LETTUCE PICKER.—As many as 12,000 heads of fresh lettuce can be harvested an hour by this portable factory with a 36ft wingspread. Tended by a platoon of workers, it can cover five acres an hour leaving a trail of cardboard boxes each with 24 heads of lettuce in it.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31653, 13 April 1968, Page 8
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49LETTUCE PICKER.—As many as 12,000 heads of fresh lettuce can be harvested an hour by this portable factory with a 36ft wingspread. Tended by a platoon of workers, it can cover five acres an hour leaving a trail of cardboard boxes each with 24 heads of lettuce in it. Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31653, 13 April 1968, Page 8
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