Show WORKING FIVE ACRES Fruit Growing Is Practical Way to Make Money Planting and Cultivation of Young and Small Orchard Is Simple Matter and Not Expensive Work Expensive Work Should Be Carefully Done In our tIne flee western climate out-of- out doors work Is both healthful and practical practical practical for women to a degree not understood understood understood under under- stood by those of the middle states The sunshiny days and the dry ground eliminate the unpleasant elements of out-door out work and open to women many avenues of profitable livelihood not available to them In the wet muddy conditions of the states where the rain falls so many days of the year writes Mr Parker Earle in the Denver Field and Farm My association of many years with business women of cities and the knowledge gained of the grind of their confined lives In office and I schoolroom has left an Impression on my mind not easily gotten rid of during my practical orchard experiences experiences experiences of the past five years The important Important important im Im- question is Why do not more women raise fruit for tor a living here where conditions are favorable Application of the same business principles principles prin prin- which means success in other lines Unes means meaDS greater success with less wearing nerve-wearing conditions in fruit growing The care of a small email orchard the harvesting packing and marketing of the fruit does not require all of ones one's time and energy for every day of every month of the year Some months are left for leisurely enjoyment enjoyment enjoyment enjoy enjoy- ment and study for bettering conditions condi condl Lions for the years to come Fruit growing should be beland and Is a practical way for women to make money For Instance there Is a home market in every town for strawberries s. s A small patch will yield a woman a modest living if she will wUl investigate soil and andI varieties and grow pick and market I her berries with the same care and intelligence intelligence in In- she must give to any Interest Interest interest Inter Inter- est to make it succeed An acre of strawberries well grown and cared for yields from tram to quarts according to variety which should net ten cents a quart This crop Is harvested and over in about a month and the season can be prolonged by raising raspberries or other small fruits on other pieces of i ground round However a more permanent i business and one that In the end end Je dP- dP t I begin then to yield small crops fully is as much fruit as they should bear And from this time on one safely may expect increasing annual crops and that standard trees pear and apple shall be in full bearing in from five to eight years |