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should be cultivated after each irrigation. They mature during 

 the summer, having occupied the soil a large part of the year. 



Varieties. The Prize Taker is in many respects the most 

 satisfactory variety we have tested at the Station farm. The 

 White Portugal or Silver Skin, the Silver King, and the Austra- 

 lian Brown are also good varieties. The latter has the reputation 

 of keeping well. The Barletta is a small early variety that is 



Fig. 3. Onions sown Sept. 16; side to right of cultivator growing where sown ; side 

 to the left sown in bed and set out Dee. 4: photographed April <>. 



grown some. A larger and more satisfactory early onion is the 

 New Queen. At the Station farm it has produced marketable 

 onions before any of the other varieties did. The Prize Taker 

 yielded about a fourth more than the New Queen, but ripened a 

 month later. The old standard varieties, Yellow Danvers and 

 Red Weathersfield do fairly well, but those having their origin in 

 a climate similar to ours do best. 



