44 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



The market gardener who takes the best advantage of the 

 market and the weather in the management of his business 

 will l)e found the man making the most money from it. 



The Chaik. You have heard an excellent lecture, full of 

 chunks of wisdom, — admirably so. I hope you will take 

 advantage of the opportunity to question the lecturer. The 

 discussion, as has been stated by some one, is sometimes of 

 more importance than the lecture, and I hope you will im- 

 prove your opportunity. 



Mr. Geo. T. Powell (of New York). AYhat is the gen- 

 eral cost of manure a cord, delivered at the grounds of the 

 market gardener, including the cost of hauling? 



Mr. Howard. I believe the farmers figure that the cost 

 of manure delivered on the farm is about $4 per cord. From 

 my own experience, — and I have kept actual record, — the 

 cost of my manure, delivered on the farm, last year was 

 $2.15 per cord. That included the first cost and the cost of 

 hauling. My hauls are ver}^ short. I don't have to go over 

 ten minutes when the team is empty, and about twenty or 

 twenty-five when loaded, which makes the cost of hauling 

 very small. Where a man has to haul the manure 5 to 7 

 miles, and sends four horses and two men, it is rather ex- 

 pensive. 



Mr. H. R. Kinney (of Worcester). I have been very 

 much interested in the address this morning, and I judge, 

 fi'om what the secretary has told us, that the lecturer spoke 

 from experience. If he can make the people here in Worces- 

 ter see how they can make as much mone}^ as the people 

 around Boston, I wish he would. That is what would be 

 very interesting to me about this time, and I guess to some 

 others also. Worcester, I think, is getting to be a city that 

 requires, as the lecturer says about Boston, a great quantity 

 of poor stufi'. Every year it seems to me our market dis- 

 criminates less between good and poor than formerly. Of 

 course there is some good trade, but there seems to be less 

 demand for high-grade products than for lower ones. I 

 don't know but it is caused b}^ the gardeners raising and 

 liandling stuff as cheaply as ihoy do. Spinach is jiut up in 



