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and sells well-bred stock to its members, and cattle 

 raising, even on a small scale, is remunerative. 



The southern half of the province contains at 

 least i,ocxD,ooo acres of land suitable for fruitgrowing. 

 The Royal Horticultural Society's gold medal was 

 awarded for a small exhibit in 1904. In 1905, 

 British Columbian fruit took the first prize in London, 

 besides winning medals. Strawberries yielded large 

 crops, 4 acres producing as much as 28,126 lbs. 

 Tokay grapes grow in the open, averaging 4 lbs. to a 

 bunch. Plums, cherries, peaches, tomatoes, all do 

 well. A cherry tree at Agassiz yielded 1000 lbs. of 

 fruit. I know of strawberries being sold in the city 

 of Vancouver last year at 6d. per pound. 



