596 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Ofif. Doc. 



VEGETABLE-FOKCING UNDEK GLASS 



By C. W. Waid, Carlisle, Ohio. 



Indeed, it gives me great pleasure to meet with you for the first 

 time. Most of you are strangers to me, but I feel at home in spite 

 of that fact, for two reasons, at least. In the first place, my father 

 was born in this State, and in the second place, in meeting with 

 the horticulturists in different parts of the country, we find that 

 the problems they are trying to solve are the same, and it is easy 

 to make friends if you are looking for them. 



I find Avith you, as with us, that the subject of apples is most 

 prominent, and probably to most of you, of the most interest. You 

 have with you one of our most expert growers in Ohio, Mr. Farns- 

 worth. He is a man whom we in Ohio, consider an authority be- 

 cause of the able way in which he produces a first-class fruit. You 

 can bank on what he says being backed up by experience and suc- 

 cess. I, myself, have eighty acres of orchard started, but not in 

 bearing as yet. But there are other products in the Horticultural 

 line besides the growing of apples, and since coming here, I have 

 learned that you are producing along the lines about which I am to 

 speak to you, but I doubt whether most of you realize this oppor- 

 tunity as you should. 



You talk about the Western man coming into the Eastern mar- 

 ket and selling his ai)ples. Do you know what the greenhouse men 

 are doing to-day? Men in Massachusetts and in Ohio and in New 

 Jersey are buying your coal and your glass and sending the lettuce 

 back to your people and selling it, and making money on it, too, 

 and good money at that. Is there no opportunity here for you? 

 There are a good many in the business, but not nearly so many 

 as could profitably engage in it, and I hope if you are not already 

 interested, you will consider the subject with me this morning and 

 become interested. I am confident that many of the young men 

 under Professor Watts will take up this work and make a success 

 of it, and vegetable forcing under glass will be one of the lines. 



When I accepted the invitation of your Secretary to talk to you 

 on this occasion, I told him that I make no pretense to being a public 

 speaker. Unlike most of those who have preceded me, I am seldom 

 able to get away for even this length of time, as our work is very 

 confining. I realize that looking after the details of the business 

 is where success usually comes. I will now take up my subject, 

 and if there are any questions that I can answer, I shall be pleased 

 to do so. 



No doubt most of you are aware that vegetable-forcing in Ohio 

 has attained very large proportions during recent years. The places 

 at which the greatest development has occurred are Ashtabula, 

 Toledo and Cleveland. All located in the northern part of the state 

 and not far removed from the lake. Besides the development at the 



