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Show Handling Lettuce on Flats. In all handling of lettuce In flats It Is essential that the flats be set perfectly per-fectly level, for If otherwise the water will run to one end, keeping the soil more moist In that part and the plants develop unequally. The plants should be carefully watched for aphis, and while outside the best method of control is to sprinkle sprin-kle tobacco dust over flats. Sometimes Some-times cabbage worms prove troublesome, trouble-some, and may certainly be looked for If the butterflies are hovering over the plants. If only a few plants are grown hand-picking may be resorted to, but If this is out of the question then use some Insecticide, not dangerous to human hu-man life, as, for example, white hellebore, at the rate of one part to six of flour dusted upon the plants when wet. |