Table III. 



Imports and Exports of Meats 



Live stock years ended March 

 Imports 

 1914 1915 



Beef pounds 6,204,842 2,082,488 



Mutton pounds. . . 5,610,812 3,468,076 

 Bacon and Pork. . . 19,215,273 10,052,502 

 Dried, Smoked and 



other meats 4,007,851 3,197,687 



Lard pounds 5,705,895 735,816 



Cattle head 9,369 



Sheep head 209,779 110,663 



Swine head 



Eight months ended Nov. 30, 1915 



Imports 



Beef, pounds 2,534,803 



Mutton, pounds 1,668,856 



Bacon and Pork, pounds 12,870,824 



Dried, Smoked and other meats 



pounds 2,047,107 



Lard, pounds 3,085,274 



Cattle, head 



Sheep, pounds 52,944 



Swine, pounds 



31st, 1914, 1915. 



Exports 



1914 1915 



13,617,707 18,828,257 



65,167 1,064,963 



27,720,135 116,048,519 



2,850,642 



193,222 



219,848 



20,591 



28,207 



14,478,568 



2,689,036 



185,903 



42,832 



243,311 



Exports 

 23,431,045 

 38,093 

 92,293,313 



8,584,111 



17,696 



216,733 



90,686 



9,796 



SPECIAL ASSISTANCE TO THE LIVE STOCK INDUSTRY 



JOHN BRIGHT, Dominion Live Stock Commissioner. 



Distribution of Animals for Breeding Purposes. 



The Dominion Department of Agriculture through the Live Stock Branch in 1913 

 inaugurated a policy of loaning pure-bred sires to associations specially organized in 

 accordance with regulations set forth by the Branch. The purchase price of all animals 

 distributed is borne by the Branch and the freight is paid to the shipping point most 

 convenient to the association. These sires are loaned for only one year at a time and 

 an association is required to meet the cost of maintaining an animal as long as it remains 

 in its hands. The right is reserved by the Branch to inspect the animals at any time and 

 to withdraw assistance in the event of its being found that an association is not living 

 up to its agreement. An association may renew its application for the loan of the same 

 animal at the expiration of the term and, if all the requirements of the Branch have 

 been complied with, such applications are promptly approved. When necessary, sires 

 are exchanged but only for animals of the same breed. The latter is one of the most 

 important features of the policy inasmuch as the mixing of breeds in a district and the 

 resulting lack of progress in live stock improvement is thereby discouraged. 



Assistance under this policy is confined to newly settled districts or to districts in 

 the older provinces in which pure-bred sires would not otherwise be available and in 

 which the farmers are financially unable to purchase same for themselves. 



Only Canadian bred sires are purchased, and as far as possible, the animals placed 

 in any Province are bought in that Province. In this way Canadian breeders are 



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