WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE 



the railroads and their failure to haul away the 

 large crops going in to Philadelphia, the anxieties 

 have been more than we care for. In other years 

 there has been no trouble to get rid of everything 

 we grew. Our specialties are peaches and apples. 

 We have now three fruit-farms and one dairy- 

 farm. The latter is not profitable, merely hold- 

 ing its own. It is very important for people to 

 study carefully the locality where they intend to 

 farm. It is just as easy to be near the markets 

 as far from them, and very discouraging to try 

 to market your products in some places. New 

 Jersey, and especially Camden and Burlington 

 Counties, is the best location I know of for fruit 

 and truck. Long Island may be good, too, though 

 I know but little about it. Women should beware 

 of neighborhoods where there is no specialty 

 grown, as the marketing game is simply frightful 

 in such places. Poultry-farms do better in neigh- 

 borhoods where there are other poultry-farms, 

 and fruit-growing in fruit-growing districts. Fully 

 grown fruit-trees (orchards) can be bought, and 

 this is far better than planting young orchards 

 and waiting half of your life for them to develop. 

 Your neighbors, whether progressive or other- 

 wise, make a great difference to you. Broad- 



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