Onions for Profit 



I. 



WHY THIS BOOK? 



THE AUTHOR EXPLAINS. 



This is not meant for an introduction. I trust that I 

 need none to the reader. But he may feel like asking me 

 why I write this treatise, when only a short while ago I 

 wrote and published "The New Onion Culture." 



The explanation is easy. "The New Onion Culture" 

 was intended mostly to present a new phase of the business, 

 and to encourage further researches in an entirely new 

 direction. As a "handbook of onion growing " it has 

 shortcomings, and is far from being complete. It leaves 

 too much room for further personal inquiries. I have 

 looked the field of horticultural literature in America over 

 pretty closely, and am unable to find a handbook for the 

 onion grower the teachings of which are based on modern 

 methods, and embody (as they should in order to justify 

 any claims of being "up to times") the two systems, the 

 old and the new, in profitable combination. 



Such a handbook or guide to successful onion growing 

 is needed. I know it from the numerous inquiries on the 

 subject which are all the while being addressed to me. I 

 know it from observing the methods in vogue among the 

 great mass of our onion producers. Yes, friends, if you 



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