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IHt UUMMUNITY FARMA UNIQUE EXPERIMENT.i B» (iertrudr M Price.)Puente. ('a., 8ept. I have just returned from a vi.-it lu u communityIt is acres of land which ha-been converted in a very brief time from untillcil soil into a verdant garden.It iw called “The l.o* Angel** Fellow-hip Farm. although several ntile- from there, and wa« started by tieorge Littlefield.When the farm wi» founded a company wa • organized with president. vice president ami director*.Though little attempt has lieen made to let the public know about it.feminine member of the board of director.'.She (irmly believe* thHt it i« pos-ible an«l profitable for people to band themselves together under certain rational rub *, and work the soil to their own advantage, using community stores, clubs and modes of marketing.•’When we came to this place two years ago the land was absolutely barren. Mrs. Roller told me. “A lnige urn of money was spent to im--tall a splendid pumping plant. And the confluence- i we have plenty of water at a small cost.This, in turn, mean* that our land produces, prolific'ally.”/Mrs. J. M. Holler, worn.in d f the * f ellow-hip Faim, and J. M (oiler at work on his three lots.he residents upon it «eem to hai r-.m all rotmers of the world.People who want to live as they fish, and not according to putterri, apparently have picked it for a ha-rn.I here are artist*, dentists, -tu-lents, and just ordinary citisen* who lave long cherished the idea of an ■leal out-door life.l^io rule, of the community farm eijuire that no man shall take more ban three lots for his own. If he lave a wife, -he also has the privilege T taking three Iota.There are now about 4*» people on he place. There isn’t a person on he farm more awake to it.» pn- i-lilitie* than Mrs. J. M. Roller, theMi Roller -howed roe ten-foot corn. he«A with roasting ear*; tig and oiange trees, berr Villen, walei melons. peaches loaded with fiuit and all -orts of fiwgianl flowers III bloom.She told me .omething of the in ial life of the Women member- of the community farm, stating that I they had a regular club house in | which there were gymnasium clu- es,wing • l.i • and social gatherings.For the upkeep of the farm ao much a month i- paid. Thi* fund cover- taxes and current expense*.There 1 also a community store.Founder Littlefield. who is now in the Fast preparing to establish a similar farm, will return next November when n number of improvement.- will be made in the I.. A. Fellow hip.• There is one big difficulty,’' Raid Mr*. Roller, and it is the marketing problem. The thing the mall community farmer must solve is the middleman profit which cuts all profit out of his own small efforts.People preach thu’ more fnmilie* should get back to the soil. That's well anil good. We are endeavoring to do that here. Hut until the middleman has been erased from the muiacting system, the tiller of a mall amount of land cannot hope to make as much profit from his lalmrs a* he ha* a right to expert.”
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Hanover Evening Sun
Hanover, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Sep 09, 1915
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