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the hencoop, get some compost, and hoe a little around 

 each plant. I hoe very deep but not too close to them. 

 I draw the dirt up around them, as they like deep soft 

 earth. I have had some very large fruit of very 

 fine quality. 



For beets and turnips, I follow the same method as 

 in raising onions, beets .are rather small owing to 

 extreme dry weather. Some turnips weighed from 

 four to five pounds. 



Spring Lettuce. — Seed was planted by A. 

 Brackett, Hennepin county, Minnesota, the first week 

 in March, in the greenhouse, and transplanted in rows 

 three or four inches apart and one inch apart in the 

 rows, then three weeks later transplanted again six 

 inches apart each way. If watered and kept at the 

 proper temperature, they will be ready for market 

 in three or four weeks. Price there runs from twenty- 

 five to thirty cents per dozen. His proceeds were 

 forty-three dollars and eighty-three cents. Expenses, 

 ten dollars and ten cents. 



Grozving Lettuce. — Three varieties of lettuce were 

 planted by C. P. Byington, Greene county. New York. 

 Iceberg was sown April 21, Cream Butter May i, and 

 Tyrol May 25. The seed was sown quite thickly in 

 drills one foot apart, thinning out young plants to two 

 or three inches apart. In a week or two these made 

 nice, bunchy plants which were thinned as needed for 

 the table, to about one foot apart, and left to head. The 

 first tender leaves were available for the table twenty- 

 eight days from seed, and the crop continued until 

 the middle of July. Elegant heads of Iceberg were 

 ready for the table the last of June. They were crisp, 

 brittle and tender, and this is a fine variety in all stages. 

 The other two varieties were tender when young, but 

 did not head nicely or stand the drouth as well as 

 Iceberg. 



