92 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1904. 



I have done plain farming, kept a dairy of forty cows, raised 

 stock, both horses and cattle, and so being qualified T may 

 answer the question, why this difference? Because the risk 

 of very great loss in the business of market gardening, the 

 risk undoubtedly is large in so many ways. Great losses can 

 and do occur. A case in mind, where a gardener lost through a 

 drunken employee letting his fires go down on one of those cold 

 nights recently, destroying, in a night, years of toil. Therefore 

 the utmost vigilance at all times is required to be the successful 

 market gardener, who should always plow the main furrow, 

 or hold the reins. 



Market gardening is an ideal occupation. The utmost 

 vigilance and perseverance under difficulties, system in all 

 things, judgment in classifying crops, and preparation, — all 

 these are necessary for complete success. 



While, in the general farming industry, it may be said that 

 it is not run on business principles, this is not so, and does 

 not apply to market gardening. 



A system of bookkeeping best fitted to each man's business 

 generally prevails, and this according to the volume of the 

 business done. That market gardening can be brought down 

 to, and made a thoroughly systematic business, reference can 

 be made to those now engaged in the business, by such market 

 gardeners as W. W. Rawson, of Arlington; Hittinger Bros., 

 of Belmont; Frank Cooledge, of Watertown; and many others 

 who are now supplying the Boston market with the leading 

 products of the garden, the orchard and the farm. What 

 manufacturing, or any other business, is it possible to work 

 successfully without adopting, first of all, method and daily 

 rule in doing one's work? 



Commencing with a daily noting in the calendar the tem- 

 perature taken from a first-class thermometer once or more 

 each day: 1st. clear or cloudy. Snow or rain. Then the 

 degree of heat or cold indicated by the thermometer, and you 

 have a most pleasing knowledge acquired by a few minutes' 

 loss of time, which gives you a record, not only good for future 

 reference, but also a daily knowledge that is of much value. 



