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The marketing facilities of this section are ideal. A farmer can _ 
go to the Buffalo markets, deliver his goods, take his orders for 
the next day and get home before noon. Nearly all the roads, 
leading to Buffalo are brick paved and afford excellent traveling 
facilities for these men. 
LABORERS 
Laborers are abundant. Hundreds of Polish women walk from 
Buffalo to these farms and work for from $1 to $1.10 a day. 
They furnish their own lunch at noon, and are usually supplied 
with something to drink by the farmer. They are as a rule very 
skilled weeders, bunchers and washers, and tie up a surprisingly 
large amount of celery in a ten-hour day. 
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Men do all the team work — plowing, harrowing, marketing — 
while the women do the trimming, bunching, washing and packing. 
Several farmers have washing machines which are very effective 
and economical. In a general way they consist of two cylinders 
over which is stretched a continuous carrier. As the carrier moves 
along the vegetables are placed on it and as they pass from one 
end to the other, water under pressure is forced on them from above 
and below through the Skinner nozzles. This washes off all dirt 
