The garden of Canada : Burlington, Oakville and district . —the finest market in the Dominion—by and electric carservice, car every hour. The fruit consists of the following : Apple, pear, plum, cherry,peach, currants, berries, etc., all in good, thrifty condition, withabundance of first-class water. The buildings consist of good nine-roomed brick house, brickdrive-house and stable, frame barn and sheds; the buildings areworth at least $2,500. The principal crops are : Tomatoes, melons, strawberries, rasp-berries, caljbage, cauliflower and roots of all kinds; also wheat, oats,barley, ry
The garden of Canada : Burlington, Oakville and district . —the finest market in the Dominion—by and electric carservice, car every hour. The fruit consists of the following : Apple, pear, plum, cherry,peach, currants, berries, etc., all in good, thrifty condition, withabundance of first-class water. The buildings consist of good nine-roomed brick house, brickdrive-house and stable, frame barn and sheds; the buildings areworth at least $2,500. The principal crops are : Tomatoes, melons, strawberries, rasp-berries, caljbage, cauliflower and roots of all kinds; also wheat, oats,barley, rye and clover. The produce on Mr. W. Ghents farm for one year is as follows :10,000 quarts of strawberries, 3,000 quarts of raspberries, 36 tons oftomatoes, 90 tons of mangolds, 2,000 crates of melons, 12 tons ofcabbages, egg plants and peppers, 800 bushels of grain ; 53 bushelsto the acre of wheat, oats and barley. All grain used for feedon the place. Price $10,000. MBB|^^^ %J^I^ j. •>, ^ Some of R. Mitchell & Sons Short-Horn Herd, Cherry IlcKKNt, at The Poi^ of G. A. Peer, Esq., Freeman. GREENGILL STOCK FARM. Is beautifully situated at Nelson Villa<,e, three-and-a-half milesnorth of Burlington station, and owned by R. Mitchell *! 8ons^ andis becoming famous for its high-class Short-Horn cattle, which have inthe past few years increased both in quality and numbers, until now-eighty head of the choicest cattle are to be found there, where theyhave a run of 400 acres of land, and the demand has been so greatthat the question is not how and where will the annual surplus besold, but how can enough be kept on hand to supply the customerswho come from all parts of the Dominion, while the best buyers comefrom all parts of the United States who are willing to pay largeprices. To replace what have been sold and keep up the high stand-ing of the herd, importations are made annually from the leadingherds of England and Scotland, and are personally selecte
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