1904.] ESSAY. 01 



All this I havr oxporiencod in my forty years of Now England 

 farm life, and the boys of yrstcM'day are the men of today. 

 Side by side at our public town meetings, they whose parents 

 were yours and my emj^loyees, are in the councils of the town 

 and city governments. No one now raises a question as to 

 the impoi'tance of the public schools in any town or city. The 

 old-fashioned method universally' adopted forty years ago, of 

 boarding and lodging the help, making them members of the 

 family, is now, where possible, discontinued, and no one thing 

 has contributed more to the comfort and happiness of the 

 family than this. 



Many years ago I adopted the plan now almost universally 

 used of providing tenements for married help, and they caring 

 for and providing a home for the unmarried ones. This plan 

 is most satisfactory, and contributes very largely towards 

 making and building up the ideal New England market garde- 

 ner's and farmer's home. 



WHOM SHOULD THE FARMER OR MARKET GARDENER EMPLOY? 



The market gardener, whose occupation requires the l3etter 

 type of intelligence to conduct his business, must employ the 

 best, and in his section only the elements which by natiu'e 

 and from natural instincts are best fitted for his business. 



Plain, ordinary or general farming has a class of laborers 

 which fits that line of agriculture, and the compensation corres- 

 ponds to the requirements of his work, which neither requires 

 or expects the steadiness of employment nor the wages that 

 are paid in first-class market gardens. Permanency of labor, 

 continuance of employment, is perfectly natural to lx)th men 

 and women, and all others who depend upon their daily toil 

 for their living. 



Then first of all in the employment of the kind of labor 

 required, is good judgment to get help because of the possibility 

 of the permanency of the employee. But it may be asked: 

 "Why is this permanency necessary, and why more than in 

 ordinary farming?" I, myself, am a graduate from both, 

 and think I am well qualified to answer the question, because 



