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Mr. Hallett: Xo, sir, I do not. I always weigh them. I am 

 not particular about their being just such a length. 



Mr. Wilkinson: Do you use tape.^ 



Mr. Hallett: Xo, I use soft twine. 



Beet greens follow next, put up in bunches of four to five pounds, 

 and sell at ten cents. Small beets, a good seller, are in bunches 

 made up of eight to twelve, according to size, selling at ten cents. 

 I sow my beets in the same way that I do the lettuce, and I don't 

 thin for the small beets in early season. I take from these rows 

 the beet greens as carefully as possible, and have found that I have 

 received as early small beets from these rows as I ever did by thin- 

 ning. 



Mr. Wilkinson: Do you grow those crops in hotbeds.^ 



Mr. Hallett: All outdoors. I have tried the growing of beets 

 and transplanting, but never found it successful. I can grow many 

 more in the open ground. 



Question: You handle spinach entirely by weight? 



Mr. Hallett: I don't weigh the bunches. I usually like to 

 make a package that looks as though there was something there, 

 and a package that I would be glad to buy myself at the same money. 



Question: What variety of spinach do you sow? 



Mr. Hallett: The Thick Leaf. Turnips, onions, and carrots 

 put up in the same manner sell at the same price. As soon as the 

 onion tops are large enough to eat, these seem to go fully as well. 

 Carrots and turnips also I take very early. I have sold more carrots 

 at the size of a lead pencil for the last two or three years than in 

 previous years I would sell in a whole season. They are very tender 

 and are largely used. 



Question: What A'ariety is the best for early planting? 



Mr. Hallett: The Danvers is the best variety I know of to 

 grow from seed. 



Question: Do you transplant your onions? 



Mr. Hallett: I use onion sets. The transplanting of onions 

 in my section has never been quite satisfactory. 



^Ir. Locke: Do you use the potato onion? 



