In British Columbia (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from In British Columbia They feed in the elevated valleys during the summer, and in winter on the sheltered sunny slopes and bottoms, keeping in good condition upon a species of white sage, called wormwood, which succeeds the bunch grass, where the latter is too closely grazed. Mr. Van Volkenburgh has had over 1000 tons of hay stacked up for over three years, having had no occasion to feed it. Three winters in twenty, cattle have died from starvation and exposure occasioned by deep snows covering the feed. Such losses are confined mainly to breeding cows, in the spring of the year, for which most prudent stock-raisers now provide a reserve of hay. The steers seldom succumb, except in extraordinary winters, such as that of 1879-80, many of them keeping fat in the mountains the year round. The winter ranges throughout the Province are generally fully stocked, but hay for the winter feeding required in the northern part may be cut in unlimited quantities. The Agricultural Lands of British Columbia Comprise in the aggregate several million acres, only a small portion of which are at present occupied. Vancouver Island alone is estimated to contain over 300,000 acres, - 100,000 in the vicinity of Victoria, 64,000 in North and South Saanich, 100,000 in the Cowichan district, 45,000 near Nanaimo, 5,000 on Salt Spring Island, 50,000 in the Comox district, and 3,500 acres near Sooke. Along the lower Fraser, including the delta, there are about 175,000 acres of unsurpassed fertility. There is a large tract of open arable land on the Queen Charlotte Islands without a white settler. In the Lillooet, Cache Creek, Kamloops, Spallumcheen, Salmon River, Okanagan, Grand Prairie sections there are large amounts of excellent farming lands; and in the Lake La Hache, upper Fraser, Chilieotin, and Peace River countries, vast bodies, hundreds of miles in extent, awaiting settlement. They afford the greatest choice of situation with reference to climate and productions. Heretofore, there has been but little encouragement for agriculturists in the interior, but the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway, will give them an excellent market on the seaboard for all their surplus grain, potatoes, &c. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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