FRAME CULTURE 43 



All forms of crop insurance tend to intensify 

 the industry, while all devices and methods of 

 culture which tend to insure or make a crop 

 more certain add to the cost of production, yet 

 as a rule such methods pay a large return on 

 the investment. 



Frame culture not only insures the crop, but 

 rewards the grower by high quality. The 

 greater the extent to which a crop is protected 

 against adverse conditions, the more delicate 

 and refined will be its product. Lettuce grown 

 on rich land covered by a good frame is more 

 delicate in texture and flavor than the same 

 variety grown in the open. 



The frame at the South serves, in great 

 measure, the function of the greenhouse at the 

 North. The important frame crops are lettuce, 

 beets, radishes, parsley, and cucumbers, all of 

 which figure largely in the forcing house prod- 

 ucts at the North. Frame culture, besides in- 

 suring the crop, makes it possible to grow crops 

 with success at a season when they could not 

 be produced in the open. The land is made to 

 return larger crops and more of them and is 

 kept in profitable service for a longer period. 

 An individual illustration of the practices of a 

 frame grower will be sufficient for the whole 

 industry. 



