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ONIONS FOR PROFIT. 



after people become acquainted with their superior quality 

 and the absence of excessively strong flavor. In other 

 markets the sale is slow, as buyers sometimes seem to be 

 afraid of these large bulbs, and to prefer for a sweet onion 

 the imported ones, at a much higher figure. In reality 

 there is little or no difference as regards flavor between 

 the Prizetaker and the imported Spanish, and as Ave can 

 grow the former, by the '' New Onion Culture," to as large 



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Onions Crated for Market. 



size as the imported bulb, and at the rate of 1000 to 2000 

 bushels per acre, we should try to make American onion 

 consumers learn the true value of this ''Domestic Span- 

 ish" onion, and induce them to lay prejudice aside and 

 use the domestic bulb in place of the imported article. 



It has been proposed to use the designation '' Domestic 

 Spanish" uniformly as a kind of trade-mark, and thus label 



