. Elementary agriculture with practical arithmetic. Agriculture. SPECIAL CROPS 141 acre, and they are not hard to grow. The greatest cost of their cultivation is lahor, but of a kind that a child can easily do. Onion raising offers to the chil- dren on the farm a splendid opportunity to make their spending money, and for that reason it is discussed here. One-fourth of an acre set to onions should. ONION GROWING FOR PROFIT. Courtesy of Country Calendar. yield 100 bushels, which, if the market is good, will bring them from $50 to $75. Hard, indeed, would be the farmer who would not give to his c
. Elementary agriculture with practical arithmetic. Agriculture. SPECIAL CROPS 141 acre, and they are not hard to grow. The greatest cost of their cultivation is lahor, but of a kind that a child can easily do. Onion raising offers to the chil- dren on the farm a splendid opportunity to make their spending money, and for that reason it is discussed here. One-fourth of an acre set to onions should. ONION GROWING FOR PROFIT. Courtesy of Country Calendar. yield 100 bushels, which, if the market is good, will bring them from $50 to $75. Hard, indeed, would be the farmer who would not give to his children so small a patch of ground on wdiich to grow^ onions, and time enough to cultivate them. Kind of Soil Needed.—Onions, like tobacco, require a fertile soil, rich in humus, but they need considerably more moisture. In the northern states the seed should be sown in boxes in early spring, and the young plants. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hatch, Kirk Lester, 1871- [from old catalog]; Haselwood, John Adam, 1867- [from old catalog] joint author. Chicago, Row, Peterson & company
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