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Show I LETTUCE TO BE STARTED HERE Weber Farmers to Try Out Production on Small Scale This Year BWHPtj N P .Tens.-n. director of th I tah Head Lettuce association, will be the principal speaker at the meeting of head lettuco growers and those that intend to enter thai industry on a small scale In Weber county this sea - I --on. called for 8 o'clock tonight at I the federal building. Mr .Jensen will discuss such questions ques-tions as the amount of seed necessary L, to order per acre, the number of crates to be ordered and the marketing market-ing of the product, The growing of head lettuce has ! made remarkebie headway In Colo- : rado, according to v. s Peet, traveling agricultural Off en I of iho Union Paclfla V; railroad company. Discussing that phase of the que.s-tlon que.s-tlon Mr. peet said that in 1920 there was grown and shipped out of Colorado Colo-rado Too cars, that by 1r2l this had I Increased to Hun carloads and that ir I is expected thnt there will be shipped I lrom Colorado this year 5000 carloads. The industry ha also become one I of the most popular forms of gardening gar-dening in Idaho during the past two I years. No effort ts Icing made by ih farmers in Weber county to enter the I business this yoar on a large sc ale, according ac-cording to w. Preston Thomas, county : agent. Ho said today that as far as I he had learned, one acre would be j the largest plot put Into head lettuce i in the county this season. |