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onions. More manure is required for the l^vo crops than for 

 the onions alone. 



The Machine used for sowing in drills has two boxes 

 attached to the axle at equidistance from the wheels ; there 

 are three or four holes in the axle that communicate with the 

 seed in the boxes, and as these holes pass under the boxes 

 they are filled with seed, and as they turn the seed are 

 dropped into the earth. Screws are sunk into the holes, 

 which can be sunk more or less at pleasure, and the quantity 

 of seed which the holes will contain is thus graded. 



The machine should first be tested and so regulated that 

 on a barn floor it will drop from eleven to twelve seed from 

 each hole. When so regulated, on using in the field it wili 

 drop but from seven to twelve, owing to the more uneven 

 motion. 



This, like all sowing machines, and the same may be said 

 of the scuffle hoe and wheel hoe, is pushed along before the 

 operator. 



My farmer-friends, I have now given you the result of my 

 own experience in the raising of onions. Potato onions, Top 

 onions. Shallots, and onion Setts, combined with the experi- 

 ence in onion growing of a neighborhood where a hundred 

 thousand bushels are raised annually, with the results of per- 

 sonal observation in other localities, and with facts that I have 

 collected by corres^^-onding with different sections of the 

 United States. 



