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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. 



Fig. 350. Getting Ready for Market 



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 afo ive 

 and below through the Skinner nozzles. This washes off all dirt 



