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acre, and they are not hard to grow. The greatest 

 cost of their cultivation is labor, but of a kind that a 

 child can easily do. Onion raising offers to the chil- 

 dren on the farm a splendid opportunity to make their 

 spending money, and for that reason it is discussed 

 here. One-fourth of an acre set to onions should 



ONION GROWING FOR PROFIT. 



Courtesy of Country Calendar. 



yield 100 bushels, which, if the market is good, will 

 bring them from $50 to $75. Hard, indeed, would be 

 the farmer who would not give to his children so small 

 a patch of ground on which to grow onions, and time 

 enough to cultivate them. 



Kind of Soil Needed. Onions, like tobacco, require 

 a fertile soil, rich in humus, but they need considerably 

 more moisture. In the northern states the seed should 

 be sown in boxes in early spring, and the young plants 



