Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Production of Cheaper and Better Forage Crops for Live Stock in Central Alberta
Many of our most prominent stockmen and our best breeders have spent large sums Of money importing high priced breeding stock to maintain quality in their herds and ?ocks. In many cases they found that their stock decreased in size and quality so quickly that new blood was needed every few generations to maintain a standard considerably lower than that Of the stock imported. Had these same stockmen utilized a portion Of this money and effort in the improvement Of their pastures and winter feeds, they would have met with greater success. Live stock of size and quality cannot be produced unless an abundance Of a properly balanced ration is available in the form Of pasture and winter feed throughout the entire period of development Of the animal. That the West can produce feeds and live stock second to none in the world has been amply demonstrated on innumerable occasions at the principal fairs and exhibi tions throughout the continent.
The need for and the factors involved in diversified farming are appreciated by most farmers. The general adoption Of diversified farming, however, is being retarded by the fact that farmers living in the park belt where wheat on summer-fallow usually yields from 310 to 50 bushels per acre have to be shown how to produce forage crops which, when marketed by the live stock route, will bring in as great a return per acre.
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