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we had to depend on the American people in that locality to 

 do the work, there would be very little of it done. The 

 Italians work the land on shares and do all the weeding. I 

 think if a person had a small piece of onions, two or three 

 acres, he could take care of it himself by using one of these 

 weeders. 



Question: Do you know the name of these weeders? 



Mr. Fisher : One is built in Osborn, Ohio, by the Golden 

 Celery Farm, the other one is built by the Vroom.an -Manu- • 

 facturing Company of Painesville, Ohio. 



Question: Do you have good luck with the Golden Celery 

 weeders ? 



Mr. Fisher: This one has not been used there. The 

 Vrooman has been used. 



Question : Can one man handle that Vrooman machine 

 successfully? 



Mr. Fisher: Oh, very easily. 



Question: Is it a geared machine? 



Mr. Fisher: It is a geared machine. 



Question: How expensive is this machine? 



Mr. Fisher The Vrooman sells for thirty-five dollars. 

 The other is listed at fifteen dollars. 



After our weeding is over and the onions commence to 

 form bulbs at the bottom, they spread over the ground pretty 

 w^ell, and it injures the tops more or less to do much cultiva- 

 tion. Sometimes we go through with a cultivator which has 

 a single handle and a small blade, so as not to disturb the 

 tops more than necessary. After going through once or 

 twice, we let them go entirely. 



Harvesting. 



At harvesting time we pull six rows, putting them in one 

 windrows If the weather is pretty warm and the tops are 

 rather large, we turn them up to keep the onions from being 

 burned by the sun. They are allowed to remain there till 



