. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. reenliouse J^uilders Covering Ground or Covering Profits? ^:^:-u---y^^:.e When one of the big^ Western growers (name on request) built his first green- houses, he had one main thing in mind. He wanted to cover as much ground at as little cost as possible. The last time he built, he decided to buy his houses, not on a basis of how much ground they would cover, but how much profit they would yield. When he considered the profit, he didn't figure only the yield per square foot of 1 bench space. He also figured the up- keep on the houses. As we underst
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. reenliouse J^uilders Covering Ground or Covering Profits? ^:^:-u---y^^:.e When one of the big^ Western growers (name on request) built his first green- houses, he had one main thing in mind. He wanted to cover as much ground at as little cost as possible. The last time he built, he decided to buy his houses, not on a basis of how much ground they would cover, but how much profit they would yield. When he considered the profit, he didn't figure only the yield per square foot of 1 bench space. He also figured the up- keep on the houses. As we understand it, up-keep hasn't anything to do with what a thing costs; but with what it costs to keep it kept-up. .- In other words, the repair bills. You'll agree with Mr. Weiant's state- ment, that "the trouble with so many of us growers is, that we do our figur- ing with too blunt a pencil. "If we put up a house on which the re- pairs are but little the first five years or so, we count the profit on that house, all profit. "If at the end of fifteen or twenty years, it has practically to be rebuilt, we only consider what it cost that year. "Now the only way to figure, so the fig- ures don't deceive us, is to deduct from the first year's profits on that house, an estimated proportionate amount of what the repair cost will be at the end of that five years. "If it's $2,000 for repairs, then deduct $400 each year. "If you figure the houses will last fif- teen y^ars, then the total cost of the houses, plus the repairs, should be di- vided by 15, and deducted from each year's profits. "If you do it any other way, you are jollying yourself. "We write off, or deduct at least 10 per cent for depreciation on our big Iron Frame Houses every year. But am con- vinced it is entirely too much; however, we are not fooling ourselves on the wrong side of the ledger. "On our other houses, 10 per cent would be entirely too ; This man being one of
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