VEGETABLES RAISED FOR MARKET 



twenty-five cents per dozen to start with; add 

 cost of plants, twelve cents more; making the 

 cost of raising lettuce in the winter season fifty 

 cents per dozen, without reckoning in the carrying 

 to market. 



The second crop can be grown much cheaper 

 than the first, say at forty cents per dozen ; because 

 the bed is all ready. It will require only two- 

 thirds as much manure; and not over two-thirds 

 as much time will be consumed in taking care 

 of the second crop as of the first. Then, too, 

 the spent manure that is taken out in renewing 

 the beds is worth something, perhaps all of half- 

 price, or we may say twenty-five cents per sash 

 for use elsewhere. But, allowing for all this, I 

 believe there is no profit from growing lettuce in 

 hot-beds at fifty cents per dozen. In houses it 

 can be grow r n for less than in beds, and its culti- 

 vation in houses is thought to pay fairly well. 



The temperature in the houses should be kept 

 between 40 and 45 in the night-time, and 

 from 60 to 70 during the day. That of the 

 hot-beds also should be regulated in a similar 

 manner. 



In this vicinity Rawson's Hot-House and Hit- 

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