All the young orchards her father had planted were now bearing, including a thousand peach trees, and for the first time in her life she had all the peaches she wanted, and "lived on them for a month." The years of 1850 and 1851 Daniel Anthony conducted his insurance business in Syracuse and Susan remained at home, taking entire charge of the farm, superintending the planting of the crops, the harvesting and the selling.

She also did most of the housework, as her mother was in delicate health, her sister was teaching school and both brothers were away.

In the winter of 1852, she went into a school in Rochester as supply for three months.

She found, however, that her taste for teaching was entirely gone, her work was without inspiration, her interest and sympathy had become enlisted in other things.

She longed to take an active part in the two great reforms of temperance and anti-slavery, which now were absorbing public attention; she could not endure the narrow and confining life of the school-room, and so, in the spring, she abandoned teaching forever, after an experience of fifteen years.
[Footnote 9: Nearly fifty years afterwards, when Mr.Hagar was at the head of the Girls' High School, in Salem, Mass., Miss Anthony visited him and was most cordially invited to address his pupils "on any subject she pleased, even woman suffrage."] [Footnote 10: The play for this occasion was written by James Arkell, father of W.J.Arkell, proprietor of the Judge.