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proper care and shelter for the poultry, never put anything off until 

 to-morrow, and do ererytliing now that can be done now, and beat 

 their neighbors — not because they know more, but because they make 

 a more systematic use of what they know. 



Dr. Trimble, in comment, said Mr. Bruen is one of those men who 

 show their faith by their works. He has as nice and clean a garden, 

 as well kept grounds, and a hennery as tidy and as profitable as can 

 be found in the suburbs of Newark. 



Gkow^ing Onions. 



Mr. Arthur E. Smith, Wallingtou, Lorain county, Ohio. — My 

 father has a farm, a part of wdiich is very rich muck land. He let me 

 take about three-quarters of an acre of it, but I did not have the con- 

 trol of it this year ; but next year I tliink I shall have the whole 

 management of it. According to your Club reports, it is just the 

 land for onions ; and I think next year I should like to put most, if 

 not all of it to onions. ISTow, will you please answer these questions 

 for me : What kind of seed had I better get, and what tools for the 

 raising of onions, and where shall I send for them ? 



J. B. Lyman. — Such youth as this should be encouraged by every- 

 thing that can be uttered here, and at the risk of saying what has 

 often been said I will advise him. For seed, he had better get the 

 red Wethersfield ; it grows a little larger, and with more certainty 

 than other varieties. The yellow Dan vers is a prettier onion, and 

 has less of the rank smell. There is also the white silver-skin, but it 

 does not grow as large as the red. 



The Chairman. — Many persons like the strong taste of the red 

 onion ; they prefer it to milder varieties. 



Mr. Lyman. — For tools, let him get a seed-sower and hand-culti- 

 vator in one. They can be had at the implement stores ; he will see 

 pictures of it in the business columns of agricultural papers, and in 

 tlie department report for 1866. The land should be manured this 

 fall ; no matter how rich it is in black soil, it needs yard manure. 

 Plow deep and plow twice. Then, in the spring, plow again and 

 harrow. If the land is not naturally underdrained his father should 

 put in tile. Once in onions always in onions. It will not bear won- 

 derfully the first year; better the next, and still better the third. 

 There is no plant like the onion in that respect. The best that the 

 country produces grows on gardens that were sowed with onions 

 when Washington was President^ long before Col. Johnson killed 



