BUILDING THE RANGE 85 



plenty of faucets to facilitate the watering of plants 

 quickly and thoroughly. It is a waste of time to drag 

 long reaches of hose about a range and is detrimental to 

 the hose as well. 



COST OF CONSTRUCTION, EQUIPMENT, AND MAINTENANCE 

 OF THE RANGE 



A natural and very vital question regarding greenhouse 

 construction is the probable cost of building a new range. 

 This information is especially important for the young 

 man just starting in business. His capital is probably 

 limited and he should know before beginning to build, 

 the approximate cost. This is often extremely difficult 

 to determine for there are so many varying factors in 

 greenhouse construction that it is hard to decide as to 

 selection of materials for construction and equipment. 



67. Size to build. One should first decide on the 

 probable size of the range. This should be governed to 

 a considerable degree by the probable output. The 

 range should be large enough to produce an income suffi- 

 cient to support the family of the grower, and an income 

 sufficient to make its management worth while. There 

 should be an intimate relation between the size of the range 

 and the labor necessary to maintain it. For example, 

 there are a few men, such as the night fireman, the day 

 fireman and the foreman, who are necessary on a range of 

 perhaps forty thousand square feet. If the range is in- 

 creased to eighty thousand square feet, no more labor of 

 this kind would be necessary. Often it may be that the 

 addition of but one or two laborers would be needed 

 for the additional glass, and if a larger range can be run 

 with but little more labor, surely it is economy to build 



