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As a result cattle were the main livestock enterprise (Table 26). The hog
enterprise was negligible. Hog production is a means of concentrating grain
products for shipment from an area which is relatively remote from markets.
In this area, then, the failure of that enterprise to develop may indicate that
in most years there is a deficit of grain in the area.

The whole milk producers were outstanding as the large operators of the
area. Not only did they maintain the largest numbers of cattle but relative
to the other types of farms their hog and poultry enterprises were also large.

TABLE 26.—LIVESTOCK UNITS PER FARM BY TYPE OF FARM,
PRINCE GEORGE-SMITHERS AREA, 1943-45

Farm Type Horses Cattle Sheep Hogs Poultry

Par tetlim eon (eh aot. ae: Ret noe Re TR ore 3-9 7-2 0-2 0-4 0-7
Subsistences sence uhh eve Nyssa ete een em aS 2-9 5-9 0-4 0:3 0-4

10) e)petscena Senne Reais oe oan A alumnae Malls i. 2-9 PAG ERe) MONET bar ronnie WEE Conese ses 0-2
WIV ESTO CK NY SPE nes ape apse ae ces me pre a 4-8 17:5 2-0 1-4 1-1
METRE Las ia [ares at ehnie at ner cae Neha gue 4-1 13-0 1-0 2-0 0-8
SOULE Tey raatiac: seb sare apatir-ee de ae tly ted ee aan Oe a 2:5 6-1 0-1 0:3 2-9
Wihtole gris sea Sd oe a cae tat a sal Na ge 5-5 DAB eis aes 2-8 2-8
Nepetabletseed aig: Vicks tomes rise ere Me eset 3-7 2G ieiel ee eran aes 0-9 0-8
Morageiseed|. (21 Vino. aos a ues alin ee ee Nee an 4-3 DO" Dis NSE eh aed 0-6 0-7
OLR GY DEN a chs 308 yaen chee) aaron Le a ea eee 4-3 16:8 2-5 0-7 0-6
Labour

It was found in a pioneer study of northern Saskatchewan!, 1942, that on
full-time farms one man on the average could take care of 100 acres of cropland
and seven productive livestock units. At that rate all commercial farms in
this study would have required 268 man equivalents. They actually used 249.

Labour efficiency, then, appeared to be similar enough in the two areas so that .

the rates derived in Saskatchewan could be used comparatively within this
study area.

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1Stutt. R. A. and H. Van Vliet, ‘An Economie Study of Land Se
Areas of Northern Saskatchewan”, Economics Division, Marketing
Agriculture. Technical Bulletin No. 52. Issued 1945.

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Service, Dominion Department of