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FACTS AA'D FIGURES OR THE 



The beds are made up as shown in the picture. It is ad- 

 visable not to have the beds over twenty feet wide and 

 ninet}- feet long, for if wider and longer than this the cov- 

 ers will be hard to handle. Light canvas or duck makes an 

 excellent cover. 



Covered Lettuce Beds. 

 PACKING AND SHIPPING. 



Cut the lettuce as soon as it has formed solid, hard heads, 

 as it goes to seed very quickly after maturing if the weather 

 is the least bit warm. In cutting leave the dirty yellow 

 leaves on the stalk ; if there should be any left on the let- 

 tuce, pull them off before it is packed. Shake the head 

 v.'eli to remove any sand sticking to the lea\'cs. Do not cut 

 the lettuce immediately after a rain. In packing pull the 

 outside leaves over the head as much as possible. The one 

 and a half-bushel hamper is the best crate for shipping it in. 

 Pack the first layer in the crate with the heads up and the 



