ONIONS ON MUCK 



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Mr. Fisher: I use one hundred pounds of ordinary flower 

 of sulphur to fifty pounds of lime. The lime should be air 

 slaked. 



Mr. Jagger (Tompkins County) : Or hydrated, either 

 one. 



Mr. Fisher: Mr. Jagger was down there this season and 

 made tests with those machines. The trouble that we found 

 with them was that they did not sow the sulphur and lime very 

 well. It would sow unevenly. This machine I am working on at 

 the present time Mr. Jagger tested on the floor of the store- 

 house of the firm that sells these machines, the Batemau 

 Manufacturing Company, and I think his test of that machir-e 

 was very satisfactory. I have one of those same machines 

 (a regular phosphater) , which I intend to attach to my Iron 

 Age drill. It is positive in its action. 



Question : Haven't they a regular phosphate seed drill ? 



Mr. Fisher : They have, but we are not able to use it on 

 the muck. It does not put the sulphur and lime where you 

 want it. 



Question : How much of that lime and sulphur do you 

 use to the acre? 



Mr. Fisher: We use one hundred fifty pounds, one hun- 

 dred of sulphur and fifty of lime. It should be well mixed 

 and sifted through a fine sieve. 



Mr. Work: These samples of onions represent another 

 kind altogether. They are grown on upland on the farm of 

 one of our Winter Course students in Vegetable Gardening. 

 The thing that interested us particularly about them was the 

 fact that last year, when everybody was dumping onions, 

 this grower was able to sell all his. This winter they are 

 bringing about twenty-five cents a bushel more than other 

 people's onions. That is not all due to the variety. It is due 

 to the fact that they are well grown and well stored. The 

 variety is a good keeper. It is known as Ebenezer. I think it 

 is catalogued by some seedsmen. What did you get for them, 

 Mr. Bippert? 



