112 f.lCTS .IXD nCURliS OR THE 



temperature Axent as low as se\-enteen degrees, wliich is 

 very extreme \\eather for this State, the only damage to 

 them being that the tops were frozen a little, which did not 

 hurt them at all, as they recovered quickly and made a 

 first-class crop. Another ver\' ^-alua13le point in their favor 

 is that the)' do not go to seed until after the bulb is matured 

 unless grossly neglected and allowed to stop growing. 



An acre of well worked and well fertilized Bermuda 

 onions grown from genuine Teneriffe seed will give a yield 

 that will surprise you. Some Florida growers claim to have 

 made a thousand bushels to the acre, but an average crop is 

 from five to seven hundred bushels to the acre, and there is 

 scared}- a time during any season that they will not net 

 Si. 00 per bushel f. o. b. your station. 



At present Texas leads the .South in the production of 

 "this variet}- of onion, but there is no reason why Florida 

 cannot excel her. We raise as fine quality of ISermuda on- 

 ion as it is possible to produce; besides this, we can market 

 \3ur crop at least ten da>s before the Te.xas growers. The 

 reason for this is that we have warmer and more favora- 

 ble weather during the growing season. T do not claim to 

 be a prophet or the son of a prophet, but I believe the time 

 i'- not far distant when Florida will be known as the "Ber- 

 muda Onion State." To the new-comer, let me say that 

 there are thousands of acres of uncleared land in Florida 

 which can be bought very reasonably that will produce 

 Bermuda onions equal tri the finest Te.xas or Bermuda Ts- 

 land grown stock. 



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You ma)' plant the seed any time from the middle of 

 August until January, but it is better to have them in the 

 ground not later than December first. .\s I have said 

 above, you can either plant the seed in the field where you 

 wish the plants to mature, or plant them in seed beds. AAHien 



