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THE OMINECA MINER, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27,1915 °."'

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The Omineca Miner

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Vou. V, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1915, No. 18

Canada’s Live Stock Industry
In competing for the markets of the world there is no branch
of industry that exceeds in importance that of live stock breeding
and ‘raising. Paraphrasing the old Jingo ery, we have the Jand, we
have the will and we have the climate, What is needed is the
means, and ever more means, and simultaneously the ways of
marketing. However divergent in views and theories people may
be, it eannot be denied that they are all united in a common effort
to improve both agricultural and industrial conditions. In helping
the one the other is being aided. The interests are inextricably
involved. If either is especially prosperous both ultimately must
be, although one may feel the benefits of extra demand and high
prices before the other, .
In the past few years\especially, all provincial governments,

‘as well as the Federal government, have bent much of their

energies towards the improvement and extension of agriculture.
While a deal of scientific effort has been devoted tothe cultivation
of the land and improvement of productions of the soil, sight has

-not been Jost of the needs and necessities of that other branch of

inestimable worth—live stock, meaning thereby horses, cattle,
Sheep and swine. In the latter direction pure-bred animals have
recently been placed in various districts where their services were
Previously difficult to obtain, the registration of pediyrees-has been
nationalized, systematized and subsidized, grants towards ereatly
liberalizing the premiums at exhibitions have been mude, a special
branch has been established in connection with the experimental
farm system at Ottawa to investigate ‘the cause of disease, to give
counsel to breeders and.to control outbreaks of infectious or
contagious ailments, J udges and lecturers have been appointed,
free of cost, cold storage facilities have been arranged aud refrig-
erator cars equipped and paid for. Grants have beer made under
the tremendously beneficial Agricultural Instruction Act, with itg
ten-million-doilar attachment, for the encouragement of veterinary
education and research’and everything possible has, been done for
the development and increase of co-operation, woo
Important and valuable as are and have been the efforts above

enumerated in the interests of live stock breeding, the devotion of |:

the Federal department and the provincial departments has been
by no means limited to them. In fact, as far as present human
ken can travel, little has been left undone, But one of the greatest
lines of endeavor has yet to be mentioned, namely, the improvement
of marketing and transportation facilities, While this object has
never been lost sight of, constant attention having been bestowed
upon it in various ways, it remained ‘for the present Dominion
minister of agriculture to take the matter boldly into bis own hands
and, with the assistance of a capable staff, to devise a policy
calculated to lead to definite, distinct- and permanent advancement.
Without inquiry and investigation nothing can be methodically and
satisfactorily accomplished. With this principle in view,a marketing
commission was appointed, the duties of which Were to ascertain
advantageous points of sale and to effect and bring about the most
convenient and economical arrangements for disposal, shipment
and carriage to destination. — It was in following; his policy’ that
negotiations were carried on for the purchase by inelBriin govern-
ment of aix and a half million pounds of meat vannéd in Canada.
' Owing to high freight rates, disturbances in shipping and the
scarcity: of boats, “unwonted : difficulties have been ex periéneed
recently in exportation and even in handling across the continent.
It is'towards remedying these and placing matters ina much
hetter light and on a greatly improved. footing that the commision
In many ways there is. evidence that this is
being accomplished, although undoubtedly there. are obstacles ta

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