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Not twenty years ago, two young men of ordinary occupati< 

 and practically ignorant of farming, bought 7J4 acres of land at a 

 small price in the Georgian Bay district. They added to it from 

 time to time till it has extended to 200 acres. At first largely 

 swamp, it is now in a high state of productivity. It is one of t In- 

 largest fruit, vegetable and flower gardens in Ontario, and is vahu -<1 

 at $50,000. The owners employ as many as 125 hands in the 

 Mimmer. They never peddle their products, but do all their l.usi- 

 ness by phone or correspondence, and they cannot supply the de- 

 mand from far and near in the towns and lumber shanties of the 

 north. Their profits are substantial. 



Transportation. Compared with the Western Provinces, im- 

 portation facilities are excellent. The Niagara Peninsula and other 

 southern districts are particularly good, there being electric lines 

 which, supplementing the steam railroads and crossing the country 

 at numerous points, carry the fruit rapidly to the railway station or 

 wharf for prompt dispatch to the larger markets, while cold storage 

 cars proceed to the Northwest. 



Export. Ontario has a great outlet for apples, peaches and 

 pears in the markets of the British Isles, and a rapidly increasing 

 demand for all her fruits in Northern Ontario and the Northwest 

 Provinces. The latter parts, though excellent in grains, are too 

 low in temperature to grow successfully such fruits as peaches, 

 xrai>es, apples, pears, plums and cherries, and must therefore look 

 beyond for their supply. Thus Ontario, even now unable to pro- 

 vide for the demand, has untold opportunities north and west. 



Although most of the apple crop (as also all other fruits) is sold 

 and used in the Province, there is much that goes elsewhere. About 

 750,000 barrels per year are exported via Montreal, St. John, Port- 

 land and Boston to the British Isles, and 250,000 barrels are sent 

 to the Northwest or Prairie Provinces, representing a gross return 

 of about $3,000,000. More apples have been shipped to Great 

 Britain during the last ten years than by any other province or 

 state on the continent. 



Over 8,000 cases of peaches were exported to the Old Country 

 in 1912, realizing from 70 cents to $1.40 per case, wholesale, accord- 

 ing to condition. 



Hundreds of cars of tender fruits are railed annually to the 

 Prairie Provinces. 



Canning Factories. Over 70 factories, located at suitable trans- 

 portation centres, are engaged in putting up fruits and vegetables 

 in tin and glas*. Great quantities of fruit are thus prepared, espe- 



