Show the other day a clipper reporter called upon E Ephraim briggs brigg gs to see his hothouse for several years past mr briggs c has been raising certain kinds of plants and vegetables under glass with considerable success and profit his hothouse is feet with two small furnaces a little to one side of the center of the building by means of which the place is warmed when the sun fails to furnish the required heat there is a walk through the center of all tha house the whole len lenth length th of it and nd beds on either side where the plants grow the second crop of lettuce is now about ready for market and looks very nice it is from this crop that he makes the most money ife he planted the seed for the first fir st crop about november and the lettuce was ready for market on christmas he then started a crop of cabbage plants which were later transferred to a cold bed and the second crop of lettuce planted which ag has a already been stated is now ready for market mr briggs has experimented with raising cucumbers under glass for several years but has never been successful but lie ho thinks he has learned the secret now and will be able to grow them all right this year he raised a crop of asparagus in the hothouse which was marketed about the 1st ast of february and sold at 20 cents a pound the daily papers commented on it at the time stating that it was the first ever raised in the state that early in the year tho gentleman says that tomatoes do not seem to bear so well under glass gass the atmosphere apparently patently ly being too dry speaking about the heat required to sprout seeds says tomato seeds require an average temperature of about seventy degrees and cabbage from fifty to sixty but in the first case more heat is required after the plant is up do the gophers both eryou we will sell you the wire traps at each two for or three for also steel musk rat traps two tor for a quarter at the co woods X |