Canadian Agriculture. 
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Ranches. 
\oith-West Cattle Co. (Sir Hugh Allan, High Eiver) 
Emei'son and Ijyuch 
Leavens, Mount Head Kancli (Lord Castletown), High 
Eiver 
O.xley Eanch (Willow Creek) 
Captain Winder and Co 
Walrond Kauch Co. (Xorth Fork, Old Man's River, 
Pincher Creek) 
Jones and Inderwick (North Fork. Old Man's River, 
Pinolier Creek) 
Lee (Crow's Nest Pass, P. C. District) 
Garnet Brothers (Soutli Fork, P. C. District) .. .. 
Smith (Pincher Creek) 
Alberta Ranch (Sir F. de AVinton ; Hon. H. Boyle, 
I'incher Cieek) 
Halifax Ranch (Pincher Creek) 
Oeddes and Kettle (Pincher Cieek) 
Cajitain Seobie (Pincher Cieek) 
Hill Brothers (Pincher Creek) 
Stewart Eanch Co. (I'incher Creek) 
<iotlsall (Pinchei- Creek) 
Cochrane Ranch Co. (I'incher Creek) 
Hill and Paterson (Belly Eiver) 
McFarlane (Old Man's Eiver, Fort McLeod) 
J. G. Baker and Co. (Contractors' Beef Herd) 
Gallaglier (Fort M'Leod) 
Trefoil Ranch Co. (Old Man's River, near Fort McLeod) 
Bryant (Willow Cieek) 
Military Colonisation Co., General Strange (Bow River) 
F. Stiinson (High River) 
A'icinity of Calgary and Morley 
Total 
' Cattle. 
Horses. 
-, 
4,500 
1 
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1/200 
200 
],.50O 
GOO 
7,000 
500 
1,700 
250 
8,000 
175 
1,450 
80 
.SOO 
30 
250 
l.")0 
400 
40 
900 
100 
1 ,200 
150 
500 
20 
220 
20 
180 
40 
2,400 
400 
600 
— 
0.000 
— 
.300 
50 
600 
50 
2,300 
300 
160 
300 
75 
200 
300 
300 
1,700 
100 
1,000 
1,200 
4:..1G0 
5,550 
on a specified day in October. But they omitted to settle the 
time at which the cattle were to commence their journey, and as 
they happened to start late, they were so over-driven in order to 
get to their journey's end at the appointed time, that they 
arrived in a very exhausted condition. Cattle can travel at the 
rate of ten to fifteen miles a day across the prairie, and thrive 
on the journey ; but much more than this was attempted in the 
case in point. There was a heavy fall of snow soon after their 
arrival, and the manager relied on the Chinook wind to remove 
it and leave the ground dry ; but the Chinook wind was con- 
trary, the snow remained, and in a few weeks several thousand 
cattle perished, the new arrivals being the first to succumb. 
It is possible that had these weak, enfeebled cattle not been 
mingled with the others, there would have been little or no mor- 
tality amongst the latter. At the time of this disaster, however, 
the site of Messrs. Cochrane's ranch was in the neighbourhood 
of Calgary, and cattle on other ranches in Alberta did not suffer 
