Auld was instrumental in increasing the province's farm production during his career in the civil service.

A general store job did not last long, as Motherwell secured employment for him in the provincial government's Dairy Branch.

These clubs provided networking on homemaking, temperance issues, gardening, health, and poultry raising.

[2] Auld returned to the province's civil service in 1914, rejoining the Provincial Department of Agriculture.

It is, of course, also true that present prices for live stock are rather discouraging, but it is my opinion also that the safest and surest means of successful farming is by diversifying to the greatest possible extent.

December 3, 1920)[7]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.