304: HOW TO GET A FARM, 



A lady is now residing in New Jersey whose case 

 is quite as remarkable. She was living with her aged 

 father, on a farm encumbered with mortgages to its 

 full value. He offered to convey it to any one of 

 his children who would agree to keep him for the 

 remainder of his life. All declined the offer except 

 the daughter. Her husband was in feeble health, 

 could be of no assistance, and died soon after. But 

 she engaged resolutely in the work she had under 

 taken, grasped with surprising readiness the whole 

 details of what, in the eyes of her neighbors, was a 

 hopeless case, and went on prosperously. There 

 happened to be a large quantity of currant and 

 gooseberry bushes on the place. She caused the 

 fruit to be gathered, and converted it into excellent 

 wine, for which she found ready sale in New York. 

 Taking the hint from this, she enlarged her opera 

 tions another season by buying all the common wild 

 blackberries and currants that were brought to her. 

 The farm was in an isolated location, with no ready 

 sale for perishable fruits ; but a market being thus 

 established by her, supply followed demand. All 

 the children for miles around took to picking black 

 berries, and the quantities offered to her were im 

 mense. With characteristic energy she enlarged 

 her facilities for handling them, and bought all that 

 came, converting some into wine, some into syrup, 

 and some into simple preserves. 



Meantime, her ordinary farming operations went 

 on with unabated energy. Without doing any of 

 the work herself, she saw that it was done thor 

 oughly and well. In her wine manufacture she 



