360 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan. 



profitable investment to all who will use it. I have one 

 large light 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 occu- 

 pied ; 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 braneh 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 employ a head for 

 each department. In a mercantile establishment each mem- 

 ber 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 individuals are applying 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 



