Show OU COUNTY FARMERS I PROFIT IN HEAD LETTUCE I J The favorable conditions contributing ing to the success of the head lettuce industry in Routt county Colorado are indicated by the 11 heavy avy shipments now being made from Steamboat Springs and the loading points in the vicinity of Yampa One grower according ac ac- according cording to the Routt County Sentinel Sentinel Sentinel Senti Senti- nel whose crop is raised entirely without irrigation reports that up to the present time he Has nas shipped 1403 crates of lettuce from four acres of his land and still has another another another an an- other cutting or two from the same patch As the average price at tn loading sheds is about a crae craze this gives a return or 01 over 1525 an acre The August lettuce bulletin issued by the Denver Rio Grande Western Western West West- ern railroad est estimates this years Year shipment of head lettuce from Rout Routt county as amounting to a total 0 or carloads compared with 53 carloads carloads- carloads carloads- last year an increase of more than five times |