Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1903-12-04
HOW TO MAKE MONEY
Entertain Summer Boarders.
and Truck Farming
IMPROVE YOUR PREMISES
The Cost Of Improvement viii Be
Nothing Compared with the Har-
vest Which will Be Reaped

Nothing Compared with the Har-
vest Which will Be Reaped
from the Summer Boarder
Pike County is an agricultural
region, giving a large surplus farm
and garden product, but lacking
within its borders, sufficient towns
and cities TO consume what is grown.
Too far away from the large city
markets to allow competition with
the moro favorably located truck
farms Of New Jersey and Long
Island, the question uppermost In
the farmers mind is how to in
crease the home demand for such
products as he can grow. Can this
be done 20 any appreciable extent,
and howf It can be done, but not
without Intelligent and persistent
effort. AS to the ways, there are
many, but none so near at hand as
the Summer Boarder. How many
farmers in Pike county has given
this share Of the question serious
thoutght9 How many have con-
sidered the fact that they are located
just the right distance from and
easily reached by the hosts of a large
City, who go yearly much farther
away to obtain, for two or three
months, just such comforts and
iuxuries as Pike county farms can
supply? What has been done to the
North, South and East can be done
here. But the same effort that has
been put forth by neighbors in
Orange and Sullivan counties in
New York, and Monroe county in
Pennsylvania, must be put forth
here.
If it is necessary to make a few
changes and repairs, and to clean
and brighten up the premises, for
the purpose, the cost of doing SO is
not an outlay, but an investment,-
one which is going to pay large
dividend. The people to be accom-
modated are not visitors they are
going TO pay for the accommodations
given and pay we'll. The Summer
Boarder will pay literally for good
service, but does not want poor SER
vice at any price. Clean, wholesome
accommodations, we'll cooked food
temptingly served, with polite and
intelligent attention, are the things
they require and insist upon. Give
them all of these and charge accord
ingly. They expect to pay. If they
find little fault, show an interest
in their complaint and try to i'm
prove along the lines they suggest.
That will be simply a matter of
business. 1t does not imply that
they think they are better than you
are it simply means they want q
little better service or attention, and
it will be a matter of dollars and
cents to you TO give it. Let them
have their way. The season they
are with you-only three or four
months of the year-is your harvest
time. Work You have eight or
nine months Of the year when you
will be alone and can do as you please.
Do not be afraid of going to little
trouble aud expense. Clean up the
premises, especially in the near
vicinity of the house have lawn
and keep it mown fill up your old
privy-vaults and cess-pools and put
in a sewer. Put water in the house
and have a bath room and flush
closets. If you haven't running
water available put up a tank. You
can do it if you try. They do it in
other places, and what Summer
Boarders can get in other places
they must have here or they won't
come. And then the cost Of doing
80 will come back to you with inter-
est. You, yourself, will also have
the benefit and comfort these things
bring. And once having them you
will wonder how you ever got along
without them. Don't be afraid Of
employing a little extra help your
wife viii appreciate it.
You won't make a fortune in one
summer, don't expect it. But you
viii soon have a produce market
that Will take all your farm produce
for a cash price that will simply
astonish you when you figure up
the proceeds at the end Of the sea-
son, and it will be right on your
own premises. Try il.
EDWARD II. BARro.