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Method of Curing Onions in Sacks Standing in Field. 



If you can't get cotton-seed meal, try 

 this : 



Pounds. 

 Nitrate of soda, 147© to 16% nitrogen 300 



Dried blood 500 



Acid phosphate 800 



Muriate of potash, 50% 400 



Quantity of seed required is 4j/^ pounds 

 per acre where rows are 14 inches apart. 

 If 3 feet apart 1^ pounds will do. For 

 small pickling onions about 25 pounds per 

 acre is necessary. Good seed is of course 

 very essential. It is advisable to plant so 

 that little thinning will be necessary. Eight 

 or ten plants to the foot is enough. The 

 average yield of Bermuda onions is about 

 12,000 pounds to the acre. On heavily 

 manured land the yield averages 16,000 

 pounds. Estimates of costs of production 

 in the United States are as follows : 



Preparation of land and fertilizer, $70; 

 seed, $9; transplanting, $20; irrigation, $15; 

 cultivation and hand weeding, $16; harvest- 

 ing, $20; interest, $20, a total of $170 per 

 acre. 



The best Bermuda onion farms are val- 

 u d at $300 to $500 an acre. The normal 

 profit is $250 per acre. — Condensed from 

 Farmers' Bulletin 354, U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture. 



Cuba's importations of onions for 1906 

 and 1907 are as follows: 1906, 9,236,164 

 kilos.; value, $308,862; 1907, 10,542,821 

 kilos.; value, $378,980. 



The following countries supplied Cuba's 

 market during the years quoted : 



United States ..Kilos. 



Spain 



United Kingdom. . . 



Egypt 



Canary Islands .... 



Argentina 



Brazil 



Canada 



Mexico 



Puerto Rico 



Uruguay 



Germany 



Austria 



Belgium 



1906 



1,273.257 



5,433,192 



329,852 



109,196 



1,435,942 



10,234 



7,708 



86,755 



7,491 



24,426 



518,621 



190 



1907 

 908,582 

 7,114,713 



48,209 



19,607 

 1,598,289 



19,509 



8,466 

 4,140 



' 726,668 



91,500 

 3,264 



Total 9,236,164 10,542,821 



Value $398,862 $378,980 



Healthy Foliage Essential. 



The leaves of a tree are just as essential 

 to the health and development of a tree as 

 the roots are. Keep the leaves ofif a tree 

 and it will surely die. The leaves are where 

 the food for the growth and development 

 of the tree is worked over into the proper 

 condition, and without this working over, 

 commonly called elaboration, the tree will 

 starve to death. A tree in order to grow 

 must have sugar, starch and other allied 

 substances. But none of these things ever 



