DRY-FARMING CONGRESS, WICHITA, 1914 



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all cattle feeding operations and the one that requires the most skill and 

 experience, yet there is no branch of beef production work that offers such 

 opportunities to the stock farmer and holds out such interesting work and 

 financial rewards to the man who will take up the work and by careful, 

 constant study work out this great problem of successful, economical beef 

 production in the "Great Plains Region." 



DEAN BURNETT: 



I wish to reinforce what Mr. Metcalfe has said about the pit silo. 



Nebraska has found that the pit silo is very valuable; especially where 

 little expense is put into one of them. 



Many more people are enabled to put in silos than formerly, since the 

 advent of the pit silo. 



I now have the honor of introducing to you Mr. A. F. Mantle, Deputy 

 Minister of Agriculture of the Province of Saskatchewan, Canada, who will 

 speak to us in place of Professor W. J. Rutherford, of the University of 

 Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, on "The Livestock Industry in Canada." 



Address of Mr. Mantle 

 THE LIVESTOCK INDUSTRY OF CANADA. 

 I am not a livestock expert, but I will bear testimony to the fact that 

 * Secretary Faxon and others did their best to secure one from western 

 Canada who would be better prepared to talk on the subject. 



We have heard this morning some very interesting remarks concerning 

 the livestock situation in the Middle- West in its relation to dry-farming; 

 also some equally interesting experiences on dry-farming and livestock in 

 the Southwest, and I may say that our problem in western Canada does not 

 differ in its essentials from what has been outlined to you from these two 

 quarters. 



Pretty nearly everybody who reads the papers or who goes around the 

 world with his eyes open is aware of the fact that western Canada can 

 grow large yields of wheat, but it is probably not so well known that we 

 can raise just as good livestock as wheat. While for the time being wheat, 

 oats and flax are the staple products, the time will come when their place 

 will be taken by the livestock products. I find some people have the im- 

 pression that because we are favored with clear cold winters in the Cana- 

 dian West, that the country cannot be devoted to livestock production — that 

 the milk cows would freeze up, and the little pigs would freeze stiff, and 

 the sheep would get their fleece full of snow — but that is not the case, for 

 the climate from one end of the year to the other is favorable for all kinds 

 of livestock raised. 



As an illustration, I might refer to a couple of instances that came to 

 my notice of conditions under which some livestock was kept on the College 

 Farm last winter. .The brood sows of the college, some thirteen in number, 

 were wintered in an A-shaped colony house in an open stubble-field. We 

 had a good winter last year, fairly free from bad weather, and possibly a 

 higher temperature for the winter than usual, but there was one period 



