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tiling was good ; it was of first-rate quality, but not quite so 

 much in quantity, perhaps, as it would have been on land 

 that had been worked for years. And speaking of that, I 

 should mention irrigation, which I use to a considerable ex- 

 tent on this place. I had one piece of about seven acres in 

 cauliflowers : the dry weather came on the first of August. 

 Of course I did not know whether I would water it or not, 

 but I had tried a little experiment in that line a year ago, on 

 a little piece of cauliflower of about two acres, and found it 

 paid me, so I got a steam pump and .worked day and night 

 for a week, pumping water on that piece of cauliflower. 

 That was a paying experiment. I have used it also on my 

 celery crop. Our town has water which they supply to 

 parties for a certain sum, but they not being able to supply 

 me, I put up, last year, works of my own, at an expense of 

 about two thousand dollars, and this year I have paid that 

 two thousand dollars from one crop, although it took me 

 about three weeks, with four or five men ; but I think I have 

 got the two thousand dollars back from one crop this season, 

 and I have ffot the works left. 



Speaking of seed, that is a very important item, of course, 

 in market gai dening, and every market gardener should look 

 out for his seed one year ahead. If he has got a good stock of 

 his own, he is all right if he keeps growing his own seed ; 

 but if he has not a good stock, I Avould say, " Just look out 

 for it the year before, and see that you get your seed of 

 somebody who has a good stock." I raise most of my own 

 seed, and in some cases I have a large quantity. I have 

 quite a large quantity to sell this year, and expect to adver- 

 tise them next spring. 



Speaking of sash, our friend Moore says that the quantity 

 of sash used by market gardeners varies from a hundred to a 

 thousand. I do not know of but three that have over a thou- 

 sand. We have about twenty-five hundred, and there are 

 tw^o others who have from thirteen hundred to fifteen hun- 

 dred. 



In regard to capital, I do not know how much capital I 

 should tell a man he ought to have, but get all you can : the 

 more you put in, the more money you will get out. I have 

 got as much capital in it as almost anybody. 



