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to-day the production in its vicinity amounts to many 
thousands of bushels annually. Great quantities are 
also now produced around other Western cities, notably 
Louisville, Cincinnati, St. Louis, and Chillicothe, Ohio, 
the production in the neighborhood of the latter city 
alone being about 50,000 bushels annually. 
The demand is confined principally to the yellow 
variety, owing to its good keeping qualities; the propor- 
tion of production being two bushels of yellow to one 
of white. 
In a favorable season a crop of onion sets will average 
from 150 to 200 bushels per acre, but there have been 
exceptionally greater yields. Prices paid to growers 
have latterly ruled from eighty to ninety cents per 
bushel for yellow and ninety cents to one dollar for 
white. 
PARSLEY. 
This is a two seasons’ crop, flowering and seeding 
taking place in the second year. To avoid mixture, 
the varieties must be kept separate and not allowed to 
seed near each other. Rogue in the fall; in the case of 
the curled sorts, select the best and finest-curled speci- 
mens, destroying the rejected plants. Plants are win- 
tered over in trenches after the manner practiced for 
celery, or they may be left in the field where sowing 
was made, earth being thrown up to the plant on ap- 
proach of winter, and protection given with a light 
covering of straw or hay; on the Pacific coast this pro- 
tection is not necessary. 
If wintered over in trenches, set out the plants early 
in spring, in rows three feet apart, one foot in the row. 
Cultivate and keep weeds down. 
Cut the stalks when bulk of the seed is ripe. Let 
