmer 



Agricultural colleges, experimental farms, government 

 literature, railway propaganda, all in an appreciation 

 of the national benefits which accrue, contribute to the 

 education of the farmer who, if he starts out in ignorance, 

 speedily discovers the futility and profitlessness of con- 

 tinuing inthis state. It is only of comparacively recent 

 years that farming in Canada has become the compre- 

 hensive and exhaustive study it is and its tenets been 

 so widely absorbed, and older farmers who have followed 

 haphazard method or systems scientifically unsound are 

 gradually forced from necessity into an intelligent study 

 and application of their profession. 



This brings us to the city man who is anxious to 

 leave his old life for the greater freedom of the country 

 and take a farm for himself, and, the foregoing holding 

 good, he need not follow far behind the older farmer if 

 he take up the study of his work seriously, bring energy 



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