LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



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FAGS 



Frontispiece — The Author 



The Story of the New Onion Culture ... v 



Yellow Prizetaker Onion . . . . . 2 



Plants Ready for Transplanting .... 3 



Hotbed in Sunken Pit 4 



Hotbed on Level Ground 5 



Forcing Pit Covered with Hotbed Sash . . 7 



Small Greenhouse — Elevation .... 8 



Small Greenhouse — Cross Section .... 9 



A Well-Prepared Seed Bed . . . . . II 



A Perfect Crop of Gibraltar Onions ... 14 



Row of Scallions 15 



Onions in the New Strawberry Bed ... 16 



Disk Harrow 17 



Acme Harrow 18 



Meeker Smoothing Harrow 19 



Old Style Garden Marker 22 



Single Tooth Attachment 23 



Three-Tooth Marker 23 



Tracing Wheel Marker 24 



Setting the Plants with Dibber .... 25 



Old Kitchen Knife as Dibber 26 



Dibber 26 



Trimming the Plants 27 



Wrong Way 28 



Right Way 28 



Plant Set Right Depth 29 



Plant Set Too Deep 30 



Iron Age Hand Wheel Hoe 33 



Wheel Hoe in Operation in the Onion Field . . 34 



Single Wheel Hoe 35 



Lang's Hand Weeder 35 



Homemade Onion Hoe 30 



Onion Curing Shed 39 



An Onion Curing Crib 4° 



Michigan Onion Storage House .... 42 



Bunch of Prizetaker Onions 45 



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