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the growing of our kind of crops during the short days of winter. 

 It will be a very profitable investment to all who will use it. I 

 have one large li^ht of 2,000 candle-power over one of my houses, 

 and ten 30 candle-power inside another house. The effect has been 

 very manifest, and the result of the experiment very satisfactory to 

 me. I could see the effect upon the growing crop very soon after 

 the lights had been placed in the houses. 



I think I prefer to have them all inside the houses, and placed 

 about twenty- five feet apart in a house twenty-four feet wide ; the 

 house would then be almost as light as day. The great objection to 

 a light outside is that in frosty weather the light could not shine 

 through the frosted glass, and it would therefore be of but little 

 benefit, but when placed inside it has all the chance possible. 



I cannot tell at present just how much benefit the light is, but by 

 another year I shall have had it thoroughly tested. 



The market gardener has many difficult problems to solve and but 

 very few things in his favor. The weather is quite an important 

 factor ; but this is uncontrollable and we cannot find a substitute or a 

 remedy. First-class help is hard to find ; good land is difficult to 

 obtain, all of it being occupied ; the South is competing very closely 

 with us ; it is a constant struggle from beginning to end, and from 

 morning to night. Unless the market gardener is in love with his 

 business, it will be very discouraging. 



In market gardening, as in every other branch of business, if one 

 would carry it on successfully he must have special men for special 

 work, and this can only be done by one who does sufficient business to 

 enable him to emplo}^ a head for each department. In a mercantile 

 establishment each member of the concern has a special part of the 

 work to perform, and devotes himself to it exclusively. Each 

 department has a head, who is held responsible for its success. 



In mechanical establishments the same plan is adopted and the 

 same responsibility is placed. In the professions we find that indi- 

 viduals are applj^ing themselves to specialties. It must be so if 

 success is to be achieved. In carrying on a market garden, I say 

 employ a superintendent, a salesman, a green-houseman, a foreman 

 for each department ; a night-man to attend the fires in winter, and 

 to keep an eye on the whole place ; a machinist to look after the 

 machinery and tools ; a painter to keep wood-work from going to 

 decay and to keep the glass in repair ; a hostler to take special 

 care of the horses ; a harness-maker to look after the harnesses 



