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fruit raising peaches and apples. This is a good type of foreign 

 colony, established on comparatively sterile, forest-covered New 

 England soil. The principal farm settlements of Italians in New 



*Farm laborers brought in for the season. 



York are in the western part of the state, along the Erie Canal, in a 

 region of heavy muck soil, hard to clear but well adapted to vegetable 

 growing. 



