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CROPS UNDER GLASS 



Mr. Work: Is it in one house? 

 Mr. Hunter: Yes. 



Mr. Work : A single house of about three thousand square 

 feet, and yet he is able to have almost a continuous supply 

 from that house. Some of the large houses in Toledo with 

 no divisions but posts, with a great field under glass, are put- 

 ting in partitions occasionally for the sake of varjang the 

 conditions. 



Prices. 



Question: What do they get- for lettuce by the pound? 



Mr. Zuck : Wholesalers are paying twelve cents at pres- 

 ent in five pound baskets. 



Mr. Work: You can afford to grow it at five cents? 



Mr. Zuck : Hardly in midwinter. 



Mr. Work: But in the spring you can afford to do that. 

 The curious thing about it is the lowest prices seem to come 

 in the fall, do they not? There is something about spring- 

 time that makes people want vegetables. The glut comes in 

 the fall and in the dead of winter. Markets will take vastly 

 more lettuce in the spring than in the winter. 



Mr. Zuck: You spoke in the beginning about the veget- 

 able growers having the blues last year, and so we did, be- 

 cause we sold a large quantity of lettuce at seven and eight 

 cents per pound in the dark winter months when it took all 

 -sorts of fuel. In April and May we had a big market for let- 

 tuce at twelve cents. 



Head vs. Leaf Lettuce. 



Mr. Work : Most of the men are growing Grand Rapids. 

 I think there is only one place in the countrj^ that is growang 

 any considerable amount of head lettuce under glass in winter, 

 and that is Boston. A good many people have been going 

 down there a good many times and they come back and are 

 still growing Grand Rapids. It is true, I think, that our mar- 

 ket would prefer the head lettuce if we could grow it as easily. 

 Does anyone here grow head lettuce under glass? 



