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season of 191 2 Pat Burns, the big supply merchant 

 of Calgary, imported thirty-eight carloads of eggs, 

 13,500 dozen to a car, from the United States, for 

 which he had to pay duty at the rate of three cents 

 per dozen. Vancouver is at the gate of the richest 

 dairy country in the world. During the late finan- 

 cial depression she found it difficult to meet the 

 weekly wages bill in connexion with local develop- 

 ment, yet between September 191 2 and May 191 3 

 she contracted for seventy million pounds of butter 

 from New Zealand, the value being three milHon 

 dollars. Calgary also feeds from New Zealand, and 

 sent to Minneapohs eight thousand dollars for eggs 

 in one month. Potatoes of the value of ^1,000,000 

 sterling were sent last year from Britain to Canada 

 and the United States. Meantime the housekeepers 

 of Canada are very justly in revolt against the high 

 price of food. As they have been trained to limit 

 their consideration to the point of view of their 

 ovm kitchen table, they can hardly be expected to 

 remember that a fall in the tariff means a fall in 

 the revenue of their country ; so the consumer is 

 loud in demand for the outward heahng of the 

 complaint which can only be truly healed from 

 within, by the increase of production, through 

 State aid and encouragement to the producer — 

 man or woman. 



The first consideration of the woman-farmer 

 contemplating the business of farming in order to 

 contribute to the supply of the demand for farm 

 produce should be the relation of her place of 

 produce to her market. She should study the map 

 and digest statistics, especially as to population and 

 industrial development. It is well to remember 



