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Show MUCHsiffTERESTIN . DIVERSIFIED FARMING Tho interest in the diversified farming campaign which is being be-ing conducted by the Canadian Board of Conrol through its publicity pub-licity bureau at Lcthbrjdge, is spreading throughout the western west-ern provinces of Canada and is attracting the attention of tho world at largo. Western Canada presents the peculiar anomaly of a wonderfully wonderful-ly productive country importing moat of its food products. Although Al-though the prarie provinces have a moat productive soil, capable of producing nearly all kinds of farm products, they have not been able for tho past 10 years to supply the demands of their population, as the single purpose of the western Canadian farmers seems to be to produce as much wheat as possible. No statistics are available showing thrf enormous importation importa-tion from, tro United States and eastern Caiada of food products, but most'OiStho poultry and eggs in westrCGndicomQ from tho caaterproyinces and the United States, and tho largest section of western Canada faces a dearth of dairy products. During Dur-ing 1911 tho milk shortage became be-came so acuto that the border states of tho United States were called upon, to supply the deficiency. defic-iency. It is estimated that tho imports of milk for tho city of Winnipeg nlono between November Novem-ber and February averaged $45,-000 $45,-000 a Week in value. Tho United Unit-ed States was also called upon to supply potatoes, for although theso are tho most productive crops in western Canada, they wore not raised in sufficient quantities to meet tho demand. With a population of 1,700,000, western Canada is not producing enough to supply its immediate needs. It dopends upon outsiders outsid-ers for millions of pounds of bacon ba-con and mutton, and for weeks at a time the market has been supplied with chilled mutton from Australia and frozen mutton mut-ton from Prince Edward Island. |