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regions where this trouble is common. Rotation 

 of crops should likewise be practiced. Dusting the 

 plants as well as the soil with flowers of sulphur 

 from time to time will often be found helpful in 

 keeping this trouble in check. 



Lettuce is usually a profitable crop when well 

 grown under any conditions. When grown as the 

 main crop by itself not less than 30,000 heads should 

 be secured from an acre. Gross returns of $1,000 

 per acre or more are not uncommon. This crop is 

 usually grown as a companion or succession crop in 

 connection with other vegetables in the northern 

 gardens. It meets these requirements unusually 

 well and for this reason, is extremely satisfactory 

 and every year finds its place as a part of the general 

 garden plan. 



Varieties are numerous, but of the head type 

 Hanson and Big Boston are the most widely planted. 

 Of the loose leaf types the Grand Rapids and Black 

 Seed Simpson are the most popular. Of the cos 

 type the Express, Paris White and Bath are most 

 commonly grown. 



MUSKMELON 



The muskmelon is more widely grown in this 

 country than any other. Thousands of acres of 

 this crop are grown in the United States annually, 

 yet its total commercial importance is not so great 

 as that of the cucumber or the watermelon. The 

 extent to which it has become esteemed as a dessert 

 fruit during the last ten or fifteen years has greatly 

 increased its importance and certain restricted areas 

 have come to be known as producing melons of ex- 

 ceptionally high quality. 



Certain sections of California and the Rocky Ford 

 district in Colorado are known the country over as 



