. The Cuba review. Cuba -- Periodicals. 28 THE CUBA REVI EW PROFITS IN ONION CULTURE. Cuba's Importations and United States Consumption. Condensed from Farmers' Bulletin 354, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. There is $1,000,000 in onions alone for the colonists in Cuba in the trade of one coun- try, viz., the United States. This country produces annually 14,000,000 bushels, valued at $10,000,000, and this for home consump- tion only. In addition we import annually 1,400,000 bushels from various countries, Spain, Egypt, Bermuda, etc. The onion is well adapted for growing commercially on a smal scale
. The Cuba review. Cuba -- Periodicals. 28 THE CUBA REVI EW PROFITS IN ONION CULTURE. Cuba's Importations and United States Consumption. Condensed from Farmers' Bulletin 354, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. There is $1,000,000 in onions alone for the colonists in Cuba in the trade of one coun- try, viz., the United States. This country produces annually 14,000,000 bushels, valued at $10,000,000, and this for home consump- tion only. In addition we import annually 1,400,000 bushels from various countries, Spain, Egypt, Bermuda, etc. The onion is well adapted for growing commercially on a smal scale nearly everywhere and very little capital is required for a beginning. The growing of Spanish and Bermuda onions in the Gulf Coast States has become a great industry, for a great quantity of this type of onion can be grown upon a small drainage and freedom from weeds. Clayey soils bake after hard rains and are there- fore very injurious to the small plants, but if this kind of soil is mixed with sand it is ideal for onion culture. S'andy soils re- quire heavy applications of fertilizer and should be underdrained. Cowpeas turned under and the occasional applications of about 1,200 pounds of lime to the acre will supply ample humus. Once the weeds get a start the cost of production is increased or the crop may be lost altogether. New land is not generally adapted to onion growing until it has been worked one or two years with crops of. Irrigation of Bermuda Onions in Texas. area, a few thousand acres producing all corn, beans or potatoes; then it should be the average market can handle at a profit manured heavily, giving sufficient time to to the owner. There are few places where be thoroughly incorporated. Do not plant onions will not grow. the same piece of land year after year, but Perfect crops are secured in Egypt in rotate with truck crops, choosing that which alluvial as well as volcanic soils, in the will not be exhaustive. Continuous plant- South Sea Islands, in sandy p
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