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home market, had more than could he sold there and was forced to 
ship it. This lettuce sold at from $6.00 to $10.00 a barrel and the 
area under cloth was increased the next year to more than an acre. 
After the third year others began raising this profitable crop, and the 
area gradually increased until it now aggregates between 75 and 100 
acres under cloth. 
The leading lettuce growers of the Wilmington section are: W. H. 
Mills & Sons, F. D. Klein, W. E. Springer, H. L. Thorne, D. W. 
Trask, O. Martindale, C. E. Kerr, A, O. McEarchern, B. B. Trask, 
Moses Horne, E. T. Kerr, C. F. Seitter, Add. Hewlett, and Geo. W. 
Trask. 
Around Hew Bern lettuce was first grown for market in 1894, by Mr. 
W. H. Bray with an area of about three acres, and Messrs. Hackburn 
and Willet with one acre. 
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Fig. 1 . —Lettuce as grown under canvas with irrigation at New Bern, N. C. 
* The acreage in the immediate vicinity of Hew Bern, all under cloth 
and irrigated and much of it steam heated, soon increased manyfold. 
The most extensive growers of lettuce around Hew Bern are or have 
been, Hackburn & Willet, W. H. Bray, Edward Clark, J. M. Spencer, 
Thomas Daniels, H. H. Tooker, and J. A. Meadows. 
At Fayetteville, commercial lettuce culture was apparently begun 
about 1895 by Fittzell Brothers with two thousand plants and the 
industry has increased rapidly, the crop at times totalling between 15 
and 50 acres. 
The principal growers are, or have been, W. H. Tomlinson, J. A. 
Pemberton, S. H. Strange, H. T. Drake, J. A. Hicholson, William 
Kyle, W. L. Flawley, Fittzell & Fittzell and many small producers, 
more than forty-five in all. 
At Warsaw, about 1897, L. Middleton and J. A. Powell raised let¬ 
tuce commercially. H. TI. Caroton, Will Corbett, O. P. Middleton, 
J. A. Powell, Sr., J. A. Powell, Jr., Henry Middleton, of Warsaw; 
