Identifier: britishcolumbiai00vict (find matches)
Title: British Columbia and its agricultural capabilities
Year: 1902 (1900s)
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Publisher: Victoria, B.C., R. Wolfenden
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of British Columbia Library

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ge extends from the valleys to the tops of the mountains,affording magnificent feed for- live stock, having great nutritive properties. It will, therefore,be recognised that the capabilities of this section of the Province are exceptionally favourablefor the production of live stock; hence, great numbers of beef cattle are raised on the largeareas of bunch-grass country, and find a ready market in the Coast cities and at the miningcentres. The principal drawlmck in prosecuting this industry profitably is the necessity offeeding stock, even in ordinary winters, to keep them up in ilesh, and often, in very severeweather, even to keep them alive. As previously mentioned, cold storage is perhaps the.solution c)f the difficulty. Whilst the production of sheep would, perhaps, under ordinary circumstances, be moreprofitable, the existence of the coyote nuisance renders the prosecution of this industry toohazardous, and it is therefore not entered into to any extent. Another factor militating
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