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WHY DAIRYING PAYS

Some of the figures quoted are from the Monthly Bulletin of Agricultural Statistics, Ottawa.

For further information on this subject write your nearest Agricultural College or Experimental
Farm. A list of these will be found in Bulletin No. 46.

ISSUED BY

EATON’S FARM NEWS SERVICE
WINNIPEG, CANADA

DAIRYING IS A VERY IMPORTANT BUSINESS IN CANADA

In all Canada there are approximately 3,650,000 cows producing milk. Of these,
the farmers of the three Prairie Provinces are milking about 30%.

In 1924 there were about 184,290,000 lbs. of Creamery butter produced in Canada.
Of this amount, about 2614% was produced in the Prairie Provinces.

Thus, in addition to the milk and cream used on the farm and in the city, the cream
used for ice cream, and the dairy butter produced on the farms, the 1,155,000 prairie
cows produced about 48,470,000 lbs. of creamery butter. This creamery butter alone,
at the very conservative estimate of 30 cents per lb., produces a revenue of $14,540,000.
Dairying is certainly an important industry on the prairie.

Dairy Herd—Can. Champion Producer—tTilly E. Dekol

WHY DAIRYING PAYS
Let Us Consider This from Various Angles

THE FARM

History has shown that when a country is new, land cheap and people few, ranch-
ing prevails; but with more settlement, and more expensive land, intensive agricul-
ture must be followed if the people are to live and prosper.

We have come to the time on the prairie that intensive agriculture should be
followed.

We have the climate, water, pure air and productive soil.

Rough land may be profitably used as pasture.

Dairying takes less fertility out of the soil than any other form of agriculture, and
lends itself to a well-regulated system of crop rotation.

A field allowed to grow up to weeds will lose more valuable plant food than, if
it supported a cow on every acre.

The dairy provides, in Winter, a quantity of stable manure in which the straw is
profitably utilized.

The burning straw stacks that dot the prairie every year tells of tremendous
waste. A small dairy herd on every farm would help to prevent this annual loss.

Compared with the East, and districts with more expensive land, feed costs on the
prairie are less.
THE FARM LABOR

Dairying gives constant and regular employment of a light character to every
member of the farmer’s family all year round.

One of the complaints levelled at the dairy business is this very constant day-after
day attention that is required, and there is some reason for it. [OVER