Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-07-16 | Page 24 | Farm Laborers Now Own Cars

FARM LABORERS ; NOW OWN CARS Reap Rich Harvest by Raising Rais-ing Small Fruits in England j TOXDON.July 15 "Many mn j who ten years ago were farm laborers i now drive ih ir own motorcars. I That sounds liko an extract from i n story about California or some Other American state where farmers sometimes some-times make a )ot Qf money. But it 'Rn't It i. taken trom a report of jthe big profits made in Hampshire Kent, Lincolnshire and a few other countries of this old land by farmers who raise fruits and particularly strawberries. Such tales are not often heard in England English (armor, ns a rule, tales more delight in telling tales of woe then of well-being well-being MON'Kl i s i R IWBERRIES Giving details of thin agricultural ProsperUj. ihe report says: ' jn on,. case a man cut up a field of is acres n acre plots and offered It to the laborers of the parish He had arranged ar-ranged the payment to extend over ten years, but nine of the 15 pUr. Chasers paid for It on Ihe spot Within With-in four years ,11 the reel paid up. One or Ihem during the last three years has sold Ll.000 worth of Nirawbc'rrlex irom hi- ons acre plot. "It Is not to strawberries alone thai BUI h men turn their attention I hoy rnuk. good profits out of plum-appies, plum-appies, cherries, gooseberries and currents At the time of the grout agrloul-l turoi depression Gladstone luggested that the farmers should grow fruit' instead of corn His suggest. on was. I r vi'n .s.oru .mil derision by the old fashioned farmers. One man however though! Ih- J..-nmei,t worth trying u- has retired with i g fortune Hundreds of otht d are now following in his footsteps." -oo