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The possibilities of onions as profit makers are 

 only now becoming known. 



Referring to his success in raising Bermuda 

 onions on his farm in Texas, Mr. E. L. Hoffman 

 writes : 



" The statement in the land advertisement that 

 we cleared $10,000 net profit from 20 acres of 

 Bermuda onions is not exactly correct. We, how- 

 ever, did clear a net profit of $500, after paying 

 freight and commission, from one single acre of 

 onions, but the whole 20 acres did not average us 

 quite $300 an acre. In rough figures I could say 

 that last year's crop ran about 18,000 Ibs. to the 

 acre." 



Mr. John Closner, of Hidalgo, Texas, says he 

 made a net profit of $11,000 on 83 acres of 

 onions. The yield was 36 car-loads. 



(The average onion yield in the United States 

 is 200 bushels per acre, although in Connecticut 

 it runs from 350 to 500 bushels. E. N. Foote, of 

 Northampton, Mass., has made a specialty of 

 onion-raising and this year has averaged 800 

 bushels per acre, with some acres yielding 1000 

 bushels. Formerly his highest yield has been 910 



