ONION GROWING FOR MARKET. 13! 



Manure, per acre $7 2 



Plowing, weeding, and harvesting crop, per 



acre 100 oo 



6 Ibs. seed, average $2 per Ib 1 2 oo 



Rent or interest on land, per acre 9 oo 



Marketing crop, per acre 7 oo 



. $200 oo 



600 bushels per acre, at 500 $300 oo 



Cost. . . 200 oo 



Profit $100 oo 



This estimate is a moderate one; for if the crop is sold 

 in spring, the chances are that the profit may be two or 

 three times as much. 



ONIONS SOLD GREEN. 



All the foregoing relates to the Onion crop ripened; 

 but in all large cities immense quantities of Onions are 

 sold in the green state, many of them before they have 

 attained half their growth. To get the earliest crop of 

 Onions in this condition, the Onion sets are used, which 

 are small Onions from the size of a pea to the size of 

 three-quarters of an inch in diameter; but the smaller the 

 better, as they make a crop nearly as quick and never run 

 to seed, while the larger ones occasionally do. Onion sets 

 must all be planted by hand, in rows made by the garden 

 marker at about nine inches apart, and the sets being 

 planted from two to three inches apart. They are most 

 conveniently planted in beds of eight rows each, leaving a 

 space of eighteen inches for an alley-way. 



The green Onions are tied in bunches of eight or ten 



