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spread to a depth of six inches or less, in a warm place 

 where heat and air abound, and be turned two or three times 

 daily, until thoroughly dried, when the seed is ready to be 

 threshed out ; or it may be stored in barrels in a dry loft, and 

 threshed as wanted. If the seed is plump and has been well 

 ripened, the frequent turning of the stalks will have shaken 

 out by far the larger proportion of it, — in some seasons more 

 than five-sixths. 



As the seed stalks make but little shade, the ground be- 

 tween the rows can be cultivated to spinach, lettuce, 

 radishes, turnips, or some early vegetables, then this will make 

 the hilling of the seed more costly, and when these are har- 

 vested, be planted to cucumbers for pickles. The planting 

 between the rows should be confined to the middle, and in 

 trenches an inch or so below the surface, unless it be made 

 after the onions have received their final hoeing ; otherwise 

 the drawing of the earth around the seed stalks will seriously 

 interfere with these crops. 



Strange as it may seem to those who have not tried it, such 

 rampant growers such as squashes can be raised among seed 

 onions and generally with no material injury to the seed. I 

 have known five tons of Hubbard Squashes grown on about 

 half an acre of ground planted to seed onions. The squash 

 should be planted towards the close of May, after the onions 

 have received their final hilling, two or three seeds being 

 planted close to every other row, and about nine feet apart in 

 the row ; allow but one plant ta grow in a hill. The vines, 

 thus having plenty of room between the rows to spread about, 

 do not incline much to climbing on the seed stock. Care 

 should be exercised to break off at once the tendrils of such 

 as attempt to climb. The one plant to a hill system will be 



