In 1908, and for a number of years, Percival and several friends owned and operated about five hundred acres of orchards, farmland, and a cannery about seventy miles north of New York City.
Ku-1908, futhi iminyaka eminingana, uPercival nabangane abaningana babephethe futhi baqhutshwa cishe amahektha ayizinkulungwane ezinhlanu zezithelo zemifino, epulazini, ne-cannery enyakatho yeNew York.