An 



Editor's 



Advice 



farming 



Along 



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PEACH ORCHARD, SKNEI A LAKE. 



A DISTINGUISHED editor once offered the advice, 

 "Go west, young man," but it is not on record how 

 far west he meant. He lived in New York City, and his 

 youthful fellow townsmen might obey his injunction by 

 going to New Jersey or Pennsylvania or Ohio or Colorado 

 or California. Some chose to stop their migration not 

 far from home, where they could have all the advantages 

 of wide acres, fertile soil and salubrious climate, and yet 

 remain in easy reach of the great centres of population; 

 others, with visions of an El Dorado ahead, sought health. 



FIVE-YEAR-OLD APRICOT TREES. 



wealth and happiness far beyond the bounds of what was 

 then called civilization. 



I N recent years there has been a revival of the pioneer Stay 

 sentiment among men and women who have the long- East, 

 ing for a free, outdoor life. The West has sent forth Young 

 its luring call to dwellers in the thickly settled Atlantic Man 

 coast section, and thousands of families have responded. 

 "Distance lends enchantment to the view" the hopes of 

 full crops and big profits in a far-away land have often 



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