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township is confined to a straggling settlement along the Burleigh road, 

 the very narrow former bed of Eels brook being utilized for the purpose, 

 and another, westward, towards Burleigh Falls. Summer visitors to 

 Mt. Julian, Burleigh Falls, and Buckhom are famiHar with the poor 

 character of the soil in those vicinities ; the whole of Burleigh township is 

 also as little adapted to farming operations. Burleigh road continues up 

 the east side of Anstruther with a thin sprinkling of farms from Apsley 

 to Clanricarde, and this, together with the Hadlington community, is 

 the extent of settlement in this township. Ten deserted farms were 

 counted within that compass. To the west of Anstruther lies the town- 

 ship of Cavendish with the Buckhom road up the centre and a cross 

 road to Mt. Irwin ; about a dozen families live within the township. 

 The portion of Harvey east of the Buckhom road is unsettled, the land 

 being similar to that of Burleigh township. The relatively high per- 

 centage of cleared land in Harvey given on page 91 is due to the in- 

 clusion of south Harvey and the part adjacent to the Bobcaygeon 

 road — a limestone area on which fine farms are found. In Gal way, 

 outside of the Mt. Irwin and Bobcaygeon Road settlements, there are 

 few farms to be seen. Somerville, with 27 per cent of the land cleared, 

 though much of it is unsuited for farming, was included in this report 

 merely to round out the watershed. 



3. Halihurton county — In Lutterworth the fanns are confined to 

 the Bobcaygeon road and the region south-west from Minden, many of 

 them abandoned. Proceeding easterly through the other townships 

 the settlement is largely related to the railways. Snowdon, with 22 

 abandoned farms, has its farming industry centred mostly about Gelert. 

 Glamorgan's farming is mostly confined to the vicinity of the railway ; 

 17 abandoned farms out of a total of 143 attest their owners' opinions 

 as to the suitability of the soil for this purpose. In Monmouth, the 

 farms occur scattered through the country tributary to the railway, the 

 main settlements being Hotspur, Tory Hill, Essonville and Wilberforce. 

 In Cardiff the farms occur in small remote settlements, principally in 

 the northern half. The township has some 18 abandoned farms ; 9 

 of them almost in succession are to be seen on the road running along 

 the south side of Paudash lake. Minden is an old farming township, 

 one of the best. Stanhope has settlements scattered through the south 

 half. The remaining northern townships are privately owned and 

 practically unsettled with the exception of central Dysart. 



Farming Methods 



This sparse and checker-board-like distribution of the farming 

 settlements in a territory which has been open for settlement for over 

 forty years is indicative of the difficulty of finding soil to till. The 



