Horse and Stock Raising 



general remarks on the situation as it appears 

 to the writer may be of interest to the reader. 



The young settler coming from one of the older 

 countries to take up his abode on his homestead 

 will probably note depressions similar to small 

 ponds, though they may be dry unless the weather 

 is wet, or if the land is snow-covered he may find 

 one by a capsize of his sleigh. He may also 

 notice deep paths leading down to the sloughs 

 The former, he will be told, are buffalo wallows, 

 and the latter their trails, from which he will 

 naturally conclude that he is the first to make 

 any profitable use of the land since the Hudson 

 Bay Company, and the Indians, with the buffaloes 

 and other wild animals, held undisputed sway. 

 j Before many months have passed he will pro- 

 Ibably hear of two or three old-timers in the dis- 

 i trict — not men who came in with the railroad 

 five or six years before, but men who had been 

 in the neighbourhood twenty or thirty years. 

 These may be men with families, and he may 

 l^ki hear of a lonely elderly woman who has 

 lost her husband. As time goes on he will learn 

 that these folks were ranchers — not as a rule men 

 owning thousands of head of stock and employ- 

 ing many cowboys, as on the foot-hills of the 

 Rockies, though here and there may have been 

 a man in a big way, but owners of perhaps from 



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