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ONIONS FOR PROFIT. 



hunt np buyers for his onion crop. In the first place he 

 should try to satisfy the local demand. Inferior, imper- 

 fectly ripened, or thick-necked bulbs may often be disposed 

 of to the neighbors for immediate use at half price or 

 less. Get something for them ; they are of no use otherwise. 

 I have never found any difficulty in selling my earliest 

 onions at a fair price, no matter in what packages they were 

 put up. Sometimes I have sold them from the wagon to 

 grocerymen in Niagara Falls; ordinarily I ship to Buffalo. 

 A few extra-early white onions I often ship in ten-quart 



Fig. 35. 



Ventilated Barrel. 



or half-bushel (peach) baskets. These baskets are cheap, 

 and make a handy and popular package. Ordinary stand- 

 ard onions are shipped in barrels. The ventilated barrels, 

 of various styles, such as illustrated in Fig. 35 and com- 

 monly used for shipping vegetables, would be excellent for 

 shipping onions. Of course, we cannot afford to buy 

 new barrels for this purpose. I get my supply of barrels 

 from my grocers, who sell their old cracker and sugar 

 barrels at ten cents apiece. In place of the regular head 

 I use a piece of old canvas. 



Uniformity of size greatly improves a lot of onions, 



