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You and I can remenilier wht>n tlie florists used 

 to Bay thai "the Iron frame house was all 

 right enoujih for the private place or In 

 parks; but when It tame right down to a business 

 proposition, tliey cost entirely too much." 



Then we both looked on smilingly, when a few 

 years later thes>' same florists started building 

 Iron Frame houses because the other kinds cost 

 too much In the end for repairs and rebuilding. 

 Neither could thi-y produce the quantity or qual- 

 ity of crop necessary to meet competll,ion and 

 keep the usual snug l)alance at the bank. 



Then again, you and 1 also heard the merry 

 laughter of the vegetable growers when the Iron 

 Frame house was mentioned to them as their next 

 move for larger profits. 



They said, "Such houses may be all very well for 

 you florists, who grow luxuries and get luxury 

 prices, but we vegetable men sell on too narrow 

 a margin of profit to put our money in such 

 houses." 



And then again both of us in a few years saw the 

 change come when the Irondequoit vegetable men 



started with 40 feet iron framers; then finally 72 

 footers. 



Old conservative Hoston, with its Arlington 

 sections, next fell into line when Alexander Por- 

 ter put up an Iron Frame house .50 ft. x 45u ft. 

 Finally, several of llic .members of the big Ashta- 

 bula Vegetable Crowers Association after trying 

 out various eonstrucnons, mori' or less temporary, 

 began to see that their next move must be the 

 Iron Frame house. 



They had looked with admiration on the splen- 

 did Iron F'rame houses of Zuck and Sons at Erie, 

 Pa., and became thoughtful. 



And so it was that Dunbar and Hopkins, who for 

 80 many years have been leaders in the Ashtabula 

 Association: still keep in the lead by Iniilding five 

 Lord & Burnham Iron Frame houses. This is gen- 

 erally considered to lie one of tlie most up-to-date 

 vegeta1)le ranges in the country. 

 The time has come, we all now know, when the 

 question is no longer, shall we build an Iron 

 frame house: but of whose Iron Frame construc- 

 tion shall it be built? 



When you are ready to talk it over, say when and 

 where and we'll be there. 



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taken for walks. 



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