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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



Butte Dam, which was visited by the delegates, 

 and which was built across the Rio Grande River in 

 New Mexico to conserve the flood waters for irri- 

 gation purposes. 



Eloquent Speaker from United States. 



One of the most eloquent addresses of the Con- 

 vention was delivered by Dr. F. B. Linfield, Director 

 of the Montana Agricultural Experiment Station 

 at Bozeman, Montana. Although Dr. Linfield's sub- 

 ject was sweet clover he took a few minutes of his 

 time to discuss the international situation. Himself 

 a Canadian by birth, it was a matter of particular 

 gratification to him to be able to come to Canada 

 on an occasion of this kind when the two coun- 

 tries were standing side by side for the principle of 

 democracy. He believed Canadians would recog- 

 nize, however, that the situation existing in the 

 United States had to be treated with extreme pa- 

 tience in order that when the country did strike the 

 full weight of its blow should not be mitigated by 

 dissentions at home. 



Address by Premier Martin. 

 Premier Martin paid the Convention the cour- 

 tesy of making a special trip, from Regina to say a 

 few words of welcome to the delegates on the oc- 

 casion of their first meeting in Saskatchewan. He, 

 unfortunately, found it necessary to return East on 

 the next train and was unable to follow personally 

 the deliberations of the Association. Hon. Mr. 

 Motherwell occupied the chair Wednesday and 

 Thursday, when he was called East, and the Sec- 

 ond Yice-President, G. R. Marnoch, presided over 

 the concluding session. 



Next Meeting at Nelson. 



An invitation was received from the Nelson 

 Board of Trade to make that city the next Conven- 

 tion centre, and this invitation was supported by 

 Mayor Annable, of Nelson, who was present for the 

 purpose of pressing it upon the Association. As it is 

 the practice of the Association to meet year and 



year about on opposite sides of the Rockies the in- 

 vitation was accepted. The date of the 1918 Con- 

 vention will be fixed later by the Executive commit- 

 tee. 



The election of officers resulted as follows: 



Hon. President, the Hon. Minister of the In- 

 terior, Dr. Roche, Ottawa ; First Hon. Yice-Presi- 

 dent, the Hon. Minister of Agriculture, Duncan 

 Marshall, Edmonton ; Second Hon. Vice-President, 

 the Hon. Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Motherwell, 

 Regina ; First Vice-President, Hon. Hewitt Bostock. 

 Ducks, B. C. ; Second Vice-President, G. R. Mar- 

 noch, President of the Board of Trade, Lethbridge. 



Executive Committee : R. G. Williamson, Maple 

 Creek, Sask. ; Jas. L. Brown, Kamloops, B. C. ; Jas. 

 Johnstone, Nelson, B. C. ; F. H. Peters, Calgary; A. 

 S. Dawson, Calgary.; W. E. Scott, Victoria, B. C. ; 

 F. H. Auld, Regina, Sask. ; F. E. R. Wollaston, Ver- 

 non, B. C. 



Robert J. C. Stead, of Calgary, was elected act- 

 ing secretary. 



Resolutions Adapted. 



Among the resolutions adopted by the conven- 

 tion at its concluding session was one requesting the 

 Minister of the Interior to investigate what steps 

 are necessary and to inaugurate a definite policy 

 towards reforestation of Cypress Hills forest reserve 

 for the purpose of regulating the stream flow in the 

 territory affected. 



The Convention resolved to urge upon the Do- 

 minion government and the government of British 

 Columbia, the importance of making appropriations 

 and taking the necessary steps to continue without 

 interruption the gauging of streams of water supply. 

 It also indorsed the general principles of the resolu- 

 tions passed at the recent better water convention 

 at Lethbridge. 



Another resolution directed the attention of the 

 public health departments of British Columbia, Al- 

 berta and Saskatchewan to the supervision which 

 will prevent pollution of waters in irrigation ditches. 



HUSBAND THE FOOD SUPPLY 



A Few Timely Suggestions on Livestock Food Conservation 



Conserve the farm feeds. Saving them is next 

 in importance to saving human food. 



More corn, rye and barley will be used for 

 human consumption this winter than ever before, 

 in order that more wheat and wheat flour may be 

 exported. This will cut down materially the avail- 

 able supply of feedingstuffs. A late growing season 

 and, in some quarters, dried-up pastures, have con- 

 spired further to lessen the feed supply. Conse- 

 quently farmers are certain to have difficulty in 

 obtaining sufficient grain and roughage to winter a 

 normal amount of livestock. To do so it will be 

 necessary for them to husband the feed supply quite 

 as carefully as the housewives of the country are 

 conserving food supplies. 



As it is too late for the farmer to adopt plans 

 making for any material increase in the amount of 

 feed available for the coming winter, his problem 



is to make the best possible use of the supplies now 

 in sight. This means avoiding wastes of feed. 



Let there be clean mangers as well as clean 

 plates. 



Let the rats and mice do the starving. 



Keep the livestock healthy and feed the animals 

 in clean places, so that what is fed will not be 

 wasted. 



Careful attention to the arrangement of rations 

 means feed economy as well as profit. 



By making full use of the fall pasturage much 

 of the harvested roughage can be kept for later 

 use. Allowing the cattle, sheep and horses to clean 

 up the odds and ends about the fence corners also 

 saves feed that would otherwise be wasted. In order 

 to have some early spring pasturage with which to 

 piece out their winter roughage supply many farm- 

 ers will find it advisable to sow rye. 



