LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



Frontispiece The Author 



2. The Story of the New Onion Culture ... v 



3. Yellow Prizetaker Onion 4 . 2 



4. Plants Ready for Transplanting .... 3 



5. Hotbed in Sunken Pit ...... 4 



6. Hotbed on Level Ground .... 5 



7. Forcing Pit Covered with Hotbed Sash . ' 7 



8. Small Greenhouse Elevation ... 8 



9. Small Greenhouse Cross Section ... 9 



10. A Well-Prepared Seed Bed .... II 



11. A Perfect Crop of Gibraltar Onions . . 14 



12. Row of Scallions 15 



13. Onions in the New Strawberry Bed . . 16 



14. Disk Harrow -''.' 17 



15. Acme Harrow 18 



16. Meeker Smoothing Harrow . . . . ; 19 



17. Old Style Garden Marker . . . ' . ', , 22 



18. Single Tooth Attachment . . -'',> 2 3 



19. Three-Tooth Marker . '~V ... 23 



20. Tracing Wheel Marker . . . . .',-'. 24 



21. Setting the Plants with Dibber .."'' . ., 25 



22. Old Kitchen Knife as Dibber . . . . 26 



23. Dibber . . . . . ... 26 



24. Trimming the Plants , , . . - . / . . 27 



25. Wrong Way . . . ... . . 28 



26. Right Way 28 



27. Plant Set Right Depth 29 



28. Plant Set Too Deep 30 



29. Iron Age Hand Wheel Hoe ... . . 33 



30. Wheel Hoe in Operation in the Onion Field . . 34 



31. Single Wheel Hoe 35 



32. Lang's Hand Weeder 35 



33. Homemade Onion Hoe 36 



34. Onion Curing Shed 39 



35. An Onion Curing Crib 40 



36. Michigan Onion Storage House . . . 4 2 



37. Bunch of Prizetaker Onions 45 



