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ONIONS FOR PROFIT. 



buyer, but especially the housewife in need of pickling 

 material. The Barletta sells on sight. 



While these pickling onions will grow on any kind of soil 

 suitable for other onions, I would not plant them on those 

 of a clayey character under any circumstances. Why? 

 Labor, in the production of this crop, is a most important 

 factor. One of our first aims must be to make use of every 

 means within our reach that may serve to avoid all pre- 



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The Ijarletia Onion. 



ventable waste in this large item of expense. Up to the 

 time of harvesting, all seems easy and plain sailing. Then 

 comes the real work, that of gathering and cleaning the 

 crop. If the soil is sandy, or otherwise loose and crumbly, 

 our youngsters will find the task now before them light and 

 pleasant, but long and wearisome if the small bulbs have 

 to be dug out of stiff clay, and separated from large and 

 small lumps of earth by hand. 



In the first place, and as a prime condition of financial 

 success, we must understand that the only choice of soil 



