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very large crop of onions, 2,400 bushels. Suppose I had thrown 
them upon the Green Bay market, what would have been the 
result? Before the last of them got there, they would hardly have 
paid for hauling to market. In short, some of the dealers antici¬ 
pated this result, and at least one of the large dealers told me that 
I would be glad to sell them to him for less than fifty cents per 
bushel; and another told me that I would receive more for 1,000 
bushels than I could for the whole of them. 
Now, what should I do? In New York, I could simply have 
hauled them into the market and received the market price, 
and the amount would not, probably, have changed the price to 
the amount of one cent per bushel, but that will not do here. 
Hence, I must know, and keep posted, as to the price of onions 
in Chicago and Milwaukee, also in Detroit, Cleveland and Buffalo, 
and the price of freights. These last named cities compete with 
me in the lake Superior country. With this reliable knowledge, 
I am not in a position to be frightened or deceived by any false 
information. Then I put the price just low enough to keep out 
the southern crop, and kept it so. The result was, that I sold my en¬ 
tire crop at an average of seventy-seven cents per bushel; and the 
firm that had told me I would be glad to sell those onions for less 
than fifty cents, paid me eighty cents for some hundreds of bush¬ 
els before the close of navigation. If I had thrown this large 
crop upon the market, and sold exclusively for cash on delivery, I 
have no idea that it would have brought me one-half of what it ac¬ 
tually did bring ; and I mention it, not to boast of, but simply to 
show how much care is necessary in working off a large crop, and 
that it may be worked off at a profit, when, at the same time, a 
little neglect or want of proper information would have turned 
a nice profit into a heavy loss. 
This is only one of many instances that yearly occur with me, 
and the same things will meet you in nearly or quite every por¬ 
tion of our state. Last season, I put out about 35,000 cabbages. 
If I had thrown one-fourth of such a crop upon the Green Bay 
market, a heavy loss would have been inevitable. But the crop 
was sold at a fair price, by simply keeping myself posted with re¬ 
gard to prices outside, and using care and common sense. Anoth¬ 
er point of difference with our eastern gardens is this: You will 
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