CANADA 



Canadian farmers are making strenuous efforts to augment 

 their meat supplies, the number of cattle in 1917 being about 

 8,000,000, against 6,600,000 in 1916— an increase of 20 per 

 cent. Sheep also increased from 2,022,941 in 1916 to 2,369,358 

 in 1917. The Government is assisting the farmers in every 

 way to increase their live-stock. 



The Hon. Martin Burrell (Minister of Agriculture), in a 

 statement issued recently, outlines a co-operative plan reached 

 between the Department and the Canadian railways. The aim 

 of the scheme is to prevent depletion of Canadian breeding and 

 feeding stock, insure the feeding of live-stock in Canada, and to 

 secure the return of feeding and bieeding-stock to the farms. 

 It comprises : — 



A redistribution policy, which will provide for the move- 

 ment of stock from areas where feed is light to areas where feed 

 is plentiful. 



Free freight policy in connection with the transportation of 

 breeding cattle and breeding sheep. 



Fifty per cent rebate of the freight rate on car-load ship- 

 ments jf feeding cattle from Winnipeg to country points in 

 the eastern provinces. 



Free shipments of car-loads of breeding sheep and lambs 

 from Toronto and Montreal to the West. Just imagine a 

 proposal such as this on the State-owned railways of 

 Australia, where stud stock are more heavily freighted than 

 fat stock when being conveyed. The " democratic " popula- 

 tion of the big cities would at once raise a cry that the 

 farmers were being favoured, instead of having brains to 

 understand that the more the producer is assisted, the better 

 it must be for the consumer. 



The Government of Xew Brunswick (Canada), through its 

 Department of Agriculture, is giving publicity to a proposal 



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