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Mr. Kinney. I think five dollars a fair amount ; some 

 years it will be more, and some less. We run our sash all 

 winter. 



Mr. Smith. Is it the custom to run the sash all winter in 

 Worcester ? 



Mr. Kinney. No. 



The Chair. I see Mr. O. B. Hadwen in the audience, 

 one of the pioneer market gardeners of Worcester, and we 

 would like to hear from him. 



Mr. Hadwen. I do not feel competent to instruct the 

 market gardeners at this time. It is true that fifty years ago 

 I indulged a little in market gardening, but the conditions 

 existing then are so different from those of to-day that I feel 

 as if I were a back number. 



I have been exceedingly gratified with the paper that has 

 been read. I feel that the market gardeners have been in- 

 structed and will know better what to do in their operations 

 in the future than they have in the past. I feel also that the 

 market gardening of the twentieth century will be entirely 

 difierent from the market gardening of the nineteenth cen- 

 tury. We are in an age of progress. 



I am gratified that these gentlemen have been successful 

 in market gardening, because I have known them from boy- 

 hood, and have known the difiiculties with which they have 

 had to contend. Our friend Kinney grows carrots that look 

 as if they were all run in the same mould, and when put 

 on exhibition at the agricultural and horticultural exhibits 

 they invariably bring the prize. I was at an exhibition 

 of a society once when Mr. Kinney came in to take his 

 premiums. I noticed that they amounted to quite a large 

 sum. I often ask impertinent questions, and I asked him 

 what he was going to do with the money. He said he was 

 going to use the money for a sinking fund to pay a part 

 of the indebtedness on his estate. I could not have had 

 a more satisfactory answer, because I knew he had com- 

 menced as a comparatively poor man, and he has proved a 

 success in his vocation. 



Years ago, when I was a market gardener, all I grew were 

 peas and beans and corn and potatoes and beets and cabbage 

 and a few of the common vegetables. I took these veg- 



