60 — Vegetable Seeds 



THE MAULE SEED BOOK FOR 1912 



ONIONS A Leading Specialty for Years 



There is from all accounts going to be money 

 in onions next fall. I have already booked a 

 large number of orders from some of my 

 shrewdest customers who think they see a sign 



of the return of the old profits of a few years 

 ago. Of course, no one can tell positively, but 

 the situation has all the ear marks of a coming 

 profitable market for progressive onion growers. 



Cdltuke.— Onions do best on a rich 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. 

 Prill in 4 to 5 lbs. of seed per acre, one-half inch deep. If sets are wanted, 

 use 60 to 80 lbs. of seed per acre. Six to ten bushels of sets will plant an 



acre. Fine marketable size onions (according to variety planted) are 

 easily produced the fii-st 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 is an 

 excellent fertilizer. Winter storage demands dryness and protection 

 from sudden changes. Onions should never be handled while frozen. 



MAULERS 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 1st perfectly sound and 

 merchantable June 1st. 



443 Maulc's New Commercial Onion 



My attention v a» first called to the Commercial Onion eight or nme 

 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 

 Prlzetaker 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 Prlzetaker 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-four years ago I introduced the Prlzetaker onion, and in 

 all that time 1 have not 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. 



Packet, 10 cents: ounce. 20 cents; quarter pound, 60 cents; pound, $2.00. 



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