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grate and pulverize, may be sown on the land after plowing, to be 

 harrowed in, at the rate of three or four tons per acre of the mixture. 

 Night soil, when mixed with dry muck, coal ashes, charcoal dust, 

 lime or lime rubbish as absorbents, and spread on after plowing at 

 the rate of six or eight tons per acre, and harrowed deeply in, will 

 never fail to produce a heavy crop of onions in any suitable soil 



There are many other manures that will answer the purpose, often 

 to be had in special localities, such as the refuse hops and " grains " 

 from breweries, which should be used in the same manner and 

 quantities as stable manure. While fish guano, whalebone shavings, 



WEXHERSFIELD RED ONION. 



GIANT KOCCA ONION. 



or shavings from horn, when pulverized so as to be in proper condi- 

 tion to be taken up by the plants, are nearly equal in value to ground 

 bone. Wood ashes alone, spread on at the rate of five or six tons per 

 acre, will usually give excellent results. 



It is well ever to keep the fact in mind, that it will always be more 

 profitable to fertilize one acre of onions well than two imperfectly. 

 If thirty tons of stable manure or one and one-half tons of concen- 

 trated fertilizer are used to an acre, the net profits are almost certain 

 to be larger than if that quantity had been spread over two acres; for 

 in a!2 probability nearly as much weight of crop would be got from 

 the one well manured acre than from the two that had been done im- 

 perfectly, besides the saving of seed and labor in cultivating two 

 acres instead of one. In 



