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This aggregates a grand total of 409,597 bushels, on which 

 duty was paid into the United States Treasury of $163,837.80. 

 These heavy importations found ready sale at very favorable 

 prices, our northern old crop being short. The first arrivals 

 during January were the Bermuda old crop, which sold from 

 $2 to $2.50 per bushel. Next followed the new crop from 

 Cuba during February, and sold at $2.50 to $2.75 per crate. 

 Domestic onions at the same time were selling at $3.50 to 

 $4.50 per bushel. Then followed, during February and 

 March, shipments from Bordeaux, France, also from Spain. 

 Former prices were firmly sustained until the height of Bermu- 

 da shipments during the latter part of May, when the market 

 declined, and the lowest price touched was $1.25 per crate. 

 The market again reacted, and the Virginia, which is the 

 last southern crop, sold during June at $3 to $4 per barrel, 

 and the last shipments, at the middle of July, sold at $5 to 

 $5.50 per barrel. Shipments from Africa did not begin to 

 arrive until April, and it was not until May and June that 

 shipments were received from Spain, Asia, Turkey, Philip- 

 pine Islands and Portugal." 



A departure in onion cultivation is the transplantation of 

 the young plants, for the purpose of increasing the yield and 

 securing an earlier crop. This practice has been employed 

 The to some extent for a number of years by growers here and 

 new there, but it was first brought prominently into public notice 

 culture" by Green of the Ohio Experiment Station, and Greiner of 

 New York, a little over a year ago.* It promises good results 

 wherever intensive onion cultivation, is practiced. 



The trucking interests of the United States are shown to 

 be enormous by the investigations of the census bureau. Bul- 

 letin 41 (Mar. 19, 1891), by J. H. Hale, is concerned with truck- 

 farming. It shows that upwards of $100,000,000 are invested 

 in truck-farming, and the product for 1890, after paying 

 Trucking freights and commissions, amounted to $76,517,155. Five 

 interests. j lun( j re( j anc j thirty-four thousand four hundred and forty 

 acres of land are devoted to the industry, and this requires 

 the labor of 216,765 men, 9,254 women, 14,874 children, and 

 75,866 horses and mules. The value of the implements em- 

 ployed is $8,971,206. Yet, great as this industry is, the 



*See Bull. 9, Ohio Exp. Sta., Oct , 1890, by W. G. Green. " The New Onion-Culture," 



by T. Greiner, S91. 



