TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



WHY THIS BOOK? 

 The Author Explains, 



THE LEADING QUESTION. 

 Does Onion Growing Pay? 12 



THE PREPARATIONS. 

 Selection and Antecedents of Soil. — Sandy Loam. — Clay. 

 — Muck. — River Bottom. — Ideal Onion Soil. — Preliminary 

 Treatment of Soil. — Rotation, 16 



THE WORK BEGINS. 

 Manuring, Plowi.ng, Harrowing. — Stable Manure. — Amount 

 Required. — Its Value. — Composting It. — Application and Plow- 

 ing In. — Wood-ashes. — Complete Fertilizers. — Nitrate of Soda. 

 — Poultry Droppings. — Salt and Lime. — Other Manurial Sub- 

 stances. — How Applied. — Pulverizers and Smoothing Harrows, 

 etc., 21 



THE OLD AND THE NEW. 

 Two Ways of Planting. — The Regular Old Way. — Testing the 

 Seed Varieties. — Soaking Seed. — Garden Drills. — Quantity of 

 Seed Per Acre. — Sowing. — Sowing by Hand. — The New Way. 

 — Its Advantages. — Varieties Suited for It. — Growing the Plants. 

 — Hot-beds. — Greenhouse's. — Hardening the Plants. — Trans- 

 planting. — Cost of Setting Plants. — The Old and the New.— 

 Markers. — Dibber. — Trimming the Plants, 28 



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