. Biggle garden book; vegetables, small fruits and flowers for pleasure and profit. next against the division board, aninch space is left between eachlayer of onions. This spaceaffords ventilation and preventsheating. Matured bulbs or largeonions are left in the field untilmost of the necks (dont v^aitfor all) v^ither, turn yellow, andthe tops fall over; then they arepulled by hand or dug out (seepicture) with a U-shaped onion-harvester attachment which ismade for wheel hoes, thrown intosmall windrows (three or fourrows in one), and allowed to dryand cure for several days (if the weather is we
. Biggle garden book; vegetables, small fruits and flowers for pleasure and profit. next against the division board, aninch space is left between eachlayer of onions. This spaceaffords ventilation and preventsheating. Matured bulbs or largeonions are left in the field untilmost of the necks (dont v^aitfor all) v^ither, turn yellow, andthe tops fall over; then they arepulled by hand or dug out (seepicture) with a U-shaped onion-harvester attachment which ismade for wheel hoes, thrown intosmall windrows (three or fourrows in one), and allowed to dryand cure for several days (if the weather is wet,the curing may have to be done in shed or barn).Then, with shears or knife, the tops are cut offabout half an inch above each bulb (see illus-tration) ; cutting too close rots the onion, toolong looks untidy. They may now be gathered up, graded into dif-ferent sizes,packed in venti-lated baskets,barrels, crates,etc. (as your mar-ket demands),and sold ai they may bestored (accord- TOPPING. THE TOPS ARE CUT OFF ABOUT dirCCtionSHALF AN INCH ABOVE EACH ONION OYl pagC 8o).. 8o BIGGLE GARDEN BOOK BULBLETS Scullions or scallions are onions which grow a thickneck and fail to bottom out. Inferior seed or too wet a soilmay cause the trouble. If the onion tops are still green in early September, rolla barrel along the rows and break them down. This helps tocheck growth and hastens the withering process. One-half ounce of onion seed is required for about loofeet of drill. About four pounds per acre. Sets, one quartto perhaps forty feet of row^; about eight bushels or more tothe acre. There are three kinds of onion sets: i, onions grownfrom any common variety of seed, and not allowed tomature—thus producing little w^hite, red or yellow sets,according to the kind of seed sown; 2, sets that are producedin a cluster above ground on the stalk end of a peculiarvariety called Egyptian, top or tree onion; and, 3,multiplier or potato onion sets which are produced in acluster underground
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