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woolled, in point of size and quality are unsurpassed ; or, more strictly 
speaking, not equalled on this continent. And when it is considered that our 
domesticated animals are subject to very little disease of any kind when pro- 
perly cared for, and that rinderpest as yet is wholly unknown in this part of 
the world, and with the opening-up for settlement of the rich prairie lands 
of the great North-west, it is impossible to assign limits in the future to the 
production of animal food to meet the exigencies of whatever demand is 
likely to arise. " Yours respectfully, 
" Geo. Buckland." 
The statement in Professor Buckland's letter of the cost of 
raising and feeding cattle was based on estimates that referred 
more particularly to the western district of the Province of 
Ontario, which, for purposes of stock-raising and for other 
branches of agriculture, is more favourable than the eastern and 
northern districts : — 
Detailed Estimate (supplied by Professor Buclcland) of the Cost of 
Raising and Fattening a Tlirce-year-old Steer in less-favourable 
Districts. 
First Tear. 
Dollars. 
63 months' pasturage 2 -00 
195 lbs. meal at $1 ■ 25 per 100 lbs 2 ■ 44 
5j months' winter feeding : — 
990 lbs. of hay at 60 cents per 100 lbs 5- 94 
495 lbs. of meal 6-19 
83 bushels of turnips at 6 cents 4 "98 
21-55 
Second Year. 
6 5 months' pasturage 6 "00 
5£ months' feeding in winter on straw-chaff, &c, in open yards 
with sheds , .. 3-00 
900 lbs. of hay 5 -40 
83 bushels of turnips 4 ■ 98 
19-38 
Third Year. 
fit months' pasturage 7 '00 
5J months' feeding in stall : — 
1650 lbs. of hay 9 -90 
123 bushels of turnips 7*38 
510 lbs. of meal 6*75 
31-03 
Total cost of raising and feeding a steer weighing 1600 to 1700 
lbs. live weight— $4 1 18 per 100 lbs. live weight, or 3hd. per lb. 
dead weight (nearly 14?. 8s.) 71 '96 
In the foregoing estimate the food consumed is put at what 
is considered to be its actual cost. No charge is made for the 
calf, nor for the skim-milk on which it is fed during a portion 
of the first year, nor for attendance, as the value of the manure 
