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to-day the production in its vicinity amounts to many 

 thousands of bushels annually. Great quantities are 

 also now produced around other Western cities, notably 

 Louisville, Cincinnati, St. Louis, and Chillicothe, Ohio, 

 the production in the neighborhood of the latter city 

 alone being about 50,000 bushels annually. 



The demand is confined principally to the yellow 

 variety, owing to its good keeping qualities; the propor- 

 tion of production being two bushels of yellow to one 

 of white. 



In a favorable season a crop of onion sets will average 

 from 150 to 200 bushels per acre, but there have been 

 exceptionally greater yields. Prices paid to growers 

 have latterly ruled from eighty to ninety cents per 

 bushel for yellow and ninety cents to one dollar for 

 white. 



PARSLEY. 



This is a two seasons' crop, flowering and seeding 

 taking place in the second year. To avoid mixture, 

 the varieties must be kept separate, and not allowed to 

 seed near each other. Rogue in the fall; in the case of 

 the curled sorts, select the best and finest-curled speci- 

 mens, destroying the rejected plants. Plants are win- 

 tered over in trenches after the manner practiced for 

 celery, or they may be left in the field where sowing 

 was made, earth being thrown up to the plant on ap- 

 proach of winter, and protection given with a light 

 covering of straw or hay; on the Pacific coast this pro- 

 tection is not necessary. 



If wintered over in trenches, set out the plants early 

 in spring, in rows three feet apart, one foot in the row. 

 Cultivate and keep weeds clown. 



Cut the stalks when bulk of the seed is ripe. Let 



