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wood ashes and ground bone may be named as especially 

 suited to the growth of onions, producing large, solid, 

 handsome bulbs. Wood ashes applied at the rate of one 

 hundred bushels to the acre, supply a fertilizer that is at 

 once cheap and effective. Onion seed is usually sown in the 

 spring, as early as the soil can be properly worked, in drills 

 a foot apart, using four or five pounds of seed to the acre. 

 Cultivation should commence as soon as the rows are up 

 so as to be distinctly seen, and continue throughout the 

 growing season ; for success with every crop depends very 

 much upon keeping the surface soil in a loose and porous 

 state for admission of sun and air. Of late years the 

 ravages of the so-called onion maggot has wrought great 

 destruction to crops, and what is worse, there does not 

 seem to be any reliable means, at present known, for effect- 

 ually coping with the evil. A light dusting of the young 

 plants with wood ashes or air-slaked lime, just as the eggs 

 of the insect commence to hatch, will perhaps be found as 

 useful as anything in the way of remedy. While onion 

 growing requires much hand labor, and some back-aching 

 work, yet, if a practice of destroying every weed as soon as 

 it appears above ground is strictly adhered to, the battle is 

 half won. 



CABBAGES. 



Cabbages may be classed next to onions as a money 

 crop. As ordinarily grown, plants are allowed to stand 

 two and one-half feet apart in each direction. This fixes 

 the capacity of an acre at nearly 7,000 plants. Estimat- 

 ing the good heads to be 6,000, and value of same to be four 

 cents apiece, which may be called a fair price, we have 

 $240.00 as the average gross receipts per acre devoted to 

 this crop. The cost of tending a cabbage crop is much less 

 than one of onions as a large portion of the work can be 

 accomplished with horse and cultivator, and the remainder 

 by use of hand hoes. Then when it happens, as it some- 

 times will, that the cabbage has practically no value in market, 



