. The Cuba review. Cuba -- Periodicals. TH E CUBA REVI E W . 29. Method of Curing Onions in Sacks Standing in Field. If you can't get cotton-seed meal, try this : Pounds. Nitrate of soda, 147© to 16% nitrogen 300 Dried blood 500 Acid phosphate 800 Muriate of potash, 50% 400 Quantity of seed required is 4j/^ pounds per acre where rows are 14 inches apart. If 3 feet apart 1^ pounds will do. For small pickling onions about 25 pounds per acre is necessary. Good seed is of course very essential. It is advisable to plant so that little thinning will be necessary. Eight or ten plants to the foot is e
. The Cuba review. Cuba -- Periodicals. TH E CUBA REVI E W . 29. Method of Curing Onions in Sacks Standing in Field. If you can't get cotton-seed meal, try this : Pounds. Nitrate of soda, 147© to 16% nitrogen 300 Dried blood 500 Acid phosphate 800 Muriate of potash, 50% 400 Quantity of seed required is 4j/^ pounds per acre where rows are 14 inches apart. If 3 feet apart 1^ pounds will do. For small pickling onions about 25 pounds per acre is necessary. Good seed is of course very essential. It is advisable to plant so that little thinning will be necessary. Eight or ten plants to the foot is enough. The average yield of Bermuda onions is about 12,000 pounds to the acre. On heavily manured land the yield averages 16,000 pounds. Estimates of costs of production in the United States are as follows : Preparation of land and fertilizer, $70; seed, $9; transplanting, $20; irrigation, $15; cultivation and hand weeding, $16; harvest- ing, $20; interest, $20, a total of $170 per acre. The best Bermuda onion farms are val- u d at $300 to $500 an acre. The normal profit is $250 per acre.—Condensed from Farmers' Bulletin 354, U. S. Department of Agriculture. Cuba's importations of onions for 1906 and 1907 are as follows: 1906, 9,236,164 kilos.; value, $308,862; 1907, 10,542,821 kilos.; value, $378,980. The following countries supplied Cuba's market during the years quoted: United States ..Kilos. Spain United Kingdom. . Egypt Canary Islands .... Argentina Brazil Canada Mexico Puerto Rico Uruguay Germany Austria Belgium 1906 1, 5,433,192 329,852 109,196 1,435,942 10,234 7,708 86,755 7,491 24,426 518,621 190 1907 908,582 7,114,713 48,209 19,607 1,598,289 19,509 8,466 4,140 ' 726,668 91,500 3,264 Total 9,236,164 10,542,821 Value $398,862 $378,980 Healthy Foliage Essential. The leaves of a tree are just as essential to the health and development of a tree as the roots are. Keep the leaves ofif a tree and it will surely die. The leaves are where the food for the growth and
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