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Show WORKING FIVE ACRES Fruit Growing Is Practical Way to Make Money. planting and Cultivation of Young and Snail Orchard Is Simple Matter and Not Expensive Work Should Be Carefully Done. In our fine western climate out of-doors of-doors work is both healthful and practical prac-tical for women to a degree not understood under-stood by those of the middle states. The sunshiny days and the dry ground ellnilnato the unpleasant elements of out-door work and open to women ninny avenues of profitable livelihood not available to them In the wet, muddy conditions of the states where he rain falls so many days of the yenr, writes Mr. Parker Karle, In the Denver Held and Farm. My association of ninny years with hiiolnens women of titles, and the knowledge gained of the grind of their confined lives In office and schoolroom has left an impression on my mind not easily gotten rid of dining my practical orchard experiences experi-ences of the pact five years. The Important Im-portant question Is: Why do not more women raise fruit for a living here where conditions are favorable? Application of the same business principles, prin-ciples, which means nuccess in other lines, means grenter success, w ith less nerve-wearing conditions, In fruit growing. The enre of a small orchard, the harveit'ng. pocking nnd marketing of the fruit does not require all of one's Into and energy for every day of every month of the year. Some months sre left for leisurely enjoyment enjoy-ment and study for bettering conditions condi-tions for the years to come. Fruit Slowing should be and Is a practical i way for women to make money. For Instance, there Is a home market In very town for strawberries. A small patch will yield a woman a modest living If die will Investigate soil and varieties and prow, pick anil market her berries with the same care and In-teliiKenre In-teliiKenre she must give to any Inter-eft Inter-eft to make It succeed. An acre of strawberries, well grown and cared for, yields from 3,000 to Minn quarts, according to variety, which should net ten rents a quart. This crop is harvested and over In about a month and the season can tie prolonged by nlslng raspberries or other small fruits on other pieces of ground. However, a more permanent business and one that In the end demands de-mands less labor, Is the growing of tree fruits apples, peaches, penrs, rherrles, plums and prunes. For women, wom-en, the small orchard of five acres has many advantages over larger ventures, ven-tures, depending upon the kind of trie elected for planting an orchard. The number of trees on five acres will run from 600 to 1,000 or possibly 1,600. The planting and cultivation of a rout.g orchard of five acres Is a simple sim-ple matter and not expensive, although al-though the work should be very carefully care-fully done. The heavier labor of cultivation culti-vation and Irrigation would call for the occasional services of a man and a team while the supervision and pruning of young trees can well be nono by the owner herself. As the trees come Into bearing, outside labor, preferably that of women and young girls, can be called In for all necessary neces-sary harvest work. A for the bus1ne; management of the harvest and the marketing of the rrop, the bright woman who has grown the orchard Is Just as capable , ts any neighboring orchard owner. And what can be expected from so little as five acres? Very little, certainly, cer-tainly, for the first two, three or four years, and yet certain cherries, peaches, plums and dwarf pear trees begin then to yield small crops, fully ts much fruit as they should bear. And from this time on one safely may xpect Increasing annual crops and that standard trees, pear and apple, hall be In full bearing In from five to eight years. |