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Store Cattle for England. — The proposal to send store cattle 
over to England that they may be fattened in this country must 
not be overlooked. The subject has been discussed somewhat 
fully in the Canadian press by Professor Brown, who writes on 
the assumption that a market should exist for graded Shorthorn, 
Hereford, Aberdeen Poll, or Galloway steers, scaling 1000 lbs. 
to 1100 lbs., to be delivered in Liverpool or Glasgow, and fit 
for fattening off in six months. In Ontario they cannot produce 
a store steer weighins: 1050 lbs. when 18 or 20 months old at 
less than 8/., and one halfpenny per pound more would be 
required to make a certain profit, so that stores could not pass 
into shippers' hands at less than 10/. per head. Experience 
shows that it costs M. per head to send cattle across the Atlantic 
and land them at British ports, and, presuming the steers on 
arrival to be worth IGZ. per head, this leaves a margin of 21. 
profit to the parties who take all the risk. Then the question 
arises as to whether it would better pay the Canadian farmer to 
export his cattle as stores, or as ready for the butcher seven 
months later. In the latter case, instead of selling the animal 
as a store in September or October at lOZ., it is stall-fed up to 
May in such a way as to go out at 1400 lbs., worth, for export, 
not more than ?)d. per pound live-weight. Its value is then 
17/. 10s. to the feeder, or 75 per cent, more than the store price ; 
but to effect this there has been an absolute cash outlay of 
7/. 10s., which reduces the value to 10/., or actually no more 
than could have been secured seven months previously. It is 
concluded, therefore, that selling stores would be the more profit- 
able, as the cattle would be converted into money seven months 
earlier, there would be greater inducement to stock-breeding, 
while more and better pasture would be brought into existence 
to promote cheap production. On the other hand, the loss of 
manure from the exported stores is not to be overlooked ; never- 
theless the opinion seems to be that the sale of stores to Britain 
would be highly beneficial to Canadian stock-farming, and 
Professor Brown maintains that the goal they ought to aim at 
should be to increase the exportation of beeves to 100,000, and 
at the same time to send Britain 50,000 stores per annum. 
The Dairy Industry in Canada. 
The unmistakable growth in the dairy industry at home 
during recent years has been reflected in a corresponding de- 
velopment elsewhere, and in no country more than in Canada. 
Professor S. M. Barrc, of Montreal, whom I recently had the 
pleasure of meeting in Canada, has addressed to the Select 
Agricultural Committee of the Dominion House of Commons a 
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