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HORTICULTUKE 



May 10, 1913 



l"ied Metcalfe's Iron Iramer at Iron<le<|Uoit. N. Y. Tlit- Hrs-t L. X B. 40 foot Iron Frame house in that sertion. 



How the Irondequoit Growers Came 

 To Build L & B Iron Frame Houses 



An Interesting Bit of Development History 



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HE other day several ut" our salesmen were 

 lum-hinu' t<ij:etbcr with the Sales Manager. 

 I oame in late, hut just in time to catrh some 

 most interestinj,' facts nbout how the le-adingr 

 iri'owers in Irondeijuoit jnmned from our 

 Pipo Framo to the 40 ft. Iron I-'iame con- 

 struction. It seems that Del Titus, first started buying 

 our Pipe Frame houses a good many years ago. 



J. H. West and Sons, who had 5 of the same con- 

 struction started the Iron I''rame ball rolling, when they 

 jumped from pipe frame houses 28 feet wide to a 72 

 feet iron framer V2o feet long, divided in three com- 

 partments. 



Fred Metcalfe and P. B. Pengally were the first to 

 build the 40 foot iron framers. 



The inleresting thing about Mr^ Pengally's order 

 was. that he had already signed up for a Pipe Frame 

 house, but on visiting with Mr. Metcalfe, the Burt 

 Olney Canniug Co'.s range at Albion. N. Y., he promptly 

 changed his mind in favor of the Iron Frame. 



A similar case was C. H. Metcalfe, and his brother 

 Fred. C. H. had ordered a Pipe Frame bouse, but 

 when the materials for his brother's iron frame began 

 to arrive, he was so thoroughly convinced of its superi- 



ority that he proinpliy cancelled the Pipe Frame order 

 ami contracted for an Iron Framer 40 by 133 feet. 



And then ther-,- is Anderson and Merrill. Tliey were 

 entirely satisfied with their L. & B. Pipe Frame house 

 an<l had made up their minds to order a duplicate. But 

 after seeing J. II. West & Son's, and several others, 

 they flopped over to the Iron Frame cmstructlon. 



The same day that Anderson and Merrill changed 

 1 heir minds, our friend. C. W. Cole also "saw the great 

 light." and signed up for one 40 by 141 feet. 



After the lunch was over and we were walking back 

 lo the office, our Boston man said be felt confident "that 

 in five years time the Market Growers wouldn't think 

 of building anything but the best Iron Frame con- 

 struction money could buy." "The ice in the Eastern 

 section." he said, "was broken when Alexander Porter 

 put up his big iron franuT .%0 feet by 4Zi) feet for grow- 

 ing tomatoes." 



We have just issued a supijlement to our Iron 

 Frame Catalog showing half a dozen or more splendid 

 big double page illustrations of some of these houses. 



Send for it. (irt posted on what your brother 

 grower is doing. 



Lord and Burnham Co. 



SALES OFFICES: 



New York, 42nd Street Bldg. 

 Philadelphia, Franklin Bank Bldg. 

 Rochester, Granite Bldg. 



Boston, Tremont Bldg. 

 Chicago, Rookery Bldg. 

 Toronto, 12 Queen St., E. 



FACTORIES : 



Irvington, N. Y. 



Des Plaines, III. 



\'iew of Alex Porter's bi;j house at Wolnirn, Mass. It is an Iron Frftiner. 50 x 



