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method of raising onions : Prepare the land by fer- 

 tilizing with forty or fifty loads of well-rotted manure 

 to the acre, then disk and cross-disk until the manure 

 is well pulverized and worked into the surface of the 

 soil. Then plow moderately deep and harrow until 

 the soil is in fine tilth. Use a marker consisting of 

 pieces 2x6 and eight feet long cut into six pieces six- 

 teen inches long, each beveled on one end. When the 

 two are put together m the shape of letter V, so the 

 opposite ends will be ten inches apart, the six pieces 

 will make three Vs. Take a plank 2 x 10, fifty-six 

 inches long, and nail the first V in the center. Then 

 nail the second one twenty- two inches from. point to 

 point; then on the opposite side nail the third, mak- 

 ing the three V's abreast. Take a pole suitable for a 

 tongue fifteen feet long, beveled slightly at the large 

 end, and bolt in the center of the middle V. Do not 

 bolt too tight, but leave a little play. Put braces on 

 each side of the tongue, extending three feet up the 

 pole. Six inches from the front end of the tongue put 

 in a pin for the neck-yoke to rest upon. Eleven 

 feet from the neck-yoke pin bore a hole for the 

 doubletrees. For the first time through set stakes, 

 so as to make a straight furrow. When ready to 

 start, the driver stands on the marker, so as to 

 weight it down. If the man's weight is not enough, 

 put on extra weight until the plank is level with the 

 surface of the ground. It will then make perfedl 

 ridges. 



The next time through let one horse walk in the 

 outside furrow. One marker will follow in the same 

 furrow, and will be a gauge so that all will be alike. 



