HISTORY OF THE CORNWALL CHEESE AND BUTTER BOARD |
HUGH A. ROBERTSON |
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ALEX. ROBERTSON, sixty-two years of age, is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Hugh Robertson. He is a Canadian of Scotch descent, a Presbyterian
in religion, and a Conservative in politics. His farm, consisting of 100 acres, located West 1/2 Lot D, Seventh and Eighth Concessions, Cornwall Township, has a live-stock equipment composed of 33 cattle, 8 horses, and 100 fowl. The annual production of same is 500 bushels grain, 100 tons hay, 4 1/2 acres corn, 200 bushels potatoes, with vegetables for his own use. There is a sugar bush on the farm of about 800 trees. |
Home of H. A. Robertson |
Mr. Robertson keeps graded Short-horn Durham Cattle, having a pure-bred bull. He sends 375 pounds of milk daily to the North Branch Factory, and has been a patron of the Cheese Board for seventeen years. He is an exhibitor and prize winner on horses at the St. Lawrence Valley Fair. All his life has been spent in the pursuit of farming. |
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