ONIONS 



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with prices as high as $1.62^2. The average 

 price for onions is about 45 cents a bushel 

 year in and year out. The gross returns 

 for a crop of 500 bushels at 45 cents a bushel 

 would be $225.00. This amount, of course, 

 would vary with the different factors. 



Returns from one field in 1913 showed 667 

 . bushels at an aver- 

 age price of 75 cents 

 a bushel of 57 

 pounds, making a 

 total gross return of 

 $500.25. The total 

 cost of raising these 

 onions was $150.06, 

 the net b eing 



$350- J 9- 



Insects. The on- 

 ion maggot is prob- 

 ably the most im- 

 portant insect which 

 bothers. It is an in- 

 sect which spend its 

 injurious life below the surface of the 

 ground; it is very difficult to combat. The 

 older remedies suggested are rotation of 

 crops, planting the onion as far from the 

 previous year's crop as possible* Another 



Screening Onions, at the 



same time picking out the 



Scullions. 



