CHAPTER Vni 



The Old Onion Culture. 



*'Our father's way 

 Was the good old way. 

 Brought home and land, 

 And cash to hand 

 We'll not despise the good old way.** 



Many of the details of onion growing told in the 

 preceding pages apply both to the old system and 

 the new. Some additional information concerning 

 what some young growers may consider "the good 

 old way," will undoubtedly be acceptable to many 

 readers. 



No matter under what system the crop is to be 

 grown, I would select manure and prepare the land 

 as advised in the second chapter. Low lands of 

 mucky character are used in many localities with 

 excellent results. Yellow Globe Danvers and Early 

 Red are well suited for such soils. The crops are 

 often very large, but the individual bulbs hardly as 

 firm as when grown on uplands. 



Make the seed bed perfectly smooth with Meeker 

 harrow or steel rake. It is not necessary to mark out 

 the ground. For business operations, and by this I 

 mean for purposes more extensive than the production 

 of a mere home or family supply, a good seed drill is 

 indispensable. At the present time, the leading garden 

 drills are the Planet Jr and Iron Age. Fig 39 shows 

 the latter in operation. The one advantage of this 

 and similarly constructed drills is that you can keep 



