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FRUIT, TRUCK, VEGETAB
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of OHio
How Greenhouses Pay in the North and How They Conld Be
Made to Pay Under the More Favorable Conditions of the South.
. Sometime ago I .went to Cleve
land, Ohio, to take part in the or
ganization of the "Association of
Greenhouse Vegetable Growers and
Market Gardeners of America," for
so reads the ambitious title of the
completed organization. And it oc
curred to me to note how easy it
is to get intelligent men outside of
general farmers, to associate them
selves for mutual help.
On a brief call for this meeting
we had assembled at Cleveland
nearly 200 representatives of the
market gardening craft, men who
own acres of glass, and are wide
awake for every improvement in
their work. They came from Massa
chusettsNew York, Pennsylvania,
Oliio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan,
Kentucky, Maryland, and the Dis
trict of Columbia.
.The -morning of the first day was
occupied with a general interchange
of ideas in regard to the proposed
organization and its scope, and in
the afternoon we all assembled at
the hall and went on trolley- cars
to the suburbs, where the Cleveland
growers had automobiles and wag
ons to haul us around among the
various market gardens, so that we
could see what is being done there.
We visited nearly a dozen places
where there were large areas in
greenhouses and all filled with let
tuce. The houses were mainly built
on the modern ridge-and-furrow
plan, the eave troughs resting on a
series of posts high enough to walk
under from one house to another, so
that acres can be included under
one roof, and some of them did have
an acre or more. There is no room
wasted in these houses, for , there
are no benches and no walks except
narrow footways between the beds,
and the heating pipes! are ranged
one above another on the posts be
tween the houses. All are heated
with hot water from a general boil
er system.
I saw them cutting for market
little slips of a few leaves each that
a Southern trucker could not get his
freight out of. Thjey grow there the'
loose curly lettuce known as Grand
Rapids, which never ' makes a head,
but is really of fine and crisp char
acter. They told me that the gen-'
era! .opinion was that head lettuce
could not be grown in Ohio, but I
saw some fairly good specimens
of Rawsons Hothouse lettuce grown
in one house, not so fine though as
I have seen the same variety grown
in Southern greenhouses. The West
ern people like and demand the
loose Grand Rapids lettuce, which an
Eastern market gardener could not
sell in the markets of New York and
Philadelphia at any sort of a paying
price, ,
And it occurred to me . that our
Southern growers have no need to
fear the competition of the acres on
acres of lettuce grown in northern
Ohio. I was told that at Ashtabula
the culture is on a larger scale than
at Cleveland. There they re-plant
the houses and grow another crop
after the one now being marketed,
and. later plant the houses in toma
toes and radishes.
.
I was in Cleveland from Thurs
day morning till Saturday night, and
during that time the sun peeped out
in a smoky sort of way once or
twice. In fact I do hot believe that
in any of the lake country they ever
have in winter any brilliant sun
shine as we have in the South near
ly all the time. Looking out over
the wide expance of the lake one
never sees, either there or at Chi
cago, -a sharp sky-line like we see
pn the ocean or the Chesapeake, but
a dim, smoky, hazy distance, where
water and sky blend together im
perceptibly. L
And it seemed to me that if these
energetic men can make money in
winter forcing with such little help
M
Let us tell you how we raise our meat
at less than one-third the usual cost.
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