60—Vegetable Seeds 
ONIONS 
It has been many years since [ have had two good crops of 
onion seed in succession. In 1909 I had a most excellent crop, 
and this has been followed by another equally as good, so 
that now I have a surplus of even Southport White Globe and 
White Portugal, something I have not had for years. My 
prices, as my friends well know, were reasonable last year, 
CULTURE.—Onions do best onarich loam, previously cultivated for 
two years. Stiff clay and light sand are equally unfavorable. The land 
should be highly fertilized with well-rotted manure, complete fertiliz- 
ers, etc. Fresh stable manure has a tendency to produce soft onions. 
Drill in 4 to 5 lbs. of seed per acre, one-halfinchdeep. If sets are wanted, 
use 60 to 80 lbs. of seed per acre. Six to ten bushels of sets will plant an 
THE MAULE SEED BOOK FOR 1911 
but I am able to do even better this, and I think it’ will be 
some years to come before first-class onion seed will be pur- 
chased as reasonably as in 1911. The seed I offer is extra 
heavy, of extraordinary strong germination, and is bound to 
give satisfaction; I am looking for big trade. Special prices 
will be quoted by letter on lots of 25 pounds or over. 
acre. Fine marketable size onions (according to variety planted) are 
easily produced the first year from early spring sown seed. Culture 
should be frequent though shallow. The same ground may be used for 
onions, season after season, if well fertilized annually. Bone meal isan 
excellent fertilizer. Winter storage demands dryness and protection 
from sudden changes. Onions should never be handled while frozen. 
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«us Maule’s New Commercial Onion 
My attention was first called to the Commercial Onion seven or eight 
years ago by one of the largest growers of onions in this country, who 
told me that he had been for years selecting them from my original 
Prizetaker and breeding them down to a size that he considered more 
merchantable. His efforts have been rewarded by securing an onion 
fully as handsome as the Prizetaker in every way; of more uniform 
size, and whose keeping qualities were simply remarkable and decid- 
edly superior to the parent variety. Six hundred bushels per acre 
have been no unusual yield, and this quantity has been frequently sur- 
passed. Twenty-two years ago I introduced the Prizetaker onion, and in 
allthat time 1 havenot found a single variety that could equal, let alone 
surpass it, in any way, until now. I take great pleasure in offering my 
customers Maule’s New Commercial Onion, a variety that I am satis- 
fied will prove fully as popular and equally. as desirable. 
MAULE’S NEW 
COMMERCIAL 
Yellow Globe Onion 
The best new variety since the Prizetaker 
was offered to the American public. Unques- 
tionably the best seller and best keeper of 
any sort now on the market. Onions har- 
vested September Ist perfectly sound and 
merchantable June 1st. 
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Packet, 10 cents; ounce, 20 cents; quarter pound, 60 cents; pound, $2.25. 
