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VEGETABLE GARDENING 
lound. This makes it possible to train the men so that 
their services will become more valuable every year. 
The question of caring- for the men demands careful 
consideration. There is perhaps no better plan than to 
provide neat, comfortable tenant houses. A highly suc- 
cessful Long Island market gardener, cultivating 80 acres 
in an intensive manner, gives 40 men employment 
through the summer. They are Poles and all of them are 
cared for in neat cottages. That is, perhaps a group of 
10 men sleep and have their living quarters in an inex- 
pensive but attractive house and the several groups meet 
for their meals at a boarding house operated by the 
owner of the farm. Prizes are offered to the groups of 
men for the best kept house and dooryard. The men 
are contented and come back from New York and Boston 
year after year for the planting and marketing seasons. 
Quite a number are retained the year round. The owner 
is very much pleased with the system. 
A New Jersey trucker and fruit grower, operating on a 
very large scale, provides inexpensive summer houses for 
Italian laborers. Entire families from Philadelphia 
spend the summer in this manner, all the members who 
are old enough taking an active part in the farm work 
and in harvesting and preparing the crops for market. 
They are glad to get out of the hot, crowded city for 
what they regard as a pleasant summer outing. The whole 
scheme may be regarded as a fresh-air movement of the 
highest type. The able-bodied men perform the heavier 
work, while old men, women and children harvest and 
preoare most of the crops for market, and do all sorts 
of lighter work, mainly by the piece. With such a plan 
the earning power of a family is much greater than in 
the city, to say nothing of the benefits derived from liv- 
ing in the country. 
In the South, colored laborers are used almost exclu- 
sively. New Jersey trucKers are well pleased with 
