The Prospector
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2016-06-27
issued: 1914-11-07
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note: provincial Legislative Assembly Get Relief from those headaches! Our glasses will do it. Wilson - Optician ptttot The Leading Newspaper in the Kootenays The "Prospector" $2.00 Per Year CRANBROOK, B. 0. SATURDAY MORNING NOVEMBER 7, 1914. Dairying a Thriving Indus- try of B.C. By M. ntve, Chief Hairy Instructor. It is stated of many portions of HrlMsli Columbia lhal tbey are nd- mirnbly suited to tbo business ot tlu iry fa rmiiig, uud enquiring Into Ihelr fitness we llml: 1. Lntid capable of growing immense quantities of bulky and nutritious fodders. 2. (Mimute, iniiinty tempornto, of" filing a good growing season, free from extremes whlcb Interfere wltb production In dairy animals, permit ting an'OUt-of-door lite and thereby making for honltli nnd ellicletiey. 2. Water pure and in abundance. Showing tlmt Hie main requisites fur this enterprise are duly present. Besides thc Coast and Island districts, which are considered the chief dairy sections of thc Province, other districts with more varied temperatures nre demonstrating their Illness for thr? keeping of dn'ry cattle. Without reference to particular localities, it mny be snid tlmt any district that ean successfully raise, with or without Irrigation, one or more crops such as alfulln, clover, corn or roots, can safely engage In dairy Harming. Why, then, is this province itself not producing a grcitcr proportion of the butter nnd milk it consumes? Up to the year 1910 a steady and appreciable increase in milk produced and butter manufactured has been recorded. A surplus existing over the milk and cream requirements of thc cities and towns creameries had been established nnd the industry was rapidly being blUlt up. The prodlCtlon of pork as an adjunct to our dairy fanning was also making good progress. About this time a tremendous increase in population, making itself felt in all tbe cities and towns, soon necessitated larger supplies, which were diverted from the factories, closing several1 and turning others into m…
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Cranbrook (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0200764
language: English
lat: 49.5080556
long: -115.746944
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Cranbrook, B.C. : A.B. Grace
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