Horse and Stock Raising 



smart Indian pony, would cover the distance 

 each way in an hour and a half or two hours. 

 Assuming that such an undertaking was entered 

 upon by two single women, there are usually 

 plenty of bachelor neighbours who would help 

 with the needful cultivation and harvest and 

 putting up enough hay ; and though the con- 

 ditions would at first be primitive, as economic 

 prosperity came these would rapidly improve, 

 and a joy and pleasure would be found as results 

 were achieved. The unconventional shack would 

 give place to the comfortable frame-house, with 

 simple labour-saving appliances far superior to 

 those found in the ordinary British middle-class 

 home ; a telephone would be fitted, rendering 

 communication easy with neighbours, the neigh- 

 bouring town, and the outside world. It is 

 needless to enlarge on the profit to be obtained 

 from poultry and hogs, but a word may be use- 

 ful as to that very important matter of water 

 supply. In the particular case of which I am 

 writing there is a good slough within about a mile, 

 deep enough to be unfrozen to the bottom in 

 winter, with smaller ones on the place available 

 during the summer, as a rule. When necessary 

 for the stock to go to the deep slough, the simplest 

 way is to drive them, and for this purpose a cattle 

 pony as a mount is a great help. Later, of 



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