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into a celery crate and loaded into a car. So 

 the harvesting is very simple and very rapid. 

 About five men will load a car in 10 hours in 

 very good order. We pack our crates just as 

 full as we can providing the distance we have 

 to ship is not very far. Into a celery crate 

 we put close to 100 pounds. A lettuce ham- 

 per properly packed for market is supposed 

 to weigh 20 pounds. 



"We have shipped spinach as far as 

 Adams, N. Y. The first car shipped there 

 was five days on the road, and it arrived in 

 good condition. But it is not safe to ship 

 to any place that far away. The only thing 

 that made it possible for this car to arrive in 

 good condition was that the day we har- 

 vested this spinach the temperature was 32 

 degrees and the spinach was chilled. They 

 told me heat had not even started in the cen- 

 ter of the crate when it arrived. A few days 

 later a similar shipment was made with the 

 temperature at 50 degrees. It made better 

 time, but arrived in bad condition. 



''We sow from 15 to 25 pounds of seed an 

 acre according to germination qualities. 

 Last year seed was very poor. Some grow- 

 ers had to sow as high as 40 pounds an acre. 

 It is very important to know just what per- 



