CANADA GOING TO GRASS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 149, 25 June 1908, Page 6

CANADA GOING TO GRASS.

The Chicago Live Stock World writes that the manager of one of the large pork packing establishments at Toronto sizes up the hog situation in Canada as follows:— -- '

"There is an increasing tendency on the part of farmers in this province from which most of the hogs' come, to grass their farms, in place of raising gram ; and as the area under grass increases -the quantity of hogs decreases. This tendency arises from a number of causes, perhaps the most important being that our northwest provinces have, attracted the young men from the farms of Ontario, and many farmers who have borne the burden and heat of the day over many years and have earned a competency in the absence'of their sons, do not care to raise grain and charge them-/ selves with the lai>our of feeding hogsf, and comwf-ent hired help is expensive and difficult, to secure. They find it o"?i«r to grass the land and feed cattle."