The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-08

times remains up Other bridges have gates built upon Ihem end It LOOKS iuiins ) to see such gates standing here ana tiei alone in the fields. They Are Thrifty.
 The farmers are everywhere tnttits Nothing goes to waste. The haystacks are roofed with boards or thatcheo III such a way that the thatth can oe r ! cred as the hay is fed out, All "ooowoin Is painted, and rot and rust are not u bn seen. Indeed. the only things that show signs of decay here are the wiilu mills some of which are hundreos ol | years old In some cases these nave Deeh | replaced by steam or oil engines, put the! still do a great deal of pumping anu , | grinding. You see them everywhere up on the Dutch landscapes; some are huse aaffirs with arms thirty or more feet long, and great stone or bricK towers rising high above the rest or the iaiiu- scape. Many furnish the power for grlst mills Some saw lumber and others grlhu flour food for the stock It takes only : two men for a large mill, so that the ex- pense of running is slight am told that l a large mill costs $l 900 or $2,0OO, and that , the smaller ones are much more expen- } sive than the steel structures Of slfn- liar kind in America.
 Money in Bulbs. The Dutch make money out Of garden ing, and especially flower gardening Ihey raise vegetables and fruits for England, but their peaches and pears lack flavor, though they are full of juice. They taste to me much like the fruits Of Ja- : pan. which nas about the same climate
 There are parts of Holland however, which are just right for flowers. Take | aht htiit where bulbs are raised than at any place in the world. The soil there is a mixture Of sand and loam just fitted for the best Of tulips, hyacinths and gladioluses. There are syndicates and individuals at Haar- lem who do a big business in bulb rais- l ing. They have patches of tulips, hya- } cinths and other bulbs acres in extent. The hyacinths load the air with their perfume and the fields are of such colors that in passing through on the railroad , at certain times of the year you seem f to be travelling over crazy quilt more , gorgeous than any ever put together In reality.
 There are in all about 1000 different kinds of tulips raised here, 1000 varieties of , gladioluses and HOO hyacinths. The . bulbs are planted In trenches, with the large plants in the center and the small ones at the side. The varieties are kept | own name.
 9 9 The most of the bulbs exported by Hol- land are raised near Haarlem, and this means an amount equal to about $5,000, 900 annully, much of which comes from the 5 l United States.
 The Seat of the Tulip Craze.
 It was at Haarem that the best tulips n were raised during the great craze, when s such bulbs brought their weight in gold. n That was about the only time when the F Dutch lost their heads and went wild Il over speculation. They speculate still, k but most of their enterprises are on an B investment basis. During the tulip craze, 0 along about when Boston was started, l. one Haarlem tulip bulb brought $1 800. f with a team of gray horses and a car # riage thrown in, and an Amsterdam bulb d was sold for twelve acres of land. Both of these bulbs were of the variety known f | as the Semper Augustus, of which there n were then only two in existence. At the e same time other varieties brought enor- Q nous sums. Tulip buying was a regular S business and men grew rich and poor d from the trade. Some Dutch mortgag ged a their houses to buy tulips, and the loss of peck of bulbs caused a mans ruin.
 The Dutch tulips now sell for ordinary prices, but they are still handled on bus  !. marketing have been reduced to a sci u ence. The bulbs are set out in Septem. A Der and October. They are skillfully cul " tivated by skilled workmen, many of the IS farms employing hundreds of hands The, are packed for the market just so ant
 are shipped to seed and flower dealers
 all over the world
 Low Wages.
 I doubt if the ordinary Dutch farme
 makes money. Take the S00OO who hay,
 less than fifteen acres. They cannot a
 best produce more than a living Indeed
 some of these are selling their farms anC
 renting others. Lands are high and rent
 are calculated at about per cent of thu
 land values
 Wages are very low A good farm hanC can be hired for from 30 to 40 cents day and common price is $GO a year, witt a suit of clothes and a pair of boot.
 thrown in. Many of the farm hands now go off to Belgium and France a
 harvest time, so that labor is scarce
 There Is also an exodus from the coun
 try to the cities and the factories. where the wages are higher.
 What City Workmen Get.
 Even In the cities the wages paid seen ridiculous in comparison with those o
 the United States. The Government usu
 
 some figures recently published as t(
 what men received who worked on Stat, contracts Common workmen got , cent.
 an hour, carpenters 61-2 cents and ma
 sons and bricklayers cents Black
 smiths received cents an hour ant
 turner's, planers, filters and iron work
 CTS 5 cents. The wages in the factorie,
 are no better, and the hours of worl
 range all the way from to l3 Del
 day On the farm both men and womer
 work and the women. as rule do a.
 much as the men,
 = Tn the factories there are also womer and children. Children are allowed in th, le factories at the age of F. The little one, Id go 10 their labors at o'clock, startjnt le WorK on nothing but q cup of hot coffe, Id or perhaps piece of rye bread am le coming home to breakfast at S. They q, l. oack an hour later and lay off for din es her rom F to l. when they return f, a- complete the day. The wages paid chl le ureh are but few cents a day, and boy, h start into trade as low as 20 cents :
 week There are fixed rules as to an to pfehuces, some shops refusing to tax, It tAem because there are no laws by whic,