THE MODERN FARM 



manufacturing centers as Winsted, Torrington, Water- 

 bury and Danbury afford a ready market for these 

 products. Poultry products, too, are in demand far 

 beyond the local supply, and the cheap, rough lands of 

 the county are as well suited to the keeping of poultry 

 as are the highest priced lands of the valleys. Our 

 working classes to-day, in city and town, are receiving 

 such good wages that they are demanding the best 

 grade of fruits and vegetables, put up in an attractive 

 form. Thriving manufacturing towns like Winsted, 

 Torrington, Waterbury and Danbury are being sup- 

 plied from near-by farms with small fruits and vege- 

 tables. On account of their freshness and high quality 

 these products command the highest prices, and the 

 producers are reaping the rewards of their skill. 



In general, to-day, those farmers who are guided by 

 the demands of the markets for a high class of food 

 products, and who are striving to meet these demands 

 in accordance with the nature of their soils and their 

 location, are prospering in the business of farming in 

 Litchfield County, as elsewhere in the East. 



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