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seventy-five cents to one dollar and thirty-five cents 

 per crate, or an average of close to $100, and thus 

 making the business pay him quite well. 



There are chances everywhere of selling at least 

 a portion of the crop directly from the field. My 

 emphatic advice is to sell all that can be sold at a 

 fair price. Get rid of the onions, and pocket the 

 money. With the crops of Gibraltars and Prizetakers 

 that I usually raise, I can make more money from 

 them selling at sixty cents a bushel, than I possibly 

 could by growing Danvers, Yellow Globe or any other 

 on the old plan, selling them at one dollar a bushel. 

 It is surely no small job to take care of a crop such 

 as can be grown on a single acre. It's a big thing. 

 Never lose sight of that fact. 



I imagine some people will wish to know how 

 onions can be most successfully wintered over. Under 

 some circumstances it may pay well to store and hold 

 them for spring sales. An onion storage house found 

 on the grounds of a grower in Michigan has already 

 been described in a preceding chapter. There is a 

 party over in Canada who grows quite a number of 

 acres of onions every year, and he invariably holds 

 them until spring, and makes money by so doing. 

 Of course, I was anxious to learn how he winters such 

 big crops, and made inquiry. He wrote me as follows : 



"For the purpose of keeping onions during the 

 winter we have erected two large rooms in the end of 

 our barn, above ground. These rooms are almost 

 frost-proof in the coldest weather; are provided with 

 double windows at each end, and double doors at 

 entrance from driveway on barn floor. All the walls 

 have a dead air space. Building paper is tacked on 

 in the inside of each boarding that forms the hollow 

 space. 



