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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



May, 1910 



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ot only your back, but time and 

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The Right Kind of an Onion Soil 



THERE is no reason why onions should not be 

 grown as a money crop in many districts in 

 New England, New York and Pennsylvania where 

 they are not produced to any extent at the present 

 time. It should be realized that if the conditions 

 are right it does not require a very large tract to 

 produce a large quantity of onions. The fact is 

 that there are many small soil areas or fields, out- 

 side the limits of the present well-developed onion 

 districts upon which onions may be grown with 

 profit, and in time, when the conditions necessary 

 are more fully realized, advantage will undoubtedly 

 be taken of this fact. 



One of the essential points is the selection of a 

 suitable soil. In the Connecticut Valley, in the 

 States of Connecticut and Massachusetts, where 

 onions and wrapper leaf tobacco are the leading 

 money crops, the former are grown principally on 

 fine sandy loams, and heavy silt loams. In New 

 York, Ohio and Michigan muck and mucky loams 

 are used most extensively, though in Michigan a 

 black, mucky, fine, sandy loam has given very 

 good results in some instances. 



The character of the soil has so much to do with 

 the quality of onion produced that the buyer can 

 readily distinguish the differences, and uncon- 

 sciously grades the price he is willing to pay accord- 

 ingly. So the grower should have clearly in mind 

 the type of onion he wishes to produce, or, in other 

 words, the class of market to which he wishes to 

 cater. Restricting our comparisons to the Danvers 

 Yellow onion, the best quality of bulb is produced 

 on a rich, fine, sandy loam; in fact, all soils must 

 be rich or highly fertilized if the crop is to be 

 profitable. 



The ideal onion from the marketing point of 

 view is medium in size and very firm and hard — 

 so hard that extreme pressure between the thumb 

 and fingers can produce no dent. If dropped on 

 a floor the sound is the same as that produced by a 

 ball of wood of the same size. This quality of 

 onion is never secured unless the neck cures down 

 thoroughly, the dried neck being extremely small 

 and thin. Such an onion may be produced on 

 ordinary, well-drained, sandy soils, but with the 

 danger that the bulb will be too small to be market- 

 able. A finer soil holding a somewhat better 

 moisture content, when well enriched will greatly 

 reduce this danger, yet not bring a growth so strong 

 as to injure materially the quality of the onion. It 

 is this very balancing of conditions which makes the 

 fine sandy loams so effective in producing not only 

 good yields, but bulbs of the best possible quality 

 for storage purposes. 



Onions grown on heavy muck soil and on rich, 

 sanely loam. N"ote the coarse neck in the former 



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