EXPENSES FOR HEAT AND LABOR. II 



ONTARIO 



1. I have two tomato houses, each 20x200 ft., 13 ft. 

 high at the ridge, heated with steam. I used last year no 

 tons of anthracite coal. 



One good man will attend to one house 20x200 ft., in 

 the spring. In the winter, the man and a boy can thor- 

 oughly care for two such houses. 



MASSACHUSETTS 



2. For roses, using hot water, it takes about 18 tons of 

 coal for the year. 



One man will care for two to three houses, if he is 

 active and thorough, and keeps them clean and in first- 

 class order. 



NEW YORK 



3. I am heating 500 lineal feet of rose house, 20 ft. wide 

 and ii ft. high, at a cost (last year) of $333. This is about 

 65 cents per lineal foot. The system is hot water in small 

 pipes. 



For roses, a good man should manage 400 lineal feet 

 of a house 20 ft. wide. 



4. I should estimate 12 tons of coal. This is about my 

 actual outlay in the winter of 1895-6. 



A man should handle 8,000 or 10,000 sq. ft. of glass, 

 in roses. 



5. I have about 15,000 square feet of glass, in ten 

 houses. I grow roses, carnations, violets, plants, etc. 

 Four of my own family, including myself, work in the 

 houses, and I usually keep one man besides. Outside of 

 my own family, it costs me about $2,000 a year to run 

 my place, for coal, help, repairs, water rent, taxes, bulbs, 

 insurance, lumber for boxes, and all other incidentals. 

 My houses are in good condition, and I keep the place in 

 first-class order. 



6. I judge that a single rose house 20x100 ft, in this 

 climate (Mohawk Valley), kept at rose-forcing tempera- 

 ture, would take about 25 tons of anthracite coal a year. 



