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The Potter Journal
Coudersport, Potter County, Pennsylvania
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Miss E. Wilt of Newville describes how she and her sisters successfully managed and paid off a 126-acre inherited farm, hiring help and producing flour, encouraging bereaved war widows and daughters to farm if they have courage and energy.
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Miss E. Wilt, of Newville, writes to the N. Y. Tribune:--
'Twenty years ago my sister and a younger sister inherited half a small fertile farm containing 126 acres. Our father was dead, and our brothers gone to the West; but, being unwilling to leave the home of our ancestors, I borrowed money at 6 per cent. from our kind neighbors, to buy and stock the farm. The debt was all paid off before the war, and some money in a national bank. We hire a hand in summer by the month, and by day hands to assist in cutting and threshing the crops; raise but one plough, and some years have 100 barrels of flour. If any bereaved widow or daughter (as the war will make many) will be encouraged by our success, I will be amply rewarded for my communication; but a lady that is afraid of a hoe or rake is not fit for a farmer--she must have courage and energy.'
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Newville
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debt paid off before the war; some money in a national bank; produce up to 100 barrels of flour some years
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Miss E. Wilt and her sisters inherited half of a 126-acre farm twenty years ago after their father's death, with brothers gone to the West. Unwilling to leave ancestral home, she borrowed money at 6% from neighbors to buy and stock the farm. They hire seasonal help, use one plough, and manage crops successfully. She encourages war-bereaved widows and daughters to farm if they have courage and energy, unafraid of tools like hoe or rake.