A few years ago it was considered a wonderfully up-to-date plant which had 

 the car unloaded outside the boiler house door and the coal then hauled in by 

 means of wheelbarrow or dump cart. That is all changed, and the coal is simply 

 dumped, with very little labor, into the bins located close to the boiler. The 

 vegetable grower marketing his produce at a local market spends much of his time 

 on the road, and for this reason good roads are a necessity and a benefit to the 

 vegetable grower, as liiey allow the produce to be taken in in a much shorter time 

 than over rough, rutty roads. The buying public are now demanding quality rather 

 than quantity, and will not accept bruised tomatoes or crushed or wilted lettuce. 

 The grower who carries his produce over a good road realizes more for it than the 

 one who has had to jar his goods over stones and through ruts. Growers in some 

 parts of the States have done much toward securing better means of travel to and 

 from their market, and claim that they are making considerably more than in the 

 4)1 d days. 



Prospective greenhouse builders looking for a location shouLl consider this 

 "point and select a site either on or close to a good road. 



The growers in some districts do not attempt to sell their produce locally. 

 They ship by express to cities and towns within a radius of 150 to 200 miles. To 

 them quick, safe and certain service is necessary, and they use both electric and 

 steam roads; some even build switches into their plants from an electric line for 

 fast service. With the coming of radials into Ontario, and the increasing de- 

 mand for greenhouse vegetables, the grower does not of necessity have to locate 

 Jiis plant close to the market of one large city. A central location with the 

 aid of electric and steam roads will give him the whole of the Province as his 

 market. To the man who wishes to build a house or range on the piece of land he 

 now has there are certain other points which apply to him as well as the man seek- 

 ing a new location. First and foremost the plant must not be built in a low 

 place. Several plants visited this year were giving trouble by being too low and too 

 close to a stream which flooded very much in the spring. Several plants had crops 

 totally destroyed by heing in the path of an extra strong spring freshet. Again, 

 the houses should not be located so as to receive the full force of the prevailing 

 winds. This has been overcome by some growers by the planting of quick growing 

 trees to form a windbreak, or in other cases by simply building a high, tight board 

 fence to break the direct force of the wind. To sum up, the points to be con- 

 sidered in choosing the location and site for a greenhouse plant are as following: — 



1. Long hauls and re-handling increase the cost of production. 



2. Proximity to railroads lessens hauls and handling, thus lessening cost of 

 production. 



3. Good roads mean good quality and better returns. 



4. Low places should be avoided, and care taken not to locate where there is 

 any danger of spring freshets. 



5. Being in the direct pa.th of the prevailing winds increases fuel consump- 

 tion. Where possible windbreaks of trees should be used, or high, tight board 

 fences should be built. 



FOUNDATION AND WALLS. 



The most important part of any structure is its foundation. A first-class 

 superstructure having a poor foundation will cause more trouble than a first-class 

 foundation at the beginning. Builders should aim to have a strong foundation of 



