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if continued wet weather should occur and delay the 

 pulling too long, a secondary growth of the roots may be 

 developed, which would injure the crop seriously. After 

 pulling, lay the bulbs in convenient rows, so as to cover 

 the ground, but not to lay on each other. By turn- 

 ing them every day or two, in six or eight days they will 

 usually be dry enough to be carted to their storage 

 quarters, where the shriveled tops are cut off, and the 

 Onions stored on slatted shelves, to the depth of six or 

 eight inches, in some dry and airy place. 



It is of importance to have the bottom of the shelves 

 slatted, so as to leave spaces an inch or so apart, that air 

 may be admitted at the bottom as well as the top of the 

 heap. The shelves, when all the space at hand is to be 

 made available, may be constructed one above another. 

 But if to be kept through the winter, they must be pro- 

 tected in some building capable of resisting severe frost, 

 or covered with hay or straw, as a protection against ex- 

 treme cold; for although the Onion will stand a moderate 

 degree of frost, yet any long continuation of a zero tem- 

 perature would injure it. When frozen they should never 

 be handled, as in that condition they are easily blemished 

 and would rot. When kept in barrels, holes should be 

 bored in the sides, and they should be left unheaded un- 

 til shipped, so as to permit the escape of any moisture 

 that may be generated. 



INSECTS AND OTHER ENEMIES. 



For such insects as attack the Onion crop, I am much 

 afraid there are few, if any, effective remedies. Every 

 year's experience with the enemies that attack plants in 

 the open field convinces me that with very few of them 

 can we successfully cope. The remedy, if remedy it is, 



