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harvesting. They should be stored in bins or 

 boxes where a steady, cool temperature can be 

 kept up. For fall onions the price obtained is 

 usually about $2.50 per barrel. 



Of late years many market gardeners have also 

 grown onions from prickers, the Prizetaker and 

 Danvers varieties being sowed, preferably the 

 former, on account of large size. Seed is sown 

 in beds about the 20th of February, fairly thick, and 

 are set out into the field about the middle of April 

 or the first of May. The yield per acre is much 

 greater than with the sets, but they do not mature 

 so early. 



Until modern inventions of the labour-saving 

 sort came forward, very largely superseding the 

 old methods of hand-cultivation, the sowing and 

 growing of this valuable and remunerative crop 

 were an extremely tedious and laborious business. 

 Now, after the preparation of the beds has been 

 properly accomplished, a smart boy of sixteen 

 will seed more ground in a day, and do it better, 

 than twenty men could at the time when seed drills 

 were unknown; and the labour of the after-culture 

 during the growth of the plants has been almost 

 equally lightened by modern devices. 



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