. Australian Garden and Field. Febiuftry, 1911 per acre woulil he nearly 39 tons. At £4 per ton, tliis would represent £13o per acre for tiie matured crop, with out counting the thinninpsâall sale- able for salads. If the plants are thinned out to 6 in. instead of 3 in. apart, there would be 87,120 bulbs lo an acre. These would yield 19 tons on the 8-oz. basis, and £76 per acre at £4 per ; From experiments carried out on the "Times" Experimental Farm in 1910, the following results were ol)- tained from a square chain of land (,1-10 of an acre) from seed sown in boxes in
. Australian Garden and Field. Febiuftry, 1911 per acre woulil he nearly 39 tons. At £4 per ton, tliis would represent £13o per acre for tiie matured crop, with out counting the thinninpsâall sale- able for salads. If the plants are thinned out to 6 in. instead of 3 in. apart, there would be 87,120 bulbs lo an acre. These would yield 19 tons on the 8-oz. basis, and £76 per acre at £4 per ; From experiments carried out on the "Times" Experimental Farm in 1910, the following results were ol)- tained from a square chain of land (,1-10 of an acre) from seed sown in boxes in February, and transplanted 12 in. by 3 in. in April (174,240 bulbs to the acre);âThe varieties of onion were: "Ironhead," 2,640 lb. {â tons per acre); "Cream Globe," 2,878 lb. (â tons per acre); Wroxton," 3,960 lb. (â tons per acre); "Ailsa Craig," lb. (â tons per acre). â Keeping Onions.â Onion growers usually find that if, owing to a slow market, onions have to be held over for any length af time, the chief difficulty is their liability to sprout. This must, if possible, be avoided, because, whenever growth is set up in any bulb or seed, that seed deteriorates in proportion to the ex- tent of growth. Anyone who has tried to eat an old seed potato, which has been inadvertently gathered up with a new crop, will be aware of this fact. Onions, when pulled, should not be stored away at once, but should be left on the ground for a few hours to dry. Then they should be put away dry, in the coolest shed or barn avail- able. They require constant looking over to sort out any bad ones, for, as in the case of fruit, such as oranges, apples, pears, &c., a single rotting onion will infect all those in its immediate neighbourhood. It used to be the custom, and probably is to this day the custom in the good, old-fashioned farmhouses in the old country, to hang the onions in strings to the kitchen rafters in company
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