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R. Moore & Son, Agricultural Implements

[Souvenir of the Town of Welland, Issued August 22, 1902 by the Welland Telegraph, Sears & Sawle, Publishers]

The thrifty Canadian farmer is not slow to appreciate and adopt labor saving farm machinery, and engaged in demonstrating the necessity of this, to the farmers residing in the vicinity of Welland, are Messrs R, Moore & Son, whose agricultural implement and carriage warehouse is on West Main Street, bordering the canal. The firm need no eulogium, for both are well known as business individuals of strict integrity, alive to the interests of their patrons. The senior was for many years engaged in the flour and feed business, relinquishing that for the present avocation, in connection with his son some six years since. The firm occupy a two story building, 24×80. the lower story being devoted to the sale of farm machinery and implements, the product of the Frost & Wood Co., comprising mowers, reapers and harvesting machinery of all kinds, plows, horse rakes, cultivators and farm machine sundries; the upper story being given over to the display of light carriages and road wagons, single and double, with or without rubber tires, the product of such well known firms as E.W. Heeney of Montreal; McLaughlin Carriage Co. of Oshawa; Tudhope Co., of Orillia, and Campbell & Son of London, Ont. They are the exclusive representatives in this section, of the new Chatham giant arm farm wagon, than which there is no better made; as also of the Sharples cream separator, which for simplicity, durability and compactness have no superior, Adjoining the main building is another, 30×50, which is utilized for storage purposes. As a whole, Messrs Moore & son are one of the largest dealers in agricultural implements, carriages and farmer’s sundries in this section.

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