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... farm require attention . Carting can be done much cheaper at that season , when wheeled vehicles are discarded for sleighs , than at any other period , and if there is a scarcity of snow the farmer is the first to complain . The winter ...
... farm require attention . Carting can be done much cheaper at that season , when wheeled vehicles are discarded for sleighs , than at any other period , and if there is a scarcity of snow the farmer is the first to complain . The winter ...
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... farms established in various parts of the country at the public expense , affording object lessons to the farmers , and centres where interesting experi- ments may be tried . Canada , from her varied geological formation , has the ...
... farms established in various parts of the country at the public expense , affording object lessons to the farmers , and centres where interesting experi- ments may be tried . Canada , from her varied geological formation , has the ...
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... and can be worked a month earlier and a month later than the more distant Yukon gold- fields . The region can be reached from Skaguay in three days . provinces the pleasant farms of the present day have mostly THE DOMINION OF CANADA 23.
... and can be worked a month earlier and a month later than the more distant Yukon gold- fields . The region can be reached from Skaguay in three days . provinces the pleasant farms of the present day have mostly THE DOMINION OF CANADA 23.
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... farms . But even in the territories north of the great river Saskatchewan there are immense forests stretching away for hundreds of miles . In British Columbia everything is on a large scale . The province covers an area of 383,000 ...
... farms . But even in the territories north of the great river Saskatchewan there are immense forests stretching away for hundreds of miles . In British Columbia everything is on a large scale . The province covers an area of 383,000 ...
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... farms working side by side with the pale- face . They undertake contracts for freighting , for haying , and for other work ; and they supply the North - West Mounted Police with nearly all the hay that is used by that force . In fact ...
... farms working side by side with the pale- face . They undertake contracts for freighting , for haying , and for other work ; and they supply the North - West Mounted Police with nearly all the hay that is used by that force . In fact ...
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