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THE WORK THICKENS. 



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A Hard Fight With Weeds. — War to the Knife. — Promptness 

 Required. — Hand Wheel Hoes. — Hand-Weeding the Chief Ex- 

 pense. — Weeding Implements. — Thinning. — Hoes and Hoe- 

 ing. — Breaking Down the Tops, 53 



IRRIGATION AND CULTIVATION. 

 Means of Fighting Drought. — A Soil Mulch. — Mucky Com- 

 post and Wood Ashes. — Sub-earth Soaking. — Surface Irriga- 

 tion. — Box Ditch — Irrigation by Tile. — Irrigation by Water 

 Pumped into Tanks, 6l 



ENEMIES OF THE CROP. 

 Insects and Diseases and How to Fight Them. — The Onion 

 Maggot. — White Grubs. — Wire Worms. — Onion Rust. — Onion 

 Smut, 66 



THE HARVEST. 

 Gathering and Taking Care of the Crop. — Pulling in Time. 

 — Curing Outdoors. — Keep Dry. — Curing on Barn Floor or 

 Under Sheds. — An Onion-Curing Shed, 70 



THE REWARD. 



Marketing and Storing.— The Early Market.— Ventilated 

 Barrels. — Home-Made Onion Sorter. — Onion Crates. — Domes- 

 tic Spanish Onions. — Wintering Onions for Spring Sales. — Stor- 

 age Houses. — Pits. — Estimates of Cost and Profit, 73 



SIDE ISSUES. 

 Growing Pickling Onions, Onion Sets, Bunching Onions, 

 etc. — The Barletta. Growing the Crop.- — Onion Set Harvest- 

 ers. — Onion Set Cleaner. — Profits in Pickling Onions. — Growing 

 Sets. — Wintering Sets — Growing Bunching Onions. — Green 

 Onions from Barletta Seedlings. — Egyptian or Winter Onions, . 85 



ODDS AND ENDS. 

 Onion Seed Raising. — Weight per Bushel. — History and Va- 

 rieties, 95 



