196 MUCK CROPS 



Marketing. Where labor and capital 

 come together on a common basis and work 

 the crop on shares, the onions may be mar- 

 keted right from the field, the owner taking 

 the first stack of onions and the laborer the 

 next stack, and so on, dividing equally. 

 Generally speaking, the first price for the 



A field of onions after topping and crating ready for 



stacking. Yield 824 bushels from a short two acres. 



Poor to fair yield. 



onions is relatively low, and oftentimes by 

 holding the onions for a short while, a higher 

 price is obtained. In some sections it would 

 be greatly to the advantage of the operators 

 if they would mass their crop and obtain a 

 good salesman to handle the selling proposi- 





