 A few cows, a few pigs, some hens with a variety of crops necessary to provide a good variety of feed for these various classes of live stock will provide the greatest measure of safety...(F.H.Auld to Thomas Rennie, East Anglia, Sask.December 3, 1920

The book "A Capsule History Settling and Abandoning the Prairie Dry Belt" by David C. Jones states that there are few records chronicling the drought years which began in Alberta in the 1920s.