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Rogers, Frederick

 
9781527801448: Algoma Farmers Testify (Classic Reprint): Object: To Settle Algoma

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And the only object the compiler has in sending forth this little work is to try and get people to come up here and investigate — look for themselves — and people who have so inquired have always found that the worst thing about Algoma (the only drawback or disadvantage it has, some people say) is its rough appearance. They have found that instead of the country being all rock, it is a succession of rich alluvial valleys — valleys through which many rivers, creeks and streams, large and small, ?ow down from the great North Land to the great Lakes and the River St. Mary. They have found out that the rocky ridges or bluffs (as they are called in Algoma), are in themselves a blessing, because they serve as a natural wind-break, and furthermore that, as a rule, these very ridges are covered with timber and that short grasses and clover generally grow on the same ridges and rocky bluffs and make them of great value for sheep and cattle raising. Sheep and cattle thrive and do well anyway better on high lands, as a rule, than on low lands. We read somewhere, do we not, about the Cattle on a thousand hills 2 And they have found that these same rocky ridges and bluffs, covered with timber, as they generally are, have a beneficial in?uence on the atmosphere — that they attract moisture and.

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