LETTUCE 

 W. L. Bonnet, Batavia, N. Y. 



MAGNITUDE OF THE INDUSTKT 



It is within comparatively recent years 

 that the growing of lettuce commercially 

 — that is, in car lots — has become a 

 business proposition among the market 

 gardeners of the state. 



There is probably no other vegetable 

 the production of which has increased so 

 rapidly as that of lettuce. There are two 

 reasons for the wonderful growth of this 

 industry. One is a growing demand for 

 this healthful and delicious vegetable, and 

 the other, the rapidly increasing development of the muck lands 

 of our country, in which soil lettuce seems to reach perfection. 



The acreage planted to lettuce in this state is very large and is 

 increasing each year. It now takes in South Lima, Livingston 

 county ; Arkport, Steuben county ; Sanborn and Middleport, 

 Niagara county; Williamson, Wayne county; Fancher and Holley, 

 Orleans county ; Fulton, Oswego county ; and the muck lands near 

 Syracuse, Onondaga county ; Oanastota, Madison county, and 

 Chester, Orange county. In fact in every section where muck 

 lands are being developed a large portion goes into lettuce. 



VAEIETT AND SEED SOWING 



There are a great many varieties of lettuce, but we feel safe in 

 saying that 90 per cent, of all outdoor lettuce (of which this arti- 

 cle is treating), is the Big Boston. 



The seed of this variety may be sown as early in the spring- 

 as the ground can be fitted for the purpose. The ground should 

 be prepared as follows: after plowing the land in the spring, 

 sow broadcast a high-grade fertilizer and work well into the 

 soil. Sow the seed with a garden seeder in rows fourteen inches 



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