. Biggle garden book; vegetables, small fruits and flowers for pleasure and profit. arket. All of the onions are not dug, however;the grower allows an acre or two to keep on growingtill the stalks are four or five feet high. On thevery top large seed-balls grow, and when ripe theyare cut from the onion—which some growers allowto remain in the ground until the next year, thus get-ting a double crop of seed from each onion. Goodground will yield about 400 pounds of seed to an acreand 300 or more bushels of big onions for market. Marketing.—In regard to bunch or earlygreen onions, an Illinois gro
. Biggle garden book; vegetables, small fruits and flowers for pleasure and profit. arket. All of the onions are not dug, however;the grower allows an acre or two to keep on growingtill the stalks are four or five feet high. On thevery top large seed-balls grow, and when ripe theyare cut from the onion—which some growers allowto remain in the ground until the next year, thus get-ting a double crop of seed from each onion. Goodground will yield about 400 pounds of seed to an acreand 300 or more bushels of big onions for market. Marketing.—In regard to bunch or earlygreen onions, an Illinois grower writes : Dont beginon the onions till they are large enough so that notmore than live or six are required to make a bunch. bunching. have bunches Styles of shipping crates holding ten dozen bunches; it has a division throughthe center. The onions, after they are bunched andtied, are cut in lengths about an inch shorter thanthe space between the ends of the crate and thedivision board. In packing, the bunches are placedle-ngthwise of the crate. By placing the butts of the. See to it that the bunchesare uniform in size, andthat the onions are cleanand bright (see picture).It is very hard to fore-cast the onion seasons the earlymarket is the best; atother times the bestprices are obtained later. uniform in size andonions clean vary in different we use a flat crate THE ONION 79
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