. The visit of the tenant-farmer delegates to Canada in 1890 [microform] : the reports of Mr. George Brown ... on the agricultural resources of Canada, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, the North-West Territories, and British Columbia. Agriculture; Agricultural resources; Agriculture; Ressources agricoles. Mr, Hear'I SinviwuK's liqiorl. IT.'J fairly Rood country, with good fences, houses, and buildings. In many places the old original log hut could bo seen standing at tlio rear of the new. substantial, well-built, brick residence. All tlu; houses had.
. The visit of the tenant-farmer delegates to Canada in 1890 [microform] : the reports of Mr. George Brown ... on the agricultural resources of Canada, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, the North-West Territories, and British Columbia. Agriculture; Agricultural resources; Agriculture; Ressources agricoles. Mr, Hear'I SinviwuK's liqiorl. IT.'J fairly Rood country, with good fences, houses, and buildings. In many places the old original log hut could bo seen standing at tlio rear of the new. substantial, well-built, brick residence. All tlu; houses had. A VIKW IV (l!i( hiiioiid .street, looking' s-oiith.) gardens and trees planted around, giving them a homelike jind English appearance. Some of the land looked light and sandy, but tht; wheat all showed what we should call at this season gay. Mr. Gibson's is a well-built, good-looking house, a])proached tlirough well planted and kept grounds, with good buildings, and about .'JOG acres of productive land, farmed on the English system chiefly. He has a h(,'rd of pure Shorthorns of the most fashionable strains of blood, and one cow in particular struck us as really the best we had set'u in Canada; a very choice flock of Shropshire sheep, and Berkshire and Yorkshire pedigree pigs. He is himself a Lincolnshire man, and has crossed the Atlantic '33 times, and boasts of having been in every county in England savo two. Altogether, he is a successful farmer, and a man of the right stamp all round. Delaware is a very pleasantly situated village on the banks of the Elver Thames. We returned by anotlier road to London, passing through a poorer district not so well farmed, remaining in London the night, and being again joined by the rest of our party, who had taken an opposite direction through the province, and returned delighted with all they had seen. Shooting in Ontario is claimed by the respective owners as in England. On Saturday morning we all left by train for Guelp
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