Identifier: albertasurveyoft00mcca (find matches)
Title: Alberta : a survey of the topography, climate, resources, industries, transportation and communication, and institutional services of the Province of Alberta
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: McCaig, J Alberta. Dept. of Agriculture
Subjects: Agriculture
Publisher: Edmonton, Alta. : Issued under the direction of Minister of Agriculture
Contributing Library: ASC - York University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Ontario Council of University Libraries and Member Libraries

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et from all the large packing centres in the Dominion of Canadaand likewise from the northern centres of the United States. There are two abattoirs at Calgary, P. Bums & Companyand the Western Packing Company. There is likewise at Calgaryan open stock yard in which buyers from Toronto, Winnipeg,Moose Jaw and Vancouver operate, as well as dealers from Spokane,Seattle and St. Paul who buy periodically. Climatic conditions in Alberta are highly favourable to swinegrowing. There are occasional periods of low temperature butthe cold months are dry months and are free from sudden changesto extreme wet. Close and elaborate winter housings are rapidlybeing discarded for winter shelters, which are found to be muchmore economical and better suited to our conditions. These sheltersconsist of straw sheds or deep straw covering of simple board pens.For summer use the A-shaped or other small colony pen is rapidlygrowing in favour to give protection against rain during the earlysummer season. 45
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The type of hog being produced in Alberta might be describedas medium thick. It ranks about midway between the extremelylong, lean bacon type of Eastern Canada and the thick lard typewhich is produced in such large numbers in the American corn belt.Being grown largely on oats supplemented by pasturage, they developstrong bones and muscle and stand marketing well over long dis-tances; and being fattened largely on barley or a mbcture of barleyand rye or wheat, they produce a sweet firm bacon that is acceptedin the most fastidious markets. Settlers from Ontario and GreatBritain usually bring with them pigs of Yorkshire, Tamworth,or bacon type Berkshire breeding, but they find that in a very fewgenerations they lose their distinctive bacon type conformationand develop thicker backs and larger hams than the original stockpossessed. Settlers from the United States usually bring with themtheir Poland Chinas, Duroc Jersey and lard ti^De Berkshires, butin a few generations they find that thei

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