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an easy time ; he isn't inefficient in any way ; he is capable of 

 knocking a man down who goes to him with any insulting 

 words, as I know he has done within a year or two, with a 

 single blow from the shoulder ; and he has eleven hours as a 

 day's work, which is common, I think, among the market 

 gardeners in this vicinity. But his foreman has been with 

 him more than twenty years, as I know; and he has another 

 man in his employ who has been with him I don't know how 

 long, who never collects much money, but who allows his 

 employer to put it into the bank for him, and I wouldn't 

 venture to say how many thousand dollars he has laid up 

 there. Now, this man keeps these men because he treats 

 them fairly and generously, manages them efficiently and 

 pays them good wages ; and if he has an exceptionally profit- 

 able year he pays them something extra, - — • lets them share 

 in the profits. He gives his permanent men turkeys Thanks- 

 giving and Christinas. As for this man who has been in his 

 employ so long, a native of Ireland, he said to him a year 

 ago this time : " Now, Mike, you have lived with me a long 

 time; you have an old father and mother and relatives in 

 Ireland; wouldn't you like to go home and stay through the 

 winter ? If you do, I will pay your passage." And the man 

 said he didn't want to go. He trusts this man, — that is 

 another thing, — he makes him responsible for certain things. 

 To illustrate how this man looks at it, he trusts him with 

 looking after the celery he raises, perhaps thirty acres, I 

 think, and this Irishman is responsible for the ventilation 

 and protection from frOst, and so on. This happened within 

 a year or two, that the people were having a dance, and the 

 Irishman had gone ; it was a pretty cold night, and the owner 

 along about midnight went out to look at the celery pits, and 

 he thought they needed to be closed up a little more than 

 they were, and so he closed them. The next morning the 

 Irishman said to him : " Didn't you tell me to look after the 

 celery ? You moved the ventilators last night ; I don't want 

 you to do that." In this way this man has no trouble with 

 farm help. 



How to make farming profitable, — that is the keynote to 

 the situation. That isn't a cniestion ? of course, which I can 



