SEED-TIME AH© HARVEST. 
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Onions on a Muck Swamp. 
We last year reported a visit to an onion 
patch of five acres, near Fairport, August 
16th. Just one month earlier we visited it 
again this year. The onion patch is owned 
by John Robinson, of English birth, who 
purchased it when a useless, unsightly 
swamp, reclaimed it, and made one of the 
most productive pieces of land in Western 
New York. When we visited the place last 
year, the bulbs had completed their growth 
and Mr. Robinson had commenced pulling 
them. One of our first inquiries on our 
visit this year was as t o the yield last year. 
Mr. R. assured us that the five acres yield¬ 
ed 3,000 bushels—600 bushels per acre. This 
was certainly an extraordinary yield, and 
«hows what an amount of vegetables can 
be grown on an acre of land when made to 
produce its best. Mr. R. claims that he 
made nothing on the crop, prices of onions 
were so low last year. 
The same piece of ground has been plant¬ 
ed again this year. Part of the piece has been 
in onions some four or five years without 
any diminution of yield. The muck is of 
great depth, of a chocolate color, and ap¬ 
pears to be free from peaty matter. He 
spreads upon the piece, every year, the 
stable manure that he makes from his 
horses, cows and pigs, and in addition uses 
ground bone, Pacific guano, Listers, Home¬ 
stead and the Farmers’ Fertilizing Co.’s 
phosphates. 
As soon as the ground is ready to work 
in the spring, he spreads his fertilizers, har¬ 
rows them in well, and sows the seed— 
Danvers Yellow—with a Matthews seed 
drill, in rows fourteen inches apart. The 
seed is sown thick and the onions allowed 
to grow thick, where they come up so. The 
bulbs crowd one another aside, grow three 
or four abreast, and sometimes grow one 
upon another, the upper ones connecting 
with the soil by means of long roots. The 
onions are worked out between the rows 
with a hand cultivator, and in the rows are 
weeded by hand. The entire patch is kept 
so clean you are almost disposed to believe 
that nothing but onions will grow out of 
the soil. 
The onions have just fairly commenced 
forming bulbs. The tops will stretch up 
from one and a half to two feet, and the 
piece has the appearance of yielding as 
largely as it did last year. In passing over 
the ground you are surprised at the few 
vacancies. The seed must have been re¬ 
markably good, the drill must have work¬ 
ed well, and the muck must have been re¬ 
markably free from insect enemies. We 
certainly hope that Mr. Robinson may har¬ 
vest as large a crop as last year, and that 
prices may be such as will afford him a 
good profit on his outlay.— Am. Rural 
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