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HVbruary 2, 1918 



BERMUDA ONION SEED. 



SouTUWBST Can I*boi>he Hw.i uvki.y 



B>nTFJt S*XD Than Is 1mi-obtei> 



Ilecommendlng that American seed 

 KTowers sliould supply the home de- 

 mand for Bermuda onion seed, the 

 rnlleil States Department of Agricul- 

 ture says thai the seed may be profit- 

 ably grown In certain regions of the 

 southwestern United States. 



In 1916 the I'nited Stales Importiil 

 from Tenerlffe. Canary Islands, about 

 75,000 pounds of Bermuda onion seed. 

 The usual retail price of this seed Is 

 from J2 to $2.50 a pound, though in 

 years of scarcity the price has gone 

 as high as $6 a pound. Until recently 

 this country produced no Bermuda 

 onion seed at all; and though good 

 yields of the seed have been obtained 

 at Laredo. Texas, the yield has not 

 been wholly dependable from year to 

 year. While in 1916 and the present 

 year considerable California-grown 

 Bermuda seed has been offered to the 

 trade, the importance of producing a 

 supply of seed from carefully selected 

 mother bulbs was given special promi- 

 nence by the results obtained throu.sih 

 work of the Department of Agricul- 

 ture begun at Sacaton, Arizona, in 

 1913 and 1914. 



A few years ago the Bureau of 

 Plant Industry cooperated with the 

 Office of Indian Affairs in an experi- 

 mental growing of Bermuda onion 

 seed on the Pima Indian Reservation 

 at Sacaton, Arizona, and the results 

 show that there, and in similar locali- 

 ties, reliable supplies equal to the 

 best imported from Teneriffe. can be 

 grown. It is further stated by the 

 Department of Agriculture that seed 

 from carefully selected stock has been 

 uniformly superior to the run of im- 

 ported Bermuda seed. Since onion 

 growers in the Coachella Valley of 

 California have achieved results simi- 

 lar to those at Sacaton, the depart- 

 ment feels justified in saying that the 

 American demand can soon be sup- 

 plied with home-grown seed. Further- 

 more, the home seed when grown 

 from mother-bulbs of carefully select- 

 ed strains promises a 25 per cent, bet- 

 ter yield than that from the imported 

 seed. In 1917 the Bermuda onion 

 crop of the United States, largely from 

 Texas, was nearly three million crates. 

 An increase of one-fourth means, 

 therefore, says the department, that 

 the incentive for a home-Krown -seed 

 Industry goes far beyond the mere 

 question of replacing the volume of 

 imported seed with an equal quantity 

 raised at home. 



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