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frozen aii winter. Treated in this way they will require to be 

 cleaned in the spring, and this is done by rubbing them in the 

 hands to loosen the dirt and tops and then running them through 

 a fanning mill. After this they are run over a screen with a 

 three-fourths inch mesh, and only those that go through it are 

 saved for sets. This work of cleaning may be done in autumn 

 before storing and the sets mixed with chaff to aid in keeping 

 them over winter. 



Transplanting Onions. — Within a few years some market 

 gardeners have adopted a plan of raising onions by sowing the 

 seed in March in a hotbed and then transplanting the seedlings 



to the open ground as soon as it works well. This system has 

 the merit of doing away with the first few weedmgs m the open 

 ground, reduces the expense of seed to a minimum and makes 

 it possible to raise some of the more delicate foreign varieties 

 of onions, which command the highest price in the market. P 

 is, however, very doubtful if the common field onions can be 

 raised at a profit under this method, but it is desirable if the 



Fig-ure 53. — Transplanting- Onions in the Fiela. 



