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ditions for planting your crop. Next get good 

 seed. Good onions often give poor seed, but 

 cheap seed always means poor onions, so buy 

 the best seed always. 



Reclaimed marshes, freed from roots and peat, 

 and thoroughly fertilized, are ideal places for 

 growing onions. The rows or drills, which must 

 be 14 inches apart, must also be perfectly 

 straight, else the necessary cultivation cannot 

 be given. The crop often needs two weedings 

 by hand when the plants are very young, and 

 frequent cultivation by the wheel-hoe. Now 

 the wheel-hoe cannot do good work on rough or 

 uneven ground, and its best work is none too 

 good for onions, so you see where you are at. 



The onion crop is divided into two classes, 

 the early crop and the main season crop. Early 

 crop onions are immature, green, and are tied 

 in bunches for market; main season crops are 

 dry and are a staple product. 



Early onions may be grown from seed, but 

 are usually grown from bulbs. There are three 

 kinds of bulbs for planting: "top" onions, 

 potato or "multiplier" onions and "sets"; the 

 first two are distinct types, but "sets" are 

 only partly grown onions. "Top" onions are 

 really small bulbs which grow on the top of the 

 plant instead of fruit; " multipliers" are onions 



