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Rural planning and development; a study of rural conditions and problems in Canada (1917)

Canada. Commission of Conservation, Adams, Thomas, 1871-1940 · Ottawa, [s.n.] · leaf 48

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THE BEGINNING With the exception of patches containing a few square feet, there is no soil on this prospective farm that approaches a loam in texture. It is mostly gravel and sand. Trent Watershed, Ont. … THE ENDOne of the many abandoned farms in the Trent Watershed. The amount of human energy expended inattempting to make a living from such areas has been, and still is, enormous. Under proper-schemes of development this land would be absolutely closed to settlement. From Trent Watershed Report…

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