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Onion Culture 
I would like to plant a small plot to 
onions. Is there an onion seed that will 
produce a full-grown onion the first year, 
as a turnip seed will? If so, what seed, 
and what is best Winter keeperV 
Huffalo, N. Y. w. .T. G. 
Almost all of the onions on our mar¬ 
kets after September 1st and during the 
Winter are grown direct from seed. The 
sets are used very extensively in Southern 
.Tersey. where they produce large-sized 
onions for shipment during July and 
August. 
I’l-obably the most popular varieties of 
onions to gi'ow from seed for large-sized 
late keeping sorts are the^ Danvers and 
Southport strains. If W. J. G.’s onions 
have been growing only to the size of sets 
the first year, it may be that his soil was 
excessively sour, or was worked up be¬ 
fore it was sufficiently dried out in the 
Spring. The seed should not be sown too 
thick; one ounce should be enough seed 
for a row 500 feet long. For best suc¬ 
cess the planting should be done just as 
early in the Spring as the soil can be got¬ 
ten into condition. This crop is very ap- 
ju-eciative to generous applications of ma¬ 
nure and fertilizer. A (luick, vigorous 
growth early in the .season is the fore¬ 
runner of a big crop. At the same time 
the earl.v growth of the oiruin toi)s shades 
the ground and saves considerable 
weeding. 
Dnions grown from sets should be sfdd 
earl.v becau.se it is quite impossible to 
keep them. Onions from seed keep best 
when they are pulled as soon as half of 
the tops have fallen over. At that time 
the old root system is exhausted, but if 
the onions are left standing in the soil a 
week or .so too long the root system again 
develops, making it harder to pull the 
onions. Besides that, when the new root 
begins to develop the hearts of the onions 
become affected so that the keeping 
quality is impaired. The gathered crop 
must be kept dry and stored in such a 
wa.v so that air is accessible to every onion 
or else heating and decay will result. 
R. w. DE n.VE’N. 
Pigs in Peach and Apple Orchard 
('an you advi.se me if there is any dan¬ 
ger of pigs hurting apple and peach trees? 
I intend to allow 15 pigs to run in an 
apple orchard set with peach fillers. Ap¬ 
ple trees are six years old, and i)each 
trees the same. I would like to pasture 
them from Spring till peaches are ripe. 
Morton, N. Y. T. A. B. 
Pigs injure young ti'ees in two ways. 
They often gnaw the bark at the lower 
j)art of the trunk. There seems to be 
some principle in this bark which the 
pigs crave, although they are not usually 
very l)ad at it when fully suppli<‘d with 
ground bone, wood ashes, sulphur and 
salt, a mixture of which can be kept in a 
box so they may help themselves. The 
pigs will also scratch themselves against 
the trunks of the trees. They often .select 
favorite trees for this work, and do so 
much of it that the bark may be rubbed 
entirely off one side of the tree, thus caus¬ 
ing great injury. "When pigs go into a 
young orchard of this sort the trees 
should be protected. This may be done 
by .stretching a heavy wire netting around 
the tree. We have followed the plan of 
driving three stout stakes into the ground 
around the tree trunk, about ?> or 4 inches 
out. A barbed wire wound two or three 
times around these stakes from top to bot¬ 
tom will keep the pigs away. It is 
usually a good plan when pigs run in this 
way to drive a strong post into the 
ground, wrap two or three burlaj) bags 
around it and nail them on. Keep these 
bags well smeared Avith crude petroleum. 
The pigs will rub against it, get the oil 
on their bodies, and thus keep themselves 
free from lice. When the trees are pro¬ 
tected in this way, they will do good work 
in an orchard. They should be watched, 
however, to see that they do not dig deep 
holes close to the young trees, as they 
will sometimes do. 
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